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Production company
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Cast and crew
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J U L Y
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2
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Airplane! |
Paramount Pictures / Howard W. Koch Productions |
Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker (directors/screenplay); Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, Lorna Patterson, Stephen Stucker, Frank Ashmore, Jonathan Banks, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Barbara Billingsley, Lee Bryant, Nicholas Pryor, Joyce Bulifant, Maureen McGovern, Kenneth Tobey, Barbara Stuart, Rossie Harris, Al White, David Leisure, Jason Wingreen, Jill Whelan, Ethel Merman, Jimmie Walker, James Hong, Howard Jarvis, Michael Laurence, Craig Berenson, Marcy Goldman, Norman Alexander Gibbs, David Hollander, Michelle Stacy, Lee Terri
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Alligator |
Group 1 Films |
Lewis Teague (director); John Sayles (screenplay); Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael Gazzo, Dean Jagger, Sydney Lassick, Jack Carter, Perry Lang, Henry Silva, Bart Braverman, Royce D. Applegate, Jim Boeke, Peter Miller, Pat Petersen, Kendall Carly Browne, Micol, Angel Tompkins, Sue Lyon, Dick Richards, Michael Mazurki, Kane Hodder
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Jane Austen in Manhattan |
Contemporary Films |
James Ivory (director); Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (screenplay); Anne Baxter, Robert Powell, Michael Wager, Sean Young, Charles McCaughan, Tim Choate, John Guerrasio, Iman, Katrina Hodiak, Kurt Johnson, Philip Lenkowsky, Nancy New
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The Sea Wolves |
Paramount Pictures / Rank Film Distributors |
Andrew V. McLaglen (director); Reginald Rose (screenplay); Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, David Niven, Trevor Howard, Barbara Kellerman, Patrick Macnee, Kenneth Griffith, Patrick Allen, Wolf Kahler, Robert Hoffmann, Dan van Husen, George Mikell, Jürgen Andersen, Bernard Archard, Martin Benson, Faith Brook, Allan Cuthbertson, Edward Dentith, Clifford Earl, Rusi Ghandhi, Percy Herbert, Patrick Holt, Donald Houston, Glyn Houston, Victor Langley, Terence Longdon, Michael Medwin, W. Morgan Sheppard, John Standing, Graham Stark, Keith Stevenson, Jack Watson, Moray Watson, Brook Williams, Marc Zuber, Mohan Agashe
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5
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The Blue Lagoon |
Columbia Pictures |
Randal Kleiser (director); Douglas Day Stewart (screenplay); Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins, Leo McKern, William Daniels, Alan Hopgood, Gus Mercurio, Elva Josephson, Glenn Kohan, Bradley Pryce, Chad Timmermans
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11
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How to Beat the High Cost of Living |
American International Pictures |
Robert Scheerer (director); Robert Kaufman, Leonora Thung (screenplay); Jane Curtin, Susan Saint James, Jessica Lange, Dabney Coleman, Richard Benjamin, Fred Willard, Eddie Albert, Cathryn Damon, Ronnie Schell, Michael Bell, Sybil Danning, Al Checco, Susan Tolsky, Art Metrano, Garrett Morris
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Oh! Heavenly Dog |
20th Century Fox |
Joe Camp (director/screenplay); Rod Browning (screenplay); Chevy Chase, Benji, Jane Seymour, Omar Sharif, Robert Morley, Stuart Germain, Alan Sues, John Stride, Donnelly Rhodes, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Richard Vernon, Frank Williams, Susan Kellermann, Lorenzo Music, Harry Hill, Kay Tremblay, Albin Pahernik, Margierite Corriveau, Gerald Iles, Jérôme Tiberghien
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Used Cars |
Columbia Pictures |
Robert Zemeckis (director/screenplay); Bob Gale (screenplay); Kurt Russell, Jack Warden, Gerrit Graham, Deborah Harmon, Frank McRae, Joe Flaherty, David L. Lander, Michael McKean, Michael Talbott, Harry Northup, Alfonso Arau, Cheryl Rixon, Al Lewis, Woodrow Parfrey, Dub Taylor, Wendie Jo Sperber, Marc McClure, Betty Thomas, Dick Miller, Rita Taggart, Terence Knox, Will McMillan
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18
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The Big Red One |
United Artists / Lorimar |
Samuel Fuller (director/screenplay); Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Bobby Di Cicco, Kelly Ward, Siegfried Rauch, Stéphane Audran, Marthe Villalonga, Perry Lang, Matteo Zoffoli
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Cheech & Chong's Next Movie |
Universal Pictures |
Tommy Chong (director/screenplay); Cheech Marin (screenplay); Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Evelyn Guerrero, Edie McClurg, Paul Reubens, Betty Kennedy, Sy Kramer, Rikki Marin, Bob McClurg, John Paragon, Jake Steinfeld, Cassandra Peterson, Rita Wilson, Michael Winslow, John Steadman, Faith Minton, Ben Powers, Carl Weintraub, Lupe M. Ontiveros
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Honeysuckle Rose |
Warner Bros. |
Jerry Schatzberg (director); John Binder, Gustaf Molander, Carol Sobieski, Gösta Stevens, William D. Wittliff (screenplay); Willie Nelson, Dyan Cannon, Amy Irving, Slim Pickens, Joey Floyd, Charles Levin, Mickey Rooney Jr., Lane Smith, Pepe Serna, Priscilla Pointer, Diana Scarwid, Jeannie Seely, Emmylou Harris, Mickey Raphael, Grady Martin, Rex Ludwick, Bee Spears
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The Little Dragons |
Aurora Film Corporation / Eastwind Productions |
Curtis Hanson (director); Harvey Applebaum, Louis G. Atlee, Rudolph Borchert, Alan Ormsby (screenplay); Charles Lane, Ann Sothern, Chris Peterson, Pat Petersen, Sally Boyden, Rick Lenz, Sharon Clark, Joe Spinell, John Davis Chandler, Clifford A. Pellow, Stephen Young, Pat E. Johnson, Bong Soo Han, Tony Bill, Spencer Quinn, Topo Swope, Jim Sherwood
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Prom Night |
AVCO Embassy Pictures |
Paul Lynch (director); William Gray (screenplay); Jamie Lee Curtis, Leslie Nielsen, Casey Stevens, Eddie Benton, Michael Tough, Robert A. Silverman, Pita Oliver, David Mucci, Mary Beth Rubens, George Touliatos, Melanie Morse, David Bolt, Jeff Wincott, David Gardner, Joy Thompson, Sheldon Rybowski, Antoinette Bower
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24
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The Earthling |
Filmways Pictures |
Peter Collinson (director); Lanny Cotler (screenplay); William Holden, Ricky Schroder
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25
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Caddyshack |
Orion Pictures |
Harold Ramis (director/screenplay); Douglas Kenney, Brian Doyle-Murray (screenplay); Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, Michael O'Keefe, Bill Murray, Sarah Holcomb, Scott Colomby, Cindy Morgan, Dan Resin, Henry Wilcoxon, Elaine Aiken, Albert Salmi, Ann Ryerson, Brian Doyle-Murray, Hamilton Mitchell, Peter Berkrot, John F. Barmon Jr., Lois Kibbee, Brian McConnachie, Scott Powell, Jackie Davis, Thomas A. Carlin, Mel Pape
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Dressed to Kill |
Filmways Pictures |
Brian De Palma (director/screenplay); Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon, Dennis Franz, David Margulies, Brandon Maggart, William Finley, Ken Baker, Susanna Clemm
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Middle Age Crazy |
20th Century Fox / Krofft Entertainment / Canadian Film Development Corporation / Guardian Trust Company / Tormont Films |
John Trent (director); Carl Kleinschmitt, Jerry Lee Lewis (screenplay); Bruce Dern, Ann-Margret, Graham Jarvis, Deborah Wakeham, Eric Christmas, Helen Hughes, Geoffrey Bowes, Patricia Hamilton, Michael Kane, Diane Dewey, Vivian Reis, Anni Lantuch, Gina Dick, John Facenda
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A U G U S T
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1
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The Final Countdown |
United Artists / The Bryna Company |
Don Taylor (director); David Ambrose, Gerry Davis, Thomas Hunter, Peter Powell (screenplay); Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross, James Farentino, Ron O'Neal, Charles Durning, Victor Mohica, James C. Lawrence, Soon-Tek Oh, Joe Lowry, Alvin Ing, Mark Thomas, Harold Bergman, Richard Liberty, Lloyd Kaufman, Dan Fitzgerald, Peter Douglas
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The Hunter |
Paramount Pictures / Rastar |
Buzz Kulik (director); Ted Leighton, Peter Hyams (screenplay); Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach, Kathryn Harrold, LeVar Burton, Ben Johnson, Richard Venture, Tracey Walter, Thomas Rosales Jr., Theodore Wilson
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I Go Pogo |
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Marc Paul Chinoy (director); Skip Hinnant, Ruth Buzzi, Stan Freberg, Arnold Stang, Jonathan Winters, Jimmy Breslin, Vincent Price
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Loose Shoes |
National American Films / Brooksfilms |
Ira Miller (director/screenplay); Royce D. Applegate, Dan Praiser, Charley Smith (screenplay); Royce D. Applegate, Bill Murray, Lewis Arquette, Howard Hesseman, Susan Tyrrell, Ed Lauter, Tom Baker, Buddy Hackett, Sean Frye, Sandy Helberg, Rod McCary, Sid Haig, Larry Hankin, David Downing, Kinky Friedman, Dan McBride, Brad Ashcraft, Dustin Day, Alexander Stowe
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Raise the Titanic |
Associated Film Distribution / ITC Entertainment |
Jerry Jameson (director); Adam Kennedy (screenplay); Jason Robards, Richard Jordan, David Selby, Anne Archer, Dirk Blocker, Alec Guinness, Bo Brundin, M. Emmet Walsh, J.D. Cannon, Norman Bartold, Elya Baskin, Robert Broyles, Paul Carr, Michael C. Gwynne, Harvey Lewis
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8
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The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu |
Orion Pictures / Braun Entertainment Group / Playboy Productions |
Piers Haggard (director); Rudy Dochtermann, Jim Moloney, Peter Sellers (screenplay); Peter Sellers, Helen Mirren, David Tomlinson, Sid Caesar, Simon Williams, Steve Franken, Stratford Johns, John Le Mesurier, John Sharp, Clive Dunn, Clément Harari, Burt Kwouk, Kwan-Young Lee, John Tan, Philip Tan, Serge Julien, Johns Rajohnson, Katia Tchenko
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Xanadu |
Universal Pictures |
Robert Greenwald (director); Richard Christian Danus, Marc Reid Rubel (screenplay); Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, Michael Beck, Matt Lattanzi, James Sloyan, Dimitra Arliss, Katie Hanley, Fred McCarren, Ren Woods, Melvin Jones, Ira Newborn, Jo Ann Harris, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Coral Browne, Darcel Wynne, Adolfo "Shabba-Doo" Quinones, Miranda Garrison, Sandahl Bergman, Lynne Latham, John "Fee" Waybill, Prairie Prince, Bill Spooner, Vince Welnick, Deborah Jennsen, Alexander Cole, Melinda Phelps, Cherise Bate, Juliette Marshall, Marilyn Tokuda, Yvette Van Voorhees, Teri Beckerman, Rick Anderson, Michael Cotten, Roger Steen, Re Styles
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10
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Why Would I Lie? |
United Artists |
Larry Peerce (director); Peter Stone (screenplay); Treat Williams, Lisa Eichhorn, Gabriel Macht, Susan Heldfond, Anne Byrne, Valerie Curtin, Jocelyn Brando, Nicolas Coster, Severn Darden, Sonny Davis, Mitzi Hoag, Ilene Kristen, Jan D'Arcy, Jane Burkett, Kay Cummings, Mia Bendixsen, Harriet Gibson, Cynthia Hoppenfeld, Natalie Core, Shirley Slater, Marian Gants
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15
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The Kidnapping of the President |
Crown International Pictures |
George Mendeluk (director); Richard Murphy, Charles Templeton (screenplay); William Shatner, Hal Holbrook, Van Johnson, Ava Gardner, Miguel Fernandes, Cindy Girling, Elizabeth Shepherd, Michael J. Reynolds, Gary Reineke, Maury Chaykin, Murray Westgate, Ken Anderson, Sully Boyar, Aubert Pallascio, Virginia Podesser
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Smokey and the Bandit II |
Universal Pictures / Rastar |
Hal Needham (director); Jerry Belson, Brock Yates (screenplay); Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Dom DeLuise, Paul Williams, Pat McCormick, David Huddleston, Mike Henry, John Anderson, Brenda Lee, The Statler Brothers, "Mean Joe" Greene, Mel Tillis, Joe Klecko, Don Williams, Terry Bradshaw, Nancy Lenehan, John Megna, Chuck Yeager, John Robert Nicholson
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Those Lips, Those Eyes |
United Artists |
Michael Pressman (director); David Shaber (screenplay); Frank Langella, Glynnis O'Connor, Tom Hulce, Jerry Stiller, Herbert Berghof, Kevin McCarthy, Joseph Maher, George Morfogen
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Willie & Phil |
20th Century Fox |
Paul Mazursky (director/screenplay); Michael Ontkean, Margot Kidder, Ray Sharkey, Jan Miner, Tom Brennan, Julie Bovasso, Louis Guss, Kathleen Maguire, Kaki Hunter, Kristine DeBell, Jerry Hall
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22
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The Octagon |
American Cinema Releasing / American Cinema Productions |
Eric Karson (director); Leigh Chapman (screenplay); Chuck Norris, Karen Carlson, Lee Van Cleef, Tadashi Yamashita, Carol Bagdasarian, Richard Norton, Art Hindle, Kim Lankford, Kurt Grayson, Yuki Shimoda, Jack Carter, Ernie Hudson, Larry D. Mann, Aaron Norris, John Fujioka, Michael Norris, Brian Tochi
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29
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He Knows You're Alone |
United Artists |
Armand Mastroianni (director); Scott Parker (screenplay); Caitlin O'Heaney, Don Scardino, Elizabeth Kemp, Tom Rolfing, Lewis Arlt, Patsy Pease, James Rebhorn, Dana Barron, Tom Hanks, Paul Gleason, James Carroll, Russell Todd
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McVicar |
Crown International Pictures / The Who Films / Polytel |
Tom Clegg (director/screenplay); John McVicar (screenplay); Roger Daltrey, Adam Faith, Cheryl Campbell, Billy Murray, Georgina Hale, Steven Berkoff, Brian Hall, Matthew Scurfield, Harry Fielder, Ian Hendry, Malcolm Tierney, Robert Walker Jr., James Marcus, Tony Haygarth, Anthony May, Peter Jonfield, Leonard Gregory, Joe Turner, Jeremy Blake, Anthony Trent, Terence Stuart, Charles Cork, Paul Kernber, Ronald Herdman, Tony Rohr, Michael Feast, Richard Simpson, Ricky Parkinson
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S E P T E M B E R
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8
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Battle Beyond the Stars |
New World Pictures |
Jimmy T. Murakami (director); John Sayles (screenplay); Richard Thomas, Robert Vaughn, George Peppard, John Saxon, Sybil Danning, Darlanne Fluegel, Sam Jaffe, Jeff Corey, Morgan Woodward, Marta Kristen, Earl Boen, Lynn Carlin, Lara Cody, Julia Duffy, John Gowens, Larry Meyers, Steve Davis
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Return of the Secaucus 7 |
Libra Films / Salsipuedes Productions |
John Sayles (director/screenplay); Bruce MacDonald, Maggie Renzi, David Strathairn, Adam LeFevre, Maggie Cousineau, Gordon Clapp, Jean Passanante, Karen Trott, Mark Arnott, John Sayles, Marisa Smith, Amy Schewel, Carolyn Brooks, Eric Forsythe, Nancy Mette
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Phobia |
Paramount Pictures |
John Huston (director); Peter Bellwood, Lew Lehman, Jimmy Sangster (screenplay); Paul Michael Glaser, Susan Hogan, John Colicos, David Eisner, Lisa Langlois, Alexandra Stewart, Kenneth Welsh, David Bolt, Patricia Collins, Robert O'Ree, Neil Vipond, Marian Waldman
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10
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The Big Brawl |
Warner Bros. / Golden Harvest |
Robert Clouse (director/screenplay); Jackie Chan, José Ferrer, Kristine DeBell, Mako, Ron Max, David Sheiner, Rosalind Chao, Lenny Montana, Pat E. Johnson, Hard Boiled Haggerty, Chao-Li Chi, Jocelyn Lew, Peter Marc, Gene LeBell, Larry Drake
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The Gods Must Be Crazy |
20th Century Fox |
Jamie Uys (director/screenplay); N!xau, Marius Weyers, Sandra Prinsloo, Nic de Jager, Ken Gampu, Brian O'Shaughnessy, Pip Freedman, Jamie Uys, Michael Thys, Louw Verwey, Simon Sabela, Fanyana Sidumo, Joe Seakatsie
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15
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James Clavell's Shōgun |
NBC / Paramount Television |
Jerry London (director); Eric Bercovici (screenplay); Richard Chamberlain, Toshiro Mifune, Yoko Shimada, Damien Thomas, John Rhys-Davies, Frankie Sakai, Alan Badel, Michael Hordern, Vladek Sheybal, George Innes, Leon Lissek, Yūki Meguro, Hideo Takamatsu, Nobuo Kaneko, Toru Abe, Masashi Ebara, Neil McCarthy, Seiji Miyaguchi, Yosuke Natsuki, Masumi Okada, Edward Peel, Eric Richard, W. Morgan Sheppard, Miiko Taka, Rinichi Yamamoto, Orson Welles, Hiromi Senno, John Carney, Hyoei Enoki, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Ian Jentle, Yuko Kada, Mika Kitagawa, Yoshie Kitsuda, Stewart MacKenzie, Ai Matsubara, Yumiko Morishita, Takeshi Obayashi, Atsuko Sano, Setsuko Sekine, Akira Sera, Shin Takuma, Midori Takei, Steve Ubels, Shizuko Azuma
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19
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The Exterminator |
Amsell Entertainment / AVCO Embassy Pictures / Shapiro-Glickenhaus Entertainment / Interstar Pictures |
James Glickenhaus (director/screenplay); Robert Ginty, Samantha Eggar, Christopher George, Steve James, George Lee Cheung, Toni Di Benedetto, Dick Boccelli, Patrick Farrelly, Michele Harrell, David Lipman, Tom Everett, Ned Eisenberg, Irwin Keyes, Cindy Wilks, Dennis Boutsikaris, Mark Buntzman, Tony Munafo, Roger Grimsby, Judy Licht, Stan Getz, Samuel L. Jackson
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Melvin and Howard |
Universal Pictures |
Jonathan Demme (director); Bo Goldman (screenplay); Paul Le Mat, Mary Steenburgen, Pamela Reed, Jason Robards, Michael J. Pollard, Jack Kehoe, Rick Lenz, Dabney Coleman, Charles Napier, Melvin Dummar
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Mother's Day |
United Film Distribution Company / Duty Productions / Saga Films A.B. |
Charles Kaufman (director/screenplay); Warren Leight (screenplay); Nancy Hendrickson, Rose Ross, Robert Collins, Deborah Luce, Tiana Pierce, Gary Pollard, Michael McCleery, Karl Sandys
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Ordinary People |
Paramount Pictures / Wildwood Enterprises, Inc. |
Robert Redford (director); Alvin Sargent (screenplay); Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, Timothy Hutton, Elizabeth McGovern, M. Emmet Walsh, Dinah Manoff, Fredric Lehne, James B. Sikking, Basil Hoffman, Quinn Redeker, Mariclare Costello, Meg Mundy, Elizabeth Hubbard, Adam Baldwin, Richard Whiting, Tim Clarke, Scott Doebler
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Super Fuzz |
Columbia / AVCO Embassy / El Pico S.A. / Trans Cinema TV |
Sergio Corbucci (director/screenplay); Sabatino Ciuffini (screenplay); Terence Hill, Ernest Borgnine, Joanne Dru, Marc Lawrence, Julie Gordon, Lee Sandman, Sal Borghese, Woody Woodbury
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26
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Divine Madness |
Warner Bros. |
Michael Ritchie (director); Jerry Blatt, Bette Midler, Bruce Vilanch (screenplay); Bette Midler
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Hopscotch |
AVCO Embassy Pictures |
Ronald Neame (director); Bryan Forbes, Brian Garfield (screenplay); Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Sam Waterston, Ned Beatty, Herbert Lom, George Baker, Ivor Roberts, Lucy Saroyan, Severn Darden, George Pravda, Mike Gwilym, John Bennett Perry, David Matthau, Terry Beaver, Ray Charleson, Jacquelyn Hyde
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In God We Tru$t |
Universal Pictures |
Marty Feldman (director/screenplay); Chris Allen (screenplay); Marty Feldman, Andy Kaufman, Louise Lasser, Peter Boyle, Richard Pryor, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Severn Darden
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My Bodyguard |
20th Century Fox / Melvin Simon Productions |
Tony Bill (director); Alan Ormsby (screenplay); Chris Makepeace, Adam Baldwin, Matt Dillon, Martin Mull, Ruth Gordon, John Houseman, Craig Richard Nelson, Kathryn Grody, Joan Cusack, George Wendt, Jennifer Beals, Richard Bradley, Tim Reyna, Dean R. Miller, Hank Salas
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Resurrection |
Universal Pictures |
Daniel Petrie (director); Lewis John Carlino (screenplay); Ellen Burstyn, Sam Shepard, Richard Farnsworth, Roberts Blossom, Clifford David, Pamela Payton-Wright, Jeffrey DeMunn, Eva Le Gallienne, Lois Smith, Richard Hamilton, Sylvia Walden, Madeleine Thornton-Sherwood
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Stardust Memories |
United Artists |
Woody Allen (director/screenplay); Woody Allen, Charlotte Rampling, Jessica Harper, Marie-Christine Barrault, Tony Roberts, Daniel Stern, Amy Wright, Helen Hanft, John Rothman, Anne De Salvo, Leonardo Cimino, Sharon Stone, Jack Rollins, Judith Roberts, Candy Loving, Brent Spiner, Judith Crist, Irwin Keyes, Bonnie Hellman, Cynthia Gibb, Annie Korzen, Largo Woodruff, James Otis, Alice Spivak, Armin Shimerman, Laraine Newman, Louise Lasser, Joe Wilder, Hank Jones, Richie Pratt, Arvell Shaw, Earl Shendell, William Zinsser
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Without Warning |
Filmways Pictures / World Amusement Partnership |
Greydon Clark (director); Lyn Freeman, Daniel Grodnik, Ben Nett, Steve Mathis (screenplay); Jack Palance, Martin Landau, Tarah Nutter, Christopher S. Nelson, Cameron Mitchell, Neville Brand, Ralph Meeker, Darby Hinton, David Caruso, Lynn Thell, Sue Ane Langdon, Larry Storch, Kevin Peter Hall
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