The Philadelphia Experiment Script

Script by:Wallace C. Bennett (Story), Don Jakoby (Story), Charles Berlitz (Novel), William L. Moore (Novel), William Gray (Screenplay), Michael Janover (Screenplay)
Directed by:Stewart Raffill
Year:1984

Plot:Based on an "actual event" that took place in 1943. About a US Navy Destroyer Escort that disappeared from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and sent two men 40 years into the future to 1984.
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The Natural Script

Script by:Bernard Malamud (Novel), Roger Towne (Screenplay), Phil Dusenberry (Screenplay)
Directed by:Barry Levinson
Year:1984

Plot:An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the league.
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The Muppets Take Manhattan Script

Script by:Frank Oz (Screenplay), Tom Patchett (Screenplay), Jay Tarses (Screenplay)
Directed by:Frank Oz
Year:1984

Plot:When the Muppets graduate from Danhurst College, they take their song-filled senior revue to New York City, only to learn that it isn't easy to find a producer who's willing to back a show starring a frog and a pig. Of course, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy won't take no for an answer, launching a search for someone to take them to Broadway.
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Moscow On The Hudson Script

Script by:Paul Mazursky (Writer), Leon Capetanos (Writer)
Directed by:Paul Mazursky
Year:1984

Plot:A Russian circus visits the US. A clown wants to defect, but doesn't have the nerve. His saxophone playing friend however comes to the decision to defect in the middle of Bloomingdales. He is befriended by the black security guard and falls in love with the Italian immigrant from behind the perfume counter. We follow his life as he works his way through the American dream and tries to find work as a musician.
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The Killing Fields Script

Script by:Bruce Robinson (Screenplay)
Directed by:Roland Joffé
Year:1984

Plot:The Killing Fields tells the real-life story of a friendship between two journalists, an American and a Cambodian, during the bloody Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia in 1975, which led to the death of 2-3 million Cambodians during the next four years, until Pol Pot's regime was toppled by the intervening Vietnamese in 1979.
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The Karate Kid Script

Script by:Robert Mark Kamen (Screenplay)
Directed by:John G. Avildsen
Year:1984

Plot:Hassled by the school bullies, Daniel LaRusso has his share of adolescent woes. Luckily, his apartment building houses a resident martial arts master: Kesuke Miyagi, who agrees to train Daniel ... and ends up teaching him much more than self-defense. Armed with newfound confidence, skill and wisdom, Daniel ultimately faces off against his tormentors in this hugely popular classic underdog tale.
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Johnny Dangerously Script

Script by:Harry Colomby (Writer), Jeff Harris (Writer), Bernie Kukoff (Writer), Norman Steinberg (Writer)
Directed by:Amy Heckerling
Year:1984

Plot:An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.
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Iceman Script

Script by:Chip Proser (Screenplay), John Drimmer (Screenplay), John Drimmer (Story)
Directed by:Fred Schepisi
Year:1984

Plot:An anthropologist is brought to an arctic base when explorers discover the body of a prehistoric man who has been frozen in a block of ice for 40,000 years. After thawing the body to perform an autopsy, scientists discover to their amazement a real possibility to revive him and their attempt to resuscitate the "iceman" proves successful.
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Head Office Script

Directed by:Ken Finkleman
Year:1985

Plot:In this comic take on big-business wheelings and dealings, an ambitious senator's son (Judge Reinhold) moves up the corporate ladder through undeserved promotions. But against his better judgment, he falls for a woman (the chairman's daughter, no less) who's leading a protest against the company's shady business practices. "Saturday Night Live" writer-performer Michael O'Donoghue scripted this satire co-starring Danny DeVito and Jane Seymour.
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