Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Broadcast News (1987)
- Dir. James L. Brooks
Feat. Holly Hunter, William Hurt, Albert Brooks… - Superb TV newsroom dramedy in which vacuous newsreader Hurt and neurotic reporter Brooks compete for the attentions of Holly Hunter.
Bullseye (1987)- Dir. Carl Schultz
Feat. Bruce Spence, John Wood, John Meillon… - Rollicking outback adventure with two rougish best mates absconding with 1000 head of cattle from their ruthless owner, who naturally enough wants…
Buster Keaton - A Hard Act to Follow (1987)- Dir. Kevin Brownlow, David Gill
Feat. Buster Keaton - Lovingly assembled by historians Kevin Brownlow and David Gill, this three–part biography on the great 'stone–faced' comedian compares a…
Can't Buy Me Love (1987)- Dir. Steve Rash
Feat. Patrick Dempsey - Likeable though period–bound comedy in which nerdy student Patrick Dempsey pays the gorgeous Amanda Peterson a thousand bucks to pose as his…
Captain James Cook (TV Mini Series) (1987)- Dir. Lawrence Gordon Clark
Feat. Keith Michell, Fernando Rey, Carol Drinkwater - Lavishly–produced series about the epochal sea voyages of Captain James Cook, who set out from Britain in 1768 to observe the transit of Venus…
Carmen (Bizet) (1987)- Dir. Brian Large
Feat. Agnes Baltsa, Jose Carreras - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Conductor: James Levine.
Castaway (1987)- Dir. Nicolas Roeg
Feat. Amanda Donohoe, Oliver Reed - Amanda Donahue and Oliver Reed cohabit on a desert island. Story verges on allegory.
Cause Celebre (1987)- Dir. John Gorrie
Feat. Helen Mirren, David Suchet - Gripping, three–pronged crime of passion has Helen Mirren confessing to the murder of her husband, even though her young lover is suspected of…
China Girl (1987)- Dir. Abel Ferrara
Feat. David Caruso, James Russo - Dir. Abel Ferrara’s violent riff on ‘Romeo and Juliet’ (and WEST SIDE STORY for that matter) set around rival Chinese and Italian street gangs…
Chinese Ghost Story, A (1987)
- Dir. Ching Siu Tung
Feat. Leslie Cheung - The first of a marvellous trilogy of outrageous fantasies set in Ming Dynasty–era China, in which student Leslie Cheung falls in love with an…
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