241. Troop Beverly Hills
Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jeff Kanew
Actors: Shelley Long, Craig T. Nelson, Betty Thomas, Mary Gross, Carla Gugino, Kellie Martin
Plot: A spoiled Beverly Hills housewife decides to become the leader of her daughter's wilderness group. Failing miserably at first she later must prove her worth as a legitimate troop leader by instilling lessons of teamwork and selflessness in her young charges.
242. The Dead Next Door
Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: J.R. Bookwalter
Actors: Pete Ferry, Bogdan Pecic, Michael Grossi, Jolie Jackunas, Robert Kokai, Floyd Ewing Jr.
Plot: The government sets up a Zombie Squad after an epidemic has made the world run rampant with living corpses.
243. 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.
244. 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
245. 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.
246. 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
247. 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
248. 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
249. 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
250. 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.
