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Eight Men Out (1989): Dir. John Sayles
Feat. John Cusack, Michael Rooker, Christopher Lloyd…; True story of the Chicago White Sox baseball team who conspired with gamblers to lose the World Series in 1919. Finely detailed topical drama with an…
Fabulous Baker Boys, The (1989): Dir. Steve Cloves
Feat. Michelle Pfeiffer, Jeff Bridges, Beau Bridges…; The fabulous Bridges brothers play two sibling cocktail musicians who employ sexy vocalist Michelle Pfeiffer to spice up their routine act.
In Country (1989): Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Bruce Willis, Emily Lloyd, Joan Allen; Drama about a High School graduate from Kentucky who throws herself into a rigorous investigation of the life of her father, who died in the Vietnam…
Jeweller's Shop, The (1989): Dir. Michael Anderson
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Olivia Hussey, Ben Cross; Charming, low–key adaptation of a play by Pope John Paul the Second. Burt Lancaster in his last film role plays a jeweller in 1930's Poland…
Lean On Me (1989): Dir. John G. Avildsen
Feat. Morgan Freeman, Robert Guillaume; Principal Morgan Freeman whips the pupils of a troubled high–school into shape in this formulaic but likeable example of the genre.
My Name is Bill W. (1989): Dir. Daniel Petrie
Feat. James Woods, JoBeth Williams, James Garner; James Woods plays Bill Wilson, the famed co–founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, in this tele–movie charting his descent from 1920's business…
Romero (1989): Dir. John Duigan
Feat. Raul Julia, Richard Jordan; Provocative political drama details the story of Salvadorian Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was assassinated in 1980 by representatives of an…
Shadow Makers (Fat Man and Little Boy) (1989): Dir. Roland Joffe
Feat. Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia…; An informative (if only really adequate) dramatisation of the Manhattan Project, which produced the A–Bomb in the New Mexico desert during WW2.…
Sweetie (1989): Dir. Jane Campion
Feat. Genevieve Lemon, Karen Colston, Tom Lycos; An unsettling account of a young woman's uncomfortable relationship with her boyfriend and disturbed sister who makes an unexpected visit. Askewed…
Welcome Home (1989): Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
Feat. Kris Kristofferson, JoBeth Williams, Sam Waterston…; Fairly tepid post–Vietnam War drama has Kris Kristofferson play a pilot shot down over Cambodia and was rescued by a Khmer Rouge woman, whom he…

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