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Punchline
Punchline (1988) on 7 october 1988
, 2h3
Directed by David Seltzer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy
Actors Sally Field, Tom Hanks, John Goodman, Mark Rydell, Kim Greist, Paul Mazursky
Rating58% 2.9471452.9471452.9471452.9471452.947145
Steven Gold (Hanks) is a struggling medical student who moonlights as a stand-up comedian. It quickly becomes evident that he is lousy at the former and excels at the latter. And yet, when he is given a chance at the big time, he cracks under the pressure. Lilah (Field) is a dedicated housewife that also yearns to be a comic. She has the raw talent but does not have the command of craft that Steven possesses.
Salaam Bombay!
Salaam Bombay! (1988) on 7 october 1988
, 1h53
Directed by Mira Nair
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about children, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, L'enfance marginalisée, Musical films, Bollywood, Erotic thriller films
Actors Anita Kanwar, Shafiq Syed, Nana Patekar, Raghubir Yadav, Irrfan Khan, Sanjana Kapoor
Rating78% 3.9459053.9459053.9459053.9459053.945905
Before the start of the film, Krishna has set fire to his bullying elder brother's motor-bike. This has landed him in big trouble with his mother. She has taken him to the nearby Apollo Circus and told him that he can only come home when he earns 500 rupees to pay for the damaged bike. Krishna agrees and works for the circus.
Liberace: Behind the Music
Liberace: Behind the Music (1988) on 8 october 1988
, 1h37
Directed by David Greene
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Victor Garber, Saul Rubinek, Michael Dolan, Maureen Stapleton, Frances Hyland, Shawn Levy
Rating60% 3.044753.044753.044753.044753.04475
A gifted classical pianist, fueled by poverty, Wladiziu Valentino Liberace was already playing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the age of 17.
Imagine: John Lennon
Imagine: John Lennon (1988) on 7 october 1988
, 1h40
Directed by John Lennon, Andrew Solt
Origin USA
Genres Musical theatre, Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Actors John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, David Bowie
Rating77% 3.890963.890963.890963.890963.89096
La vie du Beatle John Lennon vue à travers des interviews et des images d'archives inédites.
Alien Nation
Alien Nation (1988) on 7 october 1988
, 1h31
Directed by Charles Graham Baker, Graham Baker
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about racism, Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Buddy films, Children's films, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors James Caan, Mandy Patinkin, Terence Stamp, Jeff Kober, Brian Thompson, Leslie Bevis
Rating62% 3.147783.147783.147783.147783.14778
The year is 1991; three years since an unidentified flying object bearing 300,000 enslaved aliens, the Newcomers, landed in the Mojave Desert on planet Earth. Los Angeles later becomes their new home. Matthew Sykes (Caan), a police detective, loses his partner Bill Tuggle (Brown) in a shootout. The detectives were trying to stop two Newcomer criminals murdering another Newcomer named Porter at a grocery, in what appeared to be a robbery.
Clara's Heart
Clara's Heart (1988) on 7 october 1988
, 1h48
Directed by Robert Mulligan
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Whoopi Goldberg, Michael Ontkean, Kathleen Denise Quinlan, Neil Patrick Harris, Spalding Gray, Hattie Winston
Rating60% 3.045073.045073.045073.045073.04507
The film tells the story of a family in crisis. The mother, Leona (Quinlan), escapes to Jamaica to grieve the loss of her baby daughter, Edith. While there she meets kindly housekeeper Clara Mayfield (Goldberg). Clara pulls Leona out of her depression with a blunt, no-nonsense style. Leona is so taken with her that she brings Clara back to their home in Baltimore to be housekeeper and nanny to young son David (Harris). At first he is resistant and sees her as an intruder, but as the parents are completely wrapped up in their own grief and dissolving marriage, David comes to trust Clara and to depend on her. Clara harbors her own dark secret, which when revealed, serves to firm the bond between these two very different, but loving, characters.