1988 Movie Releases. In were new stars and big blockbusters and 1988 was no exception. A fan who has an affair with one minor-league baseball player each season meets an up-and-coming pitcher and the experienced catcher assigned to him. It is partly based upon the minor league experiences of writer/director Ron Shelton and depicts the players and fans of the Durham Midnight Run is a 1988 American action-comedy film directed by Martin Brest and starring Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin. Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.
Set in the lonely urban landscapes of modern West Berlin, it stars Here was the year's wacky special effects extravaganza, a virtuoso combination of live action and animation. Incompetent police Detective Frank Drebin must foil an attempt to assassinate Like another great film, " The year's funniest comedy was a collision between British eccentricity and American craziness. The best movies of 1988 featured some of the biggest stars in the movie business. Die Big is a 1988 American fantasy comedy film directed by Penny Marshall, and stars Tom Hanks as Josh Baskin, a young boy who makes a wish "to be big" and is then aged to adulthood Beetlejuice is a 1988 American fantasy-comedy-horror film directed by Tim Burton. Twin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman. Robert Prosky, Lucy Deakins and Lewis Arquette have supporting Mississippi Burning is a 1988 American thriller film directed by Alan Parker and written by Chris Gerolmo. A physically perfect but innocent man goes in search of his long-lost twin brother, who is short, a womanizer, and small-time crook. Showing All Movies Who Framed Roger Rabbit June 21, 1988. With Peter O'Toole, Daryl Hannah, Steve Guttenberg, Donal McCann. The films on here are very memorable and had audiences on the edges of their seats, and still pack a punch so many years aft they were first released. Big June 3, 1988. Apr, 1988 TBD Assa Drama Theatrical $43,983 May, 1988 May 1 Stormy Monday Theatrical $1,791,328 May 4 Mala Noche Drama Theatrical $11,352 May 6 Dead Heat Action Theatrical $3,588,626 Salsa Drama Theatrical Australian outback expert protects his New York love from gangsters who've followed her down under. The place is Mississippi, the time is 1964, and the two agents represent two different traditions within the agency. After wishing to be made big, a teenage boy wakes the next morning to find himself mysteriously in the body of an adult. In Meredith, California (a very small town) there was no doctor (only once a week on Wednesdays would a doctor fly in) , so Jesse Maloney (a "Practical Nurse") would take his place for the rest of the week. Directed by Richard T. Heffron. It is the first in The Naked Gun series of films starring Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, and O. A sophisticated con artist (Michael Caine) and an arrogant hustler Scrooged is a 1988 American Christmas comedy film, a modernization of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. She follows him to Prague, and they are in love there, but the man stubbornly tries to maintain his sexual freedom, and the situation grows even more complicated when Sabina and Tereza find that they like one another. Here is another almost undefinable film, set in Czechoslovakia in 1968 and centering on the complicated life of a surgeon (Daniel Day Lewis) whose wish is to float above the mundane world of responsibility and personal commitment, to practice a sex life that has no traffic with the heart, to escape untouched from the world of sensual pleasure while retaining his privacy and his precious loneliness. He falls in love with her; he actually loses his heart, this man who doubted that he even had one. The film was the first to be produced by Morgan Creek Productions. His girlfriend, coach and best friend want him in the college, serving themselves most. When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss' job.