JEFF OF THE CINEFILES & UNFINISHED BUSINESS: HALL OF FAME - FILE #0070: BABY, IT’S YOU (1983)

 

Written & Directed By: John Sayles Based on a Story by: Amy Robinson  Cinematography: Michael Ballhaus  Editor: Sonya Polonsky 

Cast: Rosanna Arquette, Vincent Spano, Matthew Modine, Sam McMurray, Tracy Pollan, Frank Vincent, Robert Downey Jr., Caroline Aaron, Fisher Stevens, Joanna Merlin

In a 1966 New Jersey high school, Jill and new student Sheik from the other side of the tracks make their way into a first love romance.  

10 TO MIDNIGHT (1983)

 

Story & Directed By: J. Lee Thompson 

Written By: William Roberts 

Cinematography: Adam Greenberg 

Editor: Peter Lee-Thompson 

Cast: Charles Bronson, Lisa Eilbacher, Andrew Stevens, Gene Davis, Geoffrey Lewis, Wilford Brimley, Robert Lyons, Ola Ray, Kelly Preston, Beau Billingslea, Bert Williams 

An LAPD detective and his rookie partner are on the trail of a psychopathic young man who is murdering young women.

ANGEL (1983)

 

Directed By: Robert Vincent O’Neil 

Written By: Robert Vincent O’Neil & Joseph M. Cala 

Cinematography: Andrew Davis 

Editor: Charles Bornstein 

Cast: Donna Wilkes, Cliff Gorman, Susan Tyrell, Dick Shawn, Rory Calhoun, John Diehl, Elaine Giftos, Steven M. Porter, Donna McDaniel, Graem McGavin, Mel Carter 

Molly, a high schooler, secretly earns her living as Angel, a street prostitute whose only family and friends are the ones she works with on the streets. She has to survive against a serial killer who is targeting people of her profession.

CHAINED HEAT (1983)

 

Directed By: Paul Nicholas Written By: Paul Nicholas & Vincent Mongol  Cinematography: Mac Ahlberg  Editor: Nino Di Marco

Cast: Linda Blair, John Vernon, Sybil Danning, Tamara Dobson, Stella Stevens, Henry Silva, Sharon Hughes, Louisa Moritz, Robert Miano, Nina Talbot 

Young Carol Henderson ends up in prison where she must learn how to survive in an environment plagued by violence, murder, rape, racism, drugs and staff corruption and brutality.

A BLADE IN THE DARK (1983) LA CASA CON LA SCALA NEL BUTO

 

Directed & Edited By: Lamberto Bava  Written By Dardano Sacchetti & Elisa Briganti  Editor: Gianlorenzo Battaglia 

CAST: Andrea Occhipinti, Anny Papa, Fabiola Toledo, Michele Soavi, Valeria Cavalli

A composer, working in isolation on a score for a horror movie meets two women who used to know his house's former tenant. When the women disappear, he's forced to look into the film he's working on to determine what happened to them, and who's responsible.

HANDGUN (AKA DEEP IN THE HEART) (1983)

Written & Directed By: Tony Garnett 
Cinematography: Charles Stewart 
Editor: William Shafter 

Cast: Karen Young, Clayton Davis, Suzie Humphreys, Helena Humann

Shortly after moving to Dallas, a young woman is raped at gunpoint. Her intense anger drives her to seek revenge, and she becomes a hunter on a vengeance mission.

ANGST (1983)

Directed By: Gerald Kargl 
Written By: Gerald Kargl & Zbigkniew Rybczynski 
Cinematography & Editor: Zbigkniew Rybczynski 

Cast: Erwin Leder, Silvia Rabenreither, Edith Rosset, Rudolf Gotz, Claudia Schinko 


A troubled man gets released from prison and starts taking out his sadistic fantasies on an unsuspecting family living in a secluded house.

GET CRAZY (1983)

Directed By: Allan Arkush 
Written By: Danny Opotashu, Henry Rosenbaum & David Taylor 
Cinematography By: Thomas Del Ruth 
Editor: Kent Beyda & Michael Jablow 


Cast: Daniel Stern, Malcom McDowell, Stacy Nelkin, Lou Reed, Allen Garfield, Gail Edwards, Miles Chapin, Ed Begley Jr., Bill Henderson, Barry Diamond, Clint Howard, Lori Eastside, John Densmore, Lee Ving, Anna Bjorn, Robert Picardo, Fabian, Bobby Sherman, Dan Frischman, Mary Woronov, Paul Bartel 


Mega-promoter Colin Beverly plans to sabotage the New Year's 1983 concert of small-time operator Max Wolfe. Wolfe's assistants Neil Allen and Willie Loman find romance while trying to save the drugs, violence, and rock and roll from Beverly's schemes.

PRIVATE SCHOOL (1983)

Directed By: Noel Black 
Written By: David Greenburg & Suzanne O’Malley 
Cinematography By: Walter Lassally 
Editor: Fred Chulack 

Cast: Phoebe Cates, Matthew Modine, Betsy Russell, Kathleen Wilhoite, Michael Zorek, Fran Ryan, Ray Walston, Sylvia Kristel, Frances Bay 


Christine, a student at an exclusive all-girls private school, is in love with Jim, who attends an academy for boys nearby. Christine's arch rival Jordan also has her eye on Jim, and she is willing to do whatever she can to steal him away. Jim's uber-slob buddy Bubba is going with Betsy, Christine's cynical friend, though he would probably be unfaithful if any other woman were willing to get near him. Bubba and his pals sneak into the girls' school dressed in drag in hopes of reaching the Promised Land (better known as the women's shower room), while Christine and Jim run away together for the weekend, though their escapade isn't as romantic as they had hoped.

SILKWOOD (1983)

Directed By: Mike Nichols 
Written By: Nora Ephron & Alice Arlen 
Cinematography By: Miroslav Ondricek 
Editor: Sam O’Steen 


Cast: Meryl Streep, Cher, Kurt Russell, Bruce McGill, Diana Scarwid, Ron Silver, Fred Ward, Craig T. Nelson, Josef Sommer, Charles Hallahan, Alice Arlen, James Rebhorn, Ray Baker, Anthony Heald, Bill Cobbs, Will Patton, Tess Harper, M. Emmett Walsh 


Fairly accurate recounting of the story of Karen Silkwood, the Oklahoma nuclear-plant worker who blew the whistle on dangerous practices at the Kerr-McGee plant and who died under circumstances which are still under debate.

THE MAN WITH TWO BRAINS (1983)

Directed By: Carl Reiner 
Written By: Steve Martin, George Gipe & Carl Reiner 
 Cinematography By: Michael Chapman 
Editor: Bud Molin 

Cast: Steve Martin, Kathleen Turner, David Warner, Paul Benedict, James Cromwell, Earl Boen, Jeffrey Combs, Jenny Gago, Stephanie Kramer 


Recently widowed Doctor Michael Hfuhruhurr, the world's greatest neurosurgeon, injures Dolores Benedict in a car accident. He operates on her and saves her life using a technique of his own invention: cranial screw-top brain entry. As Benedict recovers, Hfuhruhurr falls in love with her and they are soon married. However, Benedict is only interested in Hfuhruhurr's money and Hfuhruhurr still yearns for his previous wife. They travel to Vienna to attend a medical conference where Hfuhruhurr finally divorces Dolores, meets a mysterious Doctor Alfred Necessiter and becomes entangled in a series of murders committed by The Elevator Killer.

JEFF OF THE CINEFILES & UNFINISHED BUSINESS: HALL OF FAME: FILE #38: RISKY BUSINESS (1983)

Written & Directed By: Paul Brickman 
Cinematography By: Bruce Sutrees & Reynaldo Villalobos 
Editor: Richard Chew 
 Music By: Tangerine Dream 

Cast: Tom Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay, Joe Pantoliano Curtis Armstong, Bronson Pinchot, Richard Masur, Raphael Sbarge, Bruce A.Young, Megan Mullally, Nicholas Pryor, Janet Carroll

THE PROFESSIONAL: GOLGO 13 (1983)

Directed By: Osamu Dezaki 
Written By: Shukei Nagasaka 
Takao Saito (Comic Book) 
Gregory Snegoff (English Version) 
Cinematography By: Hirokata Takahashi 
Editor: Masatoshi Tsurubushi 

Cast: (Voices) Gregory Snegoff, Mike Reynolds, Michael McConnohie, Edie Mirman, Joyce Kurtz, Diane Michelle, Kerrigan Mahan

THE DAY AFTER (1983)

Directed By: Nicholas Meyer
Written By: Edward Hume
Cinematography By: Gayne Rescher
Editor: William Paul Dornisch & Robert Florio

Cast: Steve Guttenberg, JoBeth Williams, Jason Robards, William Allen Young, Arliss Howard, John Lithgow, Amy Madigan