The most popular movies from the 80's.
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.
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The Boost movie synopsis. Lenny Brown is a real-estate hustler looking to strike it rich. He is married to Linda, a paralegal and amateur dancer. The two are poor in money but rich in love. Linda vows to stick with her husband until she “falls off the earth.” He moves to California and goes to work for a prosperous businessman, Max Sherman, selling lucrative investments in tax shelters.
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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.
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Garbo Talks movie storyline. Estelle is a one-person protest army: she goes to jail over grocery prices, shames construction workers for catcalls to passing women, and won’t cross a picket line for her son’s wedding. She also loves Garbo films: when she learns she has a brain tumor and six months to live, she decides she must meet Garbo.
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Rich and Famous movie storyline. Liz and Merry Noel become friends as college roommates and their friendship endures over the years. Liz becomes a respected “serious” novelist. Merry Noel marries, has a daughter and writes, too: “trash” fiction which becomes enormously successful.
Rich and Famous (1981) Read More
It’s My Turn movie storyline. A successful but stressed mathematics professor (Clayburgh) goes to her father’s wedding and falls in love with her father’s bride’s son (Douglas), a prematurely retired pro baseball player.
It’s My Turn (1980) Read More