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Meanwhile in 1983

This year featured a large number of zany films, ones that examined modern life and technology, and the usual crop of sequels/next in a series.

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  • "In the epic conclusion of the saga, the Empire prepares to crush the Rebellion with a more powerful Death Star while the Rebel fleet mounts a massive attack on the space station. Luke Skywalker confronts Darth Vader in a final climactic duel before…
    Blu-ray Disc, 2019[San Francisco, CA] : LucasFilm, [2019] — BluRay Fiction STAR
  • "A teenage hacker breaks into a Pentagon computer and discovers what he thinks is a video game, but in reality is a program that could trigger a nuclear war." Would you like to play a game?
    DVD, 2008[Santa Monica, Calif.] : MGM Home Entertainment, [2008] — DVD Fiction WARGAMES
  • "James Bond must stop a rogue Soviet general from detonating a nuclear bomb in West Germany."
    Blu-ray Disc, 2013[S.l.] : Fox Home Entertainment, [2013] — BluRay Fiction OCTOPUSSY
  • "Based on S.E. Hinton's book about teenage gangs in 1966 Tulsa, OK. The "Soc's" [Socials] and the "Greasers," and the struggle of growing up as an outsider."
    DVD, 2008Burbank, CA : Warner Bros. Entertainment : Distributed by Warner Home Video, 2008 — DVD Fiction OUTSIDERS
  • "Those six pandemonium-mad Pythons are back with their craziest adventure ever! Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin have returned to explain The Meaning of Life. These naughty Brits offer the usual…
    Blu-ray Disc, 2013Universal City, CA : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2013] — BluRay Fiction MONTY
  • "Journey into a mystical time and place that belongs to neither the past nor the present, where extraordinary creatures of myth work their incredible magic, and where a horrific, omnipotent Beast is the ruler. This is the planet of Krull!"
    Blu-ray Disc, 2014[Place of publication not identified] : [Publisher not identified], [2014] — BluRay Fiction KRULL
  • "In this humorous romp very, very loosely based on Shakespeare's Hamlet, "Second City TV" characters Doug and Bob find the job of their dreams at the Elsinore brewery. But something's rotten in the fermentation vats as the MacKenzies find that…
    Blu-ray Disc, 2016Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2016] — BluRay Fiction STRANGE
  • "It's Christmas time and there's only one thing on Ralphie Parker's Christmas list this year: a Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-Shot, Range Model Air Rifle. Meanwhile The Old Man just got a major award (a lamp shaped like a woman's leg), and Mom is…
    Blu-ray Disc, 2008Burbank, CA : Turner Entertainment : Warner Bros. Home Video [distributor, 2008], c1983 — BluRay J CHRISTMAS
  • "Yentl Mendel is the boyish daughter and only child of long widowed Rebbe Mendel. He teaches Talmud to local boys and secretly to Yentl since girls are not allowed to learn the law. When her father dies, Yentl is left all alone. She makes the…
    DVD, 2009Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2009 — DVD Fiction YENTL