1984 – Around the World in 80s Movies Podcast

American Dreamer (1984) | Rick Rosenthal

March 22, 2019April 18, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

JoBeth Williams stars as suburban Ohio housewife and mother Cathy Palmer, who escapes her joyless marriage in her spare time by reading her favorite romantic thriller novels, all starring a Modesty Blaise-like globe-hopping female private detective, Rebecca Ryan. She loves them so much, she enters a Rebecca Ryan fan fiction writing contest in which the […]

Romancing the Stone (1984) | Robert Zemeckis

February 23, 2019April 18, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner), a best-selling writer of romance novels, has little romance in her own life. She dreams of a tall, dark and handsome man to rescue her and whisk her off her feet, much like the hero in her series of sexy adventure novels, though her waiting for her idealized man may be […]

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) | Steven Spielberg

February 8, 2019April 18, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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While INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM is a sequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark, it’s really a prequel, set in 1935, a year before. Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) finds himself in Shanghai on the hunt for a precious diamond, but gets in over his head, chased out of town with his assistant, a young […]

Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984) | Sam Firstenberg

January 4, 2019April 18, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Somewhere underneath the never-ending music and dance numbers is a story about keeping Shabba-Doo’s community center for inner city youth (named “Miracles”) from falling into the hands of a slimy developer who wants to bulldoze it to erect a shopping center in the middle of the community. This would leave the kids nowhere else to […]

Breakin’ (1984) | Joel Silberg

December 29, 2018April 18, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Former “Solid Gold” dancer Lucinda Dickey stars as Kelly, a waitress by day, aspiring jazz dancer in her spare time. She has the looks and talent to go far, at least according to her dance instructor, but this move seems to come at a price, as he wants a little action on the side to […]

Beat Street (1984) | Stan Lathan

December 14, 2018April 18, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Producer and activist Harry Belafonte’s commercialized slice-of-life drama stars Guy Davis as Kenny ‘Double K’ Kirkland, a South Bronx hip-hop DJ with big dreams, and Jon Chardiet as Ramon, a Puerto Rican graffiti artist who would rather tag trains than get a real job. Rae Dawn Chong is Tracy, an upper-class music student from a college […]

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) | Wes Craven

September 29, 2018April 18, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Wes Craven refreshed the struggling slasher film genre with this more surreal and intense take, saving New Line Cinema with one of the big surprise hits of 1984: A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET. Heather Langenkamp stars as Nancy Thompson, who finds out that she is not alone in having a recurring dream about a badly burnt […]

Dreamscape (1984) | Joseph Ruben

September 20, 2018April 18, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Dreamscape stars Dennis Quaid as a psychic enlisted into a top-secret government experiment that puts him into the nightmares of another person in order to cure them. However, when the President of the United States becomes the subject, he finds himself embroiled in a plot to assassinate the world leader in his sleep. Kate Capshaw, […]

Cloak & Dagger (1984) | Richard Franklin

August 24, 2018April 18, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Henry Thomas plays Davey, a young San Antonio boy with a vivid imagination and a love o fantasy games. The lines between fantasy and reality blur when he ends up in possession of a video game cartridge that is the conduit for top secret information wanted by some pretty bad hombres who will kill to […]

Supergirl (1984) | Jeannot Szwarc

August 3, 2018April 18, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Just as Kal-El was sent by his parents to Earth from a dying planet in order to save him, so too did Alexander and Ilya Salkind try to save their dying franchise by trying to spin it off with a new character with Kara, Superman’s cousin, better known as Supergirl! Things didn’t quite go according […]

Splash (1984) | Ron Howard

April 6, 2018April 17, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Ron Howard directs this delightful romantic comedy that would score one of the biggest hits of 1984, SPLASH. Tom Hanks, Darryl Hannah and John Candy would all propel to a more secure stardom after their roles in this screwball but tender love story between a man who has trouble finding the right woman until a […]