U.S. Release Date: 1984-11-21
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Cast: Faye Dunaway, Peter O’Toole, Brenda Vacarro, Peter Cook, Hart Bochner, Marc McClure, Mia Farrow, Helen Slater, Simon Ward
The across-the-board awfulness of "Supergirl" disabused those who optimistically believed the Salkinds’ stewardship of the Superman series couldn’t slip lower.
U.S. Home Release Date: 2024-01-30
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Stanley Donen
Cast: Michael Caine, Joseph Bologna, Michelle Johnson, Demi Moore, Valerie Harper
Viewed in 1984, "Blame it on Rio" was a bad movie. Viewed forty years later, the badness is overlaid by a strong creepiness factor.
U.S. Release Date: 1984-07-20
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Cast: Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Thomas Hill, Tami Stronach, Alan Oppenheimer
The passage of time hasn’t been kind to the attempts at worldbuilding through image-oriented spectacle.
U.S. Release Date: 1984-05-23
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan, Amrish Puri
The explosive (and not entirely unexpected) ...
U.S. Release Date: 1984-05-04
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Occasional Profanity, Sexual Situations, Brief Female Toplessness, Brief Female Side Nudity)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: John Hughes
Cast: Molly Ringwald, Michael Schoeffling, Anthony Michael Hall, Haviland Morris, Gedde Wantanabe, Paul Dooley, Blanche Baker
With a film like Sixteen Candles, I find myself ...
U.S. Home Release Date: 2024-02-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Nudity)
Genre: Documentary/Horror
Director: Andrew J. Keuhn
Cast: Nancy Allen, Donald Pleasence
In the 21st century, this is a throw-away but what it offered at the time of its release was substantial.
U.S. Release Date: 1984-06-01
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION
Director: Leonard Nimoy
Cast: William Shatner, Dame Judith Anderson, John Laroquette, Mark Lenard, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, James Doohan, Robin Curtis, Merritt Butrick, Christopher Lloyd, DeForest Kelley, Leonard Nimoy
With a title like The Search for Spock, did anyone...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Mature Themes)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION
Director: Peter Hyams
Cast: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, Keir Dullea, Douglas Rain, Madolyn Smith-Osborne, James McEachin, Elya Baskin
The 16-year wait between the 1968 opening of 2001...
U.S. Release Date: 1987-11-25
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Animated/Fantasy
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Cast: Sumi Shimamoto, Goro Naya, Asbel, Yoshiko Sakakibara, Iemasa Kayumi, Ichiro Nagai, Hisako Kyoda
Although the narrative at times becomes jumbled, many of the individual scenes stand out as outstanding action/adventure pieces with innovative visuals and a breakneck pace.
U.S. Release Date: 1984-03-02
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Drugs)
Genre: Comedy/Science Fiction
Director: Alex Cox
Cast: Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton, Tracey Walter, Olivia Barash, Sy Richardson, Jennifer Balgobin, Dick Rude
It’s short enough that it never overstays its welcome and is generally a fun, wild ride, even though it may at times be difficult to figure out where the journey began and where it ends.