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 Cheers Starring: Ted Danson, Rhea Perlman, George Wendt, John Ratzenberger, & Shelley Long The regulars of the Boston bar Cheers share their experiences and lives with each other while drinking or working at the bar where everybody knows your name. |
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 Knight
Rider Starring: David Hasselhoff, William Daniels as the voice of K.I.T.T., Edward Mulhare, & Patricia McPherson Michael Long is a crime fighter who is seriously wounded during his work. Nursed back to health by a mysterious benefactor, he regains consciousness as a new man with a new face and a new name: Michael Knight. His mysterious benefactor provides Michael with equipment and support so that he can continue his crime fighting work. The most notable piece of equipment supplied, is "K.I.T.T.", a high-performance sports car fitted with artificial intelligence. |
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 FameStarring: Debbie Allen, Gene Anthony Ray, Carlo Imperato, Erica Gimpel, Valerie Landsburg, Lee Curreri, Carol Mayo Jenkins, Ann Nelson, & Albert Hague The Art School was always their dream. They want to dance, they want to sing, to play music, to act but above all they want to live their lives while they are still young and full of energy. Leroy, Danny, Jesse, Chris, Coco and all the others try hard because they know that they've got a long way to go till they reach fame and riches. Fame costs and here (the Art School) is where they start paying for it. |
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 Family
Ties Starring: Meredith Baxter, Michael Gross, Michael J. Fox, Justine Bateman, & Tina Yothers A couple who were ardently leftwing political activists in the sixties face the problems of raising a family with children who have strongly conservative views. |
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 Cagney
& LaceyStarring: Tyne Daly & Sharon Gless Two female police detectives cooperate with each other both in their professions and in their personal lives. |
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 E.T. the
Extra-TerrestrialStarring: Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton, K.C. Martel, Sean Frye, & C. Thomas Howell While visiting the Earth at Night, a group of alien botanists is discovered and disturbed by an approaching human task force. Because of the more than hasty take-off, one of the visitors is left behind. The alien is found by a 10 year old boy, Elliot. While E.T. slowly gets acquainted with Elliot's brother Michael, his sister Gertie as well as with Earth customs, members of the task force work day and night to track down the whereabouts of Earth's first visitor from Outer Space. The wish to go home again is strong in E.T. & he starts building a device to send a message home. Before long, E.T. gets seriously sick, and because of his special connection to Elliot, the young boy suffers, too. The situation gets critical when the task force finally intervenes. By then, all help may already be too late, and there's no alien spaceship in sight. |
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 Tootsie Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, & Dabney Coleman An unemployed actor with a reputation for being difficult disguises himself as a woman to get a role in a soap opera. |
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Officer and a GentlemanStarring: Richard Gere, Debra Winger, David Keith A young man must complete his work at a Navy Flight school to become an aviator, with the help of a tough gunnery sergeant and his new girlfriend. |
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 Porky's Set in 1954, a group of Florida high schoolers seek out to lose their virginity which leads them to seek revenge on a sleazy nightclub owner and his redneck sheriff brother for harassing them. |
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Trek II: The Wrath of KhanStarring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, & Ricardo Montalban Admiral James T. Kirk is still in charge of a space fleet, but from behind a desk. Dr. McCoy and Mr. Spock convince him to take on a mission which sounds simple, but with the appearance of the mysterious Khan, things get a little tricky. |
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 48 HRS.Starring: Nick Nolte & Eddie Murphy A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer. |
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 PoltergeistStarring: Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Heather O'Rourke A young family are visited by ghosts in their home. At first the ghosts appear friendly, moving objects around the house to the amusement of everyone, then they turn nasty and start to terrorize the family before they "kidnap" the youngest daughter. |
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Little Whorehouse in TexasStarring: Dolly Parton, Burt Reynolds, & Dom DeLuise Town Sheriff and regular patron, fights to keep a historical whorehouse open when a TV preacher targets it as the Devils playhouse. |
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 AnnieStarring: Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Tim Curry, Bernadette Peters, Aileen Quinn In the depths of the 1930's, Annie is a fiery young orphan girl who must live in a miserable orphanage run by the tyrannical Miss Hannigan. Her seemingly hopeless situation changes dramatically when she is selected to spend a short time at the residence of the wealthy munitions industrialist, Oliver Warbucks. Quickly, she charms the hearts of the household staff and even the seemingly cold-hearted Warbucks cannot help but learn to love this wonderful girl. He decides to help Annie find her long lost parents by offering a reward if they would come to him and prove their identity. However, Miss Hannigan, her evil brother, Rooster, and a female accomplice, plan to impersonate those people to get the reward for themselves which put Annie in great danger. |
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 The
VerdictStarring: Paul Newman A hacker is literally abducted into the world of a computer and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program. |
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 GandhiStarring: Ben Kingsley Biography of Mahatma Gandhi, the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British through his philosophy of non-violent protest. |
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 First
Blood Starring: Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo A mentally unstable Vietnam war vet, when abused with a small town's police force, begins a one man war with it. |
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 The Dark
CrystalAnother planet, another time. 1000 years ago the Dark Crystal was damaged by one of the Urskeks and an age of chaos began. Now the time of the great conjunction of the three suns is near. If the crystal is not healed now the control of the evil Skekses will last forever. Jen the last of the Gelflings nearly exterminated by monsters controlled by the Skekses starts his dangerous journey to find the missing shard of the crystal. Will he be able to heal the crystal and restore order on the planet? |
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 Conan
the Barbarian Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Earl Jones, Max von Sydow, Sandahl Bergman, Gerry Lopez, Cassandra Gava, Mako, & Valerie Quennessen The epic tale of child sold into slavery who grows into a man who seeks revenge against the warlord who massacred his tribe. |
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 TronStarring: Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Cindy Morgan A hacker is literally abducted into the world of a computer and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program. |
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 Victor/VictoriaStarring: Julie Andrews A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life. |
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 Blade
RunnerStarring: Harrision Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos Deckard, a blade runner, has to track down and terminate 4 replicants who hijacked a ship in space and have returned to earth seeking their maker. |
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 Fast Times
at Ridgemont HighStarring: Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates, Brian Backer, Rober Romanus, Eric Stoltz, Anthony Edwards, Ray Walston Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, Linda Barrett and Mike Damone, respectively. The center of the film is held by Jeff Spicoli, a perpetually stoned surfer dude who faces off with the resolute Mr. Hand, who is convinced that everyone is on dope. |
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 Mad
Max 2: The Road WarriorStarring: Mel Gibson In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline rich, community escape a band of bandits. |
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 Pink
Floyd: The WallA troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone. |
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 The
Man from Snowy RiverThe story of a boy suddenly alone in the world. The men who challenge him. And the girl who helps him become a man. |
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