Upstart rock ‘n’ roll singer Jerry Lee Lewis (Dennis Quaid) has just cut a record at Sun Studio. Jerry’s cousin, pastor Jimmy Swaggart (Alec Baldwin), tries to steer him away from a depraved life in the music business, but Jerry was born to play the so-called “devil’s music.” With rock ‘n’ roll king Elvis Presley busy with military service, Jerry sees his chance to claim the throne of popular music. But, his unabashed love of his 13-year-old cousin, Myra (Winona Ryder), may ruin his chances.
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Tag Archives: 1980s
The Woman in Red (1984) Gene Wilder, Kelly LeBrock, Charles Grodin, Comedy, Romance
Teddy is a middle-aged man who has a good wife, kids, friends, a fine job and a girlfriend. You could say that he has everything he wants; but he doesn’t. One day he sees a gorgeous woman in a red dress, and gets crazy!!! He must have her…
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Terms Of Endearment / Tendres Passions (1983) James L. Brooks, Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Comedy, Drama
Based off of the novel by Larry McMurtry, the film’s plot focuses on the capricious relationship between a mother and her daughter. Their lives are constantly changing and the daughter fighting about of terminal cancer, every day is filled with drama…
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Down by Law (1986) Jim Jarmusch, Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni, Comedy, Crime, Drama
DJ Zack and pimp Jack end up in prison for being too laid-back to avoid being framed for crimes they didn’t commit. They end up sharing a cell with eccentric Italian optimist Roberto, whose limited command of the English language is both entertaining and infuriating. More useful to them is the fact that Roberto knows an escape route.
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Private School (1983) Noel Black, Phoebe Cates, Betsy Russell, Matthew Modine, Comedy, Romance, Erotic
Christine (Phoebe Cates), a student at an exclusive all-girls private school, is in love with Jim, who attends an academy for boys nearby. Christine’s arch rival Jordan also has her eye on Jim, and she is willing to do whatever she can to steal him away. Jim’s uber-slob buddy Bubba is going with Betsy, Christine’s cynical friend, though he would probably be unfaithful if any other woman were willing to get near him. Bubba and his pals sneak into the girls’ school dressed in drag in hopes of reaching the Promised Land (better known as the women’s shower room), while Christine and Jim run away together for the weekend, though their escapade isn’t as romantic as they had hoped.
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Bad Girls Dormitory (1986) Tim Kincaid, Carey Zuris, Teresa Farley, Natalie O’Connell, Action, Drama, Horror, Erotic
Inmates at a women’s prison run by a corrupt warden and her gang of sadistic guards plan a breakout.
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Moontrap (1989) Robert Dyke, Walter Koenig, Bruce Campbell, Leigh Lombardi, Horror, Sci-Fi
The Space Shuttle returns to earth, but some of the equipment brought back on it begins to behave strangely. Scientists are unsure what is happening, and decide to take all necessary precautions.
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C’è un fantasma nel mio letto (1981) Claudio Giorgi, Lilli Carati, Renzo Montagnani, Vincenzo Crocitti, Comedy, Erotic
A couple (Carati and Cricotti) have to rent a hotel room which is really a haunted house. Well haunted is overstating it. Just old Renzo as a horny ghost who wants to get it on with Carati. Sexual frolics abound, Carati takes baths and has sex and hubby fulfills his role as cuckold.
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Eaten Alive / Mangiati vivi! (1980) Umberto Lenzi, Robert Kerman, Janet Agren, Ivan Rassimov, Adventure, Horror, Erotic
A young woman teams up with an adventurer to find her missing sister in the jungles of New Guinea and they stumble upon a religious cult led by a deranged preacher whom has located his commune in an area inhabited by cannibals.
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True Confessions (1981) Ulu Grosbard, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Charles Durning, Crime, Drama
De Niro (a Catholic Priest) and Duvall (a Homicide Detective) play brothers drawn together after many years apart, in the aftermath of the brutal murder of a young prostitute.
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