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Subgenre Sampler
Mr. Mom (1983)- Dir. Stan Dragoti
Feat. Michael Keaton, Teri Garr, Christopher Lloyd… - Easy–going, if predictable role reversal comedy with a screenplay written by 80's teen icon John Hughes. Keaton plays a dad who, after…
Murder In Coweta County (1983)- Dir. Gary Nelson
Feat. Johnny Cash, Andy Griffith, June Carter-Cash - A gritty fact–based policier about a cold–blooded land baron in 1940s rural Georgia (Griffiths) who murders a black tenant farmer and…
My Brother's Wedding (1983)- Dir. Charles Burnett
Feat. Everett Silas - Crude but affecting follow–up to KILLER OF SHEEP concerns a South Central LA resident torn between attending the funeral of his best friend, or…
National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
- Dir. Harold Ramis
Feat. Chevy Chase, Randy Quaid, John Candy - Inaugurating a series that would yield two more vacations/sequels, this moderately amusing gagfest follows the travails of Chevy Chase and family as…
Never Cry Wolf (1983)- Dir. Carroll Ballard
Feat. Charles Martin Smith, Brian Dennehy - Contemplative true story with a biologist studying the declining population of caribou in the Canadian tundra. Caused a small storm for being the…
Never Say Never Again (1983)- Dir. Irvin Kershner
Feat. Sean Connery, Barbara Carrera - Connery returns to role he made famous after a twelve year absence. He's lost none of his earlier style and charm or gorgeous women for that matter.…
Nostalgia (Nostalghia) (1983)- Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Feat. Oleg Jankovsky - A lingering essay on the angst of living in exile, with Oleg Jankovsky as a beleaguered Russian academic subsisting in Italy (like Tarkovsky…
Octopussy (1983)- Dir. John Glen
Feat. Roger Moore, Maud Adams - Moore plays 007 in this, the thirteenth Bond film. Travelling to India and Germany, Bond investigates a jewellery smuggling operation, encountering…
Of Unknown Origin (1983)- Dir. George Pan Cosmatos
Feat. Peter Weller, Shannon Tweed - A mostly inspired horror, this suburban myth plays like an extended episode of 'The Twilight Zone', with claws. Peter Weller is a happily married…
Orpheus in the Underworld (1983)- Dir. Derek Bailey
Feat. Denis Quilley, Honor Blackman, Christopher Gable - Handsomely mounted production of the famed operetta with Orpheus and his lyre meeting much opposition as he searches the underworld for his dead wife.
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