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1. (1980) They were Australian soldiers, doing a difficult job in the Boer War, where none of the regular conventions of war were working. That's why they were surprised when they found themselves facing a court martial for following orders.
2. (1987) Murtaugh is a cop looking forward to his retirement, and Riggs is his new partner. Unfortunately Riggs is a bit of a burn-out who doesn't really care whether he lives or dies, and that can make a man very dangerous. While investigating the death of a young woman who took a dive off her balcony, they stumble on a drug ring run by Vietnam vets.
3. (1983) All Ralphie wants for Christmas is a 'Red Ryder Carbine Action 200 Shot Range Model Air Rifle', but everyone keeps telling him that he's going to shoot his eye out. Christmas is getting closer. What's a boy to do?
4. (1987) Chris (Richard Dreyfuss) and Bill (Emilio Estevez) are cops on a stakeout. They're watching Maria because her ex-boyfriend just escaped from prison and they think that he might show up at her house. However things get very complicated when Chris falls in love with Maria, who doesn't know who he is or that he's been watching her.
5. (1982) Sidney Bruhl is a playwright. He used to write successful plays but his last few have been flops. Myra, his wife, has lots of money and a very bad heart. Sidney wants to leave her so he can be with his gay lover, but needs her money. So Sidney and his lover set about staging a scene that will cause Myra to have a fatal heart attack. Everything seems perfect until Sidney's lover decides that the scene they staged would work really well as a play.
6. (1983) He was supposed to go north and study wolves to prove that they were responsible for the decline in the caribou population. He was supposed to kill and dissect one, and study the contents of its stomach. Instead he found himself developing respect for the beautiful creatures. This movie was based on a novel by Farley Mowat.
7. (1985) Chevy Chase is a reporter working on a story about the sale of drugs at the beach. Thinking him a vagrant, Alan Stanwyk approaches him and offers him money to kill Stanwyk, giving chase another story to work on. Chase uses many different names, and even a few disguises in his pursuit of the truth, and he does manage to solve both cases and get the girl in the end.
8. (1985) Even sailing around the world with the man of her dreams, Jack, can get old after a while, so when Joan is offered a chance to write about an up and coming North African leader, she jumps at the chance. She soon finds that things are not what she'd been told and before she knows it she and Jack are up to their necks in another adventure.
9. (1981) Katharine Hepburn and Henry Fonda both got well deserved Oscars for their portrayals of Ethel and Norman Thayer, a couple in the twilight of their lives spending another summer in their cottage by the lake.
10. (1985) Lawrence Kasdan directed this western, sporting an all-star cast led by Kevin Kline, Kevin Costner and Scott Glenn. It's a classic tale of the good guys taking on the bad guys. They win of course, and restore peace and order to a town that had previously been controlled by a nasty, rich rancher and his corrupt sheriff, played by Brian Dennehy.
11. (1985) Claire took the day off to go shopping, John got caught pulling the fire alarm, Andrew taped someone's butt cheeks together, Brian had a flare gun in his locker and Allison, well she just had nothing better to do. Forced to spend a Saturday together in detention, none of them expected that they would actually come to like each other.
12. (1988) Two Americans and two Brits (one with a terrible stutter) pull off a very successful diamond robbery, in this extremely funny movie. Successful that is, until the double-crossing starts. John Cleese is very funny as the barrister, but Kevin Kline steals the show with his performance as an obnoxious, Italian-American.
13. (1984) He's a Detroit cop who heads to the west coast to investigate the murder of his friend. While there he manages to get himself arrested a few times before he convinces the local police and brings them on side. He not only solves the murder of his friend, but also helps break up a drug smuggling ring operating out of a local warehouse.
14. (1987) A summer vacation at Kellerman's resort seemed like a great idea, until your daughter borrows money to help someone pay for an abortion and falls in love with the dance instructor. But despite what she's done to upset you, she's also done a lot to make you proud.
15. (1985) Rocky has a rare disease that causes gross deformation of his skull. His mother (played by Cher) is a tough biker chick with a drug problem who refuses to let him feel sorry for himself or be treated any differently from any other teenager. It's a poignant and very funny movie with a sad, sad ending.
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