1989 movies

Let It Ride (1989)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Dreyfuss, Richard | Johansen, David | Garr, Teri | Tilly, Jennifer | Garfield, Allen | Walsh, Edward | Edson, Richard | Schramm, David | Roselius, John | Walsh, Joseph | Seymour, Ralph | Nixon, Cynthia | Dimitri, Richard | Towers, Robert | Phillips, Michelle
Directors: Pytka, Joe
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An average kind of guy who has a slight problem with gambling goes to the track, and mystically, it seems as though he can’t lose, no matter how he bets; and he has an incredible day.

Roger & Me (1989)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Documentary
Countries: USA
Actors: Blanchard, James | Bond, James | Boone, Pat | Eubanks, Bob | Hamper, Ben | Jackson, Timothy | Kay, Tom | Koppel, Ted | Lennox, Correy | MacDonald, Brian | Rather, Dan | Reagan, Ronald | Ross, Fred | Sawdon, Richard Earl
Directors: Moore, Michael
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A documentary about the closure of General Motors’ plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the attempts of filmmaker Michael Moore to get an interview with GM CEO Roger Smith.

When Harry Met Sally… (1989)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Crystal, Billy | Ryan, Meg | Fisher, Carrie | Kirby, Bruno | Ford, Steven | Persky, Lisa Jane | Nicastro, Michelle | Palmer, Gretchen | Beuth, Robert Alan | Burdick, David | Viviani, Joe | Kozak, Harley Jane | Hunt, Joseph | Rooney, Kevin | Luz, Franc
Directors: Reiner, Rob
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Harry and Sally meet when she gives him a ride to New York after they both graduate from the University of Chicago. The film jumps through their lives as they both search for love, but fail, bumping into each other time and time again. Finally a close friendship blooms between them, and they both like having a friend of the opposite sex. But then they are confronted with the problem: “Can a man and a woman be friends, without sex getting in the way?”

Christmas Vacation (1989)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Chase, Chevy | D'Angelo, Beverly | Lewis, Juliette | Galecki, Johnny | Randolph, John | Ladd, Diane | Marshall, E.G. | Roberts, Doris | Quaid, Randy | Flynn, Miriam | Burger, Cody | Latzen, Ellen Hamilton | Hickey, William | Questel, Mae | McMurray, Sam
Directors: Chechik, Jeremiah S.
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It’s Christmas time and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration, but things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen and their two kids. Clark’s continual bad luck is worsened by his obnoxious family guests, but he manages to keep going knowing that his Christmas bonus is due soon.

Prancer (1989)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Elliott, Sam | Leachman, Cloris | Alda, Rutanya | Vigoda, Abe | Constantine, Michael | Harrell, Rebecca | Duda, John | Richards, Ariana | Rolston, Mark | Galecki, Johnny | Charles, Walter | Truro, Victor | Porter, Marcia | Janes, Loren | Starnes, Shirley
Directors: Hancock, John D.
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Jessica, the daughter of an impoverished apple farmer, still believes in Santa Claus. So when she comes across a reindeer with an injured leg, it makes perfect sense to her to assume that it is Prancer, who had fallen from a Christmas display in town. She hides the reindeer in her barn and feeds it cookies, until she can return it to Santa. Her father finds the reindeer an decides to sell it to the butcher, not for venison chops, but as an advertising display.

Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover, The (1989)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Horror
Countries: France | Netherlands | UK
Actors: Richard Bohringer | Gambon, Michael | Mirren, Helen | Howard, Alan | Roth, Tim | Hinds, Ciarán | Olsen, Gary | Stewart, Ewan | Ashton-Griffiths, Roger | Cook, Ron | Smith, Liz | Gillespie, Emer | Henfrey, Janet | Breeveld, Arnie | Alleff, Tony
Directors: Greenaway, Peter
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The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband’s restaurant. Food, colour coding, sex, murder, torture and cannibalism are the exotic fare in this beautifully filmed but brutally uncompromising modern fable which has been interpreted as an allegory for Thatcherism.

Johnny Handsome (1989)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Rourke, Mickey | Barkin, Ellen | McGovern, Elizabeth | Freeman, Morgan | Whitaker, Forest | Henriksen, Lance | Wilson, Scott | Schramm, David | Bryceland, Yvonne | Jason, Peter | Smith, J.W. | Meek, Jeffrey | Graf, Allan | Zang, Ed | Fertitta, John P.
Directors: Hill, Walter
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A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his father-figure and sent him to prison.

Black Rain (1989)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Douglas, Michael | Garcia, Andy | Takakura, Ken | Capshaw, Kate | Matsuda, Yusaku | Kôyama, Shigeru | Spencer, John | Ishimatsu, Guts | Uchida, Yuya | Wakayama, Tomisaburo | Ono, Miyuki | Guzmán, Luis | Costelloe, John | Root, Stephen | Riehle, Richard
Directors: Scott, Ridley
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Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. In Japan, however, he manages to escape. As they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game the Japanese way.

Born on the Fourth of July (1989)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Cruise, Tom | Barry, Raymond J. | Kava, Caroline | Evans, Josh | Talisman, Jamie | Bobby, Anne | Larkin, Samantha | Berenger, Tom | Whaley, Frank | Levine, Jerry | Panebianco, Richard | Camilletti, Rob | Baldwin, Stephen | McTighe, Michael | Haus, Richard
Directors: Stone, Oliver
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The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.

All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: Ireland | UK
Actors: Reynolds, Burt | DeLuise, Dom | Barsi, Judith | Moore, Melba | Gilley, Daryl | Devine, Candy | Reilly, Charles Nelson | Tayback, Vic | Fuller, Rob | Carey, Earleen | Manahan, Anna | Pegram, Nigel | Anderson, Loni | Page, Ken | Quigley, Godfrey
Directors: Bluth, Don
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When a casino owning dog named Charlie is murdered by his rival Carface, he finds himself in Heaven basically by default since all dogs to heaven. However, since he wants to get back at his killer, he cons his way back to the living with the warning that doing that damns him to Hell. Once back, he teams with his old partner, Itchy to prep his retaliation. He also stumbles on to an orphan girl who can talk to the animals, thus allowing him to get the inside info on the races to ensure his wins to finance his plans. However, all the while, he is still haunted by nightmares on what’s waiting for him on the other side unless he can prove that he is worthy of Heaven again.