amnesia – Around the World in 80s Movies Podcast

Overboard (1987) | Garry Marshall

March 28, 2019April 18, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

Goldie Hawn plays the ultra-disdainful Joanna Slayton, who hires a carpenter, Dean Proffitt (Kurt Russell), while stopping off for repairs in their luxury yacht off the coast of the small town of Elk Cove, Oregon, with her snobby hubby Grant (Edward Herrmann), in order to remodel her closet space for her extensive designer clothing collection. […]

American Dreamer (1984) | Rick Rosenthal

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

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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 […]

Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) | Susan Seidelman

March 14, 2019April 18, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Rosanna Arquette stars as Roberta Glass, a dreamer New Jersey housewife who contents herself to reading about the mysterious lives of others through perusing the personals in the local paper. One in particular has caught her eye, involving “Jim and Susan” (Susan is played by Madonna) who use the ads in order to meet in public […]