River Phoenix | 80's Movie Guide

1993 Releases / Paramount Pictures

The Thing Called Love (1993)

May 4, 2020February 23, 2023

The Thing Called Love movie synopsis. Young Miranda Presley, an aspiring Country-singer/writer, comes to Nashville, Tennessee, to enter the weekly singer contest held at “The Bluebird Cafe”.

1989 Releases / Paramount Pictures

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

March 27, 2017February 26, 2023

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade movie synopsis. In 1912, thirteen-year-old Indiana Jones is horseback riding with his Boy Scout troop at Arches National Park in Utah. While scouting caves, Indy discovers a group of grave robbers who have found a golden crucifix belonging to Coronado and steals it from them, hoping to donate it to a museum.

1988 Releases / Warner Bros. Pictures

Running on Empty (1988)

March 6, 2017March 2, 2023

Running on Empty revolves around parents Annie and Arthur Pope (Lahti and Hirsch) who in the 1970s were responsible for the anti-war protest bombing of a napalm laboratory. The incident accidentally blinded and paralyzed a janitor who wasn’t supposed to be there.

1986 Releases / Columbia Pictures

Stand by Me (1986)

February 6, 2017March 19, 2023

Stand by Me movie storyline. Author Gordie Lachance writes about a childhood incident when he and three buddies undertook a journey to find the body of a missing boy near the town of Castle Rock, Oregon, over Labor Day weekend in 1959.

1986 Releases / Warner Bros. Pictures

The Mosquito Coast (1986)

February 4, 2017March 29, 2023

The Mosquito Coast movie storyline. In narration, Charlie Fox explains that his father, Allie Fox, is a brilliant inventor with “nine patents, six pending.” Allie has grown fed up with the American Dream and consumerism, believing that Americans “buy junk, sell junk, and eat junk.” Furthermore, he fantasizes that there is a nuclear war on the horizon as a result of American greed and crime.

1985 Releases / Paramount Pictures

Explorers (1985)

January 25, 2017April 15, 2023

Explorers movie storyline. Ben Crandall, an alien-obsessed kid, dreams one night of a circuit board. Drawing out the circuit, he and his friends Wolfgang and Darren set it up, and discover they have been given the basis for a starship. Setting off in the ThunderRoad, as they name their ship, they find the aliens Ben hopes they would find… but are they what they seem?