1988 in film

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The following is an overview of events in 1988 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. Rain Man was awarded the Academy Award for Best Picture, marking one of the few instances where the top-grossing film of the year was also the winner of such an Oscar award that year.

Highest-grossing films

The top 10 films released in 1988 by worldwide gross are as follows:[1]

Highest-grossing films of 1988
Rank	Title	Distributor	Worldwide gross
1	Rain Man	MGM	$354,825,435
2	Who Framed Roger Rabbit	Disney	$329,803,958
3	Coming to America	Paramount	$288,752,301
4	Crocodile Dundee II	Paramount	$239,606,210
5	Twins	Universal	$216,614,388
6	Rambo III	TriStar / Carolco	$189,015,611
7	A Fish Called Wanda	MGM	$177,889,000[2][3]
8	Cocktail	Disney	$171,504,781
9	Big	20th Century Fox	$151,668,774
10	Die Hard	20th Century Fox	$140,767,956
10	The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!	Paramount	$140,000,000[4][3]

Awards

Category/Organization	46th Golden Globe Awards January 28, 1989		42nd BAFTA Awards March 19, 1989	61st Academy Awards March 29, 1989
Category/Organization	Drama	Musical or Comedy	42nd BAFTA Awards March 19, 1989	61st Academy Awards March 29, 1989
Best Film	Rain Man	Working Girl	The Last Emperor	Rain Man
Best Director	Clint Eastwood Bird		Louis Malle Au revoir les enfants	Barry Levinson Rain Man
Best Actor	Dustin Hoffman Rain Man	Tom Hanks Big	John Cleese A Fish Called Wanda	Dustin Hoffman Rain Man
Best Actress	Jodie Foster The Accused Shirley MacLaine Madame Sousatzka Sigourney Weaver Gorillas in the Mist	Melanie Griffith Working Girl	Maggie Smith The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne	Jodie Foster The Accused
Best Supporting Actor	Martin Landau Tucker: The Man and His Dream		Michael Palin A Fish Called Wanda	Kevin Kline A Fish Called Wanda
Best Supporting Actress	Sigourney Weaver Working Girl		Judi Dench A Handful of Dust	Geena Davis The Accidental Tourist
Best Screenplay, Adapted	Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal Running on Empty		Jean-Claude Carriere and Philip Kaufman The Unbearable Lightness of Being	Christopher Hampton Dangerous Liaisons
Best Screenplay, Original	Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal Running on Empty		A World Apart Shawn Slovo	Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow Rain Man
Best Original Score	Maurice Jarre Gorillas in the Mist		John Williams Empire of the Sun	Dave Grusin The Milagro Beanfield War
Best Original Song	"Two Hearts" Buster "Let the River Run" Working Girl		N/A	"Let the River Run" Working Girl
Best Foreign Language Film	Pelle the Conqueror		Babette's Feast	Pelle the Conqueror

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival)

Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle erobreren), directed by Bille August, Denmark

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival)

La leggenda del santo bevitore (The Legend of the Holy Drinker), directed by Ermanno Olmi, Italy / France

Golden Bear (Berlin International Film Festival)

Red Sorghum (Hong gao liang), directed by Zhang Yimou, China

1988 Wide-release films

January–March


Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre	Medium
J A N U A R Y	8	Cop	Atlantic Releasing Corporation	James B. Harris (director/screenplay); James Woods, Lesley Ann Warren, Charles Durning, Charles Haid, Raymond J. Barry, Randi Brooks, Steven Lambert, Christopher Wynne, Jan McGill, Vicki Wauchope, Melinda Lynch, John Petievich, Dennis Stewart, Annie McEnroe	Crime, Thriller	Live action
	15	The Couch Trip	Orion Pictures	Michael Ritchie (director); Steven Kampmann, William Porter, Sean Stein, Walter Bernstein (screenplay); Dan Aykroyd, Walter Matthau, Charles Grodin, Donna Dixon, Richard Romanus, Mary Gross, David Clennon, Scott Thomson, David Wohl, Arye Gross, Victoria Jackson, Chevy Chase	Comedy	Live action
	15	For Keeps	TriStar Pictures	John G. Avildsen (director); Denise DeClue, Tim Kazurinsky (screenplay); Molly Ringwald, Randall Batinkoff, Kenneth Mars, Miriam Flynn, Conchata Ferrell, Sharon Brown, John Zarchen, Pauly Shore, Michelle Downey, Patricia Barry, Janet MacLachlan, Jaclyn Bernstein, Matthew Licht, Renee Estevez, Darcy DeMoss	Comedy, Drama	Live action
	22	The Telephone	New World Pictures	Rip Torn (director); Terry Southern, Harry Nilsson (screenplay); Whoopi Goldberg, Severn Darden, Elliott Gould, John Heard, Amy Wright	Comedy, Drama	Live action
	22	Braddock: Missing in Action III	Cannon Films	Aaron Norris (director); James Bruner, Chuck Norris (screenplay); Chuck Norris, Aki Aleong, Keith David, Yehuda Efroni, Roland Harrah III, Miki Kim	Action, Adventure	Live action
	29	Biggles: Adventures in Time	UIP	John Hough (director); John Groves, Kent Walwin (screenplay); Neil Dickson, Alex Hyde-White, Fiona Hutchison, Peter Cushing, Marcus Gilbert, William Hootkins, Alan Polonsky, Francesca Gonshaw, Michael Siberry, James Saxon, Daniel Flynn	Sci-Fi, Adventure	Live action
F E B R U A R Y	5	She's Having a Baby	Paramount Pictures / Hughes Entertainment	John Hughes (director/screenplay); Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Baldwin, William Windom, Holland Taylor, Cathryn Damon, John Ashton, James Ray, Bill Irwin, Paul Gleason, Dennis Dugan, Larry Hankin, Edie McClurg, Nancy Lenehan, Michael Keaton, Woody Harrelson, Matthew Broderick	Romance, Comedy	Live action
	5	The Unbearable Lightness of Being	Orion Pictures	Philip Kaufman (director/screenplay); Jean-Claude Carrière (screenplay); Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin, Derek de Lint, Erland Josephson, Pavel Landovský, Donald Moffat, Tomek Bork, Daniel Olbrychski, Stellan Skarsgård, Anne Lonnberg	Drama, Romance	Live action
	12	Action Jackson	Lorimar Film Entertainment	Craig R. Baxley (director); Robert Reneau (screenplay); Carl Weathers, Craig T. Nelson, Vanity, Sharon Stone, Bill Duke, Robert Davi, Jack Thibeau, Armelia McQueen, Stan Foster, Roger Aaron Brown, Thomas F. Wilson, Edgar Small, Chino 'Fats' Williams, Prince A. Hughes, Frank McCarthy, De'Voreaux White, Dennis Hayden, David Glen Eisley, Bob Minor, David Effron, Brian Libby, Nicholas Worth, Branscombe Richmond, Miguel Nunez, Charles Meshack, Al Leong, Ed O'Ross, Mary Ellen Trainor, Jim Haynie, Ivor Barry, Michael McManus, Sonny Landham	Action	Live action
	12	Shoot to Kill	Touchstone Pictures	Roger Spottiswoode (director); Harv Zimmel, Michael Burton, Daniel Petrie, Jr. (screenplay); Sidney Poitier, Tom Berenger, Kirstie Alley, Andrew Robinson, Clancy Brown, Richard Masur, William S. Taylor, Frederick Coffin, Ken Camroux, Fred Henderson, Samuel Hiona, Les Lannom, Robert Lesser, Michael MacRae, Walter Marsh, Janet Rotblatt, Kevin Scannell, Frank C. Turner	Adventure, Crime, Thriller	Live action
	26	Bloodsport	Warner Bros.	Newt Arnold (director); Christopher Cosby, Mel Friedman, Sheldon Lettich (screenplay); Jean-Claude Van Damme, Donald Gibb, Leah Ayres, Norman Burton, Roy Chiao, Forest Whitaker, Bolo Yeung, Ken Siu, Michel Qissi, Philip Chan	Martial Arts	Live action
		Frantic	Warner Bros.	Roman Polanski (director/screenplay); Gerard Brach, Robert Towne (screenplay); Harrison Ford, Betty Buckley, John Mahoney, Emmanuelle Seigner, Gerard Klein, Jacques Ciron, Dominique Pinon, Yves Rénier, Robert M. Ground, Jimmie Ray Weeks, Thomas M. Pollard, Marcel Bluwal, Patrick Floersheim, Yorgo Voyagis, David Huddleston, Alexandra Stewart, Artus de Penguern, Roman Polanski	Mystery. Thriller	Live action
		Hairspray	New Line Cinema	John Waters (director/screenplay); Sonny Bono, Ruth Brown, Divine, Debbie Harry, Ricki Lake, Jerry Stiller, Ric Ocasek, Pia Zadora, Leslie Ann Powers, Colleen Fitzpatrick, Michael St. Gerard, Clayton Prince, Cyrkle Milbourne, Shawn Thompson, Mink Stole, Joann Havrilla, Doug Roberts, Alan J. Wendi, Toussaint McCall, John Waters, Josh Charles, Jason Downs, Holter Graham	Comedy	Live action
M A R C H	4	And God Created Woman	Vestron Pictures	Roger Vadim (director); R.J. Stewart (screenplay); Rebecca De Mornay, Vincent Spano, Frank Langella, Donovan Leitch, Judith Chapman, Jamie McEnnan, Benjamin Mouton, Dave Shelley, Einstein Brown, David Lopez, Thelma Houston	Drama	Live action
		Moving	Warner Bros.	Alan Metter (director); Andy Breckman (screenplay); Richard Pryor, Beverly Todd, Dave Thomas, Dana Carvey, Randy Quaid, Stacey Dash, Gordon Jump, King Kong Bundy, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, Robert LaSardo, Morris Day, Rodney Dangerfield	Comedy	Live action
		Prison	Empire Pictures	Renny Harlin (director); Irwin Yablans, C. Courtney Joyner (screenplay); Lane Smith, Viggo Mortensen, Chelsea Field, Lincoln Kilpatrick, André De Shields, Arlen Dean Snyder, Hal Landon Jr., Matt Kanen, Tom Everett, Ivan Kane, Tommy Lister, Stephen Little, Mickey Yablans, Larry "Flash" Jenkins, Kane Hodder	Horror	Live action
		Switching Channels	TriStar Pictures	Ted Kotcheff (director); Jonathan Reynolds (screenplay); Kathleen Turner, Burt Reynolds, Christopher Reeve, Ned Beatty, Henry Gibson, George Newbern, Al Waxman, Ken James, Barry Flatman, Anthony Sherwood, Joe Silver, Tony Rosato, Jackie Richardson, Philip Akin, Laura Robinson, Fiona Reid, Jack Duffy, Charles Kimbrough	Comedy	Live action
	11	Masquerade	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Bob Swaim (director); Rob Lowe, Meg Tilly, Kim Cattrall, Doug Savant, John Glover, Dana Delany, Erik Holland, Brian Davies, Barton Heyman, Bernie McInerney, Bill Lopatto, Pirie MacDonald, Maeve McGuire, Ira Wheeler, Timothy Langfield, Karen McLaughlin, Nada Rowand, Edwin Bordo, Bruce Tuthill, James Caulfield, Boz Scaggs, Henry Ravelo, Dick Wolf	Romance, Mystery, Thriller	Live action
		Off Limits	20th Century Fox	Christopher Crowe (director/screenplay); Jack Thibeau (screenplay); Willem Dafoe, Gregory Hines, Fred Ward, Amanda Pays, Scott Glenn, Lim Kay Tong, David Alan Grier, Keith David, Raymond O'Connor, Richard Brooks, Thuy Ann Luu, Richard Lee Reed, Woody Brown	Action, Thriller	Live action
		Pulse	Columbia Pictures	Paul Golding (director/screenplay); Cliff De Young, Roxanne Hart, Joey Lawrence, Matthew Lawrence, Charles Tyner, Dennis Redfield, Robert Romanus, Myron Healey, Michael Rider, Jean Sincere, Terry Beaver, Greg Norberg, Tim Russ	Sci-Fi, Horror	Live action
		Stand and Deliver	Warner Bros.	Ramón Menéndez (director/screenplay); Tom Musca (screenplay); Edward James Olmos, Lou Diamond Phillips, Rosanna DeSoto, Andy García, Ingrid Oliu, Carmen Argenziano, Vanessa Marquez, Lydia Nicole, James Victor, Estelle Harris, Virginia Paris, Will Gotay	Drama	Live action
	18	D.O.A.	Touchstone Pictures	Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton (directors); Charles Edward Pogue (screenplay); Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, Daniel Stern, Charlotte Rampling, Jane Kaczmarek, Christopher Neame, Robin Johnson, Robert Knepper, Brion James, Jack Kehoe, Jay Patterson	Crime, Thriller	Live action
		The Milagro Beanfield War	Universal Pictures	Robert Redford (director); John Nichols, David S. Ward (screenplay); Rubén Blades, Richard Bradford, Sônia Braga, Julie Carmen, James Gammon, Melanie Griffith, John Heard, Carlos Riquelme, Daniel Stern, Christopher Walken, Chick Vennera, Freddy Fender, Tony Genaro, Jerry Hardin	Comedy, Drama	Live action
		Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach	Warner Bros.	Alan Myerson (director); Stephen Curwick (screenplay); Bubba Smith, David Graf, Michael Winslow, Leslie Easterbrook, Marion Ramsey, Janet Jones, Lance Kinsey, Matt McCoy, G. W. Bailey, George Gaynes, Tab Thacker, George R. Robertson, Rene Auberjonois, Archie Hahn, James Hampton, Scott Weinger	Action, Adventure	Live action
		Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw	TriStar Pictures / Carolco Pictures	Pierre DeCelles (director); Jim Carlson, Terrence McDonnell (screenplay); Brennan Howard, B.J. Ward, Nancy Cartwright, Tony Longo, Ruth Buzzi, Hal Rayle, Cathy Cavadini, Greg Berg, Susan Silo, Frank Welker, Ashley Hall, Mark Vieha, George Rose, Wayne Scherzer, Janice Kawaye, Joey Dedio, James Swodec	Adventure	Animation
		Stars and Bars	Columbia Pictures	Pat O'Connor (director); William Boyd (screenplay); Daniel Day-Lewis, Harry Dean Stanton, Maury Chaykin, Joan Cusack, Keith David, Spalding Gray, Glenne Headly, Laurie Metcalf, Deirdre O'Connell, Will Patton, Martha Plimpton, Steven Wright	Comedy	Live action
	25	Biloxi Blues	Universal Pictures / Rastar	Mike Nichols (director); Neil Simon (screenplay); Matthew Broderick, Christopher Walken, Michael Dolan, Markus Flanagan, Matt Mulhern, Corey Parker, Casey Siemaszko, Penelope Ann Miller, Park Overall	Comedy, Drama	Live action
	25	Johnny Be Good	Orion Pictures	Bud S. Smith (director); Steve Zacharias, Jeff Buhai, David Obst (screenplay); Anthony Michael Hall, Robert Downey Jr., Paul Gleason, Uma Thurman, Steve James, Seymour Cassel, Jennifer Tilly, Deborah May, Robert Downey Sr.	Comedy	Live action
	30	Beetlejuice	Warner Bros.	Tim Burton (director); Michael McDowell, Warren Skaaren (screenplay); Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jones, Catherine O'Hara, Winona Ryder, Sylvia Sidney, Robert Goulet, Dick Cavett, Glenn Shadix, Annie McEnroe, Maurice Page, Hugo Stanger, Rachel Mittleman, Patrice Martinez, Carmen Filpi, Susan Kellermann, Adelle Lutz, Duane Davis, Maree Cheatham, Tony Cox, Jack Angel, Judi M. Durand	Comedy, Fantasy	Live action

April–June


Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre	Medium
A P R I L	1	Bright Lights, Big City	United Artists	James Bridges (director); Jay McInerney (screenplay); Michael J. Fox, Kiefer Sutherland, Phoebe Cates, Dianne Wiest, Swoosie Kurtz, Frances Sternhagen, Tracy Pollan, John Houseman, Charlie Schlatter, David Warrilow, Alec Mapa, William Hickey, Gina Belafonte, Sam Robards, Jessica Lundy, Annabelle Gurwitch, Maria Pitillo, David Hyde Pierce, Peg Murray, Jason Robards	Drama	Live action
	1	The Seventh Sign	TriStar Pictures	Carl Schultz (director); Clifford Green, Ellen Green (screenplay); Demi Moore, Michael Biehn, Peter Friedman, Jürgen Prochnow, Manny Jacobs, John Taylor	Drama, Horror	Live action
	8	18 Again!	New World Pictures	Paul Flaherty (director); Josh Goldstein, Jonathan Prince (screenplay); George Burns, Charlie Schlatter, Tony Roberts, Anita Morris, Red Buttons, Miriam Flynn, Pauly Shore, Jennifer Runyon	Fantasy, Comedy	Live action
		Above the Law	Warner Bros.	Andrew Davis (director/screenplay); Steven Pressfield, Ronald Shusett (screenplay); Steven Seagal, Pam Grier, Sharon Stone, Daniel Faraldo, Henry Silva, Ron Dean, Daniel Faraldo, Miguel Nino, Nicholas Kusenko, Joe V. Greco, Chelcie Ross, Gregory Alan Williams, Jack Wallace, Metta Davis, Joseph Kosala	Action	Live action
		Bad Dreams	20th Century Fox	Andrew Fleming (director/screenplay); Steven E. de Souza (screenplay); Jennifer Rubin, Bruce Abbott, Richard Lynch, Dean Cameron, Harris Yulin, Susan Barnes, John Scott Clough, E.G. Daily, Damita Jo Freeman, Louis Giambalvo, Susan Ruttan, Sy Richardson, Missy Francis, Sheila Scott-Wilkenson, Ben Kronen	Horror	Live action
	15	Appointment with Death	Cannon Film Distributors	Michael Winner (director/screenplay); Anthony Shaffer, Peter Buckman (screenplay); Peter Ustinov, Lauren Bacall, Carrie Fisher, John Gielgud, Piper Laurie, Hayley Mills, Jenny Seagrove, David Soul, Nicholas Guest, Valerie Richards, John Terlesky, Amber Bezer, Douglas Sheldon, Mike Sarne, Michael Craig	Mystery	Live action
		Brain Damage	Palisades Entertainment	Frank Henenlotter (director/screenplay); Rick Hearst, John Zacherle, Jennifer Lowry, Theo Barnes, Lucille Saint Peter, Kevin Van Hentenryck, Gordon MacDonald	Comedy, Horror	Live action
		Colors	Orion Pictures	Dennis Hopper (director); Richard Di Lello, Michael Schiffer (screenplay); Sean Penn, Robert Duvall, María Conchita Alonso, Randy Brooks, Don Cheadle, Glenn Plummer, Trinidad Silva, Grand L. Bush, Damon Wayans, Leon Robinson, Romeo De Lan, Gerardo Meija, Mario Lopez, Karla Montana, Sy Richardson, Courtney Gains, Sherman Augustus, Rudy Ramos, Lawrence Cook, R.D. Call, Clark Johnson, Jack Nance, David Raynr	Action, Crime	Live action
		The Moderns	Nelson Entertainment	Alan Rudolph (director/screenplay); Jon Bradshaw (screenplay); Keith Carradine, Linda Fiorentino, Geneviève Bujold, Geraldine Chaplin, Wallace Shawn, Kevin J. O'Connor, John Lone	Drama, Comedy	Live action
		Plain Clothes	Paramount Pictures	Martha Coolidge (director); Scott Frank (screenplay); Arliss Howard, Suzy Amis, Seymour Cassel, Diane Ladd, Robert Stack, Abe Vigoda, George Wendt, Larry Pine, Alexandra Powers, Peter Dobson, Harry Shearer, Loren Dean, Reginald VelJohnson, Max Perlich	Comedy	Live action
		Return to Snowy River	Walt Disney Pictures	Geoff Burrowes (director); John Dixon (screenplay); Tom Burlinson, Sigrid Thornton, Brian Dennehy, Nicholas Eadie, Bryan Marshall, Mark Hembrow, Rhys McConnochie, Peter Cummins, Cornelia Frances, Tony Barry, Wynn Roberts, Alec Wilson, Peter Browne, Alan Hopgood, Mark Pennell	Drama	Live action
	22	Casual Sex?	Universal Pictures	Geneviève Robert (director); Wendy Goldman, Judy Toll (screenplay); Lea Thompson, Victoria Jackson, Stephen Shellen, Jerry Levine, Mary Gross, Andrew Dice Clay, Bruce Abbott, Valerie Breiman, Peter Dvorsky, David Sergeant, Cynthia Phillips, Don Woodard, Danny Breen, Susan Ann Connor	Comedy	Live action
		Lady in White	New Century Vista Film Company	Frank LaLoggia (director/screenplay): Lukas Haas, Len Cariou, Alex Rocco, Katherine Helmond, Jason Presson, Jared Rushton, Henry Harris, Renata Vanni, Angelo Bertolini, Joelle Jacobi, Gregory Levinson, Karen Powell	Mystery, Horror	Live action
		Return of the Killer Tomatoes	New World Pictures	John De Bello (director/screenplay); Costa Dillon, J. Stephen Peace (screenplay); Anthony Starke, George Clooney, Karen Mistal, Steve Lundquist, John Astin, J. Stephen Peace, Michael Villani, Frank Davis, Harvey Weber, Charlie Jones, John De Bello, Ian Hutton, Rick Rockwell	Comedy, Horror	Live action
		Two Moon Junction	Lorimar Film Entertainment / The Samuel Goldwyn Company	Zalman King (director/screenplay); Sherilyn Fenn, Richard Tyson, Louise Fletcher, Burl Ives, Kristy McNichol, Martin Hewitt, Juanita Moore, Don Galloway, Millie Perkins, Milla Jovovich, Kerry Remsen, Herve Villechaize, Dabbs Greer	Erotic, Thriller, Romance	Live action
		The Unholy	Vestron Pictures	Camilo Vila (director); Philip Yordan, Fernando Fonseca (screenplay); Ben Cross, Ned Beatty, William Russ, Jill Carroll, Hal Holbrook, Trevor Howard, Claudia Robinson, Nicole Fortier, Peter Frechette, Earleen Carey, Lari White	Horror	Live action
	29	Critters 2: The Main Course	New Line Cinema	Mick Garris (director/screenplay); David Twohy (screenplay); Scott Grimes, Liane Curtis, Don Opper, Barry Corbin, Terrence Mann, Tom Hodges, Roxanne Kernohan, Douglas Rowe, Lindsay Parker, Herta Ware, Lin Shaye, Sam Anderson, Eddie Deezen	Sci-Fi, Comedy, Horror	Live action
		Powaqqatsi	The Cannon Group	Godfrey Reggio (director)	Documentary	Live action
		Sunset	TriStar Pictures	Blake Edwards (director/screenplay); Bruce Willis, James Garner, Mariel Hemingway, Kathleen Quinlan, Jennifer Edwards, Malcolm McDowell, Patricia Hodge, Richard Bradford, M. Emmet Walsh, Joe Dallesandro, Andreas Katsulas, Dann Florek, Michael C. Gwynne, Dermot Mulroney, Peter Jason, Bill Marcus, Jeffrey Briar, Bevis Faversham, John Fountain	Mystery, Action	Live action
M A Y	4	The House on Carroll Street	Orion Pictures	Peter Yates (director); Walter Bernstein (screenplay); Kelly McGillis, Jeff Daniels, Mandy Patinkin, Jessica Tandy, Jonathan Hogan, Remak Ramsay, Ken Welsh, Christopher Buchholz	Thriller	Live action
	6	Dead Heat	New World Pictures	Mark Goldblatt (director); Terry Black (screenplay); Treat Williams, Joe Piscopo, Darren McGavin, Lindsay Frost, Vincent Price, Clare Kirkconnell, Keye Luke, Robert Picardo, Mel Stewart, Professor Toru Tanaka, Martha Quinn, Shane Black, Beth Toussaint	Action, Comedy, Horror	Live action
		Jack's Back	Palisades Entertainment	Rowdy Herrington (director/screenplay); James Spader, Cynthia Gibb, Jim Haynie, Robert Picardo, Rod Loomis, Rex Ryon, Chris Mulkey, Mario Machado, Danitza Kingsley	Crime, Horror	Live action
		Salsa	The Cannon Group, Inc. / A Golan-Globus Production	Boaz Davidson (director/screenplay); Tomas Benitez, Shepard Goldman (screenplay); Robby Rosa, Rodney Harvey, Miranda Garrison, Angela Alvarado, Valente Rodriquez, Renee Victor, Bobby Caldwell, Chain Reaction, Willie Colon, Celia Cruz, Mavis Vegas Davis, Marisela Esqueda, Grupo Latino, La Dimencion, Mongo Santamaria, Kenny Ortega, Tito Puente, Michael Sembello, German Wilkins Velez, The Edwin Hawkins Singers	Romance	Live action
		Shakedown	Universal Pictures	James Glickenhaus (director/screenplay); Peter Weller, Sam Elliott, Patricia Charbonneau, Jude Ciccolella, Antonio Fargas, Blanche Baker, Richard Brooks, John C. McGinley, Thomas G. Waites, Tom Mardirosian, Anthony Crivello	Crime, Drama, Action	Live action
	13	Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood	Paramount Pictures	John Carl Buechler (director); Manuel Fidello, Daryl Haney (screenplay); Lar Park Lincoln, Terry Kiser, Kevin Blair, Kane Hodder, Walt Gorney, Susan Sullivan, Susan Blu, Elizabeth Kaitan, Jon Renfield, Diana Barrows, Heidi Kozak, Jeff Bennett, Larry Cox, Diane Almeida, Craig Thomas, William Butler, Staci Greason, John Otrin, Jennifer Banko	Horror, Slasher	Live action
		Maniac Cop	Shapiro-Glickenhaus Entertainment	William Lustig (director); Larry Cohen (screenplay); Tom Atkins, Bruce Campbell, Laurene Landon, Richard Roundtree, William Smith, Robert Z'Dar, Sheree North, Nina Arvesen, Victoria Catlin, Ken Lerner, William Lustig, Sam Raimi, Jake LaMotta	Action, Slasher	Live action
		The Nest	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Terence H. Winkless (director); Robert King (screenplay); Robert Lansing, Lisa Langlois, Franc Luz, Terri Treas, Diana Bellamy, Stephen Davies	Horror	Live action
		Not of This Earth	Concorde Pictures	Jim Wynorski (director/screenplay); R.J. Robertson (screenplay); Traci Lords, Arthur Roberts, Lenny Juliano, Rebecca Perle	Sci-Fi, Horror, Comedy	Live action
	20	Call Me	Vestron Pictures	Sollace Mitchell (director/screenplay); Karyn Kay (screenplay); Patricia Charbonneau, Stephen McHattie, Boyd Gaines, Sam Freed, Steve Buscemi, Patti D'Arbanville, David Strathairn, Olek Krupa	Drama, Thriller	Live action
	20	Willow	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Ron Howard (director); Bob Dolman (screenplay); Warwick Davis, Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Jean Marsh, Patricia Hayes, Billy Barty, Pat Roach, Gavan O'Herlihy, Maria Holvoe, Kevin Pollak, Rick Overton, David J. Steinberg, Mark Northover, Phil Fondacaro, Julie Peters, Malcolm Dixon, Tony Cox	Fantasy	Live action
	25	Crocodile Dundee II	Paramount Pictures	John Cornell (director); Paul Hogan, Brett Hogan (screenplay); Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, John Meillon, Hechter Ubarry, Juan Fernandez, Charles S. Dutton, Kenneth Welsh, Stephen Root, Dennis Boutsikaris, Ernie Dingo, Steve Rackman, Gerry Skilton, Gus Mercurio, Susie Essman, Colin Quinn, Luis Guzman, Alec Wilson, Jim Holt, Bill Sandy, Alfred Coolwell, Tatyana Ali	Action, Comedy	Live action
	25	Rambo III	TriStar Pictures / Carolco Pictures	Peter MacDonald (director); Sylvester Stallone, Sheldon Lettich (screenplay); Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Kurtwood Smith, Marc de Jonge, Sasson Gabai, Doudi Shoua, Spiros Focas, Randy Raney, Marcus Gilbert, Alon Abutbul, Mahmoud Assadollahi, Yosef Shiloah, Shaby Ben-Aroya	Action, Adventure	Live action
	27	Killer Klowns from Outer Space	Trans World Entertainment	Stephen Chiodo (director/screenplay); Charles Chiodo (screenplay); Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson, John Vernon, Royal Dano, Michael S. Siegel, Peter Licassi, Charles Chiodo, Christopher Titus	Sci-Fi, Horror, Comedy	Live action
J U N E	3	Big	20th Century Fox	Penny Marshall (director); Gary Ross, Anne Spielberg (screenplay); Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia, John Heard, Jared Rushton, Jon Lovitz, Mercedes Ruehl, Josh Clark, Debra Jo Rupp, David Moscow	Fantasy, Comedy	Live action
	3	Funny Farm	Warner Bros.	George Roy Hill (director); Jeffrey Boam (screenplay); Chevy Chase, Madolyn Smith, Joseph Maher, Jack Gilpin, Brad Sullivan, MacIntyre Dixon, Kevin O'Morrison, Mike Starr, Alice Drummond, Glenn Plummer, Bill Fagerbakke, Nicholas Wyman, William Newman, Kevin Conway, Caris Corfman	Comedy	Live action
	10	Big Business	Touchstone Pictures	Jim Abrahams (director); Dori Pierson, Marc Reid Rubel (screenplay); Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin, Fred Ward, Michael Gross, Edward Herrmann, Barry Primus, Michele Placido, Seth Green, Daniel Gerroll, John Hancock, Deborah Rush, Nicolas Coster, J.C. Quinn, Joe Grifasi, John Vickery, Mary Gross, Carmen Argenziano, Chick Hearn, Don Pierson, Marc Reid Rubel, Shirley Mitchell	Comedy	Live action
		Poltergeist III	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Gary Sherman (director/screenplay); Brian Taggert (screenplay); Tom Skerritt, Nancy Allen, Heather O'Rourke, Zelda Rubinstein, Lara Flynn Boyle, Richard Fire, Nathan Davis, Kip Wentz	Horror	Live action
		The Presidio	Paramount Pictures	Peter Hyams (director); Larry Ferguson (screenplay); Sean Connery, Mark Harmon, Meg Ryan, Jack Warden, Mark Blum, Dana Gladstone, Jenette Goldstein, Marvin J. McIntyre, Don Calfa, Robert Lesser, James Hooks Reynolds	Crime, Drama	Live action
		Puss in Boots	The Cannon Group	Eugene Marner (director); Christopher Walken, Jason Connery, Carmela Marner, Yossi Graber, Amnon Meskin, Elki Jacobs, Michael Schneider	Musical, Fantasy, Adventure	Live action
	15	Bull Durham	Orion Pictures	Ron Shelton (director/screenplay); Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Trey Wilson, Robert Wuhl, William O'Leary, Jenny Robertson, Danny Gans, Max Patkin	Romance, Comedy, Sports	Live action
	17	The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years	New Line Cinema	Penelope Spheeris (director); Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osbourne, Poison, Aerosmith, Kiss, Motörhead, Megadeth, Faster Pussycat, Lizzy Borden, London, Odin	Documentary	Live action
		The Great Outdoors	Universal Pictures / Hughes Entertainment	Howard Deutch (director); John Hughes (screenplay); Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Stephanie Faracy, Annette Bening, Robert Prosky, Chris Young, Ian Giatti, Hillary and Rebecca Gordon, Lucy Deakins, Lewis Arquette, Bart the Bear	Comedy	Live action
		Red Heat	TriStar Pictures / Carolco Pictures	Walter Hill (director/screenplay); Harry Kleiner, Troy Kennedy Martin (screenplays); Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Belushi, Peter Boyle, Ed O'Ross, Laurence Fishburne, Gina Gershon	Action	Live action
		Waxwork	Vestron Pictures	Anthony Hickox (director/screenplay); Zach Galligan, Deborah Foreman, Michelle Johnson, Dana Ashbrook, Micah Grant, Eric Brown, Clare Carey, David Warner, Patrick Macnee, Mihaly "Michu" Meszaros, Jack David Warner, Charles McCaughan, J. Kenneth Campbell, Miles O'Keeffe, John Rhys-Davies, Jennifer Bassey, Edward Ashley	Horror, Comedy	Live action
	22	Who Framed Roger Rabbit	Touchstone Pictures / Amblin Entertainment	Robert Zemeckis (director); Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman (screenplays); Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Charles Fleischer, Stubby Kaye, Joanna Cassidy, Alan Tilvern, Lou Hirsch, Kathleen Turner, Amy Irving, Mel Blanc, Joe Alaskey, Wayne Allwine, Tony Anselmo, Tony Pope, Mae Questel, Russi Taylor, Pat Buttram, Jim Cummings, Jim Gallant, Les Perkins, Mary Radford, Nancy Cartwright, Cherry Davis, Peter Westy, Frank Welker, Richard Williams, April Winchell, David L. Lander, Fred Newman, June Foray	Comedy	Live action/Animation
	29	Coming to America	Paramount Pictures	John Landis (director); David Sheffield, Barry W. Blaustein (screenplays); Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones, John Amos, Madge Sinclair, Shari Headley, Paul Bates, Eriq La Salle, Frankie Faison, Vanessa Bell, Louie Anderson, Allison Dean, Sheila Johnson, Jake Steinfeld, Calvin Lockhart, Samuel L. Jackson, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Garcelle Beauvais, Victoria Dillard, Ruben Hudson, Cuba Gooding Jr., Don Ameche, Ralph Bellamy	Romance, Comedy	Live action

July–September


Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre	Medium
J U L Y	6	License to Drive	20th Century Fox / Davis Entertainment	Greg Beeman (director); Neil Torkin (screenplay); Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, Carol Kane, Richard Masur, Heather Graham, Michael Manasseri, Parley Baer, Nina Siemaszko, James Avery, Grant Goodeve, Grant Heslov, Michael Ensign, Helen Hanft	Teen, Adventure	Live action
	6	Short Circuit 2	TriStar Pictures	Kenneth Johnson (director); Brent Maddock, S. S. Wilson (screenplay); Tim Blaney, Fisher Stevens, Michael McKean, Cynthia Gibb, Jack Weston, David Hemblen, Dee McCafferty, Don Lake, Gerry Parkes	Sci-Fi, Action	Live action
	8	Arthur 2: On the Rocks	Warner Bros.	Bud Yorkin (director); Andy Breckman (screenplay); Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, John Gielgud, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Kathy Bates, Paul Benedict, Stephen Elliott, Cynthia Sikes, Ted Ross, Jack Gilford, Ron Canada, Barney Martin	Comedy	Live action
	8	It Couldn't Happen Here	Liberty Films	Jack Bond (director/screenplay); Neil Tennant, Chris Lowe, Joss Ackland, Neil Dickson, Gareth Hunt, Barbara Windsor	Musical	Live action
	13	The Dead Pool	Warner Bros.	Buddy Van Horn (director); Steve Sharon (screenplay); Clint Eastwood, Patricia Clarkson, Liam Neeson, Evan Kim, David Hunt, Michael Currie, Michael Goodwin, Jim Carrey, Anthony Charnota, Ronnie Claire Edwards, Louis Giambalvo, Diego Chairs, Charles Martinet, Patrick Van Horn, Shawn Elliott, Bill Wattenburg, Marc Alaimo, Justin Whalin, Harry Demopoulos	Action	Live action
	15	Bambi (re-release)	Walt Disney Pictures	David Hand, James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Graham Heid, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Norman Wright (director); Perce Pearce, Larry Morey, Vernon Stallings, Melvin Shaw, Carl Fallberg, Chuck Couch, Ralph Wright (screenplay); Donnie Dunagan, Hardie Albright, John Sutherland, Peter Behn, Tim Davis, Sam Edwards, Paula Winslowe, Stan Alexander, Tim Davis, Sterling Holloway, Will Wright, Cammie King, Ann Gillis, Fred Shields, Margaret Lee, Mary Lansing, Perce Pearce, Thelma Boardman	Adventure, Drama	Animation
		Die Hard	20th Century Fox / Silver Pictures	John McTiernan (director); Jeb Stuart, Steven E. de Souza (screenplay); Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson, Paul Gleason, De'voreaux White, William Atherton, Clarence Gilyard, Hart Bochner, James Shigeta, Bruno Doyon, Andreas Wisniewski, Joey Plewa, Lorenzo Caccialanza, Gerard Bonn, Dennis Hayden, Al Leong, Gary Roberts, Hans Buhringer, Wilhelm von Homburg, Robert Davi, Grand L. Bush, Tracy Reiner, Taylor Fry, Noah Land	Action, Thriller	Live action
		A Fish Called Wanda	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Charles Crichton (director); John Cleese (screenplay); John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin, Tom Georgeson, Maria Aitken, Cynthia Cleese, Patricia Hayes, Geoffrey Palmer, Roger Brierley, Llewellyn Rees, Stephen Fry, Al Ashton	Heist, Comedy	Live action
	20	Midnight Run	Universal Pictures	Martin Brest (director); George Gallo (screenplay); Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto, John Ashton, Dennis Farina, Joe Pantoliano, Richard Foronjy, Robert Miranda, Jack Kehoe, Wendy Phillips, Danielle DuClos, Philip Baker Hall, Tom McCleister, Fran Brill	Action, Comedy	Live action
	22	Big Top Pee-wee	Paramount Pictures	Randal Kleiser (director); Paul Reubens, George McGrath (screenplay); Paul Reubens, Kris Kristofferson, Susan Tyrrell, Valeria Golino, Penelope Ann Miller, Wayne White, Albert Henderson, Jack Murdock, David Byrd, Dustin Diamond, Frances Bay, Mary Jackson, Leo Gordon, Anne Seymour, Kenneth Tobey, Jay Robinson, Mihaly "Michu" Meszaros, Franco Columbu, Terrence Mann, Vance Colvig, Matthias Hues, Benicio del Toro, Kevin Peter Hall, Lynne Marie Stewart, Joey Arias	Comedy	Live action
		Caddyshack II	Warner Bros.	Allan Arkush (director); Harold Ramis, Peter Torokvei (screenplay); Jackie Mason, Robert Stack, Dyan Cannon, Dina Merrill, Jonathan Silverman, Brian McNamara, Marsha Warfield, Paul Bartel, Randy Quaid, Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Jessica Lundy, Chynna Phillips, Anthony Mockus, Bibi Osterwald, Frank Welker, James Veeley	Sports, Comedy	Live action
		Mr. North	The Samuel Goldwyn Company	Danny Huston (director); John Huston, James Costigan (screenplay); Anthony Edwards, Robert Mitchum, Harry Dean Stanton, Anjelica Huston, Mary Stuart Masterson, Virginia Madsen, Tammy Grimes, David Warner, Lauren Bacall, Hunter Carson, Christopher Durang, Mark Metcalf, Katharine Houghton, Cleveland Amory, Christopher Lawford	Comedy, Drama	Live action
	29	Cocktail	Touchstone Pictures	Roger Donaldson (director); Heywood Gould (screenplay); Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, Elisabeth Shue, Lisa Banes, Laurence Luckinbill, Kelly Lynch, Gina Gershon, Ron Dean, Ellen Foley	Romance, Drama	Live action
		Monkey Shines	Orion Pictures	George A. Romero (director/screenplay); Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Kate McNeil, Joyce Van Patten, Christine Forrest, Stephen Root, Stanley Tucci, Janine Turner, William Newman, Tudi Wiggins, Tom Quinn, Patricia Tallman, David Early, Frank Welker	Horror	Live action
		The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking	Columbia Pictures	Ken Annakin (director/screenplay); Tami Erin, Eileen Brennan, Dennis Dugan, Dianne Hull, George DiCenzo, John Schuck, Dick Van Patten	Adventure, Children	Live action
A U G U S T	5	The Blob	TriStar Pictures	Chuck Russell (director/screenplay); Frank Darabont (screenplay); Kevin Dillon, Shawnee Smith, Donovan Leitch, Jeffrey DeMunn, Candy Clark, Joe Seneca, Del Close, Paul McCrane, Robert Axelrod, Beau Billingslea, Michael Kenworthy, Douglas Emerson, Jamison Newlander, Art LaFleur, Billy Beck, Jack Nance, Bill Moseley, Erika Eleniak, Ricky Paull Goldin, Frank Collison, Jack Rader, Clayton Landey, Julie McCullough	Sci-Fi, Horror	Live action
		The Rescue	Touchstone Pictures	Ferdinand Fairfax (director); Jim Thomas, John Thomas (screenplay); Kevin Dillon, Marc Price, Ned Vaughn, Christine Harnos, Ian Giatti, Charles Haid, Edward Albert, Timothy Carhart, Michael Gates Phenicie, Mel Wong, James Cromwell	Drama, Action	Live action
		Vibes	Columbia Pictures / Imagine Entertainment	Ken Kwapis (director); Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel (screenplay); Cyndi Lauper, Jeff Goldblum, Julian Sands, Googy Gress, Peter Falk, Ronald G. Joseph, Ramon Bieri, Michael Lerner, Elizabeth Peña, Rodney Kageyama, Van Dyke Parks, Joseph V. Perry, Park Overall, Max Perlich, John Kapelos, Don Bexley, Bill McCutcheon, Steve Buscemi	Romance, Adventure, Comedy	Live action
	10	Clean and Sober	Warner Bros. / Imagine Entertainment	Glenn Gordon Caron (director); Tod Carroll (screenplay); Michael Keaton, Kathy Baker, Morgan Freeman, M. Emmet Walsh, Luca Bercovici, Tate Donovan, Claudia Christian, Brian Benben, Henry Judd Baker, J. David Krassner, Dakin Matthews, Ben Piazza, Rachel Ryan	Drama	Live action
	12	The Last Temptation of Christ	Universal Pictures	Martin Scorsese (director); Paul Schrader (screenplay); Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey, Harry Dean Stanton, David Bowie, Steve Shill, Verna Bloom, Roberts Blossom, Barry Miller, Gary Basaraba, Irvin Kershner, Victor Argo, Paul Herman, John Lurie, Michael Been, Leo Burmester, Andre Gregory, Tomas Arana, Alan Rosenberg, Nehemiah Persoff, Peter Berling, Leo Marks	Epic, Drama	Live action
		Mac and Me	Orion Pictures	Stewart Raffill (director); Steve Feke, Stewart Raffill (screenplay); Christine Ebersole, Jonathan Ward, Jade Calegory, Katrina Caspary, Lauren Stanley, Barbara Allyne Bennet, Martin West, Ivan J. Rado, Danny Cooksey	Sci-Fi, Fantasy	Live action
		Tucker: The Man and His Dream	Paramount Pictures	Francis Ford Coppola (director); Arnold Schulman, David Seidler (screenplay); Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Martin Landau, Elias Koteas, Frederic Forrest, Christian Slater, Don Novello, Nina Siemaszko, Mako, Dean Stockwell, Anders Johnson, Corin Nemec, Marshall Bell, Jay O. Sanders, Peter Donat, Patti Austin, Sandy Bull, Scott Beach, Leonard Gardner, Jessie Nelson, Michael McShane	Biographical, Comedy, Drama	Live action
		Young Guns	20th Century Fox	Christopher Cain (director); John Fusco (screenplay); Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Dermot Mulroney, Casey Siemaszko, Terence Stamp, Jack Palance, Terry O'Quinn, Sharon Thomas, Alice Carter, Geoffrey Blake, Brian Keith, Patrick Wayne	Western	Live action
	19	Married to the Mob	Orion Pictures	Jonathan Demme (director); Barry Strugatz, Mark R. Burns (screenplay); Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Modine, Dean Stockwell, Mercedes Ruehl, Alec Baldwin, Joan Cusack, Ellen Foley, O-Lan Jones, Oliver Platt, Nancy Travis, Sister Carol, Tracey Walter, Chris Isaak, Obba Babatundé, Charles Napier, Paul Lazar, Frank Ferrera, Gary Howard Klar, Gary Goetzman, Jonathan Demme, Al Lewis, Ellie Cornell	Comedy	Live action
	19	A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master	New Line Cinema	Renny Harlin (director); Brian Helgeland, Ken Wheat, Jim Wheat (screenplay); Robert Englund, Lisa Wilcox, Danny Hassel, Tuesday Knight, Ken Sagoes, Rodney Eastman, Andras Jones, Brooke Theiss, Toy Newkirk, Nicholas Mele, Brooke Bundy, Linnea Quigley	Slasher	Live action
	24	Crossing Delancey	Warner Bros.	Joan Micklin Silver (director); Susan Sandler (screenplay); Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, Reizl Bozyk, Jeroen Krabbé, Sylvia Miles, George Martin, John Bedford Lloyd, Claudia Silver, David Pierce, Rosemary Harris, Suzzy Roche, Amy Wright, Faye Grant, Deborah Offner, Kathleen Wilhoite, Reg E. Cathey, Susan Blommaert, Dolores Sutton, Michael Ornstein, Susan Sandler	Romance, Comedy	Live action
	26	Betrayed	United Artists	Costa-Gavras (director); Joe Eszterhas (screenplay); Debra Winger, Tom Berenger, John Heard, Betsy Blair, John Mahoney, Ted Levine, Jeffrey DeMunn, Albert Hall, David Clennon, Richard Libertini, Ralph Foody	Drama, Thriller	Live action
		Hero and the Terror	Cannon Films	William Tannen (director); Michael Blodgett (screenplay); Chuck Norris, Brynn Thayer, Steve James, Jack O'Halloran, Jeffrey Kramer, Ron O'Neal, Murphy Dunne, Heather Blodgett, Tony DiBenedetto, Billy Drago, Joe Guzaldo, Peter Miller, Karen Witter	Action	Live action
		Hot to Trot	Warner Bros.	Michael Dinner (director); Hugo Gilbert, Stephen Neigher, Charlie Peters, Andy Breckman (screenplay); Bobcat Goldthwait, Dabney Coleman, Virginia Madsen, Cindy Pickett, Jim Metzler, Tim Kazurinsky, Barbara Whinnery, Mary Gross, Liz Torres, Burgess Meredith, John Candy	Comedy	Live action
		Stealing Home	Warner Bros.	Steven Kampmann, William Porter (directors/screenplay); Mark Harmon, Jodie Foster, Harold Ramis, Jonathan Silverman, Blair Brown, Richard Jenkins, John Shea, Christine Jones, Ted Ross, Helen Hunt, Beth Broderick, William McNamara, Thacher Goodwin	Coming of age, Romance, Drama	Live action
S E P T E M B E R	2	The Deceivers	Cinecom Pictures	Nicholas Meyer (director); Michael Hirst (screenplay); Pierce Brosnan, Saeed Jaffrey, Shashi Kapoor, Shanmukha Srinivas, Helena Michell, Keith Michell, David Robb, Tariq Yunus, Jalal Agha, Gary Cady, Salim Ghouse, Neena Gupta, Nayeem Hafizka, Bijoya Jena, H.N. Kalia, Rajesh Vivek, Kammo	Adventure	Live action
	2	Eight Men Out	Orion Pictures	John Sayles (director/screenplay); John Cusack, Clifton James, Michael Lerner, Christopher Lloyd, Charlie Sheen, David Strathairn, D.B. Sweeney, John Mahoney, Michael Rooker, Don Harvey, James Read, Perry Lang, Gordon Clapp, Jace Alexander, Bill Irwin, Richard Edson, Kevin Tighe, Michael Mantell, John Anderson, Studs Terkel, John Sayles, Barbara Garrick, Maggie Renzi, Nancy Travis	Sports, Drama	Live action
	9	Moon over Parador	Universal Pictures	Paul Mazursky (director/screenplay); Leon Capetanos (screenplay); Richard Dreyfuss, Raúl Juliá, Sônia Braga, Jonathan Winters, Fernando Rey, Dana Delany, Michael Greene, Polly Holliday, Milton Gonçalves, Charo, Marianne Sägebrecht, Sammy Davis Jr., Ike Pappas, Edward Asner, Lorin Dreyfuss, Reinhard Kolldehoff	Romance, Comedy	Live action
	9	Running on Empty	Warner Bros.	Sidney Lumet (director); Naomi Foner (screenplay); Christine Lahti, Judd Hirsch, River Phoenix, Martha Plimpton, Jonas Abry, L. M. Kit Carson, Steven Hill, Augusta Dabney	Drama	Live action
	15	War Party	Hemdale Film Corporation	Franc Roddam (director); Spencer Eastman (screenplay); Billy Wirth, Kevin Dillon, Tim Sampson, Jimmie Ray Weeks, Kevyn Major Howard, Jerry Hardin, Tantoo Cardinal, Bill McKinney, Guy Boyd, R. D. Call, William Frankfather, M. Emmet Walsh, Dennis Banks, Saginaw Grant, Rodney A. Grant	Western, Drama	Live action
	16	Messenger of Death	Cannon Films	J. Lee Thompson (director); Paul Jarrico (screenplay); Charles Bronson, Trish Van Devere, Laurence Luckinbill, Daniel Benzali, Marilyn Hassett, Charles Dierkop, Jeff Corey, John Ireland, Penny Peyser, Gene Davis, John Solari, Jon Cedar, Tom Everett, Duncan Gamble, Bert Williams, Cheryl Waters, Maria Mayenzet, Margaret Howell, Warner Loughlin, Kimberly Beck, Beverly Thompson, Don Kennedy, Susan Bjurman	Crime, Action, Thriller	Live action
		Miles from Home	Cinecom Pictures	Gary Sinise (director); Chris Gerolmo (screenplay); Richard Gere, Kevin Anderson, Penelope Ann Miller, Helen Hunt, Terry Kinney, Brian Dennehy, Laurie Metcalf, Francis Guinan, Judith Ivey, John Malkovich, Larry Poling	Drama, Action	Live action
		Tougher Than Leather	New Line Cinema	Rick Rubin (director/screenplay); Ric Menello (screenplay); Run-D.M.C., Richard Edson, Jenny Lumet, The Beastie Boys	Drama	Live Action
	23	Gorillas in the Mist	Universal Pictures / Warner Bros. Pictures	Michael Apted (director); Anna Hamilton Phelan (screenplay); Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown, Julie Harris, John Omirah Miluwi, Iain Cuthbertson, Constantin Alexandrov, Waigwa Wachira, Iain Glen, David Lansbury, Maggie O'Neill, Konga Mbandu, Michael J. Reynolds, Gordon Masten, Peter Nduati, Helen Fraser, David Maddock	Drama	Live action
		Kansas	Trans World Entertainment	David Stevens (director); Spencer Eastman (screenplay); Matt Dillon, Andrew McCarthy, Leslie Hope, Kyra Sedgwick, Arlen Dean Snyder	Crime, Drama	Live action
		Patty Hearst	Atlantic Releasing	Paul Schrader (director); Nicholas Kazan (screenplay); Natasha Richardson, William Forsythe, Ving Rhames, Frances Fisher, Jodi Long, Olivia Barash, Dana Delany, Marek Johnson, Kitty Swink, Pete Kowanko, Tom O'Rourke, Scott Kraft, Ermal Williamson, Elaine Revard, Destiny Reyes Allstun, Jeff Imada	Biographical	Live action
		Sweet Hearts Dance	TriStar Pictures	Robert Greenwald (director); Ernest Thompson (screenplay); Don Johnson, Susan Sarandon, Jeff Daniels, Elizabeth Perkins, Kate Reid, Justin Henry, Holly Marie Combs, Bernie Sanders	Comedy, Drama	Live action
	24	Daffy Duck's Quackbusters	Warner Bros.	Greg Ford, Terry Lennon (directors); John W. Dunn, Michael Maltese, Tedd Pierce (screenplay); Mel Blanc, Mel Tormé, Ben Frommer, B. J. Ward, Roy Firestone, Julie Bennett, June Foray, Jeff Bennett	Fantasy	Animation
	30	Bird	Warner Bros. Pictures	Clint Eastwood (director); Joel Oliansky (screenplay); Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora, Michael Zelniker, Samuel E. Wright, Keith David, Diane Salinger, Michael McGuire, James Handy, Anna Thomson, Sam Robards, Bill Cobbs, Tony Cox, Damon Whitaker, Arlen Dean Snyder	Biographical	Live action
		Elvira: Mistress of the Dark	New World Pictures	James Signorelli (director); Sam Egan, John Paragon, Cassandra Peterson (screenplay); Cassandra Peterson, W. Morgan Sheppard, Daniel Greene, Susan Kellermann, Edie McClurg, Robert Benedetti, Kurt Fuller, Jeff Conaway, Frank Collison, William Duell, Pat Crawford Brown, Ellen Dunning, Kris Kamm, Scott Morris, Ira Heiden, Tress MacNeille, Frank Welker	Comedy, Horror	Live action
		Heartbreak Hotel	Touchstone Pictures	Chris Columbus (director/screenplay); David Keith, Tuesday Weld, Charlie Schlatter, Angela Goethals	Comedy	Live action

October–December


Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre	Medium
O C T O B E R	7	Alien Nation	20th Century Fox	Graham Baker (director); Rockne S. O'Bannon (screenplay); James Caan, Mandy Patinkin, Terence Stamp, Kevyn Major Howard, Leslie Bevis, Peter Jason, George Jenesky, Jeff Kober, Roger Aaron Brown, Tony Simotes, Michael David Simms, Ed Krieger, Tony Perez, Brian Thompson, Frank McCarthy, Keone Young, Don Hood	Science-fiction, Action	Live action
		Clara's Heart	Warner Bros.	Robert Mulligan (director); Mark Medoff (screenplay); Whoopi Goldberg, Michael Ontkean, Kathleen Quinlan, Neil Patrick Harris, Spalding Gray, Beverly Todd, Hattie Winston, Jason Downs	Drama	Live action
		Memories of Me	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Henry Winkler (director); Billy Crystal, Eric Roth (screenplay); Billy Crystal, Alan King, JoBeth Williams, David Ackroyd, Chris Aable, Phil Fondacaro, Robert Pastorelli, Mark L. Taylor, Larry Cedar, Janet Carroll	Comedy, Drama	Live action
		Punchline	Columbia Pictures	David Seltzer (director/screenplay); Sally Field, Tom Hanks, John Goodman, Mark Rydell, Kim Greist, Paul Mazursky, Taylor Negron, Damon Wayans, Candace Cameron	Comedy	Live action
	14	The Accused	Paramount Pictures	Jonathan Kaplan (director); Tom Topor (screenplay); Jodie Foster, Kelly McGillis, Bernie Coulson, Leo Rossi, Ann Hearn, Carmen Argenziano, Steve Antin, Tom O'Brien, Peter Van Norden, Terry David Mulligan, Woody Brown, Tom Heaton, Andrew Kavadas, Scott Paulin, Tom McBeath, Kim Kondrashoff	Legal drama	Live action
		The Kiss	TriStar Pictures	Pen Densham (director); Stephen Volk, Tom Ropelewski, (screenplay); Joanna Pacula, Meredith Salenger, Nicholas Kilbertus, Mimi Kuzyk, Jan Rubeš, Shawn Levy, Sabrina Boudot, Pamela Collyer, Celine Lomez, Richard Dumont, Dorian Joe Clark	Horror	Live action
		Another Woman	Orion Pictures	Woody Allen (director/screenplay); Philip Bosco, Betty Buckley, Blythe Danner, Sandy Dennis, Mia Farrow, Gene Hackman, Ian Holm, John Houseman, Martha Plimpton, Gena Rowlands, David Ogden Stiers, Harris Yulin	Drama	Live action
		Night of the Demons	International Film Marketing	Kevin S. Tenney (director); Joe Augustyn (screenplay); Cathy Podewell, Amelia Kinkade, Linnea Quigley, Hal Havins, William Gallo, Alvin Alexis, Lance Fenton, Allison Barron, Philip Tanzini, Jill Terashita	Horror	Live action
		Pumpkinhead	United Artists / MGM/UA Communications Co.	Stan Winston (director/screenplay); Richard C. Weinman, Gary Gerani, Mark Patrick Carducci (screenplay); Lance Henriksen, John D'Aquino, Jeff East, Kerry Remsen, Kimberly Ross, Buck Flower, Mayim Bialik, Joel Hoffman, Cynthia Bain, Florence Schauffer, Brian Bremer, Matthew Hurley, Lee DeBroux, Tom Woodruff Jr.	Slasher	Live action
	21	Bat21*	TriStar Pictures	Peter Markle (director); William C. Anderson (screenplay); Gene Hackman, Danny Glover, Jerry Reed, David Marshall Grant, Clayton Rohner, Erich Anderson, Joe Dorsey	War	Live action
		Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers	Galaxy International Releasing	Dwight H. Little (director); Alan B. McElroy (screenplay); Donald Pleasence, Ellie Cornell, Danielle Harris, George P. Wilbur, Michael Pataki, Beau Starr, Kathleen Kinmont, Sasha Jenson, Carmen Filpi, Raymond O'Connor, Nancy Borgenicht, Alan B. McElroy	Slasher	Live action
		Little Dorrit (wide-release)	Cannon Films	Christine Edzard (director/screenplay); Derek Jacobi, Joan Greenwood, Max Wall, Patricia Hayes, Alec Guinness, Miriam Margolyes, Simon Dormandy, Sarah Pickering	Drama, Romance	Live action
		Mystic Pizza	The Samuel Goldwyn Company	Donald Petrie (director); Amy Holden Jones, Perry Howze, Randy Howze, Alfred Uhry (screenplay); Annabeth Gish, Julia Roberts, Lili Taylor, Vincent D'Onofrio, William R. Moses, Adam Storke, Conchata Ferrell, Joanna Merlin, Louis Turenne, Janet Zarish, Ann Flood, Suzanne Shepherd, Matt Damon	Coming-of-age	Live action
		Tapeheads	Avenue Pictures	Bill Fishman (director/screenplay); Peter McCarthy (screenplay); John Cusack, Tim Robbins, Mary Crosby, Clu Gulager, Doug McClure, Katy Boyer, Jessica Walter, Sam Moore, Junior Walker, Susan Tyrrell, Lee Arenberg, Xander Berkeley, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Don Cornelius, King Cotton, Zander Schloss, Martha C. Quinn, Ted Nugent, Jello Biafra, Connie Stevens, Stiv Bators, Bobcat Goldthwait, David Anthony Higgins, Michael Nesmith, Sy Richardson, Brie Howard, Billy Davis	Comedy	Live action
		Without a Clue	Orion Pictures	Thom Eberhardt (director); Larry Strawther, Gary Murphy (screenplay); Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley, Jeffrey Jones, Lysette Anthony, Paul Freeman, Pat Keen, Matthew Savage, Nigel Davenport, Tim Killick, Peter Cook, John Warner, Matthew Sim, Fredrick Fox, Harold Innocent, George Sweeney, Murray Ewan, Jennifer Guy	Comedy	Live action
	28	Feds	Warner Bros.	Daniel Goldberg (director/screenplay); Len Blum (screenplay); Rebecca De Mornay, Mary Gross, Ken Marshall, Fred Dalton Thompson, Larry Cedar, Raymond Singer, James Luisi, Rex Ryon, Norman Bernard, Don Stark, David Sherrill	Comedy	Live action
N O V E M B E R	4	Everybody's All-American	Warner Bros.	Taylor Hackford (director); Thomas Rickman (screenplay); Jessica Lange, Dennis Quaid, Timothy Hutton, John Goodman, Carl Lumbly, Ray Baker, Savannah Smith Boucher, Patricia Clarkson, Wayne Knight	Sports, Drama	Live action
		The Good Mother	Touchstone Pictures	Leonard Nimoy (director); Michael Bortman (screenplay); Diane Keaton, Liam Neeson, Jason Robards, Ralph Bellamy, Teresa Wright, James Naughton, Asia Vieira, Joe Morton, Fred Melamed, Katey Sagal, Zachary Bennett, Matt Damon	Drama	Live action
		U2: Rattle and Hum (U.S.)	Paramount Pictures	Phil Joanou (director); U2	Documentary	Live action
		They Live	Universal Pictures	John Carpenter (director/screenplay); Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster, Raymond St. Jacques, George Buck Flower, Peter Jason, Sy Richardson, Susan Blanchard, Norman Alden	Science fiction, Horror	Live action
	9	Child's Play	United Artists / MGM/UA Communications Co.	Tom Holland (director/screenplay); Don Mancini, John Lafia (screenplays); Alex Vincent, Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Brad Dourif, Dinah Manoff, Tommy Swerdlow, Jack Colvin, Raymond Oliver, Neil Giuntoli, Alan Wilder, Aaron Osborne, Juan Ramirez	Slasher, Horror	Live action
	11	Evil Angels	Warner Bros.	Fred Schepisi (director/screenplay); Robert Caswell (screenplay); Meryl Streep, Sam Neill, Bruce Myles, Neil Fitzpatrick, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Maurie Fields, Nick Tate, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Dorothy Alison	Drama	Live action
		Distant Thunder	Paramount Pictures	Rick Rosenthal (director); Robert Stitzel, Deedee Wehle (screenplay); John Lithgow, Ralph Macchio, Kerrie Keane, Reb Brown, Janet Margolin, Denis Arndt, Jamey Sheridan, Tom Bower, John Kelly, Michael Currie, Hilary Strang, Robyn Stevan, David Longworth, Gordon Currie, Walter Marsh, Allen Lysell, Kate Robbins, David Glyn-Jones, Denalda Williams	Drama	Live action
		Ernest Saves Christmas	Touchstone Pictures	John R. Cherry III (director); Ed Turner, B. Kline (screenplay); Jim Varney, Douglas Seale, Oliver Clark, Noelle Parker, Gailard Sartain, Bill Byrge, Billie Bird, Key Howard, Jack Swanson, Buddy Douglas, Patty Maloney, Barry Brazell, George Kaplan, Robert Lesser, Zachary Bowden	Comedy	Live action
		Iron Eagle II	TriStar Pictures / Carolco Pictures	Sidney J. Furie (director/screenplay); Kevin Alyn Elders (screenplay); Louis Gossett, Jr., Mark Humphrey, Stuart Margolin, Maury Chaykin, Alan Scarfe, Colm Feore, Sharon Brandon, Clark Johnson, Jason Blicker, Jesse Collins, Mark Ivanir, Uri Gavriel, Neil Munro, Douglas Sheldon, Gary Reineke, Michael J. Reynolds, Jason Gedrick, Azaria Rapaport, Nicolas Coucos	Action	Live action
		Split Decisions	New Century Entertainment	David Drury (director); David Fallon (screenplay); Craig Sheffer, Jeff Fahey, Jennifer Beals, John McLiam, Gene Hackman, Harry Van Dyke, Eddie Velez	Sports	Live action
	18	The Chocolate War	MCEG Sterling	Keith Gordon (director/screenplay); John Glover, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Wally Ward, Doug Hutchison, Jenny Wright, Bud Cort, Corey Gunnestad, Brent Fraser, Robert Davenport, Adam Baldwin, Ethan Sandler	Drama	Live action
		Fresh Horses	Columbia Pictures / Weintraub Entertainment Group	David Anspaugh (director); Larry Ketron (screenplay); Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy, Patti D'Arbanville, Ben Stiller, Leon Russom, Molly Hagan, Viggo Mortensen, Doug Hutchison, Dan Davis, John Powell	Coming of age, Drama	Live action
		High Spirits	TriStar Pictures	Neil Jordan (director/screenplay); Michael McDowell (screenplay); Daryl Hannah, Peter O'Toole, Steve Guttenberg, Beverly D'Angelo, Liam Neeson, Jennifer Tilly, Peter Gallagher, Ray McAnally, Martin Ferrero, Connie Booth, Donal McCann, Liz Smith, Mary Coughlan, Ruby Buchanan, Isolde Cazelet, Aimee Delamain, Tom Hickey, Krista Hornish, Little John, Preston Lockwood, Paul O'Sullivan, Hilary Reynolds, Tony Rohr, Matthew Wright	Fantasy, Comedy	Live action
		The Land Before Time	Universal Pictures / Amblin Entertainment	Don Bluth (director); Stu Krieger (screenplay); Gabriel Damon, Candace Hutson, Judith Barsi, Will Ryan, Helen Shaver, Burke Byrnes, Bill Irwin, Pat Hingle	Adventure, Drama	Animation
		1969	Atlantic Entertainment Group	Ernest Thompson (director/screenplay); Robert Downey Jr., Kiefer Sutherland, Bruce Dern, Mariette Hartley, Winona Ryder, Joanna Cassidy	Drama	Live action
		Oliver & Company	Walt Disney Pictures	George Scribner (director); Jim Cox, Tim Disney, James Mangold (screenplays); Joey Lawrence, Billy Joel, Natalie Gregory, Cheech Marin, Bette Midler, Robert Loggia, Richard Mulligan, Roscoe Lee Browne, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Dom DeLuise, Taurean Blacque, Carl Weintraub, William Glover, Frank Welker	Musical	Animation
	23	Buster	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Vestron Pictures	David Green (director); Colin Shindler (screenplay); Phil Collins, Julie Walters, Larry Lamb, Martin Jarvis, Sheila Hancock, Stephanie Lawrence, Michael Attwell, Ralph Brown, Anthony Quayle, Ellie Beaven, Christopher Ellison, Michael Byrne, Clive Wood, Harold Innocent, Rupert Vansittart, John Benfield, John Barrard, Carole Collins, Amy Shindler, David Shindler	Romance, Comedy, Crime	Live action
		Cocoon: The Return	20th Century Fox	Daniel Petrie (director); Stephen McPherson (screenplay); Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Courteney Cox, Hume Cronyn, Jack Gilford, Steve Guttenberg, Barret Oliver, Maureen Stapleton, Elaine Stritch, Jessica Tandy, Gwen Verdon, Tahnee Welch, Linda Harrison, Clint Howard, Tyrone Power Jr.	Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Comedy, Drama	Live action
		Full Moon in Blue Water	Trans World Entertainment	Peter Masterson (director); Bill Bozzone (screenplay); Gene Hackman, Teri Garr, Burgess Meredith, Elias Koteas, Kevin Cooney, David Doty, Gil Glasgow, Becky Gelke, Marietta Marich, Lexie Masterson, Mark Walters, Ben Jones, Tiny Skaggs, Bill Johnson	Comedy, Drama, Romance	Live action
		Hanna's War	Cannon Films	Menahem Golan (director/screenplay); Stanley Mann (screenplay); Ellen Burstyn, Maruschka Detmers, Anthony Andrews, Donald Pleasence, David Warner, Vincent Riotta, Avi Korein, Ingrid Pitt, John Stride, Shimon Finkel	Drama	Live action
		Scrooged	Paramount Pictures	Richard Donner (director); Mitch Glazer, Michael O'Donoghue (screenplay); Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, John Glover, Alfre Woodard, Bobcat Goldthwait, David Johansen, Carol Kane, Nicholas Phillips, Robert Mitchum, Michael J. Pollard, Mary Ellen Trainor, Mabel King, John Murray, Wendie Malick, Brian Doyle-Murray, Lisa Mende, Maria Riva, Lee Majors, Miles Davis, Paul Shaffer, David Sanborn, John Houseman, Robert Goulet, Buddy Hackett, Mary Lou Retton, Jamie Farr, Larry Carlton, Anne Ramsey, Logan Ramsey	Christmas, Comedy	Live action
D E C E M B E R	2	The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!	Paramount Pictures	David Zucker (director/screenplay); Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Pat Proft (screenplay); Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, Ricardo Montalban, George Kennedy, O.J. Simpson, Susan Beaubian, Nancy Marchand, Raye Birk, Jeannette Charles, Ed Williams, Tiny Ron, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Leslie Maier, Winifred Freedman, Joe Grifasi, Lawrence Tierney, Reggie Jackson, Jay Johnstone, Joe West, Doug Harvey, Hank Robinson, Ken Kaiser, Ron Luciano, Curt Gowdy, Jim Palmer, Tim McCarver, Mel Allen, Dick Enberg, Dick Vitale, Dr. Joyce Brothers	Comedy	Live action
		Tequila Sunrise	Warner Bros.	Robert Towne (director/screenplay); Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kurt Russell, Raúl Juliá, J.T. Walsh, Gabriel Damon, Ely Pouget, Arliss Howard, Arye Gross, Garret Pearson, Budd Boetticher, Ann Magnuson	Crime, Thriller	Live action
		Watchers	Universal Pictures / Carolco Pictures	Jon Hess (director); Bill Freed, Damian Lee (screenplay); Corey Haim, Barbara Williams, Michael Ironside, Lala Sloatman	Sci-Fi, Horror	Live action
	9	Mississippi Burning	Orion Pictures	Alan Parker (director); Chris Gerolmo (screenplay); Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, R. Lee Ermey, Gailard Sartain, Stephen Tobolowsky, Michael Rooker, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Badja Djola, Kevin Dunn, Frankie Faison, Geoffrey Nauffts, Park Overall, Darius McCrary, Tobin Bell, Bob Glaudini	Crime, Thriller	Live action
		My Stepmother Is an Alien	Columbia Pictures	Richard Benjamin (director); Herschel Weingrod, Timothy Harris, Jonathan Reynolds (screenplay); Dan Aykroyd, Kim Basinger, Jon Lovitz, Alyson Hannigan, Joseph Maher, Seth Green, Ann Prentiss, Wesley Mann, Tony Jay, Harry Shearer, Juliette Lewis, Peter Bromilow	Sci-Fi	Live action
		Twins	Universal Pictures	Ivan Reitman (director); William Davies, Timothy Harris, William Osborne, Herschel Weingrod (screenplay); Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Kelly Preston, Chloe Webb, Bonnie Bartlett, Tony Jay, David Caruso, Trey Wilson, Marvin J. McIntyre, Marshall Bell, Hugh O'Brian, Jason Reitman, Catherine Reitman, Nehemiah Persoff, Maury Chaykin, Tom McCleister, Sven-Ole Thorsen, Richard Portnow, Frances Bay, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Elizabeth Kaitan, Joe Medjuck, Nicolette Larson, Jeff Beck, Terry Bozzio, Robert Harper	Buddy, Comedy	Live action
	14	Dirty Rotten Scoundrels	Orion Pictures	Frank Oz (director); Dale Launer, Stanley Shapiro, Paul Henning (screenplay); Steve Martin, Michael Caine, Glenne Headly, Anton Rodgers, Barbara Harris, Ian McDiarmid, Dana Ivey, Meagen Fay, Frances Conroy, Louis Zorich	Comedy	Live action
		I'm Gonna Git You Sucka	MGM/UA Communications Co. / United Artists	Keenen Ivory Wayans (director/screenplay); Keenen Ivory Wayans, John Witherspoon, Bernie Casey, Ja'net Dubois, Isaac Hayes, Jim Brown, Antonio Fargas, Steve James, John Vernon, Dawnn Lewis, Kadeem Hardison, Damon Wayans, Kim Wayans, Nadia Wayans, Chris Rock, Anne-Marie Johnson, Eve Plumb, Tony Cox, Hawthorne James, Clarence Williams III, David Alan Grier, Robin Harris, Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Gary Owens, Lawrence Parker, Derrick Jones	Action, Comedy, Parody	Live action
		Torch Song Trilogy	New Line Cinema	Paul Bogart (director); Harvey Fierstein (screenplay); Anne Bancroft, Matthew Broderick, Harvey Fierstein, Brian Kerwin, Karen Young, Eddie Castrodad, Ken Page, Charles Pierce, Axel Vera	Comedy, Drama	Live action
	16	Dangerous Liaisons	Warner Bros.	Stephen Frears (director); Christopher Hampton (screenplay); Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer, Swoosie Kurtz, Keanu Reeves, Mildred Natwick, Uma Thurman, Peter Capaldi, Valerie Gogan	Period, Romance film, Drama	Live action
		Purple People Eater	Motion Picture Corporation of America	Linda Shayne (director); Neil Patrick Harris, Ned Beatty, Shelley Winters, Thora Birch, Dustin Diamond, Peggy Lipton	Sci-Fi, Comedy	Live action
		Rain Man	United Artists / MGM/UA Communications Co.	Barry Levinson (director); Barry Morrow, Ronald Bass (screenplay); Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino, Jerry Molen, Ralph Seymour, Michael D. Roberts, Bonnie Hunt, Beth Grant, Lucinda Jenney, Barry Levinson	Comedy, Drama	Live action
	21	Beaches	Touchstone Pictures	Garry Marshall (director); Mary Agnes Donoghue (screenplay); Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey, John Heard, Spalding Gray, James Read, Lainie Kazan, Grace Johnston, Lynda Goodfriend, Tracy Reiner, Jenifer Lewis, Joe Grifasi, Phil Leeds, Hector Elizondo, Garry Marshall, Marc Shaiman, Mayim Bialik, Marcie Leeds	Comedy, Drama	Live action
		Talk Radio	Universal Pictures	Oliver Stone (director/screenplay); Eric Bogosian (screenplay); Eric Bogosian, Alec Baldwin, Ellen Greene, Leslie Hope, John C. McGinley, John Pankow, Michael Wincott, Robert Trebor, Tony Frank, Anna Levine, Rockets Redglare, Park Overall, Earl Hindman, Zach Grenier, Bill Johnson, Bruno Rubeo, Pirie MacDonald, Allan Corduner, Daniel Escobar	Drama	Live action
		Working Girl	20th Century Fox	Mike Nichols (director); Kevin Wade (screenplay); Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, Joan Cusack, Alec Baldwin, Philip Bosco, Nora Dunn, Oliver Platt, James Lally, Kevin Spacey, Robert Easton, Amy Aquino, Olympia Dukakis, David Duchovny, Ricki Lake	Romance, Comedy, Drama	Live action
	23	The Accidental Tourist	Warner Bros.	Lawrence Kasdan (director/screenplay); Frank Galati (screenplay); William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Geena Davis, Bill Pullman, Amy Wright, David Ogden Stiers, Ed Begley Jr.	Drama	Live action
		The Boost	Hemdale Film Corporation	Harold Becker (director); Ben Stein, Darryl Ponicsan (screenplay); James Woods, Sean Young, John Kapelos, Steven Hill, Kelle Kerr, John Rothman, Amanda Blake, Barry Jenner	Drama	Live action
		Dominick and Eugene	Orion Pictures	Robert M. Young (director); Corey Blechman, Alvin Sargent (screenplay); Tom Hulce, Ray Liotta, Jamie Lee Curtis, Todd Graff, Bill Cobbs, David Strathairn	Drama	Live action
		Hellbound: Hellraiser II	New World Pictures	Tony Randel (director); Peter Atkins (screenplay); Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Kenneth Cranham, Imogen Boorman, Doug Bradley, Nicholas Vince, Simon Bamford, Barbie Wilde, Sean Chapman, Oliver Smith, William Hope, Deborah Joel, Angus McInnes, Catherine Chevalier, Kevin Cole	Horror	Live action

Notable films released in 1988

United States unless stated

G

The Gamble, directed by Carlo Vanzina, starring Matthew Modine, Faye Dunaway, Jennifer Beals – (Italy)
Georgia, directed by Ben Lewin, starring Judy Davis – (Australia)
Ghost Town, directed by Richard McCarthy (under the alias Richard Governor), starring Franc Luz, Catherine Hickland, Jimmie F. Skaggs, and Bruce Glover
Ghosts… of the Civil Dead, directed by John Hillcoat, starring David Field, Chris DeRose. Nick Cave, and Dave Mason (Australia)
The Good Mother, directed by Leonard Nimoy, starring Diane Keaton and Liam Neeson
Gorillas in the Mist, directed by Michael Apted, starring Sigourney Weaver
Gotham (aka) The Dead Can't Lie, directed by Lloyd Fonvielle, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Virginia Madsen
Grave of the Fireflies (Hotaru no Haka), directed by Isao Takahata, starring Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Yoshiko Shinohara, and Akemi Yamaguchi (Japan)
The Great Outdoors, directed by Howard Deutch, starring Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Annette Bening

H

Hairspray, directed by John Waters, starring Ricki Lake, Divine, Jerry Stiller, Sonny Bono, Deborah Harry
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, directed by Dwight H. Little, starring Donald Pleasence, Ellie Cornell, Danielle Harris, and Michael Pataki
A Handful of Dust, directed by Charles Sturridge, starring James Wilby and Kristin Scott Thomas – (U.K.)
Hanna's War, directed by Menahem Golan, starring Ellen Burstyn, Maruschka Detmers, Anthony Andrews, Donald Pleasence, and David Warner
Hanussen, directed by István Szabó, starring Klaus Maria Brandauer – (Hungary)
Hatya, directed by Kirti Kumar, starring Govinda and Neelam – (India)
Haunted Summer, directed by Ivan Passer, starring Philip Anglim, Laura Dern, Alice Krige, Eric Stoltz, and Alex Winter
Hawks, directed by Robert Ellis Miller, starring Timothy Dalton and Anthony Edwards – (U.K.)
Heart of a Dog (Sobachye serdtse), directed by Vladimir Bortko, starring Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev, Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Tolokonnikov, and Nina Ruslanova (U.S.S.R.)
Heart of Midnight, directed by Matthew Chapman, starring Jennifer Jason Leigh
Heartbreak Hotel, directed by Chris Columbus, starring David Keith
Heathers, directed by Michael Lehmann, starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater
Hellbound: Hellraiser II, directed by Tony Randel, starring Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, and Kenneth Cranham (UK/US)
Hero and the Terror, directed by William Tannen, starring Chuck Norris, Brynn Thayer, Steve James, and Jack O'Halloran
Hero Hiralal, directed by Ketan Mehta, starring Naseeruddin Shah and Sanjana Kapoor (India)
High Hopes, directed by Mike Leigh, starring Phil Davis and Ruth Sheen (U.K.)
High Spirits, directed by Neil Jordan, starring Peter O'Toole, Steve Guttenberg, Daryl Hannah
Hobgoblins, directed by Rick Sloane, starring Tom Bartlett, Paige Sullivan, Steven Boggs, Kelley Palmer, Billy Frank, and Daran Norris
Hot to Trot, directed by Michael Dinner, starring Bob Goldthwait, Virginia Madsen, Jim Metzler, and Dabney Coleman
Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (Hôtel Terminus: Klaus Barbie, sa vie et son temps), directed by Marcel Ophüls – (France)
The House on Carroll Street, directed by Peter Yates, starring Kelly McGillis and Jeff Daniels
How Poets Are Enjoying Their Lives (Jak básníkům chutná život), directed by Dusan Klein, starring Pavel Kříž (Czechoslovakia)

I

Illegally Yours, directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Rob Lowe and Colleen Camp
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, directed by and starring Keenen Ivory Wayans
Imagine: John Lennon, directed by Andrew Solt, documentary film about John Lennon
The In Crowd, directed by Mark Rosenthal, starring Donovan Leich and Joe Pantoliano
Iron Eagle II, directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Louis Gossett, Jr.
It Couldn't Happen Here, directed by Jack Bond, starring the Pet Shop Boys – (U.K.)
It Takes Two, directed by David Beaird, starring George Newbern, Leslie Hope, Kimberly Foster, and Barry Corbin

J

Johnny Be Good, directed by Bud Smith, starring Anthony Michael Hall, Robert Downey, Jr., Uma Thurman
Judgment in Berlin, directed by Leo Penn, starring Martin Sheen, Sam Wanamaker, Max Gail, Heinz Hoenig, Carl Lumbly, Max Volkert Martens, Joshua Sinclair, Jutta Speidel, Harris Yulin, and Sean Penn

K

Kabzaa, directed by Mahesh Bhatt, starring Raj Babbar, Sanjay Dutt, Amrita Singh, Paresh Rawal, and Alok Nath (India)
Kamilla and the Thief (Kamilla og Tyven), directed by Grete Salomonsen, starring Veronika Flåt, Dennis Storhøi, Agnete Haaland, and Morten Harket (Norway)
Kansas, directed by David Stevens, starring Matt Dillon and Andrew McCarthy
Killer Klowns from Outer Space, directed by Stephen Chiodo, starring Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson, Royal Dano, Michael Siegel, Peter Licassi, and John Vernon
The Kiss, directed by Pen Densham, starring Joanna Pacuła and Meredith Salenger – (United States/Canada)
The Kitchen Toto, directed by Harry Hook, starring Bob Peck, Phyllis Logan, and Edwin Mahinda
Kung-Fu Master (a.k.a. Le Petit Amour), directed by Agnès Varda, starring Jane Birkin and Charlotte Gainsbourg – (France)

L

Lady in White, directed by Frank LaLoggia, starring Lukas Haas, Len Cariou, Alex Rocco, Katherine Helmond
The Lair of the White Worm, directed by Ken Russell, starring Amanda Donohoe and Hugh Grant – (U.K.)
The Land Before Time, directed by Don Bluth, starring Gabriel Damon, Candace Hutson, Judith Barsi, and Will Ryan
Landscape in the Mist (Topio stin omichli), directed by Theo Angelopoulos, starring Michalis Zeke, Tania Palaiologou, and Stratos Tzortzoglou (Greece)
Last Rites, directed by Donald P. Bellisario, starring Daphne Zuniga, Tom Berenger, Anne Twomey
The Last Temptation of Christ, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey
The Legend of the Holy Drinker (La Leggenda del Santo Bevitore), directed by Ermanno Olmi, starring Rutger Hauer – Golden Lion award – (Italy/France)
License to Drive, directed by Greg Beeman, starring Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, Carol Kane, and Richard Masur
Life Is a Long Quiet River (La vie est un long fleuve tranquille), directed by Étienne Chatiliez, starring Benoît Magimel, Hélène Vincent, André Wilms, Daniel Gélin, Catherine Jacob, and Patrick Bouchitey (France)
Light Years (Gandahar), directed by René Laloux, starring Pierre-Marie Escourrou (France)
The Little Devil (Il Piccolo Diavolo), directed by Roberto Benigni, starring Walter Matthau, Roberto Benigni (Italy)
Little Dorrit, directed by Christine Edzard, starring Derek Jacobi and Alec Guinness – (U.K.)
Little Nikita, directed by Richard Benjamin, starring Sidney Poitier, River Phoenix, Richard Bradford, and Richard Lynch
Little Vera (Malenkaya Vera), directed by Vasili Pichul, starring Natalya Negoda (U.S.S.R.)
Love and Fear (Fürchten und Lieben|Trois Soeurs), directed by Margarethe von Trotta, starring Fanny Ardant, Greta Scacchi, Valeria Golino – (West Germany/France/Italy)

M

Mac and Me, directed by Stewart Raffill, starring Christine Ebersole, Jonathan Ward, and Tina Caspary
Madame Sousatzka, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Shirley MacLaine – (U.K.)
Maison Ikkoku: The Final Chapter, directed by Tomomi Mochizuki, starring Sumi Shimamoto and Issei Futamata (Japan)
Maniac Cop, directed by William Lustig, starring Tom Atkins, Bruce Campbell, Laurene Landon, Richard Roundtree, William Smith, Robert Z'Dar, and Sheree North
Mapantsula, directed by Oliver Schmitz, starring Thomas Mogotlane (South Africa)
Married to the Mob, directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Modine, Dean Stockwell, Oliver Platt, Mercedes Ruehl, Alec Baldwin
Masquerade, directed by Bob Swaim, starring Rob Lowe, Meg Tilly, Kim Cattrall
Memories of Me, directed by Henry Winkler, starring Billy Crystal and Alan King
Men Behind the Sun (hēi tài yáng), directed by T. F. Mou, starring Gang Wang, Hsu Gou, Tie Long Jin, Zhao Hua Mei, Zhe Quan, Run Sheng Wang, Dai Wao Yu, and Andrew Yu (Hong Kong)
Messenger of Death, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Charles Bronson, Trish Van Devere, Laurence Luckinbill, John Ireland
Midnight Crossing, directed by Roger Holzberg, starring Faye Dunaway, Daniel J. Travanti, Kim Cattrall, John Laughlin, and Ned Beatty
Midnight Run, directed by Martin Brest, starring Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto, John Ashton, Dennis Farina
The Milagro Beanfield War, directed by Robert Redford, starring Rubén Blades, Sônia Braga, Christopher Walken, Melanie Griffith
Miles from Home, directed by Gary Sinise, starring Richard Gere and Kevin Anderson
Miracle Mile, directed by Steve De Jarnatt, starring Mare Winningham and Anthony Edwards
Missing Link, directed by David Hughes and Carol Hughes, starring Peter Elliott and Michael Gambon
Mississippi Burning, directed by Alan Parker, starring Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand
Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (Kidō Senshi Gandamu: Gyakushū no Shā), directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, starring Tōru Furuya and Shūichi Ikeda (Japan)
The Moderns, directed by Alan Rudolph, starring Keith Carradine, Linda Fiorentino, John Lone
Mondo New York, directed by Harvey Nikolai Keith, starring Joey Arias, Rick Aviles, Charlie Barnett, Joe Coleman, Emilio Cubeiro, Karen Finley, Dean Johnson, Phoebe Legere, Lydia Lunch, Ann Magnuson, Frank Moore, and John Sex
Monkey Shines, directed by George A. Romero, starring Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Stanley Tucci
Moon over Parador, directed by Paul Mazursky, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Raúl Juliá, Sônia Braga
Moonwalker, directed by Jerry Kramer, Jim Blashfield, and Colin Chilvers, starring Michael Jackson
Moscow Elegy, directed by Alexander Sokurov (U.S.S.R.)
Moving, directed by Alan Metter, starring Richard Pryor
Mr. North, directed by Danny Huston, starring Anthony Edwards, Robert Mitchum, Lauren Bacall, Virginia Madsen, Anjelica Huston
The Music Teacher (Le maître de musique), directed by Gérard Corbiau, starring José van Dam, Anne Roussel, and Philippe Volter (Belgium)
My Neighbor Totoro (Tonari no Totoro), directed by Hayao Miyazaki, starring Chika Sakamoto, Noriko Hidaka, and Hitoshi Takagi (Japan)
My Stepmother Is an Alien, directed by Richard Benjamin, starring Kim Basinger, Dan Aykroyd, Alyson Hannigan
Mystic Pizza, directed by Donald Petrie, starring Annabeth Gish, Julia Roberts, Lili Taylor

N

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, directed by David Zucker, starring Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, O. J. Simpson
The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey, directed by Vincent Ward, starring Chris Haywood, Marshall Napier, Paul Livingston, and Jay Laga'aia (New Zealand)
Necromancer, directed by Dusty Nelson, starring Elizabeth Kaitan
The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking, directed by Ken Annakin, starring Tami Erin, Eileen Brennan, Dennis Dugan, Dianne Hull, George DiCenzo, John Schuck, and Dick Van Patten (Sweden/United States)
A New Life, directed by and starring Alan Alda, with Ann-Margret, John Shea, Hal Linden, Veronica Hamel
A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon, directed by William Richert, starring River Phoenix, Ann Magnuson, Meredith Salenger, Ione Skye, Louanne Sirota, Matthew Perry, and Paul Koslo
Night of the Demons, directed by Kevin S. Tenney, starring William Gallo, Hal Havins, Amelia Kinkade, Cathy Podewell, and Linnea Quigley
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, directed by Renny Harlin, starring Robert Englund, Lisa Wilcox, and Danny Hassel

O

Off Limits, directed by Christopher Crowe, starring Willem Dafoe, Gregory Hines, Fred Ward
Oliver & Company, directed by George Scribner, starring Joey Lawrence, Billy Joel, Dom DeLuise
On the Silver Globe (Na srebrnym globie), directed by Andrzej Żuławski, starring Andrzej Seweryn (Poland)

P

Painted Faces (Cat siu fuk), directed by Alex Law, starring Sammo Hung – (Hong Kong)
Paperhouse, directed by Bernard Rose, starring Ben Cross, Glenne Headly, and Elliott Spiers (U.K.)
Pascali's Island, directed by James Dearden, starring Ben Kingsley and Helen Mirren – (U.K.)
Pass the Ammo, directed by David Beaird, starring Tim Curry, Linda Kozlowski, Annie Potts, Bill Paxton
Patty Hearst, directed by Paul Schrader, starring Natasha Richardson
Permanent Record, directed by Marisa Silver, starring Pamela Gidley, Michelle Meyrink, Keanu Reeves, and Jennifer Rubin
Phantasm II, directed by Don Coscarelli, starring James LeGros, Angus Scrimm, Reggie Bannister, and Paula Irvine
Phantom of Death, directed by Ruggero Deodato, starring Michael York, Edwige Fenech, Donald Pleasence, and Antonella Ponziani (Italy)
Plain Clothes, directed by Martha Coolidge, starring Arliss Howard and Suzy Amis
Platoon Leader, directed by Aaron Norris, starring Michael Dudikoff
Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach, directed by Alan Myerson, starring Bubba Smith, David Graf, Michael Winslow, Leslie Easterbrook, Marion Ramsey, Janet Jones, Lance Kinsey, Matt McCoy, G. W. Bailey, and George Gaynes
Police Story 2 (Ging chaat goo si juk jaap), directed by Jackie Chan, starring Jackie Chan and Maggie Cheung – (Hong Kong)
Poltergeist III, directed by Gary Sherman, starring Heather O'Rourke, Tom Skerritt, Nancy Allen
Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw, directed by Pierre DeCelles, starring Brennan Howard, B.J. Ward, Nancy Cartwright, and Tony Longo
Powaqqatsi, directed by Godfrey Reggio, documentary film with no dialogue
The Presidio, directed by Peter Hyams, starring Sean Connery, Mark Harmon, Meg Ryan
The Prince of Pennsylvania, directed by Ron Nyswaner, starring Keanu Reeves, Fred Ward, Amy Madigan, Bonnie Bedelia
Prison, directed by Renny Harlin, starring Viggo Mortensen, Lane Smith, Chelsea Field, Lincoln Kilpatrick, and André De Shields
Prisoner of Rio, directed by Lech Majewski, starring Steven Berkoff – (Poland/U.K./Brazil)
Pulse, directed by Paul Golding, starring Cliff De Young, Roxanne Hart, Joey Lawrence, and Matthew Lawrence
Pumpkinhead, directed by Stan Winston, starring Lance Henriksen, John D'Aquino, and Kerry Remsen
Punchline, directed by David Seltzer, starring Sally Field, Tom Hanks, John Goodman
Purple People Eater, directed by Linda Shayne, starring Neil Patrick Harris, Ned Beatty, Shelley Winters, Thora Birch, Dustin Diamond, and Peggy Lipton
Puss in Boots, directed by Eugene Marner, starring Christopher Walken and Jason Connery

Q

Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (From Disaster to Disaster), directed by Mansoor Khan, starring Aamir Khan, Juhi Chawla, Dalip Tahil, and Alok Nath (India)

R

Rain Man, directed by Barry Levinson, starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise – Academy and Golden Globe (drama) for Best Picture and Golden Bear (for 1989)
Rambo III, directed by Peter MacDonald, starring Sylvester Stallone and Richard Crenna
Rattle and Hum, directed by Phil Joanou, a rockumentary featuring U2
Red Heat, directed by Walter Hill, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Belushi
Rented Lips, directed by Robert Downey Sr., starring Martin Mull, Dick Shawn, Jennifer Tilly, Robert Downey, Jr.
The Rescue, directed by Ferdinand Fairfax, starring Kevin Dillon, Marc Price, Ned Vaughn, Christine Harnos, Ian Giatti, Charles Haid, Edward Albert, Timothy Carhart, Michael Gates Phenicie, Mel Wong, and James Cromwell
Return of the Living Dead Part II, directed by Ken Wiederhorn, starring James Karen, Thom Mathews, Dana Ashbrook, Marsha Dietlein, Phil Bruns, and Michael Kenworthy
Return to Snowy River, directed by Geoff Burrowes, starring Tom Burlinson, Sigrid Thornton, Brian Dennehy, Nicholas Eadie, Bryan Marshall, and Mark Hembrow (Australia)
Robowar, directed by Bruno Mattei, starring Reb Brown, and Catherine Hickland (Italy)
Rocket Gibraltar, directed by Daniel Petrie, starring Burt Lancaster, Suzy Amis, Patricia Clarkson, Frances Conroy, Sinead Cusack, John Glover, Bill Pullman, and Kevin Spacey
Roots: The Gift, directed by Kevin Hooks, starring LeVar Burton and Louis Gossett Jr.
Rouge (Jin Zi Kau), directed by Stanley Kwan, starring Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui – (Hong Kong)
Run for Your Life, directed by Terence Young, starring David Carradine, Lauren Hutton, Franco Nero – (Italy)
Running on Empty, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Christine Lahti, Judd Hirsch, River Phoenix, Martha Plimpton

S

Salaam Bombay!, directed by Mira Nair, starring Shafiq Syed, Hansa Vithal, Chanda Sharma, Raghuvir Yadav, Anita Kanwar, and Nana Patekar (India/U.K.)
Salome's Last Dance, directed by Ken Russell, starring Glenda Jackson, Stratford Johns, Nickolas Grace, Douglas Hodge, Imogen Claire, and Imogen Millais-Scott (U.K.)
Salsa, directed by Boaz Davidson, starring Draco Rosa, Rodney Harvey, Magali Alvarado, and Miranda Garrison
Sathya, directed by Suresh Krissna, starring Kamal Haasan, Amala, Rajesh, Nassar, Bahadoor, Vadivukkarasi, Vaali, and Raja Krishnamoorthy (Sri Lanka)
Satisfaction, directed by Joan Freeman, starring Justine Bateman and Liam Neeson
School Daze, directed by Spike Lee, starring Laurence Fishburne and Giancarlo Esposito
Scrooged, directed by Richard Donner, starring Bill Murray, Karen Allen, Carol Kane, Alfre Woodard, John Glover, Bobcat Goldthwait
The Secret of the Sahara, directed by Alberto Negrin, starring Michael York and Andie MacDowell
The Serpent and the Rainbow, directed by Wes Craven, starring Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson, Zakes Mokae, and Paul Winfield
Seven Hours to Judgment, directed by Beau Bridges, starring Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, and Julianne Phillips
The Seventh Sign, directed by Carl Schultz, starring Demi Moore, Michael Biehn and Jürgen Prochnow
Shadows in the Storm, directed by Terrell Tannen, starring Mia Sara, Michael Madsen, Ned Beatty
Shakedown, aka Blue Jean Cop, directed by James Glickenhaus, starring Peter Weller and Sam Elliott
She's Having a Baby, directed by John Hughes, starring Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Baldwin
Shoot to Kill, aka Deadly Pursuit, directed by Roger Spottiswoode, starring Sidney Poitier, Tom Berenger, and Kirstie Alley
Short Circuit 2, directed by Kenneth Johnson, starring Fisher Stevens, Michael McKean, Cynthia Gibb, Jack Weston, and Tim Blaney
A Short Film About Killing (Krótki film o zabijaniu), directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski, starring Mirosław Baka, Krzysztof Globisz, and Jan Tesarz (Poland)
A Short Film About Love (Krótki film o miłości), directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski, starring Grażyna Szapołowska and Olaf Lubaszenko (Poland)
Slugs, directed by Juan Piquer Simón, starring Michael Garfield and Kim Terry
Sodoma's Ghost, directed by Lucio Fulci, starring Al Cliver (Italy)
Some Girls, directed by Michael Hoffman, starring Patrick Dempsey and Jennifer Connelly
Soursweet, directed by Mike Newell, starring Sylvia Chang and Danny Dun (U.K.)
Space Mutiny, directed by David Winters, starring Reb Brown, Cisse Cameron, Cameron Mitchell, James Ryan, John Phillip Law, Graham Clark, Billy Second, and Rufus Swart (South Africa)
Spellbinder, directed by Janet Greek, starring Tim Daly, Kelly Preston, and Rick Rossovich
Spike of Bensonhurst, directed by Paul Morrissey, starring Sasha Mitchell, Ernest Borgnine, Anne Desalvo, Sylvia Miles, Talisa Soto, and Rick Aviles
Split Decisions, directed by David Drury, starring Craig Sheffer, Jeff Fahey, Jennifer Beals, Gene Hackman
Stand and Deliver, directed by Ramón Menéndez, starring Edward James Olmos and Lou Diamond Phillips
Stars and Bars, directed by Pat O'Connor, starring Daniel Day-Lewis
Stealing Heaven, directed by Clive Donner, starring Derek de Lint and Kim Thomson – (U.K.)
Stealing Home, directed by Steven Kampmann and William Porter, starring Mark Harmon and Jodie Foster
Stormy Monday, directed by Mike Figgis, starring Melanie Griffith, Tommy Lee Jones, Sting, and Sean Bean
Story of Women (Une affaire de femmes), directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Isabelle Huppert – (France)
A Summer Story, directed by Piers Haggard, starring James Wilby, Imogen Stubbs, Susannah York – (U.K.)
Sunset, directed by Blake Edwards, starring James Garner, Bruce Willis, Malcolm McDowell, Kathleen Quinlan, Mariel Hemingway
Sur (South), directed by Fernando E. Solanas, starring Susú Pecoraro, Miguel Ángel Solá, Philippe Léotard, and Lito Cruz (Argentina)
Sweet Hearts Dance, directed by Robert Greenwald, starring Don Johnson, Susan Sarandon, Elizabeth Perkins, Jeff Daniels
Sweet Lies, directed by Nathalie Delon, starring Treat Williams
Switching Channels, directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Kathleen Turner, Burt Reynolds, Christopher Reeve

T

Taffin, directed by Francis Megahy, starring Pierce Brosnan, Ray McAnally, Alison Doody – (Ireland)
Tales from the Gimli Hospital, directed by Guy Maddin, starring Kyle McCulloch (Canada)
Talk Radio, directed by Oliver Stone, starring Eric Bogosian, Ellen Greene, Alec Baldwin
Tapeheads, directed by Bill Fishman, starring John Cusack and Tim Robbins
The Telephone, directed by Rip Torn, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Severn Darden, Elliott Gould, John Heard, and Amy Wright
Tequila Sunrise, directed by Robert Towne, starring Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kurt Russell, Raúl Juliá, Arliss Howard, J. T. Walsh
Testimony, directed by Tony Palmer, a biographical film of Dmitri Shostakovich starring Ben Kingsley – (U.K.)
They Live, directed by John Carpenter, starring Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster
The Thin Blue Line, directed by Errol Morris, documentary film about Randall Dale Adams
Things Change, directed by David Mamet, starring Joe Mantegna, Don Ameche, Robert Prosky, William H. Macy
Tiger Warsaw, directed by Amin Q. Chaudhri, starring Patrick Swayze, Piper Laurie, and Mary McDonnell
A Time of Destiny, directed by Gregory Nava, starring William Hurt, Timothy Hutton, Melissa Leo
Time of the Gypsies (Dom za vešanje), directed by Emir Kusturica, starring Davor Dujmović and Bora Todorović (Yugoslavia)
Time of Violence (Vreme na nasilie), directed by Ludmil Staikov, starring Yosif Sarchadzhiev (Bulgaria)
To Kill a Priest (Le Complot), directed by Agnieszka Holland, starring Christopher Lambert and Ed Harris – (France)
Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller, directed by Michael Rubbo, starring Lucas Evans, Anthony Rogers, Jill Stanley, Andrew Whitehead, Paul Popowich, and Rufus Wainwright(Canada)
Torch Song Trilogy, directed by Paul Bogart, starring Harvey Fierstein, Anne Bancroft, Matthew Broderick, Brian Kerwin
Touch of Death, directed by Lucio Fulci, starring Brett Halsey, Ria De Simone, and Al Cliver (Italy)
Tougher Than Leather, directed by Rick Rubin, starring Darryl McDaniels, Joseph Simmons, and Jam Master Jay
Track 29, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Theresa Russell, Christopher Lloyd, Gary Oldman
Tucker: The Man and His Dream, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Martin Landau, Lloyd Bridges
Twins, directed by Ivan Reitman, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito
Two Moon Junction, directed by Zalman King, starring Sherilyn Fenn, Richard Tyson, Kristy McNichol, Louise Fletcher, Burl Ives

U

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, directed by Philip Kaufman, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin
The Unholy, directed by Camilo Vila, starring Ben Cross, Ned Beatty, William Russ, Jill Carroll, Hal Holbrook, and Trevor Howard
Urusei Yatsura: The Final Chapter, directed by Satoshi Dezaki, starring Fumi Hirano and Toshio Furukawa (Japan)

V

The Vanishing (Spoorloos), directed by George Sluizer, starring Gene Bervoets (Netherlands/France)
Vchera (Yesterday), directed by Ivan Andonov, starring Hristo Shopov and Georgi Staykov (Bulgaria)
Verónico Cruz, directed by Miguel Pereira, starring Juan José Camero and Gonzalo Morales (Argentina)
Vibes, directed by Ken Kwapis, starring Jeff Goldblum and Cyndi Lauper
Vice Versa, directed by Brian Gilbert, starring Judge Reinhold, Fred Savage, Corinne Bohrer

W

War and Remembrance, TV miniseries, directed by Dan Curtis, starring Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Victoria Tennant, Hart Bochner
War Party, directed by Franc Roddam, starring Billy Wirth and Kevin Dillon
Watchers, directed by Jon Hess, starring Corey Haim, Michael Ironside, Barbara Williams and Lala Sloatman – (Canada/United States)
Waxwork, directed by Anthony Hickox, starring Zach Galligan, Deborah Foreman, David Warner, Michelle Johnson, Dana Ashbrook
We Think the World of You, directed by Colin Gregg, starring Gary Oldman, Alan Bates, Max Hall, Liz Smith, and Frances Barber
Who Framed Roger Rabbit, directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Bob Hoskins, Joanna Cassidy, Christopher Lloyd
Willow, directed by Ron Howard, starring Val Kilmer, Warwick Davis, Joanne Whalley, Jean Marsh, Billy Barty
Without a Clue, directed by Thom Eberhardt, starring Michael Caine and Ben Kingsley – (U.K.)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios), directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Carmen Maura and Antonio Banderas – (Spain)
Working Girl, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver – Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
A World Apart, directed by Chris Menges, starring Barbara Hershey and Jodhi May – (U.K./Zimbabwe)
World Gone Wild, directed by Lee H. Katzin, starring Bruce Dern and Michael Paré
The Wrong Guys, directed by Danny Bilson, starring Louie Anderson, Richard Lewis, Richard Belzer, Tim Thomerson, Brion James, Franklyn Ajaye, Art LaFleur, Biff Manard, Timothy Van Patten, Ernie Hudson, and John Goodman
Wuthering Heights (Arashi ga oka), directed by Yoshishige Yoshida, starring Yūsaku Matsuda (Japan)

Y

Young Einstein, directed by and starring Yahoo Serious – (Australia)
Young Guns, directed by Christopher Cain, starring Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Dermot Mulroney, Casey Siemaszko

Z

Zombi 3, directed by Lucio Fulci and Bruno Mattei, starring Deran Sarafian (Italy)

Births

January 7 – Haley Bennett, American actress and singer
January 12 – Andrew Lawrence, American actor
February 17 – Nagita Slavina, Indonesian actress, television host, film producer, and singer
February 20 – Rihanna, Barbadian singer, songwriter and actress
March 14 – Stephen Curry, American basketball player
March 27 – Brenda Song, American actress, singer and model
March 27 – Holliday Grainger, English actress
April 6 – Mike Bailey, English actor
April 10 – Haley Joel Osment, American actor
April 14 – Chris Wood, American actor
April 18 – Allison Williams, American actress
April 25 – Sara Paxton, American singer/actress
April 30 – Ana de Armas, Cuban-Spanish actress
May 17 – Nikki Reed, American actress/writer
June 7 – Michael Cera, Canadian actor
June 9
- Mae Whitman, American actress
- Lauren Landa, American voice actress
July 12 – Christine Marie Cabanos, American voice actress
July 19 – Cherami Leigh, American voice actress
August 16 – Rumer Willis, American actress
August 24 – Rupert Grint, English actor
August 27 – Alexa PenaVega, American actress and singer
September 12 – Matt Martians, record producer
October 3 – Alicia Vikander, Swedish actress
October 4 – Melissa Benoist, American television and theatre actress, singer and dancer
October 8 – Glen Powell, American actor
October 21 – Mark Rendall, Canadian actor
November 6 – Emma Stone, American actress
November 9 – Nikki Blonsky, American singer and actress
November 9 – Analeigh Tipton, American model and actress
November 22 – Jamie Campbell Bower, English actor and singer
December 1 – Zoe Kravitz, American actress
December 2 – Alfred Enoch, English actor
December 14 – Vanessa Hudgens, American actress and singer
December 16 – Anna Popplewell, English film, television and theater actress
December 17 – Rin Takanashi, Japanese actress and model

Notable deaths

Month	Date	Name	Age	Country	Profession	Notable films
January	3	Joie Chitwood	75	US	Stuntman, Actor	Live and Let Die
	7	Michel Auclair	65	France	Actor	The Day of the Jackal Beauty and the Beast
	7	Trevor Howard	74	UK	Actor	Brief Encounter Mutiny on the Bounty
	8	Boyd Morgan	72	US	Stuntman, Actor	Dirty Harry Spartacus
	16	Ballard Berkeley	83	UK	Actor	National Lampoon's European Vacation Stage Fright
	19	Bridget Boland	75	UK	Screenwriter	War and Peace Anne of the Thousand Days
	25	Colleen Moore	88	US	Actress	The Power and the Glory The Scarlet Letter
February	1	Heather O'Rourke	12	US	Actress	Poltergeist Poltergeist II: The Other Side
	5	Emeric Pressburger	85	UK	Writer, Director	The Red Shoes Black Narcissus
	8	Allan Cuthbertson	67	UK	Actor	The Guns of Navarone Performance
	10	Ron Ellis	47	US	Stuntman, Actor	Beverly Hills Cop An Eye for an Eye
March	3	Lois Wilson	93	US	Actress	The Covered Wagon
	6	Jeanne Aubert	82	France	Actress	La Possession
	7	Robert Livingston	83	US	Actor	The Three Mesquiteers The Lone Ranger Rides Again
	12	Karen Steele	56	US	Actress	Marty Ride Lonesome
	13	Steno	71	Italy	Director, Screenwriter	An American in Rome Banana Joe
	13	John Holmes	43	US	Actor	Insatiable Fantasm
	13	Olive Carey	92	US	Actress, Writer	The Searchers The Alamo
	23	Reg Lye	75	Australia	Actor	10 Rillington Place Tarka the Otter
	27	Renato Salvatori	55	Italy	Actor	Big Deal on Madonna Street Two Women
April	1	Jim Jordan	91	US	Actor	Look Who's Laughing The Rescuers
	5	Alf Kjellin	68	Sweden	Actor, Director	Assault on a Queen Ice Station Zebra
	6	John Clements	77	UK	Actor, Writer, Director	Gandhi Things to Come
	7	Albert S. Rogell	86	US	Director	In Old Oklahoma The Black Cat
	11	Jeff Donnell	66	US	Actress	In a Lonely Place Gidget Goes Hawaiian
	11	Jesse L. Lasky Jr.	77	US	Screenwriter	The Ten Commandments Samson and Delilah
	15	Kenneth Williams	62	UK	Actor, Writer	Carry On... Up the Khyber Carry On Camping
	21	I. A. L. Diamond	67	US	Writer, Producer	Some Like It Hot The Apartment
	22	Irene Rich	96	US	Actress	They Had to See Paris The Champ
	28	Andrew Cruickshank	80	UK	Actor, Writer	El Cid The Cruel Sea
May	1	Paolo Stoppa	81	Italy	Actor	The Leopard Once Upon a Time in the West
	12	Paul Osborn	86	US	Screenwriter	South Pacific Sayonara
	15	Andrew Duggan	64	US	Actor	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Seven Days in May
	15	Greta Nissen	82	Norway	Actress	Red Wagon The Luck of a Sailor
	18	Anthony Forwood	72	UK	Actor	Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. Knights of the Round Table
	18	Daws Butler	71	US	Voice Actor	Mary Poppins The Phantom Tollbooth
	21	Barbara Laage	67	France	Actress	The Happy Road Paris Blues
	30	Ella Raines	67	US	Actress	Brute Force Hail the Conquering Hero
June	2	Raj Kapoor	63	India	Actor, Director, Producer	Awaara
	5	Michael Barrington	63	UK	Actor	The Black Panther
	11	Nathan Cook	38	US	Actor	National Lampoon's Vacation
	16	Kim Milford	37	US	Actor, Composer	Laserblast Corvette Summer
	22	Dennis Day	77	US	Singer, Actor	I'll Get By Golden Girl
July	7	Jimmy Edwards	68	UK	Actor, Writer	The Bed-Sitting Room The Plank
	12	Joshua Logan	79	US	Writer, Director	Mister Roberts Paint Your Wagon
	22	Patrick Newell	56	UK	Actor	Young Sherlock Holmes Becket
	25	Judith Barsi	10	US	Actress	The Land Before Time Jaws: The Revenge
	25	Douglas Hickox	59	UK	Director, Assistant Director	Theatre of Blood Zulu Dawn
	27	Larry Clemmons	81	US	Animator, Writer	The Jungle Book The Aristocats
August	1	Florence Eldridge	86	US	Actress	Inherit the Wind Les Misérables
	5	Colin Higgins	47	US	Director, Producer, Writer	Harold and Maude 9 to 5
	5	Ralph Meeker	65	US	Actor	Kiss Me Deadly The Dirty Dozen
	7	Wilfred Jackson	82	US	Animator	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Fantasia
	8	Alan Napier	85	US	Actor	Joan of Arc Batman
	11	Anne Ramsey	59	US	Actress	The Goonies Throw Momma from the Train
	17	Victoria Shaw	53	Australia	Actress	The Eddy Duchin Story Edge of Eternity
	23	Jack Sher	75	US	Writer, Director	The Kid from Left Field Four Girls in Town
	24	Leonard Frey	49	US	Actor	Fiddler on the Roof Where the Buffalo Roam
	26	Milton Sperling	76	US	Screenwriter	Battle of the Bulge The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
September	5	Gert Fröbe	75	Germany	Actor	Goldfinger The Longest Day
	6	Harold Rosson	93	US	Cinematographer	The Wizard of Oz Gone with the Wind
	11	John Sylvester White	68	US	Actor	The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
	12	Stephen B. Grimes	61	Italy	Production Designer	Never Say Never Again Out of Africa
	14	Louis Quinn	73	US	Actor	All the President's Men Ocean's 11
	20	Roy Kinnear	54	UK	Actor	Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Watership Down
	21	Henry Koster	83	US	Director, Writer, Producer	Harvey The Bishop's Wife
	21	Christine Norden	63	UK	Actress	Mine Own Executioner The Black Widow
October	1	Lucien Ballard	84	US	Cinematographer	The Wild Bunch The Killing
	4	Margaret Lacey	76	UK	Actress	Diamonds Are Forever The Ruling Class
	6	Don Terry	86	US	Actor	Who Killed Gail Preston? Unseen Enemy
	9	Edward Chodorov	84	US	Screenwriter	Road House Kind Lady
	11	Morgan Farley	90	US	Actor	The Winner's Circle High Noon
	11	Bonita Granville	65	US	Actress	Nancy Drew... Detective These Three
	12	Ken Murray	85	US	Actor, Producer	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Son of Flubber
	13	Melvin Frank	75	US	Writer, Director	Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House Road to Utopia
	14	Mary Morris	72	Switzerland	Actress	The Thief of Bagdad Undercover
	24	Valerie Taylor	85	UK	Actress, Writer	Repulsion Went the Day Well?
	25	Eric Larson	83	US	Animator	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs The Jungle Book
	25	James Engle	81	US	Assistant Director	The Man with the Golden Arm Panic in Year Zero!
	27	Charles Hawtrey	73	UK	Actor	Sabotage The Ghost of St. Michael's
	31	John Houseman	86	US	Actor, Producer	The Paper Chase Rollerball
November	1	George J. Folsey	90	US	Cinematographer	Forbidden Planet Adam's Rib
	3	Sidney Carroll	75	US	Screenwriter	The Hustler A Big Hand for the Little Lady
	6	John Hubbard	74	US	Actor, Dialogue Director	Herbie Rides Again The Tall T
	9	Billy Curtis	79	US	Stuntman, Actor	The Wizard of Oz Planet of the Apes
	15	Mona Washbourne	84	UK	Actress	My Fair Lady Casino Royale
	27	Angela Aames	32	US	Actress	Scarface Bachelor Party
	27	John Carradine	82	Italy	Actor	Stagecoach The Grapes of Wrath
December	7	Christopher Connelly	47	US	Actor	Benji Move Over, Darling
	7	Dorothy Jordan	82	US	Actress	The Searchers 70,000 Witnesses
	10	Richard S. Castellano	55	US	Actor	The Godfather Love with the Proper Stranger
	10	Dennis Arundell	90	UK	Actor, Composer	The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp "Pimpernel" Smith
	17	Jerry Hopper	81	US	Director	The Private War of Major Benson Pony Express
	21	Bob Steele	81	US	Actor	The Big Sleep The Colorado Kid
	22	Tucker Smith	52	US	Actor, Dancer	West Side Story The Producers
	24	Noel Willman	70	US	Actor	Doctor Zhivago The Man Who Knew Too Much
	26	Julanne Johnston	88	US	Actress	The Thief of Bagdad Dame Chance
	27	Hal Ashby	59	US	Director, Editor	Harold and Maude Being There

Film debuts

Tim Allen – Tropical Snow
Stephen Baldwin – Homeboy
Troian Bellisario – Last Rites
Annette Bening – The Great Outdoors
Thora Birch – Purple People Eater
Macaulay Culkin – Rocket Gibraltar
Matt Damon – Mystic Pizza
Stacey Dash – Moving
David Duchovny – Working Girl
Cuba Gooding, Jr. – Coming to America
Danielle Harris – Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
Neil Patrick Harris – Clara's Heart
Bonnie Hunt – Rain Man
Felicity Huffman – Things Change
David Hyde Pierce – Bright Lights, Big City
Milla Jovovich – Two Moon Junction
Jane Lynch – Vice Versa
Jenifer Lewis – Beaches
Juliette Lewis – My Stepmother Is an Alien
Dermot Mulroney – Sunset
Bill Nunn – School Daze
Clive Owen – Vroom
Matthew Perry – A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon
Oliver Platt – Married to the Mob
Alan Rickman – Die Hard
Julia Roberts – Satisfaction
Stephen Root – Crocodile Dundee II
Sara Rue – Rocket Gibraltar
Steven Seagal – Above the Law
Uma Thurman – Johnny Be Good
Benicio del Toro – Big Top Pee-wee

References

"1988 Worldwide Box Office". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved March 7, 2020.
"A Fish Called Wanda (1988)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved April 7, 2020. A Fish Called Wanda domestic gross $62.5 million
Groves, Don (August 9, 1989). "UIP Up, Up and Away For Year; Rentals Take Off". Variety. p. 11. UIP Top 10 Grossers, 1988-89
Rain Man $233 million
Crocodile Dundee 2 $126 million
Coming to America $122 million
A Fish Called Wanda $115 million
Willow $80 million
Twins $75 million
The Naked Gun $61 million
"The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved April 7, 2020. The Naked Gun domestic gross $78.8 million
"A Cry in the Dark (1988) – Release dates". IMDB.com. Retrieved 2012-06-15.

External links

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[1] "1988 Worldwide Box Office". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved March 7, 2020.

[2] "A Fish Called Wanda (1988)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved April 7, 2020. A Fish Called Wanda domestic gross $62.5 million

[UIP-3] Groves, Don (August 9, 1989). "UIP Up, Up and Away For Year; Rentals Take Off". Variety. p. 11. UIP Top 10 Grossers, 1988-89
Rain Man $233 million
Crocodile Dundee 2 $126 million
Coming to America $122 million
A Fish Called Wanda $115 million
Willow $80 million
Twins $75 million
The Naked Gun $61 million

[4] "The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved April 7, 2020. The Naked Gun domestic gross $78.8 million

[5] "A Cry in the Dark (1988) – Release dates". IMDB.com. Retrieved 2012-06-15.