List of American films of 1989
This is a list of American films released in 1989 .
Box office
The highest-grossing American films released in 1989, by domestic box office gross revenue , are as follows:[ 1]
Highest-grossing films of 1989
Rank
Title
Distributor
Domestic gross
1
Batman
Warner Bros.
$251,188,924
2
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Paramount
$197,171,806
3
Lethal Weapon 2
Warner Bros.
$147,253,986
4
Look Who's Talking
TriStar
$140,088,813
5
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
$130,724,172
6
Back to the Future Part II
Universal
$118,450,002
7
Ghostbusters II
Columbia
$112,494,738
8
Driving Miss Daisy
Warner Bros.
$106,593,296
9
Parenthood
Universal
$100,047,830
10
Dead Poets Society
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
$95,860,116
January–March
Opening
Title
Production company
Cast and crew
Ref.
J A N U A R Y
13
Cameron's Closet
SVS Films / Smart Egg Pictures
Armand Mastroianni (director); Gary Brandner (screenplay); Cotter Smith , Mel Harris , Scott Curtis, Tab Hunter , Kim Lankford , Leigh McCloskey , Chuck McCann , Gary Hudson , William Lustig , Frank Pesce
DeepStar Six
Tri-Star Pictures / Carolco Pictures
Sean S. Cunningham (director); Lewis Abernathy, Geof Miller (screenplay); Taurean Blacque , Nancy Everhard , Greg Evigan , Miguel Ferrer , Matt McCoy , Nia Peeples , Cindy Pickett , Marius Weyers , Elya Baskin , Thom Bray , Ronn Carroll
The Experts
Paramount Pictures
Dave Thomas (director); Nick Thiel, Steven Greene, Eric Alter (screenplay); John Travolta , Arye Gross , Kelly Preston , Deborah Foreman , James Keach , Jan Rubeš , Brian Doyle-Murray , Charles Martin Smith , Mimi Maynard , Eve Brent , Rick Ducommun , Steve Levitt , Tony Edwards
Gleaming the Cube
20th Century Fox / Gladden Entertainment
Graeme Clifford (director); Michael Tolkin (screenplay); Christian Slater , Steven Bauer , Richard Herd , Le Tuan, Min Luong, Art Chudabala, Ed Lauter , Micole Mercurio , Peter Kwong, Max Perlich , Tony Hawk , Christian Jacobs , Buddy Joe Hooker
The January Man
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / United Artists
Pat O'Connor (director); John Patrick Shanley (screenplay); Kevin Kline , Susan Sarandon , Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio , Harvey Keitel , Danny Aiello , Rod Steiger , Alan Rickman , Faye Grant
27
Cohen and Tate
Hemdale Film Corporation / Nelson Entertainment
Eric Red (director/screenplay); Roy Scheider , Adam Baldwin , Harley Cross , Cooper Huckabee , Suzanne Savoy , Marco Perella , Tom Campitelli, Andy Gill , Frank Bates
Parents
Vestron Pictures
Bob Balaban (director); Christopher Hawthorne (screenplay); Randy Quaid , Mary Beth Hurt , Sandy Dennis , Bryan Madorsky , Juno Mills-Cockell, Kathryn Grody , Deborah Rush , Graham Jarvis , Wayne Robson , Helen Carscallen, Warren Van Evera
Physical Evidence
Columbia Pictures
Michael Crichton (director); Bill Phillips, Steve Ransohoff (screenplay); Burt Reynolds , Theresa Russell , Ned Beatty , Kay Lenz , Ted McGinley , Tom O'Brien , Kenneth Welsh
Three Fugitives
Touchstone Pictures
Francis Veber (director/screenplay); Nick Nolte , Martin Short , James Earl Jones , Alan Ruck , Sarah Doroff, Kenneth McMillan , David Arnott , Lee Garlington , Bruce McGill , Sy Richardson , Rocky Giordani, Stanley Brock, Rick Hall , Brian Thompson , Jack McGee , Kathy Kinney , Larry Miller , Jeff Perry , Dinah Lenney , John Aylward , Tim De Zarn , Rhoda Gemignani , Charles Noland , Albert Henderson , Gary Armagnac , Dean Smith , Mike MacDonald
F E B R U A R Y
3
Her Alibi
Warner Bros. Pictures
Bruce Beresford (director); Charlie Peters (screenplay); Tom Selleck , Paulina Porizkova , William Daniels , James Farentino , Hurd Hatfield , Victor Argo , Patrick Wayne , Tess Harper
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects
Cannon Films
J. Lee Thompson (director); Harold Nebenzal (screenplay); Charles Bronson , Perry Lopez , James Pax , Peggy Lipton , Sy Richardson , Juan Fernández de Alarcon , Bill McKinney , Nicole Eggert , Amy Hathaway , Sam Chew Jr. , Danny Trejo
Who's Harry Crumb?
Tri-Star Pictures
Paul Flaherty (director); Robert Conte, Peter Martin Wortmann (screenplay); John Candy , Jeffrey Jones , Annie Potts , Tim Thomerson , Barry Corbin , Shawnee Smith , Valri Bromfield , Renée Coleman , Wesley Mann , Joe Flaherty , Beverley Elliott, Garwin Sanford , Tony Dakota , Manny Perry , Tino Insana , Deanna Oliver , Jim Belushi , Doug Steckler, Tamsin Kelsey, Lori O'Byrne, Michele Goodger, P. Lynn Johnson, Peter Yunker
Wicked Stepmother
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Larry Cohen (director/screenplay); Bette Davis , Barbara Carrera , Lionel Stander , Colleen Camp , David Rasche , Shawn Donohue, Tom Bosley , Richard Moll , Evelyn Keyes , James Dixon, Seymour Cassel , Susie Garrett , Laurene Landon , Bob Goen , Maxine Elliott Hicks , Helen Shaw , Laurie Main , Robert Dowdell
10
Cousins
Paramount Pictures
Joel Schumacher (director); Jean-Charles Tacchella , Stephen Metcalfe (screenplay); Ted Danson , Isabella Rossellini , Sean Young , William Petersen , Norma Aleandro , Lloyd Bridges , Keith Coogan , Gina DeAngeles, George Coe , Katharine Isabelle , Patrick McGeachan
The Fly II
20th Century Fox
Chris Walas (director); Mick Garris , Jim Wheat, Ken Wheat , Frank Darabont (screenplay); Eric Stoltz , Daphne Zuniga , Lee Richardson , Harley Cross , John Getz , Frank C. Turner , Garry Chalk , Ann Marie Lee, Saffron Henderson , Jerry Wasserman , Duncan Fraser , Bruce Harwood , Lorena Gale , Bill Dow , Garwin Sanford , Andrea Mann , Jeff Goldblum
Tap
Tri-Star Pictures
Nick Castle (director/screenplay); Gregory Hines , Suzzanne Douglas , Joe Morton , Sammy Davis Jr. , Savion Glover , Terrence E. McNally , Dick Anthony Williams , Arthur Duncan , Bunny Briggs , Howard "Sandman" Sims , Steve Condos , Harold Nicholas , Jimmy Slyde , Barbara Perry , Tim Cappello , Etta James
15
Lawrence of Arabia (re-release)
Columbia Pictures / Horizon Pictures
David Lean (director); Robert Bolt , Michael Wilson (screenplay); Peter O'Toole , Alec Guinness , Anthony Quinn , Jack Hawkins , Omar Sharif , José Ferrer , Anthony Quayle , Claude Rains , Arthur Kennedy , Donald Wolfit , I. S. Johar , Gamil Ratib , Michel Ray , John Dimech, Zia Mohyeddin , Howard Marion-Crawford , Jack Gwillim , Hugh Miller , Peter Burton , Kenneth Fortescue, Harry Fowler , Jack Hedley , Ian MacNaughton , Henry Oscar , Norman Rossington , John Ruddock , Fernando Sancho , Stuart Saunders
17
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Orion Pictures / Nelson Entertainment / Embassy Pictures / Interscope Communications
Stephen Herek (director); Chris Matheson , Ed Solomon (screenplay); Keanu Reeves , Alex Winter , George Carlin , Terry Camilleri , Dan Shor , Tony Steedman , Rod Loomis , Al Leong , Jane Wiedlin , Robert V. Barron , Clifford David , Hal Landon Jr. , Bernie Casey , Amy Stock-Poynton , J. Patrick McNamara, Frazier Bain, John Karlsen , Diane Franklin , Kimberley LaBelle , Clarence Clemons , Martha Davis , Fee Waybill
The 'Burbs
Universal Pictures / Imagine Entertainment
Joe Dante (director); Dana Olsen (screenplay); Tom Hanks , Bruce Dern , Carrie Fisher , Rick Ducommun , Corey Feldman , Wendy Schaal , Henry Gibson , Brother Theodore , Courtney Gains , Gale Gordon , Dick Miller , Robert Picardo , Cory Danziger , Franklyn Ajaye , Rance Howard , Nicky Katt , Carey Scott , Kevin Gage , Dana Olsen , Patrika Darbo
The Mighty Quinn
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Carl Schenkel (director); Hampton Fancher (screenplay); Denzel Washington , James Fox , Mimi Rogers , M. Emmet Walsh , Sheryl Lee Ralph , Robert Townsend , Esther Rolle , Art Evans , Henry Judd Baker , Norman Beaton , Alex Colon, Tyra Ferrell , Keye Luke , Carl Bradshaw , Oliver Samuels
True Believer
Columbia Pictures
Joseph Ruben (director); Wesley Strick (screenplay); James Woods , Robert Downey Jr. , Yuji Okumoto , Margaret Colin , Kurtwood Smith , Tom Bower , Charles Hallahan , Miguel Fernandes , Sully Diaz , Luis Guzman , Joel Polis , Kurt Fuller , Graham Beckel , John Snyder
24
American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt
Cannon Films
Cedric Sundstrom (director); Gary Conway (screenplay); David Bradley , Steve James , Michele Chan , Calvin Jung, Marjoe Gortner
Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
Warner Bros. Pictures / Lorimar Film Entertainment
Carl Reiner (director/screenplay); Robert Lindsay , Robbie Coltrane , Jackie Gayle , Bruno Kirby , Corbin Bernsen , Anne Bancroft , Cathryn Bradshaw , Carmen du Sautoy , Liz Smith , Mike Grady
Powwow Highway
Warner Bros. Pictures / Handmade Films
Jonathan Wacks (director); David Seals , Janet Heaney, Jean Stawarz (screenplay); A Martinez , Gary Farmer , Joannelle Nadine Romero , Amanda Wyss , Roscoe Born , John Trudell , Wes Studi , Tony Frank , Rodney Grant , Graham Greene , Floyd Westerman , Sam Vlahos, Wayne Waterman, Margot Kane, Geoff Rivas, Chrissie McDonald, Sky Seals, Maria Antoinette Rogers, Dalin Gomez, Mike Means, Ariane Rowland, Chris Rowland, Keith Shoulder Blade, Titus Shoulder Blade, Adam Taylor, Del Zamora
The Toxic Avenger Part II
Troma Entertainment
Lloyd Kaufman , Michael Herz (directors); Gay Partington Terry (screenplay); Ron Fazio, Phoebe Legere , John Altamura, Rick Collins, Rikiya Yasuoka , Tsutomu Sekine, Mayako Katsuragi
M A R C H
3
Hit List
New Line Cinema / CineTel Films
William Lustig (director); Peter Brosnan, John F. Goff (screenplay); Jan-Michael Vincent , Leo Rossi , Lance Henriksen , Charles Napier , Rip Torn , Harold Sylvester , Jere Burns , Ken Lerner , Nick Barbaro , Margaret Gwenver , Lisa M. Hansen , Felice Orlandi , Junior Richard, Harreit Hall, Jack Andreozzi, Lou Bonacki, Barry Brener, Geoff Brewer, Richard E. Butler, Christopher Carroll, Robert A. Ferretti, John F. Goff, John Greene, Dennis Junt, Lauri Landry, Scott Lincoln, Jason Lustig, Vic Manni, Frank Pesce, Pearl Shear, John Paul Vetturini
Dream a Little Dream
Vestron Pictures
Marc Rocco (director/screenplay); Daniel Jay Franklin, D.E. Eisenberg (screenplay); Corey Feldman , Corey Haim , Meredith Salenger , Jason Robards , Piper Laurie , Harry Dean Stanton , William McNamara , Lala , Susan Blakely , Matt Adler , Victoria Jackson , Alex Rocco , Josh Evans , Mickey Thomas , John Ford Coley
Farewell to the King
Orion Pictures
John Milius (director/screenplay); Nick Nolte , Nigel Havers , Marius Weyers , Frank McRae , James Fox , Aki Aleong , Gerry Lopez , Richard Morgan , John Bennett Perry , Wayne Pygram
Lean on Me
Warner Bros. Pictures
John G. Avildsen (director); Michael Schiffer (director); Morgan Freeman , Beverly Todd , Robert Guillaume , Alan North , Ethan Phillips , Lynne Thigpen , Robin Bartlett , Michael Beach , Tony Todd , Jermaine 'Huggy' Hopkins , Karen Malina White , Karina Arroyave , Michael P. Moran , Ivonne Coll , Regina Taylor , Jim Moody , Mike Starr , Michael Imperioli
Skin Deep
20th Century Fox / Morgan Creek Productions
Blake Edwards (director/screenplay); John Ritter , Vincent Gardenia , Alyson Reed , Julianne Phillips , Chelsea Field , Joel Brooks , Peter Donat , Don Gordon , Nina Foch , Denise Crosby , Michael Kidd , Dee Dee Rescher , Bryan Genesse, Bo Foxworth, Raye Hollitt , Brenda Swanson, Jean Marie McKee
10
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Columbia Pictures / Allied Filmmakers
Terry Gilliam (director/screenplay); Charles McKeown (screenplay); John Neville , Eric Idle , Sarah Polley , Oliver Reed , Uma Thurman , Jonathan Pryce , Bill Paterson , Charles McKeown , Winston Dennis, Jack Purvis , Valentina Cortese , Peter Jeffrey , Alison Steadman , Ray Cooper , Don Henderson , Sting , Terry Gilliam , Robin Williams
Chances Are
Tri-Star Pictures
Emile Ardolino (director); Perry Howze, Randy Howze (screenplay); Cybill Shepherd , Robert Downey Jr. , Ryan O'Neal , Mary Stuart Masterson , Christopher McDonald , Josef Sommer , Joe Grifasi , Henderson Forsythe , Fran Ryan , James Noble , Marc McClure , Susan Ruttan , Mimi Kennedy , Kathleen Freeman , Dennis Patrick , Martin Garner , Gianni Russo , Lester Lanin
Jacknife
Cineplex Odeon Films / Kings Road Entertainment
David Jones (director); Stephen Metcalfe (screenplay); Robert De Niro , Ed Harris , Kathy Baker , Sloane Shelton, Ivar Brogger , Tom Isbell, Jordan Lund , Tom Rack , Charles S. Dutton , Bruce Ramsay , Jessalyn Gilsig , George Gerdes, Josh Pais , Loudon Wainwright III , Walter Massey , Elizabeth Franz , Kirk Taylor , Gabrielle Carteris
New York Stories
Touchstone Pictures / Silver Screen Partners / American Zoetrope
Woody Allen , Francis Ford Coppola (directors/screenplay); Martin Scorsese (director); Sofia Coppola , Richard Price (screenplay); Woody Allen , Rosanna Arquette , Mia Farrow , Giancarlo Giannini , Julie Kavner , Nick Nolte , Talia Shire , Steve Buscemi , Jesse Borrego , Peter Gabriel , Illeana Douglas , Deborah Harry , Heather McComb , Don Novello , Adrien Brody , Chris Elliott , Carmine Coppola , Carole Bouquet , Holly Marie Combs , Mae Questel , George Schindler , Larry David , Mike Starr , Kirsten Dunst , Ira Wheeler, Paul Herman , Martin Rosenblatt , Helen Hanft , Jodi Long , Nancy Giles , Ed Koch , Gia Coppola , James Keane , Tom Mardirosian , Michael Higgins , Patrick O'Neal , Mark Boone Junior , Victor Argo , Richard Price , Brigitte Bako , Amber Barretto , Julia Campanelli , Martin Scorsese
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
Warner Bros. Pictures
Peter Bonerz (director); Stephen Curwick (screenplay); Bubba Smith , Michael Winslow , David Graf , Marion Ramsey , Leslie Easterbrook , Lance Kinsey , Bruce Mahler , Kenneth Mars , Matt McCoy , G. W. Bailey , George Gaynes , George R. Robertson , Gerrit Graham , Allison Mack , Arthur Batanides , Billie Bird , Greg Collins , Anna Mathias , Melle Mel , Peter Elbling , Roberta Haynes , Dean Norris , Charlie Adler , Paul Maslansky
12
Dead Man Out
HBO Showcase
Richard Pearce (director); Ron Hutchinson (screenplay); Danny Glover , Rubén Blades , Larry Block , Tom Atkins , Samuel L. Jackson
17
Fletch Lives
Universal Pictures
Michael Ritchie (director); Leon Capetanos (screenplay); Chevy Chase , Hal Holbrook , Julianne Phillips , R. Lee Ermey , Richard Libertini , Randall "Tex" Cobb , Don Brockett , Cleavon Little , George Wyner , Patricia Kalember , Geoffrey Lewis , Richard Belzer , Phil Hartman , Titos Vandis , Don Hood
Leviathan
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Filmauro
George P. Cosmatos (director); David Peoples , Jeb Stuart (screenplay); Peter Weller , Richard Crenna , Amanda Pays , Daniel Stern , Ernie Hudson , Michael Carmine , Lisa Eilbacher , Hector Elizondo , Meg Foster , Eugene Lipinski , Tom Woodruff Jr.
Rooftops
New Visions Pictures
Robert Wise (director); Allan A. Goldstein , Tony Mark (screenplay); Jason Gedrick , Troy Beyer , Eddie Velez , Tisha Campbell-Martin , Alexis Cruz , Allen Payne , Luis Guzmán , Robert LaSardo , Lauren Tom , Rockets Redglare , Paul Herman , Coley Wallace , Steve Love, Rafael Baez, Jaime Tirelli, Millie Tirelli, Jay Boryea, Edouard DeSoto, Bruce Smolanoff, Edythe Jason, Stuart Rudin, Herb Kerr, Peter Lopez, Kurt Lott, Jed James
24
976-EVIL
New Line Cinema / CineTel Films
Robert Englund (director); Rhet Topham, Brian Helgeland (screenplay); Stephen Geoffreys , Jim Metzler , Maria Rubell, Pat O'Bryan , Sandy Dennis
Dead Bang
Warner Bros. Pictures / Lorimar Film Entertainment
John Frankenheimer (director); Robert Foster (screenplay); Don Johnson , Penelope Ann Miller , William Forsythe , Bob Balaban , Tim Reid , Tate Donovan , Frank Military, Antoni Stutz , Mickey Jones , Ron Campbell, William Traylor , Hy Anzell , Michael Jeter , James B. Douglas, Brad Sullivan
Troop Beverly Hills
Columbia Pictures
Jeff Kanew (director); Pamela Norris , Margaret Grieco Oberman (screenplay); Shelley Long , Craig T. Nelson , Betty Thomas , Mary Gross , Stephanie Beacham , Jenny Lewis , Emily Schulman , Carla Gugino , Kellie Martin , Aquilina Soriano, Karen Kopins , Tasha Scott , Heather Hopper, Ami Foster , Audra Lindley , Edd Byrnes , Shelley Morrison , Dinah Lacey, Tori Spelling , Willie Garson , Mary Pat Gleason , Kareem Abdul-Jabbar , Frankie Avalon , Annette Funicello , Dr. Joyce Brothers , Robin Leach , Cheech Marin , Ted McGinley , Pia Zadora , Hilary Shepard
31
Heathers
New World Pictures
Michael Lehmann (director); Daniel Waters (screenplay); Winona Ryder , Christian Slater , Shannen Doherty , Lisanne Falk , Kim Walker , Penelope Milford , Glenn Shadix , Lance Fenton, Patrick Labyorteaux , Jeremy Applegate, Em Lodge, Renée Estevez , Carrie Lynn, Chuck LaFont, Phill Lewis
April–June
Opening
Title
Production company
Cast and crew
Ref.
A P R I L
7
Cyborg
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Cannon Group
Albert Pyun (director); Kitty Chalmers, Daniel Hubbard-Smith (screenplay); Jean-Claude Van Damme , Deborah Richter , Vincent Klyn , Dayle Haddon , Alex Daniels , Ralf Möller , Blaise Loong, Haley Peterson, Terrie Batson, Jackson 'Rock' Pinckney
Dead Calm
Warner Bros. Pictures
Phillip Noyce (director); Terry Hayes (screenplay); Sam Neill , Nicole Kidman , Billy Zane
The Dream Team
Universal Pictures / Imagine Entertainment
Howard Zieff (director); Jon Connolly, David Loucka (screenplay); Michael Keaton , Christopher Lloyd , Peter Boyle , Stephen Furst , Lorraine Bracco , Dennis Boutsikaris , Milo O'Shea , Philip Bosco , James Remar , Michael Lembeck , Jack Riley , Larry Pine , John Stocker , Lizbeth MacKay , Ron James , Wayne Tippit , Ted Simonett , Freda Foh Shen , Dennis Parlato , Donna Hanover , Jihmi Kennedy
Major League
Paramount Pictures / Morgan Creek Productions
David S. Ward (director/screenplay); Tom Berenger , Charlie Sheen , Corbin Bernsen , Margaret Whitton , James Gammon , Rene Russo , Bob Uecker , Wesley Snipes , Charles Cyphers , Chelcie Ross , Dennis Haysbert , Andy Romano , Kip Powers, Steve Yeager , Pete Vuckovich , Willie Mueller , Neil Flynn , Stacy Carroll, Todd Johnson, Ed Grode, Jr., Marc Daniloff
14
Disorganized Crime
Touchstone Pictures / Silver Screen Partners
Jim Kouf (director/screenplay); Hoyt Axton , Corbin Bernsen , Rubén Blades , Fred Gwynne , Ed O'Neill , Lou Diamond Phillips , Daniel Roebuck , William Russ
Say Anything...
20th Century Fox / Gracie Films
Cameron Crowe (director/screenplay); John Cusack , Ione Skye , John Mahoney , Lili Taylor , Polly Platt , Bebe Neuwirth , Jeremy Piven , Eric Stoltz , Amy Brooks, Loren Dean , Pamela Adlon , Chynna Phillips , Jason Gould , Philip Baker Hall , Joanna Frank , Lois Chiles , Joan Cusack , Dan Castellaneta
She's Out of Control
Columbia Pictures
Stan Dragoti (director); Seth Winston, Michael J. Nathanson (screenplay); Tony Danza , Catherine Hicks , Ami Dolenz , Laura Mooney, Wallace Shawn , Derek McGrath , Dana Ashbrook , Matthew Perry , Dick O'Neill , Dustin Diamond , Oliver Muirhead , Lance Wilson-White
Winter People
Columbia Pictures / Castle Rock Entertainment / Nelson Entertainment
Ted Kotcheff (director); Carol Sobieski (screenplay); Kurt Russell , Kelly McGillis , Lloyd Bridges , Mitchell Ryan , Jeffrey Meek , Don Michael Paul , Lanny Flaherty , Eileen Ryan , Amelia Burnette, David Dwyer
20
Kickboxer
Cannon Films / Kings Road Entertainment
Mark DiSalle, David Worth (directors); Glenn A. Bruce (screenplay); Jean-Claude Van Damme , Dennis Alexio , Dennis Chan, Michel Qissi , Haskell Anderson , Jim Cummings , Ka Ting Lee, Rochelle Ashana, Richard Foo
21
Checking Out
Warner Bros. Pictures / HandMade Films
David Leland (director); Joe Eszterhas (screenplay); Jeff Daniels , Melanie Mayron , Michael Tucker , Kathleen York , Ann Magnuson , Allan Havey
Field of Dreams
Universal Pictures
Phil Alden Robinson (director/screenplay); Kevin Costner , Amy Madigan , James Earl Jones , Ray Liotta , Burt Lancaster , Timothy Busfield , Kelly Coffield Park , Frank Whaley , Gaby Hoffmann , Dwier Brown , Lee Garlington , Michael Milhoan , Steve Eastin , Charles Hoyes , Art LaFleur , Anne Seymour , Matt Damon , Ben Affleck
Pet Sematary
Paramount Pictures
Mary Lambert (director); Stephen King (screenplay); Dale Midkiff , Fred Gwynne , Denise Crosby , Brad Greenquist , Michael Lombard , Miko Hughes , Blaze Berdahl , Susan Blommaert , Kavi Raz , Mary Louise Wilson , Andrew Hubatsek , Stephen King , Chuck Courtney , Matthew August Ferrell, Richard Collier, Elizabeth Ureneck
Red Scorpion
Shapiro-Glickenhaus Entertainment
Joseph Zito (director); Jack Abramoff , Robert Abramoff, Arne Olson (screenplay); Dolph Lundgren , M. Emmet Walsh , Al White , T. P. McKenna , Carmen Argenziano , Brion James , Alex Colon , Ruben Nthodi
See You in the Morning
Warner Bros. Pictures / Lorimar Film Entertainment
Alan J. Pakula (director/screenplay); Jeff Bridges , Alice Krige , Farrah Fawcett , Drew Barrymore , Lukas Haas , David Dukes , Frances Sternhagen , George Hearn , Theodore Bikel , Linda Lavin , Heather Lilly, Macaulay Culkin , Tom Aldredge , William LeMassena , Dorothy Dean , Alixe Gordin, Kate Williamson , Christopher Curry , Betsy Aidem , Robert Levine
Speed Zone
Orion Pictures
Jim Drake (director); Michael Short (screenplay); Melody Anderson , Peter Boyle , Donna Dixon , John Candy , Eugene Levy , Dick Smothers , Tom Smothers , Shari Belafonte , Joe Flaherty , Matt Frewer
Teen Witch
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Trans World Entertainment
Dorian Walker (director); Robin Menken, Vernon Zimmerman (screenplay); Robyn Lively , Zelda Rubinstein , Dan Gauthier , Joshua John Miller , Caren Kaye , Dick Sargent , Lisa Fuller , Marcia Wallace , Amanda Ingber , Shelley Berman , Cindy Valentine , Megan A. Gallivan, Noah Blake, Tina Caspary
23
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
HBO Pictures / Citadel Entertainment
Brian Gibson (director); Abby Mann , Robin Vote, Ron Hutchinson (screenplay); Ben Kingsley , Renée Soutendijk , Craig T. Nelson , Anton Lesser , Jack Shepherd
28
Criminal Law
Hemdale Film Corporation
Martin Campbell (director); Mark Kasdan (screenplay); Gary Oldman , Kevin Bacon , Tess Harper , Karen Young , Joe Don Baker , Sean McCann , Ron Lea , Michael Sinelnikoff , Elizabeth Shepherd
The Horror Show
United Artists
James Isaac (director); Allyn Warner, Leslie Bohem (screenplay); Lance Henriksen , Brion James , Rita Taggart , Dedee Pfeiffer , Aron Eisenberg , Thom Bray , Matt Clark , David Oliver , Terry Alexander , Lawrence Tierney , Lewis Arquette
K-9
Universal Pictures
Rod Daniel (director); Steven Siegel, Scott Myers, Lloyd Levin , Donna Smith (screenplay); Jim Belushi , Mel Harris , Kevin Tighe , Ed O'Neill , James Handy , Sherman Howard , Daniel Davis , Cotter Smith , John Snyder , Pruitt Taylor Vince
Loverboy
Tri-Star Pictures
Joan Micklin Silver (director); Robin Schiff , Tom Ropelewski , Leslie Dixon (screenplay); Patrick Dempsey , Kate Jackson , Carrie Fisher , Robert Ginty , Barbara Carrera , Kirstie Alley , Nancy Valen , Vic Tayback , Robert Picardo , Ray Girardin , E.G. Daily , Peter Koch , Robert Camilletti, Bernie Coulson , Dylan Walsh , Kim Miyori
Miss Firecracker
Corsair Pictures
Thomas Schlamme (director); Beth Henley (screenplay); Holly Hunter , Mary Steenburgen , Tim Robbins , Alfre Woodard , Scott Glenn , Veanne Cox , Ann Wedgeworth , Trey Wilson , Amy Wright , Kathleen Chalfant , Greg Germann , Bert Remsen , Robert Fieldsteel, Avril Gentles, Angela Turner
Scandal
Miramax Films
Michael Caton-Jones (director); Michael Thomas (screenplay); John Hurt , Joanne Whalley , Ian McKellen , Bridget Fonda , Leslie Phillips , Britt Ekland , Daniel Massey , Roland Gift , Jeroen Krabbé , Jean Alexander , Deborah Grant , Alex Norton , Ronald Fraser , Paul Brooke , Keith Allen , Ralph Brown , Iain Cuthbertson , Johnny Shannon , Leon Herbert
M A Y
5
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
Warner Bros. Pictures / HandMade Films
Bruce Robinson (director/screenplay): Richard E. Grant , Rachel Ward , Richard Wilson , Jacqueline Tong , John Shrapnel , Susan Wooldridge , Hugh Armstrong , Mick Ford , Jacqueline Pearce
Listen to Me
Columbia Pictures
Douglas Day Stewart (director/screenplay); Jack Cummins, Daniel Arthur Wray (screenplay); Kirk Cameron , Jami Gertz , Roy Scheider , Amanda Peterson , George Wyner , Anthony Zerbe , Quinn Cummings , Christopher Atkins , Timothy Dang , Peter DeLuise , Jason Gould , Yeardley Smith ,
Lost Angels
Orion Pictures
Hugh Hudson (director); Michael Weller (screenplay); Donald Sutherland , Adam Horovitz , Amy Locane , Don Bloomfield, Celia Weston , Graham Beckel , Patricia Richardson , Ron Frazier, Joe D'Angerio, William O'Leary , Kevin Corrigan , Gary Riley , Michael Cunningham , Leonard Porter Salazar, Jonathan Del Arco , Celia Newman , David Herman , Max Perlich , Nina Siemaszko , Kevin Tighe , John C. McGinley , Frances Fisher , Lee Wilkof , James N. Harrell , Jack Gold , Keone Young , Park Overall , Pauly Shore
Signs of Life
Avenue Pictures
John David Coles (director); Mark Malone (screenplay); Beau Bridges , Vincent D'Onofrio , Arthur Kennedy , Kevin J. O'Connor , Will Patton , Kate Reid , Georgia Engel , Kathy Bates , Mary-Louise Parker
12
Earth Girls Are Easy
Vestron Pictures / De Laurentiis Entertainment Group
Julien Temple (director); Julie Brown , Charlie Coffey , Terrence E. McNally (screenplay); Geena Davis , Jim Carrey , Damon Wayans , Jeff Goldblum , Julie Brown , Michael McKean , Charles Rocket , Larry Linville , Rick Overton , Diane Stilwell, Stacey Travis , Angelyne , Nedra Volz
The Rachel Papers
United Artists / Virgin Films
Damian Harris (director/screenplay); Dexter Fletcher , Ione Skye , Jonathan Pryce , James Spader , Bill Paterson , Michael Gambon , Lesley Sharp , Jared Harris , Aubrey Morris , Claire Skinner , Shirley Anne Field , Pat Keen , Amanda de Cadenet , Gina McKee , Eric Stoltz
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Tri-Star Pictures
Arthur Hiller (director); Earl Barret, Arne Sultan, Marvin Worth , Eliot Wald , Andrew Kurtzman, Gene Wilder (screenplay); Richard Pryor , Gene Wilder , Joan Severance , Kevin Spacey , Alan North , Anthony Zerbe , Louis Giambalvo , Kirsten Childs , Hardy Rawls , Audrie Neenan , Lauren Tom , John Capodice , George Bartenieff , Alexandra Neil , Tonya Pinkins , Bernie McInerney , Mary Kay Adams , George Harris , Zach Grenier , Joel Swetow , Jane Connell
19
Cold Feet
Avenue Pictures
Robert Dornhelm (director); Thomas McGuane , Jim Harrison (screenplay); Keith Carradine , Sally Kirkland , Tom Waits , Bill Pullman , Kathleen York , Rip Torn , Jeff Bridges , Macon McCalman , Vincent Schiavelli , Chuck Woolery
For Queen and Country
Atlantic Entertainment Group
Martin Stellman (director/screenplay); Trix Worrell (screenplay); Denzel Washington , Dorian Healy , Bruce Payne , Amanda Redman , Sean Chapman , Graham McTavish , Geff Francis , Frank Harper , Craig Fairbrass , George Baker , Stella Gonet , Ken Stott , Jimmi Harkishin , Stephen Lawrence , Michael Bray, Colin Thomas, Brian McDermott
Fright Night Part 2
New Century/Vista
Tommy Lee Wallace (director/screenplay); Tim Metcalfe, Miguel Tejada-Flores (screenplay); Roddy McDowall , William Ragsdale , Traci Lind , Julie Carmen , Jon Gries , Brian Thompson , Merritt Butrick , Ernie Sabella , Josh Richman , Blair Tefkin , Russell Clark
How I Got into College
20th Century Fox
Savage Steve Holland (director); Terrel Seltzer (screenplay); Anthony Edwards , Corey Parker , Lara Flynn Boyle , Finn Carter , Charles Rocket , Christopher Rydell , Brian Doyle-Murray , O-Lan Jones , Tichina Arnold , Bruce Wagner , Tom Kenny , Bill Raymond , Philip Baker Hall , Nicolas Coster , Richard Jenkins , Phil Hartman , Nora Dunn , Duane Davis , Diane Franklin , Robert Ridgely , Micole Mercurio , Bill Henderson , Richard Steven Horvitz , Curtis Armstrong , Taylor Negron
Miracle Mile
Columbia Pictures / Hemdale Film Corporation
Steve De Jarnatt (director/screenplay); Anthony Edwards , Mare Winningham , John Agar , Lou Hancock, Mykelti Williamson , Kelly Jo Minter , Kurt Fuller , Brian Thompson , Denise Crosby , Robert DoQui , O-Lan Jones , Claude Earl Jones, Alan Rosenberg , Danny De La Paz, Earl Boen , Raphael Sbarge , Lucille Bliss , Diane Delano , Edward Bunker , Peter Berg , Richard Biggs , Jenette Goldstein
Road House
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / United Artists / Silver Pictures
Rowdy Herrington (director); David Lee Henry, Hilary Henkin (screenplay); Patrick Swayze , Ben Gazzara , Kelly Lynch , Sam Elliott , Kevin Tighe , Red West , Jeff Healey , Sunshine Parker , Marshall Teague , John Doe , Kathleen Wilhoite , Terry Funk , Anthony De Longis , Keith David , Travis McKenna, John William Young, Julie Michaels, Michael Rider
24
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Paramount Pictures / Lucasfilm
Steven Spielberg (director); Jeffrey Boam (screenplay); Harrison Ford , Sean Connery , Denholm Elliott , Alison Doody , John Rhys-Davies , Julian Glover , River Phoenix , Michael Byrne , Kevork Malikyan , Robert Eddison , Richard Young , Alexei Sayle , Alex Hyde-White , Paul Maxwell , Isla Blair , Vernon Dobtcheff , Bradley Gregg , Frederick Jaeger , Eugene Lipinski
26
Pink Cadillac
Warner Bros. Pictures / Malpaso Productions
Buddy Van Horn (director); John Eskow (screenplay); Clint Eastwood , Bernadette Peters , Timothy Carhart , John Dennis Johnston , Gerry Bamman , Michael Des Barres , Jimmie F. Skaggs , Bill Moseley , Michael Champion , William Hickey , Geoffrey Lewis , Dirk Blocker , Frances Fisher , Paul Benjamin , Bryan Adams , Mara Corday , Jim Carrey , James Cromwell , Bill McKinney
28
Third Degree Burn
HBO Pictures / Paramount Pictures / MTM Enterprises
Roger Spottiswoode (director); Duncan Gibbins , Yale Udoff (screenplay); Treat Williams , Virginia Madsen , Richard Masur , CCH Pounder , Mary Armstrong, John Aylward , George Catalano, Michael Chapman, William Marquez, Joe Mays, Robert Nadir, Alex Thayer, Rick Tutor, Lisa Zebro
J U N E
2
Dead Poets Society
Touchstone Pictures / Silver Screen Partners
Peter Weir (director); Tom Schulman (screenplay); Robin Williams , Robert Sean Leonard , Ethan Hawke , Josh Charles , Lara Flynn Boyle , Gale Hansen , Norman Lloyd , Kurtwood Smith , Dylan Kussman , Melora Walters , James Waterston , Alexandra Powers , Leon Pownall , George Martin , Allelon Ruggiero, Jane Moore, Kevin Cooney, Colin Irving, Matt Carey, John Cunningham
No Holds Barred
New Line Cinema / WWE Studios
Thomas J. Wright (director); Dennis Hackin (screenplay); Hulk Hogan , Kurt Fuller , Joan Severance , Tiny Lister, Jr. , Mark Pellegrino , Bill Henderson , Charles Levin , David Paymer , Patrick O'Bryan , Jeep Swenson , Bill Eadie , Stan Hansen , Rebecca Wackler, Bruce Taylor, Gene Okerlund , Jesse Ventura , Howard Finkel , Joey Marella , Rick Allen
Renegades
Universal Pictures / Morgan Creek Productions / Interscope Communications
Jack Sholder (director); David Rich (screenplay); Kiefer Sutherland , Lou Diamond Phillips , Robert Knepper , Bill Smitrovich , Jami Gertz , Clark Johnson , Peter MacNeill , Floyd Red Crow Westerman , Joseph Griffin, Kyra Harper
Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills
Cinecom Pictures
Paul Bartel (director); Bruce Wagner (screenplay); Jacqueline Bisset , Ray Sharkey , Mary Woronov , Robert Beltran , Ed Begley Jr. , Wallace Shawn , Arnetia Walker , Paul Bartel , Paul Mazursky , Rebecca Schaeffer , Barret Oliver , Edith Diaz , Susan Saiger, Jerry Tondo , Michael Feinstein , Frank Welker , Little Richard
Vampire's Kiss
Hemdale Film Corporation
Robert Bierman (director); Joseph Minion (screenplay); Nicolas Cage , María Conchita Alonso , Jennifer Beals , Elizabeth Ashley , Kasi Lemmons , Bob Lujan, Jessica Lundy , John Walker, Boris Leskin , Michael Knowles , John Michael Higgins , Jodie Markell , Marc Coppola , David Hyde Pierce , Amy Stiller, Christopher Sluka, ESG
9
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Paramount Pictures
William Shatner (director); David Loughery (screenplay); William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , James Doohan , Walter Koenig , Nichelle Nichols , George Takei , David Warner , Laurence Luckinbill , Charles Cooper , Cynthia Gouw , Todd Bryant, Spice Williams-Crosby , Rex Holman , George Murdock , Steve Susskind , Harve Bennett , Bill Quinn , Melanie Shatner , Michael Berryman , Carey Scott , Mike Smithson
16
Around the World with Kids Sing Praise Vols.1 & 2 & Mother Goose Gospel's Kids Vol.1: The Movie Part 1
Brentwood Music
Larry Mayfield
(director);Gary Musick (screenplay)
23
Batman
Warner Bros. Pictures / Guber-Peters Company
Tim Burton (director); Sam Hamm , Warren Skaaren (screenplay); Michael Keaton , Jack Nicholson , Kim Basinger , Robert Wuhl , Pat Hingle , Billy Dee Williams , Michael Gough , Jack Palance , Jerry Hall , Tracey Walter , Lee Wallace , William Hootkins , Richard Strange , John Sterland , Edwin Craig , Vincent Wong , John Dair , Christopher Fairbank , Richard Durden , Kit Hollerbach , Lachele Carl , Rocky Taylor , Leon Herbert , Steve Plytas , Amir Korangy , Michael Balfour , Garrick Hagon , Sam Douglas , Denis Lill , Paul Birchard , Lech Majewski , Jimmy Star , David Baxt, Sharon Holm
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
Walt Disney Pictures
Joe Johnston (director); Ed Naha , Tom Schulman (screenplay); Rick Moranis , Marcia Strassman , Amy O'Neill , Robert Oliveri , Matt Frewer , Kristine Sutherland , Thomas Wilson Brown , Jared Rushton , Carl Steven , Mark L. Taylor , Kimmy Robertson , Lou Cutell , Frank Welker , Craig Richard Nelson
25
Traveling Man
HBO Pictures
Irvin Kershner (director); David Taylor (screenplay); John Lithgow , Jonathan Silverman , Margaret Colin , John Glover , John M. Jackson , Chynna Phillips , J. Don Ferguson , Jennifer Hale , Paul Armbruster, Dawn Arnemann, Jerry Campbell, Marc Clement, Saundra Dunson-Franks, David Dwyer, Danny Nelson, Bob Penny, Johnny Popwell, Alex Van, Tim Ware
30
Kids Sing Praise Volumes 1 & 2 & Mother Goose Gospel's Kids Vol.1: 4th of July: The Musical Video Part 2
Brentwood Music
Larry Mayfield (director); Gary Musick (screenplay), Britta Phillips
Great Balls of Fire!
Orion Pictures
Jim McBride (director/screenplay); Jack Baran (screenplay); Dennis Quaid , Winona Ryder , Alec Baldwin , Trey Wilson , John Doe , Stephen Tobolowsky , Lisa Blount , Mojo Nixon , Jimmie Vaughan , Steve Allen , Joshua Sheffield, David R. Ferguson , Robert Lesser, Michael St. Gerard , Lisa Jane Persky , Peter Cook , Jerry Lee Lewis
The Karate Kid Part III
Columbia Pictures
John G. Avildsen (director); Robert Mark Kamen (screenplay); Ralph Macchio , Pat Morita , Robyn Lively , Thomas Ian Griffith , Martin Kove , Sean Kanan , Jonathan Avildsen, Christopher Paul Ford, Randee Heller , Pat E. Johnson , Rick Hurst , Frances Bay , Joseph V. Perry , Jan Tříska , Glenn Medeiros , Gabe Jarret
July–September
Opening
Title
Production company
Cast and crew
Ref.
J U L Y
5
Weekend at Bernie's
20th Century Fox / Gladden Entertainment
Ted Kotcheff (director); Robert Klane (screenplay); Andrew McCarthy , Jonathan Silverman , Catherine Mary Stewart , Terry Kiser , Don Calfa , Catherine Parks , Eloise Broady , Gregory Salata, Louis Giambalvo , Ted Kotcheff , Margaret Hall, Jason Woliner
7
Kids Sing Praise Vols. 1 & 2 & Mother Goose Gospel's Kids Vol.1 In Outer Space Adventures: The Movie Part 3
Brentwood Music
Larry Mayfield (director); Gray Musick (artist/screenplay);
14
Licence to Kill
United Artists / Eon Productions
John Glen (director); Michael G. Wilson , Richard Maibaum (screenplay); Timothy Dalton , Carey Lowell , Robert Davi , Talisa Soto , Anthony Zerbe , Frank McRae , Everett McGill , Desmond Llewelyn , Robert Brown , Caroline Bliss , Anthony Starke , Grand L. Bush , Benicio del Toro , Alejandro Bracho , Guy De Saint Cyr , Diana Lee-Hsu , Rafer Johnson , David Hedison , Don Stroud , Priscilla Barnes , Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa , Pedro Armendáriz , Wayne Newton , Christopher Neame , Roger Cudney , Claudio Brook , Enrique Novi , Jorge Russek , Humberto Elizondo , Carl Ciarfalio , Branscombe Richmond , Michael G. Wilson
Peter Pan (re-release)
Walt Disney Pictures / RKO Radio Pictures
Clyde Geronimi , Wilfred Jackson , Hamilton Luske (directors); Milt Banta, Bill Cottrell, Winston Hibler , Bill Peet , Erdman Penner, Joe Rinaldi, Ted Sears , Ralph Wright (screenplay); Bobby Driscoll , Kathryn Beaumont , Hans Conried , Bill Thompson , Heather Angel , Paul Collins , Tommy Luske, Candy Candido , Tom Conway , Roland Dupree , Don Barclay , Lucille Bliss , Stuffy Singer , Johnny McGovern , Robert Ellis , June Foray , Margaret Kerry , Jeffrey Silver, Connie Hilton, Karen Kester
21
Shag
Hemdale Film Corporation
Zelda Barron (director); Lanier Laney, Terry Sweeney , Robin Swicord (screenplay); Phoebe Cates , Scott Coffey , Bridget Fonda , Annabeth Gish , Page Hannah , Robert Rusler , Tyrone Power Jr. , Jeff Yagher , Carrie Hamilton , Leilani Sarelle , Paul Lieber , Donald Craig, Shirley Anne Field , Jay Baker , Joe Seely, Pearl Jones, Bonnie Johnson
UHF
Orion Pictures
Jay Levey (director/screenplay); "Weird Al" Yankovic (screenplay); "Weird Al" Yankovic , Kevin McCarthy , Michael Richards , David Bowe , Victoria Jackson , Fran Drescher , Stanley Brock , Sue Ane Langdon , Anthony Geary , Billy Barty , Trinidad Silva , Gedde Watanabe , Vance Colvig Jr. , David Proval , Grant James , John Paragon , Belinda Bauer , Dr. Demento , Emo Philips , Patrick Thomas O'Brien , The Kipper Kids , Robert K. Weiss , Tony Frank , Tamara Clatterbuck
When Harry Met Sally...
Columbia Pictures / Castle Rock Entertainment / Nelson Entertainment
Rob Reiner (director); Nora Ephron (screenplay); Billy Crystal , Meg Ryan , Carrie Fisher , Bruno Kirby , Steven Ford , Lisa Jane Persky , Michelle Nicastro , Kevin Rooney , Harley Jane Kozak , Estelle Reiner , Gretchen Palmer , Franc Luz , Tracy Reiner , Kyle T. Heffner , Connie Sawyer , Katherine Squire , Ingrid Bergman , Claude Rains
28
Babar: The Movie
New Line Cinema / Nelvana
Alan Bunce (director/screenplay); Peter Sauder, J.D. Smith, John de Klein, Raymond Jafelice (screenplay); Gordon Pinsent , Elizabeth Hanna , Lisa Yamanaka , Bobby Becken , Sarah Polley , Stephen Ouimette , Chris Wiggins , John Stocker , Stuart Stone , Carl Banas , Angela Fusco , Christopher Britton , Jason Burke , Frank Perry , Norm Spencer , Marsha Moreau, Amos Crawley, Gavin Magrath, Charles Kerr, Ray Landry, Barbara Mantini, Christopher Andrande, Scott Brunt, Katie Coristine, Chris Robson, Lea-Helen Weir
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
Paramount Pictures
Rob Hedden (director/screenplay); Jensen Daggett , Scott Reeves , Barbara Bingham, Peter Mark Richman , Martin Cummins , Gordon Currie , Alex Diakun , V.C. Dupree, Saffron Henderson , Kelly Hu , Sharlene Martin, Warren Munson , Kane Hodder , Ken Kirzinger , Fred Henderson , Michael Benyaer , Roger Barnes , Amber Pawlick, Timothy Burr Mirkovich
Turner & Hooch
Touchstone Pictures / Silver Screen Partners
Roger Spottiswoode (director); Dennis Shryack , Michael Blodgett , Daniel Petrie Jr. , Jim Cash , Jack Epps Jr. (screenplay); Tom Hanks , Mare Winningham , Craig T. Nelson , Reginald VelJohnson , Scott Paulin , John McIntire , Ebbe Roe Smith , Ernie Lively , Clyde Kusatsu , Elden Henson , Jules Sylvester , Nick Dimitri , Jim Beaver , J.C. Quinn, David Knell, Kevin Scannell, Joel Bailey, Mary McCusker, Elaine Renee Bush, Eda Reiss Merin, Victor DiMattia
A U G U S T
1
Who Shot Pat?
Castle Hill Productions
Robert Brooks (director/screenplay); Halle Brooks (screenplay); David Knight, Sandra Bullock , Kevin Otto, Aaron Ingram, Brad Randall, Chris Cardona , Michael Puzzo, Christopher Crean, Gregg Marc Miller, Damon Chandler, Bridget Fogle, Phil Rosenthal, Clint Jordan, Ella Arolovi, Nicholas Reiner, Henry Paul , Allison Janney
2
Parenthood
Universal Pictures / Imagine Entertainment
Ron Howard (director); Lowell Ganz , Babaloo Mandel (screenplay); Steve Martin , Tom Hulce , Rick Moranis , Martha Plimpton , Keanu Reeves , Jason Robards , Mary Steenburgen , Dianne Wiest , Dennis Dugan , Leaf Phoenix , Eileen Ryan , Helen Shaw , Jasen Fisher , Paul Linke , Alisan Porter , Ivyann Schwann , Clint Howard , Max Elliott Slade , Lowell Ganz , Rance Howard , Todd Hallowell , Charmin Lee, Bryce Dallas Howard , Howie Dorough
4
Lock Up
Tri-Star Pictures / Carolco Pictures
John Flynn (director); Richard Smith, Jeb Stuart , Henry Rosenbaum (screenplay); Sylvester Stallone , Donald Sutherland , John Amos , Darlanne Fluegel , Frank McRae , Sonny Landham , Tom Sizemore , William Allen Young , Larry Romano , Jordan Lund , Danny Trejo , Frank Pesce , Anthony Crivello , John Lilla, Dean Duval, Jerry Strivelli, David Anthony Marshall, Kurek Ashley, Michael Petroni
Young Einstein
Warner Bros. Pictures
Yahoo Serious (director/screenplay); David Roach (screenplay); Yahoo Serious , Odile Le Clezio, John Howard , Ian "Peewee" Wilson , Su Cruickshank , Lulu Pinkus , Kaarin Fairfax , Jonathan Coleman , Basil Clarke, Steve Abbott
9
The Abyss
20th Century Fox
James Cameron (director/screenplay); Ed Harris , Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio , Michael Biehn , Leo Burmester , Todd Graff , John Bedford Lloyd , Kimberly Scott , Chris Elliott , Richard Warlock , J. Kenneth Campbell , William Wisher Jr. , Ken Jenkins , Michael Beach , Brad Sullivan , Frank Lloyd , Joe Farago , Thomas F. Duffy , Michael Chapman , Daren Dochterman , Mikhail Gorbachev , J.C. Quinn, Captain "Kidd" Brewer Jr., George Robert Klek, Christopher Murphy, Adam Nelson, Jimmie Ray Weeks
11
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
New Line Cinema / Heron Communications
Stephen Hopkins (director); Leslie Bohem (screenplay); Robert Englund , Lisa Wilcox , Danny Hassel , Kelly Jo Minter , Erika Anderson , Joe Seely, Beatrice Boepple, Whitby Hertford , Nicholas Mele , Valorie Armstrong, Burr DeBenning , Clarence Felder , Matt Borlenghi , Noble Craig , Don Maxwell , Marnette Patterson , Michael Bailey Smith , Ted Nugent , Eric Singer
16
Rude Awakening
Orion Pictures / Aaron Russo Productions / Cineplex Odeon Films
David Greenwalt , Aaron Russo (directors); Neil Levy, Richard LaGravenese (screenplay); Cheech Marin , Eric Roberts , Julie Hagerty , Robert Carradine , Buck Henry , Louise Lasser , Cindy Williams , Andrea Martin , Cliff DeYoung , Tom Sizemore , Aaron Russo , Timothy Leary , Bobby Seale , Elzbieta Czyzewska , Bradford Tatum , Dave King , David Eigenberg , Michelle Hurd , Glenn Taranto , Melora Walters
Uncle Buck
Universal Pictures / Hughes Entertainment
John Hughes (director/screenplay); John Candy , Amy Madigan , Jean Louisa Kelly , Macaulay Culkin , Gaby Hoffmann , Jay Underwood , Laurie Metcalf , Elaine Bromka , Garrett M. Brown , Brian Tarantina , Mike Starr , Suzanne Shepherd , William Windom , Dennis Cockrum, Anna Chlumsky , Patricia Arquette , Jack Blessing , Leigh French , Julie Payne
18
Blood Red
Hemdale Film Corporation
Peter Masterson (director); Ron Cutler (screenplay); Eric Roberts , Giancarlo Giannini , Dennis Hopper , Burt Young , Carlin Glynn , Lara Harris , Joseph Runningfox , Al Ruscio , Michael Madsen , Elias Koteas , Francesca De Sapio , Marc Lawrence , Frank Campanella , Aldo Ray , Gary Swanson , Susan Anspach , Kevin Cooney, Julia Roberts , Charles Dierkop , Carol Ann Susi , Sergio Calderón , Matt O'Toole , John de Lancie
Casualties of War
Columbia Pictures
Brian De Palma (director); David Rabe (screenplay); Michael J. Fox , Sean Penn , Don Patrick Harvey , John C. Reilly , John Leguizamo , Thuy Thu Le , Erik King , Jack Gwaltney, Ving Rhames , Dale Dye , Holt McCallany , Dan Martin , Wendell Pierce , Sam Robards , Steve Larson , Vyto Ruginis , Maris Valainis , Darren E. Burrows , Sherman Howard , John Marshall Jones , Donal Gibson , Stephen Baldwin , Gregg Henry , Amy Irving
Cheetah
Walt Disney Pictures
Jeff Blyth (director); Erik Tarloff, John Cotter, Griff Du Rhone (screenplay); Keith Coogan , Lucy Deakins , Paul Onsongo , Jim Ward , Collin Mothupi, Timothy Landfield, Breon Gorman-Landfield, Mhlangabezi Ka Vundla, Lydia Kigada, Kuldeep Bhakoo, Anthony Baird, Rory McGuinness, Rod Jacobsen, David Adido
A Chorus of Disapproval
Curzon Films
Michael Winner (director/screenplay); Alan Ayckbourn (screenplay); Jeremy Irons , Anthony Hopkins , Prunella Scales , Jenny Seagrove , Sylvia Sims , Gareth Hunt , Patsy Kensit , Lionel Jeffries , Alexandra Pigg , Richard Briers , Barbara Ferris , Pete Lee-Wilson , Dinah May , David King, Amanda Mainard, Anne Priestley, Audrey Trotter
Cookie
Warner Bros. Pictures / Lorimar Film Entertainment
Susan Seidelman (director); Nora Ephron , Alice Arlen (screenplay); Peter Falk , Dianne Wiest , Emily Lloyd , Michael V. Gazzo , Brenda Vaccaro , Adrian Pasdar , Lionel Stander , Jerry Lewis , Bob Gunton , Joe Mantello , Ricki Lake , David Wohl , Joy Behar , Rockets Redglare , Tony Sirico , George Bartenieff , Ed Setrakian , Mark Boone Junior , Kim Chan , Crystal Field , Jerry Blavat , Marv Albert
Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives!
Aurora Productions
Jean-Claude Lord (director); Charles Zev Cohen, Rick Doehring (screenplay); Michael Paré , Marina Orsini , Bernie Coulson , Matthew Laurance , Michael "Tunes" Antunes , Michael Rhoades, Anthony Sherwood , David Matheson, Mark Holmes , Harvey Atkin , Paul Markle, Kate Lynch , Vlasta Vrana , Elizabeth MacRae , Marc Denis , Larry King , Martha Quinn , Bo Diddley , Joe Pantoliano , Helen Schneider
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Miramax Films
Steven Soderbergh (director/screenplay); James Spader , Andie MacDowell , Peter Gallagher , Laura San Giacomo , Steven Brill , Ron Vawter
20
Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy
HBO Showcase / Granada Television
David Darlow (director); Brian Phelan (screenplay); Michael Murphy , Michael Moriarty , Chris Sarandon , Harris Yulin , Bradley Lavelle , Jay Patterson , Shane Rimmer , Rolf Saxon , Angus MacInnes , Vincent Marzello , Brian Greene , Ed O'Ross , Gavan O'Herlihy , Robert Jezek , Garrick Hagon , Michael Shannon , Tomasz Borkowy , Stéphane Cornicard , Togo Igawa , Soon Tek-Oh , Debora Weston, Colin Bruce, Marc Smith, Nic D'Avirro, Weston Gavin, Stephen Hoye, Thomasine Heiner, William Roberts, George Roth, Mark Burton, Otto Jarman, Kieron Jecchinis, Matthew Freeman, Jana Shelden, Joris Stuyck, Boris Isarov, Alexei Jawdokimov
25
Heart of Dixie
Orion Pictures
Martin Davidson (director); Anne Rivers Siddons , Tom McCown (screenplay); Ally Sheedy , Virginia Madsen , Phoebe Cates , Don Michael Paul , Kurtwood Smith , Richard Bradford , Treat Williams , Kyle Secor , Francesca P. Roberts , Peter Berg , Jenny Robertson, Lisa Zane , Ashley Gardner , Eddy Kiihnl, Barbara Babcock , Michael St. Gerard
Little Monsters
United Artists
Richard Alan Greenberg (director); Terry Rossio , Ted Elliott (screenplay); Fred Savage , Howie Mandel , Ben Savage , Daniel Stern , Margaret Whitton , Frank Whaley , Rick Ducommun , Amber Barretto , Devin Ratray , William Murray Weiss, Kala Savage , Natanya Ross
The Package
Orion Pictures
Andrew Davis (director); John Bishop (screenplay); Gene Hackman , Joanna Cassidy , Tommy Lee Jones , John Heard , Dennis Franz , Pam Grier , Kevin Crowley, Ron Dean , Nathan Davis , Chelcie Ross , Ike Pappas , Marco St. John , Reni Santoni , Johnny Lee Davenport , Thalmus Rasulala , Harry Lennix , Wilhelm von Homburg , Dick Cusack , Boris Leskin , Danny Goldring , Gregory Alan Williams , Kathryn Joosten , Dennis Cockrum
Wired
FM Entertainment / Taurus Entertainment
Larry Peerce (director); Earl Mac Rauch (screenplay); Michael Chiklis , J.T. Walsh , Patti D'Arbanville , Lucinda Jenney , Alex Rocco , Gary Groomes, Ray Sharkey , Jere Burns , Clyde Kusatsu , Tom Bower , Earl Billings , Dakin Matthews , Steve Vinovich , Blake Clark , Scott Plank , Brooke McCarter , Paul Ben-Victor , Ned Bellamy , Ron Perkins , Billy Preston , Neil Portnow , J.C. Quinn, Matthew Faison, Jon Snyder
30
Shirley Valentine
Paramount Pictures
Lewis Gilbert (director); Willy Russell (screenplay); Pauline Collins , Tom Conti , Julia McKenzie , Alison Steadman , Joanna Lumley , Bernard Hill , George Costigan , Anna Keaveney , Tracie Bennett , Sylvia Sims , Gillian Kearney , Marc Zuber , Ken Sharrock, Karen Craig, Gareth Jefferson, Catharine Duncan
S E P T E M B E R
1
Relentless
New Line Cinema / CineTel Films
William Lustig (director); Phil Alden Robinson (screenplay); Judd Nelson , Robert Loggia , Leo Rossi , Meg Foster , Patrick O'Bryan , Ken Lerner , Mindy Seeger, Angel Tompkins , Beau Starr , Frank Pesce , Ron Taylor , Roy Brocksmith , George "Buck" Flower , George Gallo , William Lustig , Armand Mastroianni , Michael Weiner
15
Sea of Love
Universal Pictures
Harold Becker (director); Richard Price (screenplay); Al Pacino , Ellen Barkin , John Goodman , Michael Rooker , William Hickey , Richard Jenkins , John Spencer , Michael O'Neill , Paul Calderón , Gene Canfield, Larry Joshua, Christine Estabrook , Barbara Baxley , Patricia Barry , Luis Antonio Ramos , Rafael Báez, Samuel L. Jackson , Damien Leake , Jacqueline Brookes , Nancy Beatty , Hugh Thompson , Christopher Maleki
True Love
United Artists
Nancy Savoca (director/screenplay); Richard Guay (screenplay); Annabella Sciorra , Ron Eldard , Aida Turturro , Star Jasper , Rick Shapiro , Vincent Pastore , Marianne Leone , George Russo , Saverio Guerra , Ray Tintori , Roger Rignack, Michael James Wolfe, Kelly Cinnante
16
The Heist
HBO Pictures
Stuart Orme (director); William Irish Jr., David Fuller, Rick Natkin (screenplay); Pierce Brosnan , Tom Skerritt , Wendy Hughes , Noble Willingham , Tom Atkins , Robert Prosky , Chino 'Fats' Williams , Stephen Apostolina, Shelton Redden, Roger Hewlett, Joseph Carberry, Art Frankel, Ben Mittleman, Nino Surdo
20
Gandahar
Miramax Films
René Laloux (director/screenplay); Glenn Close , Jennifer Grey , Terrence Mann , Penn and Teller , John Shea , Bridget Fonda , David Johansen , Christopher Plummer , Earl Hammond , Paul Shaffer , Earle Hyman , Dennis Predovic, Chip Bolcik , Sheila McCarthy , Kevin O'Rourke , Jill Haworth , Charles Busch
22
Black Rain
Paramount Pictures
Ridley Scott (director); Craig Bolotin , Warren Lewis (screenplay); Michael Douglas , Andy García , Ken Takakura , Kate Capshaw , Yūsaku Matsuda , Shigeru Kōyama , John Spencer , Guts Ishimatsu , Yuya Uchida , Tomisaburo Wakayama , Miyuki Ono , Luis Guzmán , John Costelloe , Stephen Root , Richard Riehle , Jun Kunimura , Tim Kelleher , Rikiya Yasuoka , Vondie Curtis-Hall , Josip Elic , Keone Young , Jim Ishida , Takayuki Kubota , Shiro Oishi , Nathan Jung , Al Leong , Professor Toru Tanaka , David Tao , Ken Kensei, Shôtarô Hayashi, Toshishiro Obata, Mak Takano, Bruce Locke, Jôji Shimaki
A Dry White Season
MGM /UA
Euzhan Palcy (director/screenplay); Colin Welland (screenplay); Donald Sutherland , Janet Suzman , Jürgen Prochnow , Zakes Mokae , Susan Sarandon , Marlon Brando , Susannah Harker , Leonard Maguire , Winston Ntshona , Michael Gambon , John Kani , Gerard Thoolen , David de Keyser , Richard Wilson , Ronald Pickup , Paul Brooke , Rosemary Martin , Thoko Ntshinga , Rowen Elmes, Bekhithemba Mpofu
Erik the Viking
Orion Pictures
Terry Jones (director/screenplay); Tim Robbins , Mickey Rooney , Eartha Kitt , Terry Jones , Imogen Stubbs , John Cleese , Antony Sher , Charles McKeown , Tim McInnerny , John Gordon Sinclair , Richard Ridings , Freddie Jones , Samantha Bond , Jim Broadbent , Jim Carter , Graham McTavish , Neil Innes , Allan Surtees , Tsutomu Sekine , John Scott Martin , Tilly Vosburgh , Jay Simpson , Sian Thomas , Sarah Crowden , Andrew MacLachlan , Cyril Shaps , Paddy Joyce , Barry McCarthy , Danny Schiller, Gary Cady, Matyelok Gibbs, Simon Evans, Matthew Baker
Heavy Petting
Skouras Pictures / Americas in Transition
Obie Benz, Joshua Waletzky (directors); Pierce Rafferty (screenplay); David Byrne , Abbie Hoffman , Ann Magnuson , Frances Fisher , Spalding Gray , William S. Burroughs , Laurie Anderson , Sandra Bernhard , Allen Ginsberg , Josh Mostel , John Oates , Wayne Jobson , Jacki Ochs , Corey Allen , Jim Backus , Bernard J. Berry , Virginia Christine , Dick Clark , Walter Coy , Joseph Crehan , James Dean , Ann Doran , Duka , Glenn Ford , Lorne Greene , Samuel S. Hinds , Dennis Hopper , Zoë Lund , Judith Malina , Jayne Mansfield , Paul Mazursky , Doug McClure , Marilyn Monroe , Mary Murphy , Don Murray , Ricky Nelson , Sidney Poitier , Elvis Presley , George Putnam , Shepperd Strudwick , Mamie Van Doren , Tuesday Weld , Natalie Wood , Skip Young
Penn & Teller Get Killed
Warner Bros. Pictures
Arthur Penn (director); Penn Jillette , Teller (screenplay); Penn Jillette , Teller , Caitlin Clarke , Celia McGuire , David Patrick Kelly , Leonardo Cimino , Bill Randolph , Jon Cryer , Christopher Durang , Tom Sizemore , James Randi , Billy Morrissette , Leonard Parker , Camille Saviola , Jamie Tirelli, Paul Calderon , Eddie Gorodetsky , Nancy Giles , Robert LaSardo , Reg E. Cathey , Alan North , Matthew Penn
27
C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D.
Vestron Pictures / Lightning Pictures
David Irving (director); M. Kane Jeeves (screenplay); Brian Robbins , Bill Calvert, Tricia Leigh Fisher , Gerrit Graham , Robert Vaughn , Larry Cedar , Bianca Jagger , Larry Linville , Jack Riley , Sandra Kerns , June Lockhart , Norman Fell , Rich Hall , Robert Symonds , Priscilla Pointer , Marvin J. McIntyre, Ritch Shydner , Clive Revill , Winifred Freedman , Sarah Berry , Gregg Binkley , Michael Bell , Robert Englund
29
In Country
Warner Bros. Pictures
Norman Jewison (director); Frank Pierson , Cynthia Cidre , Bobbie Ann Mason (screenplay); Bruce Willis , Emily Lloyd , Joan Allen , Kevin Anderson , John Terry , Peggy Rea , Judith Ivey , Daniel Jenkins , Stephen Tobolowsky , Jim Beaver , Richard Hamilton, Heidi Swedberg , Ken Jenkins , Jonathan Hogan, Patricia Richardson
Johnny Handsome
Tri-Star Pictures / Carolco Pictures
Walter Hill (director); Ken Friedman (screenplay); Mickey Rourke , Ellen Barkin , Elizabeth McGovern , Forest Whitaker , Scott Wilson , Lance Henriksen , Morgan Freeman , David Schramm , Yvonne Bryceland , Peter Jason , Jeff Meek , Allan Graf , Raynor Scheine , Ken Medlock , Blake Clark , J.W. Smith, Ed Zang, John Fertitta, Edward Walsh
Welcome Home
Columbia Pictures
Franklin J. Schaffner (director); Maggie Kleinman (screenplay); Kris Kristofferson , JoBeth Williams , Sam Waterston , Brian Keith , Thomas Wilson Brown , Trey Wilson , John Marshall Jones , Ken Pogue , Kieu Chinh , Nancy Beatty , Jason St. Amour , Victor Ertmanis
October–December
Opening
Title
Production company
Cast and crew
Ref.
O C T O B E R
6
An Innocent Man
Touchstone Pictures / Silver Screen Partners / Interscope Communications
Peter Yates (director); Larry Brothers (screenplay); Tom Selleck , F. Murray Abraham , Laila Robins , David Rasche , Richard Young , Badja Djola , Bruce A. Young , Dennis Burkley , Todd Graff , M. C. Gainey , Tobin Bell , Maggie Baird , Lt. Mike Budge, Peter Van Norden, James T. Morris
Old Gringo
Columbia Pictures
Luis Prenzo (director); William M. Anderson , Glenn Farr , Juan Carlos Macías (screenplay); Jane Fonda , Gregory Peck , Jimmy Smits , Patricio Contreras , Jenny Gago , Gabriela Roel , Jim Metzler , Anne Pitoniak , Pedro Armendáriz Jr. , Pedro Damián , Sergio Calderón, Guillermo Ríos, Samuel Valadez De La Torre
12
Puppet Master
Paramount Home Video / Full Moon Pictures
David Schmoeller (director/screenplay); Charles Band , Kenneth J. Hall (screenplay); Paul Le Mat , Jimmie F. Skaggs , William Hickey , Irene Miracle , Mews Small , Barbara Crampton , Robin Frates, Matt Roe, Kathryn O'Reilly, David Boyd, Peter Frankland, Andrew Kimbrough
13
Breaking In
The Samuel Goldwyn Company / Act III Communications
Bill Forsyth (director); John Sayles (screenplay); Burt Reynolds , Casey Siemaszko , Lorraine Toussaint , Sheila Kelley , Albert Salmi , Harry Carey , Maury Chaykin , Stephen Tobolowsky
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Orion Pictures
Woody Allen (director/screenplay); Martin Landau , Woody Allen , Mia Farrow , Anjelica Huston , Alan Alda , Jerry Orbach , Joanna Gleason , Claire Bloom , Sam Waterston , Caroline Aaron , Martin S. Bergmann , Frances Conroy , Daryl Hannah , Nora Ephron , Jenny Nichols, Zina Jasper
The Fabulous Baker Boys
20th Century Fox / Gladden Entertainment / Mirage Enterprises
Steve Kloves (director/screenplay); Jeff Bridges , Michelle Pfeiffer , Beau Bridges , Ellie Raab, Xander Berkeley , Jennifer Tilly , Dakin Matthews , Ken Lerner , Albert Hall , Terri Treas , Gregory Itzin , Bradford English , David Coburn
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
Galaxy International / 20th Century Fox / Compass International Pictures
Dominique Othenin-Girard (director/screenplay); Michael Jacobs, Shem Bitterman (screenplay); Donald Pleasence , Danielle Harris , Ellie Cornell , Beau Starr , Wendy Kaplan , Tamara Glynn , Matthew Walker , Troy Evans , Don Shanks , Jeffrey Landman, Jonathan Chapin, Betty Carvalho, Max Robinson, Frank Como, David Ursin
I, Madman
Trans World Entertainment
Tibor Takács (director); David Chaskin (screenplay); Jenny Wright , Clayton Rohner , Randall William Cook , Stephanie Hodge , Bob Frank , Bruce Wagner , Michelle Jordan, Vance Valencia, Mary Baldwin, Rafael Nazario
Look Who's Talking
Tri-Star Pictures / Management Company Entertainment Group
Amy Heckerling (director/screenplay); John Travolta , Kirstie Alley , Olympia Dukakis , George Segal , Abe Vigoda , Bruce Willis , Twink Caplan , Joy Boushel , Joan Rivers , Don S. Davis , William B. Davis , Jerry Wasserman , Neal Israel
20
Drugstore Cowboy
Avenue Pictures
Gus Van Sant (director/screenplay); Daniel Yost (screenplay); Matt Dillon , Kelly Lynch , James Remar , James LeGros , Heather Graham , William S. Burroughs , Max Perlich , Grace Zabriskie
Fat Man and Little Boy
Paramount Pictures
Roland Joffé (director/screenplay); Bruce Robinson (screenplay); Paul Newman , Dwight Schultz , Bonnie Bedelia , John Cusack , Laura Dern , John C. McGinley , Natasha Richardson , Fred Dalton Thompson , Ron Vawter , Del Close , John Considine , Allan Corduner , Todd Field , Ed Lauter , Gerald Hiken , James Eckhouse , Mary Pat Gleason , Clark Gregg , Péter Halász , Robert Peter Gale , Ron Frazier, Michael Brockman, Franco Cutietta, Joe D'Angerio, Jon DeVries
Gross Anatomy
Touchstone Pictures / Silver Screen Partners / Sandollar Productions
Thom Eberhardt (director); Ron Nyswaner , Mark Spragg, Howard Rosenman, Alan Jay Glueckman, Stanley Isaacs (screenplay); Matthew Modine , Daphne Zuniga , Christine Lahti , Todd Field , Robert Desiderio , Zakes Mokae , John Scott Clough, Alice Carter, Ryan Cash
Next of Kin
Warner Bros. Pictures / Lorimar Film Entertainment / Barry & Enright Productions
John Irvin (director); Michael Jenning (screenplay); Patrick Swayze , Liam Neeson , Adam Baldwin , Helen Hunt , Bill Paxton , Ben Stiller , Andreas Katsulas , Michael J. Pollard , Ted Levine , Del Close , Paul Greco , Paul Herman , Valentino Cimo, Vincent Guastaferro, Starla Fugate
When the Whales Came
20th Century Fox
Clive Rees (director); Michael Morpurgo (screenplay); Helen Mirren , Paul Scofield , David Suchet , Barbara Jefford , David Threlfall , John Hallam , Barbara Ewing , Jeremy Kemp , Dexter Fletcher , Nicholas Jones , Helen Pearce, Max Rennie
27
The Bear
AMLF
Jean-Jacques Annaud (director); Gerard Brach (screenplay); Tchéky Karyo , Jack Wallace, Andre Lacombe, Bart the Bear
Immediate Family
Columbia Pictures
Jonathan Kaplan (director); Barbara Benedek (screenplay); Glenn Close , James Woods , Mary Stuart Masterson , Kevin Dillon , Linda Darlow, Harrison Mohr, Mimi Kennedy , Charles Levin , Jessica James, Ken Lerner , Jane Greer
Dad
Universal Pictures / Amblin Entertainment
Gary David Goldberg (director/screenplay); Jack Lemmon , Ted Danson , Ethan Hawke , Olympia Dukakis , Kathy Baker , Kevin Spacey , Zakes Mokae , J. T. Walsh , Chris Lemmon , Sprague Grayden , Justin Peterson, Gina Raymond
Shocker
Universal Pictures / Carolco Pictures
Wes Craven (director/screenplay); Michael Murphy , Peter Berg , Mitch Pileggi , Camille Cooper, Sam Scarber , Richard Brooks , Vincent Guastaferro, Ted Raimi , Heather Langenkamp , Dr. Timothy Leary , Kane Roberts , Wes Craven , Jessica Craven , Jonathan Craven , John Tesh , Eugene Chadbourne , Michael Matthews
Worth Winning
20th Century Fox
Will Mackenzie (director); Josann McGibbon , Sara Parriott (screenplay); Mark Harmon , Madeleine Stowe , Lesley Ann Warren , Maria Holvöe, Mark Blum , Andrea Martin , Tony Longo , Alan Blumenfeld , Brad Hall , Jon Korkes , Arthur Malet , Joan Severance , David Brenner , Devin Ratray
28
Perfect Witness
HBO Pictures / Granger Productions
Robert Mandel (director); Terry Curtis Fox, Ron Hutchinson (screenplay); Brian Dennehy , Aidan Quinn , Stockard Channing , Laura Harrington , Delroy Lindo , Joe Grifasi , Ken Pogue , Markus Flanagan , David Margulies , Colm Meaney , Tobin Bell , Tony Sirico , David Proval , Nial Lancaster, James Greene, Sam Malkin, Kevin Rushton, David Cumming, Christopher Trace, David Christopher Adamson, Jennifer Pearson
N O V E M B E R
3
Bloodhounds of Broadway
Columbia Pictures
Howard Brookner (director/screenplay); Colman deKay (screenplay); Damon Runyon (stories); Matt Dillon , Jennifer Grey , Julie Hagerty , Rutger Hauer , Madonna , Esai Morales , Anita Morris , Randy Quaid , Josef Sommer , Steve Buscemi , Fisher Stevens , Alan Ruck , Dinah Manoff , Ethan Phillips , Tony Longo , Stephen McHattie , Louis Zorich , Richard Edson , Howard Brookner , John Rothman , Mark Nelson , Madeleine Potter , Gerry Bamman , Jane Brucker , Googy Gress, Robert Donley , William S. Burroughs , Michael Wincott , Herschel Sparber, Black-Eyed Susan , Tamara Tunie , Sara Driver , Leonard Termo
Dealers
Skouras Pictures / J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors / Euston Films / Rank Organisation
Colin Bucksey (director); Andrew MacLear (screenplay); Paul McGann , Rebecca De Mornay , Derrick O'Connor , John Castle , Paul Guilfoyle , Rosalind Bennett , Adrian Dunbar , Nicholas Hewetson, Sara Sugarman , Douglas Hodge , Annabel Brooks , Simon Slater , Richenda Carey , Beverly Hills
Limit Up
MCEG/Virgin
Richard Martini (director/screenplay); Luana Anders (screenplay); Nancy Allen , Dean Stockwell , Brad Hall , Danitra Vance , Ray Charles , Rance Howard , Sally Kellerman , Sandra Bogan, William J. Wolf, Ava Fabian, Robbie Martini, Teressa Ovetta Burrell, Winifred Freedman, Kellie Joy Beals, Nicky Blair
The Phantom of the Opera
21st Century Film Corporation
Dwight H. Little (director); Gerry O'Hara , Duke Sandefur (screenplay); Robert Englund , Jill Schoelen , Alex Hyde-White , Bill Nighy , Terence Harvey , Stephanie Lawrence , Molly Shannon , Terence Beesley , Mark Ryan , Emma Rawson, Nathan Lewis, Peter Clapham, Yehuda Efroni, Nancy Fontana
Second Sight
Warner Bros. Pictures
Joel Zwick (director); Tom Schulman , Patricia Resnick (screenplay); John Larroquette , Bronson Pinchot , Bess Armstrong , Stuart Pankin , John Schuck , James Tolkan , Will Le Bow, Christine Estabrook , Marisol Massey, William Prince , Dominic Chianese , Michael Lombard , Adam LeFevre , Ron Taylor , Andrew Mutnick, Lucy Johnson, Michelle Fortune
Stepfather II
ITC Entertainment / Millimeter Films
Jeff Burr (director); John Auerbach (screenplay); Terry O'Quinn , Meg Foster , Caroline Williams , Jonathan Brandis , Henry Brown , Mitchell Laurance , Miriam Byrd-Nethery , Leon Martell, Renata Scott, John O'Leary, Glen Adams, Eric Brown , Bob Gray , Rosemary Welden
8
Henry V
The Samuel Goldwyn Company / BBC Films
Kenneth Branagh (director/screenplay); Kenneth Branagh , Paul Scofield , Derek Jacobi , Ian Holm , Emma Thompson , Alec McCowen , Judi Dench , Christian Bale , James Larkin , Simon Shepherd , Brian Blessed , Charles Kay , Nicholas Ferguson , Edward Jewesbury , Danny Webb , Ian Holm , Jimmy Yuill , John Sessions , Shaun Prendergast , Patrick Doyle , Michael Williams , Robbie Coltrane , Richard Briers , Geoffrey Hutchings , Robert Stephens , Michael Maloney , Nigel Greaves , Harold Innocent , Richard Easton , Colin Hurley , Geraldine McEwan , David Lloyd Meredith , Christopher Ravenscroft , David Parfitt , James Simmons, Paul Gregory, Tom Whitehouse, Fabian Cartwright, Stephen Simms, Jay Villiers, Richard Clifford, Julian Gartside
10
Best of the Best
Taurus Entertainment
Bob Radler (director); Paul Levine (screenplay); Eric Roberts , James Earl Jones , Sally Kirkland , Phillip Rhee , John P. Ryan , John Dye , Tom Everett , Louise Fletcher , Chris Penn , Edan Gross , Hee Il Cho , James Lew , Ahmad Rashad , David Agresta, Simon Rhee, Ken Nagayama, Ho Sik Pak, Dae Kyu Chang, Emilie Hagen
Communion
New Line Cinema
Philippe Mora (director); Whitley Strieber (screenplay); Christopher Walken , Lindsay Crouse , Frances Sternhagen , Andreas Katsulas , Terry Hanauer, Joel Carlson
My Left Foot
Palace Pictures
Jim Sheridan (director/screenplay); Shane Connaughton (screenplay); Daniel Day-Lewis , Ray McAnally , Brenda Fricker , Fiona Shaw , Kirsten Sheridan , Cyril Cusack , Phelim Drew , Eileen Colgan , Adrian Dunbar , Alison Whelan, Eanna MacLiam, Declan Croghan, Marie Conremme, Ruth McCabe
Staying Together
Hemdale Film Corporation
Lee Grant (director); Monte Merrick (screenplay); Sean Astin , Stockard Channing , Melinda Dillon , Levon Helm , Dermot Mulroney , Daphne Zuniga , Dinah Manoff , Jim Haynie, Tim Quill , Keith Szarabajka , Sheila Kelley , Ryan Hill, Rick Marshall
15
Steel Magnolias
Tri-Star Pictures / Rastar Productions
Herbert Ross (director); Robert Harling (screenplay); Sally Field , Dolly Parton , Shirley MacLaine , Daryl Hannah , Olympia Dukakis , Julia Roberts , Tom Skerritt , Dylan McDermott , Kevin J. O'Connor , Sam Shepard , Bill McCutcheon , Jonathan Ward , Knowl Johnson , Ann Wedgeworth , Bibi Besch , Janine Turner , James Wlcek , Tom Hodges , Ronald Young, C. Houser, Daniel Camp, Norman Fletcher
17
All Dogs Go to Heaven
United Artists / Sullivan Bluth Studios
Don Bluth (director); David N. Weiss (screenplay); Burt Reynolds , Dom DeLuise , Judith Barsi , Vic Tayback , Charles Nelson Reilly , Loni Anderson , Melba Moore , Ken Page , Rob Fuller, Earleen Carey, Godfrey Quigley , Anna Manahan , Candy Devine , Dan Kuenster , David N. Weiss , Charlie Adler , Jack Angel , Nancy Cartwright , Philip L. Clarke , Patrick Pinney , Laura Summer , Nigel Pegram, Jay Stevens, Kelly Briley, Cyndi Cozzo, Thomas Durkin, Dana Rifkin, Daryl Gilley, John Carr, John Eddings, Jeff Etter, T. Dan Hofstedt, Dan Molina, Mark Swan, Taylor Swanson, Dick Zondag, Anaida R. Garcia
Harlem Nights
Paramount Pictures
Eddie Murphy (director/screenplay); Eddie Murphy , Richard Pryor , Redd Foxx , Danny Aiello , Michael Lerner , Della Reese , Berlinda Tolbert , Stan Shaw , Jasmine Guy , Vic Polizos , Lela Rochon , David Marciano , Arsenio Hall , Thomas Mikal Ford , Miguel A. Núñez Jr. , Charlie Murphy , Robin Harris , Michael Buffer , Reynaldo Rey , Ji-Tu Cumbuka , Desi Arnaz Hines II, Uncle Ray Murphy, Don Familton
The Little Mermaid
Walt Disney Pictures
Ron Clements , John Musker (directors/screenplay); Jodi Benson , Christopher Daniel Barnes , Pat Carroll , Samuel E. Wright , Jason Marin, Kenneth Mars , Buddy Hackett , Paddi Edwards , Ben Wright , Edie McClurg , Kimmy Robertson , Caroline Vasicek , Will Ryan , René Auberjonois , Gerrit Graham , J.D. Daniels , Rod McKuen , Malachi Pearson , Frank Welker , Jim Cummings , Hamilton Camp , Debbie Shapiro , Ed Gilbert , Charlie Adler , Jack Angel , Steve Bulen , Nancy Cartwright , Philip L. Clarke , Jennifer Darling , Gail Farrell , Donny Gerrard , Phillip Ingram , Anne Lockhart , Sherry Lynn , Patrick Pinney , Sally Stevens , Jackie Ward
Mystery Train
Orion Classics
Jim Jarmusch (director/screenplay); Youki Kudoh , Masatoshi Nagase , Screamin' Jay Hawkins , Cinque Lee , Rufus Thomas , Jodie Markell , Nicoletta Braschi , Elizabeth Bracco , Sy Richardson , Tom Noonan , Joe Strummer , Rick Aviles , Steve Buscemi , Vondie Curtis-Hall , Tom Waits
Prancer
Orion Pictures / Nelson Entertainment / Cineplex Odeon Films
John D. Hancock (director); Greg Taylor (screenplay); Sam Elliott , Cloris Leachman , Abe Vigoda , Michael Constantine , Ariana Richards , Rebecca Harrell , John Joseph Duda , Johnny Galecki , Rutanya Alda , Mark Rolston , Walter Charles , Michael Luciano , Jesse Bradford , Sandra Olson, Dan Atherton, Boo
Valmont
Orion Pictures
Miloš Forman (director/screenplay); Jean-Claude Carrière (screenplay); Colin Firth , Annette Bening , Meg Tilly , Fairuza Balk , Siân Phillips , Jeffrey Jones , Henry Thomas , Fabia Drake , T. P. McKenna , Isla Blair , Ian McNeice , Aleta Mitchell , Ronald Lacey , Vincent Schiavelli , Sandrine Dumas
22
Back to the Future Part II
Universal Pictures / Amblin Entertainment
Robert Zemeckis (director); Bob Gale (screenplay); Michael J. Fox , Christopher Lloyd , Thomas F. Wilson , Lea Thompson , Elisabeth Shue , James Tolkan , Jeffrey Weissman , Casey Siemaszko , Billy Zane , J. J. Cohen , Charles Fleischer , Ricky Dean Logan , Darlene Vogel , Jason Scott Lee , Flea , Buck Flower , Neil Ross , John Erwin , Harry Waters Jr. , Wesley Mann , Joe Flaherty , Elijah Wood , Crispin Glover , Donald Fullilove , Marc McClure , Mary Ellen Trainor , Gian Maria Volonté
25
Red King, White Knight
HBO Pictures / Zenith Entertainment / Citadel Entertainment
Geoff Murphy (director); Ron Hutchinson (screenplay); Tom Skerritt , Max von Sydow , Helen Mirren , Tom Bell , Gavan O'Herlihy , Barry Corbin , Clarke Peters , Lou Hirsch , Kerry Shale , David de Keyser , Kenneth Nelson , Shane Rimmer , Garrick Hagon
D E C E M B E R
1
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Warner Bros. Pictures / Hughes Entertainment
Jeremiah S. Chechik (director); John Hughes (screenplay); Chevy Chase , Beverly D'Angelo , Randy Quaid , Juliette Lewis , Johnny Galecki , John Randolph , Diane Ladd , E. G. Marshall , Doris Roberts , Miriam Flynn , William Hickey , Mae Questel , Sam McMurray , Julia Louis-Dreyfus , Brian Doyle-Murray , Ellen Hamilton Latzen, Cody Burger , Nicholas Guest , Natalia Nogulich , Nicolette Scorsese, Alexander Folk, Doug Llewelyn
8
She-Devil
Orion Pictures
Susan Seidelman (director); Barry Strugatz , Mark R. Burns (screenplay); Meryl Streep , Roseanne Barr , Ed Begley Jr. , Sylvia Miles , Linda Hunt , A Martinez , Maria Pitillo , Mary Louise Wilson , Susan Willis , Jack Gilpin , Robin Leach , June Gable , Rosanna Carter , Lori Tan Chinn , Sally Jessy Raphael , Elisebeth Peters, Bryan Larkin, Nitchie Barrett
Triumph of the Spirit
Triumph Releasing Corporation
Robert M. Young (director); Andrzej Krakowski , Laurence Heath (screenplay); Willem Dafoe , Edward James Olmos , Robert Loggia
The War of the Roses
20th Century Fox / Gracie Films
Danny DeVito (director); Michael J. Leeson (screenplay); Michael Douglas , Kathleen Turner , Danny DeVito , Marianne Sägebrecht , Sean Astin , Heather Fairfield, G. D. Spradlin , Peter Donat , Dan Castellaneta , Shirley Mitchell , Ellen Crawford , Vickilyn Reynolds , Roy Brocksmith , Peter Hansen , Robert Harper , Danitra Vance , David Wohl
13
Enemies, A Love Story
20th Century Fox
Paul Mazursky , (director/screenplay); Roger L. Simon (screenplay); Ron Silver , Anjelica Huston , Lena Olin , Margaret Sophie Stein , Alan King , Judith Malina , Elya Baskin , Paul Mazursky , Phil Leeds , Rita Karin , Zypora Spaisman
New Year's Day
Rainbow Releasing
Henry Jaglom (director/screenplay); David Duchovny , Maggie Wheeler , Gwen Welles , Melanie Winter, Henry Jaglom , Miloš Forman , Tracy Reiner , Michael Emil
15
Blaze
Touchstone Pictures / A&M Films
Ron Shelton (director/screenplay); Paul Newman , Lolita Davidovich , Jerry Hardin , Gailard Sartain , Jeffrey DeMunn , Richard Jenkins , Jay Chevalier , Robert Wuhl , Eloy Casados , James Harper , Blaze Starr , Gilbert Lewis , Gary Anthony Sturgis , Emily Warfield , King Cotton , Brad Leland , Garland Bunting, Brandon Smith, Michael Brockman, Teresa Gilmore, Dianne Brill, Louanne Stephens, Harlan Jordan
Driving Miss Daisy
Warner Bros. Pictures / The Zanuck Company
Bruce Beresford (director); Alfred Uhry (screenplay); Morgan Freeman , Jessica Tandy , Dan Aykroyd , Patti LuPone , Esther Rolle , Jo Ann Havrilla , William Hall Jr. , Ray McKinnon , Alvin M. Sugarman, Clarice F. Geigerman, Muriel Moore, Sylvia Kaler, Crystal R. Fox, Bob Hannah
Family Business
Tri-Star Pictures
Sidney Lumet (director); Vincent Patrick (screenplay); Sean Connery , Dustin Hoffman , Matthew Broderick , Rosanna DeSoto , Janet Carroll , Victoria Jackson , Bill McCutcheon , Deborah Rush , B.D. Wong , John Capodice , Joe Lisi , Luis Guzmán , James Tolkan , Thomas A. Carlin, Rex Everhart , Tony DiBenedetto, Ed Crowley, Aideen O'Kelly
Glory
Tri-Star Pictures
Edward Zwick (director); Kevin Jarre (screenplay); Matthew Broderick , Denzel Washington , Cary Elwes , Morgan Freeman , Cliff DeYoung , Andre Braugher , Jihmi Kennedy, Alan North , John Finn , RonReaco Lee , Donovan Leitch , Bob Gunton , Jay O. Sanders , Raymond St. Jacques , Richard Riehle , JD Cullum , Christian Baskous, Peter Michael Goetz , Jane Alexander
We're No Angels
Paramount Pictures
Neil Jordan (director); David Mamet (screenplay); Robert De Niro , Sean Penn , Demi Moore , Hoyt Axton , Bruno Kirby , Ray McAnally , James Russo , Wallace Shawn , John C. Reilly
The Wizard
Universal Pictures
Todd Holland (director); David Chisholm (screenplay); Fred Savage , Luke Edwards, Jenny Lewis , Beau Bridges , Christian Slater , Will Seltzer , Jackey Vinson, Wendy Phillips , Sam McMurray , Frank McRae , Vincent Leahr, Beth Grant , Lee Arenberg , Tobey Maguire , Dante Basco
16
Age-Old Friends
HBO Pictures / Granger Productions
Allan Kroeker (director); Bob Larbey (screenplay); Hume Cronyn , Vincent Gardenia , Tandy Cronyn, Barry Flatman, Michele Scarabelli , Esther Rolle , Aaron Schwartz , Murray Westgate
20
Born on the Fourth of July
Universal Pictures
Oliver Stone (director/screenplay); Ron Kovic (screenplay); Tom Cruise , Kyra Sedgwick , Raymond J. Barry , Jerry Levine , Frank Whaley , Willem Dafoe , Caroline Kava , Josh Evans , Stephen Baldwin , Sean Stone , Anne Bobby , Jenna von Oÿ , John Getz , David Warshofsky , Jason Gedrick , Bill Allen , William Baldwin , James Le Gros , William Mapother , Markus Flanagan , R. D. Call , Don "The Dragon" Wilson , Jessica Prunell , Tom Berenger , Mel Allen , Ed Lauter , Oliver Stone , Dale Dye , Rocky Carroll , Chris Pedersen , David Herman , Damien Leake , Norman D. Wilson , Richard Poe , Bob Gunton , Vivica A. Fox , Mark Moses , Abbie Hoffman , Jake Weber , Reg E. Cathey , Edie Brickell , Tom Sizemore , Andrew Lauer , Michael Wincott , Anthony Pena , Holly Marie Combs , Mike Starr , Beau Starr , Tony Frank , Lili Taylor , Peter Crombie , Eagle Eye Cherry , Brian Tarantina , Jack McGee , Jodi Long , Michelle Hurst , John C. McGinley , Wayne Knight , Elizabeth Hoffman , Lucinda Jenney , Annie McEnroe , Daniel Baldwin , Samantha Larkin, Kevin Harvey Morse, Jason Klein, Lane R. Davis, Richard Panebianco, Johnny Pinto, Rob Camilletti, J. R. Nutt, Philip Amelio, Michael McTighe, Cody Beard, Corkey Ford, Billie Neal, Jayne Haynes
Roger & Me
Warner Bros. Pictures / Dog Eat Dog Films
Michael Moore (director/screenplay); Michael Moore , Roger Smith
21
Camille Claudel
Gaumont
Bruno Nuytten (director/screenplay); Marilyn Goldin (screenplay); Isabelle Adjani , Gérard Depardieu , Laurent Grévill, Alain Cuny , Madeleine Robinson , Philippe Clévenot, Katrine Boorman , Maxime Leroux , Danièle Lebrun , François Berléand
22
Always
Universal Pictures / United Artists / Amblin Entertainment
Steven Spielberg (director); Jerry Belson , Diane Thomas (screenplay); Richard Dreyfuss , Holly Hunter , John Goodman , Brad Johnson , Audrey Hepburn , Roberts Blossom , Keith David , Marg Helgenberger , Dale Dye , Doug McGrath , Ed Van Nuys, Brian Haley, James Lashly, Michael Steve Jones
Music Box
Tri-Star Pictures / Carolco Pictures
Costa-Gavras (director); Joe Eszterhas (screenplay); Jessica Lange , Armin Mueller-Stahl , Frederic Forrest , Donald Moffat , Lukas Haas , Mari Törőcsik , Elżbieta Czyżewska , James Zagel , Michael Rooker , Cheryl Lynn Bruce, Albert Hall , Ned Schmidtke , Margo Winkler , Larry Brandenburg , Ralph Foody , Zoltán Gera
Tango & Cash
Warner Bros. Pictures
Andrei Konchalovsky (director); Randy Feldman (screenplay); Sylvester Stallone , Kurt Russell , Jack Palance , Teri Hatcher , Brion James , Geoffrey Lewis , Eddie Bunker , James Hong , Marc Alaimo , Michael J. Pollard , Michael Jeter , Robert Z'Dar , Lewis Arquette , Roy Brocksmith , Richard Fancy , Phil Rubenstein , Clint Howard , Benny Urquidez , Billy Blanks , Kristen Dalton , Dale Swann , Glenn Morshower , Bing Russell , Elizabeth Sung , Andre Rosey Brown , Savely Kramarov , Patti Davis , Roxanne Kernohan , Adolfo 'Shabba-Doo' Quinones , Rodney Saulsberry
See also
References
External links
American films of the 1980s