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The year 1989 involved huge or many significant films.

Events

• Batman is released on June 23, and goes on to gross over $410 million worldwide.
• Actress Kim Basinger and her brother Mick purchase Braselton, Georgia, for $20 million. (Basinger would lose the town to her partner in the deal, the pension fund of Chicago-based Ameritech Corp., in 1993 after being forced to file for bankruptcy when a California judge ordered her to pay $7.4 million for refusing to honor a verbal contract to star in the film Boxing Helena.)
• September - Columbia Pictures and Tri-Star Pictures are sold to Sony
• The James Bond film Licence to Kill is released. Unknown to anyone at the time, its release would be followed by years of legal wrangling over the future of the popular film series. The next Bond film, GoldenEye, is not released until 1995.
• Screen and stage legend Laurence Olivier appeared in his last filmed role before his death in 1989 as an old soldier in War Requiem
• Field of Dreams is released on April 23, striking an emotional chord in men and fans of baseball.
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is released on May 24. It is the 3rd installment of the Indiana Jones series.
• Back to the Future Part II is released on November 22, and is the 2nd installment of the Back to the Future series.
• Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is released on June 23.
• This is the first year where all ten top grossing films worldwide made more than $100,000,000.
• The first installment of the Disney Renaissance, The Little Mermaid, is released on November 17.
• Parenthood is released on August 2.
• Ghostbusters II is released on June 16.

Top grossing films (Worldwide)

Rank	Title	Studio	Actors	Director	Gross
1.	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	Paramount/Lucasfilm	Harrison Ford, Allison Doody, John Rhys-Davies, Denholm Elliott, Julian Glover, River Phoenix, and Sean Connery	Steven Spielberg	$474,200,000
2.	Batman	Warner Bros.	Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Pat Hingle, Robert Wuhl, Billy Dee Williams, Michael Gough and Jack Palance	Tim Burton	$411,300,000
3.	Back to the Future Part II	Universal	Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson and Thomas F. Wilson	Robert Zemeckis	$331,950,000
4.	Look Who's Talking	TriStar	John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Olympia Dukakis, George Segal	Amy Heckerling	$297,000,000
5.	Dead Poets Society	Touchstone	Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke	Peter Weir	$235,900,000
6.	Lethal Weapon 2	Warner Bros.	Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci	Richard Donner	$227,900,000
7.	Honey, I Shrunk the Kids	Disney	Rick Moranis, Marcia Strassman, Matt Frewer, Kristine Sutherland, Amy O'Neill, Robert Oliveri, Jared Rushton	Joe Johnston	$222,700,000
8.	Ghostbusters II	Columbia	Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts and Peter MacNicol	Ivan Reitman	$215,400,000
9.	The Little Mermaid	Disney	voices of Jodi Benson, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Pat Carroll, Samuel E. Wright, Jason Marin, Kenneth Mars and René Auberjonois	Ron Clements, John Musker	$211,343,479
10.	Born on the Fourth of July	Universal	Tom Cruise, Kyra Sedgwick, Raymond J. Barry, Willem Dafoe, Frank Whaley	Oliver Stone	$161,000,000

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Driving Miss Daisy - Majestic Films International, Zanuck Company., Warner Bros.

Best Director: Oliver Stone - Born on the Fourth of July

Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis - My Left Foot

Best Actress: Jessica Tandy - Driving Miss Daisy

Best Supporting Actor: Denzel Washington - Glory

Best Supporting Actress: Brenda Fricker - My Left Foot

Best Foreign Language Film: Nuovo cinema Paradiso (Cinema Paradiso), directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, Italy

Best Art Direction/Set Decoration: Anton Furst and Peter Young - Batman

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: Born on the Fourth of July

Best Actor: Tom Cruise - Born on the Fourth of July

Best Actress: Michelle Pfeiffer - The Fabulous Baker Boys

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: Driving Miss Daisy

Best Actor: Morgan Freeman - Driving Miss Daisy

Best Actress: Jessica Tandy - Driving Miss Daisy

Other

Best Director: Oliver Stone, Born on the Fourth of July

Best Foreign Language Film: Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (Cinema Paradiso), Italy

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Sex, Lies, and Videotape, directed by Steven Soderbergh, United States

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

A City of Sadness (Beiqing chengshi), directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien, China

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Rain Man, directed by Barry Levinson, United States

Notable films released in 1989

U.S.A. unless stated

A-D

A

• The Abyss, directed by James Cameron, starring Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
• All About Ah-Long (Ah Long dik gu si), starring Chow Yun-fat and Sylvia Chang - (Hong Kong)

• All Dogs Go To Heaven - (Ireland/U.K.)
• Always, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, John Goodman, Audrey Hepburn
• Amanece, que no es poco (Amanece, Who is Not Small) - (Spain)
• Apartment Zero (Conviviendo con la muerte), directed by Martin Donovan, starring Colin Firth - Golden Space Needle award - (Argentina)

B

• The BFG, starring David Jason - (U.K.)
• Babar: The Movie - (Canada/France)
• Back to the Future Part II, starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd
• Batman, directed by Tim Burton, starring Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Jack Palance, Robert Wuhl
• Before the Bat's Flight Is Done (Mielőtt befejezi röptét a denevér) - (Hungary)
• Bert Rigby, You're a Fool, directed by Carl Reiner, starring Robert Lindsay, Robbie Coltrane, Anne Bancroft
• Best of the Best, starring Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones, Sally Kirkland
• The Big Picture, directed by Christopher Guest, starring Kevin Bacon, Michael McKean, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Martin Short
• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, starring Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin
• Black Rain, directed by Ridley Scott, starring Michael Douglas, Andy García, Kate Capshaw - (U.S.A.)
• Black Rain (Kuroi ame), directed by Shōhei Imamura - (Japan)
• Black Rainbow, directed by Mike Hodges, starring Rosanna Arquette, Jason Robards, Tom Hulce
• Black Rose Is an Emblem of Sorrow, Red Rose Is an Emblem of Love (Chyornaya roza - emblema pechali, krasnaya roza - emblema lyubvi) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Blaze, directed by Ron Shelton, starring Paul Newman and Lolita Davidovich
• Blind Fury, directed by Phillip Noyce, starring Rutger Hauer
• Bloodhounds of Broadway, starring Matt Dillon, Jennifer Grey, Julie Hagerty, Rutger Hauer, Madonna, Esai Morales, Randy Quaid
• Born on the Fourth of July, directed by Oliver Stone, starring Tom Cruise—Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Drama)
• Breaking In, directed by Bill Forsyth, starring Burt Reynolds and Casey Siemaszko
• The 'Burbs, starring Tom Hanks
• Bye Bye Blues, starring Rebecca Jenkins and Michael Ontkean - (Canada)

C

• Cameron's Closet, starring Scott Curtis
• Casualties of War, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Michael J. Fox and Sean Penn
• Cat Chaser, directed by Abel Ferrara, starring Peter Weller and Kelly McGillis
• Chameleon Street, directed by and starring Wendell B. Harris Jr.
• Chances Are, starring Cybill Shepherd, Robert Downey, Jr., Ryan O'Neal, Mary Stuart Masterson
• Chandni (Moonlight), starring Sridevi - (India)
• Checking Out, starring Jeff Daniels
• Cheetah
• A City of Sadness (Beiqing chengshi), starring Tony Leung - Golden Lion award - (Taiwan)
• Cohen and Tate, starring Roy Scheider and Adam Baldwin
• Cold Feet, starring Keith Carradine, Sally Kirkland, Tom Waits
• Communion, starring Christopher Walken
• The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, directed by Peter Greenaway, starring Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren - (U.K.)
• Cousins, starring Ted Danson, Isabella Rossellini, Sean Young, William Petersen
• Crimes and Misdemeanors, directed by and starring Woody Allen, with Mia Farrow, Alan Alda, Martin Landau, Sam Waterston, Anjelica Huston
• Criminal Law, starring Gary Oldman and Kevin Bacon
• Crusoe, starring Aidan Quinn - (U.K.)
• Cyborg, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme

D

• Dad, starring Jack Lemmon, Ted Danson, Ethan Hawke, Olympia Dukakis, Kathy Baker, Kevin Spacey
• Dead Bang, starring Don Johnson
• Dead Calm, directed by Phillip Noyce, starring Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman, Billy Zane - (Australia)
• Dead Poets Society, directed by Peter Weir, starring Robin Williams
• Deepstar Six, starring Greg Evigan, Taurean Blacque, Miguel Ferrer, Cindy Pickett
• The Delinquents, starring Kylie Minogue and Charlie Schlatter - (Australia)
• Dimenticare Palermo (To Forget Palermo), directed by Francesco Rosi - (Italy)
• Disorganized Crime, starring Lou Diamond Phillips and Rubén Blades
• Do the Right Thing, directed by and starring Spike Lee, with Danny Aiello, John Turturro, Bill Nunn, Giancarlo Esposito, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee
• Dream a Little Dream, starring Corey Feldman, Corey Haim, Meredith Salenger
• The Dream Team, starring Michael Keaton, Peter Boyle, Christopher Lloyd, Stephen Furst
• Driving Miss Daisy, directed by Bruce Beresford, starring Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman, Dan Aykroyd - Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Picture
• Drugstore Cowboy, directed by Gus Van Sant, starring Matt Dillon and Kelly Lynch
• A Dry White Season, starring Donald Sutherland, Janet Suzman, Susan Sarandon, Marlon Brando

E-K

E

• The Ear (Ucho) - (Czechoslovakia) - made in 1970 but banned until 1989
• Echoes of Paradise, directed by Phillip Noyce, starring Wendy Hughes and John Lone - (Australia)
• Edge of Sanity, starring Anthony Perkins
• Eeshwar, starring Anil Kapoor - (India)
• Enemies, a Love Story, directed by Paul Mazursky, starring Ron Silver, Anjelica Huston, Lena Olin, Margaret Sophie Stein
• Erik the Viking, starring Tim Robbins, Terry Jones, John Cleese - (U.K.)
• The Experts, starring John Travolta

F

• The Fabulous Baker Boys, starring Jeff Bridges, Michelle Pfeiffer, Beau Bridges
• Farewell to the King, starring Nick Nolte and Nigel Havers
• Fat Man and Little Boy, starring Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, John Cusack, Laura Dern
• Field of Dreams, starring Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, James Earl Jones, Ray Liotta, Timothy Busfield, Burt Lancaster
• Fletch Lives, starring Chevy Chase
• Fool's Mate (Zugzwang), starring Victoria Tennant - (West Germany)
• For Queen and Country, starring Denzel Washington - (U.K./U.S.A.)
• Freeze Die Come to Life (Zamri, umri, voskresni!) - (U.S.S.R.)

G

• Gang of Four, directed by Jacques Rivette, starring Bulle Ogier - (France)
• Getting It Right, starring Jane Horrocks and Helena Bonham Carter - (U.K.)
• Ghostbusters II, starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, Peter MacNicol
• Gleaming the Cube, starring Christian Slater
• Glory, directed by Edward Zwick, starring Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, Morgan Freeman
• God of Gamblers (Du shen), starring Chow Yun-fat and Andy Lau - (Hong Kong)
• Godzilla vs. Biollante - (Japan)
• Great Balls of Fire!, directed by Jim McBride, starring Dennis Quaid, Winona Ryder, Alec Baldwin
• Gross Anatomy, starring Matthew Modine, Daphne Zuniga, Christine Lahti

H

• Harlem Nights, directed by and starring Eddie Murphy, with Richard Pryor, Danny Aiello, Jasmine Guy, Redd Foxx, Della Reese
• Hathyar, starring Dharmendra and Sanjay Dutt - (India)
• Heart of Dixie, starring Ally Sheedy, Virginia Madsen, Phoebe Cates, Treat Williams
• Heathers, directed by Michael Lehmann, starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater
• Henry V, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh, with Derek Jacobi, Brian Blessed, Paul Scofield, Emma Thompson - (U.K.)
• Her Alibi, starring Tom Selleck and Paulina Porizkova
• Hit List, starring Jan-Michael Vincent and Rip Torn
• Homer and Eddie, starring Whoopi Goldberg and James Belushi
• Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, starring Rick Moranis, Matt Frewer, Marcia Strassman
• A Hoof Here, a Hoof There (Kopytem sem, kopytem tam) - (Czechoslovakia)
• Houseboat Horror, starring Alan Dale - (Australia)
• How I Got Into College, starring Lara Flynn Boyle and Anthony Edwards
• How to Get Ahead in Advertising, starring Richard E. Grant - (U.K.)

I

• I Love, You Love (Ja milujem, ty miluješ) - (Czechoslovakia)
• The Icicle Thief (Ladri di saponette) - (Italy)
• Immediate Family, starring Glenn Close, James Woods, Mary Stuart Masterson
• In Country, starring Bruce Willis and Emily Lloyd
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Harrison Ford and Sean Connery
• An Innocent Man, starring Tom Selleck
• Intergirl (Interdevochka) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Interrogation (Przesluchanie), directed by Ryszard Bugajski - (Poland) - banned for over 7 years, released after overthrow of communist regime in Poland
• Ivan and Alexandra - (Bulgaria)

J

• Jacknife, starring Robert De Niro, Ed Harris, Kathy Baker
• The January Man, starring Kevin Kline, Susan Sarandon, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Harvey Keitel, Danny Aiello, Rod Steiger
• Je suis le seigneur du château (I'm the King of the Castle) - (France)
• Jesus of Montreal - (Canada/France)
• Johnny Handsome, directed by Walter Hill, starring Mickey Rourke, Forest Whitaker, Ellen Barkin, Elizabeth McGovern, Morgan Freeman

K

• K-9, starring James Belushi
• The Karate Kid, Part III, starring Ralph Macchio and Noriyuki "Pat" Morita
• Kickboxer, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme
• Kiki's Delivery Service (Majo no Takkyūbin) - (Japan)
• The Killer (dip hyut soeng hung), directed by John Woo, starring Chow Yun-fat - (Hong Kong)
• Killing Dad
• Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects, starring Charles Bronson

L-Q

L

• Last Exit to Brooklyn, starring Jennifer Jason Leigh
• Lean on Me, directed by John G. Avildsen, starring Morgan Freeman
• Leningrad Cowboys Go America, directed by Aki Kaurismäki, starring Leningrad Cowboys - (Finland)
• Lethal Weapon 2, starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover
• Leviathan, starring Peter Weller, Richard Crenna, Meg Foster
• Licence to Kill, 16th of James Bond series, starring Timothy Dalton, Robert Davi, Carey Lowell - (U.K.)
• Life and Nothing But (La vie et rien d'autre), directed by Bertrand Tavernier - (France)
• Listen to Me, starring Kirk Cameron, Jami Gertz, Roy Scheider, Christopher Atkins
• The Little Mermaid, voices of Jodi Benson, Pat Carroll, Buddy Hackett
• Little Monsters, starring Fred Savage and Howie Mandel
• Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland, voices of Gabriel Damon, Mickey Rooney, René Auberjonois, Danny Mann, Bernard Erhard
• Lock Up, starring Sylvester Stallone and Donald Sutherland
• Lonesome Dove, TV film, starring Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Diane Lane, Anjelica Huston, Chris Cooper, Ricky Schroeder, Danny Glover, Frederic Forrest
• Look Who's Talking, starring John Travolta and Kirstie Alley
• Loverboy, starring Patrick Dempsey, Carrie Fisher, Barbara Carrera, Kirstie Alley

M

• Maine Pyar Kiya (I Fell in Love), starring Salman Khan - (India)
• Major League, directed by David S. Ward, starring Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, Corbin Bernsen, James Gannon, Margaret Whitton, Wesley Snipes
• Marquis - (Belgium/France)
• The Marriage of the Blessed (Arousi-ye Khouban) - (Iran)
• Meet the Feebles, directed by Peter Jackson - (New Zealand)
• Meet the Hollowheads, starring Juliette Lewis
• The Mighty Quinn, starring Denzel Washington, Robert Townsend, Mimi Rogers, Esther Rolle
• Millennium, starring Kris Kristofferson and Cheryl Ladd
• Miss Firecracker, starring Holly Hunter, Tim Robbins, Mary Steenburgen, Alfre Woodard, Scott Glenn
• Monsieur Hire, directed by Patrice Leconte, starring Michel Blanc and Sandrine Bonnaire - (France)
• Mother (Mat) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Music Box, directed by Costa-Gavras, starring Jessica Lange, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Frederic Forrest, Lukas Haas - Golden Bear award (for 1990)
• My 20th Century - (Hungary/West Germany)
• My Left Foot, directed by Jim Sheridan, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Brenda Fricker - (Ireland/U.K.)
• Mystery Train, directed by Jim Jarmusch - (Japan/U.S.A.)
• Milo and Otis, narrated by Dudley Moore, directed by Masanori Hata (English translation)

N

• National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, starring Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo
• New York Stories, trilogy directed by Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and Woody Allen, starring Nick Nolte, Rosanna Arquette, Mia Farrow and Allen
• Next of Kin, starring Patrick Swayze
• Night Game, starring Roy Scheider
• No Holds Barred, starring Hulk Hogan
• Nowhere to Run, directed by Carl Franklin, starring David Carradine

O

• O Sangue (Blood) - (Portugal)
• Old Gringo, starring Jane Fonda, Gregory Peck, Jimmy Smits
• Out of the Dark, starring Karen Black and Bud Cort

P

• The Package, directed by Andrew Davis, starring Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy, Tommy Lee Jones
• The Paper Wedding, starring Geneviève Bujold - (Canada)
• Parenthood, directed by Ron Howard, starring Steve Martin, Mary Steenburgen, Jason Robards, Dianne Wiest, Rick Moranis, Tom Hulce, Martha Plimpton
• Parents, directed by Bob Balaban, starring Randy Quaid and Mary Beth Hurt
• Pedicab Driver (Qun long xi feng), directed by and starring Sammo Hung - (Hong Kong)
• Penn & Teller Get Killed
• Pet Sematary, directed by Mary Lambert written by Stephen King, starring Dale Midkiff, Fred Gwynne, Denise Crosby, Miko Hughes
• Physical Evidence, directed by Michael Crichton, starring Burt Reynolds and Theresa Russell
• Pink Cadillac, starring Clint Eastwood and Bernadette Peters
• Prancer, starring Sam Elliott and Cloris Leachman
• The Punisher, starring Dolph Lundgren
• Puppet Master, starring Paul Le Mat

R-Z

R

• The Rainbow, directed by Ken Russell, starring Sammi Davis and Amanda Donohoe - (U.K.)
• Ramji Rav Speaking - (India)
• Red Scorpion, starring Dolph Lundgren
• Relentless, starring Judd Nelson and Robert Loggia
• Renegades, starring Kiefer Sutherland and Lou Diamond Phillips
• The Return of the Musketeers, starring Michael York, Frank Finlay, Richard Chamberlain, Kim Catrall - (U.K./France/Spain)
• Reunion, starring Jason Robards - (U.K.)
• La Révolution française (The French Revolution), starring Klaus Maria Brandauer - (France/West Germany/Italy/U.K.)
• Road House, starring Terry Funk, Patrick Swayze, Kelly Lynch, Ben Gazzara, Sam Elliott
• Roadkill - (Canada)
• Roger & Me, a documentary by Michael Moore
• Rojo Amanecer (Red Dawn) - (Mexico)
• Rosalie Goes Shopping, starring Marianne Sägebrecht and Judge Reinhold - (West Germany)

S

• Santa Sangre (Holy Blood) - (Mexico)
• Say Anything..., directed by Cameron Crowe, starring John Cusack and Ione Skye
• Scandal, directed by Michael Caton-Jones, starring Joanne Whalley, John Hurt, Ian McKellen, Bridget Fonda - (U.K.)
• Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills, directed by Paul Bartel, starring Jacqueline Bisset, Ed Begley, Jr., Rebecca Schaeffer
• Sea of Love, directed by Harold Becker, starring Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman
• Second Sight, starring John Larroquette and Bronson Pinchot
• See No Evil, Hear No Evil, starring Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor
• See You in the Morning, starring Jeff Bridges, Alice Krige, Farrah Fawcett
• The Servant (Sluga) - (U.S.S.R.)
• The Seventh Continent (Der siebente Kontinent), directed by Michael Haneke - (Austria)
• Sex, Lies, and Videotape, directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher, Laura San Giacomo—Palme d'Or award
• Shag, starring Phoebe Cates, Bridget Fonda, Annabeth Gish
• Shaso - (Japan)
• She-Devil, directed by Susan Seidelman, starring Meryl Streep, Roseanne Barr, Ed Begley, Jr.
• She's Out of Control, starring Tony Danza
• Shirley Valentine, directed by Lewis Gilbert, starring Pauline Collins (BAFTA for best actress) - (U.K.)
• Signs of Life, starring Beau Bridges and Kathy Bates
• Sing, starring Lorraine Bracco
• Skin Deep, directed by Blake Edwards, starring John Ritter
• Slaves of New York, directed by James Ivory, starring Bernadette Peters
• Slipstream, starring Mark Hamill, Bill Paxton, Ben Kingsley
• Society, starring Billy Warlock
• Speed Zone!, starring John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Tim Matheson, Donna Dixon, the Smothers Brothers
• Spider's Web (Das Spinnennetz), directed by Bernhard Wicki - (West Germany)
• Splendor, starring Marcello Mastroianni - (Italy)
• Split
• Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, directed by and starring William Shatner, with Leonard Nimoy, Laurence Luckinbill
• Staying Together, directed by Lee Grant, starring Sean Astin, Stockard Channing, Melinda Dillon, Levon Helm, Dermot Mulroney, Daphne Zuniga
• Steel Magnolias, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Sally Field, Julia Roberts, Dolly Parton, Olympia Dukakis, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah
• Strapless, directed by David Hare, starring Blair Brown, Bruno Ganz, Bridget Fonda - (U.K.)
• The Striker with Number 9 (I fanela me to '9') - (Greece)
• Sweet Home - (Japan)
• Sweetie, directed by Jane Campion - (Australia)

T

• The Tall Guy, starring Jeff Goldblum, Emma Thompson, Rowan Atkinson - (U.K.)
• Tango & Cash, starring Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell
• Tap, starring Gregory Hines and Sammy Davis, Jr.
• Ten Little Indians, starring Donald Pleasence, Herbert Lom, Brenda Vaccaro, Frank Stallone - (U.K.)
• Tetsuo: The Iron Man - (Japan)
• Thick Skinned (Peaux de vaches), starring Sandrine Bonnaire - (France)
• Three Fugitives, starring Nick Nolte and Martin Short
• Too Beautiful for You (Trop belle pour toi), directed by Bertrand Blier, starring Gérard Depardieu and Carole Bouquet - (France)
• Triumph of the Spirit, starring Willem Dafoe
• Troop Beverly Hills, starring Shelley Long, Betty Thomas, Craig T. Nelson
• Tropical Snow, starring David Carradine
• True Love - won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival
• Turner & Hooch, starring Tom Hanks, Mare Winningham, Craig T. Nelson, Reginald VelJohnson

U-V

• UHF, written by and starring "Weird Al" Yankovic
• Uncle Buck, directed by John Hughes, starring John Candy and Amy Madigan
• Valmont, directed by Milos Forman, starring Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly, Fairuza Balk, Henry Thomas - (U.S.A./France)
• Vampire's Kiss, starring Nicolas Cage, Maria Conchita Alonso, Jennifer Beals
• Violent Cop (Sono otoko, kyōbō ni tsuki), directed by and starring Takeshi Kitano - (Japan)

W

• Waltzing Regitze (Dansen med Regitze) - (Denmark)
• The War of the Roses, directed by Danny DeVito, starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and DeVito
• War Requiem, starring Laurence Olivier in his final role - (U.K.)
• Weekend at Bernie's, directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman
• Welcome Home, directed by Franklin Schaffner, starring Kris Kristofferson, JoBeth Williams, Sam Waterston, Brian Keith
• We're No Angels, directed by Neil Jordan, starring Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Demi Moore, Hoyt Axton, Bruno Kirby, John C. Reilly
• What Time is it? (Che ora è?), directed by Ettore Scola, starring Marcello Mastroianni - (Italy)
• When Harry Met Sally..., directed by Rob Reiner, starring Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan
• When the Whales Came, starring Paul Scofield, David Threlfall, Helen Mirren - (U.K.)
• Who's Harry Crumb?, starring John Candy, Annie Potts, Jeffrey Jones, Barry Corbin, Tim Thomerson, Shawnee Smith
• Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (Dalmaga dongjjok-euro gan ggadakeun?) - (South Korea)
• Wicked Stepmother, starring Bette Davis, Barbara Carrera, Colleen Camp
• Willy the Sparrow (Vili, a veréb) - (Hungary)
• Wilt, starring Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith - (U.K.)
• Winter People, directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Kurt Russell, Kelly McGillis, Lloyd Bridges
• The Winter War (Talvisota) - (Finland)
• The Wizard, starring Fred Savage, Luke Edwards, Jenny Lewis, Beau Bridges, Christian Slater
• Wodaabe - Herdsmen of the Sun (Wodaabe - Die Hirten der Sonne), directed by Werner Herzog - (West Germany)
• Worth Winning, starring Mark Harmon, Madeleine Stowe, Lesley Ann Warren

XYZ

• Yaaba - (Burkina Faso)

Wide-release films

January–March

• January 1989
  • January 13
    • DeepStar Six
    • The Experts
    • Gleaming the Cube
  • January 27
    • Cohen and Tate
    • Three Fugitives
• February 1989
  • February 3
    • Gone With the Wind (film) (re-release)
    • Her Alibi
    • Who's Harry Crumb?
  • February 10
    • The Fly II
    • Tap
  • February 17
    • Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
    • The 'Burbs, starring Tom Hanks
• March 1989
  • March 1 - New York Stories (New York City; U.S.A. March 10, 1989)
  • March 3
    • Lean on Me, starring Morgan Freeman
    • Skin Deep
  • March 10
    • Chances Are, starring Cybill Shepard and Robert Downey, Jr.
    • Jacknife starring Robert De Niro
    • Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
  • March 16 - Blind Fury
  • March 17
    • Fletch Lives
    • Leviathan
    • The Rescuers(re-release)
  • March 24 - Troop Beverly Hills
  • March 31
    • Heathers
    • Sing

April–June

• April 1989
  • April 7
    • Cyborg
    • Dead Calm
    • The Dream Team
    • Major League
  • April 14 - Say Anything...
  • April 20 - Kickboxer
  • April 21
    • Checking Out
    • Field of Dreams, starring Kevin Costner
    • Pet Sematary, written by Stephen King
  • April 23
    • Teen Witch, starring Robyn Lively and Zelda Rubenstein
  • April 28
    • Criminal Law
    • K-9
• May 1989
  • May 5 - Signs of Life
  • May 12 - See No Evil, Hear No Evil
  • May 19
    • How I Got into College
    • Road House
  • May 24 - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Harrison Ford and Sean Connery, third entry in the Indiana Jones series
  • May 26 - Pink Cadillac, starring Clint Eastwood
• June 1989
  • June 2 - Dead Poets Society
  • June 3 - Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills, starring Jacqueline Bisset, Ed Begley, Jr., Paul Mazursky and Rebecca Schaeffer, directed by Paul Bartel
  • June 9 - Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, and DeForest Kelley, directed by Shatner
  • June 13 - Licence to Kill
  • June 16 - Ghostbusters II, starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts and Peter MacNicol
  • June 23
    • Batman, starring Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson and Kim Basinger
    • Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
  • June 30
    • Do the Right Thing
    • Great Balls of Fire!
    • The Karate Kid, Part III

July–September

• July 1989
  • July 5 - Weekend at Bernie's, starring Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman
  • July 7 - Lethal Weapon 2, starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover, first sequel of the Lethal Weapon series
  • July 14
    • Peter Pan (1953 film) (re-release)
    • When Harry Met Sally...
  • July 21 - UHF, written by and starring 'Weird' Al Yankovic
  • July 28
    • Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, eighth entry in the Friday the 13th series
    • Turner & Hooch, starring Tom Hanks
• August 1989
  • August 2 - Parenthood
  • August 4 - Lock Up, starring Sylvester Stallone
  • August 9 - The Abyss, directed by James Cameron
  • August 11 - A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, fifth entry in A Nightmare on Elm Street series
  • August 16 - Uncle Buck
  • August 18
    • Casualties of War starring Michael J. Fox and Sean Penn
    • Cheetah
    • Sex, Lies, and Videotape
  • August 30 - Shirley Valentine
• September 1989
  • September 15 - True Love
  • September 22 - Black Rain

October–December

• October 1989
  • October 5 - The Punisher
  • October 6 - An Innocent Man
  • October 9 - Drugstore Cowboy
  • October 12 - Puppet Master
  • October 13
    • Breaking In
    • Crimes and Misdemeanors
    • The Fabulous Baker Boys
    • Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers, fifth entry in the Halloween series
    • Look Who's Talking
  • October 20
    • Fat Man and Little Boy
    • Gross Anatomy
    • Next of Kin
  • October 27
    • Worth Winning
• November 1989
  • November 8 - Henry V
  • November 14 - The Little Mermaid
  • November 15 - Steel Magnolias, starring Sally Field, Julia Roberts, Dolly Parton, Olympia Dukakis, Shirley MacLaine and Daryl Hannah, directed by Herbert Ross
  • November 17 - All Dogs Go to Heaven
  • November 22 - Back to the Future Part II, starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd; the first sequel of Back to the Future trilogy
• December 1989
  • December 1 - National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
  • December 8
    • She-Devil
    • The War of the Roses, starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito
  • December 14 - Glory
  • December 15
    • Blaze
    • Driving Miss Daisy
    • The Wizard
  • December 20 - Born on the Fourth of July
  • December 22
    • Always
    • Tango & Cash, Starring Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell

Births

• January 3 - Alex D. Linz, American actor
• February 13 - Carly McKillip, Canadian actress and singer
• February 21 - Corbin Bleu, American actor and singer
• February 21 - Scout Taylor-Compton, American actress and singer
• March 5 - Jake Lloyd, American actor
• March 11 - Anton Yelchin, Russian actor
• March 15 - Caitlin Wachs, American actress
• April 18 - Alia Shawkat, American actress
• April 20 - Alex Black, American actor
• June 27 - Matthew Lewis, British actor
• July 21 - Rory Culkin, American actor
• July 21 - Juno Temple, British actress
• July 23 - Daniel Radcliffe, English actor
• August 2 - Priscilla Betti, French actress
• August 15 - Joe Jonas, American singer and actor (Jonas Brothers)
• August 21 - Hayden Panettiere, American actress and singer
• October 1 - Brie Larson, American actress
• October 14 - Mia Wasikowska, Australian actress
• December 12 - Harry Eden, British actor
• December 13 - Taylor Swift, American singer-songwriter, actress, and musician
• December 29 - Left Brain, rapper

Deaths

• January 16 - Prem Nazir, Indian actor
• January 20 - Beatrice Lillie, Canadian actress
• February 3 - Lionel Newman, American composer
• February 3 - John Cassavetes, American actor, director
• February 11 - T. E. B. Clarke, English screenwriter
• February 11 - George O'Hanlon, actor/director
• February 17 - Marguerite Roberts, American writer
• March 6 - Harry Andrews, American actor
• March 12 - Maurice Evans, English actor
• March 27 - May Allison, American actress
• April 15 - Charles Vanel, French actor and director
• April 26 - Lucille Ball, American film and television actress
• April 30 - Sergio Leone, Italian Western director
• June 27 - Jack Buetel, American actor
• June 28 - Joris Ivens, Dutch filmmaker
• July 3 - Jim Backus, American actor
• July 10 - Mel Blanc, American voice actor
• July 11 - Laurence Olivier, English actor
• July 18 - Rebecca Schaeffer, American actress
• August 16 - Amanda Blake, American actress
• September 22 - Irving Berlin, Russian-born American composer and songwriter
• October 4 - Graham Chapman, English comedian
• October 6 - Bette Davis, American actress
• October 8 - Onest Conley, American actor
• October 16 - Cornel Wilde, American actor
• October 20 - Anthony Quayle, English actor
• November 6 - Margit Makay, Hungarian actress
• November 20 - Lynn Bari, American actress
• December 16 - Aileen Pringle, American actress
• December 16 - Silvana Mangano, Italian actress
• December 16 - Lee Van Cleef, American actor

Film debuts

• Adrien Brody - New York Stories
• Michael Chiklis - Wired
• Kirsten Dunst - New York Stories
• Vivica A. Fox - Born on the Fourth of July
• Carla Gugino - Troop Beverly Hills
• Rebecca Harrell - Prancer
• Teri Hatcher - The Big Picture
• Jason Isaacs - The Tall Guy
• Allison Janney - Who Shot Patakango?
• Martin Lawrence - Do the Right Thing
• Rosie Perez - Do the Right Thing
• John C. Reilly - Casualties of War
• Sam Rockwell - Clownhouse
• Rene Russo - Major League
• Adam Sandler - Going Overboard
• Molly Shannon - The Phantom of the Opera
• Tom Sizemore
• Emma Thompson - The Tall Guy
• Elijah Wood - Back to the Future Part II
• Michael Jai White - The Toxic Avenger Part II

See also

• List of American films of 1989
• British films of 1989
• French films of 1989
• List of German films: 1980s
• Bollywood films of 1989
• Italian films of 1989
• Japanese films of 1989
• Swedish films of the 1980s

External links

• "The Summer Of '89" - www.screenrush.co.uk