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Ente Upasana is a 1984 Malayalam film, directed by Bharathan, written by Thoppil Bhasi, starring Mammootty and Suhasini. [1] [2] [3] The film is based on the award-winning novel Upasana by Mallika Yunis. [4] [5] The film was remade in Telugu as Karpoora Deepam starring Murali Mohan, Suhasini and Sharat Babu. The film was a commercial success.
The film's awards attracted the attention of foreign distributors, with Miramax releasing it in the United States. [11] Buoyed by the Academy Award recognition, [11] Pelle the Conqueror grossed $2,053,931 in North America, [4] a "respectable" figure for a foreign film. [11] The film had a re-release at Golden West College in Los Angeles in ...
Nineteen Eighty-Four (stylized as 1984) is a 1984 dystopian film written and directed by Michael Radford, based upon George Orwell's 1949 novel.Starring John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, and Cyril Cusack, the film follows the life of Winston Smith (Hurt), a low-ranking civil servant in a war-torn London ruled by Oceania, a totalitarian superstate. [6]
According to the American Film Institute, part of the film is based on a real-life events. Real policemen and gang members were hired for the film. A scene, the mass killing at a Chinese restaurant was one of them. Director and producer Frank Harris was a news reporter who personally witnessed the violence in the streets.
The Choirboys film adaptation had met with poor critical and audience reception a few years earlier. All three films featured performances by then up-and-coming actor James Woods. The Glitter Dome, which starred James Garner, John Lithgow and Margot Kidder, was a 1984 film for HBO. [12] Fugitive Nights was made into a 1993 feature film of the ...
Thief of Hearts is a 1984 American erotic drama film produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. It was written and directed by Douglas Day Stewart . It stars Steven Bauer , Barbara Williams , John Getz and David Caruso .
Fatal Games (originally known as The Killing Touch and also known as Olympic Nightmare) is a 1984 American slasher film written and directed by Michael Elliott and starring Sally Kirkland, Lynn Banashek, Sean Masterson, Michael O'Leary, Teal Roberts, and Spice Williams-Crosby.
It was the second English-language adaptation of the book for film or television (previously adapted mainly in Italian; the 1935 RKO film was unrelated to the novel and the 1900 adaptation by Walter R. Booth, while the first cinematic adaptation in English was a short film). On June 5, 2012, Sony released the mini-series on DVD. [1]