Rhinestone (1984)

Rhinestone (1984)

[3] In the Valley of Misfit Movies, there's a monument to Rhinestone, an infamous box office flop that paired Sylvester Stallone and Dolly Parton in a country-western comedy. Stallone plays a rough-and-tumble New York cab driver and Parton plays a singer trying…
Top Secret! (1984)

Top Secret! (1984)

[9] With double-entendres out the wazoo and sight gags out the yin-yang, not to mention a shiny young Val Kilmer dancing and singing his heart out, Top Secret! wins me over. Kilmer plays an Elvis Presley-like crooner set to perform in World…
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)

[7] Jason Voorhees escapes the morgue and returns to Crystal Lake where he preys on a fresh batch of victims in the fourth Friday the 13th movie. Among the fresh meat this time around are Crispin Glover (Back to the Future) and…
The Natural (1984)

The Natural (1984)

[8] Robert Redford stars as Roy Hobbs in this 1930s baseball fantasy about a middle-aged rookie who leads a down-and-out team to the top of the league with his seemingly supernatural batting skills. But when a duplicitous woman (Kim Basinger) takes his…
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

[8] A high school girl (Heather Langenkamp) and her friends are hunted in their dreams by Fred Kruger (Robert Englund), a local criminal who died many years earlier. But unlike normal nightmares, if the kids die in their dreams, they also die…
Starman (1984)

Starman (1984)

[7] Director John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing) takes a break from the horror genre for this sensitive sci-fi romance starring Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen. Bridges plays an alien who takes the form of Allen's deceased husband. After the initial shock of…
The Karate Kid (1984)

The Karate Kid (1984)

[8] Teenaged Daniel (Ralph Macchio) moves with his single mother from New Jersey to Los Angeles, where he's immediately targeted by a gang of school bullies who practice karate together. After a few beatings, Macchio is taken under the wing of Mr.…
The Neverending Story (1984)

The Neverending Story (1984)

[8] Fresh off the World War II submarine thriller Das Boot, German director Wolfgang Petersen turns his attention to a family-oriented fantasy film based on Michael Ende's book The Neverending Story. While this adaptation loosely covers only the first half of Ende's…
Another Country (1984)

Another Country (1984)

[7] Rupert Everett and Colin Firth star in this coming-of-age period drama set in an elite 1930s English boys' school, where militaristic tradition and hierarchy seems far more important than education. There is a sense of brotherhood among the students, even though…
Night of the Comet (1984)

Night of the Comet (1984)

[4] After a comet wipes out most of Earth's population, a valley girl and her sister roam the empty streets of Los Angeles fighting zombies and entangling with a shady group of scientists who want to harvest their blood. Night of the…