Movie Releases by User Score
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1.
My Left Foot
November 10, 1989
True story of cerebral palsied Christy Brown, who overcame his illness and poverty to become an accomplished artist, poet and writer.
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Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
July 26, 1989
A young boy and his little sister struggle to survive in Japan during World War II.
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Do the Right Thing
June 30, 1989
Set on the hottest day of the summer, the film examines various personal, social and economic issues through the eyes of an ensemble of neighborhood characters on a Bedford Stuyvesant block in Brooklyn.
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The Little Mermaid
November 17, 1989
A mermaid princess makes a Faustian bargain with an unscrupulous sea-witch in order to meet a human prince on land.
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sex, lies, and videotape
August 4, 1989
Written in eight days on a trip to Los Angeles by first-time feature director Stephen Soderbergh, and shot in five weeks on a meager $1.2 million budget, the film tells the story of Graham (James Spader), who visits old friend John (Peter Gallager), and engages John's wife (Andie McDowell), and her sister (Laura San Giacomo) in his unique method of overcoming his unusual sexual dysfunction.
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Say Anything...
April 4, 1989
John Cusack plays Lloyd Dobler--an average guy with a penchant for kickboxing. There is only one thing that all-around nice guy Lloyd wants for his high school graduation: a date with beautiful valedictorian Diane Court (Skye). Lloyd's dream comes true when Diane accepts his invitation to a graduation party. Diane falls for Lloyd, whose goal is to spend as much time with her as possible. Their budding romance is put to the test when Diane has to choose between pursuing her academic dreams and spending time with him. John Mahoney is first-rate as Diane's father, a single parent who wants only the best for his brilliant daughter but who harbors a serious secret that the IRS is investigating. [20th Century Fox]
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Let's Get Lost
April 21, 1989
Let's Get Lost looks at the life of jazz trumpeter and singer Chet Baker.
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The Fabulous Baker Boys
October 13, 1989
The lives of two struggling musicians (the Bridges brothers), who happen to be brothers, inevitably change when they team up with a beautiful, up-and-coming singer (Michelle Pfeiffer)
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High Hopes
February 24, 1989
A slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mother, who's aging quickly and becoming forgetful, mum's ghastly upper-middle-class neighbors, and Cyril's pretentious sister and philandering husband. Shirley wants a baby, but Cyril, who reads Marx and wants the world to be perfect, is reluctant. Cyril's mum locks herself out and must ask her snooty neighbors for help. Then Cyril's sister Valerie stages a surprise party for mum's 70th birthday, a disaster from start to finish. Shirley holds things together, and she and Cyril may put aside her Dutch cap after all.
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Kiki's Delivery Service
July 29, 1989
A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.
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Henry V
November 8, 1989
The English king invades France and wins the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years' War in Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of William Shakespeare's Henry V.
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Parenthood
August 2, 1989
Gil Martin is a funny and loving husband who's also tries too hard to be the "perfect" parent to his uniquely different kids. (Universal Studios)
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Drugstore Cowboy
October 6, 1989
A group of heroin addicts lead by Bob (Dillon) rob drugstores to continue their addictions.
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Driving Miss Daisy
December 15, 1989
This adaptation of Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play looks at the 25-year relationship between an elderly Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur.
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Sweetie
September 10, 1989
An introspective young woman's life is upturned by the arrival of her maladjusted sister.
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Mystery Train
November 17, 1989
Three stories are connected by a Memphis hotel and the spirit of Elvis Presley.
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The War of the Roses
December 1, 1989
This classic black comedy proves that divorce is war, and war is hell.
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For All Mankind
May 19, 1989
An in-depth look at various NASA moon landing missions, starting with Apollo 8.
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Dead Poets Society
June 16, 1989
Robin Williams stars as John Keating, an unconventional teacher at a conservative New England prep school who inspires his students and encourages them with the rallying call "carpe diem" (seize the day).
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Castle in the Sky
April 1, 1989
A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.
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Crimes and Misdemeanors
October 13, 1989
The film's title indicates the themes of two separate stories: 1) a renowned opthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship...which ends up in murder; and 2) an ethically frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an attractive television producer while making a film about her insufferably self-centered boss. [MGM]
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When Harry Met Sally...
July 12, 1989
Will sex ruin a perfect relationship between a man and a woman? That's what Harry (Crystal) and Sally (Ryan) debate during their travels from Chicago to New York. 11 years and 2,000 miles later, they're still no closer to finding the answer. And they've never ventured past their friendship to discover the love that's right in front of them. Will these two best friends ever accept that they're meant for each other... or will they continue to deny the attraction that's existed since the first moment When Harry Met Sally? (MGM)
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Casualties of War
August 18, 1989
During the Vietnam War, a soldier (Michael J. Fox) finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.
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Born on the Fourth of July
December 20, 1989
Based on a true story, the film follows the young Ron Kovic from a zealous teen who eagerly volunteers for the Vietnam War, to an embittered veteran paralyzed from the mid-chest down. Deeply in love with his country, Kovic returned to an environment vastly different from the one he left, and struggled before emerging as a brave new voice for the disenchanted. (Universal Studios)
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Heathers
March 31, 1989
A razor sharp black comedy about high school politics centers on Veronica Sawyer (Ryder) who joins an exclusive clique of popular girls named Heather (Walker, Doherty, Falk) and plays along with her new boyfriend J.D. (Slater) in a series of pranks which turn into a series of murders made to look like suicides.
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The Mighty Quinn
February 17, 1989
When police officer Xavier Quinn's childhood friend, Maubee, becomes associated with murder and a briefcase full of ten thousand dollar bills, The Mighty Quinn must clear his name. Or try to catch him, which could be even trickier.
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Roger & Me
December 20, 1989
Director Michael Moore pursues GM CEO Roger B. Smith to confront him about the harm he did to Flint, Michigan with his massive downsizing.
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Dead Calm
April 7, 1989
After a tragedy, John Ingram and his wife Rae spend some time isolated at sea when they come across a stranger who has abandoned a sinking ship.
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Lethal Weapon 2
July 7, 1989
Riggs wows the pretties of a hotel spa before getting to Getz. Murtaugh receives bad bodywork news from an auto repairman after his beleaguered station wagon sees some Riggs-piloted street action. Plus, feisty Leo shares a newly included scene in which he recalls a suspect's address by complex spins of numbers that, well, no one can tell it like Leo. And no one would follow his lead but Riggs and Murtaugh. It's police procedure, Lethal style. (Warner Bros.)
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Batman
June 23, 1989
Tim Burton's 1989 Blockbuster introduces us to the origins of Gotham City's fearless crimestopper Batman (Keaton) and his arch-enemy The Joker (Nicholson).
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
March 10, 1989
The enchanting adventures of Baron von Munchausen follow him on his journey to save a town from defeat. Being swallowed by a giant sea-monster, a trip to the moon, a dance with Venus and an escape from the Grim Reaper are only some of the improbable adventures. (Sony Pictures)
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A Dry White Season
September 20, 1989
Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener's son is brutally beaten up by the police at a demonstration by black school children, he gradually begins to realize his own society is built on a pillar of injustice and exploitation.
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Blaze
December 13, 1989
A middle-aged Louisiana governor (Paul Newman) falls in love with a young stripper (Lolita Davidovich), jeopardizing his political career and the radical policies which have made him a controversial figure.
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Akira
December 25, 1989
Based on Katsuhiro Otomo's 2,000 page manga, Akira begins on July 16, 1988, when what was believed to be an atomic bomb was dropped on Tokyo, completely destroying the city and marking the beginning of WWIII.
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Parents
January 27, 1989
A young boy living in 1950s suburbia suspects his parents are cannibalistic murderers.
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Earth Girls Are Easy
May 12, 1989
A Southern California girl befriends three furry aliens after their spaceship lands in her swimming pool.
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Sea of Love
September 15, 1989
A detective investigating a series of murders becomes involved with a woman who may be the culprit.
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
May 24, 1989
When Dr. Henry Jones Sr. suddenly goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, eminent archaeologist Indiana Jones must follow in his father's footsteps and stop the Nazis.
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Mississippi Burning
January 27, 1989
A fictionalized version of the murders of three civil rights activists on June 21, 1964 in Mississippi. The FBI comes in to solve the case and succeeds only after using unethical and illegal means. (MGM)
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The Big Picture
September 15, 1989
Film school grad Nick Chapman thought his career was made after his award winning short film, but discovered Hollywood wasn't as easy as it seems.
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Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
June 23, 1989
The scientist father of a teenage girl and boy accidentally shrinks his and two other neighborhood teens to the size of insects. Now the teens must fight diminutive dangers as the father searches for them.
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Chances Are
March 10, 1989
Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing the road. Louie is reincarnated as Alex Finch, and twenty years later, fate brings Alex and Louie's daughter, Miranda, together. It's not until Alex is invited to Louie's home that he begins to remember his former life, wife and best friend. Of course, there's also the problem that he's attracted to Louie's/his own daughter.
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The Abyss
August 9, 1989
When a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks, one diver (Harris) soon finds himself on an odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it. (20th Century Fox)
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Major League
April 7, 1989
A baseball comedy about a squad of misfits - purposely assembled to tank so the owner can move the team - who rally together to bring the pennant back to Cleveland.
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The Bear
October 27, 1989
An orphan bear cub hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters.
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Lean on Me
March 3, 1989
The dedicated but tyrannical Joe Clark is appointed the principal of a decaying inner-city school and he is determined to improve by any and all means.
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Miss Firecracker
April 28, 1989
Carnelle wants to escape her dreary life, so she enters a local beauty contest, much to everyone's dismay.
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Licence to Kill
July 14, 1989
When his good friend Felix Leiter is beaten and left for dead, James Bond (Timothy Dalton) sets out on a mission, against his organization's wishes, to track down the drug lord Franz Sanchez (Robert Davi) who tortured his friend. [MGM]
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Field of Dreams
April 21, 1989
"If you build it, he will come." With thes words, Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella (Costner) is inspired by a voice he can't ignore to pursue a dream he can hardly believe. Supported by his wife Annie (Madigan), Ray begins the quest by turning his ordinary cornfield into a place where dreams can come true. Along the way he meets reclusive activist Terence Mann (Jones), the mysterious "Doc" Graham (Lancaster), and even the legendary "Shoeless Joe" Jackson (Liotta). (Universal)
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Back to the Future Part II
November 22, 1989
After visiting 2015, Marty McFly must return to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to his life in 1985.
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The Rachel Papers
May 12, 1989
Charles is in control of his life; he is about to finish 6th form college and start at Oxford. He is 19 and wants an 'older' woman before he turns 20. Enter the beautiful Rachel, and Charles puts his 'master-of-seduction' routines into top gear. Things however get complicated, Charles has a string of ex's and a weird brother-in-law. Rachel has a boyfriend named Deforest and Charles' father has a mistress.
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Shag
July 21, 1989
It's the Summer of 1963. Carson (Phoebe Cates) is getting married to her boyfriend so her friends Melaina, Pudge and Luanne take her to Myrtle Beach for one last reckless weekend.
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Ghostbusters II
June 16, 1989
The Ghostbusters take up their proton packs once more to battle the forces of evil in Manhattan! After waging a war on slime that cost New York City millions, the they find themselves out of business until an ancient tyrant, preparing a return to the Earthly domain through his portrait at the Manhattan Museum of Modern Art, sets his sights on Dana Barrett's baby as the new home for his wicked soul! With the help of the Museum's possessed curator, he plans to turn New York into a really scary place to live! Now only the Ghostbusters can save New York City, by turning paranormal pest control into an art form!
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Steel Magnolias
November 22, 1989
A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship and welcome her into the fold.
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Black Rain
September 22, 1989
Two NYC cops arrest a Yakuza member and must escort him when he's extradited to Japan.
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Valmont
November 17, 1989
Based on the novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Valmont (Firth) seduces a young lady on a bet from his former lover.
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The Package
August 25, 1989
Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher (Gene Hackman) is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette (Tommy Lee Jones), back to the US, but Boyette escapes and Gallagher must risk life and limb to catch him.
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
August 11, 1989
The pregnant Alice finds Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) striking through the sleeping mind of her unborn child, hoping to be reborn into the real world.
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Family Business
December 15, 1989
An ex professor offers Adam $1,000,000 to "get" some plasma from a high tech company's lab. Adam asks his criminal grandpa for help. Can they convince Adam's now honest dad to join?
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The Dream Team
April 7, 1989
Four mental patients on a field trip in New York City must save their caring chaperon, who ends up being taken to a hospital in a coma after accidentally witnessing a murder, before the killers can find him and finish the job.
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Next of Kin
October 20, 1989
Truman (Patrick Swayze), a Chicago cop, sets out to find the killer of his brother. Meanwhile, another of his brothers, Briar (a hillbilly) decides to find the killer himself.
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Shirley Valentine
August 30, 1989
Shirley's a middle-aged Liverpool housewife, who finds herself talking to the wall while she prepares her husband's chip'n'egg, wondering what happened to her life. She compares scenes in her current life with what she used to be like and feels she's stagnated and in a rut. But when her best friend wins an all-expenses-paid vacation to Greece for two, Shirley begins to see the world, and herself, in a different light.
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Uncle Buck
August 16, 1989
Bachelor and all round slob, Buck, babysits his brother's rebellious teenage daughter and her cute younger brother and sister.
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Leviathan
March 17, 1989
An American deep-sea mining colony stumbles upon a sunken Soviet vessel hiding a horrific secret.
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Look Who's Talking
October 13, 1989
If you've always wanted to know what a baby thinks of the world around him, you finally have your chance. Mollie is a single working mother who's out to find the perfect father for her child. Her baby, Mikey, prefers James, a cab driver turned babysitter who has what it takes to make them both happy. But Mollie won't even consider James. It's going to take all the tricks a baby can think of to bring them together before it's too late. (Sony Pictures)
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
February 17, 1989
Bill Preston and Ted Logan are two totally excellent dudes facing one most heinous history exam. With the help of Rufus an ultra-cool messenger in a time traveling phone booth, the triumphant twosome bag a bevy of historical heavy weights like the "Bodacious Philosopher Socrates, "One Very Excellent Barbarian" Genghis Khan, the "Short Dead Dude" Napoleon and Noah's Wife Joan of Arc to stage the most hysterical high school project ever. History's about to be rewritten by two guys who can't even spell. (MGM)
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Always
December 22, 1989
A romantic adventure about a legendary pilot's passion for dare-devil firefighting and his one true love.
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Fat Man and Little Boy
October 20, 1989
This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built.
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All Dogs Go to Heaven
November 17, 1989
Charley B. Barkin, the German shepherd is double-crossed and murdered by his pit bull partner. He returns from heaven to seek revenge but finds redemption instead.
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Great Balls of Fire!
June 30, 1989
The life and career of controversial rocker Jerry Lee Lewis.
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National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
December 1, 1989
The Griswold family's plans for a big family Christmas predictably turn into a big disaster.
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We're No Angels
December 15, 1989
Two escaped cons only prayer to escape is to pass themselves off as priests and pass by the police blockade at the border into the safety of Canada.
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Pink Cadillac
May 26, 1989
Skip tracer Tommy looks for bail-jumper Lou Ann. Her crime is marrying Roy, who left counterfeit money in their mobile home and got her arrested. She leaves Roy in his pink Cadillac full of money. His psycho friends want their money back.
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The 'Burbs
February 17, 1989
An overstressed suburbanite and his fellow neighbors are convinced that the new family on the block are part of a murderous Satanic cult.
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She-Devil
December 8, 1989
A surprisingly resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.
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K-9
April 28, 1989
To stop an elusive criminal, a maverick detective enlists the aid of a police dog who's an unusually intelligent smart alec.
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Who's Harry Crumb?
February 3, 1989
Harry Crumb is a bumbling and inept private investigator who is hired to solve the kidnapping of a young heiress which he's not expected to solve because his employer is the mastermind behind the kidnapping.
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See No Evil, Hear No Evil
May 12, 1989
Dave is deaf, and Wally is blind. They witness a murder, but it was Dave who was looking at her, and Wally who was listening.
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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
June 9, 1989
Captain Kirk and his crew must deal with Spock's half brother who hijacks the Enterprise and takes it on an obsessive search for God.
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Dad
November 10, 1989
While his mom recovers in hospital from a heart attack, John puts his busy life on hold to fly home and help his elderly dad around the house. John's son later joins them and they all truly bond for the first and, tragically, final time.
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Skin Deep
March 3, 1989
A womanizing alcoholic writer, whose life seems to be falling apart at the seams, repeatedly finds himself in trouble of one sort or another with the law, ex-girlfriends, and jealous boyfriends.
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Renegades
June 2, 1989
An undercover cop forms an alliance with a Native American to help him hunt down the criminals who stole an ancient Lakota tribal lance.
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Tango & Cash
December 22, 1989
Framed by their ruthless arch-nemesis, a mismatched LAPD crime-fighting duo has to put its differences aside to even the score with the evil kingpin who put them behind bars once and for all.
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Fletch Lives
March 17, 1989
After receiving an inheritance in Louisiana, Los Angeles reporter Irvin Fletcher (Chevy Chase) heads to the Belle Isle plantation where he gets himself into trouble.
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Gleaming the Cube
January 13, 1989
Brian's adopted brother is killed when he discovers that the shop he works in sends weapons to Vietnam instead of medications. To the police it looks like suicide, but Brian knows better so he skates off to investigate the murder himself.
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Three Fugitives
January 27, 1989
A reformed bank robber is taken hostage by a desperate man during a bank hold up, but is forced to go on the run with his captor when they're both mistakenly thought to be in cahoots.
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An Innocent Man
October 6, 1989
Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is convicted of drug dealing, based on the perjured evidence of a police informant. Thrown into a seedy jail, fighting to prove his innocence is diffucult when he has to deal with the realities of prison life, where everyone claims they were framed.
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The Return of Swamp Thing
May 12, 1989
The Swamp Thing returns to battle the evil Dr. Arcane, who has a new science lab full of creatures transformed by genetic mutation, and chooses Heather Locklear as his new object of affection.
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Pet Sematary
April 21, 1989
Behind a young family's home in Maine is a terrible secret that holds the power of life after death. When tragedy strikes, the threat of that power soon becomes undeniable.
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Turner & Hooch
July 28, 1989
A detective (Tom Hanks) must adopt a dog of a dead man to help him find the man's murderer.
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Loverboy
April 28, 1989
Randy (Patrick Dempsey) is still unfocused after two years in college. His father will no longer pay tuition and Randy gets a job delivering pizzas. Several cute cougars pay him $200 for pizza delivery and "services rendered". Their husbands?
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The Karate Kid Part III
June 30, 1989
Ostracised villain John Kreese attempts to gain revenge on Daniel and Miyagi, with the help of a Vietnam War comrade, the wealthy owner of a toxic waste disposal business.
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Road House
May 19, 1989
A veteran cooler (Patrick Swayze) is hired to bring a level of decorum to an up-and-coming bar that serves as the haunt for a county's corrupt element of bad guys.
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The Fly II
February 10, 1989
The almost-human son of "Brundlefly" searches for a cure to his mutated genes while being monitored by a nefarious corporation that wishes to continue his father's experiments.
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DeepStar Six
January 13, 1989
At the bottom of the ocean, the DeepStar Six has just discovered a new and deadly alien menace.
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Let It Ride
August 18, 1989
Jay Trotter has waited a lifetime for this day. He's got a hot tip on a horse everyone thinks is ready for the glue factory. But, as track aficionados say, "Even when you know, you never know." (Paramount)
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The January Man
January 13, 1989
Two years after being forced out of NYPD, quirky Nick is rehired by the mayor to catch a serial killer after the 11th murder of a woman.
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UHF
July 21, 1989
A madcap parody which finds an aimless young man inheriting a failing television station, which he revises by listening to his audience. (MGM)
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Dream a Little Dream
March 3, 1989
An accident puts the consciousness of an elderly dream researcher into the body of a bratty teenager. The problem? The kid prefers dreamworld limbo to real life.
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Troop Beverly Hills
March 24, 1989
A soon to be divorced Beverly Hills socialite (Shelly Long) is determined to prove to her husband and herself that she can finish what she starts out to do, by becoming a den mother to a troop of Beverly Hills Girl Scouts.
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Titles with fewer than 7 critic reviews are excluded.