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• That's What Friends Are For -
Dionne Warwick & Friends • Say You, Say Me (Title Song from "White Nights") - Lionel Richie • I Miss You - Klymaxx • On My Own - Patti LaBelle / Michael McDonald • Broken Wings - Mr. Mister • Addicted to Love - Robert Palmer • Danger Zone - Kenny Loggins • Take Me Home Tonight/Be My Baby - Eddie Money • Stuck With You - Huey Lewis & the News • Sara - Starship • Venus - Bananarama • When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going - Billy Ocean • Burning Heart - Survivor • Kyrie - Mr. Mister • Heartbeat - Don Johnson • The Future's So Bright (I Gotta Wear Shades) - Timbuk 3 |
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Starring: Max Wright, Anne Schedeen, Andrea Elson, Benji Gregory, & Paul Fusco as the voice of ALF The Tanners are an average American family. One day, they discover that they have a visitor. He's small, he's furry, he's arrogant, and he's an alien from the planet Melmac. Unsure what to do, they name him ALF: Alien Life Form. Alf soon decides that as much as he misses his home planet, there's a lot to be said for Earth. After all, the Tanners are willing to concede anything as long as he doesn't announce his presence. Oh yeah, the Tanners also have a cat, which looks rather tasty. |
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 MatlockStarring: Andy Griffith Criminal defense attorney Ben Matlock seeks to prove the innocence of his client as he takes on his/her case, of which most involve murders. |
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 Designing
WomenStarring: Dixie Carter, Delta Burke, Annie Potts, Jean Smart, & Meshach Taylor Outspoken feminist Julia Sugarbaker runs a design firm out of her Atlanta home, along with her shallow ex-beauty queen sister, Suzanne, divorced mother Mary Jo, and naive country girl Charlene. Black ex-con Anthony helps deliver furniture for the business and voices his unique opinion on whatever the women are discussing. |
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 Top Gun Starring: Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, & Tom Skerritt The macho students of an elite US Flying school for advanced fighter pilots compete to be best in the class, and one romances the teacher. |
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 Crocodile
DundeeStarring: Paul Hogan & Linda Kozlowski An American reporter goes to the Australian outback to meet an eccentric crocodile poacher and invites him to New York City. |
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 Platoon Starring: Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, & Forest Whitaker A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man. |
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 The
Karate Kid Part IIStarring: Ralph Macchio & Pat Morita Daniel accompanies his mentor to Okinawa who is off to see his dying father and confront his old rival, while Daniel inadvertently makes an enemy of his own. |
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Trek IV: The Voyage HomeStarring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, George Takei, & Nichelle Nichols To save Earth from an alien probe, Kirk and his crew go back in time to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it, humpback whales. |
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 Back
to SchoolStarring: Rodney Dangerfield To help his discouraged son get through college, a fun loving and obnoxious rich businessman decides to enter the school as a student himself. |
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 Aliens Starring: Sigourney Weaver The only survivor of the Nostromo, Ripley is discovered in deep sleep half a century later by a salvage ship. When she is taken back to Earth, she learns that a human colony was founded on the same planet where the aliens were first found. After contact with the colony is lost, she finds herself sent back to the planet along with a team of warriors bent on destroying the alien menace forever, and saving any survivors -- if any remain. |
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 The
Golden ChildStarring: Eddie Murphy A private detective specializing in missing children is charged with the task of finding a special child that dark forces want to eliminate. |
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 Ruthless
PeopleStarring: Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold, & Helen Slater A couple, cheated by a vile businessman, kidnap his wife in retaliation, without knowing that their enemy is delighted they did. |
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 Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara, Jeffrey Jones, & Jennifer Grey A high school wise guy is determined to have a day off from school, despite of what the principal thinks of that. |
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 Down
and Out in Beverly HillsStarring: Nick Nolte, Bette Midler, & Richard Dreyfuss See what happens when a dirty bum meets the filthy rich. |
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 The
Color of MoneyStarring: Paul Newman & Tom Cruise A former pool player returns to the game and takes on a young protégé. |
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 Stand by
MeStarring: Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman & Jerry O'Connell After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find a body of a missing boy. |
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 CobraStarring: Sylvester Stallone & Brigitte Nielsen City cop is on the trail of a serial killer. |
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American Tail While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country. |
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 Peggy
Sue Got MarriedStarring: Kathleen Turner & Nicolas Cage Peggy Sue faints at a High school reunion. When she wakes up she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school. |
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CircuitStarring: Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, & Fisher Stevens Number 5, one of a group of experimental military robots, undergoes a sudden transformation after being struck by lightning. He develops self-awareness, consciousness, and a fear of the reprogramming that awaits him back at the factory. With the help of a young woman, Number 5 tries to evade capture and convince his creator that he has truly become alive. |
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 Pretty in PinkStarring: Molly Ringwald, Jon Cryer, Andrew McCarthy, James Spader, & Annie Potts Young Andie is one of the not-so-popular girls in high school. She usually hangs out with her friends Iona or Duckie. Duckie has always had a crush on her, but now she has met a new guy from school, Blane. He's one of the rich and popular guys but can the two worlds meet? |
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 Three
AmigosStarring: Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, & Martin Short Three unemployed actors accept an invitation to a Mexican village to replay their bandit fighter roles, unaware that it is real thing. |
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 Little
Shop of HorrorsStarring: Rick Moranis A nerdish florist finds his chance for success and romance with the help of a giant man-eating plant who demands to be fed. |
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 The Money
PitStarring: Tom Hanks & Shelley Long A young couple struggles to repair a hopelessly dilapidated house. |
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 Running
ScaredStarring: Billy Crystal & Gregory Hines They've got 30 days to clean up Chicago before they retire to Paradise... Losing their police car, their suspect and having their cover blown is a real bad start. |
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 LabyrinthStarring: David Bowie & Jennifer Connelly Fifteen-year-old Sarah is left home alone to baby sit her little 1/2 brother Toby. But the baby keeps crying and Sarah, while telling him the story of her favorite book, the Labyrinth, to make him sleep, inadvertently conjures from a fantasy world the Goblin King who steals the child and brings him to his castle in the middle of a labyrinth. Sarah has to rescue him before midnight, or the baby will became a goblin. |
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 Jumpin' Jack FlashStarring: Whoopie Goldberg Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day she gets a strange message from an unknown source. The message is coded. After decoding the message, Terry becomes embroiled in an espionage ring. People are killed, and Terry is chased. Throughout she remains in contact with this unknown person, who needs Terry to help save his life. |
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 HoosiersStarring: Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, & Dennins Hopper A coach with a checkered past and a local drunk train a small town high school basketball team to become a top contender for the championship. |
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 The
Great Mouse DetectiveBasil, the rodent Sherlock Holmes, investigates the kidnapping of a toy-maker and uncovers its link to his archenemy, Professor Ratigan. |
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 Tough
GuysStarring: Burt Lancaster & Kirk Douglas Two elderly gangsters are released from prison only to find they have trouble fitting in as old men who still take no guff from anyone. |
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Room with a ViewStarring: Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Denholm Elliott, & Julian Sands When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperone Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr. Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans? |
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 Flight
of the NavigatorStarring: Joey Cramer, Sarah Jessica Parker & Paul Reubens as the voice of Max In 1978, a boy is moved 8 years into the future (1986) and has an adventure with the alien ship. |
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• Crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger:
○ Greg Jarvis (b. 1944)
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