Movie Releases – 12 March 1982

Missing (1982)

Stars: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron

Director: Costa-Gavras

Writers: Costa-Gavras (screenplay), Donald Stewart (screenplay)

Genre: Drama/History/Mystery

PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Universal Pictures

Time: 122 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

In September1973, in Chile, the American journalist Charles Horman arrives in Valparaiso with his friend Terry Simon to meet his wife Beth and bring her back to New York with him. However, they are surprised by the military coup d'état sponsored by the US Government to replace President Salvador Allende and Charles is arrested by the military force. His father Ed Horman, a conservative businessman from New York, arrives in Chile to seek out his missing son with Beth. He goes to the American Consulate to meet the Consul that promises the best efforts to find Charles while the skeptical Beth does not trust on the word of the American authorities. The nationalism and confidence of Ed in his government changes when he finds the truth about what happened with his beloved son.

Parasite (1982)

Stars: Robert Glaudini, Demi Moore, Luca Bercovici

Director: Charles Band

Writers: Alan J. Adler, Michael Shoob,

Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi

Embassy Pictures

Time: 85 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

Paul Dean has created a deadly parasite that is now attached to his stomach. He and his female companion, Patricia Welles, must find away to destroy it while also trying to avoid Ricus and his rednecks and an evil government agent named Merchant.

Movie Releases – 5 March 1982

Making Love (1982)

Stars: Michael Ontkean, Kate Jackson, Harry Hamlin

Director: Arthur Hiller

Writers: Barry Sandler (screenplay), A. Scott Berg (story)

Genre: Drama

IndieProd Company Productions, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Time: 113 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

A successful young L.A. doctor and his equally successful television-producer wife find their happily-ever-after life torn assunder when he suddenly confronts his long-repressed attraction for other men. Zach and Claire live a comfortable life secure in their love for one another when Bart, a swinging L.A. novelist, walks into Zach's office and awakens unfamiliar feelings in him. In a move which leaves him wracked with guilt, Zach cancels dinner with his wife in order to go out with Bart. He is inexplicably drawn to this man who seems intent on keeping him at arms distance. Why can't Bart allow their relationship to grow? he wonders. Exasperated, he asks Bart, "Do you snore? Does anybody ever get a chance to find out?" As Zach's absences become more and more frequent, Claire's concern manifests itself in the suspicion that he is having an affair with another woman. Jilted by Bart and feeling alone for the first time in his married life, Zach resolves to tell Claire the truth about ...

Evil Under the Sun (1982)

Stars: Peter Ustinov, James Mason, Maggie Smith

Director: Guy Hamilton

Writer: Anthony Shaffer (screenplay)

Genre: Crime/Drama/Mystery

EMI Films, Titan Productions, Mersham Productions Ltd.

Time: 117 min

Rating: PG

Plot

Hercule Poirot is called in to investigate a case for an insurance company regarding firstly a dead woman's body found on a moor and then a important diamond sent to the company to be insured turns out to be a fake. Poirot discovers that the diamond was bought for Arlena Marshall by Sir Horace Platt and Arlena is on her honeymoon with her husband and step-daughter on a tropical island hotel. He joins them on the island and finds that everybody else starts to hate Arlena for different reasons - refusing to do a stage show, stopping a book, and for having an open affair with Patrick Redfern, another guest, in full view of his shy wife. So it's only a matter of time before Arlena turns up dead, strangled and Poirot must find out who it is...

Diner (1982)

Stars: Steve Guttenberg, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon

Director: Barry Levinson

Writer: Barry Levinson

Genre: Comedy/Drama

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), SLM Production Group

Time: 110 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

Early twenty-something Baltimoreans Eddie, Shrevie, Boogie, Billy, Fenwick and Modell have been friends since they were kids, where the center of their lives has been and still is the Fells Point Diner. It's the last week of 1959. Baltimore Colts fanatic Eddie is scheduled to get married to Elyse on New Year's Eve, but may call off the wedding if Elyse doesn't pass his Colts quiz which he will hold two days before the scheduled wedding. Inexperienced Eddie turns to the only other married one among the bunch, electronics salesman and music aficionado Shrevie, for advice, he who may not be the best person from who to ask advice on marriage since he doesn't yet realize that he probably got married to his wife Beth for the wrong reasons. Indeed, Beth, who has lost her sense of identity, is unhappy in their marriage, and contemplates having an affair with someone who provides what she believes is a sympathetic shoulder. Hairdresser and law school student Boogie is the player of the bunch, ...

I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can (1982)

Stars: Jill Clayburgh, Nicol Williamson, Dianne Wiest

Director: Jack Hofsiss

Writers: Barbara Gordon (book), David Rabe

Genre: Biography/Drama

Paramount Pictures

Time: 107 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

A true story about Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Barbara Gordon's Valium addiction and her desperate attempts to kick the habit.

Deadly Games (1982) (Limited - Port Arthur, Texas)

Stars: Alexandra Morgan, Jo Ann Harris, Sam Groom

Director: Scott Mansfield

Writer: Scott Mansfield

Genre: Horror/Mystery

Great Plains Films

Time: 92 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

A town is being terrorized by a masked killer who is murdering women. A young woman is attacked by the killer but escapes. She believes the killer to be either the town's policeman or the manager of the local theater, and she devises a plan to find out which is the actual killer.

Movie Releases - 1 March 1982 (USA)

The Comeback Trail (1982)

Stars: Chuck McCann, Buster Crabbe, Robert Staats

Director: Harry Hurwitz

Writers: Irwin Corey (additional material), Roy Frumkes (story)

Genre: Comedy

Rearguard Productions

Time: 76 min

Rating: not known

Plot

Two bumbling "producers" are in danger of losing their company because they're in hock up to their ears. In order to pay off their debts and in the process make some cash for themselves, they get the idea to bring an old cowboy star out of retirement to make a new western, insure him to the hilt, then give him all sorts of dangerous stunts and strenuous activities to do, hoping that the old codger will drop dead and they can collect on the insurance. However, the old codger proves to be a lot more resilient than they thought he was.

Movie Releases - 1 March 1979

The Psychic (1977) 

"Sette note in nero" (original title)

Stars: Jennifer O'Neill, Gabriele Ferzetti, Marc Porel

Director: Lucio Fulci

Writers: Lucio Fulci (screenplay), Roberto Gianviti (screenplay)

Genre: Mystery/Thriller

Rizzoli Film, Cinecompany

Time: 90 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

A clairvoyant woman, inspired by a vision, smashes open a section of wall in her husband's home and finds a skeleton behind it. Along with her psychiatrist, she seeks to find the truth about who the person was and who put her there. Soon enough, she starts to realize the possibility that she may share the victim's fate...

Movie Releases - 21 June 1978

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1976) 

"Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos" (original title)

Stars: Sonia Braga, José Wilker, Mauro Mendonça

Director: Bruno Barreto

Writers: Jorge Amado (novel), Bruno Barreto

Genre: Comedy

Carnaval Unifilm, Coline, Companhia Cinematográfica Serrador

Time: 110 min

Rating: G

Plot

In a small city of Brazil, Flor (a very good looking woman) marries Vadinho, a very handsome and erotic man. Once married she finds he is a good-for-nothing. She works teaching cooking to her neighbours but he takes all her money to gamble. One day he dies. Flor misses the goods of the marriage so she marries again with a very correct gentleman - the owner of the drugstore (Teodoro). Now she's very happy with her man, but misses the erotic moments with her previous husband. Then the ghost of Vadhino comes to earth to chase her.

Movie Releases - 20 November 1977

Iphigenia (1977) "Ifigeneia" (original title)

Stars: Irene Papas, Kostas Kazakos, Kostas Karras

Director: Mihalis Kakogiannis

Writers: Euripides (play), Mihalis Kakogiannis

Genre: Drama

Greek Film Center

Time: 127 min

Rating: Not Rated

Plot

The Greek army is about to set sail to a great battle, but the winds refuse to blow. Their leader, King Agamemnon, seeks to provide better food, but accidentally slays a sacred deer. His punishment from the gods, the sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia.

Movie Releases - 15 December 1974

Young Frankenstein (1974)

Stars: Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman

Director: Mel Brooks

Writers: Gene Wilder (screen story and screenplay), Mel Brooks (screen story and screenplay)

Genre: Comedy

Gruskoff/Venture Films, Crossbow Productions, Jouer Limited

Time: 106 min

Rating: PG

Plot

A young neurosurgeon (Gene Wilder) inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback called Igor, a pretty lab assistant named Inga and the old housekeeper, frau Blucher -iiiiihhh!-. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather is only crap, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind...