Bobby (Lewis Smith) dies in a teenage car race in the 1950s and returns to Earth 30 years later as the guardian angel of Lenny…
Browsing: Movies 1985
Please note: The majority of movie posts contain spoilers.
This three-hour American-produced drama (with a mostly British cast) was first broadcast on US network television as a two-part miniseries and later released in edited…
This Australian made-for-television movie, produced by Crawford Productions, follows the plight of six-year-old “Crispy” (Haydon Samuels), who lives with his down-and-out alcoholic father, Sid McCall…
Four unnamed people who look and sound a lot like Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio and Senator Joseph McCarthy converge one night in 1953…
Dull aerospace engineer Ed Okin (Jeff Goldblum) can’t sleep. His job is boring, his wife is cheating on him and his life is out of…
A load of terrorists land on a Florida beach on a bright moonlit night in several dozen World War II-vintage landing craft, board a fleet…
This spirited sequel to Romancing The Stone (1984) had Jack Colton (Michael Douglas) once again doing his very best Indiana Jones impersonation alongside romance novelist Joan Wilder…
This three-hour made-for-TV movie is as disturbing as it is fascinating. On the one hand, it really tries very sincerely and compassionately to depict the…
This Walt Disney production is a bittersweet tale about the friendship of a Depression-era waif and a domesticated wolf, recalling some of the lovable animal-and-children…
Kiss of the Spider Woman is a Brazilian film with American actors, directed by Hector Babenco, the gifted South American whose film Pixote was a controversial sensation. Based…
Seeing this movie in the 1980s as a young man was to fall in love with Michelle Pfeiffer. And just as she is still one…
Three years after delivering audiences a glimpse of Los Angeles AD2019 (in Blade Runner), director Ridley Scott turned his hand to complete fairy tale indulgence. Visually…
The silly saga of an unjustly accused Texas teenager who becomes a pop hero by getting a punk haircut and some New Wave fashions and…
It’s the 1980s – a time of massive unemployment and recession in the UK, with the Cold War still in full swing and Gorbachev, Glasnost…
The joint US/British space shuttle Churchill is sent to observe Halley’s Comet under the command of Colonel Tom Carlsen (Steve Railsback). While investigating the comet,…
This part fantasy-part documentary – described as “a musical for the 80s” – was written by David Leland, directed by Nigel Finch and produced by…
If you ever feel the desire to quit the rat race, liquidate your assets and hit the open road in search of freedom and adventure,…
Another reason why Mel Gibson should quit while he’s ahead, franchise-wise. This $12 million production is a poor follow-up to the previous two classics and…
Richard (Tom Hanks) is a daydreaming type who happens to be wearing one red running shoe when he returns from vacation at a Washington airport…
A box-office failure from 1986 starring Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones and Jimmy Nail, Morons From Outer Space tells the story of four hapless humanoid…