Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
Educating Rita movie storyline. In Liverpool, twenty-seven-year-old hairdresser Rita (Dame Julie Walters) decides to complete her basic education before having children, as desired by her husband Denny (Malcolm Douglas).
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Superman 2 movie storyline. A group of terrorists seize the Eiffel Tower & threaten Paris with a hydrogen bomb if the French government does not meet their demands. Superman immediately heads to Paris, where he launches the elevator carrying the bomb into outer space before it can detonate.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn movie storyline. Taken from Hubert Selby, Jr.’s controversial novel set in early 1950s Brooklyn. During a bitter strike by workers against a local factory, a gallery of struggling characters are crushed by their squalid surroundings and selves.
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Cocktail movie storyline. Intent on becoming a successful businessman, and even a millionaire, the ex-military man, Brian Flanagan, waits for his big break while serving drinks at a New York City tavern, and studying for his degree.
Cocktail (1988) Read More
Big movie storyline. More than anything else, 13-year old New Jerseyite Josh (David Moscow) wants to be “big”. That’s the wish he makes at an odd-looking amusement pier fortunetelling machine. The next morning, Josh wakes up-only to discover that he’s grown to manhood overnight! (At this point, the part is taken over by Tom Hanks).
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Emily Crane (Kelly McGillis), a picture editor for Life Magazine, is fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee and takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. One day her attention is drawn to a noisy argument being conducted in a neighbouring house. She eavesdrops through an open window, seeing that one of those involved is her main senator prosecutor, Ray Salwen (Mandy Patinkin).
The House on Carroll Street (1988) Read More
Sunset movie storyline. In Hollywood in the late 1920s during the waning days of the industry’s transition to sound film, producer and studio head Alfie Alperin (Malcolm McDowell) wants to produce an epic Western film about Wyatt Earp.
Sunset (1988) Read More
Casual Sex? movie storyline. Stacy (Lea Thompson) has a promiscuous past and, after learning of the AIDS epidemic, she wants to find a guy whom she knows is clean. She convinces her childhood friend Melissa (Victoria Jackson) to go to a health spa (or resort) for singles so that they can hopefully each find the man of their dreams. As a concierge gift, they receive a basket filled with condoms.
Casual Sex? (1988) Read More
Lady in White begins with a successful horror author returning to his hometown of Willowpoint Falls. Stopping at a cemetery to visit a pair of gravestones, he begins to tell his driver their story. On Halloween 1962, 9-year-old Franklin “Frankie” Scarlatti (Lukas Haas) tells a scary story to his classmates.
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Plain Clothes movie storyline. Undercover cop Nick Dunbar’s (Arliss Howard) brother Matt (Loren Dean) is accused of killing his high school teacher, Mr. Bradwood (Mack Harrell). Nick loses his temper with Hector (Larry Pine), the detective in charge, and gets suspended. Nick’s partner Ed (Seymour Cassel) pretends to be Nick’s dad to enroll him as a student.
Plain Clothes (1988) Read More