Ambitious high-school football player, Stef Djordjevic (Tom Cruise) and his girlfriend (Lea Thompson) dream of winning the college scholarships that will enable them to leave their depressed…
Browsing: Movies 1983
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An absorbing, highly charged, teenage romance by writer-director John Sayles. The emotional story of star-crossed young lovers stumbles over occasional holes in the plot, yet…
Chicago kid Mick O’Brien (Sean Penn) is sent to Rainford Juvenile Correctional Facility in Illinois for vehicular manslaughter. Unfortunately, the person he killed is the…
A super-duper, high-tech helicopter is the centrepiece of this fast-paced action yarn which plays out in the skies above Los Angeles. The high-tech “urban pacification”…
Teenage BMX riders Goose (James Lugton) and PJ (Angelo D’Angelo) become friends with Judy (15-year-old Nicole Kidman in one of her first major roles), who…
Northern comedians Cannon and Ball (arguably the most popular comedy duo in the country at the time) join the police force for their first feature…
Research scientists Michael Brace (Christopher Walken) and Lillian Reynolds (Louise Fletcher) develop a device that can record and playback physical, emotional and intellectual sensations from…
This risible spoof of the Bulldog Drummond stories stars Alan Shearman, Ron House and Diz White, members of the Anglo-American stage company Low Moan Spectacular…
Set in Sydney (Australia) during the turbulent years of the Great Depression, an orphaned boy becomes a pawn in a bitter family feud as two…
This lip-smackingly good women-in-prison saga finds Exorcist (1973) star Linda Blair – topless for the first time – as naive teenager, Carol, convicted of manslaughter after…
Nerdy misfit student Arnie Cunningham (Keith Gordon) buys “Christine”, a 1958 Plymouth Fury with a history in which people tend to die in and around…
Based on a short story by American humorist Jean Shepherd (who narrates the film), A Christmas Story is set in the 1940s in cold, icy…
After months at sea, Bo’sun John Baggs Jr. (James Caan) feels a compelling need for feminine company and as soon as he sets foot ashore…
Jonathan is a new student at Vernon Academy, a prestigious prep school in Illinois for the offspring of wealthy Americans. At first, he is the…
Warren Nefron (Jerry Lewis) is a hopeless klutz who has some of the worst luck in the world. When he tries to end it all…
Castle Rock, Maine is a sleepy New England town. A place where families can live in peace. But today Cujo, a full-grown St Bernard, isn’t…
When Inspector Clouseau goes missing, Interpol’s computer is secretly programmed by Clouseau’s boss (Herbert Lom) to select the world’s worst detective to search for his…
Samantha Sherwood (Samantha Eggar) has worked with the well-known director Jonathan Stryker (John Vernon of Animal House fame) – a womanising arrogant fellow – on…
The Day After, a dramatisation of the effects of a hypothetical nuclear attack on the United States (after a Soviet attack on Germany sparks World…
Stephen King movies are a tricky lot – There have been over 40 movie and TV adaptations of his work, and for every Misery (1990) there is more…