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Manufacturer: Republic Pictures
Starring: Maria Conchita Alonso, Benjamin Bratt, Frederick Coffin, Patrick Duffy, Chelsea Field
Directed By: Richard Lang

Manufacturer: Polygram USA Video
Starring: Anthony Michael Hall, Jerry Orbach, Claudia Christian, Eli Danker, Mark Harelik
Directed By: Stan Winston

Yes, that is Bill Paxton as Ilan Mitchell-Smith's militaristic big brother. And that's Robert Downey Jr. as one of the in-crowd jerks who makes nerds Mitchell-Smith and Hall's lives miserable. Fortunately, this is a John Hughes comedy and our smart nerds create the perfect woman, Lisa (Kelly LeBrock), using a computer and voodoo. Lisa is a willing sex toy, has magical powers, and just wants to ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures
Starring: Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Kelly LeBrock, Bill Paxton, Suzanne Snyder
Directed By: John Hughes

John Hughes's popular 1985 teen drama finds a diverse group of high school students--a jock (Emilio Estevez), a metalhead (Judd Nelson), a weirdo (Ally Sheedy), a princess (Molly Ringwald), and a nerd (Anthony Michael Hall)--sharing a Saturday in detention at their high school for one minor infraction or another. Over the course of a day, they talk through the social barriers that ordinarily keep ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures
Starring: Mary Christian, Perry Crawford, Ron Dean, Emilio Estevez, Tim Gamble

Vacation paved the way for the John Hughes movie dynasty of the 1980s. Written by Hughes (who would go on to write, direct, and/or produce The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Uncle Buck, Home Alone, and so on) and directed by Harold Ramis (Caddyshack, Groundhog Day, Stuart Saves His Family), the first Vacation movie ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Dana Barron, Eddie Bracken, Christie Brinkley, John Candy, Chevy Chase

This dramatization of the tangled history of Apple Computer and Microsoft, based on a book by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine, hits enough of the right notes to make its failures all the more frustrating. The script follows the entwined paths of Apple's Steve Jobs and Microsoft's Bill Gates with a pointed sense of the cultural divide between the hip, self-absorbed Apple cofounder and the ...

Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Starring: Anthony Michael Hall, Noah Wyle, Joey Slotnick, J.G. Hertzler, Wayne Pére
Directed By: Martyn Burke

Manufacturer: Columbia/Tri-Star
Starring: Anthony Michael Hall, Jenny Wright, Jeff Kober, Glynn Turman, Raymond J. Barry
Directed By: Richard Tuggle

Molly Ringwald established herself as the teen queen of the '80s in this fresh comedy. The movie is a day in the life of Samantha, whose 16th birthday is turning out to be anything but sweet. All the traumas of teendom come down on one long day, which sees Samantha surrounded by dithery relatives, mooning over a high school hunk, and pursued by a sawed-off Lothario. Sixteen Candles marked ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures
Starring: Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Justin Henry, Michael Schoeffling, Haviland Morris
Directed By: John Hughes

When 28-year old wannabe animator Gord Brody (Green) leaves the safety of his parents' home to make it big in Hollywood, all hell breaks loose... in hospital rooms, with paraplegic nymphos, in a cheese factory, with farm animals... and much more! Just when you thought you'd seen it all! "You won't believe your eyes... Tome Green doesn't cross the line... He stomps on it!" (The Movie Guys) This ...

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Drew Barrymore, R. Nelson Brown, Wendy Chmelauskas, Marisa Coughlan, Jackson Davies

Previously criticized for her marginal acting skills, Sofia Coppola made her directorial debut with The Virgin Suicides and silenced her detractors. No amount of coaching from her director father (Francis Coppola) or husband (Spike Jonze) could have guaranteed a film this assured, and in adapting Jeffrey Eugenides's novel, Coppola demonstrates the sensitivity and emotional depth that this ...

Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Michael Paré
Directed By: Sofia Coppola