As a child, Heather Thompson (Kylie Claire) witnesses her crime lord father (Tony Blackett) electrocute a young boy. When she grows into an adult (now…
Browsing: Movies 1988
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After a car accident, 81-year-old businessman Jack Watson (played by 92-year-old George Burns) finds his birthday wish to be young again comes true, and his…
This ambitious, bloody, hungry no-budget monster-in-a-kitchen movie from Texas was written and directed by Bret McCormick (using the pseudonyms ‘Bando Glutz’ and ‘Max Raven’) A…
The Accidental Tourist is a quirky movie which manages to be intelligent, funny and deeply moving. Lawrence Kasdan’s faithful rendering of the Anne Tyler novel is…
Jodie Foster won her first Oscar, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award for her performance as rape victim Sarah Tobias in The Accused. It’s easy to…
Carl Weathers, the former Oakland Raiders star who sparred with Sylvester Stallone in three Rocky movies, stars in the title role of Sgt. Jericho ‘Action’…
After making the wonderful Time Bandits (1981) and Brazil (1985), former Monty Python member Terry Gilliam made this epic 126-minute fantasy which cost around $50…
Akira begins as it means to go on – with a nuclear explosion that devastates Tokyo. It ends with pretty much the same, augmented by the…
Having previously visited Lewis Carroll in Jabberwocky (1977), Czech surrealist animator and director Jan Svankmajer made his feature bow with this distinctive adaptation, which combines…
Unbelievably shrill Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Kathy Ireland makes her cinematic debut as Wanda Saknussemm, a bespectacled and insecure Valley Girl who lives with her…
A serial killer is loose in Buenos Aires – could he be the mysterious tenant who comes to share Adrian’s apartment? Look away, all those…
The perpetually intoxicated millionaire, Arthur Bach (Dudley Moore), is now happily married to Linda (Liza Minnelli), the loyal and understanding woman he fell in love…
Assault of the Killer Bimbos begins at a go-go club located somewhere in the twilight zone. On a tiny stage in front of leering creeps,…
Harris (Richard Lynch) is the Jim Jones-style leader of a cult called Unity Fields who dies during a mass suicide in a fire in 1973.…
Bagdad Cafe was the first American film made by German director Percy Adlon. Casting his German star, the flamboyantly overweight Marianne Sägebrecht to lead an otherwise…
Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis play Barbara and Adam Maitland – a young married couple who die in a car accident and return to their…
Josh Baskin (David Moscow) is a 12-year-old New Jersey kid, madly in puppy love with an older blonde girl. Josh and his best friend Billy…
Two sets of identical twins, separated at birth, converge in Manhattan on opposite sides of a corporate manoeuvre. Bette Midler plays twins born to rich…
The Pee-Wee Herman in this sequel to 1985’s Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985) is very much an adult. He has a great girlfriend – a school teacher named…
Number two in Neil Simon’s autobiographical play trilogy reached the screen under the direction of Mike Nichols. This one is ‘opened up’ more than Brighton Beach…