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We love the 1980s. Everything on this page is all about movies of the 1980s. Starting in 1980 and working our way the decade, we are preserving the stories and movies of the greatest decade, the 80s. https://www.youtube.com/@Moviesofthe80s
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The Bold Change That Saved 'Terms of Endearment': Jack Nicholson’s Invented Role
Jack Nicholson wasn’t initially intended to be in Terms of Endearment. Today, that feels impossible. Nicholson drops into the role of Garrett Breedlove — astronaut, ladies’ man, social irritant — so comfortably, so perfectly, that the movie now feels inconceivable without him. His roguish charm, his timing, the way he needles and softens Aurora Greenaway in equal measure: it’s all baked into the film’s identity. Nicholson won an Academy Award for the role for a reason. His performance isn’t just memorable; it’s inseparable from what Terms of Endearment ultimately became.
By Movies of the 80s2 months ago in Geeks
Why Clint Eastwood Came Back to Dirty Harry — And Why Hollywood Needed Him To
After The Enforcer, Eastwood Walked Away After playing San Francisco detective Dirty Harry Callahan in three blockbuster films, Clint Eastwood was finished. Not burned out for the moment. Not waiting for the right script. Finished.
By Movies of the 80s2 months ago in Geeks
Scarface 1932 vs. Scarface 1983: Two Gangsters, Two Americas
Two Scarfaces, Two Americas The 1932 Scarface arrives in the middle of the Prohibition era, when newspapers obsessed over Al Capone and the public devoured gangster headlines the way we devour celebrity feuds. Howard Hawks and producer Howard Hughes made a film that felt like overhearing the city’s dirtiest gossip whispered through a dictionary of bullets. It’s blunt, fast, and sharp—almost breathless in the way it barrels through Tony Camonte’s rise and fall.
By Movies of the 80s2 months ago in Criminal
From Krull to Classic: How Peter Yates Saved His 1983 With The Dresser
Few directors had a year quite like Peter Yates in 1983. Within six months, the English filmmaker went from delivering one of the decade’s most expensive box office bombs to receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Director.
By Movies of the 80s2 months ago in Geeks
Fred Williamson’s Big Gamble: The True Story Behind 'The Big Score' (1983)
The Legend of Dirty Harry — And the Man Who Saw an Opportunity In the 1970s, Clint Eastwood turned Dirty Harry into a film icon. The character was so massive that Eastwood eventually grew tired of playing him. Scripts for future Dirty Harry movies were auctioned off so he could move on to other projects.
By Movies of the 80s2 months ago in Geeks
From Fantasy Vows to Real Lives: The Forgotten Newlyweds of 1983's 'Krull' Wedding Contest
A Wedding Day… and a Flop for the Ages Imagine planning your wedding — the dress, the guest list, the forever memory. Now imagine the landmark moment of your life is permanently entwined with a science-fiction bomb that cost tens of millions of dollars and baffled audiences for decades. For twelve couples from across America in 1983, that isn’t imagination.
By Movies of the 80s2 months ago in Geeks
Did Paramount Bury 'Nate and Hayes' to Protect 'Indiana Jones?'
The 1983 Adventure Paramount Didn’t Want You to See In November 1983, Paramount Pictures released an old-fashioned pirate adventure called Nate and Hayes (also known as Savage Islands) on 1,200 screens.
By Movies of the 80s2 months ago in Geeks
How Amityville 3-D Tried to Save 3D—and Ended Up Killing It Instead
How Amityville 3-D Tried to Save 3D—and Ended Up Killing It Instead. A Movies of the 80s Feature There are movies that define an era, movies that reinvent genres, and movies that push technology forward. And then there’s Amityville 3-D — a film that somehow managed to do none of those things, while still becoming a perfect time capsule of Hollywood’s endless optimism about “the next great cinematic format.”
By Movies of the 80s2 months ago in Geeks
Remembering A Christmas Story (1983): Where the Cast Went and the Wild Career Behind the Camera
Remembering A Christmas Story (1983): The Cast, the Director, and the Lasting Magic of a Holiday Classic There are Christmas movies, and then there are Christmas institutions. A Christmas Story (1983) didn’t just become a sleeper hit; it slid quietly into the cultural bloodstream, emerging decades later as a 24-hour-marathon, leg-lamp–selling, endlessly quotable tradition. But behind the nostalgia and BB-gun fantasies are a handful of working actors, a future behind-the-camera pro, and a director whose career ranged from legendary horror to raucous teen sex comedies to one of the most gentle and wholesome films ever made.
By Movies of the 80s2 months ago in Geeks
“Barbra Against the World: The Making of Yentl (1983)”
When Barbra Streisand finally stepped behind a camera in 1983, the world acted as if she was attempting something outrageous. Direct. Produce. Co-write. Star. Sing. And adapt a beloved Isaac Bashevis Singer story while playing a teenage boy? In period costume? In a musical? In Europe? The opinion pages sharpened their knives before she even yelled “action.”
By Movies of the 80s2 months ago in Geeks
Where Did Angela Go? The Strange, Happy Haunt of Felissa Rose of 'Sleepaway Camp' (1983)
If you’re from the generation that remembers calling someone a “total Angela” and meaning it as the creepiest insult possible, thank Felissa Rose. When Robert Hiltzik’s low-budget summer-camp shocker Sleepaway Camp debuted in 1983, it didn’t just deliver a twist ending — it gave the movies one of their most disquieting young performers. Rose was a child actor, spoken about in interviews as being just twelve or thirteen at the time of shooting, and that adolescent stillness in the role — equal parts fragile and uncanny — is the movie’s long, cold aftertaste.
By Movies of the 80s2 months ago in Horror
