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Movie: Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1988)

“Angela Baker has undergone years of therapy, electro-shock and sexual reassignment surgeries, and finally landed herself a job in the last place she should be working – camp rolling hills. She has an old fashioned approach as to how camp should be, and an old familiar deadly way of making sure that those who don’t follow her rules don’t get to come back next summer. Written by Dismal Angel”

• Director: Michael A. Simpson
• Release Date:
  October 1988 (USA)
• Run Time:
  80 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Comedy , Horror See »

Tagline: When you go camping just take the essentials

Trivia: The sex scene between Ally and Rob was actually with Valerie Hartman and an extra since the actor playing Rob (Terry Hobbs) was only a minor during the filming.See  »

Goofs: Continuity: Ally walks over to her bed twice after Angela crashes the raid.See  »

Movie: Rain Man (1988)

“Charles Sanford “Charlie” Babbit is a self-centered Los Angeles-based automobile dealer/hustler/bookie who is at war with his own life. Charlie, as a young teenager, used his father’s 1948 Buick convertible without permission and as a result, he went to jail for two days on account that his father reported it stolen. It is then that Charlie learns that his estranged father died and left him from his last will and testament a huge bed of roses and the car while the remainder will of $3 Million goes into a trust fund to be distributed to someone. Charlie seemed pretty angry by this and decides to look into this matter. It seems as if that “someone” is Raymond, Charlie’s unknown brother, an autistic savant who lives in a world of his own, resides at the Walbrook Institute. Charlie then kidnaps Raymond and decides to take him on a lust for life trip to the west coast as a threat to get the $3 Million inheritance. Raymond’s acts and nagging, including repeated talks of “Abbott & Costello”, “Four minutes till Wapner” and refusal to fly on an airline except Quantas drives Charlie insane… and out of his selfish world into a cross-country trek of pure love and understanding that these two both have. Written by Christopher Howell (Ckhowell75360@aol.com)”

• Director: Barry Levinson
• Release Date:
  16 December 1988 (USA)
• Run Time:
  133 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Drama See »

Trivia: Screenwriter Barry Morrow chose the name of the film by reading through a book of names, deciding which sounded most interesting when mispronounced. He eventually narrowed it down to four names, including “Rain Man” for Raymond and “No-Man” for Norman. Marrow decided that Rain Man was the best. In order to see if this instinct was correct, he asked his children which of the four they preferred and all agreed with his choice.See  »

Goofs: Continuity: The card scheme with all the Queens is repeated several times during the course of Charlie’s play.See  »

Movie: Cinema Paradiso (1988)

“A famous film director returns home to a Sicilian village for the first time after almost 30 years. He reminisces about his childhood at the Cinema Paradiso where Alfredo, the projectionist, first brought about his love of films. He is also reminded of his lost teenage love, Elena, who he had to leave before he left for Rome. Written by Graeme Roy <gsr@cbmamiga.demon.co.uk>”

• Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
• Release Date:
  23 February 1990 (USA)
• Run Time:
  155 min | Italy:173 min (extended version) | 124 min (International version)
• Country: Italy , France
• Genre: Comedy , Drama , Romance See »
• MPAA:
  Rated R for some sexuality. (director's cut)

Tagline: A celebration of youth, friendship, and the everlasting magic of the movies.

Trivia: By the end of the twelve month period for 1924, Italy’s entire film output had not exceed 20 titles. As 220 titles were released during 1920, by 1924, Italian cinema was slowly dying.See  »

Goofs: Continuity: When Toto is young, the films that Alfredo gave him catch fire. They burn and ruin the only picture that his mother had of his father. When Toto is a grown up, this “burnt” picture is hanged on the wall totally unharmed.See  »

Movie: The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)

“A re-run of many of the gags from the original TV series ‘Police Squad’. An Airplane type spoof, this time with the an incompetent lieutenant (Drebin) who always ‘gets his man’. Visual gags come thick and fast, and it’s impossible to catch them all with one viewing. The plot.. Queen Elizabeth II of England is coming to town, and Vincent Ludwig has plans to assassinate her using a brainwashed baseball player. Written by Rob Hartill”

• Director: David Zucker
• Release Date:
  2 December 1988 (USA)
• Run Time:
  85 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Action , Comedy , Crime , Romance See »

Tagline: The Villain. Even Mother Teresa wanted him dead. See »

Trivia: The kitchen background (as Drebin asks if Jane would still like something to eat), has a food item pulsating. 'Weird Al' Yankovic – who makes a cameo in this film – uses a similar gag for his “Livin in the Fridge” video, five years later.See  »

Goofs: Crew or equipment visible: Crew reflected in the side of the Taurus as it tries to stop before hitting the petrol tanker.See  »

Movie: The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)

“The carpenter Jesus of Nazareth, tormented by the temptations of demons, the guilt of making crosses for the Romans, pity for men and the world, and the constant call of God, sets out to find what God wills for him. But as his mission nears fulfillment, he must face the greatest temptation: the normal life of a good man. Based, not on the Gospels, but on Nikos Kazantzakis’ novel of the same name. Written by Nick Lopez <ntlopez@fas.harvard.edu>”

• Director: Martin Scorsese
• Release Date:
  12 August 1988 (USA)
• Run Time:
  164 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Drama See »

Trivia: In the scene where Jesus is in the temple and Roman soldiers are coming after him in what appears to be all directions, it is the same five soldiers that are used in each shot. This was to save money as the film had a small budget.See  »

Goofs: Continuity: The state of Mary Magdalene’s robe when confronted by Jesus at the beginning.See  »

Movie: Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

“Setsuko and Seita are brother and sister living in wartime Japan. After their mother is killed in an air raid they find a temporary home with relatives. Having quarreled with their aunt they leave the city and make their home in an abandoned shelter. While their father’s destiny who was a soldier is unknown the two must depend on each other to somehow keep a roof over their heads and food in their stomachs. When everything is in short supply, they gradually succumb to hunger and their only entertainment is the light of the fireflies. Written by Corrected by Liron”

• Director: Isao Takahata
• Release Date:
  16 April 1988 (Japan)
• Run Time:
  89 min | Germany:85 min (DVD version)
• Country: Japan
• Genre: Animation , Drama , War See »

Trivia: In South Korea, the release of the movie was postponed indefinitely because of the concern that the movie somewhat justified Japan’s role in World War II.See  »

Movie: The Big Blue (1988)

“Enzo and Jacques have known each other for a long time. Their friendship started in their childhood days in the Mediterranean. They were not real friends in these days, but there was something they both loved and used to do the whole day long: diving. One day Jacques’ father, who was a diver too, died in the Mediterranean sea. After that incident Enzo and Jacques lost contact. After several years, Enzo and Jacques had grown up, Johanna, a young clerk in a security office, has to go to Peru. There she meets Jacques who works for a group of scientists. He dives for some minutes into ice-cold water and the scientists monitor his physical state that is more like a dolphin’s than a human’s. Johanna can not believe what she sees and gets very interested in Jacques but she’s unable to get acquainted with him. Some weeks later, back in her office, she notices a championship for divers that is supposed to take place in Taormina, Italy. In order to see Jacques again she makes up a story so the firm sends her to Italy for business purposes. In Taormina there is also Enzo, the reigning diving world champion. He knows that only Jacques can challenge and probably beat him. This time Johanna and Jacques get closer, but Jacques, being more a dolphin than a man, can not really commit and his rivalry with Enzo pushes both men into dangerous territory… Written by Reiner Rosin <rosin@mi-lab.fh-furtwangen.de>”

• Director: Luc Besson
• Release Date:
  22 September 1988 (West Germany)
• Run Time:
  168 min (director's cut) | France:132 min (original cut) | USA:118 min (edited version)
• Country: France , USA , Italy
• Genre: Adventure , Drama , Romance See »

Tagline: Between what you know and what you wish, lies the secret of… [The Big Blue] See »

Trivia: The underwater shots with the dolphins were filmed in the Virgin Islands in large enclosures, and the dolphins were flown there from the Dolphin Research Center in the Florida Keys. The dolphin who appears most often on screen is a male named Natua, who had also taken part in dolphin language experiments because of his intelligence.See  »

Goofs: Revealing mistakes: Enzo would have very marked lines on his face from “mask squeeze” from going to those depths at the end, when Jacque is holding him.See  »

Movie: Die Hard (1988)

“New York City Detective John McClane has just arrived in Los Angeles to spend Christmas with his wife. Unfortunatly, it is not going to be a Merry Christmas for everyone. A group of terrorists, led by Hans Gruber is holding everyone in the Nakatomi Plaza building hostage. With no way of anyone getting in or out, it’s up to McClane to stop them all. All 12! Written by Film_Fan”

• Director: John McTiernan
• Release Date:
  15 July 1988 (USA)
• Run Time:
  131 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Action , Crime , Thriller See »

Tagline: It will blow you through the back wall of the theater! See »

Trivia: Bruce Willis took the role of John McClane after it had been turned down by Robert De Niro. Willis had just been turned down to play the Charles Grodin role opposite De Niro in Midnight Run (1988). Ironically both films eventually opened the same weekend.See  »

Goofs: Continuity: When John is first hanging from the hose from the roof, he ends up right next to a band of stone between floors, in the next shot he is directly in front of a window.See  »

Movie: La boca del lobo (1988)

“The military anti-terrorist army takes control of “Chuspi”, an unknown and faraway small village, isolated by the terrorist group “Sendero Luminoso” (Shining Path). A soldier called Vitin Luna, and other young soldiers face an invisible, perhaps superior force. Their unit is commanded by a brutal lieutenant who declares the entire village guilty of treason. In the face of this crisis, Vitin must choose between blind obedience and his own conscience. Written by El Abuelo”

• Director: Francisco J. Lombardi
• Release Date:
  25 January 1989 (France)
• Run Time:
  128 min | West Germany:123 min (Berlin Film Festival)
• Country: Peru , Spain
• Genre: Drama , Action , War See »

Movie: Beetle Juice (1988)

“Adam and Barbara are a normal couple, who happen to be dead. They have given their precious time to decorate the house and make it their own, but unfortunately a family are moving in, and not quietly. Adam and Barbara try to scare them out, but ends up becoming the main attraction to the money making family. They call upon Beetlejuice to help, but Beetlejuice has more in more in mind than the just helping. Written by simon”

• Director: Tim Burton
• Release Date:
  30 March 1988 (USA)
• Run Time:
  92 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Comedy , Fantasy See »

Tagline: Say it once… Say it twice… But we dare you to say it THREE TIMES See »

Trivia: The title character of Beetle Juice (1988) is named for a bright red star in the constellation of Orion, Betelgeuse. The studio disliked the title and wanted to call the film “House Ghosts”. As a joke, Tim Burton suggested the name “Scared Sheetless” and was horrified when the studio actually considered using it.See  »

Goofs: Continuity: When Beetlejuice becomes a snake hand-railing, he reaches for Charles’ shoes. When you look at his shoes, the tops are red. But when he gets pulled out of the room, his shoes are completely black.See  »