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• Airplane!

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  (1980) Airplane! is a comedy that is a parody of disaster films. It's filled with slapstick, dark humor, quotable lines, and puns. Please note, however, that it was made before the advent of PG-13 as a rating.

• The Great Muppet Caper

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  (1981) The Muppets (playing reporters) go to London to report on a theft and end up foiling jewel thieves in this family-friendly romp.

• Blade Runner

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  (1982) This classic of the cyberpunk genre (Based on Phillip K. Dick's book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?") takes place in the future year of...2019.

• Wargames

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  (1983) A young hacker, a military supercomputer, and possible nuclear war. Would you like to play a game?

• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai

  Across the 8th Dimension

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  (1984) A cult classic Sci Fi film that was before its time. A group of scientists that are also a rock band? Aliens from another dimension? A mysterious look-alike? No matter where you go, there you are.

• Clue

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  (1985) A film based on a board game that is full of one liners and quips...and three possible endings. Can they figure out whodunit?

• Highlander

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  (1986) Immortal beings have been living among us for thousands of years and fighting until one remains. There can be only one.

• The Princess Bride

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  (1987) Another one of those films that everyone quotes and references. A young woman loses her love, ends up engaged to a local prince, gets kidnapped, gets saved, and maybe lives happily ever after?

• Coming to America

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  (1988) A prince from the fictional African nation of Zamunda comes to America and goes undercover hoping to find a bride who will love him for himself.

• UHF

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  (1989) George Newman ("Weird Al" Yankovic) ends up managing a local UHF channel and then leading the community against a local bigwig who wants to take control of said station.