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Hey Good Lookin' | Warner Bros. / Bakshi Productions | Ralph Bakshi (director/screenplay); Richard Romanus, David Proval, Jesse Welles, Tina Bowman, Philip M. Thomas, Frank DeKova, Candy Candido, Angelo Grisanti |
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My Favorite Year | MGM/UA Entertainment Co. / Brooksfilms Ltd. | Richard Benjamin (director); Norman Steinberg, Dennis Palumbo (screenplay); Peter O'Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper, Joseph Bologna, Bill Macy, Lainie Kazan, Anne De Salvo, Basil Hoffman, Lou Jacobi, Adolph Green, Tony DiBenedetto, George Wyner, Selma Diamond, Katie McClain, Cameron Mitchell, Lana Clarkson, Gloria Stuart |
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The Draughtsman's Contract | Curzon Artificial Eye / British Film Institute / Channel 4 | Peter Greenaway (director/screenplay); Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman, Dave Hill, Anne-Louise Lambert, Hugh Fraser, Neil Cunningham, David Meyer, Tony Meyer, Nicholas Amer, Suzan Crowley, Lynda La Plante, Michael Feast, David Gant, Alastair Cumming, Steve Ubels |
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Split Image | Orion Pictures / PolyGram Pictures | Ted Kotcheff (director); Robert Mark Kamen, Robert Kaufman (screenplay); Michael O'Keefe, Karen Allen, Peter Fonda, James Woods, Elizabeth Ashley, Brian Dennehy, Ronnie Scribner, Pamela Ludwig, John Dukakis, Lee Montgomery, Michael Sacks, Deborah Rush, Peter Horton, Ken Farmer, Cliff Stephens, Brian Henson, David Wallace, Herbert Kirkpatrick, Irma P. Hall, Bill Engvall, Kenneth Barry, Robert A. Cowan, Chris McCarty, Lee Ritchey, Lynette Walden, Robert Hibbard, Scott Campbell, Melanie Strange, Dave Tanner, Tom Rayhall, Jeanne Evans, Peter Hans Sprague, John Carroll, Haley McLane, Kelly Wimberly |
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Love Child | Warner Bros. / The Ladd Company | Larry Peerce (director); Paul Maslansky (screenplay); Amy Madigan, Beau Bridges, Mackenzie Phillips, Albert Salmi, Joanna Merlin, Margaret Whitton |
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Android | New World Pictures | Aaron Lipstadt (director); James Reigle, Don Keith Opper, Will Reigle (screenplay); Klaus Kinski, Brie Howard, Don Keith Opper, Norbert Weisser, Darrell Larson, Rachel Talalay, Kendra Kirchner, Crofton Hardester, Randy Connor, Gary Corarito, Mary Ann Fisher, Julia Gibson, Roger Kelton, Ian Scheibel, Wayne Springfield, Johanne Todd |
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The Plague Dogs | Embassy Pictures / United Artists / Nepenthe Productions / Goldcrest Films | Martin Rosen (director/screenplay); John Hurt, Christopher Benjamin, James Bolam, Nigel Hawthorne, Warren Mitchell, Bernard Hepton, Brian Stirner, Penelope Lee, Geoffrey Matthews, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, John Bennett, John Franklyn-Robbins, Bill Maynard, Malcolm Terris, Judy Geeson, Philip Locke, Brian Spink, Tony Church, Anthony Valentine, William Lucas, Dandy Nichols, Rosemary Leach, Patrick Stewart, Percy Edwards |
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First Blood | Orion Pictures / Anabasis Investments, N.V. | Ted Kotcheff (director); Michael Kozoll, William Sackheim, Sylvester Stallone (screenplay); Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy, Bill McKinney, Jack Starrett, Michael Talbott, Chris Mulkey, John McLiam, Alf Humphreys, David Caruso, David L. Crowley, Don MacKay, Patrick Stark |
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Halloween III: Season of the Witch | Universal Pictures / Dino De Laurentiis Corporation / Debra Hill Productions | Tommy Lee Wallace (director/screenplay); Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, Dan O'Herlihy, Michael Currie, Ralph Strait, Garn Stephens, Nancy Kyes, Jonathan Terry, Maidie Norman, Paddi Edwards, Joshua John Miller, Dick Warlock, Nick Castle, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jadeen Barbor, Brad Schacter, Al Berry, Wendy Wessberg, Essex Smith, Michelle Walker |
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Jinxed! | United Artists / Herb Jaffe Productions | Don Siegel (director); Frank D. Gilroy (screenplay); Bette Midler, Ken Wahl, Rip Torn, Val Avery, Jack Elam, Benson Fong, Jacqueline Scott, F. William Parker, Ian Wolfe, George Dickerson, Kathryn Kates, Kathleen O'Malley, Woodrow Parfrey, Joan Freeman, Don Siegel, Barry Michlin, Read Morgan, Jim Nolan, Tom Pletts, Archie Lang |
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Monsignor | 20th Century Fox | Frank Perry (director); Abraham Polonsky, Wendell Mayes (screenplay); Christopher Reeve, Geneviève Bujold, Fernando Rey, Jason Miller, Joe Cortese, Adolfo Celi, Tomas Milian, Leonardo Cimino, Robert Prosky, Joe Pantoliano, Milena Vukotic, Joe Spinell, Ettore Mattia, Gregory Snegoff, Pamela Prati, Darin Berry |
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The Sender | Paramount Pictures / Kingsmere Productions Ltd. | Roger Christian (director); Thomas Baum (screenplay); Kathryn Harrold, Željko Ivanek, Shirley Knight, Paul Freeman, Al Matthews, Marsha Hunt, Angus MacInnes, John Stephen Hill, Mary Ellen Ray, Sean Hewitt, Harry Ditson, Olivier Pierre, Jana Shelden, Tracy Harper, Monica Buford |
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It Came from Hollywood | Paramount Pictures | Malcolm Leo, Andrew Solt (directors); Dana Olsen (screenplay); Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Gilda Radner, Archive footage of Bela Lugosi, Mamie Van Doren |
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Class Reunion | 20th Century Fox / ABC Motion Pictures | Michael Miller (director); John Hughes (screenplay); Gerrit Graham, Fred McCarren, Miriam Flynn, Stephen Furst, Shelley Smith, Michael Lerner, Chuck Berry, Misty Rowe, Blackie Dammett, Mews Small, Zane Buzby, Jim Staahl, Jacklyn Zeman, Barry Diamond, Art Evans, Marla Pennington, Randy Powell, Anne Ramsey, John Hughes |
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Q | United Film Distribution Company | Larry Cohen (director/screenplay); Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark, David Carradine, Richard Roundtree, Malachy McCourt, Fred J. Scollay, Ron Cey, Mary Louise Weller, John Capodice, James Dixon, Peter Hock, Tony Page, Shelly Desai, Lee Louis |
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Fast-Walking | Pickman Films / Lorimar Productions | James B. Harris (director/screenplay); Ernest Brawley (screenplay); James Woods, Tim McIntire, Kay Lenz, Robert Hooks, Charles Weldon, M. Emmet Walsh, Susan Tyrrell, John Friedrich, Lance LeGault, Timothy Carey, Sydney Lassick, Helen Page Camp, K Callan |
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The Man from Snowy River | 20th Century Fox | George T. Miller (director); John Dixon (screenplay); Kirk Douglas, Jack Thompson, Tom Burlinson, Sigrid Thornton, Lorraine Bayly, Terence Donovan, Tommy Dysart, Tony Bonner, June Jago, Chris Haywood, Gus Mercurio, Bruce Kerr, David Bradshaw, Kristopher Steele, Howard Eynon |
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Piranha II: The Spawning | Saturn International Pictures / Brouwersgracht Investments / Chako Film Company | James Cameron, Ovidio G. Assonitis (directors); Charles H. Eglee (screenplay); Tricia O'Neil, Lance Henriksen, Steve Marachuk, Ted Richert, Ricky G. Paull, Leslie Graves, Carole Davis, Carolyn De Fonseca, Albert Sanders, Tracy Berg, Phil Colby, Hildy Maganasun, Connie Lynn Hadden, Anne Pollack, Arnie Ross, Lee Krug, Sally Ricca, Phil Mullins, Kidd Brewer Jr., Jan Eisner Mannon, Ancil Gloudon, Paul Drummond, Stevie Cox |
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The Scarlet Pimpernel | CBS / London Films | Clive Donner (director); William Bast (screenplay); Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour, Ian McKellen, James Villiers, Eleanor David, Malcolm Jamieson, Richard Morant, Dominic Jephcott, Christopher Villiers, Denis Lill, Ann Firbank, Tracey Childs, Julian Fellowes, Mark Drewry, John Quarmby, David Gant, Geoffrey Toone, Joanna Dickens, Richard Charles, Gordon Gostelow, Carol MacReady, Daphne Anderson, Nick Brimble, Tony Caunter, Timothy Carlton, Kate Howard |
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Creepshow | Warner Bros. / United Film Distribution Company / Laurel Show, Inc. | George A. Romero (director); Stephen King (screenplay); Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Fritz Weaver, Leslie Nielsen, Carrie Nye, E.G. Marshall, Viveca Lindfors, Joe King, Tom Atkins, Jon Lormer, Ed Harris, John Amplas, Stephen King, Gaylen Ross, Ted Danson, Don Keefer, Robert Harper, David Garrison, David Early, Tom Savini, Iva Jean Saraceni, Elizabeth Regan, Warner Shook, Peter Messer, Nann Mogg, Bingo O'Malley, Chuck Aber, Christine Forrest, Darryl Ferrucci, Ann Muffly, Mark Tierno, Marty Schiff |
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Alone in the Dark | New Line Cinema / Masada Productions | Jack Sholder (director/screenplay); Robert Shaye, Michael Harrpster (screenplay); Jack Palance, Donald Pleasence, Martin Landau, Erland Van Lidth, Dwight Schultz, Brent Jennings, Frederick Coffin, Annie Korzen, Lin Shaye, Deborah Hedwall, Lee Taylor-Allan, Phillip Clark, Elizabeth Ward, Carol Levy, Keith Reddin, Gordon Watkins |
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Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean | Cinecom International Films / Mark Goodson Productions / Viacom Enterprises / Sandcastle 5 | Robert Altman (director); Ed Graczyk (screenplay); Sandy Dennis, Cher, Karen Black, Sudie Bond, Marta Heflin, Kathy Bates, Mark Patton, Caroline Aaron, Ann Risley, Ruth Miller, Gena Ramsel, Dianne Turley Travis |
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Five Days One Summer | Warner Bros. Pictures / The Ladd Company | Fred Zinnemann (director); Michael Austin (screenplay); Sean Connery, Betsy Brantley, Lambert Wilson, Jennifer Hilary, Isabel Dean, Gérard Buhr, Anna Massey, Sheila Reid |
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Jimmy the Kid | New World Pictures / Zephyr Productions | Gary Nelson (director); Sam Bobrick (screenplay); Gary Coleman, Paul Le Mat, Ruth Gordon, Dee Wallace, Cleavon Little, Don Adams, Pat Morita, Fay Hauser, Avery Schreiber, Walter Olkewicz |
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The Slumber Party Massacre | New World Pictures / Santa Fe Productions | Amy Holden Jones (director); Rita Mae Brown (screenplay); Michelle Michaels, Robin Stille, Brinke Stevens, Michael Villella, Debra Deliso, Andree Honore, Gina Mari, Jennifer Meyers, Joseph Alan Johnson, David Millbern, Jim Boyce, Pamela Roylance, Rigg Kennedy, Jean Vargas, Howard Purgason, Anna Patton |
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They Call Me Bruce? | Film Ventures International | Elliott Hong (director); David B. Randolph (screenplay); Johnny Yune, Margaux Hemingway, Bill Capizzi, Raf Mauro, Pam Huntington, Martin Azarow, Tony Brande, René Levant |
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White Dog | Paramount Pictures | Samuel Fuller (director/screenplay); Curtis Hanson (screenplay); Kristy McNichol, Paul Winfield, Burl Ives, Jameson Parker, Parley Baer |
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Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales | Warner Bros. | Friz Freleng (director/screenplay); Chuck Jones, Robert McKimson (directors); Warren Foster, Michael Maltese, Tedd Pierce (screenplay); Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, Arthur Q. Bryan, June Foray, Shepard Menken, Lennie Weinrib, Tom Holland |
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Heidi's Song | Paramount Pictures / Hanna-Barbera Productions | Robert Taylor (director/screenplay); Joseph Barbera, Jameson Brewer (screenplay); Lorne Greene, Sammy Davis Jr., Margery Gray, Michael Bell, Peter Cullen, Roger DeWitt, Richard Erdman, Fritz Feld, Pamelyn Ferdin, Joan Gerber, Virginia Gregg, Janet Waldo, Frank Welker, Michael Winslow |
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The Last Unicorn | Jensen Farley Pictures / Rankin/Bass Productions / ITC Entertainment / Topcraft | Arthur Rankin Jr., Jules Bass (directors); Peter S. Beagle (screenplay); Alan Arkin, Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow, Tammy Grimes, Robert Klein, Angela Lansbury, Christopher Lee, Keenan Wynn, Paul Frees, René Auberjonois, Don Messick, Nellie Bellflower, Brother Theodore, Edward Peck, Kenneth Jennings, Jack Lester |
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Still of the Night | United Artists / MGM/UA Entertainment Co. | Robert Benton (director/screenplay); Roy Scheider, Meryl Streep, Jessica Tandy, Joe Grifasi, Sara Botsford, Josef Sommer, Rikke Borge, Irving Metzman, Larry Joshua, Tom Norton, Richmond Hoxie, Hyon Cho, Danielle Cusson, John Eric Bentley, George A. Tooks |
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The Executioner's Song | NBC / Film Communications Inc. | Lawrence Schiller (director); Norman Mailer (screenplay); Tommy Lee Jones, Christine Lahti, Rosanna Arquette, Eli Wallach, Steven Keats, Jordan Clarke, Richard Venture, Jenny Wright, Walter Olkewicz, Pat Corley, John Dennis Johnston, Rance Howard, Charles Cyphers, Jim Youngs, Grace Zabriskie, Michael LeClair, Mary Ethel Gregory, Norris Mailer, Kenneth O'Brien, Robert DeMotte |
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Frances | Universal Pictures / Associated Film Distribution / EMI Films / Brooksfilms | Graeme Clifford (director); Eric Bergren, Christopher De Vore, Nicholas Kazan (screenplay); Jessica Lange, Kim Stanley, Sam Shepard, Bart Burns, Jonathan Banks, Jeffrey DeMunn, Zelda Rubinstein, Anjelica Huston, Pamela Gordon, Rick May, Kevin Costner |
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48 Hrs. | Paramount Pictures / Lawrence Gordon Productions | Walter Hill (director/screenplay); Roger Spottiswoode, Larry Gross, Steven E. de Souza (screenplay); Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, James Remar, David Patrick Kelly, Sonny Landham, Brion James, Annette O'Toole, Frank McRae, Kerry Sherman, Jonathan Banks, Margot Rose, Denise Crosby, Olivia Brown, Peter Jason, John Dennis Johnston, Clare Nono, James Keane |
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Gandhi | Columbia Pictures / Goldcrest Films / International Film Investors / National Film Development Corporation of India / Indo-British Films | Richard Attenborough (director); John Briley (screenplay); Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Martin Sheen, Rohini Hattangadi, Roshan Seth, Pradeep Kumar, Saeed Jaffrey, Virendra Razdan, Habib Tanvir, Shane Rimmer, Ian Charleson, Athol Fugard, Geraldine James, Alyque Padamsee, Amrish Puri, Ian Bannen, Richard Griffiths, Nigel Hawthorne, Richard Vernon, Michael Hordern, Shreeram Lagoo, Terrence Hardiman, Om Puri, Dalip Tahil, Bernard Hill, Daniel Day-Lewis, John Ratzenberger, Pankaj Mohan, Pankaj Kapur, Anang Desai, Supriya Pathak, Neena Gupta, Tom Alter, Alok Nath, Mohan Agashe, Sekhar Chatterjee, Harsh Nayyar, Dilsher Singh, Gunther Maria Halmer, Peter Harlowe |
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The Verdict | 20th Century Fox | Sidney Lumet (director); David Mamet (screenplay); Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden, James Mason, Milo O'Shea, Lindsay Crouse, Edward Binns, Julie Bovasso, Roxanne Hart, James Handy, Wesley Addy, Joe Seneca, Lewis J. Stadlen, Kent Broadhurst, Colin Stinton, Tobin Bell, Bruce Willis |
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Airplane II: The Sequel | Paramount Pictures | Ken Finkleman (director/screenplay); Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Chad Everett, Peter Graves, Rip Torn, John Dehner, Chuck Connors, Richard Jaeckel, Stephen Stucker, Kent McCord, James A. Watson Jr., Wendy Phillips, Laurene Landon, Sonny Bono, William Shatner, Raymond Burr, John Vernon, James Noble, Jack Jones, John Larch, Lee Bryant, John Hancock, Oliver Robins, Louis Giambalvo, David Paymer, Rick Overton, Sam Anderson, Leon Askin, Art Fleming, Frank Ashmore, Pat Sajak, Louise Sorel, Sandahl Bergman, Burke Byrnes, Michael Currie, Bruce French, Richard Gilliland, Hugh Gillin, David Leisure, Gail Matthius, Lee Patterson, Hervé Villechaize, Lee Purcell, Earl Boen, Joyce DeWitt, Cindy Fisher, Monique Gabrielle, Kitten Natividad, John Paragon, George Wendt |
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Mighty Mouse in the Great Space Chase | Children's Video Library / Filmation Associates / Miracle / CBS Television Distribution / Viacom Productions | Ed Friedman, Lou Kachivas, Marsh Lamore, Gwen Wetzler, Kay Wright, Lou Zukor (directors); Lou Scheimer, Alan Oppenheimer, Diane Pershing |
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Sophie's Choice | Universal Pictures / Associated Film Distribution / ITC Entertainment / Keith Barish Productions | Alan J. Pakula (director/screenplay); Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin, Stephen D. Newman, Josh Mostel, Robin Bartlett, Eugene Lipinski, John Rothman, Katharina Thalbach, David Wohl, Nina Polan, Vida Jerman, Josef Sommer, Karlheinz Hackl, Marcell Rosenblatt, Moishe Rosenfeld, Neddim Prohic, Jennifer Lawn, Adrian Kalitka, Joseph Leon, Günther Maria Halmer |
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The Toy | Columbia Pictures / Rastar | Richard Donner (director); Carol Sobieski, Francis Veber (screenplay); Richard Pryor, Jackie Gleason, Scott Schwartz, Ned Beatty, Teresa Ganzel, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Annazette Chase, Tony King, Virginia Capers |
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Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann | Jensen Farley Pictures / Zoomo Production | William Dear (director/screenplay); Michael Nesmith (screenplay); Fred Ward, Peter Coyote, Belinda Bauer, Ed Lauter, Tracey Walter, L.Q. Jones, Richard Masur, Chris Mulkey, Macon McCalman, Michael Nesmith |
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Honkytonk Man | Warner Bros. / The Malpaso Company | Clint Eastwood (director); Clancy Carlile (screenplay); Clint Eastwood, Kyle Eastwood, John McIntire, Alexa Kenin, Verna Bloom, Matt Clark, Barry Corbin, Jerry Hardin, Tim Thomerson, Macon McCalman, Joe Regalbuto, Gary Grubbs, Marty Robbins, Tracey Walter |
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The Grey Fox | United Artists Classics / Zoetrope Studios | Phillip Borsos (director); John Hunter (screenplay); Richard Farnsworth, Jackie Burroughs, Wayne Robson, Ken Pogue, Timothy Webber, Gary Reineke, Sean Sullivan |
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The Year of Living Dangerously | MGM/UA Entertainment Company / Freddie Fields Productions / McElroy and McElroy | Peter Weir (director/screenplay); David Williamson, C.J. Koch (screenplay); Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Bill Kerr, Michael Murphy, Linda Hunt, Noel Ferrier, Bembol Roco, Paul Sonkkila, Kuh Ledesma, Ali Nur, Dominador Robridillo, Joel Agona, Mike Emperio, Bernardo Nacilla, Domingo Landicho, Hermino De Guzman |
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Best Friends | Warner Bros. / Timberlane Productions | Norman Jewison (director); Valerie Curtin, Barry Levinson (screenplay); Burt Reynolds, Goldie Hawn, Ron Silver, Jessica Tandy, Barnard Hughes, Audra Lindley, Keenan Wynn, Carol Locatell, Noah Hathaway, Richard Libertini, Valerie Curtin |
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The Dark Crystal | Universal Pictures / Associated Film Distribution / Henson Associates / ITC Entertainment | Jim Henson, Frank Oz (directors); David Odell (screenplay); Stephen Garlick, Lisa Maxwell, Billie Whitelaw, Percy Edwards, Barry Dennen, Michael Kilgarriff, Jerry Nelson, Steve Whitmire, Thick Nelson, Brian Muehl, John Baddeley, David Buck, Charles Collingwood, Sean Barrett, Toby Philpott, Joseph O'Conor, David Greenaway, Jean Pierre Amiel, Hugh Spight, Robbie Barnett, Swee Lim, Simon Williamson, Hus Levant, Miki Iveria, Patrick Monckton, Sue Weatherby |
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Harry Tracy, Desperado | Astral Films | William A. Graham (director); David Lee Henry, R. Lance Hill (screenplay); Bruce Dern, Gordon Lightfoot, Helen Shaver, Michael C. Gwynne |
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Six Weeks | Universal Pictures / PolyGram Filmed Entertainment | Tony Bill (director); David Seltzer (screenplay); Dudley Moore, Mary Tyler Moore, Katherine Healy, Shannon Wilcox |
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Tootsie | Columbia Pictures / Mirage Enterprises | Sydney Pollack (director); Larry Gelbart, Murray Schisgal (screenplay); Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Doris Belack, Bill Murray, Sydney Pollack, George Gaynes, Geena Davis, Lynne Thigpen, Ellen Foley, Christine Ebersole, Anne Shropshire, Amy Lawrence, Susan Egbert |
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Trail of the Pink Panther | United Artists / MGM/UA Entertainment Company / Blake Edwards Entertainment | Blake Edwards (director/screenplay); Frank Waldman, Tom Waldman, Geoffrey Edwards (screenplay); Peter Sellers (died 1980), David Niven, Herbert Lom, Richard Mulligan, Joanna Lumley, Capucine, Robert Loggia, Harvey Korman, Burt Kwouk, André Maranne, Graham Stark, Ronald Fraser, Colin Blakely, Peter Arne, Harold Kasket, Daniel Peacock, Denise Crosby, Leonard Rossiter, Dudley Sutton, Marne Maitland, Liz Smith, Harold Berens, Claire Davenport, Robert Wagner, Claudia Cardinale, Colin Gordon, Lucca Mezzofanti |
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Kiss Me Goodbye | 20th Century Fox | Robert Mulligan (director); Charlie Peters (screenplay); Sally Field, James Caan, Jeff Bridges, Paul Dooley, Claire Trevor, Stephen Elliott, Michael Ensign, Mildred Natwick, William Prince, Maryedith Burrell, Dorothy Fielding, Alan Haufrect |
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