231. High Hopes
Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Mike Leigh
Actors: Philip Davis, Ruth Sheen, Edna Doré, Philip Jackson, Heather Tobias, David Bamber
Plot: Focusing on an extended working class family living in King's Cross, London and elsewhere.
232. Slaves of New York
Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: James Ivory
Actors: Bernadette Peters, Chris Sarandon, Mary Beth Hurt, Madeleine Potter, Jsu Garcia, Mercedes Ruehl
233. Red Scorpion
Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joseph Zito
Actors: Dolph Lundgren, M. Emmet Walsh, Al White, T.P. McKenna, Carmen Argenziano, Brion James
Plot: A KGB agent sent to Africa to take down an anti-Communist revolutionary switches sides to help the rebels when he sees how his Russian and Cuban "allies" are mistreating the locals.
234. Happy Together
Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Mel Damski
Actors: Patrick Dempsey, Helen Slater, Dan Schneider, Kevin Hardesty, Barbara Babcock, Brad Pitt
235. How I Got into College
Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Savage Steve Holland
Actors: Anthony Edwards, Corey Parker, Lara Flynn Boyle, Finn Carter, Charles Rocket, Christopher Rydell
236. The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie
Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman
Actors: Ron Fazio, John Altamura, Phoebe Legere, Rick Collins, Lisa Gaye, Jessica Dublin
237. Dead Bang
Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Frankenheimer
Actors: Don Johnson, Penelope Ann Miller, William Forsythe, Bob Balaban, Tate Donovan, Michael Jeter
238. Far from Home
Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Meiert Avis
Actors: Matt Frewer, Drew Barrymore, Richard Masur, Karen Austin, Susan Tyrrell, Anthony Rapp
239. White Hot ( Crack in the Mirror )
Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robby Benson
Actors: Robby Benson, Tawny Kitaen, Danny Aiello, Kevin Gray, Cliff Bemis, Tony Gillan
Plot: A nice, honest young man needs some money, fast and agrees to housesit for a local drug dealer. Yet once there, his good nature flags and he finds himself falling to temptation - much like his addict wife.
240. Edge of Sanity
Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gérard Kikoïne
Actors: Anthony Perkins, Glynis Barber, Sarah Maur Thorp, David Lodge, Ben Cole, Ray Jewers