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Subgenre Sampler
Big Trouble (1985)- Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Charles Durning… - Cassavette's final film is far from a fitting finale to the iconoclast's career, but its not without its charms. Arkin plays a besieged insurance…
Bliss (1985)- Dir. Ray Lawrence
Feat. Barry Otto - Peter Carey's cult novel maintains its distinctive off–beat flavour in this screen adaptation, about a middle–aged ad–man who…
Catholic Boys (Heaven Help Us) (1985)- Dir. Michael Dinner
Feat. Mary Stuart Masterson, John Heard, Donald Sutherland… - Slight, but engaging comedy set around a group of Roman Catholic schoolboys and their misadventures with the opposite sex.
Clue (1985)- Dir. Jonathan Lynn
Feat. Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn… - Whodunnit comedy based on the well–known boardgame, with its characters undergoing the rounds of suspicion and questioning after a murder.…
Coca Cola Kid, The (1985)- Dir. Dusan Makavejev
Feat. Eric Roberts, Greta Scacchi, Bill Kerr… - Quirky Aussie comedy about a Coca Cola marketing guru (Roberts) who visits a small town in the Australian outback to try and sell his product, only…
Color Purple, The (The Colour Purple) (1985)- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover… - Striking interpretation of Alice Walker's novel about a black girl's life and hard times in the South, spanning forty years. Whoopi Goldberg's screen…
Creator (1985)- Dir. Ivan Passer
Feat. Peter O'Toole, Mariel Hemingway, Vincent Spano… - A charmingly absurd sci–fi rom–com from the 1980's starring Peter O'Toole as a madcap scientist who applies his eccentric methodology to…
Death of a Salesman (1985)
- Dir. Volker Schlondorff
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, Charles Durning - An excellent adaptation of Arthur Miller’s most famous play, with Dustin Hoffman bringing pathos, seediness and tragedy to the central…
Dempsey & Makepeace (TV Series) (1985)- Feat. Michael Brandon, Glynis Barber
- Glynis Barber attained minor cult status as the smart, sexy partner of a rough and tumble New York cop (Brandon), mismatched of course in this…
Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
- Dir. Susan Seidelman
Feat. Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Aidan Quinn… - Rosanna Arquette and Madonna shine in this spunky and spirited New York comedy/murder mystery – up there with the best of John Hughes' popular…
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