U.S. Release Date: 1985-08-09
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Comedy
Director: Tim Burton
Cast:
Unevenly paced and narratively scattershot, it offers moments of entertainment but lacks cohesion and consistency.
U.S. Release Date: 1985-12-15
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence, Sexual Content)
Genre: Mystery/Comedy
Director: Jonathan Lynn
Cast: Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Martin Mull, Lesley Ann Warren, Colleen Camp, Lee Ving
Far better to play the game than watch someone else’s vision of it unfold on screen.
U.S. Release Date: 1985-05-31
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Mild Violence)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Michael Ritchie
Cast: Chevy Chase, Joe Don Baker, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Richard Libertini, Tim Matheson, M. Emmet Walsh, George Wendt, Geena Davis
A mystery/comedy that has been robbed by age of its humor, leaving behind a leaden and tedious sampling of what people found funny in the 1980s.
U.S. Release Date: 1985-10-11
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Cartoon Violence, Sexual Content, Mild Profanity)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Savage Steve Holland
Cast: John Cusack, David Ogden Stiers, Kim Darby, Diane Franklin, Amanda Wyss, Aaron Dozier, Curtis Armstrong, Daniel Schneider
This is what ‘80s comedies were and all of them, "Better Off Dead" included, are more valuable today as time capsules than as artistic endeavors.
U.S. Release Date: 1985-03-01
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Rob Reiner
Cast: John Cusack, Daphne Zuniga, Anthony Edwards, Nicollette Sheridan, Viveca Lindfors, Tim Robbins, Lisa Jane Persky
When The Sure Thing was released in 1985, it was ...
U.S. Release Date: 1985-07-26
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Mature Themes)
Genre: DRAMA/THRILLER
Director: Hector Babenco
Cast: William Hurt, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga
Kiss of the Spider Woman is a fascinating ...
U.S. Release Date: 1985-12-18
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Sexual Situations, Mature Themes)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Sydney Pollack
Cast: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen
Watching Out of Africa a quarter of a century ...
U.S. Release Date: 1985-07-03
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: FANTASY/COMEDY
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, Thomas F. Wilson, Claudia Wells
Had Back to the Future come to life as originally ...
U.S. Release Date: 1985-02-08
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA/THRILLER
Director: Peter Weir
Cast: Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Josef Sommer, Lukas Haas, Jan Rubes, Alexander Godunov, Danny Glover, Brent Jennings, Angus MacInnes
Calling Witness a crime thriller is technically ...
U.S. Release Date: 1985-07-24
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Ted Berman and Richard Rich
Cast: (voices) Grant Bardsley, Susan Sheridan, Nigel Hawthorne, John Byner, John Hurt
If nothing else, The Black Cauldron has become the...