Some Kind of Wonderful (1987)

Some Kind of Wonderful (1987)

[7] Eric Stoltz, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Lea Thompson star in this Howard Deutch-directed film from writer/producer/'80's teen titan' John Hughes. Stoltz is a high schooler pining for a popular girl (Thompson), all while his tom-girl best friend pines for…
Flowers in the Attic (1987)

Flowers in the Attic (1987)

[8] This film version of V.C. Andrews' popular novel is considerably toned down, but it's still a wonderfully creepy and sadistic melodrama. A widower takes her four children to live with their grandmother, who views them all as vile sinners.…
Cherry 2000 (1987)

Cherry 2000 (1987)

[7] Cherry 2000 is good corny fun. It takes place in a somewhat post-apocalyptic 2017 (almost there!) where gender dynamics and sex politics have gotten so complicated, that many men prefer to bond with robots rather than flesh-and-blood women. That's…
Can’t Buy Me Love (1987)

Can’t Buy Me Love (1987)

[4] Bless Patrick Dempsey for acting his little heart out in this schmaltzy, cliche-ridden '80s overdose. It's basically a story of boy rents girl. Dempsey's character is a loser who pays a popular girl (Amanda Peterson, also acting her heart…
Masters of the Universe (1987)

Masters of the Universe (1987)

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If you were making a movie based on a famous toy line and you had no choice but to cast Dolph Lundgren in the lead, you probably couldn’t do much better than Gary Goddard did with Masters of the Universe.  The screenplay by David Odell (The Dark Crystal) transplants the action from He-Man’s homeworld to our own planet.  I’m sure this was a cost-cutting measure more than anything else, but seeing these larger-than-life characters as fish out of water is probably one of the reasons this movie ends up cutting the mustard… barely.

The Kindred (1987)

The Kindred (1987)

[4] Somehow, Oscar-winners Rod Steiger (In the Heat of the Night) and Kim Hunter (A Streetcar Named Desire) got swindled into starring in this sub-par creature feature about a scientist (Hunter) who performs Frankenstein-like genetic experiments in her basement. On…
Overboard (1987)

Overboard (1987)

[6] A nasty heiress (Goldie Hawn) falls off her yacht and gets amnesia, only to be discovered by a handyman (Kurt Russell) she once screwed over. To get revenge, he convinces her that she's his wife and the mother of…
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)

[2] The short review: WTF? The longer review: From the first opening frame, you know right away this is a cheap, watered down, bargain basement Superman movie. (Thank you, Golan-Globus Productions!) But even if you can overlook the astonishingly awful…
RoboCop (1987)

RoboCop (1987)

[10] In the not-so-distant future, a Detroit policeman is murdered by a vicious cop-killer, only to be resurrected as the ultimate cyborg law enforcer. But will RoboCop have free will, or will he be slave to the corporation that facilitated…
Raising Arizona (1987)

Raising Arizona (1987)

[10] Holly Hunter and Nicolas Cage star as Ed and Hi, a police woman and a supposedly reformed felon who try to start a family in Joel and Ethan Coen's Raising Arizona. But when they can't conceive a child of…