A Dry White Season(1989)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 55

Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener's son is brutally beaten up by the police ...



Casualties of War(1989)

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Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 24

During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.



Harlem Nights(1989)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 29

During the 1930s, a New York illegal gambling house owner and his associates must deal with strong competition, gangsters and corrupt cops in order to stay in business.



Steel Magnolias(1989)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship and welcome her into the fold.



The Fabulous Baker Boys(1989)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 18

The lives of two struggling musicians, who happen to be brothers, inevitably change when they team up with a beautiful, up-and-coming singer.



Glory(1989)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.



Chances Are(1989)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A reincarnated man unknowingly falls in love with his own daughter from his previous life. Once he realizes this, he tries to end their relationship before angels erase his memory.



Scandal(1989)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 19

Based on the Profumo Scandal of 1963, an affair between an exotic dancer and the Minister of War shakes up the British government.



Shirley Valentine(1989)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 11

Shirley's a middle-aged Liverpool housewife, who finds herself talking to the wall while she prepares her husband's chip'n'egg, wondering what happened to her life. She compares scenes in ...



She-Devil(1989)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A cunning and resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.



Jacknife(1989)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 10

A conflict develops between a troubled Vietnam veteran and the sister he lives with when she becomes involved romantically with the army buddy who reminds him of the tragic battle they both...



In Country(1989)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 18

Samantha Hughes, a teenaged Kentucky girl, never knew her father, who died in Vietnam before her birth. Samantha lives with her Uncle Emmett, who also served in Vietnam. Emmett hangs around...



Dad(1989)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A busy, "always-on-the-run" executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him ...



Blaze(1989)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A middle-aged Louisiana governor falls in love with a young stripper, which jeopardizes his political career and the radical policies which have made him a controversial figure.



Music Box(1989)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.



The Rose Garden(1989)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In Germany, an old man attacks another old man and is arrested. The attacker refuses to speak. A female lawyer is appointed to him. She discovers that the attacker has numbers tattooed on his arm and the attacked man was a German officer.




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