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Miles from Home
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama
Starring: Helen Hunt, Richard Gere, Laurie Metcalf, Terry Kinney, Brian Dennehy, Francis Guinan, Penelope Ann Miller
Directors: Gary Sinise
Country: USA
Year: 1988
Two brothers who are forced off their farm in the debt stricken mid-west become folk heroes when they begin robbing the banks that have been foreclosing on farmers.
D.O.A.
Genres: Thriller, Mystery
Starring: Jay Patterson, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Robert Knepper, Meg Ryan, Jane Kaczmarek, Christopher Neame
Directors: Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton
Country: USA
Year: 1988
Dexter Cornell, an English Professor becomes embroiled in a series of murders involving people around him. Dexter has good reason to want to find the murderer but hasn't much time. He finds help and comfort from one of his student, Sydney Fuller.
The Joy of Painting - Volume Eleven
Genres: Family, Documentary
Starring: Bob Ross
Directors: Bob Ross
Country: USA
Year: 1988
Ross also filmed wildlife footage, squirrels in particular, usually from his own garden. Small animals often appeared on his show, even during some of his trickier works, as he would often take in injured or abandoned squirrels and other assorted wildlife and look after them.The show can be seen on the PBS oriented Create.
The Joy of Painting - Volume Ten
Genres: Family, Documentary
Starring: Bob Ross
Directors: Bob Ross
Country: USA
Year: 1988
Ross later founded his own successful line of art supplies and how-to books, and also offered painting classes taught by instructors trained in the "Bob Ross method." In a 1990 interview, Ross mentioned that all his programs were donated free of charge to PBS stations and that his earnings came instead from sales of his 20 books and 100 videotapes (the total to that date), as well as profits from some 150 Bob Ross-ATE teachers and a line of art materials sold through a national supplier. Ross also mentioned on the show "Towering Glacier" (#2341) that he donated all the paintings made on the show to PBS stations around the country to "help the...
The Joy of Painting - Volume Twelve
Genres: Family, Documentary
Starring: Bob Ross
Directors: Bob Ross
Country: USA
Year: 1988
Ross utilized the wet-on-wet oil painting technique, in which the painter continues adding paint on top of still wet paint rather than waiting a lengthy amount of time to allow each layer of paint to dry. Combining this method with the use of two inch and other types of brushes as well as painting knives allowed Ross to paint trees, water, clouds and mountains in a matter of seconds. Each painting would start with simple strokes that appeared to be nothing more than colored smudges. As he added more and more strokes, the blotches transformed into intricate landscapes.
The Joseph Smith Story
Genres: Family, Biography, Animation
Starring: Michael Bennett, Anne Cullimore Decker, Pamela Roylance, Neal Barth, John Nicolaysen, Paul Nichols, Bryce Chamberlain
Directors: Richard Rich
Country: USA
Year: 1988
Animated Stories from the Book of Mormon: The Joseph Smith Story! Animated movie productions of one of the greatest stories on scripture from The Book of Mormon.
Two Moon Junction
Genres: Romance, Drama
Starring: Louise Fletcher, Richard Tyson, Burl Ives, Dabbs Greer, Sherilyn Fenn, Milla Jovovich, Chris Pedersen
Directors: Zalman King
Country: USA
Year: 1988
April has just graduated from an exclusive Southern college. She's just returned home to her family mansion to prepare for her semi-arranged marriage to "the right man", a man approved by April's father, a Senator. During a trip to the local fair, April meets Perry, the kind of man she always wanted but never knew. Her parents are aghast, as Perry is exactly the kind of man they don't want her associating with. April must reconcile the expectations of her family and her fianc
Slime City
Genres: Horror
Starring: Mary Huner, Allen Lewis Rickman, Robert C. Sabin, T.J. Merrick, Dennis Embry, Dick Biel, Jane Doniger Reibel
Directors: Greg Lamberson
Country: USA
Year: 1988
A student moves into a run-down building in New York City. His bizarre neighbors make a concoction in their apartment they call wine, but when he takes some of it, he turns into a deformed, murderous monster.
Don't Panic
Genres: Horror
Starring: Eduardo Noriega, Mario Iván Martínez, Humberto Elizondo, Jorge Luke, Cecilia Tijerina, Evangelina Elizondo, Jon Michael Bischof
Directors: Rubén Galindo Jr.
Country: USA, Mexico
Year: 1988
On his seventeenth birthday, Michael is given a present of a Ouija board by Tony his best friend. At a session, Tony using a medium known to him only as "Virgil", unwittingly unlocks the evil forces of the board. Soon there is a wave of violent killings and the chief suspect appears to be Michael. He has been witness to all the killings via premonitions and out of body experiences. Is Michael the killer? Can he prove his innocence or is someone else being possessed by the evil spirit...?
Cheers - Season Seven
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: John Ratzenberger, Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Nicholas Colasanto, Angela Aame
Directors: Brian Pollack, David Isaacs, Gary Khammer, Hillel Wasserman, Jon Barbou
Country: USA
Year: 1988
Cheers is an American situation comedy television series that ran for eleven seasons from 1982 to 1993. It was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions in association with Paramount Network Television for NBC, having been created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles. The show is set in the Cheers bar (named for the toast "Cheers") in Boston, Massachusetts, where a group of locals meet to drink, relax, chat and have fun. The show's theme song was written by Judy Hart Angelo and Gary Portnoy and performed by Portnoy; its famous refrain, "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" also became the show's tagline.
Journey to the Promised Land
Genres: Family, Biography, Animation
Starring: Beverly Rowland, Tamara Fowler, Geoffrey Bennett, Walter Boyden, Kim Blackett, William M. Bisson, Gene Pack
Directors: Richard Rich
Country: USA
Year: 1988
This is the second video in the entire Animated Stories from the Book of Mormon video series, directed by former Walt Disney director, Richard Rich. From the building of a ship to near destruction at sea, Lehi, Nephi and their family practice faith and obedience to overcome every obstacle and reach the Promised Land. Witness their gratitude as they kneel on the shore of their new home and give thanks to God for the successful journey. "Journey to the Promised Land" is now updated with useful features on DVD, providing the finest product available for making scripture study more entertaining and memorable.
It Came from Somewhere Else
Genres: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Starring: Robert Buckley, William Vanarsdale, Don Aldrich, Allen M. Johnson, Richard Speeter, George Carlson, Paul Zdechlik
Directors: Howard Hassler
Country: USA
Year: 1988
Kung fu experts from outer space invade a small town to set up their bizarre agricultural experiment. With the authorities unable to curtail spontaneous combustion of the townspeople and human hands growing in the fields, some local teenagers decide to take matters into their own hands, whatever that might entail.
Hell Comes to Frogtown
Genres: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Starring: Nicholas Worth, Lee Garlington, Rory Calhoun, William Smith, Eyde Byrde, Cliff Bemis, Sandahl Bergman
Directors: R.J. Kizer, Donald G. Jackson
Country: USA
Year: 1988
'Hell' is the name of the hero of the story. He's a prisoner of the women who now run the USA after a nuclear/biological war. Results of the war are that mutants have evolved, and the human race is in danger of extinction due to infertility. Hell is given the task of helping in the rescue of a group of fertile women from the harem of the mutant leader (resembling a frog). Hell cannot escape since he has a bomb attached to his private parts which will detonate if he strays more than a few hundred yards from his guard.
Rowing with the Wind
Genres: Romance, Drama
Starring: Ronan Vibert, Hugh Grant, Valentine Pelka, Elizabeth Hurley, Lizzy McInnerny, Karen Westwood, Josep Maria Pou
Directors: Gonzalo Suárez
Country: Spain
Year: 1988
The film is situated in the time when Mary Shelley wrote her novel "Frankenstein". It describes the relationship between Lord Byron, Percy and Mary Shelley during various voyages through different European countries in that period. Although Frankenstein is just an invention strange things happen to the people Mary does not like.
Poltergeist III
Genres: Thriller, Horror, Drama
Starring: Tom Skerritt, Heather O'Rourke, Zelda Rubinstein, Lara Flynn Boyle, Nancy Allen, Paul Graham, Nathan Davis
Directors: Gary Sherman
Country: USA
Year: 1988
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Carol Anne has been sent to live with her Aunt and Uncle in an effort to hide her from the clutches of the ghostly Reverend Kane, but he tracks her down and terrorises her in her relatives' appartment in a tall glass building. Will he finally achieve his target and capture Carol Anne again, or will Tangina be able, yet again, to thwart him? DVD Quality PC, Mac, PS3 and XBOX 360 COMPATIBLE
Return of the Living Dead Part II
Genres: Comedy, Horror
Starring: James Karen, Jonathan Terry, Suzanne Snyder, Marsha Dietlein, Philip Bruns, Thom Mathews, Dana Ashbrook
Directors: Ken Wiederhorn
Country: USA
Year: 1988
In this first sequel to The Return of the Living Dead, a group of kids discover one of the drums containing a rotting corpse and release the 2-4-5 Trioxen gas into the air, causing the dead to once again rise from the grave and seek out brains.
Another Woman
Genres: Drama
Starring: Gene Hackman, Blythe Danner, Harris Yulin, Ian Holm, Frances Conroy, Philip Bosco, Mia Farrow
Directors: Woody Allen
Country: USA
Year: 1988
Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. When she hears a young woman tell that she finds it harder and harder to bear her life, Marion starts to reflect on her own life. After a series of events she comes to understand how her unemotional attitude towards the people around her affected them and herself.
Friday the 13th Part 7: The New Blood
Genres: Horror, Drama
Starring: Jeff Bennett, Kane Hodder, Terry Kiser, Susan Blu, Heidi Kozak, Kevin Spirtas, Lar Park-Lincoln
Directors: John Carl Buechler
Country: USA
Year: 1988
Lying dormant at the bottom of Crystal Lake, Jason is released from his watery grave by a telekinetic girl. And so the killing begins again. Can she use her powers to stop Jason, or is he back for good?
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Season Two
Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime
Starring: Jim Cummings, Rob Paulsen, Cam Clarke, Barry Gordon, Renae Jacobs
Directors: Kenny Hotz, Joe DiStefano, Stan Sakai
Country: USA
Year: 1988
The initial motivation behind the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series was that, upon being approached to create a toy line, Playmates Toys was uneasy with the comic book characters' small cult following. They requested that a television deal be acquired first, and after the initial five-episode series debuted, the California toy company released their first series of Ninja Turtles action figures in the summer of 1988. The two media would correspond in marketing style and popularity for many years to come.
Things Change
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Starring: Don Ameche, Ricky Jay, Joe Mantegna, Robert Prosky, Mike Nussbaum, Jack Merrill, Jack Wallace
Directors: David Mamet
Country: USA
Year: 1988
Gino, an Italian-American shoe-shiner with a remarkable similarity to a certain mafia don, is paid to take the rap for a murder. Jerry, a two-bit gangster on probation, is given a chance for redemption by guarding Gino for the weekend. But instead of sitting around a dingy hotel room, Jerry decides to give Gino a weekend to remember, taking him to Lake Tahoe. Jerry's bragging to his friends of his important charge, as well as Gino's dignified, quiet demeanor, soon result in much complication for them both.