Showing posts with label Year: 1987. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Year: 1987. Show all posts

Suspect (1987)

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American legal mystery thriller. Cher stars as lawyer Kathleen Riley. Liam Neeson plays Carl Wayne Anderson, a homeless Vietnam vet who she ...

Lethal Weapon (1987)

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Buddy-based L.A. police drama that’s very much an inferior version of Beverly Hills Cop . I wanted to see what all the fuss was about, but ...

Fatal Attraction (1987)

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Brilliantly tense thriller.  Dan Gallagher ( Michael Douglas ) and Alex Forrest ( Glenn Close ) strike up a brief but intense affair in New ...

Withnail and I (1987)

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I couldn’t make it to the end of this.  Richard E. Grant striding around barking like Rik Mayall in The Young Ones –  but with none of the t...

Raising Arizona (1987)

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Unusual comedy drama about a couple who kidnap a quintuplet. Beneath the slapstick humour there’s a real tragedy about a desperate, childles...

Robocop (1987)

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Brilliant satire of violence and corporate power by Paul Verhoeven , who would later direct the equally superb  Starship Troopers . It’s a s...

Some Kind of Wonderful (1987)

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John Hughes teen drama that ranks as the very best example of its kind.  Looking like a young Luke Skywalker, Eric Stolz is Keith, a sensiti...

The Princess Bride (1987)

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Fantasy comedy romance directed by Rob Reiner presented as a fairytale story within a story. A grandfather (Peter Falk) reads a book to his...

Spaceballs (1987)

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Daft and sometimes very funny parody of Star Wars , written and directed by Mel Brooks. The humour is so silly that it’s difficult to resist...

Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)

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Uneven comedy directed by John Hughes and starring Steve Martin and John Candy . Martin plays a tense marketing executive hoping to get ho...

Hope and Glory (1987)

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Written, produced and directed by John Boorman, this is a poignant and gently hilarious view of wartime as seen through the eyes of a young ...

Predator (1987)

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Bunch of tough guys in a Central American jungle hunt an invisible alien. It’s a bit like a B-movie, but with a bigger than usual budget – a...

The Untouchables (1987)

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Brian De Palma’s historical crime drama is set in 1930 in Chicago , where gangster Al Capone ( Robert De Niro ) is running various illegal r...

Wall Street (1987)

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There’s something not quite right about Oliver Stone ’s stock-market thriller. Michael Douglas is actually fairly compelling as the corru...

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

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Stanley Kubrick ’s film about marines in the Vietnam War is very uneven. The first section, detailing the marines’ training with their dri...

La Bamba (1987)

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Fairly straightforward biopic of Ritchie Valens, who famously died at the age of 17 in the same 1959 plane crash that killed Buddy Holly a...

Moonstruck (1987)

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Quirky romantic comedy starring Cher as an Italian-American widow who falls for her fiancé’s troubled, opera-loving brother ( Nicolas Cage ...

The Living Daylights (1987)

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Initially, I thought that the first film with  Timothy Dalton  as  James Bond  was perhaps even more ridiculous than the others in the seri...

Dirty Dancing (1987)

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I had never seen this before. Almost a third of a century after its release I spent £1 to find out what all the fuss was about. Nineteen ei...

Roxanne (1987)

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Lovely romantic comedy: a retelling of the 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand. Steve Martin plays the wonderfully gifted fire ...