Fat Man and Little Boy(1989)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 14

This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built.



Mystery Train(1989)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Three stories are connected by a Memphis hotel and the spirit of Elvis Presley.



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.



The Punisher(1989)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When Frank Castle's family is murdered by criminals, he wages war on crime as a vigilante assassin known only as the Punisher.



Johnny Handsome(1989)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 10

Johnny Handsome is a deformed gangster who plans a successful robbery with a friend of his, Mikey Chalmette, and another couple (Sunny Boid and Rafe Garrett). During the heist, Johnny and ...



The Package(1989)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 11

Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette, back to the US, but Boyette escapes and Gallagher must risk life and limb to catch him.



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 ...



Skin Deep(1989)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A womanizing, drunken, allelic writer, whose life seems to be falling apart at the seams, repeatedly finds himself in trouble of one sort or another with the law, ex-girlfriends, and jealous boyfriends.



The Big Picture(1989)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 15

Film school grad Nick Chapman thought his career was made after his award winning short film, but discovered Hollywood wasn't as easy as it seems.



Last Exit to Brooklyn(1989)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Set in Brooklyn during the 1950s against a backdrop of union corruption and violence. A prostitute falls in love with one of her customers. Also a disturbed man discovers that he is homosexual.



Longtime Companion(1989)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 13

The emergence and devastation of the AIDS epidemic is chronicled in the lives of several gay men living during the 1980s.



Prancer(1989)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 15

A farm girl nurses a wounded reindeer she believes is one of Santa's, hoping to bring it back to health in time for Christmas. Her holiday spirit inspires those around her, something her disheartened father is having trouble understanding.



True Believer(1989)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A cynical former civil liberties attorney now reduced to "specializing" in defending drug dealers becomes transformed by an eight-year-old murder case.



Dream a Little Dream(1989)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 9

An accident puts the consciousness of an elderly dream researcher into the body of a bratty teenager. The problem? The kid prefers dreamworld limbo to real life.



Best of the Best(1989)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A team from the United States is going to compete against Korea in a Tae Kwon Do tournament. The team consists of fighters from all over the country--can they overcome their rivalry and work together to win?



Blue Steel(1989)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A female rookie in the police force engages in a cat and mouse game with a pistol wielding psychopath who becomes obsessed with her.



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: 17

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...



Monsieur Hire(1989)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 10

A recluse is accused of murdering a young woman simply because his neighbors think he is strange.



Millennium(1989)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 7

An NTSB investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster meets a warrior woman from 1000 years in the future. She replaces the people from airplanes before they crash with corpses with the same features.




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