Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
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.…
She's Been Away (1989)
- Dir. Peter Hall
Feat. Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox - After a lifetime in mental institutions, an elderly Peggy Ashcroft is released into the care of her liberal nephew James Fox. A disarming and…
Speaking Parts (1989)- Dir. Atom Egoyan
Feat. Michael McManus, Arsinee Khanjian, Gabrielle Rose - Bizarre and striking work about a video–obssesed laundry worker's fixation on an aspiring actor who in turn has obsessions of his own. A slick…
Spirits of the Air (1989)- Dir. Alex Proyas
Feat. Norman Boyd, Rhys Davis, Michael Lake - Visually intoxicating, very off–beat tale about three desert eccentrics who build a flying machine. The director went on to make THE CROW in…
Starlight Hotel (1989)
- Dir. Sam Pillsbury
Feat. Greer Robson, Bruce Phillips, Alison Fraser - A young runaway in search of her father and a reluctant fugitive become unlikely partners who manage to keep one step ahead of the police. Shot on…
Steel Magnolias (1989)- Dir. Herbert Ross
Feat. Julia Roberts, Dolly Parton, Daryl Hannah… - Light comedy–come–tearjerker in which six Southern belles congregate at a beauty salon over several years.
Summer's Lease (TV Mini-series) (1989)- Feat. Susan Fleetwood, John Gielgud, Michael Pennington
- BBC "masterpiece theatre" drama–mystery series set in Tuscany, based on the novel by John Mortimer (RUMPOLE OF THE BAILEY) and adapted by the…
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…
Tale of Two Cities, A (Mini-series) (1989)- Dir. Philippe Monnier
Feat. James Wilby, John Mills, Jean-Pierre Aumont… - BBC TV adaptation of Charles Dickens' great, historical novel of the French Revolution, in the shadow of which two, very different men fall for the…
Testimony (1989)- Dir. Tony Palmer
Feat. Ben Kingsley - The life, artistry and anguish of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich receives a vivid, stylistic treatment here, with Ben Kingsley in the central…
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