141. Spaceballs
Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Mel Brooks
Actors: Bill Pullman, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Daphne Zuniga, Mel Brooks, Joan Rivers
Plot: Follow the expliots of a Druish princess, her loyal droid, a scruffy pilot and his loyal sidekick as they attempt to stop the ruthless Spaceballs led by President Skroob and Dark Helmet from their nefarious plan to steal all the air from the planet Druidia.
142. The Purple Rose of Cairo
Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Woody Allen
Actors: Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello, Irving Metzman, Stephanie Farrow, David Kieserman
Plot: A New Jersey waitress during the depression, Cecilia wants nothing more than to escape her dreary life. She decides to take in a show, The Purple Rose of Cairo, and is surprised when the star of the film, the dashing Tom Baxter, walks right out of the picture into her life. But Tom isn't real - and neither are the other versions who are suddenly walking off the screen all over the U.S. - what will all these Tom characters decide to do?
143. Koyaanisqatsi
Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Godfrey Reggio
Actors: Ted Koppel
Plot: With a score by Philip Glass, Koyaanisqatsi (Hopi for "Life Out of
Balance") is a journey through time and history. No dialogue, just images,
sped up, slowed down showing nature and man's influence on it.
144. The Last Temptation of Christ
Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Willem Dafoe, Barbara Hershey, Harvey Keitel, Victor Argo, Irvin Kershner, Harry Dean Stanton
Plot: The fictional story of Jesus until his death - dealing with his human temptations.
145. An Officer and a Gentleman
Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Taylor Hackford
Actors: Richard Gere, Debra Winger, David Keith, Robert Loggia, Lisa Blount, Louis Gossett Jr.
Plot: A young man played by Richard Gere must complete his training at the Navy Flight school to become an aviator, with the help of a tough gunnery sergeant and his new girlfriend.
146. Tin Drum, The ( Blechtrommel, Die )
Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Actors: Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, David Bennent, Katharina Thalbach, Daniel Olbrychski, Tina Engel
Plot: Based on one of the most important fiction works of the 20th Century, the Tin Drum follows the fortunes of Oskar Matzerath a gifted introvert who on his 3rd birthday (after receiving a tin drum as a present) decides to stop growing and refuses to join the adult society that he holds in contempt.Matzerath lives through one of the most turbulent periods of European history as he sees the rise of the Nazi regime, the fall of Danzig to the German Army,the Second World War and the fall again of Danzig this time to the Russians.
Oskar falls in love and discovers the heartbreak of the sudden death of his mother, all the while he continues to play his Tin Drum.
147. Clue
Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jonathan Lynn
Actors: Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Martin Mull
Plot: Several people are invited to a mansion to settle a financial problem, but
when one of the guests is murdered, the rest try to solve whodunit.
148. Red's Dream
Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: John Lasseter
149. Vanishing, The ( Spoorloos )
Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Dutch
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Sluizer
Actors: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna ter Steege, Gwen Eckhaus, Bernadette Le Saché, Tania Latarjet
Plot: After his girlfriend disappears from a road-side gas station, a man will stop at nothing to learn what became of her.
150. The Beast, The aka Beast of War
Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kevin Reynolds
Actors: George Dzundza, Jason Patric, Steven Bauer, Stephen Baldwin, Don Harvey, Kabir Bedi
Plot: During the war in Afghanistan a Soviet tank crew commanded by a tyrannical
officer find themselves lost and in a struggle against a band of
Mujahadeen guerrillas in the mountains. A unique look at the Soviet
'Vietnam' experience sympathetically told for both sides.
