Having some friends over for a movie night. Any favorites from the 80s? To give you a clue, we enjoyed ferris buehlers day off last time we were together. Kids will be asleep.
Regards
F. B.
My three favorites are
Sixteen Candles (I had such a crush on Jake)
Tootsie (just such a good feel good movie)
Moonstruck
Valley Girl, St. Elmo's Fire, Breakfast Club, Ghostbusters, Beetlejuice, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Stand By Me, Pretty in Pink. Just to name a few.
Have fun!!!!!!!!!!!
The Breakfast Club
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Pretty in Pink
Sixteen Candles
Top Gun
Risky Business
Footloose
Romancing the Stone
Dirty Dancing
Why does it seem like most of the good movies from the 80's are for teenagers or about teenagers?
Pretty In Pink
Sixteen Candles
Breakfast Club
Ghostbusters
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Back to the Future
Top Gun
Stand by Me
Footloose
BIG!!!!
Goonies
Kinda gory....
Platoon - Full Metal Jacket - Aliens - The Shining
There are a lot - I needed to go look at my movie collection!! LOL!!
Hands down The Breakfast Club. Dirty Dancing would be my 2nd choice. There are a ton of great thriller/horror movies from the 80s but I assumed you were looking for something more upbeat.
16 Candles
Back to the Future
ETA: I love this thread. Splash and Money Pit were awesome. So many very famous actors when they were just starting out.
16 Candles is hands down my favorite 80s movie, if your looking for another comedy caddyshack, coming to America, airplane, police academy, or ghostbusters.
So many have already been listed but one of my favorites is Moonstruck (maybe because I am Italian decent and they are a lot like my family).
Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, Highlander, Raiders of the lost Arc, Fletch or Fletch Lives, Caddyshack. It really depends on what kind of movie you want to watch.
Back to the Future
Top Gun
Dirty Dancing
Three Men and a Baby
Adventures in Babysitting
Indiana Jones
Pretty Woman
Footloose
Splash, money pit, footloose, flash dance, dirty dancing
ETA
Suz T. - This is Spinal Tap is the BEST and a must-see!!!!!
Margie G. - just watched Tootsie last week :o)
The Wedding Singer makes me laugh.
It's fun to reminisce with all the titles mentioned below. The only one I need to second is American Werewolf in London. It's a really unique movie.
Just saw a bit of Top Gun the other day, and it is pretty darn corny, in retrospect.
I was going to respond but saw WW's list and agree with everything on it, plus The Outsiders. Great post, I'm going to have to hunt down some of these and watch them again!
Moonstruck. I could watch that every single day forever.
The Money Pit (Tom Hanks, Shelly Long) - cracks me up EVERY time I watch it!
Baby Boom - another favorite.
Father of the Bride
Father of the Bride 2
Cheaper by the Dozen
Parenthood
She's Having a Baby
I suggest The Outsiders, Beverly Hills Cop, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Weird Science, Spring Break, Karate Kid, Pretty In Pink, Footloose, St Elmos Fire, and Gremlins.
labyrinth!
the entire 80s are worth it all just to get david bowie in goblin king garb!
i loved the 80s movies, really. never-ending story. breakfast club. yes, ferris buehler! back to the future. whatever star wars movies came out then. john carpenter's 'the thing'! (still terrifying!!!) american werewolf in london (how cute was david naughton?) this is spinal tap.
now i want an 80s movie night.
:) khairete
S.
I love Fried Green Tomato's, Moonstruck, A League of Their Own, and Steel Magnolias.
Dirty Dancing
Driving Miss DAisy
Rain Man
Steel Magnolias
ET
THree Men and a Baby
Terminator
Moonstruck
Have fun!!!!
Beetlejuice
E.T.
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Beverly Hills Cop
Karate Kid
The Princess Bride
Coming to America
Weird Science
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Flash Dance
(Not necessarily in this order.)
Footloose
Any of the Molly Ringwald movies
Dirty Dancing
If you want something fun and silly, but not kid-friendly, try 'Earth Girls Are Easy' starring Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans & Julie Brown.
I am a bit older and love all the names you have listed. I would add Uncle Buck, Circle of Friends, Lost Boys, Witches of Eastwick, Men at Work, Fools Rush In, a Walk in the Clouds. I did consult with my daughter about a few of the titles.
the other S.
Well, I love The Big Chill... maybe that's too tame for your movie night, I don't know!! Smiles!
Baby boom Diane keaton
Short circuit ally sheedy
War games Matthew Broderick
The money pit Tom hanks
Iron eagle Lou gosset jr
Brewster millions
Beverly hills cop
I love all of these already mentioned!
Add to the list:
Mermaids
Beaches
Clue
My Girl
Man In the Moon (might be 90's)
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
One of my favorite movies in the world is "Oscar". It's Sylvester Stallone as a moonshine gangster in the 20s, Tim Curry in a hilarious role, Linda Gray in a ditsy role, Marissa Tomei as Sylvester Stallone's daughter, Don Amechi, Kirk Douglas plays Sylvester Stallone's dying father, Vincent Spano plays Little Anthony, Kai Wulff, William Atherton, Ken Howard, and so, so, so many more.
Gosh, every single person in this movie is off their normal type of role and they are hilarious. I love the Finucci brothers scene at the piano with Little Anthony. I start laughing before it even comes on because I know it's coming.
It's 1991 but set in the 20s during prohibition and it's a timeless classic.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102603/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt
Another movie that I love is "Heart and Souls". It's 1993 but it's a wonderful funny movie that I cry at every time I see it.
Robert Downey Jr. is a guy that has his dream girl, dream job, life is good. Then the ghosts of the people that were tied to him at the moment of his birth and moment of their death have to get him to help them grant their undone work when they were alive.
He gets possessed and sings the National Anthem while his unsuspecting girlfriend and her parents are waiting for him in the audience, he steals back a priceless stamp that one of his ghosts stole, and he helps one of his ghosts deal with dying and leaving her children behind. More to that in the movie, that's the part I cry at, when she dies and cries out for her children then when she possesses RDJ and gets to hug her adult son, then there's Julia, who died before she could get a real start to her life and her undone work died years ago.
I love love love this movie and I can't tell you how much everyone enjoys it.
