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Killing Fields, The

Posted on: Sunday, January 1st, 1984 in: History, War, Drama

Actors:

Waterston Sam	Sydney Schanberg
Ngor Haing S.	Dith Pran
Malkovich John	Alan ‘Al’ Rockoff, Photographer
Sands Julian	Jon Swain
Nelson Craig T.	Major Reeves, Military Attache
Gray Spalding	United States consul
Paterson Bill	Dr. MacEntire
Fugard Athol	Dr. Sundesval
Kennedy Graham	Dougal
Chey Katherine Krapum	Ser Moeum: Dith Pran’s wife
Pierpaoli Oliver	Titony: Dith Pran’s son
Chey Edward Entero	Sarun, Sydney’s Driver
Bird Tom	US Military Advisor
Sisowath Monirak	Phat: Khmer Rouge leader: 2nd village
Dtangpaibool Lambool	Phat’s son

Directors:

Roland JoffÃ©

IMDB Rating:

7.90 out of 10 (10758 votes)

Taglines:

1: Every so often, there is a film that is destined to be talked about and remembered for years to come.

Plot Summary:

Sydney Schanberg is a New York Times journalist convering the civil war in Cambodia. Together with local representative Dith Pran, they cover some of the tragedy and madness of the war. When the Americans forces leave, Dith Pran sends his family with them, but stays behind himself to help Schanberg cover the event. As an American, Schanberg won’t have any trouble leaving the country, but the situation is different for Pran; he’s a local, and the Khmer Rouge are moving in.

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Ghost Busters

Posted on: Sunday, January 1st, 1984 in: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Comedy, Action

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Actors:

Murray Bill	Dr. Peter Venkman
Aykroyd Dan	Dr. Raymond Stantz
Weaver Sigourney	Dana Barrett
Ramis Harold	Dr. Egon Spengler
Moranis Rick	Louis Tully
Potts Annie	Janine Melnitz
Atherton William	Walter Peck/”Wally Wick”
Hudson Ernie	Winston Zeddmore
Margulies David	Mayor
Tash Steven	Male Student
Runyon Jennifer	Female Student
Jovan Slavitza	Gozer
Ensign Michael	Hotel Manager
Drummond Alice	Librarian
Charney Jordan	Dean Yeager

Directors:

Ivan Reitman

IMDB Rating:

7.50 out of 10 (34489 votes)

Taglines:

1: Coming To Save The World This Summer.
2: The supernatural spectacular
3: The world’s most successful comedy
4: They ain’t afraid of no ghost.
5: They’re Here To Save The World.
6: We’re Ready To Believe You.
7: Who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters!

Plot Summary:

Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, and Egon Spengler are three scientists at Columbia University in New York City. When their grant expires, the guys are fired and they go into business as a ghost extermination company called “Ghostbusters”. Their first customer is orchestra cello player Dana Barrett, who was scared out of her apartment on the 22nd floor of a high rise apartment building on Central Park West. It seems that Dana’s neighbor, Louis Tully, is also being affected by the strange happenings in the apartment building. Armed with proton guns, the Ghostbusters become wildly popular, and they are joined by Winston Zeddmore, who is looking for a job with good pay. Overzealous Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) agent Walter Peck thinks the Ghostbusters are frauds, and he has the Ghostbusters put in jail. Peck is forced to believe the Ghostbusters when New York City is put under siege by an ancient Sumerian God named Gozer the Gozerian, who is channeled through the apartment building that Dana and Louis live in, and the mayor has no choice but to let the Ghostbusters out of jail to face Gozer.

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NeverEnding Story, The

Posted on: Sunday, January 1st, 1984 in: Fantasy, Family, Adventure

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Actors:

Oliver Barret	Bastian Bux
McRaney Gerald	Barney Bux, Bastian’s Father
Garrett Drum	Bully #1
Cooksey Darryl	Bully #2
Gilbert Nicholas	Bully #3
Hill Thomas	Koreander
Roy Deep	Teeny Weeny
PrÃ¼ckner Tilo	Night Hob
Gunn Moses	Cairon
Hathaway Noah	Atreyu
Oppenheimer Alan	Falkor/G’mork/Narrator
Bromley Sydney	Engywook
Hayes Patricia	Urgl
Stronach Tami	The Childlike Empress

Directors:

Wolfgang Petersen

IMDB Rating:

7.20 out of 10 (8308 votes)

Taglines:

1: A boy who needs a friend finds a world that needs a hero in a land beyond imagination!

Plot Summary:

Chased by school bullies, reprimanded by his father for daydreaming too much Bastian is lost in his own world. Bastian escapes school bullies one rainy day by hiding in an old used book store. After explaining his predicament to the old clerk Bastian notices a large leather bound book with a symbol of two snakes intertwined into an emblem. Soon after the clerk warns Bastian that this book is not for him Bastian, rushes away with it “borrowing” it, while the clerk is in another room. Taking refuge in the attic of his school Bastian opens the book, and a world of fantasy. Learning that the wonderous, beautiful land of Fantasia is being destroyed by a terrible “Nothing” Bastian is taken deeper into the story. Soon discovering the ChildLike Empress is deathly ill, the cause; she needs a new name. A young warrior named Atreyu is called and Bastian follows his adventures, unknowing that he, himself is slowly being written into the mysterious book. Soon realizing that he is now written in the book Bastian realizes that the only one who can save Fantasia is him.

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Gremlins

Posted on: Sunday, January 1st, 1984 in: Fantasy, Horror, Comedy

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Actors:

Axton Hoyt	Randall Peltzer
Louie John	Chinese Boy
Luke Keye	Grandfather (Mr. Wing)
Steele Don	Rockin’ Ricky Rialto
Burgess Susan	Little Girl
Brady Scott	Sheriff Frank
Moore Arnie	Alex
Feldman Corey	Pete F.
Carey Jr. Harry	Mr. Anderson
Galligan Zach	Billy Peltzer
Miller Dick	Murray Futterman
Cates Phoebe	Kate Beringer
Holliday Polly	Ruby Deagle
Elson Donald	Man on Street
Balaski Belinda	Mrs. Joe Harris

Directors:

Joe Dante

IMDB Rating:

6.80 out of 10 (17372 votes)

Taglines:

1: Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous. [Crossed Out] We’re Here!
2: Don’t get him wet, keep him out of bright light, and never feed him after midnight.
3: The Gremlins Are Coming!
4: They didn’t obey the rules
5: We’re Back! (1985 re-release)
6: What you see… isn’t always what you get.

Plot Summary:

Gremlins begins with inventor Rand Peltzer trying to find a quick gift for his son Billy before returning home from a New York trip. He settles on a unique pet in a Chinatown curio shop-a cute, furry creature known as a Mogwai. Before he leaves, he is warned by the shop’s owner that three rules must be obeyed by a Mogwai owner: 1) Keep it away from bright light, 2) Don’t get any water on it, and 3) Never, never ever feed it after midnight. Rand takes note of these rules and returns home with the Mogwai to his idyllic small-town home of Kingston Falls. Rand’s gift is an instant hit: Billy loves his adorable new pet, naming it Gizmo and taking it everywhere he goes. Unfortunately, he and his friends also begin breaking the rules of Mogwai care. When water is accidentally spilled on Gizmo, it causes him to multiply and produce a number of mischievous little brothers. Among these is the mean-tempered Stripe. Soon enough, the new Mogwai get hold of some food after midnight and this causes them to change from cute fur-balls into nasty, scaly monsters dubbed ‘Gremlins.’

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Ewok Adventure, The

Posted on: Sunday, January 1st, 1984 in: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Family, Adventure

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Actors:

Ives Burl	Narrator
Walker Eric	Mace
Davis Warwick	Wicket W. Warrick
Flanagan Fionnula	Catarine
Boyd Guy	Jeremitt
Miller Aubree	Cindel
Frishman Daniel	Deej
Carrington Debbie Lee	Weechee
Cox Tony	Widdle
Thompson Kevin	Chukha-Trok
FernÃ¡ndez Margarita	Kaink
Grizz Pam	Shodu
Bell Bobby	Logray
Henriques Darryl	Wicket
Walker Sydney	Deej

Directors:

John Korty

IMDB Rating:

5.20 out of 10 (1368 votes)

Taglines:

1: You’ll live the adventure… You’ll love it’s heroes.

Plot Summary:

The Towani family civilian shuttlecraft crashes on the forest moon of Endor. The four Towani’s are separated. Jermitt and Catarine, the mother and father are captured by the giant Gorax, and Mace and Cindel, the son and daughter, are missing when they are captured. The next day, the Ewok Deej is looking for his two sons when they find Cindel all alone in the shuttle (Mace and Cindel were looking for the transmitter to send a distress call), when Mace appears with his emergency blaster. Eventually, the four-year old Cindel is able to convince the teenage Mace that the Ewoks are nice. Then, the Ewoks and the Towani’s go on an adventure to find the elder Towanis.

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Children of the Corn

Posted on: Sunday, January 1st, 1984 in: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller

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Actors:

Armstrong R.G.	Diehl
Horton Peter	Burton Stanton
Hamilton Linda	Vicky
Gains Courtney	Malachai
Kiger Robby	Job
McEvoy Anne Marie	Sarah
Maddalena Julie	Rachel
Marlowe Jonas	Joseph
Franklin John	Richard ‘Amos’ Deigan
Snook Dan	Boy
Cowen David	Dad
Southam Suzy	Mom
Johnson D.G.	Mr. Hansen
Boylan Patrick	Hansen’s customer

Directors:

Fritz Kiersch

IMDB Rating:

5.00 out of 10 (4251 votes)

Taglines:	1: An adult nightmare. 2: And a child shall lead them… 3: In their world adults are not allowed… to live.
Plot Summary:	A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town. A young couple have a murder to report and they go to the nearest town (Gatlin) to seek help but the town seems deserted. They are soon trapped in Gatlin with little chance of getting out alive.

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Bachelor Party

Posted on: Sunday, January 1st, 1984 in: Comedy

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Actors:

Hanks Tom	Rick Gassko
Kitaen Tawny	Debbie Thompson
Zmed Adrian	Jay O’Neill
Grizzard George	Mr. Thompson
Stuart Barbara	Mrs. Thompson
Prescott Robert	Cole Whittier
Tepper William	Dr. Stan Gassko
Sperber Wendie Jo	Dr. Tina Gassko
Diamond Barry	Rudy
Grossman Gary	Gary
Dudikoff Michael	Ryko
Bancroft Bradford	Brad Mollen
Finch Martina	Phoebe
Harmon Deborah	Ilene
Smith Tracy	Bobbi

Directors:

Neal Israel

IMDB Rating:

5.50 out of 10 (5678 votes)

Taglines:

1: A man’s tradition every woman should know about.
2: Shocking, Shameless, Sinful, Wicked. And the party hasn’t even started.

Plot Summary:

Tom Hanks is about to marry Tawny Kitaen. Her parents hate him. Her old boyfriend hates him. They all have money and he gets a cut of the crap games on the catholic school bus he drives. His friends decide to give him the bachelor party of all bachelor parties with an expensive hotel, booze, movies and hookers. As the players catch wind of the elements of the party, each adds a little monkey wrench so that one set of hookers ends up giving demos at the bride’s shower, the brides friends end up dressed as hookers in a room with a number of non English speaking Japanese business men, and so on as things get out of hand.

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Terminator, The

Posted on: Sunday, January 1st, 1984 in: Sci-Fi, Thriller, Action

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Actors:

Schwarzenegger Arnold	The Terminator
Bien Michael	Kyle Reese
Hamilton Linda	Sarah Connor
Winfield Paul	Lieutenant Ed Traxler
Henriksen Lance	Detective Vukovich
Motta Bess	Ginger Ventura
Boen Earl	Dr. Peter Silberman
Rossovich Rick	Matt Buchanan
Miller Dick	Pawnshop Clerk
Schepps Shawn	Nancy
Columbu Franco	Future Terminator
Paxton Bill	Punk Leader
Rearden Brad	Punk
Thompson Brian	Punk

Directors:

James Cameron

IMDB Rating:

7.90 out of 10 (69069 votes)

Taglines:

1: In the Year of Darkness, 2029, the rulers of this planet devised the ultimate plan. They would reshape the Future by changing the Past. The plan required something that felt no pity. No pain. No fear. Something unstoppable. They created ‘THE TERMINATOR’
2: The thing that won’t die, in the nightmare that won’t end.
3: Your future is in his hands.

Plot Summary:

In the future, Skynet, a computer system fights a losing war against the humans who built it and who it nearly exterminated. Just before being destroyed, Skynet sends a Terminator back in time to kill Sarah, the mother to be of John Connor, the Leader of the human resistance. The terminator can pass for human, is nearly indestructible, and has only one mission, killing Sarah Connor. One soldier is sent back to protect her from the killing machine. He must find Sarah before the Terminator can carry out it’s mission.

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Once Upon a Time in America

Posted on: Sunday, January 1st, 1984 in: Drama, Crime

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Actors:

De Niro Robert	David ‘Noodles’ Aaronson
Woods James	Maximilian ‘Max’ Bercovicz
McGovern Elizabeth	Deborah Gelly
Williams Treat	James Conway O’Donnell
Weld Tuesday	Carol
Hayden James	Patrick ‘Patsy’ Goldberg
Pesci Joe	Frankie Minaldi
Rapp Larry	‘Fat’ Moe Gelly
Aiello Danny	Police Chief Vincent Aiello
Forsythe William	Philip ‘Cockeye’ Stein
Young Burt	Joe Minaldi
Fluegel Darlanne	Eve
Miller Dutch	Van Linden
Harper Robert	Sharkey
Bright Richard	Chicken Joe

Directors:

Sergio Leone

IMDB Rating:

8.20 out of 10 (23571 votes)

Taglines:

1: As boys, they made a pact to share their fortunes, their loves, their lives. As men, they shared a dream to rise from poverty to power. Forging an empire built on greed, violence and betrayal, their dream would end as a mystery that refuse to die.
2: As boys, they said they would die for each other. As men, they did.

Plot Summary:

Epic, episodic, tale of the lives of a small group of New York City Jewish gangsters spanning over 40 years. Told mostly in flashbacks and flash-forwards, the movie centers on small-time hood David ‘Noodles’ Aaronson (Robert De Nero) and his lifelong partners in crime; Max (James Woods), Cockeye (William Forsythe) and Patsy (James Hayden) and their friends from growing up in the rough Jewish neighborhood of New York’s Lower East Side in the 1920s, to the last years of Prohibition in the early 1930s, and then to the late 1960s where an elderly Noodles returns to New York after many years in hiding to look into the past.

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Once Upon a Time in America

Taglines:	1: A Film 2: Don’t tell anyone. 3: From the makers of the original “Airplane!” (not the Wright brothers) 4: Movie? What movie? 5: Shhh!
Plot Summary:	This time Zucker and Abrams are spoofing, most notably, Elvis films and WWII spy movies. Val Kilmer stars as Nick Rivers, a handsome American 50s-style rock and roll singer. While performing in East Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful heroine and becomes involved with the French Resistance.