Against All Odds (1984)
Synopsis: An unemployed football player (Jeff Bridges, Winter Kills) is hired to find the girlfriend (Rachel Ward, Fortress) of a shady night club owner (James Woods, Best Seller). Things get […]
Category Archives: 1984
The Naked Face (1984)
Synopsis: Roger Moore (For Your Eyes Only) plays a Chicago psychiatrist, Dr. Judd Stevens, who suddenly becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation. Reaction & Thoughts: Based upon Sidney Sheldon’s […]
Dreamscape (1984)
Synopsis: A psychic, Alex Gardner (Dennis Quaid, Breaking Away), reluctantly joins a secret government project about dream manipulation. But Alex soon finds out that the project is part of devilish plot […]
Cloak & Dagger (1984)
Synopsis: 11-year-old Davey (Henry Thomas, E.T. The Extra-terrestrial) is prone to invent stories that involve an imaginary superhero named Jack Flack (Dabney Coleman, Tootsie). Davey’s dad (also played by Coleman) […]
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
Synopsis: Dr. Buckaroo Banzai (Peter Weller, RoboCop) is a full-time brain surgeon and part-time inventor who spends his spare time playing the guitar in a rock band (“The Hong Kong […]
The Brother from Another Planet (1984)
Synopsis: A mute black man from outer space (Joe Morton, Terminator 2: Judgement Day) crashlands his spaceship into the Hudson River, New York, and somehow ends up in Harlem. “The […]
Stephen King’s Children of the Corn (1984)
Synopsis: A young couple (Linda Hamilton, The Terminator, and Peter Horton, TV’s Thirtysomething) gets stranded in a small rural town in Nebraska, where its population consists only of children and […]
The Evil That Men Do (1984)
Synopsis: Charles Bronson (The Stone Killer) plays an ex-hitman who comes out of retirement in order to avenge the murder of an old friend. His mission takes him to South America, […]
Director’s Spotlight: David Lean’s A Passage to India (1984)
Synopsis: Eager to see her fiancé, Ronny Heaslop (Nigel Havers, TV’s Downton Abbey), who works as a city magistrate in British India, Adela Quested (Judy Davis, Husbands and Wives), travels […]
A Soldier’s Story (1984)
Synopsis: Howard E. Rollins (Ragtime) is Captain Davenport, an African-American Amy officer assigned to investigate the murder of an African-American (Adolph Caesar, The Color Purple) in the Deep South in […]
Mrs. Soffel (1984)
Synopsis: In 1901, at a Pittsburgh prison, the warden’s wife (Diane Keaton, Annie Hall) falls in love with a convicted killer (Mel Gibson, Mad Max). As the affair intensifies, the […]
Thief of Hearts (1984)
Synopsis: A professional burglar (Steven Bauer, Primal Fear) who robs upper class houses accidentally steals a married woman’s (Barbara Williams, Watchers) secret diary. After reading the diary, the thief becomes […]
