Brian Dennehy | 80's Movie Guide

1988 Releases / Cinecom Pictures

Miles from Home (1988)

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Miles from Home movie synopsis. The Roberts family farm in Iowa is a prosperous one. Frank Roberts, Sr. and his two young sons are even visited there by Nikita Khrushchev during the Soviet Union premier’s tour of America’s Midwest. Many years later, the boys are grown but their dad’s pride and joy has fallen into disrepair and debt.

1987 Releases / Orion Pictures

Best Seller (1987)

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Best Seller opens in 1972 as a group of gunmen wearing Richard Nixon Halloween masks steal evidence from a police evidence storage unit, killing several officers in the process. Officer Dennis Meechum (Brian Dennehy) is seriously wounded after stabbing one of the robbers.

1986 Releases / Universal Pictures

Legal Eagles (1986)

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Legal Eagles movie storyline. District Attorney Tom Logan is set for higher office, at least until he becomes involved with defence lawyer Laura Kelly and her unpredictable client Chelsea Deardon. It seems the least of Chelsea’s crimes is the theft of a very valuable painting.

1986 Releases / Orion Pictures

F/X – Murder by Illusion (1986)

February 2, 2017April 2, 2023

F/X – Murder by Illusion movie storyline. Roland “Rollie” Tyler is hired by the Justice Department to stage the murder of mob informant Nicholas DeFranco. DeFranco is set to testify against his former Mafia bosses and go into witness protection, but the Justice Department is afraid he will be killed before the trial.

1985 Releases / Columbia Pictures

Silverado (1985)

January 29, 2017April 13, 2023

Silverado movie storyline. Emmett (Scott Glenn) is ambushed by three men while he sleeps in an isolated shack. In a brief gunfight, he kills all of the assailants. As he sets out for the town of Silverado, Emmett finds a man, Paden (Kevin Kline), lying in the desert, having been robbed and left to die.

1985 Releases / 20th Century Fox

Cocoon (1985)

January 25, 2017April 17, 2023

Cocoon movie storyline. A group of aliens return to earth to retrieve cocoons containing the people they’d left behind from an earlier trip. These cocoons had been resting at the bottom of the ocean. Once retrieved, they stored these recovered cocoons in the swimming pool of a house they’d rented in a small Florida town.