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Title
Back to the Future
Year
1985
     Distributer     
Universal Studios Home Video
Director
Robert Zemeckis
Catagory
Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Country
USA
CAST
Michael J. Fox
Christopher Lloyd
Lea Thompson
Crispin Glover
Marc McClure
Thomas F. Wilson
Wendie Jo Sperber
Running Time
116 mins
Rating
PG
    Summary    
When a mad scientist's time machine sends a teenager 30 years into the past he meets his parents, still in high school. If he can't influence them to fall in love, he might never exist! A fast-moving and heart-warming comedy. Academy Award Nominations: 4, including Best Song ("Power of Love"). Academy Awards: Sound Effects Editing.

Title
Back to the Future Part II
Year
1989
     Distributer     
Universal Studios Home Video
Director
Robert Zemeckis
Catagory
Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Country
USA
CAST
Michael J. Fox
Christopher Lloyd
Lea Thompson
Thomas F. Wilson
Elisabeth Shue
Running Time
107 mins
Rating
PG
    Summary    
Marty and Doc fix the McFly family in the year 2015 only to find new wrinkles back home in Hill Valley, 1985, which forces them to go back to 1955 to fix the future. Whew! Academy Award Nominations: Best Visual Effects.

Title
Back to the Future Part III
Year
1990
     Distributer     
Universal Studios Home Video
Director
Robert Zemeckis
Catagory
Action/Adventure
Country
USA
CAST
Michael J. Fox
Christopher Lloyd
Mary Steenburgen
Thomas F. Wilson
Elisabeth Shue
Lea Thompson
Running Time
118 mins
Rating
PG
    Summary    
Stranded in 1955, Marty must now travel to 1855 to rescue Doc Brown. Surviving Indian attacks and unfriendly townsfolk, its up to Marty to grab the love-struck Doc, leave the wild west and get back to the future.

Title
Batman
Year
1989
     Distributer     
Warner Home Video, Ltd. (Canada)
Director
Tim Burton
Catagory
Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Country
USA
CAST
Michael Keaton
Jack Nicholson
Kim Basinger
Jack Palance
Jerry Hall
Pat Hingle
Billy Dee Williams
Michael Gough
Robert Wuhl
Tracy Walter
Running Time
126 mins
Rating
PG-13
    Summary    
Inspired by Frank Miller's graphic novel "The Dark Knight Returns," this gothic, Wagnerian treatment of the Batman mythos explains the origins of Batman and his nemesis, the maniacal Joker (a ripe Jack Nicholson), who has sinister plans for the citizens of Gotham City. Academy Awards: Best Art Direction.

Title
Big Boss
Year
1972
     Distributer     
Director
Catagory
Action/Adventure
Country
CAST
Bruce Lee
Maria Yi
Running Time
Rating
18
    Summary    

Title
Bill and Ted's Excellent dventure
Year
1989
     Distributer     
Metromedia Home Video
Director
Stephen Herek
Catagory
Comedy
Country
USA
CAST
Keanu Reeves
Alex Winter
George Carlin
Robert V. Barron
Terry Camilleri
Clifford David
Al Leong
Rod Loomis
Dan Shor
Tony Steedman
Jane Wiedlin
Bernie Casey
Running Time
90 mins
Rating
PG
    Summary    
The excitement and fun begin when a trio of interplanetary rulers dispatch a cool hipster from the 27th century to send two teenage boys - who should have been studying history instead of playing rock music - on a trip through time and history.

Title
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey
Year
1991
     Distributer     
Metromedia Home Video
Director
Peter Hewitt
Catagory
Comedy
Country
USA
CAST
Keanu Reeves
Alex Winter
George Carlin
William Sadler
Joss Ackland
Pam Grier
Running Time
90 mins
Rating
PG
    Summary    
After miraculously graduating San Dimas high school, Bill and Ted are preparing for a battle of the bands. But somewhere in the future the evil De Nomolos creates identical Bill and Ted robots to kill the originals, take their place and lose the contest. Bill and Ted must dodge Death and fulfill their most resplendent destiny.

Title
Billy Liar
Year
1963
     Distributer     
Thorn EMI
Director
John Schlesinger
Catagory
Comedy
Country
UK
CAST
Tom Courtenay
Julie Christie
Mona Washbourne
Ethel Griffies
Finlay Currie
Running Time
96 mins
Rating
NR
    Summary    
An ambitious young man caught up in the working class world he was born into dreams of wild avenues of escape. Based on the novel and play by Keith Waterhouse.

Title
Blade Runner
Year
1982
     Distributer     
Facets Video
Director
Ridley Scott
Catagory
Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Country
USA
CAST
Harrison Ford
Rutger Hauer
Daryl Hannah
Edward James Olmos
M. Emmet Walsh
Sean Young
William Sanderson
Running Time
121 mins
Rating
R
    Summary    
A jaded ex-cop in a totalitarian future is forced out of retirement to hunt down a group of genetically engineered superhumans bred for slavery. Seeing their heroic struggle against an inhuman system, he ultimately falls in love with one of them. This visually dazzling and boldly moral film caught many critics napping when it first came out. Based on the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick. Academy Award Nominations: Best Art Direction-Set Direction, Best Visual Effects.

Title
Blazing Saddles
Year
1974
     Distributer     
Warner Home Video, Ltd. (Canada)
Director
Mel Brooks
Catagory
Comedy
Country
USA
CAST
Cleavon Little
Gene Wilder
Madeline Kahn
Harvey Korman
Mel Brooks
Slim Pickens
David Huddleston
Running Time
93 mins
Rating
R
    Summary    
A very spoofy goof on westerns, Mel Brooks' first hit movie contains a wide assortment of gags, jokes and outright belly-laughs. An ITA winner. Academy Award Nominations: 3, including Best Supporting Actress--Madeline Kahn, Best Song ("Blazing Saddles"), Best Film Editing.

Title
Bless This House: The Movie
Year
     Distributer     
Wham! USA
Director
Gerald Thomas
Catagory
Comedy
Country
UK
CAST
Sidney James
Diana Coupland
Terry Scott
June Whitfield
Peter Butterworth
Sally Geeson
Robin Askwith
Carol Hawkins
Running Time
89 mins
Rating
NR
    Summary    

Title
Body Heat
Year
1981
     Distributer     
Warner Home Video, Ltd. (Canada)
Director
Lawrence Kasdan
Catagory
Drama
Country
USA
CAST
William Hurt
Kathleen Turner
Richard Crenna
Mickey Rourke
Ted Danson
J.A. Preston
Running Time
113 mins
Rating
R
    Summary    
In this humid, atmospheric film noir, a sweltering summer in south Florida sets the stage for a dark romance between an attorney and a beautiful woman as they plot her wealthy husband's early demise. Mickey Rourke's debut as an arson expert on parole is convincing and the script by Kasdan is dazzlingly treacherous.

Title
The Bounty
Year
1984
     Distributer     
United American Video Corp.
Director
Roger Donaldson
Catagory
Drama
Country
USA
CAST
Mel Gibson
Anthony Hopkins
Laurence Olivier
Daniel Day-Lewis
Edward Fox
Bernard Hill
Liam Neeson
Running Time
132 mins
Rating
PG
    Summary    
A well-made adventure based on the disastrous voyage of the HMS Bounty, starring Mel Gibson as Fletcher Christian and Anthony Hopkins as the repressed Captain Bligh.

Title
A Breed Apart
Year
1984
     Distributer     
HBO (Canada)
Director
Philippe Mora
Catagory
Drama
Country
USA
CAST
Kathleen Turner
Rutger Hauer
Powers Boothe
Donald Pleasence
Brion James
Running Time
91 mins
Rating
R
    Summary    
The story of a mysterious recluse who is fiercely dedicated to protecting a pair of nesting eagles, believed to be the last of a dying breed, and the young woman with whom he has a liaison.

Title
The Breakfast Club
Year
1985
     Distributer     
Universal Studios Home Video
Director
John Hughes
Catagory
Comedy
Country
USA
CAST
Emilio Estevez
Paul Gleason
Anthony Michael Hall
John Kapelos
Judd Nelson
Molly Ringwald
Ally Sheedy
Running Time
97 mins
Rating
R
    Summary    
In one of the few intelligent "Brat Pack" movies, five high school students are forced to spend an entire Saturday together in detention. While "serving time," they slowly form friendships which could last a lifetime.

Title
Brewster's Millions
Year
1985
     Distributer     
Universal Studios Home Video
Director
Walter Hill
Catagory
Comedy
Country
USA
CAST
Richard Pryor
John Candy
Lonette McKee
Stephen Collins
Hume Cronyn
Pat Hingle
Jerry Orbach
Running Time
97 mins
Rating
PG
    Summary    
In order to inherit a vast fortune, a man must first spend 30-million-dollars in thirty days, at the end of which, no tangible assets may be left. Pryor is the hopeful inheritor, and Candy is his best buddy.

Title
A Bridge Too Far
Year
1977
     Distributer     
MGM Home Entertainment
Director
Richard Attenborough
Catagory
Drama
Country
USA
CAST
Dirk Bogarde
James Caan
Michael Caine
Sean Connery
Edward Fox
Elliott Gould
Gene Hackman
Laurence Olivier
Hardy Kruger
Maximilian Schell
Liv Ullmann
Running Time
175 mins
Rating
PG
    Summary    
Based on Cornelius Ryan's best seller, a bold plan to end World War II ends in the Allies suffering more casualties than they did in the Normandy Invasion.

Title
Bruce Lee - The Legend
Year
1977
     Distributer     
Movies Unlimited
Director
Catagory
Documentary Cast:
Country
USA
CAST
Bruce Lee
Running Time
Rating
NA
    Summary    
This documentary of the "King of Martial Arts" features screen tests and out-takes never released before, as well as footage in which Lee acts with his father.

Title
Buster
Year
1988
     Distributer     
HBO (Canada)
Director
David Green
Catagory
Drama
Country
USA
CAST
Phil Collins
Julie Walters
Ellen Beaven
Larry Lamb
Anthony Quayle
Running Time
98 mins
Rating
R
    Summary    
Based on the true story of a two-bit burglar who pulls off the heist of a lifetime and then, along with his wife, flees England and the police. Soundtrack features Collins' "Two Hearts" and "Groovy Kind of Love." Academy Award Nominations: Best Song ("Two Hearts").

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Compiled by D. M Brewer - November 1997