1987

Angel Heart

(1987)
06 Mar 1987
? X
113 min
William Hjortsberg (novel), Alan Parker (screenplay)
2 wins & 3 nominations.
Harry Angel has a new case, to find a man called Johnny Favourite. Except things aren't quite that simple and Johnny doesn't want to be found. Let's just say that amongst the period detail and beautiful scenery, it all gets really really nasty.

Evil Dead II

(1987)
69
13 Mar 1987
? X
84 min
Sam Raimi, Scott Spiegel
5 nominations.
The lone survivor of an onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits holds up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.

Full Metal Jacket

(1987)
78
10 Jul 1987
? R
116 min
Gustav Hasford (novel), Stanley Kubrick (screenplay), Michael Herr (screenplay), Gustav Hasford (screenplay)
Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 7 wins & 9 nominations.
A two-segment look at the effect of the military mindset and war itself on Vietnam era Marines. The first half follows a group of recruits in boot camp under the command of the punishing Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. The second half shows one of those recruits, Joker, covering the war as a correspondent for Stars and Stripes, focusing on the Tet offensive.

Hellraiser

(1987)
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18 Sep 1987
? R
94 min
Clive Barker
2 wins & 6 nominations
When Kirsty's father, Larry, and stepmother, Julia, move into Larry's childhood home, Kirsty and her boyfriend take a room nearby. Unfortunately for all involved, Larry's house is already occupied: before the family's arrival, Larry's disreputable brother, Frank, used a supernatural puzzle box to summon a gang of other-dimensional demon sadists. Now, Frank requires a series of blood sacrifices to escape the clutches of Pinhead and the cenobites.

Lethal Weapon

(1987)
67
06 Mar 1987
? R
110 min
Shane Black
Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 5 wins & 1 nomination.
Martin Riggs is an L.A. cop with suicidal tendencies and Roger Murtaugh is the unlucky police officer with whom Riggs is assigned. Together they uncover a huge drug-smuggling operation, and as their success rate grows so does their friendship.

Near Dark

(1987)
02 Oct 1987
? R
94 min
Kathryn Bigelow, Eric Red
1 win & 8 nominations.
A mid-western farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of southern vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars. Part of his initiation includes a bloody assault on a hick bar.

Predator

(1987)
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12 Jun 1987
? R
107 min
Jim Thomas, John Thomas
Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 4 nominations.
A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extra-terrestrial warrior.

Raising Arizona

(1987)
55
17 Apr 1987
? PG-13
94 min
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
4 nominations.
When a childless couple of an ex-con and an ex-cop decide to help themselves to one of another family's quintupelets, their lives get more complicated than they anticipated.

The Untouchables

(1987)
79
03 Jun 1987
? R
119 min
Oscar Fraley (suggested by book), Eliot Ness (suggested by book), David Mamet
Won 1 Oscar. Another 10 wins & 15 nominations.
Federal agent Elliot Ness assembles a personal team of mob fighters to bring Chicago crime boss Al Capone to justice using unconventional means during the mob wars of the 1920s. This fictionalized account of the arrest of Al Capone is heavy on style and gunfire. The end shootout combines a baby carriage and stairs with a nod to Eisenstein's _The Battleship Potemkin_.

Wall Street

(1987)
56
11 Dec 1987
? R
126 min
Stanley Weiser, Oliver Stone
Won 1 Oscar. Another 9 wins & 4 nominations.
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.

Withnail & I

(1987)
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19 Jun 1987
? R
107 min
Bruce Robinson
1 win.
London, 1969 - two 'resting' (unemployed and unemployable) actors, Withnail and Marwood, fed up with damp, cold, piles of washing-up, mad drug dealers and psychotic Irishmen, decide to ...