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Lost in America is a 1985 American satirical road comedy film directed by Albert Brooks and co-written by Brooks with Monica Johnson. The film stars Brooks alongside Julie Hagerty as a married couple who decide to quit their jobs and travel across America.
Santa Claus: The Movie Tri-Star Pictures Jeannot Szwarc (director); David Newman (screenplay); Dudley Moore , John Lithgow , David Huddleston , Judy Cornwell , Burgess Meredith , Jeffrey Kramer , Christian Fitzpatrick, Carrie Kei Heim , John Barrard , Anthony O'Donnell , Melvyn Hayes , Don Estelle , Tim Stern, Peter O'Farrell, Christopher Ryan ...
Films offering escapism and pro-America themes like Rambo: First Blood Part II and Rocky IV had also fared well. [ 7 ] The glut of youth-targeted films like Return to Oz and The Black Cauldron , and science-fiction comedies like Weird Science , Real Genius , and My Science Project had resulted in a string of failures.
38th Directors Guild of America Awards; F. List of American films of 1985; Freedom (1982 film) L. ... 1985 New York Film Critics Circle Awards; Y. 7th Youth in Film ...
[14] Vincent Canby of The New York Times called the film "a 'Wake Up, America!' movie of a goofiness to make one long for the sanity and conviction of John Milius's Red Dawn," adding that though Chuck Norris "seemed on the verge of becoming a kind of benign Clint Eastwood character, he loses all credibility in this awful film. Even though Mr ...
July 3 – Back to the Future opens in American theaters and ends up being the highest-grossing film of 1985 in the United States, and the first film in the successful franchise. July 13 Live Aid pop concerts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and London raise over £50,000,000 for famine relief in Ethiopia.
Acting for America: Movie Stars of the 1980s. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-4760-2. Frayling, Christopher (2012). Sergio Leone: Something to Do with Death. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0816646838. Hughes, Howard (2006). Crime Wave: The Filmgoers' Guide to the Great Crime Movies. New York City: I. B. Tauris.
Spies Like Us is a 1985 American spy comedy film directed by John Landis, and starring Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Forrest, and Donna Dixon.The film presents the comic adventures of two novice intelligence agents sent to the Soviet Union.