231. My Life as a Dog ( Mitt liv som hund )
Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Lasse Hallström
Actors: Anton Glanzelius, Tomas von Brömssen, Anki Lidén, Melinda Kinnaman, Kicki Rundgren, Lennart Hjulström
Plot: In order to give his terminally-ill mother a much-needed rest, Ingemar is sent away to live with relatives over the summer. His meetings with various characters during that time will shape his life.
232. Broadcast News
Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: James L. Brooks
Actors: William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter, Joan Cusack, Jack Nicholson, Robert Prosky
233. Camera Buff ( Amator )
Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Polish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Actors: Jerzy Stuhr, Malgorzata Zabkowska, Ewa Pokas, Stefan Czyzewski, Jerzy Nowak, Tadeusz Bradecki
234. The Times of Harvey Milk
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Rob Epstein
Actors: Harvey Milk, Harvey Fierstein, Anne Kronenberg, Tory Hartmann, Tom Ammiano, Jim Elliot
Plot: A documentary focusing on gay-rights pioneer Harvey Milk, his struggle and triumph getting elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and his assassination, along with Mayor George Moscone by Supervisor Dan White and the reaction to this heinous act.
235. Romancing the Stone
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Actors: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Zack Norman, Alfonso Arau, Manuel Ojeda
Plot: A romance writer receives a treasure map in the mail and is soon headed to Columbia to save her sister from kidnappers, dodge a corrupt cop and maybe fall in love with a rogue soldier-of-fortune.
236. Thief
Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Mann
Actors: Tuesday Weld, James Caan, James Belushi, Dennis Farina, Willie Nelson, Robert Prosky
Plot: A safe cracker is trying to begin a normal life when the mob comes calling
for one last job as he scrambles to protect the ones he loves.
237. Colors
Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Dennis Hopper
Actors: Sean Penn, Robert Duvall, Maria Conchita Alonso, Don Cheadle, Damon Wayans, Randy Brooks
Plot: Detective drama about a police unit trying to control the gangs in East Los Angeles.
238. Shag
Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Zelda Barron
Actors: Phoebe Cates, Scott Coffey, Bridget Fonda, Annabeth Gish, Page Hannah, Robert Rusler
239. The Hitcher
Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Harmon
Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jeffrey DeMunn, John M. Jackson, Billy Green Bush
Plot: A driver transporting a friend's car picks up a deadly passenger - a
hitchhiker with a taste for murder. He gets away, but soon is implicated
in the madman's killing spree.
240. Missing
Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Costa-Gavras
Actors: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea, David Clennon, Charles Cioffi
Plot: In a coup, a junta, a young man goes missing. Fearing he is dead, his
wife and his father use all their influence at the American embassy to
find, him dead or alive.
