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Savannah Smiles
Savannah Smiles (1982) on 10 december 1982
, 1h45
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Mark Miller, Donovan Scott, Bridgette Andersen, Peter Graves, Michael Parks, Pat Morita
Rating70% 3.5429153.5429153.5429153.5429153.542915
The story begins at a prison work site where Bootsie (Donovan Scott) attempts to help his old friend, Alvie (Mark Miller), escape by causing a diversion and driving away in a crudely disguised vehicle. Reluctantly, Alvie agrees to go, and the two are able to avoid capture after a chase throughout the area. Surprisingly, Bootsie's efforts were unnecessary, as Alvie was scheduled for parole later that same week. The two friends roam the area, searching for food and shelter while continuing to evade the police.
The Toy
The Toy (1982) on 10 december 1982
, 1h42
Directed by Richard Donner
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about children, Jeu, Films about toys, Buddy films
Actors Jackie Gleason, Richard Pryor, Ned Beatty, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Scott Schwartz, Teresa Ganzel
Rating58% 2.900152.900152.900152.900152.90015
Jack Brown (Pryor) is an unemployed newspaper reporter in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in danger of losing his house to the bank. After numerous unsuccessful attempts to get a job working for the local paper, the Bugle, he becomes so desperate that he ends up taking a job as a "cleaning lady" for wealthy U.S. Bates (Gleason), who owns the paper and many other businesses. Brown is humiliated as he clumsily attempts to serve food at a luncheon. He is fired, but lands a part-time job in a department store owned by Bates.
That Championship Season
That Championship Season (1982) on 9 december 1982
, 1h50
Directed by Jason Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Basketball films, Films based on plays
Actors Robert Mitchum, Martin Sheen, Bruce Dern, Paul Sorvino, Stacy Keach, Arthur Franz
Rating62% 3.144483.144483.144483.144483.14448
It has been 25 years since the 1957 Fillmore High School (fictional) basketball team won the Pennsylvania state championship. The coach and four of the victors regularly gather to relive the glory of their shining moment.
Airplane II: The Sequel
Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) on 10 december 1982
, 1h25
Directed by Ken Finkleman
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Adventure, Comic science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Transport films, Sur la Lune, Aviation films, Comedy science fiction films, Films set in the future, Dans un avion, Space opera
Actors Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Chad Everett, Peter Graves, Rip Torn
Rating61% 3.0989453.0989453.0989453.0989453.098945
In the near future, the Moon has been colonized and supports a station on its surface. A lunar shuttle known as Mayflower One is being rushed to launch from Houston. The head of the ground crew, The Sarge (Chuck Connors), does not like what is occurring, but he defers to the airline's management.
Don't Go to Sleep
Don't Go to Sleep (1982) on 10 december 1982
, 1h33
Directed by Richard Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Valerie Harper, Dennis Weaver, Ruth Gordon, Oliver Robins, Claudette Nevins, Robert Webber
Rating64% 3.247253.247253.247253.247253.24725
The premise of the story is that a father, Phillip (played by Weaver) and mother, Laura (played by Harper) and their two children Kevin and Mary (played by Robins and Ignico, respectively) move out of Los Angeles (as seen in the opening credits) to a house up north in the countryside. Moving in with the family would be their grandmother (played by Gordon), whom nobody in the family other than Laura cared for very much. The family had just suffered the tragedy of losing their oldest daughter Jennifer (played by Cumming) and hope to regroup and start a new life without her.
Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again
Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again (1982) on 8 december 1982
, 1h27
Directed by Jerry Belson
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Musical theatre, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Comedy science fiction films
Actors Mark Blankfield, Bess Armstrong, Tim Thomerson, Krista Errickson, Cassandra Peterson, Peter Brocco
Rating59% 2.996682.996682.996682.996682.99668
Brilliant surgeon Daniel Jekyll (Mark Blankfield) dedicates himself to medical research, hoping to unlock man's animal nature and increase his capacity for self-healing. Jekyll accidentally creates a white powder which, when inhaled through the nose, temporarily turns him into a completely uninhibited sex maniac who calls himself Mister Hyde. Jekyll can't bring himself to throw away the drug or to stop taking it, and Hyde's escapades play havoc with Jekyll's life. At the very end, the corpse of Robert Louis Stevenson is seen literally spinning in his grave.
48 Hrs.
48 Hrs. (1982) on 7 december 1982
, 1h36
Directed by Walter Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Buddy films
Actors Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole, Frank McRae, James Remar, David Patrick Kelly
Rating68% 3.4481253.4481253.4481253.4481253.448125
Convicted thief Albert Ganz is working as part of a road gang in California, when a big Native American man named Billy Bear drives up in a pickup truck and asks for water to cool off his truck’s overheating radiator. Ganz and Billy exchange insults and proceed to stage a fight with each other, wrestling in a river, and when the guards try to break up the fight, Billy slips a gun to Ganz, and Billy and Ganz kill two of the three guards and flee the scene. Two days later, Ganz and Billy kill Henry Wong (John Hauk), who was one of their partners.
Rendezvous in Paris
Rendezvous in Paris (1982) on 11 december 1982
, 1h44
Genres Drama
Actors Claude Jade, Barry Stokes, Vérénice Rudolph, Olga Valery
Rating70% 3.5306553.5306553.5306553.5306553.530655
In Berlin in 1930, sensitive Evelyne Droste (Claude Jade) leads a sheltered life married to respectable lawyer Kurt (Harald Kuhlmann). The children are cared for by a governess and a nanny, and she feels somehow superfluous and unfulfilled on a personal level. But when she meets the American Frank Davies (Barry Stokes) at a party, her passion and vitality return. Evelyn finally agrees to Frank's invitation for a weekend in Paris. But while Evelyn puts her middle-class life on the line, for Frank it is perhaps only an adventure ...