F/X Script

Script by:Robert T. Megginson (Screenplay), Gregory Fleeman (Screenplay)
Directed by:Robert Mandel
Year:1986

Plot:A movies special effects man is hired by a government agency to help stage the assassination of a well known gangster. When the agency double cross him, he uses his special effects to trap the gangster and the corrupt agents.
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Explorers Script

Script by:Eric Luke (Screenplay)
Directed by:Joe Dante
Year:1985

Plot:The visionary dreams of three curious and adventuresome young boys become an exciting reality in Explorers, the action-fantasy from director Joe Dante, who combines keen humor, warmth and fantasy with unexpected twists. In their makeshift laboratory, the boys use an amazing discovery and their ingenuity to build their own spaceship and launch themselves on a fantastic interplanetary journey.
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Enemy Mine Script

Script by:Edward Khmara (Screenplay), Barry Longyear (Screenplay)
Directed by:Wolfgang Petersen
Year:1985

Plot:A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive on this hostile world. In the end the human finds himself caring for his enemy in a completely unexpected way.
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The Emerald Forest Script

Script by:Rospo Pallenberg (Screenplay)
Directed by:John Boorman
Year:1985

Plot:For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Miraculously, he finds the boy living among the reclusive Amazon tribe who adopted him. And that's when Bill's adventure truly begins. For his son is now a grown tribesman who moves skillfully through this beautiful-but-dangerous terrain, fearful only of those who would exploit it. And as Bill attempts to "rescue" him from the savagery of the untamed jungle, Tommy challenges Bill's idea of true civilization and his notions about who needs rescuing.
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Eleni Script

Directed by:Peter Yates
Year:1985

Plot:Nick is a writer in New York when he gets posted to a bureau in Greece. He has waited 30 years for this. He wants to know why his mother was killed in the civil war years earlier. In a parallel plot line we see Nick as a young boy and his family as they struggle to survive in the occupied Greek hillside. The plot lines converge as Nick's investigations bring him closer to the answers.
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Down And Out In Beverly Hills Script

Script by:Paul Mazursky (Screenplay), Leon Capetanos (Screenplay)
Directed by:Paul Mazursky
Year:1986

Plot:Beverly Hills couple Barbara and Dave Whiteman are very rich but not happy Dave is a hard working business man, his wife is only interested in yoga, aerobics and other meditation classes, and he sleeps with the house maid. Their teenage son is confused about his sexuality and their daughter is suffering from eating disorders. While they are celebrating thanksgiving having plenty of food, street tramp Jerry is hungry, homeless, sleeping rough and has lost his dog. Jerry decides to end his life by drowning himself in their swimming pool. Dave rescues him and invites him to stay for a while. How does this stranger change the life style of this family?
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Desperately Seeking Susan Script

Script by:Leora Barish (Writer)
Directed by:Susan Seidelman
Year:1985

Plot:Roberta is a bored suburban housewife who is fascinated with a woman, Susan, she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the personals section of the newspaper. This fascination reaches a peak when an ad with the headline "Desperately Seeking Susan" proposes a rendezvous. Roberta goes too, and in a series of events involving amnesia and mistaken identity, steps into Susan's life.
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Death Wish 3 Script

Script by:Don Jakoby (Writer), Brian Garfield (Characters)
Directed by:Michael Winner
Year:1985

Plot:Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighborhoods.
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D.A.R.Y.L. Script

Script by:David Ambrose (Writer), Jeffrey Ellis (Writer), Allan Scott (Writer)
Directed by:Simon Wincer
Year:1985

Plot:Daryl is a normal 10-year-old boy in many ways. However, unbeknown to his foster parents and friends, Daryl is actually a government-created robot with superhuman reflexes and mental abilities. Even his name has a hidden meaning -- it's actually an acronym for Data Analyzing Robot Youth Life-form. When the organization that created him deems the "super soldier" experiment a failure and schedules Daryl to be disassembled, it is up to a few rogue scientists to help him escape.
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