Archive for January, 1987
Empire of the Sun
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| Plot Summary: | An aristocratic British youth is seperated from his family at the start of World War II after the Japanese Army invades British controlled areas of China. Reduced to living on the street and fighting for food, the youth is eventually interned in a Japanese POW camp for British civilians. Here, admiration quickly develops both for captured American pilots and the Japanese themselves. When the war ends, the boy torn from everything he knew attempts to again find his parents. |
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Hazard of Hearts, A
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| Plot Summary: | Compulsive gambler, Sir Giles Staverley is tricked into gambling away his home by his old adversary Lord Harry Wrotham. As Staverley is distraught and desperate, Wrotham gives him one last chance - he will gamble everything Staverley has lost against Staverley’s daughter’s hand in marriage and her trust fund of 80,000 guineas. Staverley agress and loses once again, but unable to face his daughter, Serena, he kills himself. Lord Justin Vulcan, a notoriously cold, clear headed gambler challenges Wrotham for the house and the girl and, much to Wrotham’s disgust, wins. Justin now finds himself in possession of the house and Serena, but has no idea of what to do with them. After meeting Serena and realising that she is much younger and more beautiful than he had imagined, he installs her as a guest at Mandrake, his family home, despite the hatred of Justin’s mother, Lady Harriet Vulcan. As Lady Vulcan attempts to marry Serena off to anyone except her son, Serena and Justin become friends and he teaches her about Mandrake, the home he loves. A crisis forces Serena and Justin to confront their feelings for each other. Can the course of true love run smooth for them? |
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Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
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| Taglines: | 1: On land, on sea, or in the air, no place is safe from them! 2: Take off with the original cast… and some new civilian recruits as they take to the streets and the skies to fight crime. |
| Plot Summary: | Commandant Eric Lassard decides that the police force is overworked and understaffed, so he comes up with the idea of recruiting civilian volunteers to work side-by-side with officers in a program called “Citizens On Patrol” (COP). Carey Mahoney and his friends Moses Hightower, Larvell Jones, Eugene Tackleberry, Laverne Hooks, and Debbie Callahan are in charge of training the civilians. The civilians include Tommy “House” Conklin, Lois Feldman, Kyle, and Arnie. Captain Thaddeus Harris wants to take over Lassard’s job, and that’s why Harris is determined to see the COP program fail. But it’s Harris and his right hand man Proctor who mess up by unintentionally allowing every inmate at the precinct 19 jail to escape. |
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Evil Dead II
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| Taglines: | 1: “The Comedy/Horror of the Decayed” [Pun: “Decade”] 2: 2 Terrifying. 2 Frightening. 2 Much! 3: Kiss Your Nerves Good-Bye! 4: The Sequel To The Ultimate Experience In Grueling Terror |
| Plot Summary: | Ash - the sole survivor of the original ‘Evil Dead’ - returns with his girlfriend Linda to the remote cabin in the woods. He discovers a tape recorder that a professor had used to record incantations from the Necronomicon XMortis - the Book of the Dead. When he turns it on, the recording releases a dark, sinister force from the woods. It turns Linda into a zombie, her soul possessed by some hideous demon, and then tries to do the same to Ash. Other people come to help Ash, but one by one they are taken over by the Evil Dead force that also possesses Linda, the Professor, and the Professor’s wife…and they try to make sure Ash is…Dead by Dawn! |
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Innerspace
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| Taglines: | 1: An Adventure of Incredible Proportions 2: Inside Jack Putter there’s a hero trying to get out. 3: Take a trip you’ll never forget. 4: This summer take a trip you’ll never forget. |
| Plot Summary: | Cocky space ace Tuck Pendelton volunteers to be minaturized and injected into a lab rabbit. Some techno-terrorists foul up these plans and Tuck is mistakenly injected into hypochondriac Jack Putter instead. Now the terrorists are after Jack with all-American hero Tuck shrunk inside him. Their only hope is Tuck’s journalist girl- friend Lydia, but Jack has developed a crush on her. |
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Planes, Trains & Automobiles
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| Taglines: | 1: Steve Martin had no reason to panic…until John Candy came along. 2: What he really wanted was to spend Thanksgiving with his family. What he got was three days with the turkey. |
| Plot Summary: | All that Neal Page wants to do is to get home for Thanksgiving. His flight has been cancelled due to bad weather, so he decides on other means of transport. As well as bad luck, Neal is blessed with the presence of Del Griffith, Shower Curtain Ring Salesman and all-around blabbermouth, who is never short of advice, conversation, bad jokes, or company. And when he decides that he is going the same direction as Neal…. |
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Blind Date
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| Plot Summary: | Walter Davis is a workaholic. His attention is all to his work and very little to his personal life or appearance. Now he needs a date to take to his company’s business dinner with a new important Japanese client. His brother sets him up with his wife’s cousin Nadia, who is new in town and wants to socialise, but when he was warned that if she gets drunk, she looses control and becomes wild. How will the date turn out - especially when they encounter Nadia’s ex boyfriend David? |
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Hellraiser
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| Taglines: | 1: Demon to some. Angel to others. 2: He’ll tear your soul apart. 3: It will tear your soul apart. 4: Satan’s done waitin’. 5: There are no limits. 6: We have such sights to show you |
| Plot Summary: | Clive Barker’s feature directing debut graphically depicts the tale of a man and wife who move into an old house and discover a hideous creature - the man’s half-brother, who is also the woman’s former lover - hiding upstairs. Having lost his earthly body to a trio of S&M demons, the Cenobites, he is brought back into existence by a drop of blood on the floor. He soon forces his former mistress to bring him his necessary human sacrifices to complete his body… but the Cenobites won’t be happy about this. |
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Sicilian, The
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| Taglines: | 1: Only one man ever dared to stand alone. |
| Plot Summary: | Giuliano robs from the rich conservative landowners to give to the poor, serf-like peasants, who in turn hail him as their savior. As his popularity grows, so does his ego, and he eventually thinks he is above the power of his backer, Mafia Don Masino Croce. The Don, in turn, sets out to kill the upstart by convincing his cousin and closest advisor Pissciota to assassinate him |
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Overboard
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| Plot Summary: | Rich bitch Joanna hires country carpenter Dean to build a closet on her yacht. When the two don’t see eye-to-eye, Dean is left unpaid while Joanna sets sail. The following day, Joanna is fished out of the sea, after falling overboard, suffering from amnesia. Dean sees a neat way to regain the money she owes him… he tells her she’s his wife; that way Dean gets a free housekeeper and mother for his four kids. |
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