Jagged Edge (1985)
In San Francisco, a rich heiress and her maid are found murdered, leaving the husband everything, including the accusation for the killings. That man is Jack Forrester (Bridges, Starman), whose marriage allowed him to rise...
Category: Romance
Fatal Attraction (1987)
This modern rehash of Eastwood’s Play Misty for Me would go on to be the second highest-grossing film of 1987 in the US (bested narrowly by 3 Men and a Baby). It would instantly make “fatal attraction”...
The Age of Innocence (1993)
Based on Edith Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of 1920, The Age of Innocence paints a rather unflattering portrait of a society repressed, where upbringing and social standing marked the actual difference between favor and failure among...
Heart Condition (1990)
Bob Hoskins plays bigoted cop Jack Moony, who spends much of his time becoming irate, eating the worst foods, chain-smoking, and swilling in booze. It eventually leads to a stroke. Moony is lucky enough...
The Sure Thing (1985)
Rob Reiner followed up his cult smash comedy, This is Spinal Tap, with a more conventional form of film: the road trip comedy. It’s a bit of an easy putt to make on first glance,...
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Short, but so beautifully sweet. The Purple Rose of Cairo sees Woody Allen in peak form in one of his most ingenious comedies. While it may ostensibly lack the weight of some of his more...
Cocktail (1988)
Tom Cruise (Top Gun, Days of Thunder) stars as ex-Army soldier Brian Flanagan, who has his dreams of becoming a success in New York City shattered when he can’t even find a job even in...
Moonstruck (1987)
Moonstruck is a critically-acclaimed crowd-pleasing romance that would go on to garner six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, with trophies handed out to Cher (The Witches of Eastwick, Mask), Dukakis (I Love Trouble, Mighty Aphrodite),...
About Last Night… (1986)
SNL alum Tim Kazurinsky (aka “Sweetchuck” from the Police Academy films) reworked David Mamet’s one-act play from the mid-1970s, “Sexual Perversity in Chicago” into the modern-day with About Last Night… (reportedly, the title changed due to some...
A Good Woman (2004)
A loose interpretation of the Oscar Wilde play, “Lady Windermere’s Fan”, A Good Woman changes the time period to the 1930s and the setting to the Amalfi coast of Italy, as well as incorporating quotes from...