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 MacGyver
Starring: Richard Dean Anderson Macgyver is a secret agent with a difference. He is quiet, mild mannered, deeply principled and refuses to carry a gun on his missions. Fortunately, the last detail is unimportant when compared to his astounding mind. Drawing on a vast practical knowledge of science, Macgyver is able to make use of any mundane materials around him to create unorthodox solutions to any problem he faces. The enemies of world peace and justice continually learn that underestimating this man is a fatal mistake for their plans. |
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 MoonlightingStarring: Bruce Willis & Cybil Shephard An ex model and a wiseguy detective, who co-run a private detective agency, take on quirky cases. |
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 The
Golden GirlsStarring: Beatrice Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, & Estelle Getty Four previously married women live together in Miami, sharing their various experiences together and enjoying themselves despite hard times. |
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 Kate &
AllieStarring: Susan Saint James, Jane Curtin When Allie Lowell divorces her husband and gets custody of their two children, she moves to New York City and moves in with her best friend, Kate McArdle, also divorced and raising a daughter. |
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 Growing
PainsStarring: Alan Thicke, Joanna Kerns, Kirk Cameron, Tracey Gold, & Jeremy Miller Dr. Seaver, a psychologist, and his wife Maggie Seaver, a journalist, try to do their best raising their family. Even though their kids, Mike, Carol, and Ben, cause them endless problems, they manage to keep the family close together. As long as they got each other, nothing else matters. |
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 ThunderCats [cartoon]The inhabitants of the planet Thundera evacuate just before it is destroyed by a band of mutants. All but one of their escape ships was destroyed, leaving only a small group of Thunderans (Thundercats) remained. With only half engine power, the group sets a course for the nearest planet, Third Earth. Soon the Thundercats make friends with various groups in the area and they designed a fortress. Mumm-Ra the centuries-old embodiment of evil, along with the mutants that destroyed the rest of the Thunderans are a constant threat. But Lion-O, the new leader of the Thundercats, with his weapon the "Sword of Omens" will help the Thundercats to have a standing chance. |
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 Twilight
ZoneAn updated version of the famous 1960's TV series created by Rod Serling. Each week presents a stand-alone episode about some unusual situation that turns out to be even more unusual than initially suspected. Whether the tone of the story is horror, suspense or humor, there is always a surprise twist at the end. |
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WonderStarring: Dick Christie, Marla Pennington, Jerry Supiran, Tiffany Brissette, & Emily Schulman Ted Lawson creates a human robot named Vickie. The Lawson family (Ted, Joan, and Jamie) pretend that Vickie is their daughter, keeping the fact she is a robot secret. |
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 Mr.
BelvedereStarring: Christopher Hewett, Ilene Graff, Rob Stone, Tracy Wells, Brice Beckham, & Bob Uecker A sarcastic, wisecracking Englishman answers an ad and takes on the role as housekeeper for a dysfunctional family, the Owenses. He becomes their nursemaid, babysitter, cleaner, cook, confidant, conscience... all these things, but still can't get Angela to pronounce his name correctly! |
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 Back to the FutureStarring: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, & Crispin Glover Marty McFly helps out his friend Doc Brown, and ends up being taken back in time by Doc's time-machine. Marty, a boy of the 80's, has to come to grips with being in the 50's and get his parents to fall in love to set straight the damage his presence has done to the events of the past. |
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 Rambo:
First Blood Part IIStarring: Sylvester Stallone & Richard Crenna Former Green Beret John Rambo is serving time in a federal prison. When the US military hears of American soldiers missing in action from the Vietnam war possibly still being alive and held captive, Colonel Trautman is authorized to send Rambo in to rescue them. For Rambo, this is what he would do best. If only the pencil-pushers would stop getting in his way. |
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 Rocky IVStarring: Sylvester Stallone & Dolph Lundgren When Rocky's old friend Apollo Creed is killed during a fight with a super fit Russian boxer, Ivan Drago, Rocky blames himself for the death when he could have thrown in the towel before the crucial moment. Fuelled by the Russian's arrogance, Rocky arranges a fight with the new champion, only this time in Russia. |
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 The Color
PurpleStarring: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey The life and trials of a young African American Woman. |
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 Out of
AfricaStarring: Meryl Streep & Robert Redford In 20th century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate but ultimately doomed love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter. |
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 CocoonStarring: Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Jack Gilford, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Brian Dennehy, & Steve Guttenberg When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor. |
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 The
Jewel of the Nile Starring: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, & Danny DeVito Sequel to Romancing the Stone |
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 WitnessStarring: Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, & Lukas Haas A young Amish boy is sole witness to a murder; policeman John Book goes into hiding in Amish country to protect him until the trial. |
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 The GooniesStarring: Sean Astin, Jeff Cohen, Corey Feldman, Kerri Green, Martha Plimpton, & Jonathan Ke Quan A group of kids embark on a wild adventure after finding a pirate treasure map. |
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 Spies
Like UsStarring: Chevy Chase & Dan Aykroyd Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for Nuclear War. |
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 FletchStarring: Chevy Chase Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher, Los Angeles journalist, really lives for his profession. As Jane Doe, he publishes articles that have caused several heads to roll in the past. Now, Fletch is at it again: In disguise as a bum, he lives at the beach, researching drugs and their dealing. |
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View to a KillStarring: Roger Moore, Christopher Walken, Tanya Roberts, & Grace Jones An investigation of a horse-racing scam leads 007 to a mad industrialist who plans to create a worldwide microchip monopoly by destroying California's Silicon Valley. |
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 European
VacationStarring: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Dana Hill, & Jason Lively The Griswalds win a vacation tour across Europe where the usual havoc ensues. |
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 The Breakfast ClubStarring: Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, & Ally Sheedy Five high school students, all different stereotypes, meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out to each other, and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought. |
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 Pee-Wee's Big AdventureEccentric man-child Pee-Wee Herman embarks on the big adventure of his life across the US mainland, as he sets out to find his beloved bike, when it is stolen in broad daylight. |
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Elmo's FireStarring: Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Mare Winningham, & Andie MacDowell A Group of friends, just out of college, struggle with adulthood. Their main problem is that they're all self-centered and obnoxious. |
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 Mad
Max Beyond ThunderdomeStarring: Mel Gibson & Tina Turner Mad Max becomes a pawn in a decadent oasis of technological society, and when exiled, becomes the deliverer of a colony of children. |
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 CommandoStarring: Arnold Schawrzenegger, Alyssa Milano, Rae Dawn Chong, Dan Hedaya, & Vernon Wells A retired elite commando has only a few hours to find and rescue his daughter from an exiled dictator. |
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 Teen Wolf
Starring: Michael J. Fox A high student discovers that he is a werewolf. |
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 SilveradoStarring: Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Kevin Costner, & Danny Glover A misfit bunch of friends come together to right the injustices which exist in a small town. |
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 Desperately
Seeking SusanStarring: Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Aidan Quinn, & Laurie Metcalf A bored suburban housewife, seeking adventure to her life, accidentally gets hit on the head, wakes up with amnesia, and is mistaken for a free-spirited New York City drifter named Susan. |
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 Prizzi's Honor
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, & Robert Loggia A professional hit man and hit woman fall in love, only to discover that they have each been hired to kill the other. |
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 The Last
DragonA young man searches for the "master" to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the glow. Along the way he must fight an evil martial arts expert and an rescue a beautiful singer from an obsessed music promoter. |
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 Weird
ScienceStarring: Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, & Kelly LeBrock Two nerdish boys attempt to create the perfect woman, but she turns out to be more than that. |
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 The
Care Bears Movie The Care Bears live in a country high in the clouds, where they have a lot of fun together. But they also do care for the human children on Earth, who they watch through huge telescopes from the sky, and come to help whenever there is need. Nikolas, a magician's apprentice, is in danger of getting under the influence of a bad spirit, which resides in an ancient spell book. The siblings Kim and Jason don't trust anyone anymore after being disappointed once too often. The Care Bears take them into their wonderland where they experience exciting and dangerous adventures together and quickly become good friends. |
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 The
Black CauldronA young boy and a bunch of misfit friends embark on a quest to find a dark magic item of ultimate power before a diaboical tyrant can. |
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 The Sure
ThingStarring: John Cusack, Daphne Zuniga, & Anthonly Edwards College freshman John (Gib) Gibson decides to go cross country to visit his friend in California during winter break. Awaiting there is a bikini-clad babe whom his friend assures him is a "sure thing." |
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