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Subgenre Sampler
Diner (1982)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin, Kevin Bacon… - Endearing, and enduring, tale of college friends growing up in the 1950s Baltimore was a box–office flop but soon found an enthusiastic…
Gandhi (1982)- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox… - Epic retelling of the life of the inspirational Indian leader with Ben Kingsley as 'The Mahatma'. Won eight Academy Awards including Best Picture.
King of Comedy, The (1982)
- Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Robert De Niro - Deliciously creepy story of a loser/nerd, who acts out his life ambition; to appear on a TV comedy show with Jerry Lewis. Lewis plays it straight,…
Making Love (1982)- Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. Kate Jackson, Harry Hamlin, Michael Ontkean - A glossy but under–rated love triangle drama starring former "Charlie's Angel" Kate Jackson that was the first mainstream Hollywood film to…
Monkey Grip (1982)- Dir. Ken Cameron
Feat. Colin Friels, Noni Hazlehurst, Alice Garner… - Serious–minded drama set in the bohemian environs of 1980s Melbourne. Focused chiefly on a struggles of a divorcee to free herself from the…
One from the Heart (1982)- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Frederic Forrest, Teri Garr, Raul Julia - A lavishly mounted curiosity loosely following the romantic plight of an estranged couple, set against an impressively stylised backdrop of Las…
Portrait Of A Showgirl (1982)- Dir. Steven Hilliard Stern
Feat. Lesley Ann Warren, Tony Curtis, Rita Moreno… - Chintz melodrama concerning three Las Vegas showgirls involved in a Caesar's Palace revue. Possibly the drabbest portrait of Sin City imaginable…
Return of the Solider, The (1982)- Dir. Alan Bridges
Feat. Julie Christie, Glenda Jackson, Ann-Margret… - Alan Bates stars as a returning WWI soldier rendered catatonic by the horrors of the battlefield, with no memory of his wife. Somewhat overwrought…
Sophie's Choice (1982)- Dir. Alan J. Pakula
Feat. Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline - Master of many accents Meryl Streep won an Oscar for her role as a European refugee of the Nazi death–camps whose uneasy relationship with…
Tender Mercies (1982)- Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Robert Duvall - Robert Duvall gives an Oscar winning performance as a down–out–his–luck country singer who paves the slow road back to sobriety.…
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