1988 in film
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Contents |
[edit] Top grossing films (U.S.)
[edit] Awards
[edit] Academy Awards
- Best Picture: Rain Man - Mirage Entertainment, Star Partners II, United Artists
- Best Director: Barry Levinson - Rain Man
- Best Actor: Dustin Hoffman - Rain Man
- Best Actress: Jodie Foster - The Accused
- Best Supporting Actor: Kevin Kline - A Fish Called Wanda
- Best Supporting Actress: Geena Davis - The Accidental Tourist
- Best Foreign Language Film: Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle erobreren), directed by Bille August, Denmark
[edit] Golden Globe Awards
[edit] Drama
- Best Picture: Rain Man
- Best Actor: Dustin Hoffman - Rain Man
- Best Actress (tie): Jodie Foster - The Accused
- Best Actress (tie): Sigourney Weaver - Gorillas in the Mist
[edit] Musical or comedy
- Best Picture: Working Girl
- Best Actor: Tom Hanks - Big
- Best Actress: Melanie Griffith - Working Girl
[edit] Other
- Best Director: Clint Eastwood - Bird
- Best Foreign Language Film: Pelle the Conqueror, Denmark
[edit] Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival)
- Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle erobreren), directed by Bille August, Denmark
[edit] Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival)
- La leggenda del santo bevitore (The Legend of the Holy Drinker), directed by Ermanno Olmi, Italy / France
[edit] Golden Bear (Berlin International Film Festival)
- Red Sorghum (Hong gao liang), directed by Zhang Yimou, China
[edit] Films released in 1988
U.S.A. unless stated
[edit] Numerals and A-B
- 18 Again!, starring George Burns
- 1969, starring Robert Downey, Jr., Kiefer Sutherland and Winona Ryder
- A
- Above the Law, starring Steven Seagal and Pam Grier
- The Accidental Tourist, directed by Lawrence Kasdan, starring William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Geena Davis, Bill Pullman
- The Accused, directed by Jonathan Kaplan, starring Jodie Foster and Kelly McGillis - (Canada)
- Action Jackson, starring Carl Weathers, Craig T. Nelson, Vanity, Sharon Stone
- The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, directed by Terry Gilliam, starring John Neville, Eric Idle and Uma Thurman - (U.K.)
- Akira - (Japan)
- Alice (Něco z Alenky) - (Czechoslovakia)
- Alien Nation, starring James Caan and Mandy Patinkin
- Amsterdamned - (Netherlands)
- And God Created Woman, starring Rebecca De Mornay
- Another Woman, directed by Woody Allen, starring Gena Rowlands, Mia Farrow, Ian Holm, Gene Hackman
- Appointment With Death, starring Peter Ustinov, Lauren Bacall, Piper Laurie, Hayley Mills, Carrie Fisher
- Ariel, directed by Aki Kaurismäki - (Finland)
- Arthur 2: On the Rocks, starring Dudley Moore and Liza Minnelli
- As Tears Go By (Wong gok Kaa mun), directed by Wong Kar-wai, starring Andy Lau and Maggie Cheung - (Hong Kong)
- B
- Bad Dreams, directed by Andrew Fleming and starring Jennifer Rubin
- Bat*21, starring Gene Hackman and Danny Glover
- Beaches, starring Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey
- The Bear (L'Ours), directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud - (France)
- Bear Ye One Another's Burden (Einer trage des anderen Last) - (East Germany)
- The Beast, starring George Dzundza and Jason Patric
- Beetlejuice, directed by Tim Burton, starring Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Winona Ryder
- Betrayed, directed by Costa-Gavras, starring Debra Winger and Tom Berenger
- Big, directed by Penny Marshall, starring Tom Hanks
- The Big Blue, directed by Luc Besson, starring Rosanna Arquette, Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno - (France/U.S.A./Italy)
- Big Business, directed by Jim Abrahams, starring Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin
- Big Time, a musical starring Tom Waits
- Big Top Pee-wee, starring Paul Reubens, Valeria Golino, Penelope Ann Miller, Kris Kristofferson
- Biloxi Blues, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Matthew Broderick and Christopher Walken
- Bird, directed by Clint Eastwood, starring Forest Whitaker and Diane Venora
- Black Eagle, starring Sho Kosugi and Jean-Claude Van Damme
- Blind Justice, aka Hold My Hand I'm Dying starring Oliver Reed, directed by Terence Ryan
- The Blob, starring Kevin Dillon and Shawnee Smith
- Bloodsport, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Forest Whitaker
- La Bohème, by Luigi Comencini
- The Boost starring James Woods and Sean Young
- Braddock: Missing in Action III, starring Chuck Norris
- Bright Lights, Big City, directed by James Bridges, starring Michael J. Fox, Kiefer Sutherland, Phoebe Cates, Dianne Wiest
- Bull Durham, directed by Ron Shelton, starring Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins
- Bulletproof, starring Gary Busey
- Burning Secret, starring Klaus Maria Brandauer and Faye Dunaway - (U.K./West Germany)
- Buster, starring Phil Collins and Julie Walters - (U.K.)
[edit] C-G
- C
- Caddyshack II, starring Jackie Mason, Dyan Cannon, Robert Stack, Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd
- Call Me, starring Patricia Charbonneau
- Camille Claudel, starring Isabelle Adjani and Gérard Depardieu - (France)
- Candy Mountain - (Switzerland/Canada/France)
- Celia - (Australia)
- Chicken and Duck Talk (Gai tung aap gong) - (Hong Kong)
- Child's Play, starring Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Brad Dourif, Alex Vincent
- Chilsu and Mansu (칠수와 만수), directed by Park Kwang-su - (South Korea)
- Chocolat, directed by Claire Denis - (France)
- The Chocolate War
- A Chorus of Disapproval, starring Anthony Hopkins and Jeremy Irons - (U.K.)
- Cinema Paradiso, starring Philippe Noiret - (Italy) - winner of Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe awards for best foreign language film
- Clara's Heart, starring Whoopi Goldberg and Neil Patrick Harris
- Clean and Sober, starring Michael Keaton, Morgan Freeman, Kathy Baker
- Cocktail, starring Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, Elisabeth Shue
- Cocoon: The Return, starring Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Courteney Cox, Jessica Tandy, Gwen Verdon
- Colors, directed by Dennis Hopper, starring Robert Duvall and Sean Penn
- Coming to America, starring Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones
- Consuming Passions, starring Jonathan Pryce - (U.K.)
- Cop, starring James Woods and Lesley Ann Warren
- The Couch Trip, starring Dan Aykroyd, Charles Grodin, Donna Dixon, Walter Matthau
- "Crocodile" Dundee II, starring Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski - (Australia)
- Crossing Delancey, starring Amy Irving and Peter Riegert
- A Cry in the Dark (aka Evil Angels), directed by Fred Schepisi, starring Meryl Streep and Sam Neill - (Australia/U.S.A.)
- D
- Da, starring Barnard Hughes and Martin Sheen
- Daffy Duck's Quackbusters
- Damnation (Karhozat), directed by Béla Tarr - (Hungary)
- Dancing in the Dust - Ivory Coast polygyny film
- Dangerous Liaisons, directed by Stephen Frears, starring Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer
- The Dawning, starring Anthony Hopkins - (U.K.)
- Dead Heat, starring Treat Williams
- The Dead Pool, starring Clint Eastwood, Liam Neeson, Patricia Clarkson, Jim Carrey
- Dead Ringers, directed by David Cronenberg, starring Jeremy Irons and Geneviève Bujold - (Canada/U.S.A.)
- Dead Solid Perfect, starring Randy Quaid, Kathryn Harrold, Corinne Bohrer
- The Deceivers, starring Pierce Brosnan, Saeed Jaffrey and Shashi Kapoor - (India)
- The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years, starring Aerosmith, Kiss, Motörhead and Ozzy Osbourne
- Die Hard, directed by John McTiernan, starring Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Alan Rickman
- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, directed by Frank Oz, starring Steve Martin, Michael Caine, Glenne Headly
- Distant Thunder, starring John Lithgow and Ralph Macchio
- Distant Voices, Still Lives, starring Pete Postlethwaite - (U.K.)
- D.O.A., starring Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan
- Doin' Time on Planet Earth
- Dominick and Eugene, starring Tom Hulce, Ray Liotta, Jamie Lee Curtis
- Dragons Forever (Fei lung maang jeung), starring Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung - (Hong Kong)
- Dream Demon - (U.K.)
- Drowning by Numbers, directed by Peter Greenaway, starring Joan Plowright and Joely Richardson - (U.K.)
- E
- Earth Girls Are Easy, directed by Julien Temple, starring Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, Jim Carrey
- Eight Men Out, directed by John Sayles, starring John Cusack, David Strathairn, John Mahoney, D. B. Sweeney, Charlie Sheen
- Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
- Ernest Saves Christmas
- The Everlasting Secret Family
- Everybody's All-American, directed by Taylor Hackford, starring Dennis Quaid, Jessica Lange, Timothy Hutton, John Goodman
- F
- Far North, directed by Sam Shepard, starring Jessica Lange
- Feds, starring Rebecca De Mornay and Mary Gross
- The First Kangaroos - (U.K./Australia)
- A Fish Called Wanda, directed by Charles Crichton, starring John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin - (U.K./U.S.A.)
- Frantic, directed by Roman Polanski, starring Harrison Ford
- Fresh Horses, starring Molly Ringwald and Andrew McCarthy
- Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
- Fright Night II, starring William Ragsdale and Roddy McDowall
- The Fruit Machine - (U.K.)
- Full Moon in Blue Water
- Fun Down There
- Funny Farm, starring Chevy Chase
- G
- Ghosts… of the Civil Dead - (Australia)
- The Good Mother, starring Diane Keaton
- Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey, directed by Michael Apted, starring Sigourney Weaver
- Gotham (aka) The Dead Can't Lie, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Virginia Madsen
- Grave of the Fireflies - (Japan)
- The Great Outdoors, starring Dan Aykroyd and John Candy
[edit] H-M
- H
- Hairspray, starring Ricki Lake, Divine, Jerry Stiller, Sonny Bono and Deborah Harry
- Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
- A Handful of Dust, starring James Wilby and Kristin Scott Thomas - (U.K.)
- Hanna's War, starring Ellen Burstyn
- Hanussen, directed by István Szabó, starring Klaus Maria Brandauer - (Hungary)
- Hatya, starring Govinda and Neelam - (India)
- Hawks, starring Timothy Dalton and Anthony Edwards - (U.K.)
- Heartbreak Hotel, directed by Chris Columbus
- Heathers, starring Winona Ryder, Christian Slater and Shannen Doherty
- Hellbound: Hellraiser II - (U.K./U.S.A.)
- Hero and the Terror, starring Chuck Norris
- High Hopes, directed by Mike Leigh - (U.K.)
- High Spirits, directed by Neil Jordan, starring Peter O'Toole, Steve Guttenberg and Daryl Hannah
- Hold My Hand I'm Dying aka Blind Justice, starring Oliver Reed, directed by Terence Ryan
- Hot to Trot, starring Bobcat Goldthwait and Dabney Coleman
- Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (Hôtel Terminus: Klaus Barbie, sa vie et son temps), directed by Marcel Ophüls - (France)
- The House on Carroll Street, directed by Peter Yates, starring Kelly McGillis and Jeff Daniels
- I
- I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, directed by and starring Keenen Ivory Wayans
- Iron Eagle II
- It Couldn't Happen Here, starring Pet Shop Boys - (U.K.)
- J
- Johnny Be Good, starring Anthony Michael Hall, Robert Downey, Jr. and Uma Thurman
- K
- Kansas, starring Matt Dillon
- Keaton's Cop
- Killer Klowns from Outer Space
- The Kiss, starring Joanna Pacula and Meredith Salenger - (U.S.A./Canada)
- L
- The Land Before Time
- Landscape in the Mist (Topio stin omichli) - (Greece)
- The Last Temptation of Christ, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel and Barbara Hershey
- La Leggenda del Santo Bevitore (The Legend Of The Holy Drinker), starring Rutger Hauer - (Italy/France) - Golden Lion award
- License to Drive, starring Corey Haim and Corey Feldman
- Light Years (Gandahar) - (France)
- The Little Devil (Il Piccolo Diavolo), starring Walter Matthau, Roberto Benigni (also director) - (Italy)
- Little Dorrit, starring Derek Jacobi and Alec Guinness - (U.K.)
- M
- Mac and Me
- Madame Sousatzka, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Shirley MacLaine - (U.K.)
- Maison Ikkoku: The Final Chapter - (Japan)
- Married to the Mob, starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Modine and Dean Stockwell
- Masquerade, starring Rob Lowe and Meg Tilly
- Men Behind the Sun (hēi tài yáng) - (Hong Kong)
- Midnight Run, directed by Martin Brest, starring Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin
- The Milagro Beanfield War, directed by Robert Redford
- Miles from Home, starring Richard Gere
- Mio in the Land of Faraway (U.S. release)
- Miracle Mile, starring Mare Winningham and Anthony Edwards
- Mississippi Burning, directed by Alan Parker, starring Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe and Frances McDormand
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (Kidō Senshi Gandamu: Gyakushū no Shā) - (Japan)
- The Moderns, starring Keith Carradine, Linda Fiorentino and John Lone
- Monkey Shines, directed by George A. Romero
- Moon over Parador, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Raúl Juliá and Sônia Braga
- Moonwalker, starring Michael Jackson
- Moscow Elegy - (U.S.S.R.)
- Moving, starring Richard Pryor
- The Music Teacher (Le maître de musique) - (Belgium)
- My Neighbor Totoro (Tonari no Totoro) - (Japan)
- My Stepmother Is an Alien, directed by Richard Benjamin, starring Kim Basinger, Dan Aykroyd and Alyson Hannigan
- Mystic Pizza, starring Annabeth Gish, Julia Roberts and Lili Taylor
[edit] N-Z
- N
- The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, directed by David Zucker, starring Leslie Nielsen and Priscilla Presley
- Necromancer
- Never on Tuesday
- The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking - (Sweden/U.S.A.)
- A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
- O
- Off Limits, starring Willem Dafoe and Gregory Hines
- Oliver & Company
- P
- Painted Faces (Cat siu fuk), starring Sammo Hung - (Hong Kong)
- Paperhouse - (U.K.)
- Pascali's Island, starring Ben Kingsley and Helen Mirren - (U.K.)
- Patty Hearst, starring Natasha Richardson
- Plain Clothes
- Platoon Leader
- Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach
- Poltergeist 3, starring Heather O'Rourke, Tom Skerritt and Nancy Allen
- Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw
- The Presidio, starring Sean Connery, Mark Harmon and Meg Ryan
- Prison, starring Viggo Mortensen
- Punchline, directed by David Seltzer, starring Sally Field and Tom Hanks
- Q
- Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (From Disaster to Disaster) - (India)
- Quelques Jours avec Moi (A Few Days with Me)
- R
- Rain Man, directed by Barry Levinson, starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture and Golden Bear (for 1989)
- Rambo III, starring Sylvester Stallone and Richard Crenna
- Rattle and Hum, a rockumentary featuring U2
- Red Heat, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Belushi
- The Rescue
- Return to Snowy River - (Australia)
- Rouge (Jin Zi Kau), starring Leslie Cheung - (Hong Kong)
- Running on Empty, starring Christine Lahti, Judd Hirsch, River Phoenix and Martha Plimpton
- S
- Salaam Bombay!, directed by Mira Nair - (India/U.K.)
- Salome's Last Dance, directed by Ken Russell - (U.K.)
- Screwball Hotel
- Scrooged, starring Bill Murray, Karen Allen, Carol Kane, Alfre Woodard, Bobcat Goldthwait and Robert Mitchum
- The Secret of the Sahara, directed by Alberto Negrin, starring Michael York and Andie MacDowell
- Shakedown aka Blue Jean Cop, starring Peter Weller and Sam Elliott
- She's Having a Baby, starring Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth McGovern
- Shoot to Kill aka Deadly Pursuit, starring Sidney Poitier and Tom Berenger
- Short Circuit 2
- A Short Film About Killing (Krótki film o zabijaniu) - (Poland)
- A Short Film About Love (Krótki film o miłości), directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski - (Poland)
- Soursweet, directed by Mike Newell - (U.K.)
- Space Mutiny by David Winters - (South Africa) - (considered the worst sci fi space action film made in the English language)
- Spike of Bensonhurst
- Stand and Deliver, starring Edward James Olmos and Lou Diamond Phillips
- Stars and Bars, starring Daniel Day-Lewis
- Stealing Heaven, starring Derek de Lint and Kim Thomson
- Story of Women (Une affaire de femmes), directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Isabelle Huppert - (France)
- Strike Commando 2 (Trappola diabolica) - (Italy)
- Sur (South) - (Argentina)
- T
- Taffin, starring Pierce Brosnan and Ray McAnally - (Ireland)
- Talk Radio, directed by Oliver Stone, starring Eric Bogosian, Ellen Greene and Alec Baldwin
- Tapeheads, starring John Cusack and Tim Robbins
- Ten Zan: The Ultimate Mission - (North Korea/Italy)
- Tequila Sunrise, starring Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell
- They Live, starring Roddy Piper
- Time of the Gypsies (Dom za vešanje) - (Yugoslavia)
- To Kill a Priest (Le Complot), starring Christopher Lambert and Ed Harris - (France)
- Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller - (Canada)
- Torch Song Trilogy, starring Harvey Fierstein, Anne Bancroft, Matthew Broderick and Brian Kerwin
- Tougher Than Leather, starring D.M.C.
- Traxx
- Tucker: The Man and His Dream, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen and Martin Landau
- Twins, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito
- U
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being, directed by Philip Kaufman, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche and Lena Olin
- Urusei Yatsura: The Final Chapter - (Japan)
- V
- The Vanishing (Spoorloos) - (Netherlands/France)
- Vchera (Yesterday) - (Bulgaria)
- Verónico Cruz - (Argentina)
- Vibes, starring Jeff Goldblum and Cyndi Lauper
- W
- War and Remembrance, TV mini-series, starring Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Victoria Tennant and Hart Bochner
- War Party
- Watchers, starring Corey Haim - (Canada/U.S.A.)
- Waxwork, starring Zach Galligan, Deborah Foreman, David Warner, Michelle Johnson and Dana Ashbrook
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit, starring Bob Hoskins, Joanna Cassidy and Christopher Lloyd
- Willow, directed by Ron Howard, starring Val Kilmer, Warwick Davis, Joanne Whalley, Jean Marsh and Billy Barty
- Without a Clue, starring Michael Caine and Ben Kingsley - (U.K.)
- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios), directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Carmen Maura and Antonio Banderas - (Spain)
- Working Girl, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford and Sigourney Weaver - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
- A World Apart, directed by Chris Menges, starring Barbara Hershey and Jodhi May - (U.K./Zimbabwe)
- World Gone Wild, starring Bruce Dern
- Y
- Young Einstein, directed by and starring Yahoo Serious - (Australia)
- Young Guns, starring Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Dermot Mulroney and Casey Siemaszko
[edit] Births
- March 27 - Brenda Song, American actress, singer and model
- April 10 - Haley Joel Osment, American actor
- April 25 - Sara Paxton, American singer/actress
- May 17 - Nikki Reed, American actress/writer
- June 7 - Michael Cera, American actor
- June 9 - Mae Whitman, American actress
- August 16 - Rumer Willis, American actress
- August 24 - Rupert Grint, English actor
- August 27 - Alexa Vega, American actress
- November 9 - Nikki Blonsky, American singer and actress
- December 14 - Vanessa Hudgens, American actress and singer
[edit] Deaths
- January 7 - Michel Auclair, actor (b. 1922)
- January 7 - Trevor Howard, actor
- January 25 - Colleen Moore, actress
- February 1 - Heather O'Rourke, actress
- March 6 - Jeanne Aubert, French actress
- April 21 - I. A. L. Diamond, screenwriter
- April 15 - Kenneth Williams, actor
- May 30 - Ella Raines, actress
- July 12 - Joshua Logan, director
- July 25 - Judith Barsi, actress
- August 4 - Florence Eldridge, actress
- September 5 - Gert Fröbe, actor
- October 1 - Lucien Ballard, cinematographer
- October 27 - Charles Hawtrey, actor
- October 31 - John Houseman, actor
- November 27 - John Carradine, actor
- December 27 - Hal Ashby, director
[edit] Film debuts
- Annette Bening - The Great Outdoors
- Matt Damon - Mystic Pizza
- David Duchovny - Working Girl
- Cuba Gooding, Jr. - Coming to America
- Danielle Harris - Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
- Neil Patrick Harris - Clara's Heart
- Bonnie Hunt - Rain Man
- David Hyde Pierce - Bright Lights, Big City
- Michael Imperioli
- Juliette Lewis - My Stepmother Is an Alien
- Dermot Mulroney
- Bill Nunn - School Daze
- Alan Rickman - Die Hard
- Stephen Root - "Crocodile" Dundee II
- David Schwimmer - Biloxi Blues
- Steven Seagal - Above the Law
- Gary Sinise
- Uma Thurman - Johnny Be Good
- Benicio del Toro - Big Top Pee-wee
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