Showing posts with label Year: 1979. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Year: 1979. Show all posts

All That Jazz (1979)

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An autobiographical musical drama directed by Bob Fosse. It’s a noble failure – high on ambition, low on satisfaction.  The “story”, what th...

Alien (1979)

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Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror masterpiece still looks fantastic and is just as chilling as ever.  Sigourney Weaver plays Ripley, a warrant of...

The Rose (1979)

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Drama loosely based on the life and death of Janis Joplin.  Bette Midler plays Rose, a troubled singer who enters a downward spiral of addic...

Escape from Alcatraz (1979)

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Superb escape drama directed by Don Siegel.  Clint Eastwood plays Frank Morris, who plans to escape from the maximum-security prison island...

Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

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Ted Kramer ( Dustin Hoffman ) puts his career first and neglects his wife Joanna ( Meryl Streep ) and son (Justin Henry). When Joanna walks ...

Moonraker (1979)

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The usual plot: a bad man wants to take over the world, and James Bond – aided by weapons, gadgets and beautiful women – has to stop him. Th...

Manhattan (1979)

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Woody Allen plays a 42-year-old TV writer who is dating a 17-year-old girl (Mariel Hemingway). But when he meets his best friend’s mistress...

The Jerk (1979)

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Wildly original comedy starring Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters. It brilliantly parodies the familiar rags-to-riches life story that ma...

The Main Event (1979)

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The goodwill built up by Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal in the hilarious What’s Up, Doc? is quickly dispersed in this lame “comedy” th...