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The Best Movies of 1982
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Movie: Honkytonk Man ( 1982 )
A boy with a music talent goes on a journey with his uncle for a stage concert.
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Movie: Tex ( 1982 )
After their mother dies and their father leaves them, teenage brothers Tex and Mason McCormick struggle to make it on their own.
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Movie: Class Reunion ( 1982 )
June 1972. Bob Spinnaker, and his entire class, pull a prank on their classmate, Walter Baylor, sending him to a mental institution. Ten long years later, the class of Lizzie Borden High--including Gary Nash, Hubert Downs, and Meredith Modess--is going through the motions at their class reunion, where Chuck Berry is performing, unbeknownst to them that deranged Walter has escaped from the mental hospital, bent on crashing the party. Now, as unsuspecting guests start disappearing, the boys and girls of Lizzie Borden High must spring into action, and expose the madman. But, can they do it in time, and save the class reunion?
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Movie: Unhinged ( 1982 )
Three young women who crash their car during a rainstorm are taken in by a bizarre family at their large, rural estate.
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Movie: Young Doctors in Love ( 1982 )
It's a spoof on hospital soap operas with a few gangsters thrown in. A new batch of interns begins at City Hospital.
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Movie: Barbarosa ( 1982 )
A young cowboy hooks up with a legendary outlaw, and before long both are on the run from the law.
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Movie: The Slayer ( 1982 )
Two couples become stranded on a rugged isle, and are haunted by a supernatural beast, drawn to the wife of one of the couples, who dreams of its killings.
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Movie: Superstition ( 1983 )
A witch put to death in 1692 swears vengeance on her persecutors and returns to the present day to punish their descendants.
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Movie: The Dorm That Dripped Blood ( 1982 )
Four college students are stalked by an unknown assailant while staying on campus over the Christmas holidays to help clear out a dormitory which is to be demolished.
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Movie: Raw Force ( 1982 )
A group of martial arts students are en route to an island that supposedly is home to the ghosts of martial artists who have lost their honor. A Hitler lookalike and his gang are running a female slavery operation on the island as well. Soon, the two groups meet and all sorts of crazy things happen which include cannibal monks, piranhas, zombies, and more!
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Movie: Author! Author! ( 1982 )
While facing the stress of his play being produced on Broadway, a playwright deals with having to raise his son, his stepdaughters, and his stepsons.
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Movie: Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean ( 1983 )
The Disciples of James Dean meet up on the anniversary of his death and mull over their lives in the present and in flashback, revealing the truth behind their complicated lives. Who is the mysterious Joanne and what's the real story behind Mona's son, James Dean Junior ?
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Movie: Fast-Walking ( 1982 )
A corrupt prison guard becomes involved in a plot to murder a black revolutionary serving time in his prison.
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Movie: They Call Me Bruce? ( 1982 )
A goofy Korean finds his life hopelessly complicated with people continually confusing him with Bruce Lee.
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Movie: Shoot the Moon ( 1982 )
A mother of four is abandoned by her husband for a younger woman. Husband, wife and children struggle to survive the seemingly inevitable divorce.
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Movie: Cannery Row ( 1982 )
Monterey, California in the 1940's. Cannery Row - the section of town where the now closed fish canneries are located - is inhabited primarily by the down and out, although many would not move away even if they could. Probably the most upstanding citizen in the area is Doc, a marine biologist who...
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Movie: Forced Vengeance ( 1982 )
A casino security guard is forced into violence from when the Hong Kong mob threatens his friends.
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Movie: The Executioner's Song ( 1982 )
The story of Gary Gilmore, a convicted murderer who lobbied for his own execution.
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Movie: Visiting Hours ( 1982 )
A deranged, misogynistic killer assaults a journalist. When he discovers that she survived the attack, he follows her to the hospital to finish her off.
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Movie: Kiss Me Goodbye ( 1982 )
The ghost of a dead husband haunts his wife as she moves back to their house in NYC. She's about to marry an egyptologist there.
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Movie: The Missionary ( 1982 )
In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment - to minister to London's prostitutes. Charles hopes Deborah, his fiancee, will object and give him an excuse to say no to the bishop. But she is so imperturbably innocent that she totally fails to understand what he is being asked to do, and urges him to do his best. Wealthy Lady Ames is expected to fund the work, but once she makes it clear to Charles that there will be no contribution unless he shares her bed...
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Movie: Things Are Tough All Over ( 1982 )
Cheech and Chong are hired to drive a limo from Chicago to Las Vegas by two shady Arabs--Mr. Slyman (Cheech) and Prince Habib (Chong). Unbeknownst to them, five million dollars of dirty money has been stuffed throughout the car.
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Movie: Best Friends ( 1982 )
When a professional couple who have lived & worked together for many years finally decide to marry, their sudden betrothal causes many unexpectedly funny and awkward difficulties. They soon find that being married is often quite different from being "best friends."
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Movie: Wacko ( 1983 )
Thirteen years after the "Lawnmower Killer" killed her sister, high school student Mary Graves and obsessed detective Dick Harbinger are on the lookout for the killer to reappear during the annual Halloween Pumpkin Prom.
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Movie: Liar's Moon ( 1981 )
A poor kid elopes with a banker's daughter.
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Movie: Girls Nite Out ( 1982 )
A killer, wearing a dancing bear suit, stalks a variety of cheerleaders during an all-night scavenger hunt at a remote Ohio college.
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Movie: Mother Lode ( 1982 )
A couple of youngish adventurers go into the wilderness of British Columbia in search of a lost colleague. Their plane crashes and they find themselves at the mercy of a crazed old Scottish miner, who has lived in isolation for many decades searching the mountain caves for a chamber of long lost gold. He is prepared to do anything - including murder - to keep his gold for himself.
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Movie: The Concrete Jungle ( 1982 )
When her slimy boyfriend Danny uses his unsuspecting girlfriend Elizabeth to carry a stash of cocaine in her skis, she is nabbed by airport security. After a speedy trial, she is sent to...
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Movie: Homework ( 1982 )
Good-looking but virginal "rockstar" teen Tommy tries to score with some of the local high school girls. But a classmate's mom decides to make a man out of him.
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Movie: Trick or Treats ( 1982 )
A baby sitter is stuck watching over a young brat on Halloween night who keeps playing vicious pranks on her. To add to her trouble the boy's deranged father has escaped from an asylum and is planning on making a visit.
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Movie: The Aftermath ( 1983 )
Two astronauts return to Earth to find that it has been destroyed by nuclear war. L.A. has been taken over by Cutter and his gang of outlaw bikers. Cutter rapes and pillages. There are also mutants. The astronauts hook-up with the only normal people left: two women, a boy and a girl.
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Movie: Six Weeks ( 1982 )
A wealthy cosmetic tycoon and her 12-year-old daughter who's dying from leukemia, strike up a sentimental friendship with a California politician. Since the girl has only six weeks or less to live, the trio fly to New York City where the daughter skates the ice rink at Rockefeller Center, assumes the lead in The Nutcracker ballet, and sight-sees most of the city.
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Movie: Don't Go to Sleep ( 1982 )
A young girl begins seeing the ghost of her sister who died in an accident a year earlier.
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Movie: Pandemonium ( 1982 )
A former high school student who always wanted to be a cheerleader decides to reopen the cheerleading program at her former high school after years of closure for being targeted by a serial killer.
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Movie: Slapstick of Another Kind ( 1982 )
Caleb Swain and his wife Lutetia are a rich couple deemed to be the most beautiful of all the beautiful people by the press. This changes when Lutetia gives birth to oversize, deformed twins named Wilbur and Eliza. Unknown to them, the twins are really an alien brother-and-sister team implanted in Lutetia to solve the world's problems. When they are apart they are not much smarter than a potted plant, but together they are an intellectual force to be reckoned with. Their closeness is put to the test when a series of events threatens to keep the twins apart. Mixed in with all this is a miniaturized Chinese ambassador who needs the twins' help to make a deal for the sale of gravity.
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Movie: Split Image ( 1982 )
A rootless young man's drawn into an unnamed religious cult by a beautiful girl. Every moment with the group causes him to become increasingly under the control of the cult's leader. After his parents fail in their attempt, they hire someone who has experience, kidnapPing, and then 'de-programming' - undoing the mental damage - which had been done to him.
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Movie: Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl ( 1982 )
The Monty Python troupe perform a combination of classic sketches and new material at the Hollywood Bowl.
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Movie: The Clairvoyant ( 1982 )
After the body of murdered woman is found, nude and handcuffed, floating down the Hudson River in New York, a string of murders occur by an unseen serial killer who kills men by handcuffing them before killing them. Mac, a TV talk-show host, and Larry, a police detective, team up to try to find the killer and seek help from Virna, a clairvoyant young artist, who draws visions of the murders before they happen. As Mac and Larry try to establish a connection between the victims and the first female victim, who may have been sexually involved all of the male victims, Virna's further visions begin to point to her as the next victim as she unknowingly closes in on the killer's identity.
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Movie: Let's Do It! ( 1982 )
A virgin named Freddie has a major complex about his mother and won't let himself become involved with any other woman.
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Movie: I Ought to Be in Pictures ( 1982 )
Grandmother has nothing to say when Libby tells her that she is off to LA to look up Dad, a Hollywood screenwriter. Grandmother has been in a New York cemetery for six years and Dad has been out of Libby's life for 16 of her 19 years. Libby arrives in LA on a Tuesday and phones Dad the one night that Stephanie, who does Jane Fonda's hair, stays over. Stephanie is there the next morning when Libby decides she needs to tell her story face-to-face.
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Movie: The Forest ( 1982 )
A cannibal hermit living in the woods preys on campers and hikers for his food supply.