The Final Countdown
Theatrical Release Date: 08/01/1980
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Don Taylor
Actors: Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross, James Farentino, Ron O'Neal, Charles Durning
Plot: The Captain (Douglas) of the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Nimitz, with a government civilian "efficiency expert" (Sheen) aboard, sails out of Pearl Harbor in what seems like a normal deployment to the Pacific. When a storm unlike any storm they have ever seen before engulfs them, the crew is knocked unconscious. When they awake, they slowly realize that the storm has transported them back in time to the day before the infamous Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Knowing that their ship has the aircraft, weaponry and technology 40 years more superior than the advancing Japanese fleet, the crew struggles with the ethical question: Should we stop the attack and change history forever?
The Hunter
Theatrical Release Date: 08/01/1980
Overall Rating: 1.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Buzz Kulik
Actors: Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach, LeVar Burton, Ben Johnson, Kathryn Harrold, Tracey Walter
Plot: The story of professional bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson.
Loose Shoes
Theatrical Release Date: 08/01/1980
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ira Miller
Actors: Bill Murray, Harry Shearer, Howard Hesseman, Buddy Hackett, Sid Haig, David Downing
McVicar
Theatrical Release Date: 08/01/1980
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tom Clegg
Actors: Roger Daltrey, Adam Faith, Cheryl Campbell, Billy Murray, Georgina Hale, Steven Berkoff
Raise the Titanic
Theatrical Release Date: 08/01/1980
Overall Rating: 1.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jerry Jameson
Actors: Jason Robards, Richard Jordan, David Selby, Anne Archer, Alec Guinness, M. Emmet Walsh
Plot: In order to get their hands on a rare mineral a salvaging operation will
go after the only known supply: the Titanic.
Arabian Nights ( fiore delle mille e una notte, Il )
Theatrical Release Date: 07/27/1980
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NC-17
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Actors: Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Franco Merli, Tessa Bouché, Ines Pellegrini, Margareth Clémenti
Plot: Pier Paolo Pasolini's creates his own vision for the erotic and mysterious Arabian Knights tales: a young slave girl outwits those who would seek to master her - one, a young, innocent master falls in love and seeks to find her again. Along the way, he meets up with strangers who recount their own stories of love and tragedy.
