Top Movies of 1987


The top movies of 1987 list is calculated by community movie ratings and members' "Top Movies List". Lists are updated daily.

141. Monster in the Closet

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Horror
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Bob Dahlin
Actors: Donald Grant, Denise DuBarry, Claude Akins, Howard Duff, Henry Gibson, Donald Moffat

142. O.C. and Stiggs

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Altman
Actors: Daniel Jenkins, Neill Barry, Jane Curtin, Paul Dooley, Jon Cryer, Ray Walston

143. In the Mood

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Actors: Patrick Dempsey, Talia Balsam, Beverly D'Angelo, Michael Constantine, Tony Longo, Betty Jinnette

144. Baby Boom

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Charles Shyer
Actors: Diane Keaton, Sam Shepard, Harold Ramis, James Spader, Sam Wanamaker, Kristina Kennedy
Plot: A high maintenance yuppie finds out she has an inheritance coming from a foreign relative. Expecting money, she instead winds up with a baby girl. Soon her professional and personal life is thrown into turmoil and she has to decide whether to to keep living the yuppie life or settle down and raise the baby on her own.

145. Summer School

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Carl Reiner
Actors: Mark Harmon, Kirstie Alley, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Shawnee Smith, Dean Cameron, Kelly Jo Minter
Plot: A teacher is forced into teaching summer school at a high school.

146. Nuts

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Martin Ritt
Actors: Barbra Streisand, Richard Dreyfuss, Maureen Stapleton, Karl Malden, Eli Wallach, Leslie Nielsen
Plot: A prostitute is on trial for the murder of one of her clients, and it's up to her lawyer to prove her innocence.

147. Gardens of Stone

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Actors: James Caan, Anjelica Huston, James Earl Jones, D.B. Sweeney, Dean Stockwell, Mary Stuart Masterson
Plot: Gardens of Stone concentrates on the trials and tribulations of the Arlington National Cemetery home guard.

148. Morgan Stewart's Coming Home

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Paul Aaron, Terry Winsor
Actors: Jon Cryer, JD Cullum, Robert Sedgwick, Lynn Redgrave, Waweru Njenga, Nicholas Pryor

149. The Big Town

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ben Bolt
Actors: Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, Tommy Lee Jones, Bruce Dern, Tom Skerritt, Lee Grant

150. Mannequin

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Michael Gottlieb
Actors: Andrew McCarthy, Kim Cattrall, Estelle Getty, James Spader, G.W. Bailey, Carole Davis
Plot: An artist trying to find his muse creates a mannequin so perfect, he falls in love with it. Finding it front and center at a major department store, through a series of events he finds himself working for the same store. When the spirit of ancient Egyptian finds a new life in the mannequin, she comes to life, and the real adventure begins.

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