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The Best Movies of 1987
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Movie: Withnail & I ( 1987 )
In 1969, two substance-abusing, unemployed actors retreat to the countryside for a holiday that proves disastrous.
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Movie: Wings of Desire ( 1987 )
An angel tires of overseeing human activity and wishes to become human when he falls in love with a mortal.
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Movie: Who's That Girl ( 1987 )
The life of an uptight tax lawyer turns chaotic when he is asked to escort a young woman newly released from prison, who persuades him to help prove her innocence.
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Movie: White Water Summer ( 1987 )
An experienced guide (Vic) accompanies a city boy (Alan) and his three friends on their first wilderness experience. Hoping to teach the four boys lessons not only about the wilderness, but about themselves, Vic pushes them to the limit. Soon after alienating the boys, Vic finds himself in desperate need of help and must rely on his students in order to survive.
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Movie: White of the Eye ( 1987 )
In a wealthy and isolated desert community, a sound expert is targeted as the prime suspect of a series of brutal murders of local suburban housewives who were attacked and mutilated in their homes. As he desperately tries to prove his innocence, his young wife starts to uncover mysteries of her own...
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Movie: Wall Street ( 1987 )
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.
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Movie: Walk Like a Man ( 1987 )
As a baby, Bobo gets separated from his family during a camping trip. After being raised by wild dogs for twenty years, Bobo is discovered by animal researcher Penny, who brings him back to his family and attempts to teach Bobo how to readjust to life with humans. While his mother is overjoyed to see him again, Bobo's older brother Henry is more worried about losing his share of the inheritance. As Bobo progresses with Penny's lessons, Henry plots to have him eliminated.
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Movie: Tough Guys Don't Dance ( 1987 )
Writer, ex-con and 40-something bottle-baby Tim Madden, who is prone to black-outs, awakens from a two-week bender to discover a pool of blood in his car.
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Movie: Tin Men ( 1987 )
A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man versus man in 1963 Baltimore.
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Movie: Throw Momma from the Train ( 1987 )
A bitter ex-husband wants his former spouse dead. A put-upon momma's boy wants his mother dead. Who will pull it off?
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Movie: Three O'Clock High ( 1987 )
A nerd gets himself in hot water with the new bully, a quiet bad boy who challenges him to fight on the grounds of their high school after the day's end.
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Movie: The Witches of Eastwick ( 1987 )
Three single women in a picturesque village have their wishes granted, at a cost, when a mysterious and flamboyant man arrives in their lives.
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Movie: The Whales of August ( 1987 )
Two aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine.
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Movie: The Untouchables ( 1987 )
During the era of Prohibition in the United States, Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone, and because of rampant corruption, assembles a small, hand-picked team to help him.
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Movie: The Stepfather ( 1987 )
A family-values man named Jerry Blake (Terry O'Quinn) marries widows and divorcées with children in search of the perfect family. As soon as his new family members show signs of being human and not robots who will march unquestioningly to his tune, his dreams of domestic bliss begin to crumble, and he kills them. Then he alters his appearance, assumes a new identity, and skips to another town to begin the deadly ritual all over again. He marries Susan Maine (Shelley Hack), who sees him as the ideal surrogate father for her teenage daughter Stephanie (Jill Schoelen), and he is soon up to his old tricks when she proves to be too much of a troublesome teen to handle.
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Movie: The Squeeze ( 1987 )
His ex-wife asks the unsuccessful gambler and inventor Harrison for a small favor: to get her a parcel from a friend's apartment - without telling him what's in it. Suddenly he finds himself assaulted by villains and shortly after even under suspect of murder. The inexperienced P.I. Rachel is hired by an unknown party to rid him of the parcel - but soon befriends him. Together they try to figure out what kind of game is being played.
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Movie: The Sicilian ( 1987 )
Egocentric bandit Salvatore Giuliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence.
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Movie: The Secret Garden ( 1987 )
When a spoiled English girl living in nineteenth century India loses both parents in a cholera epidemic, she is sent back to England to live in a country mansion. The Lord is a strange old man, frail and deformed, immensely kind, but so melancholy. She wishes to discover what has caused him so much sorrow and to bring joy back to the household. It all must have something to do with the screams and wails which echo through the house at night and no one wants to talk about.
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Movie: The Running Man ( 1987 )
A wrongly convicted man must try to survive a public execution gauntlet staged as a game show.
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Movie: The Quick and the Dead ( 1987 )
A mysterious stranger rides into a homesteading family's life when they are attacked by a ruthless gang.
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Movie: The Principal ( 1987 )
A teacher is assigned to be the principal of a violent and crime-ridden high school.
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Movie: The Princess Bride ( 1987 )
A bedridden boy's grandfather reads him the story of a farmboy-turned-pirate who encounters numerous obstacles, enemies and allies in his quest to be reunited with his true love.
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Movie: The Pick-up Artist ( 1987 )
A womanizer meets his match when he falls for a woman in debt to the mafia.
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Movie: The Monster Squad ( 1987 )
A young group of monster fanatics attempt to save their hometown from Count Dracula and his monsters.
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Movie: The Lost Boys ( 1987 )
After moving to a new town, two brothers discover that the area is a haven for vampires.
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Movie: The Living Daylights ( 1987 )
James Bond 007's mission is to firstly, organise the defection of a top Soviet general. When the general is re-captured, Bond heads off to find why an ally of General Koskov was sent to murder him. Bond's mission continues to take him to Afghanistan, where he must confront an arms dealer known as Brad Whitaker. Everything eventually reveals its self to Bond.
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Movie: The Last Emperor ( 1987 )
The story of the final Emperor of China.
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Movie: The Kindred ( 1987 )
Amanda's deathbed request to her son, John, was for him to destroy all the lab notes etc. from her last experiment. She also blurts out he had a brother. At the funeral John meets Melissa, who claims to be his mothers biggest fan. Together with some of John's friends they go to Amanda's house, but none are prepared for what they find there.
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Movie: The Hidden ( 1987 )
Law abiding people suddenly become violent criminals. A cop and an FBI agent race for answers in this sci-fi thriller.
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Movie: The Gate ( 1987 )
Two young boys accidentally release a horde of nasty, pint-sized demons from a hole in a suburban backyard. What follows is a classic battle between good and evil as the two kids struggle to overcome a nightmarish hell that literally begins to take over the Earth.
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Movie: The Garbage Pail Kids Movie ( 1987 )
Dodger must confront the struggles of life as he is visited by the Garbage Pail Kids and intimidated by some older bullies.
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Movie: The Fourth Protocol ( 1987 )
John Preston is a British Agent with the task of preventing the Russians detonating a nuclear explosion next to an American base in the UK. The Russians are hoping this will shatter the "special relationship" between the two countries.
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Movie: The Curse ( 1988 )
When a meteorite lands near his family farm during a storm in Tennessee, the son of a struggling farmer believes it's connected to strange plague-like events afflicting the crops, the farm animals and even the family themeselves.
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Movie: The Chipmunk Adventure ( 1987 )
The Chipmunks compete with the Chipettes in a round the world race.
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Movie: The Brave Little Toaster ( 1987 )
A group of dated appliances that find themselves stranded in a summer home that their family had just sold, decide to, á la "The Incredible Journey", seek their young 8 year old "master". Children's film which on the surface is a frivolous fantasy, but with a dark subtext of abandonment, obsolescence, and loneliness.
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Movie: The Big Town ( 1987 )
J.C. Cullen arrives in Chicago in 1957 from a small town. With a talent for winning at craps, he tries to embark as a professional gambler. He breaks the bank at a private craps game at the Gem Club, owned by the dangerous and brutal George Cole, and falls for two women, one of whom is Cole's wife. He ignores advice to steer clear of both Coles. Infuriated, Cole wagers everything on the craps table, including the Gem Club itself, and he and Cullen have it out.
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Movie: The BFG ( 1987 )
A young orphan girl, Sophie, gets taken away to a faraway land populated by Giants and Dreams.
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Movie: The Believers ( 1987 )
A New York psychiatrist finds that a brujería-inspired cult, which believes in child sacrifice, has a keen interest in his own son.
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Movie: The Bedroom Window ( 1987 )
Terry is having an affair with his boss' wife Sylvia. One night after an office party they are together and Sylvia witnesses an attack on Denise from Terry's bedroom window. She doesn't want to expose their relationship and so is reluctant about talking to the police. Terry, wanting to help, gives the police the description of the attacker. He soon becomes the main suspect in the case. He then sets to find the real rapist/killer with some help from victim Denise.
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Movie: Teen Wolf Too ( 1987 )
Todd Howard is a struggling teenager. Nothing seems to be going very well for him, until he turns into a wolf.
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Movie: Suspect ( 1987 )
A legal team defending a homeless, mute man of murder, find a web of corruption that may have dangerous implications.
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Movie: Surf Nazis Must Die ( 1987 )
When the son of a gun-wielding woman is murdered by neo-Nazi surf punks in the post-apocalyptic future, his Mama hunts them down for some bloodthirsty revenge.
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Movie: Superman IV: The Quest for Peace ( 1987 )
The Man of Steel crusades for nuclear disarmament and meets Lex Luthor's latest creation, Nuclear Man.
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Movie: Summer School ( 1987 )
Freddy the gym teacher has to teach remedial English in summer (high) school, if he wants tenure. As he can only teach gym and his students want fun, emphasis is on "field trips" - until he's fired unless all his students pass the test.
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Movie: Summer Camp Nightmare ( 1987 )
A group of campers revolt against their strict camp director and take over the camp for themselves.
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Movie: Street Trash ( 1987 )
A liquor store owner sells alcoholic beverages to homeless people, unaware of what the bottles actually contain: toxic brew.
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Movie: Street Smart ( 1987 )
A New York journalist lies when his fake story about a pimp describes a real pimp up for murder.
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Movie: Stakeout ( 1987 )
Two detectives observe an escaped convict's ex-girlfriend, but complications set in when one of them falls for her.
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Movie: Spaceballs ( 1987 )
A star-pilot for hire and his trusty sidekick must come to the rescue of a princess and save Planet Druidia from the clutches of the evil Spaceballs.
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Movie: Someone to Watch Over Me ( 1987 )
A married New York cop falls for the socialite murder witness he's been assigned to protect.
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Movie: Some Kind of Wonderful ( 1987 )
When Keith goes out with Amanda, the girl of his dreams, Amanda's ex-boyfriend plans to get back at Keith. Meanwhile, Keith's best friend, tomboy Watts, realizes she has feelings for Keith.
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Movie: Slumber Party Massacre II ( 1987 )
Courtney Bates, the younger sister of Valerie, and her friends go to their condo for a weekend getaway, but Courtney can't get rid of the haunting feeling that a supernatural rockabilly driller killer is coming to murder them all.
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Movie: Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 ( 1987 )
The now-adult Ricky talks to a psychiatrist about how he became a murderer after his brother, Billy, died, which leads back to Mother Superior.
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Movie: Roxanne ( 1987 )
The large-nosed C.D. Bales is in love with the beautiful Roxanne; she falls for his personality but another man's looks.
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Movie: R.O.T.O.R. ( 1988 )
Robotic Officer Tactical Operation Research. A prototype robot intended for crime combat escapes from the development lab and goes on a killing rampage.
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Movie: RoboCop ( 1987 )
In a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories.
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Movie: Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise ( 1987 )
The rising college nerds set out to a convention in Florida, but are not welcomed by the Alpha Beta representatives.
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Movie: Return to Horror High ( 1987 )
A few years ago, a mysterious serial-killer caused panic on Crippen High School. The killer was never caught. A movie company, Cosmic Pictures, has decided to make a feature movie about these events - on location, at the now abandoned school. Since members of cast and crew disappear without a trace, it seems as if history is repeating itself...
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Movie: Raising Arizona ( 1987 )
Recidivist hold-up man H.I. McDonnough and police woman Edwina marry, only to discover they are unable to conceive a child. Desperate for a baby, the pair decide to kidnap one of the quintuplets of furniture tycoon Nathan Arizona. The McDonnoughs try to keep their crime secret, while friends, co-workers and a feral bounty hunter look to use Nathan Jr. for their own purposes.
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Movie: Radio Days ( 1987 )
A nostalgic look at radio's golden age focusing on one ordinary family and the various performers in the medium.
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Movie: Project X ( 1987 )
An Air Force pilot joins a top secret military experiment involving chimps, but begins to suspect there might be something more to the mysterious "Project X".
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Movie: Prison ( 1987 )
The spirit of a long-dead prisoner returns for revenge, haunting the prison's new governor.
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Movie: Prince of Darkness ( 1987 )
A group of graduate students and scientists uncover an ancient canister in an abandoned church, but when they open the container, they inadvertently unleash a strange liquid and an evil force on all humanity.
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Movie: Predator ( 1987 )
A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.
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Movie: Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol ( 1987 )
The misfit Police Academy (1984) graduates now are assigned to train a group of civilian volunteers to fight crime once again plaguing the streets.
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Movie: Planes, Trains & Automobiles ( 1987 )
A Chicago advertising man must struggle to travel home from New York for Thanksgiving, with a lovable oaf of a shower-curtain-ring salesman as his only companion.
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Movie: Over the Top ( 1987 )
Tough trucker Lincoln Hawk is determined to win back his son and triumph at the world arm wrestling championships.
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Movie: Overboard ( 1987 )
A cruel but beautiful heiress mocks and cheats a hired carpenter. When she gets amnesia after an accident, he decides to introduce her to regular life by convincing her that they're husband and wife.
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Movie: Outrageous Fortune ( 1987 )
Two women unknowingly share the same man, but when he disappears, both go out looking for him and enter his surprisingly dangerous life.
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Movie: Nuts ( 1987 )
A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent.
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Movie: No Way Out ( 1987 )
A coverup and witchhunt occur after a politician accidentally kills his mistress.
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Movie: No Man's Land ( 1987 )
A rookie cop goes undercover and infiltrates a car thief ring.
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Movie: Nightflyers ( 1988 )
Professor hires a spaceship to get to the source of weird signals from deep space. The trip is cut short however when the ship's computer gets jealous because the captain is in love with one of the female passengers and it gets homicidal.
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Movie: Nekromantik ( 2014 )
A street sweeper who cleans up after grisly accidents brings home a full corpse for him and his wife to enjoy sexually, but is dismayed to see that his wife prefers the corpse over him.
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Movie: Near Dark ( 1988 )
A mid-western farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of southern vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars. Part of his initiation includes a bloody assault on a hick bar.
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Movie: Nadine ( 1987 )
In 1950s Texas, a woman trying to recover sexy photos of herself and divorce her husband witnesses a murder and uncovers corrupt land dealings.
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Movie: My Best Friend's Birthday ( 1987 )
It's Mickey's Birthday and his girlfriend just left him, so that's when his friend Clarence shows him a birthday he'll never forget.
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Movie: My Best Friend Is a Vampire ( 1988 )
After a sexual encounter with a beautiful client, a teenage delivery boy finds himself being turned into a vampire.
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Movie: Munchies ( 1988 )
Simon Watterman, a space archaeologist, discovers the "Munchies" in a cave in Peru. Cecil Watterman, Simon's evil twin brother and snack food entrepreneur, kidnaps the creature. What Cecil does not know is that the creature, when chopped up, regenerates into many new creatures -- and are they mean!
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Movie: Moonstruck ( 1988 )
Loretta Castorini, a bookkeeper from Brooklyn, New York, finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the brother of the man she has agreed to marry.
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Movie: Maurice ( 1987 )
After his lover rejects him, a young man trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality.
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Movie: Matewan ( 1988 )
A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.
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Movie: Masters of the Universe ( 1987 )
The heroic warrior He-Man battles against the evil lord Skeletor and his armies of darkness for control of Castle Grayskull.
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Movie: Mannequin ( 1987 )
A young artist, searching for his vocation, makes a mannequin so perfect he falls in love with it. Finding the mannequin in a store window, he gets a job there and his creation comes to life.
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Movie: Maid to Order ( 1987 )
Spoiled Jessie Montgomery, whose wild behavior and spending excesses cause her well-meaning but exasperated millionaire father Charles to wish he never had her, is visited by fairy godmother Stella. In an effort to save Jessie, Stella casts a spell which causes Charles to no longer have a daughter. Jessie, now penniless and without a friend, must take a maid's job to earn a living, and hopefully to learn her lesson...
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Movie: Lionheart ( 1987 )
A young knight sets out to join King Richard's crusaders. Along the way, he encounters The Black Prince who captures children and sells them as slaves to the Muslims. It is Robert Narra's sworn duty to protect the children and lead them to safety.
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Movie: Like Father Like Son ( 1987 )
A mysterious potion switches the personalities of a buttoned-up doctor and his laid-back son.
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Movie: Light of Day ( 1987 )
A pair of siblings must choose whether to pursue their dream of touring with their rock band or support their family and stay in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Movie: Lethal Weapon ( 1987 )
Two newly paired cops who are complete opposites must put aside their differences in order to catch a gang of drug smugglers.
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Movie: Less Than Zero ( 1987 )
A college freshman returns to L.A. for the holidays at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit.
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Movie: Leonard Part 6 ( 1987 )
Secret Agent Leonard Parker (Bill Cosby) is called out of retirement to save the world from evil genius Medusa Johnson (Gloria Foster).
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Movie: La Bamba ( 1987 )
This is the true story of Ritchie Valens, a young rock and roll singer who tragically died in a plane crash at age 17. The film follows Ritchie from his days in Pacoima, California where he and his family make a meager living working on farms to his rise as a star. The film also focuses on Ritchie's friendship and rivalry with his older brother Bob Morales and his relationship with Donna Ludwig, his girlfriend.
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Movie: Killer Workout ( 1987 )
Two years ago, a young woman named Valerie was burned after entering a tanning salon. Now, her twin sister, Rhonda, runs a local gym where, all of a sudden, people are being murdered.
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Movie: Jaws: The Revenge ( 1987 )
Chief Brody's widow believes that her family is deliberately being targeted by another shark in search of revenge.
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Movie: It's Alive III: Island of the Alive ( 1987 )
The mutant babies have been placed by court order on a deserted island. Appalled by the cycnicism and exploitation of the children by the legal system and the media, the man responsible for them leads an expedition to the island to free them.
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Movie: Ishtar ( 1987 )
Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the C.I.A., the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.
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Movie: Ironweed ( 1988 )
An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his home town of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades.
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Movie: Innerspace ( 1987 )
A hapless store clerk must foil criminals to save the life of the man who, miniaturized in a secret experiment, was accidentally injected into him.
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Movie: Howling III ( 1987 )
A female werewolf runs away from her family, and falls in love with a man who works in the movie business, while a sociologist who studies these creatures is looking for proof of their existence.
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Movie: House of Games ( 1987 )
A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men.