Good 80's Films: On Golden Pond

1981 Drama
From Universal
Directed by Mark Rydell

Starring
Katharine Hepburn
Henry Fonda
Jane Fonda
Doug McKeon
Dabney Coleman
William Lanteau

Remakes: My Favorite Wife

Loosely based on Alfred Lord Tennyson's 1864 poem, Enoch Arden, these comical movies concern the return of a shipwrecked wife on the very day her husband marries another woman.  The husband has waited the appropriate seven years for her to be declared legally dead.  If that isn't complicated enough, she spent the entire time on a desert island with a hunky dude who'd like to make their relationship more permanent.  The laughs are aplenty as the husband tries to hide his first wife from his bride and the wife tries to hide her island companion from her husband.

Good 80's Films: Shoot the Moon

1982 Drama
From MGM
Directed by Alan Parker

Starring
Albert Finney
Diane Keaton
Karen Allen
Peter Weller
Dana Hill

REVIEW: Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

Directed by Paul McGuigan
2017 Biographical Romance Drama
1 hour 45 minutes
From Sony Pictures Classics

Starring
Annette Bening
Jamie Bell
Julie Walters
Stephen Graham
Kenneth Cranham
Frances Barber
Vanessa Redgrave

Good 80's Films: Frances

1982 Biography
From Universal
Directed by Graeme Clifford

Starring
Jessica Lange
Kim Stanley
Sam Shepard
Bart Burns
Jeffrey DeMunn
Lane Smith
Christopher Pennock
Jordan Charney

REVIEW: Fifty Shades Freed

Directed by James Foley
2018 Romance Drama
1 hour 45 minutes
From Universal Studios

Starring
Dakota Johnson
Jamie Dornan
Eric Johnson
Eloise Mumford
Rita Ora
Luke Grimes
Brant Daugherty

Good 80's Films: The Mosquito Coast

1986 Drama
From Warner Bros.
Directed by Peter Weir

Starring
Harrison Ford
Helen Mirren
River Phoenix
Jadrien Steele
Conrad Roberts
Andre Gregory
Martha Plimpton
Butterfly McQueen

Good 80's Films: Witness

1985 Drama
From Paramount Pictures
Directed by Peter Weir

Starring
Harrison Ford
Kelly McGillis
Lukas Haas
Josef Sommer
Jan Rubes
Alexander Godunov
Danny Glover
Viggo Mortensen