Showing posts with label 1986. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1986. Show all posts

Thursday, July 11, 2013

The Money Pit

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(1986) on IMDb

(1986)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Richard Benjamin
Writer: David Giler
Producers: David Giler, Kathleen Kennedy, Art Levinson, Frank Marshall, Steven Spielberg

Synopsis: Walter Fielding and Anna Crowley have to start looking for a new house - but there's not much they can afford! This soon changes when they meet a lonely old woman who sells them a beautiful mansion at a ridiculously low price. Only there's a catch. The second they move into the house it begins to fall apart. -- (Written by IMDb Editors)

Cast:
  • Tom Hanks
  • Shelley Long

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Down and Out in Beverly Hills

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(1986)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Paul Mazursky
Writers: René Fauchois, Paul Mazursky, Leon Capetanos
Producers: Pato Guzman, Paul Mazursky, Geoffrey Taylor

Synopsis: Philandering businessman Dave Whiteman (Richard Dreyfuss) rescues scraggly tramp Jerry Baskin (Nick Nolte) from drowning himself in Dave's swimming pool. Much against his will, Jerry is invited to enjoy the hospitality of Dave, his social-climbing wife, Barbara (Bette Midler), and their sexually ambivalent son, Max (Evan Richards). -- (Written by IMDb Editors)

Cast:
  • Nick Nolte
  • Richard Dreyfuss
  • Bette Midler

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Armed and Dangerous

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(1986)
Genre: Comedy/Action
Director: Mark L. Lester
Writers: Brian Grazer, Harold Ramis, James Keach, Peter Torokvei
Producers: Jerry A. Baerwitz, Brian Grazer, James Keach, Christopher Mankiewicz, Harold Ramis

Synopsis: In Armed and Dangerous, John Candy plays a cop who has been kicked off the force on a trumped up charge. Eugene Levy costars as a disbarred lawyer. The two outcasts take low-paying jobs as security officers at a company controlled by mob boss Robert Loggia. In their own stumblebum fashion, Candy and Levy uncover a smuggling operation masterminded by Loggia. Meg Ryan also shows up in an early leading role. -- (Written by IMDb Editors)

Cast:
  • John Candy
  • Eugene Levy
  • Meg Ryan
  • Robert Loggia


Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Crimes of the Heart

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(1986)
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Director: Bruce Beresford
Writer: Beth Henley
Producers: Freddie Fields, P.K. Fields, Bill Gerber, Arlene Rothberg, Burt Sugarman

Synopsis: Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when the youngest of them, Babe, has just shot her husband. The oldest sister, Lenny, takes care of their grandfather and is turning into an old maid, while Meg, who tries to make it in Hollywood as a singer/actress, has had a wild life filled with many men. Their reunion causes much joy, but also many tensions. (Written by Leon Wolters)

Cast:
  • Diane Keaton
  • Jessica Lange
  • Sissy Spacek
**The trailer for this film could not be found online.

Ruthless People

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(1986)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
Writer: Dale Launer, O. Henry
Producers: Joanna Lancaster, Michael Peyser, Richard Wagner, Walter Yetnikoff

Synopsis: A couple, cheated by a vile businessman, kidnap his wife in retaliation, without knowing that their enemy is delighted they did. (Written by IMDb Editors)

Cast:
  • Bette Midler
  • Danny DeVito
  • Judge Reinhold
  • Helen Slater
  • Anita Morris
  • Bill Pullman

Friday, February 18, 2011

Wildcats

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(1986)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Michael Ritchie
Writer: Ezra Sacks

Synopsis: Molly is a high school track coach who knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet. When the football coach's position becomes vacant, she applies for the job, despite expecting sniggers from fellow staff members and her former husband. (Written by Murray Chapman)

Cast:
  • Goldie Hawn
  • Woody Harrelson
  • Wesley Snipes