1988 movies

Daffy Duck’s Quackbusters (1988)

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Mel Blanc | Mel Tormé | Roy Firestone
Directors: Greg Ford
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In this feature-length film combining footage from classic Warner Brothers cartoon shorts with newly animated bridging sequences, Daffy Duck, after having induced laughter in an ailing millionaire and forestalled the millionaire’s death for a time (as chronicled in _Daffy Dilly (1948)_(qv), is the beneficiary for the deceased millionaire’s assets. But the millionaire’s will clearly stipulates that Daffy must use the money for the common good, by providing a service, and should Daffy think of pursuing selfish aims, the millionaire’s ghost will “repossess” his millions by making them disappear from Earthly existence. Under the pretense of community service, Daffy opens an exorcism agency and employs Porky Pig, Sylvester Cat, and Bugs Bunny to track and eliminate ghosts, ghouls, and other monsters, while Daffy secretly schemes to use his learned “ghost-busting” talents to rid himself of the millionaire’s nagging spirit.

The Brain (1988)

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Tom Bresnahan | Cynthia Preston | David Gale | George Buza | Christine Kossak | Bret Pearson | Bernice Quiggan | Susannah Hoffmann | Justine Campbell | Robert King | Kenneth McGregor | Vinetta Strombergs | Richard Gira | Wendy Springate | Harry Booker
Directors: Ed Hunt
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Dr. Blake runs a TV show called “Independent Thinkers”, which is sort of a Scientology-like self-help/religion program. But he’s not making his audience think any more independently - with the help of an alien organism he calls The Brain, he’s using brainwashing and mind control. The only thing that stands between them and world domination is a brilliant but troubled high school student with a penchant for pranks…

Mississippi Burning (1988)

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Gene Hackman | Willem Dafoe | Frances McDormand | Brad Dourif | R. Lee Ermey | Gailard Sartain | Stephen Tobolowsky | Michael Rooker | Pruitt Taylor Vince | Badja Djola | Kevin Dunn | Frankie Faison | Tom Mason | Geoffrey Nauffts | Rick Zieff
Directors: Alan Parker
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In 1964, three civil rights workers from the North disappear in a small Mississippi town and the FBI are sent to investigate. Agent in charge Alan Ward does everything by the book. Agent Rupert Anderson however was a Sheriff in Mississippi before joining the FBI and understands the local culture. He’s also prepared to bend the rules a bit if it will help in the investigation. They focus on the Sheriff’s office and Deputy Clinton Pell in particular as they think he may be the weakest link in the conspiracy. As the investigation intensifies however, the KKK launch a series of attacks against the local African-American population. With no one on either side prepared to talk, Ward agrees to Anderson using his own unorthodox methods to learn what happened that night and who killed the three men.

Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)

Monday, February 15th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Music | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Geena Davis | Jeff Goldblum | Jim Carrey | Damon Wayans | Julie Brown | Michael McKean | Charles Rocket | Larry Linville | Rick Overton | Diane Stilwell | June C. Ellis | Felix Montano | Rick Hurst | Leslie Morris | Lisa Fuller
Directors: Julien Temple
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Trio of fuzzy (and funny) aliens crash land in Valerie’s pool— putting a decided damper on her future wedding plans to cheating Dr. Ted Gallagher. Action interrupted by musical numbers—an MTV musical comedy.

Hot to Trot (1988)

Monday, February 8th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Bobcat Goldthwait | Dabney Coleman | John Candy | Virginia Madsen | Cindy Pickett | Jim Metzler | Tim Kazurinsky | Santos Morales | Barbara Whinnery | Garry Kluger | Mary Gross | Liz Torres | Jocko Marcellino | Deanna Oliver | Harry Caesar
Directors: Michael Dinner
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Fred P. Chaney receives as inheritance after the death of his mother a speaking horse that also has good knowledge about the stock-market. With the help of this horse Fred gains a lot at the stock-market of Chicago.

Shakedown (1988)

Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Peter Weller | Sam Elliott | George Loros | Thomas G. Waites | Daryl Edwards | Jos Laniado | Richard Brooks | Blanche Baker | Shirley Stoler | John C. McGinley | Patricia Charbonneau | Walter Flanagan | Walter Bobbie | Henry Judd Baker | Andrew Johns
Directors: James Glickenhaus
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A drug dealer shoots a corrupt police officer. Though the drug dealer admits his guilt, he pleads self-defense. His lawyer, Roland Dalton, and a “blue jean cop”, Richie Marks, pursue evidence in his favor. They encounter difficulties from other corrupt police officers, drug dealers, and various street scum. Dalton’s life is further complicated by the fact that the prosecuting attorney is a former lover.

My Neighbour Totoro (1988)

Monday, January 18th, 2010
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy
Countries: Japan
Actors: Noriko Hidaka | Chika Sakamoto | Shigesato Itoi | Sumi Shimamoto | Tanie Kitabayashi | Hitoshi Takagi | Yûko Maruyama | Machiko Washio | Reiko Suzuki | Masashi Hirose | Toshiyuki Amagasa | Shigeru Chiba | Naoki Tatsuta | Tarako | Tomohiro Nishimura
Directors: Hayao Miyazaki
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Two young girls, Satsuke and her younger sister Mei, move into a house in the country with their father to be closer to their hospitalized mother. Satsuke and Mei discover that the nearby forest is inhabited by magical creatures called Totoros (pronounced toe-toe-ro). They soon befriend these Totoros, and have several magical adventures.

Steal the Sky (1988)

Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Genres: Action | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Mariel Hemingway | Ben Cross | Sasson Gabai | Nicolas Surovy | Ronald Guttman | Mark Rolston | Sam Gray | Andreas Katsulas | Etti Ankri | Michael Shillo | Tamara Triffez | Joseph Shiloach | Reuven Bar-Yotam | Faim Saadi | Maria Cavaiani
Directors: John D. Hancock
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This made-for-cable espionage melodrama centers on a beautiful Israeli spy who is assigned to use her wiles to convince an Iraqui flyer to defect and bring with him a valuable Soviet fighter plane.

License to Drive (1988)

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Corey Haim | Corey Feldman | Carol Kane | Richard Masur | Heather Graham | Michael Manasseri | Harvey Miller | Michael A. Nickles | Nina Siemaszko | Grant Goodeve | James Avery | Grant Heslov | Michael Ensign | Helen Hanft
Directors: Greg Beeman
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es is a teenager attempting to learn how to drive, as well as catch the eye of a popular girl. He is able to secure a date with the girl, Mercedes, and it is assumed he will drive. But, he doesn’t have his license yet. When it comes time for his driving test, he fails. He doesn’t want to risk the chance at going out with Mercedes, so he decides to go anyway. Not only does he disobey his parents by going in the first place, but he takes his grandfather’s prized possession - his Cadillac. Will he get through the night without wrecking the car, and get away with sneaking out, or will his plan collapse?

Child’s Play (1988)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Catherine Hicks | Chris Sarandon | Alex Vincent | Brad Dourif | Dinah Manoff | Tommy Swerdlow | Jack Colvin | Neil Giuntoli | Juan Ramírez | Alan Wilder | Richard Baird | Raymond Oliver | Aaron Osborne | Tyler Hard
Directors: Tom Holland
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Young Andy Barclay sees a commercial for a ‘Good Guy’ doll on TV, and asks his mother for one for his birthday. At work, Andy’s mom and her friend discover a peddler selling one for a low price, and she buys it. What she doesn’t know is that the particular doll contains the spirit of Charles Lee Ray, aka ‘The Lakeshore Strangler’, who died at the hands of police the night before and had transferred his spirit to the doll by voodoo. That night, Andy’s babysitter is pushed from their 5th-floor window to her death, and only young Andy knows that ‘Chucky’ - the doll - is responsible for that a death and a series of murders that follow. Worse than that, the soul of Charles Lee Ray is trying to get out of the doll’s body - and take over Andy’s…