1987 in film
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[edit] Events
- January 31 - The Cure for Insomnia premieres at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois, to officially become the world's longest film according to Guinness World Records.
- May 9 - Actor Tom Cruise marries actress Mimi Rogers.
- July 17 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is rereleased and celebrated for its 50th birthday.
- November 21 - Actor Bruce Willis marries actress Demi Moore.
[edit] Top grossing films (U.S.)
| Rank | Title | Studio | Gross | Actor/Actress | Director | |
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| 1. | Three Men and a Baby | Touchstone | $167,780,960 | Tom Selleck, Ted Danson and Steve Guttenberg | Leonard Nimoy | |
| 2. | Fatal Attraction | Paramount | $156,645,693 | Michael Douglas, Glenn Close and Anne Archer | Adrian Lyne | |
| 3. | Beverly Hills Cop II | Paramount | $153,665,036 | Eddie Murphy and Judge Reinhold | Tony Scott | |
| 4. | Good Morning, Vietnam | Touchstone | $123,922,370 | Robin Williams and Forest Whitaker | Barry Levinson | |
| 5. | Moonstruck | MGM | $80,640,528 | Cher and Nicolas Cage | Norman Jewison | |
| 6. | The Untouchables | Paramount | $76,270,454 | Kevin Costner, Sean Connery and Robert De Niro | Brian De Palma | |
| 7. | The Secret of My Success | Universal | $66,995,879 | Michael J. Fox | Herbert Ross | |
| 8. | Stakeout | Touchstone | $65,673,233 | Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez | John Badham | |
| 9. | Lethal Weapon | Warner Bros. | $65,207,127 | Mel Gibson and Danny Glover | Richard Donner | |
| 10. | The Witches of Eastwick | Warner Bros. | $63,766,510 | Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer | George Miller |
source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1987&p=.htm
[edit] Awards
- Best Picture: The Last Emperor - Hemdale, Columbia
- Best Director: Bernardo Bertolucci - The Last Emperor
- Best Actor: Michael Douglas - Wall Street
- Best Actress: Cher - Moonstruck
- Best Supporting Actor: Sean Connery - The Untouchables
- Best Supporting Actress: Olympia Dukakis - Moonstruck
- Best Foreign Language Film: Babette's Feast (Babettes Gæstebud), directed by Gabriel Axel, Denmark
- Drama:
- Best Picture: The Last Emperor
- Best Actor: Michael Douglas - Wall Street
- Best Actress: Sally Kirkland - Anna
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Picture: Hope and Glory
- Best Actor: Robin Williams - Good Morning, Vietnam
- Best Actress: Cher - Moonstruck
- Other
- Best Director: Bernardo Bertolucci - The Last Emperor
- Best Foreign Language Film: My Life as a Dog, Sweden
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
- Under the Sun of Satan (Sous le soleil de Satan), directed by Maurice Pialat, France
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
- Au revoir, les enfants (Goodbye, Children), directed by Louis Malle, France / W. Germany
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
- Tema (1979) (The Theme), directed by Gleb Panfilov, USSR
[edit] Films released in 1987
- 84 Charing Cross Road starring Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft and Judi Dench
- Adventures in Babysitting (Also known as "A Night on the Town" in the UK), starring Elisabeth Shue
- L'Ami de mon amie (My Girlfriend's Boyfriend or Boyfriends and Girlfriends)
- American Ninja 2: The Confrontation
- Angel Heart, directed by Alan Parker, starring Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro and Lisa Bonet
- Anna, starring Sally Kirkland and Paulina Porizkova
- Aria (10 short films)
- Assassination
- Au revoir, les enfants - Golden Lion award
- Babette's Feast (Babettes Gæstebud) - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
- Baby Boom, starring Diane Keaton
- Backfire
- Bad Taste, written and directed by Peter Jackson et al.
- Bagdad Café, also known as Out of Rosenheim, Golden Space Needle award (for 1988)
- Barfly
- *batteries not included starring Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy
- The Bedroom Window
- Bellman and True
- The Belly of an Architect
- Benji the Hunted
- Best Seller, starring James Woods and Brian Dennehy
- Beverly Hills Cop II
- The Big Easy, starring Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin
- Big Shots
- Black Widow, starring Debra Winger and Theresa Russell
- Blind Date, starring Bruce Willis and Kim Basinger
- Born in East L.A.
- The Brave Little Toaster
- Broadcast News, directed by James L. Brooks, starring William Hurt, Albert Brooks and Holly Hunter
- Burglar, starring Whoopi Goldberg
- Business as Usual
- Buy & Cell
- Can't Buy Me Love, starring Patrick Dempsey and Amanda Peterson
- Captain Khorshid, directed by Nasser Taghvai
- The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland
- Catch The Heat
- Cherry 2000
- The Chipmunk Adventure
- Cold Steel
- Commando Squad
- Cry Freedom, starring Kevin Kline and Denzel Washington
- Cyclone
- Dark Eyes, starring Marcello Mastroianni
- Daughter of the Nile (Niluohe nuer)
- The Dead directed by John Huston starring his daughter, Anjelica Huston
- Deadline
- Deadly Prey
- Dead of Winter
- Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam, aka Dear America
- Death Before Dishonor
- Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
- Diary for My Loves (Napló szerelmeimnek)
- Dirty Dancing, starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey
- Down Twisted
- Dragnet
- Empire of the Sun, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Christian Bale
- Enemy Territory
- Ernest Goes to Camp
- Evil Dead II
- Extreme Prejudice
- Family Viewing
- Fatal Attraction, starring Michael Douglas, Glenn Close and Anne Archer
- Fatal Beauty, starring Whoopi Goldberg
- Five Corners, starring Tim Robbins, Jodie Foster, and John Turturro
- Flowers in the Attic
- Full Metal Jacket, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Matthew Modine and Vincent D'Onofrio
- Gardens of Stone, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring James Caan, Anjelica Huston and James Earl Jones
- The Gate
- Ghost Chase
- G.I. Joe: The Movie
- Le Grand Chemin
- Going Home, directed by Terence Ryan, nominated for Canadian Gemini Award
- Good Morning, Vietnam, directed by Barry Levinson, starring Robin Williams
- Ground Zero
- Hamburger Hill
- Harry and the Hendersons, starring John Lithgow and Melinda Dillon
- The Hanoi Hilton
- Hello Again
- Hellraiser
- The Hidden
- Hiding Out, starring Jon Cryer
- High Tide
- Hollywood Shuffle
- Hope and Glory, directed by John Boorman - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
- House II: The Second Story
- A Hungarian Fairy Tale (Hol volt, hol nem volt)
- Innerspace, starring Dennis Quaid, Martin Short and Meg Ryan
- Ironweed, starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep
- Ishtar, starring Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman and Isabelle Adjani
- Jaws: The Revenge
- Jocks
- Julia and Julia
- King Lear
- La Bamba featuring Lou Diamond Phillips and Esai Morales
- Lady Beware with Diane Lane
- The Last Emperor - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
- Leonard Part 6 - Won three Razzie Awards for Worst Picture, Actor and Screenplay
- Less Than Zero, starring Andrew McCarthy, Jami Gertz and Robert Downey, Jr.
- Lethal Weapon, starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover
- The Liberators, directed by Kenneth Johnson, starring Robert Carradine, Larry B. Scott, James Mainprize, Cynthia Dale and James Douglas
- Light of Day
- Like Father Like Son
- The Living Daylights
- The Lost Boys, directed by Joel Schumacher, starring Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Kiefer Sutherland, Corey Feldman, Jami Gertz and Dianne Wiest
- Made in Heaven starring Timothy Hutton and Kelly McGillis
- Maid to Order
- Making Mr. Right
- Malone
- Mannequin, starring Andrew McCarthy and Kim Cattrall
- Man On Fire
- Masters of the Universe starring Dolph Lundgren, Frank Langella and Courteney Cox
- Matewan
- Maurice
- Mio in the Land of Faraway
- The Monster Squad
- Moonstruck, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Cher, Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia, Olympia Dukakis and Danny Aiello
- Mr. Nice Guy starring Mike MacDonald and Jan Smithers
- Mutant Hunt
- My Life as a Dog, directed by Lasse Hallström, Golden Space Needle award
- My Little Girl
- Near Dark
- Nekromantik
- A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
- No Man's Land starring Charlie Sheen, D. B. Sweeney, and Randy Quaid
- No Way Out with Kevin Costner, Will Patton, Sean Young and Gene Hackman
- Number One With A Bullet
- Nuts starring Barbra Streisand and Richard Dreyfuss
- Opera directed by Dario Argento
- Outrageous Fortune
- Overboard starring Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn
- Over the Top starring Sylvester Stallone
- Pelle the Conqueror - Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film (for 1988)
- Planes, Trains and Automobiles - starring Steve Martin and John Candy
- A Prayer for the Dying
- Predator, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
- The Principal, starring Jim Belushi
- Prince of Darkness starring Donald Pleasence, Jameson Parker and Victor Wong
- The Princess Bride, directed by Rob Reiner, starring Cary Elwes and Robin Wright Penn
- Project X (film) directed by Jonathan Kaplan, starring Helen Hunt and Matthew Broderick
- Radio Days, directed by Woody Allen
- Rage To Kill
- Raising Arizona, starring Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter
- Real Men
- Red Sorghum (Hong gao liang) - Golden Bear award (for 1988)
- Rent-A-Cop
- Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise with Robert Carradine and Courtney Thorne-Smith
- RoboCop starring Peter Weller and Nancy Allen
- Roxanne starring Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah
- Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise
- The Running Man
- Scenes from the Goldmine
- The Secret of My Succe$s, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Michael J. Fox
- Slam Dance
- The Sicilian
- Some Kind of Wonderful starring Eric Stoltz, Mary Stuart Masterson and Lea Thompson
- Someone to Watch Over Me directed by Ridley Scott starring Tom Berenger and Mimi Rogers
- Spaceballs directed by Mel Brooks, starring Brooks, John Candy and Rick Moranis
- Square Dance
- Squeeze, The
- Stakeout, starring Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez
- Star Slammer
- The Stepfather
- Steel Dawn
- Steele Justice
- Straight to Hell
- Street Smart, starring Christopher Reeve and Morgan Freeman
- Street Trash
- Stripped to Kill
- Summer School, starring Mark Harmon and Kirstie Alley
- Superman IV: The Quest for Peace starring Christopher Reeve
- Suspect, starring Cher and Dennis Quaid
- Switching Channels
- Teen Wolf Too, starring Jason Bateman
- Three for the Road
- Three Men and a Baby, starring Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson
- Throw Momma from the Train, starring Danny DeVito, Billy Crystal, Anne Ramsey and Kate Mulgrew
- Tin Men
- Tropic of Ice
- Under the Sun of Satan (Sous le soleil de Satan) - Palme d'Or award
- The Untouchables, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro, Andy García and Charles Martin Smith
- Waiting for the Moon
- Walker
- Wall Street, directed by Oliver Stone, starring Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen and Daryl Hannah
- Wanted: Dead or Alive
- Warlords
- Weeds
- The Whales of August starring Bette Davis and Lillian Gish
- The Wild Pair
- Wild Thing
- Who's That Girl, starring Madonna and Griffin Dunne
- Wings of Desire, directed by Wim Wenders
- Wish You Were Here with Emily Lloyd and Tom Bell
- The Witches of Eastwick, starring Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer
- Het mysterie van het lam ("The Mystery of the Lamb"), is a Belgium animated feature directed by Frederic Duchau.
- Withnail and I
[edit] Wide-release movies
[edit] January-March
[edit] April-June
[edit] July-September
[edit] October-December
[edit] Births
- April 9 - Jesse McCartney, actor and singer
- April 12 - Brendon Urie, Panic! at the Disco vocalist
- April 27 - William Moseley, actor
- September 22 - Tom Felton, actor
- September 28 - Hilary Duff
- September 7 - Evan Rachel Wood, actress
- September 11 - Tyler Hoechlin, actor
- October 18 - Zac Efron, actor
- November 5 - Kevin Jonas, Musician
- November 18 - Courtney Weller
- November 30 - Dougie Poynter, McFly bassist
[edit] Deaths
- January 14 - Douglas Sirk, director
- January 15 - Ray Bolger, actor, singer, dancer
- February 27 - Joan Greenwood, actress
- March 3 - Danny Kaye, actor
- March 21 - Robert Preston, actor, singer
- May 14 - Rita Hayworth, actress
- June 1 - Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, director
- June 22 - Fred Astaire, actor, singer, dancer
- July 3 - Viola Dana, actress
- July 31 - Joseph E. Levine, producer
- August 1 - Pola Negri, actress
- August 17 - Clarence Brown, director
- August 28 - John Huston, actor, director
- August 29 - Lee Marvin, actor
- September 4 - Richard Marquand, director
- September 13 - Mervyn LeRoy, director
- September 23 - Bob Fosse, director and choreographer
- September 25 - Mary Astor, actress
- September 25 - Emlyn Williams, actor
- October 2 - Madeleine Carroll, actress
- October 13 - Kishore Kumar, actor, singer
- December 4 - Rouben Mamoulian, director
