Excellent Eighties Mill Creek 2012
All films in Mill Creek's "Excellent Eighties" multipack.
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- DirectorJud TaylorStarsRon HowardRobert FoxworthMickey RourkeOld country traditions and values cause Ron Howard to honor the pleas of his brother (played by Mickey Rourke), a quadriplegic following a motorcycle accident, to end his life, and then to stand trial for first-degree murder after the mercy killing. Michael De Guzman's teleplay was inspired by Paige.
- DirectorGeorge KaczenderStarsRobert MitchumLee MajorsValerie PerrineA millionaire is suspected of buying an ad agency to use it as a way of brainwashing the public for his political ends.
- DirectorMax KlevenStarsDavid HasselhoffLinda BlairTony BrubakerA trio of hapless bounty hunters are recruited by a shady bail bondsman to try to keep a witness in drug trial alive to testify.
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsJeroen KrabbéRenée SoutendijkThom HoffmanA man who has been having visions of an impending danger begins an affair with a woman who may lead him to his doom.Actually a completely different movie with Anthony Hopkins, but I can't find that one here.
- DirectorWaris HusseinStarsLindsay WagnerJameson ParkerDabney ColemanCallie was a teenage mother in trouble. Fresh out of the delivery room, her son was taken from her and sold on the black-market. Vowing to find him some day, this is her story.
- DirectorSergio MartinoStarsJason ConneryFrancesco QuinnJinny SteffanIn 1942, a commando is assigned to protect Winston Churchill when it is learned that the Nazis are plotting to kidnap him.
- DirectorDavid Oliver PfeilStarsDaniel RoebuckCynthia ThompsonDarren YoungThanks to a strange crystal, a shy student finds himself in the Stone Age, where he falls in love with a beautiful cave woman and helps her clan stave off a tribe of cannibals.
- DirectorSilvio NarizzanoStarsPaul CarafotesVictor FrenchLelia GoldoniJohn Carluccio, a partially deaf teenager, becomes alienated when prevented from playing football because of his handicap. He must deal with his parents, coach, teammates, his new girlfriend, and a bad crowd he almost falls into, before confronting the school board.
- StarsElizabeth HurleyStephen DillaneNigel Le VaillantAn English girl marries a German lawyer in the 1930s and they try to live as normal a life as they can in Hitler's Germany. When Allied bombs start falling on German cities, Christabel takes her two young sons to a village in the mountains. Then she learns that her husband and some of his friends have been arrested for plotting to assassinate Hitler. She travels to the prison where he is held, wondering if telling the commandant that she knows Winston Churchill will help her husband or seal his fate. This is said to be based on a true story.
- DirectorWilliam BrayneStarsMartin DalePeter IvattsMike LaneA missing 1950s era airplane is found 27 years later at the bottom of a lake. British and Soviet spy agencies are intensely interested.
- DirectorJohn 'Bud' CardosStarsJim DavisChristopher MitchumDorothy MaloneAliens visit the solar-powered house of a middle-class family, and the house is suddenly sucked into a time warp that transports it back to prehistoric times.
- DirectorPeter LilienthalStarsJoe PesciKaren LudwigFrank VincentJoe Pesci is a small man looking for a big break. Owner of a bowling alley and nightclub in Jersey, Ruby Dennis (Pesci) sets his sights on making it big in Vegas. But Ruby finds more than he gambled for and in the end is a much bigger man for it.
- DirectorMark PirroStarsJohn McCaffertyRobyn BlytheBeanoChuck Toedan's the host of a game show featuring death row convicts competing in life-or-death contests in hopes of cheating the executioner or, at the very least, winning some nice prizes for their next of kin. Not surprisingly, Chuck has made more than a few enemies, from outraged viewers trying to ban his show, to families of losing contestants looking for revenge. A hit man hired by one such family has shown up at Chuck's office, and he'll need to enlist the help of his most outspoken critic to keep from ending up like most of his contestants.
- DirectorPierluigi CiriaciStarsBrett Baxter ClarkFred WilliamsonMark GregoryLatin American revolutionaries invade a military base on Puerto Rico, and steal a nuclear bomb, killing a pregnant woman in the process. Captain Beck (Fred Williamson) is assigned to track the revolutionaries to their home turf, and recover the weapon. The late woman's husband, eager for revenge, accompanies Beck to an area near the Nicaraguan border, where they encounter hostile revolutionary forces.
- DirectorYves BoissetStarsLee MarvinMiou-MiouJean CarmetA fugitive on the run from the law, and carrying several million dollars, hides out in the home of a farm family. The tables turn when the family proves to be even more criminally oriented than he is--and begins to terrorize him instead of the other way around.
- DirectorPeter WernerStarsRobert ConradRed WestJoan SweenyA retired fighter pilot becomes the head of his alma matter military high school for two weeks with hilarious consequences. He shapes up the school and raises morale so that they are able to win the "brass-axe" competition versus another local military academy.
- DirectorJohn HoughStarsDiana RiggEdward FoxHelena Bonham CarterWhen compulsive gambler Sir Giles Staverley (Christopher Plummer) has lost his estate and all of his money playing dice, he realizes that he only has one thing left of value: his daughter Serena (Helena Bonham Carter). In a final game, he stakes his daughter's hand in marriage, convinced that this time he will not lose. Unfortunately, however, he does lose; to the evil Lord Harry Wrotham (Edward Fox). Unable to return home and tell his daughter that he has lost her in a game of dice, Sir Giles kills himself there and then. Lord Justin Vulcan (Marcus Gilbert), who has witnessed the events, takes pity on Serena Staverley, although they have never met. He challenges Lord Harry Wrotham to a game of dice in which the winner takes Staverley Court and Miss Serena. Lord Justin Vulcan wins and is simply pleased that he has saved someone from the nasty Wrotham, he thinks no more about the event. One evening, however, Vulcan's friend Lord Peter Gillingham (Robert Addie) insists upon them going to Staverley Court to take a look at Vulcan's "prize". When arriving there, Vulcan finds Serena Staverley more beautiful than he ever imagined.
- DirectorStewart RaffillStarsJames BrolinAnthony QuinnLindsay WagnerFour naive Americans, in need of easy cash, decide to fly to Colombia and raid the safe of a notorious drug lord with connections to the corrupt military regime.
- DirectorLawrence BassoffStarsJohn Allen NelsonSteve LevittDeborah SheltonA computer nerd makes a deal with the Devil and gets a new beefcake body.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsAnthony GearyJudith LightMark HarmonDoctor Kyle Richards takes a job managing an office in the Hamptons where herpes runs rampant. He is frustrated by the community's denial and decides to go public with the epidemic to raise public awareness about the problem.
- DirectorGeorge MendelukStarsWilliam ShatnerHal HolbrookVan JohnsonBased on the novel by Charles Templeton, a secret service chief leads a game of cat and mouse when a gang of third-world terrorists kidnap the President.
- DirectorJohn HoughStarsEmma SammsOliver ReedClaire BloomSwashbuckling tale of romance, betrayal, jealousy, banditry, murder, and court intrigue set in the 1660s, during the Restoration to the English throne of King Charles II.
- DirectorColin GreggStarsLiam NeesonHarry TowbHugh O'ConorAn Irish reform school priest questions his calling as a young, epileptic runaway arrives. Each recognizes the other as kindred spirits and escape together. As police close in and money dwindles, the desperate priest makes bad decisions.
- DirectorBJ DavisStarsBrandon LeeDebi A. MonahanErnest BorgnineAction superstar Brandon Lee portrays rebellious government agent Michael Gold who is sent on a desperate mission to a Soviet-controlled African nation in order to uncover a top-secret laser weapons operation and destroy it.
- DirectorDavid FisherStarsMatt DillonCindy FisherHoyt AxtonA poor kid elopes with a banker's daughter.