211. Moonstruck
Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Norman Jewison
Actors: Cher, Nicolas Cage, John Mahoney, Olympia Dukakis, Vincent Gardenia, Danny Aiello
Plot: A widower must choose between the man she agreed to marry and his brother.
212. Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Henry Jaglom
Actors: Karen Black, Michael Emil, Michael Margotta, Frances Fisher, Martin Harvey Friedberg, Robert Hallak
213. Bull Durham
Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sport/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ron Shelton
Actors: Tim Robbins, Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, Robert Wuhl, Lloyd T. Williams, Trey Wilson
Plot: A catcher and a pitcher are up and coming minor leaguers when they both seem to fall for the same fan. A movie about baseball.
214. Lethal Weapon 2
Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Richard Donner
Actors: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Joss Ackland, Derrick O'Connor, Patsy Kensit
Plot: Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh stumble across a trunk full of Krugerrands. They follow the trail to a South African diplomat who's using his immunity to conceal a smuggling operation.
215. An American Tail
Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Don Bluth
Actors: Phillip Glasser, Christopher Plummer, Dom DeLuise, John Finnegan, Nehemiah Persoff, Madeline Kahn
Plot: Fievel, a Russian mouse, is separated from his family as he becomes an immigrant in the U.S.
216. Taxing Woman, A ( Marusa no onna )
Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Juzo Itami
Actors: Nobuko Miyamoto, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Masahiko Tsugawa, Shinsuke Ashida, Mariko Okada, Moeko Ezawa
217. A Christmas Carol
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Clive Donner
Actors: George C. Scott, Frank Finlay, Angela Pleasence, Edward Woodward, Michael Carter, David Warner
Plot: In this adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic George C. Scott portrays Scrooge, the miser with an uncaring soul who is visited by three spirits and learns compassion once again.
218. Missing
Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Costa-Gavras
Actors: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea, David Clennon, Charles Cioffi
Plot: In a coup, a junta, a young man goes missing. Fearing he is dead, his
wife and his father use all their influence at the American embassy to
find, him dead or alive.
219. WarGames
Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: John Badham
Actors: Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Barry Corbin, Juanin Clay
Plot: A teenage boy hacks into a government computer in search for some games. The game he chooses to play is not just a simulation.
220. House of Games
Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Mamet
Actors: Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna, Mike Nussbaum, Lilia Skala, J.T. Walsh, Ricky Jay
Plot: Margaret Ford (Crouse) is a psychiatrist who is trying to help Billy Hahn, a gambler who wants to end his life. Billy confesses that he owes $25,000 that needs to be paid if not he will be killed. She then looks for Mike (Mantegna) to compromise the dilemma. She gets close to Mike and wants to write about his line of work.
