The Mission Script

Script by:Robert Bolt (Screenplay)
Directed by:Roland Joffé
Year:1986

Plot:When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portugese aggressors.
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Legal Eagles Script

Script by:Jim Cash (Screenplay), Jack Epps Jr. (Screenplay)
Directed by:Ivan Reitman
Year:1986

Plot:District Attorney Tom Logan is set for higher office, at least until he becomes involved with defence lawyer Laura Kelly and her unpredictable client Chelsea Deardon. It seems the least of Chelsea's crimes is the theft of a very valuable painting, but as the women persuade Logan to investigate further and to cut some official corners, a much more sinister scenario starts to emerge.
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Howard The Duck Script

Script by:Willard Huyck (Screenplay), Gloria Katz (Screenplay)
Directed by:Willard Huyck
Year:1986

Plot:A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar smoking drake Howard from the duck's planet. A few kids try to keep him from the greedy scientists and help him back to his planet. But then a much less friendly being arrives through the beam...
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Hoosiers Script

Script by:Angelo Pizzo (Author)
Directed by:David Anspaugh
Year:1986

Plot:High school basketball is king in small-town Indiana, and the 1954 Hickory Huskers are all hope and no talent. But their new coach -- abrasive, unlikable Norman Dale -- whips the team into shape ... while also inciting controversy.
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Half Moon Street Script

Script by:Edward Behr (Screenplay), Bob Swaim (Screenplay), Paul Theroux (Novel)
Directed by:Bob Swaim
Year:1986

Plot:Dr. Lauren Slaughter, a research fellow at the Arab-Anglo Institute in London is utterly frustrated by her job. To supplement her income, she starts moonlighting at the Jasmine Escort Service, where she has more control over men and money than she does at the office. On one of her 'dates', Lauren meets the politician Lord Bulbeck who is trying to mediate a peace accord between the Arabs and Israelis. Bulbeck falls in love with his escort, and unwittingly, Lauren becomes a pawn in some very dirty politics.
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The Golden Child Script

Script by:Dennis Feldman (Screenplay)
Directed by:Michael Ritchie
Year:1986

Plot:After a Tibetan boy, the mystical Golden Child, is kidnapped by the evil Sardo Numspa, humankind's fate hangs in the balance. On the other side of the world in Los Angeles, the priestess Kee Nang seeks the Chosen One, who will save the boy from death. When Nang sees social worker Chandler Jarrell on television discussing his ability to find missing children, she solicits his expertise, despite his skepticism over being "chosen."
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Fly Away Home Script

Script by:Robert Rodat (Screenplay), Bill Lishman (Novel)
Directed by:Carroll Ballard
Year:1996

Plot:Amy is only 13 years old when her mother is killed. She goes to Canada to live with her father, an eccentric inventor whom she barely knows. Amy is miserable in her new life... until she discovers a nest of goose eggs that were abandoned when a local forest is torn down. The eggs hatch and Amy becomes "Mama Goose". When Winter comes, Amy, and her dad must find a way to lead the birds South...
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Eye Of The Tiger Script

Script by:Michael Thomas Montgomery (Writer)
Directed by:Richard C. Sarafian
Year:1986

Plot:Buck (Gary Busey) is a Vietnam vet, recently released from prison. He returns home to discover the town being terrorized by a vicious motorcycle gang. When the bikers murder his wife and traumatize his daughter, Buck and his friends arm themselves to the teeth and wage war against the gang to destroy them once and for all.
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Eddie Murphy: Raw Script

Script by:Eddie Murphy (Author), Keenen Ivory Wayans (Writer)
Directed by:Robert Townsend
Year:1987

Plot:Eddie Murphy delights, shocks and entertains with dead-on celebrity impersonations, observations on '80s love, sex and marriage, a remembrance of Mom's hamburgers and much more.
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