name five movies that came out in the year you were born

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29 Jan 2012, 10:03 pm

born in 1989

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Back to the Future Part II

The Abyss

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation ( came out the the day i was born)



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29 Jan 2012, 10:41 pm

1979:

Apocalypse Now

The Jerk

Norma Rae

Kramer vs. Kramer

Up in Smoke


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29 Jan 2012, 11:02 pm

1990:

Dances With Wolves
Home Alone
Misery

And best of all, two Johnny Depp movies:

Cry-Baby
Edward Scissorhands



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30 Jan 2012, 2:31 am

1968:

2001: A Space Odyssey (woohoo!)
The Producers
Night of the Living Dead
The Planet of the Apes
Yellow Submarine

A pretty good year! I had no idea until I googled it.



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30 Jan 2012, 6:18 am

1987:

Full Metal Jacket

Hellraiser

Lethal Weapon

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Spaceballs


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30 Jan 2012, 10:14 am

1980
-The Empire Strikes Back
-Ordinary People
-Raging Bull
-Coal Miner's Daughter
-Airplane!

Yeah, not a very good year for movies (excluding Empire, Airplane, and Raging Bull).



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30 Jan 2012, 12:32 pm

1984

Ghostbusters
The Terminator
Gremlins
A Nightmare on Elm Street
The Killing Fields

5 classics when i was born.....


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30 Jan 2012, 1:42 pm

Wow I tried to look up movies released in 1983. What a lousy year for cinema. The only two well known films to came out last year are "National Lampoon's Vacation" and "Return of the Jedi".



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30 Jan 2012, 3:53 pm

1988:
- Rain Man
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- Coming to America
- Big
- Twins



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30 Jan 2012, 5:14 pm

1993:
Jurassic Park
Mrs. Doubtfire
Wayne's World Two
Addam's Family Values
The Nightmare Before Christmas


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01 Feb 2012, 1:58 pm

Three of my very favorite movies came out in my birth year of 1950:

Sunset Boulevard
All About Eve
Born Yesterday
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Also that year:
King Solomon's Mines
Harvey
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All said, a very good year.



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01 Feb 2012, 3:34 pm

How about 20?

1957:
"A Farewell to Arms" - Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones - 20th Century Fox
"An Affair to Remember" - Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr - 20th Century Fox
"Fire Down Below" - Rita Hayworth, Robert Mitchum, and Jack Lemmon - Columbia
"Funny Face" - Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire - Paramount
"Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" - Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas - Paramount
"Island in the Sun" - James Mason, Harry Belafonte, Joan Fontaine, Joan Collins, and Dorothy Dandridge - 20th Century Fox
"Jailhouse Rock" - Elvis Presley - MGM
"Jeanne Eagles" - Kim Novak and Jeff Chandler - Columbia
"Jet Pilot" - John Wayne and Janet Leigh - Universal
"Loving You" - Elvis Presley and Dolores Hart - Paramount
"Old Yeller" - Tommy Kirk, Dorothy McGuire and Beverly Washburn - Walt Disney Productions
"Pal Joey" - Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra and Kim Novak - Columbia
"Peyton Place" - Lana Turner - 20th Century Fox
"Raintree County" - Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor - MGM
"Sayonara" - Marlon Brando and Red Buttons - Warner Brothers
"The Bridge on the River Kwai" - William Holden and Alec Guinness - Columbia
"The Prince and the Showgirl" - Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier - Warner Brothers
"The Way to the Gold" - Jeffrey Hunter and Sheree North - 20th Century Fox
"Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" - Jayne Mansfield, Tony Randall, Joan Blondell, and Mickey Hargitay - 20th Century Fox
"Witness for the Prosecution" - Tyrone Power and Marlene Dietrich - United Artists



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01 Feb 2012, 4:10 pm

raisedbyignorance wrote:
Wow I tried to look up movies released in 1983. What a lousy year for cinema. The only two well known films to came out [that] year are "National Lampoon's Vacation" and "Return of the Jedi".


A Christmas Story
The Dead Zone
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Mr. Mom
Never Say Never Again
Octopussy
Psycho II
Scarface
Trading Places
Videodrome



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01 Feb 2012, 4:38 pm

The Great Escape,
From Russia with Love
The Birds
Lord of the Flies
Jason and the Argonauts

same year as the split window Corvette and the X-15...lol


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02 Feb 2012, 6:24 am

psycho
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oh, and yes, how could i forget to mention, psycho.



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04 Feb 2012, 6:04 pm

1974:

The Towering Inferno
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Earthquake
The Godfather: Part II


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