11 posts tagged with 1980s by Fukiyama.
Displaying 1 through 11 of 11.

Movie: Aliens

Fifty-seven years after surviving an alien loose aboard her ship, first officer Ripley finds herself returning to the planet where she first encountered the creature. [more inside]
posted by Fukiyama on Feb 17, 2021 - 53 comments

Movie: Romancing the Stone

A mousy romance novelist sets off for Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure hunting for treasure with a mercenary rogue. [more inside]
posted by Fukiyama on Feb 15, 2021 - 24 comments

Movie: Ordinary People

Calvin, Beth, and their son Conrad are attempting to get back to normal after Conrad's return home from a psychiatric hospital. Conrad visits Dr. Berger who works with him to not push away his pain. [more inside]
posted by Fukiyama on Feb 11, 2021 - 12 comments

Movie: Poltergeist

A typical American family discovers there is more than meets the eye in their suburban home. [more inside]
posted by Fukiyama on Dec 29, 2020 - 21 comments

Movie: Michael Jackson's Thriller

A night at the movies turns into a nightmare when Michael and his date are attacked by a hoard of bloodthirsty zombies - only a "Thriller" can save them now. [more inside]
posted by Fukiyama on Nov 25, 2020 - 8 comments

Movie: An Officer and a Gentleman

A young man must complete his work at a Navy Officer Candidate School to become an aviator, with the help of a tough Gunnery Sergeant and his new girlfriend. [more inside]
posted by Fukiyama on Oct 26, 2020 - 10 comments

Movie: Absence of Malice

CAN A MAN BE GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT? Suppose you picked up this morning's newspaper and your life was a front page headline... And everything they said was accurate... But none of it was true. The D.A., the Feds, and the Police set her up to write the story that explodes his world. Now he's going to write the book on getting even. [more inside]
posted by Fukiyama on Mar 23, 2020 - 3 comments

Movie: The Verdict

Frank Galvin Has One Last Chance At A Big Case. The doctors want to settle, the Church wants to settle, their lawyers want to settle, and even his own clients are desperate to settle. But Galvin is determined to defy them all. He will try the case. [more inside]
posted by Fukiyama on Mar 19, 2020 - 5 comments

Movie: Running on Empty

The Pope family is on the run from the Feds. Consisting of the father Arthur, the mother Annie, older son Danny, and younger son Harry, they leave where they had been in hiding at the start of the movie and set up house in a new community where they face more than just staying one step ahead of their pursuers. [more inside]
posted by Fukiyama on Oct 4, 2019 - 2 comments

Movie: The Killing Fields

The Killing Fields tells the real-life story of a friendship between two journalists, an American and a Cambodian, during the bloody Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia in 1975, which led to the death of 2-3 million Cambodians during the next four years, until Pol Pot's regime was toppled by the intervening Vietnamese in 1979. [more inside]
posted by Fukiyama on Jun 23, 2019 - 2 comments

Movie: The Ice Pirates

In the far future water is the most valuable substance. Two space pirates are captured, sold to a princess, and recruited to help her find her father.
posted by Fukiyama on Dec 7, 2018 - 11 comments

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