https://shotonwhat.com/1987 The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Sat, 15 Jun 2019 16:29:51 -0800 en-US hourly 1 https://shotonwhat.com/predator-1987 Wed, 31 Jul 2024 13:19:03 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/predator-1987
Director: John McTiernan
Cinematographer: Donald McAlpine
A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-living-daylights-1987 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:37:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-living-daylights-1987
Director: John Glen
Cinematographer: Alec Mills
James Bond is living on the edge to stop an evil arms dealer from starting another world war. Bond crosses all seven continents in order to stop the evil Whitaker and General Koskov. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/cobra-verde-1987 Wed, 08 May 2024 20:36:05 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/cobra-verde-1987
Director: Werner Herzog
Cinematographer: Viktor Ruzicka
During the 1800s, paroled Brazilian bandit Cobra Verde is sent to West Africa with a few troops to man an old Portuguese fort and to convince the local African ruler to resume the slave trade with Brazil. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/bad-taste-1987 Wed, 08 May 2024 20:33:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/bad-taste-1987
Director: Peter Jackson
Cinematographer: Peter Jackson
The population of a small town disappears and is replaced by aliens that chase human flesh for their intergalactic fast-food chain. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-dead-1987 Wed, 13 Dec 2023 01:48:20 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-dead-1987
Director: John Huston
Cinematographer: Fred Murphy
Gabriel Conroy and wife Gretta attend an early January dinner with friends at the home of his spinster aunts, an evening which results in an epiphany for both of them. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/rampage-2-1987 Sat, 08 Apr 2023 01:18:16 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/rampage-2-1987
Director: William Friedkin
Cinematographer: Robert D. Yeoman
Liberal district attorney decides to seek the death penalty for a man who slaughtered a family at Christmastime, then drank their blood. He escapes, though, and starts killing again. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/p-i-private-investigations-1987 Sun, 08 Dec 2019 12:17:23 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/p-i-private-investigations-1987
Director: Nigel Dick
Cinematographer: David Bridges, Bryan Duggan
A young architect finds himself being stalked by a gang of criminals who believe he knows something that could expose their activities. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-garbage-pail-kids-movie-1987 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:59:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-garbage-pail-kids-movie-1987
Director: Rod Amateau
Cinematographer: Harvey Genkins
Dodger must confront the struggles of life as he is visited by the Garbage Pail Kids and intimidated by some older bullies. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/robocop-1987 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 00:53:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/robocop-1987
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Cinematographer: Jost Vacano, Sol Negrin
In a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-witches-of-eastwick-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:54:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-witches-of-eastwick-1987
Director: George Miller
Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond
Three single women in a picturesque village have their wishes granted, at a cost, when a mysterious and flamboyant man arrives in their lives. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/police-academy-4-citizens-on-patrol-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:51:48 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/police-academy-4-citizens-on-patrol-1987
Director: Jim Drake
Cinematographer: Robert Saad
The misfit Police Academy (1984) graduates now are assigned to train a group of civilian volunteers to fight crime once again plaguing the streets. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-pick-up-artist-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:47:48 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-pick-up-artist-1987
Director: James Toback
Cinematographer: Gordon Willis
A womanizer meets his match when he falls for a woman in debt to the mafia. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/no-retreat-no-surrender-2-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:46:24 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/no-retreat-no-surrender-2-1987
Director: Corey Yuen
Cinematographer: Chin Chiang Ma, Nicholas Josef von Sternberg
In this sequel, Scott Wylde, an American kickboxer, must go to Cambodia to rescue his Vietnamese girlfriend from Russian and Vietnamese troops. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-magic-snowman-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:39:58 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-magic-snowman-1987
Director: Stanko Crnobrnja, C. Stanner
Cinematographer: Karpo Acimovic-Godina
A snowman arrives in a quaint village with the intend to befriend a youngster and to teach him the powers of magic...if you believe. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-allnighter-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:07:54 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-allnighter-1987
Director: Tamar Simon Hoffs
Cinematographer: Joseph D. Urbanczyk
Molly, Val and Gina are graduating college, but on their final night, frustrations are aired. Molly is still looking for real love and Val is beginning to doubt if that is what she's found.... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/overboard-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:06:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/overboard-1987
Director: Garry Marshall
Cinematographer: John A. Alonzo
A cruel but beautiful heiress mocks and cheats a hired carpenter. When she gets amnesia after an accident, he decides to introduce her to regular life by convincing her they're husband and wife. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/adventures-in-babysitting-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:50:05 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/adventures-in-babysitting-1987
Director: Chris Columbus
Cinematographer: Ric Waite
A babysitter must battle her way through the big city after being stranded there with the kids she's looking after. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/full-metal-jacket-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:44:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/full-metal-jacket-1987
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cinematographer: Douglas Milsome
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/julia-and-julia-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:42:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/julia-and-julia-1987
Director: Peter Del Monte
Cinematographer: Giuseppe Rotunno
Julia, an American woman living in Italy, becomes depressed and traumatized after her husband Paolo is killed in a car accident on their wedding day. Six years later, Julia inexplicably ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/beverly-hills-cop-ii-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:34:19 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/beverly-hills-cop-ii-1987
Director: Tony Scott
Cinematographer: Jeffrey L. Kimball
Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills to help Taggart and Rosewood investigate Chief Bogomil's near-fatal shooting and the series of "alphabet crimes" associated with it. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-kindred-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:31:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-kindred-1987
Director: Stephen Carpenter, Jeffrey Obrow
Cinematographer: Stephen Carpenter
A geneticist takes his assistants to his old family home to locate the deadly product of his late mother's revolutionary research into rapid human evolution - his monstrous tentacled baby brother - before a mad scientist gets to him first. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/beyond-the-rising-moon-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:22:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/beyond-the-rising-moon-1987
Director: Philip J. Cook
Cinematographer: Philip J. Cook
An alien spaceship is being sought by various factions on Earth. A female cyborg and a rogue trader team up to stop evil forces from taking over the ship. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/stakeout-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:19:43 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/stakeout-1987
Director: John Badham
Cinematographer: John Seale
Two detectives observe an escaped convict's ex-girlfriend, but complications set in when one of them falls for her. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/hope-and-glory-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:12:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/hope-and-glory-1987
Director: John Boorman
Cinematographer: Philippe Rousselot
A semi-autobiographical project by John Boorman about a nine year old boy called Bill as he grows up in London during the blitz of World War II. For a young boy, this time in history was ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/in-love-and-war-2-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:06:05 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/in-love-and-war-2-1987
Director: Paul Aaron
Cinematographer: Gayne Rescher
This movie is an account of US Navy Commander James Stockdale's 8 year imprisonment in North Vietnam. During his confinement in such camps as the infamous "Hanoi Hilton", Stockdale, among ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/outrageous-fortune-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:58:44 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/outrageous-fortune-1987
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cinematographer: David M. Walsh
Two women unknowingly share the same man, but when he disappears, both go out looking for him and enter his surprisingly dangerous life. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/nadine-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:50:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/nadine-1987
Director: Robert Benton
Cinematographer: Néstor Almendros
In 1950s Texas, a woman trying to recover sexy photos of herself and divorce her husband witnesses a murder and uncovers corrupt land dealings. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/les-patterson-saves-the-world-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:27:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/les-patterson-saves-the-world-1987
Director: George Miller
Cinematographer: David Connell
Fat middle aged 24/7 drunkard Les Patterson (Barry Humphries) represents Australia at the UN where his fart literally incinerates an Arab ambassador. Patterson is reassigned to the Middle ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/back-to-the-beach-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:07:30 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/back-to-the-beach-1987
Director: Lyndall Hobbs
Cinematographer: Bruce Surtees
Frankie and Annette, having grown up and put aside their beach-partying lifestyle, visit their daughter in Southern California and discover there's still some wild times left in them. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/84-charing-cross-road-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:07:24 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/84-charing-cross-road-1987
Director: David Hugh Jones
Cinematographer: Brian West
True story of a transatlantic business correspondence about used books that developed into a close friendship. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/september-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:05:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/september-1987
Director: Woody Allen
Cinematographer: Carlo Di Palma
At a summer house in Vermont, neighbor Howard falls in love with Lane, who's in a relationship with Peter, who's falling for Stephanie, who's married with children. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/planes-trains-automobiles-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:00:33 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/planes-trains-automobiles-1987
Director: John Hughes
Cinematographer: Donald Peterman
A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving with an obnoxious slob of a shower curtain ring salesman as his only companion. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/dead-of-winter-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:58:36 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/dead-of-winter-1987
Director: Arthur Penn
Cinematographer: Jan Weincke
A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-stranger-2-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:39:30 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-stranger-2-1987
Director: Adolfo Aristarain
Cinematographer: Horacio Maira
A woman suffering from amnesia discovers that she is the sole surviving witness to a brutal murder. Although the police can find no clues about any murder, the killers begin to hunt her. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-room-upstairs-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:37:17 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-room-upstairs-1987
Director: Stuart Margolin
Cinematographer: Ron Hagen
The life of a lonely and isolated woman is transformed when she opens herself up to the outside world and to a gentle, romantic relationship. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/flicks-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:28:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/flicks-1987
Director: Peter Winograd, Kirk Henderson
Cinematographer: Scott Miller
A parody of Saturday afternoon matinee's, including coming attractions and a cartoon. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/baby-boom-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:18:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/baby-boom-1987
Director: Charles Shyer
Cinematographer: William A. Fraker
The life of super-yuppie J.C. is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/good-morning-vietnam-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 18:49:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/good-morning-vietnam-1987
Director: Barry Levinson
Cinematographer: Peter Sova
In 1965, an unorthodox and irreverent DJ named Adrian Cronauer begins to shake up things when he is assigned to the U.S. Armed Services radio station in Vietnam. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-outing-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 18:22:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-outing-1987
Director: Tom Daley
Cinematographer: Herbert Raditschnig
An ancient genie is released from a lamp when thieves ransack an old woman's house. They are killed and the lamp is moved to a museum to be studied. The curator's daughter is soon possessed... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-princess-bride-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 18:13:44 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-princess-bride-1987
Director: Rob Reiner
Cinematographer: Adrian Biddle
While home sick in bed, a young boy's grandfather reads him the story of a farmboy-turned-pirate who encounters numerous obstacles, enemies and allies in his quest to be reunited with his true love. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/a-return-to-salems-lot-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 18:12:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/a-return-to-salems-lot-1987
Director: Larry Cohen
Cinematographer: Daniel Pearl
A man and his son vacation to the quiet vampire populated town of Salem's Lot. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/stagefright-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 18:07:58 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/stagefright-1987
Director: Michele Soavi
Cinematographer: Renato Tafuri
A group of stage actors lock themselves in the theater for a rehearsal of their upcoming musical production, unaware that an escaped psychopath has sneaked into the theater with them. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/her-secret-life-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 18:05:48 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/her-secret-life-1987
Director: Buzz Kulik
Cinematographer: James Crabe
The original name of this film was "Code Name: Dancer", and it was originally shown on network TV, this thriller is an effective variation on a familiar theme-the one about the former spy ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/dark-age-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 18:05:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/dark-age-1987
Director: Arch Nicholson
Cinematographer: Andrew Lesnie
In the Australian outback, a park ranger and two local guides set out to track down a giant crocodile that has been killing and eating the local populace. During the hunt, one of the guides... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/summer-school-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 18:01:17 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/summer-school-1987
Director: Carl Reiner
Cinematographer: David M. Walsh
Freddy the gym teacher has to teach remedial English in summer (high) school, if he wants tenure. As he can only teach gym and his students want fun, emphasis is on "field trips" - until he's fired unless all his students pass the test. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/nightforce-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 17:52:26 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/nightforce-1987
Director: Lawrence David Foldes
Cinematographer: Billy Dickson, Roy H. Wagner
Carla is devastated when her friend is kidnapped by a Mexican cartel. After going to her father, a U.S. Senator, she gets her friends, and arms, to cross the border for a rescue mission. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-secret-of-my-succes-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 17:50:59 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-secret-of-my-succes-1987
Director: Herbert Ross
Cinematographer: Carlo Di Palma
A talented young man can't get an executive position without rising through the ranks, so he comes up with a shortcut, which also benefits his love life. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/suspect-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 17:49:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/suspect-1987
Director: Peter Yates
Cinematographer: Billy Williams
A legal team defending a homeless, mute man of murder, find a web of corruption that may have dangerous implications. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/white-water-summer-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 17:23:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/white-water-summer-1987
Director: Jeff Bleckner
Cinematographer: John Alcott
The story of a shy boy who gets convinced by his parents to spend a few summer days in the mountains. So, he joins a group, and the vacation begins. Unfortunately, things turn out to be a little tough for our small friend. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/dragnet-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 17:10:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/dragnet-1987
Director: Tom Mankiewicz
Cinematographer: Matthew F. Leonetti
The equally-straight-laced and "by the book" nephew of Joe Friday must work with his more laid-back partner to solve a mystery. ]]>