U.S. Home Release Date: 2023-05-11
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Spousal Abuse)
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Apted
Cast: Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Levon Helm, Phyllis Boyens, Williams Sanderson, Beverly D’Angelo, Robert Elkins
The characters are well-delineated and the story is sufficiently engaging for the motion picture to stand on its own merits irrespective of a viewer’s affinity for country music.
U.S. Release Date: 1980-10-03
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Fantasy/Romance
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Cast: Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer, Bill Erwin, George Voskovec
A frustrating series of missed opportunities and hokey sci-fi gibberish; the passage of more than forty years hasn’t softened the view.
U.S. Release Date: 1980-05-30
MPAA Rating: "G"
Genre: Animated
Director: Bill Melendez, Phil Roman
Cast: Arrin Skelley, Daniel Anderson, Patricia Patts, Casey Carlson, Bill Melendez
At its best, it captures the flavor of the beloved comic strip gang but things start to drag after a jaunty first half-hour or so.
U.S. Release Date: 1980-02-08
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Comedy
Director: Michael Nankin, David Wechter
Cast: David Naughton, Debi Richter, Alan Solomon, Michael J. Fox, Brad Wilkin, Eddie Deezen, Maggie Roswell, Andy Tennant, Stephen Furst, Kirsten Baker
"Midnight Madness" probably lives in the memories of some as an engagingly dumb slice of ‘80s moviedom and it’s better left there.
U.S. Release Date: 1980-05-21
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Science Fiction/Adventure
Director: Irvin Kershner
Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, Frank Oz (voice), Alec Guinness, David Prowse, James Earl Jones (voice)
"The Empire Strikes Back" is a true classic. It has scope and grandeur. It has heroics and tragedy. It can make us laugh and cry. It can make us get up and cheer. It can shock us to the very core of our beings.
U.S. Release Date: 1985-06-19
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Graphic violence, Sexual Content, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Ruggero Deodato
Cast: Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi, Gabriel Yorke, Perry Pirkanen, Luca Giorgio Barbareschi
There are times when the reputation of a film ...
U.S. Release Date: 1980-09-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Robert Redford
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Timothy Hutton, Judd Hirsch, Elizabeth McGovern, Dinah Manoff
The passage of time often impacts how films are ...
U.S. Release Date: 1980-05-23
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Nudity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers
The Shining is a curious motion picture. On the ...
U.S. Release Date: 1980-05-09
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Sean S. Cunningham
Cast: Adrienne King, Jeannine Taylor, Robbi Morgan, Kevin Bacon, Harry Crosby, Laurie Bartram, Mark Nelson, Peter Brouwer, Betsy Palmer
For those steeped in the lore of what Friday the ...
U.S. Release Date: 1980-08-08
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: MUSICAL
Director: Robert Greenwald
Cast: Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, Michael Beck
How, one might ask, does one begin to defend ...