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Mystic Pizza (1988): Dir. Donald Petrie
Feat. Julia Roberts, Lili Taylor, Annabeth Gish; Julia Roberts' star quality shines in this, her debut film, contrasting the love–lives of three pizza waitresses in a town called Mystic.…
Naked Gun, The (1988): Dir. David Zucker
Feat. Leslie Nielsen, George Kennedy, O.J. Simpson…; Leslie Neilsen perfects his deadpan for the Zucker Bros., who do for police work what their classic FLYING HIGH did for air travel. A…
Natural Causes (1988): Dir. Vernon Lawrence
Feat. George Cole, Prunella Scales; A farcical comedy of infidelity and spousal skulduggery. George Cole plays a professional 'disposer' who is hired to fabricate the suicide of a…
Patty Hearst (1988): Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Natasha Richardson, William Forsythe, Ving Rhames…; Intense depiction of Patty Hearst's kidnapping, confinement and brain–washing by 'urban guerillas' the SLA, from that specialist in American…
Punchline (1988): Dir. David Seltzer
Feat. Sally Field, Tom Hanks, John Goodman; Ambitious comedy–drama focused on the career–efforts of two, very different aspiring standup comics – a personable Sally Field and…
Rain Man (1988): Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino; Oscar–winning road drama featuring Dustin Hoffman's virtuoso performance as the idiot savant brother of Tom Cruise, who does equally well in a…
Running On Empty (1988): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Judd Hirsch, River Phoenix, Christine Lahti…; A married couple, on the run for activist crimes in the 1960s, come to terms with their childrens' right to be free. A moving story, handled with…
Satisfaction (Girls of Summer) (1988): Dir. Joan Freeman
Feat. Justine Bateman, Julia Roberts, Liam Neeson…; Flavour of the '80s, Justine Bateman (TV's FAMILY TIES), stole the limelight from her then fledgling co–star, Julia Roberts, in this hoary girl…
Scrooged (1988): Dir. Richard Donner
Feat. Bill Murray, Karen Allen, Alfre Woodard…; Bill Murray is hilariously mean–spirited as a yuppie incarnation of Charles Dicken’s ‘Scrooge’ who eventually gets a change of attitude…
Shame (1988): Dir. Steve Jodrell
Feat. Tony Barry, Deborra-Lee Furness; Stranded in an outback town, a female lawyer defends a young rape victim when her plight is met with nonchalance by the townsfolk.

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