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Subgenre Sampler
Mystic Pizza (1988)
- Dir. Donald Petrie
Feat. Julia Roberts, Lili Taylor, Annabeth Gish - Julia Roberts' star quality shines in this, her debut film, contrasting the love–lives of three pizza waitresses in a town called Mystic.…
Some Girls (1988)- Dir. Mike Hoffman
Feat. Patrick Dempsey, Jennifer Connelly, Sheila Kelley… - An odd and moving little film in which a college student travels to Quebec to visit his girlfriend – and her eccentric family, and is thrust…
Stealing Home (1988)- Dir. Steven Kampmann
Feat. Mark Harmon, Blair Brown, Jonathan Silverman… - Coming–of–age romantic drama about a washed up baseball player (Mark Harmon) who finds out his childhood love (Jodie Foster) has…
Switching Channels (1988)- Dir. Ted Kotcheff
Feat. Kathleen Turner, Burt Reynolds, Christopher Reeve… - Newsroom comedy about a chief at a cable TV station who tries to prevent his ex–wife and anchorwoman from marrying another man by assigning her…
Unbearable Lightness of Being, The (1988)- Dir. Philip Kaufman
Feat. Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Stellan Skarsgard - In war–torn Czechoslovakia 1968, a young doctor is caught between two lovers and the political struggle of his homeland. Daniel Day–Lewis…
84 Charing Cross Road (1987)- Dir. David Jones
Feat. Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins - Book–loving New Yorker Anne Bancroft corresponds with London bookseller Anthony Hopkins in the decades following WWII, leading to some platonic…
Beauty and the Beast (TV Series) (1987)- Feat. Linda Hamilton, Ron Perlman
- Distinctively 80s drama series is a twist on the classic tale, where 'Beast' (Perlman) is a noble–man living in New York's hidden underworld of…
Big Easy, The (1987)- Dir. Jim McBride
Feat. Ellen Barkin, Dennis Quaid - Highly enjoyable detective romp with Ellen Barkin and Dennis Quaid providing steamy moments both in and out of bed. A terrific cajun music score…
Dark Eyes (1987)- Dir. Nikita Mikhalkov
Feat. Marcello Mastroianni - The Soviet director ventures to Italy for this exquisite Chekhovian romantic tragedy in which Marcello Mastroianni abandons rationale for the allure…
Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries (TV Series) (Strong Poison, Have His Carcase, Gaudy Night) (1987)- Feat. Harriet Walter, Edward Petherbridge, Richard Morant
- A series of BBC TV adaptations of three novels by Dorothy L. Sayers that follow the aristocratic sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey's romance with the crime…
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