Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
A Taxing Woman (1987)- Dir. Juzo Itami
Feat. Nobuko Miyamoto - A nicely offbeat look at the potentially boring subject of tax evasion. Nobuko Miyamoto plays our star tax collector who meets her match in a hotshot…
Fatal Beauty (1987)- Dir. Tom Holland
Feat. Whoopi Goldberg, Sam Elliott, Ruben Blades - Whoopi Goldberg stars in this action–comedy thriller as a tough narc cop with a wig for every occasion. Clearly modelled after the BEVERLY…
High Tide (1987)- Dir. Gillian Armstrong
Feat. Judy Davis, Claudia Karvan, Colin Friels - The director of MY BRILLIANT CAREER encores with Judy Davis for this bittersweet exploration of mother–daughter relations at a bleak coastal…
Outrageous Fortune (1987)- Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. Bette Midler, Shelley Long, George Carlin… - Floozy Bette Midler and straight–gal Shelley Long search for their boyfriend in common.
Whales of August, The (1987)- Dir. Lindsay Anderson
Feat. Bette Davis, Lillian Gish, Vincent Price - A gently homespun slice of life in one's final years, with the joyous presence of late cinema icons Bette Davis, Lillian Gish and Vincent Price.
Winter Tan, A (1987)- Dir. Jackie Burroughs, Louise Clark, John Frizzell
Feat. Jackie Burroughs - Based on the late Maryse Holder's raw, confessional letters from Mexico, Jackie Burroughs brilliantly interprets this woman who "took a holiday from…
Black Widow (1986)- Dir. Bob Rafelson
Feat. Debra Winger, Theresa Russell, Sami Frey… - Husband–murdering Theresa Russell, is cautiously snooped by Debra Winger.
Crimes of the Heart (1986)- Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek… - Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange and Sissy Spacek play the Magrath sisters, who reunite in their family home in Mississippi to regroup and settle their…
Kate Bush - The Whole Story (1986)- Feat. Kate Bush
- Video compilation includes Wuthering Heights, and 13 others up to the mid 80s.
Life and Loves of a She-Devil, The (1986)- Dir. Philip Saville
Feat. Julie T Wallace, Dennis Waterman, Patricia Hodge… - Splendidly ripe BBC adaptation of Fay Weldon's quasi–feminist satire in which a housewife (Wallace) discovers her husband's (Waterman)…
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