Elizabeth Daily | 80's Movie Guide

1988 Releases / 20th Century Fox

Bad Dreams (1988)

March 1, 2017March 7, 2023

Bad Dreams movie synopsis. In the mid-’70s, a cult group called Unity Field commits mass suicide, but a young girl survives. After being in a coma for thirteen years she wakes up in a psyche ward, not remembering the incident.

1985 Releases / Warner Bros. Pictures

Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985)

January 28, 2017April 14, 2023

Pee-wee’s Big Adventure movie storyline. Pee-wee Herman is a puer aeternus with a heavily accessorized bicycle that he treasures and that his neighbor, Francis Buxton, covets. A bike shop employee, Dottie, has a crush on Pee-wee, but he does not reciprocate it. Pee-wee’s bike is stolen while he is shopping at the mall.

1985 Releases / Warner Bros. Pictures

Fandango (1985)

January 25, 2017April 15, 2023

Fandango movie storyline. In 1971 at a fraternity house on the University of Texas campus in Austin, Texas, Gardner Barnes (Kevin Costner) is throwing darts at a picture of himself and his ex-girlfriend (Suzy Amis). He rejoins the graduation party going on downstairs, but not before tearing the picture in half.

1984 Releases / Universal Pictures

Streets of Fire (1984)

January 23, 2017April 18, 2023

Streets of Fire movie storyline. In an unnamed city in a time period that resembles the 1950s (referred to within the film as ‘another time, another place’), Ellen Aim (Diane Lane), lead singer of Ellen Aim and The Attackers, has returned home to give a concert. The Bombers, a biker gang, led by Raven Shaddock (Willem Dafoe), kidnap Ellen.

1983 Releases / Atlantic Releasing Corporation

Valley Girl (1983)

January 17, 2017April 21, 2023

Valley Girl movie storyline. Julie Richman (Foreman) is a Valley girl who seems to have it all: good looks, popularity, and a handsome Valley dude boyfriend, Tommy (Bowen), but she is having second thoughts about her relationship with the arrogant and selfish Tommy.

1982 Releases / Orion Pictures / Warner Bros. Pictures

The Escape Artist (1982)

January 7, 2017April 24, 2023

The Escape Artist movie storyline. Young and self-confident Danny Masters (Griffin O’Neal) is the teen-aged son of the late Harry Masters, the “greatest escape artist except for Houdini”. Danny himself is an accomplished magician and escape artist. He leaves home to join Uncle Burke and Aunt Sibyl in their magic/mentalist act; Sibyl welcomes him but Burke is unenthusiastic.