Licence to Kill (1989)
[7] Timothy Dalton is out for revenge in his second and final outing as James Bond. Continuing the more serious tone set by The Living Daylights, Licence to Kill opens in the Florida Keys with a fatal attack on Bond's…
1941 (1979)
[4] After the enormous success of Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Steven Spielberg was dealt his biggest box office blow to date with 1941. The film, billed as a 'comic spectacular', takes place in Hollywood the day…
48 Hrs. (1982)
[7] Eddie Murphy made his big screen debut opposite Nick Nolte in this action-comedy from director Walter Hill (The Warriors, Streets of Fire). Nolte plays a haggard cop who begrudgingly seeks the help of Murphy's character, a thief serving the…
Used Cars (1980)
[7] Before they struck box office gold with Back to the Future, co-writers Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale offered up this wacky dark comedy about used car salesmen trying to save their run-down lot from a hostile takeover. Kurt Russell…
*batteries not included (1987)
[7] The five tenants of an old building in New York are threatened by a land developer demolishing buildings all around them. Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy star as an elderly couple trying to keep the building's storefront café in…
National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983)
[7] Chevy Chase stars as a husband and father determined to take his family on the vacation of their dreams, cross-country to an amusement park called Walley World. But the trip is fraught with wrong turns, wildlife, hillbilly relatives, and…