https://shotonwhat.com/1989 The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Sat, 15 Jun 2019 14:50:49 -0800 en-US hourly 1 https://shotonwhat.com/the-abyss-1989 Sun, 11 Aug 2024 12:57:28 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-abyss-1989
Director: James Cameron
Cinematographer: Mikael Salomon
A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and face danger while encountering an alien aquatic species. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/licence-to-kill-1989 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:18:21 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/licence-to-kill-1989
Director: John Glen
Cinematographer: Alec Mills
A vengeful James Bond goes rogue to infiltrate and take down the organization of a drug lord who has murdered his friend's new wife and left him near death. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/glory-1989 Tue, 14 May 2024 03:22:20 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/glory-1989
Director: Edward Zwick
Cinematographer: Freddie Francis
Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/do-the-right-thing-1989 Thu, 11 Apr 2024 04:50:34 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/do-the-right-thing-1989
Director: Spike Lee
Cinematographer: Ernest R. Dickerson
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/warlock-2-1989 Wed, 12 Apr 2023 21:50:08 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/warlock-2-1989
Director: Steve Miner
Cinematographer: David Eggby
A warlock flees from the 17th to the 20th century, with a witch-hunter in hot pursuit. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/back-to-the-future-part-ii-1989 Fri, 07 Apr 2023 23:32:16 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/back-to-the-future-part-ii-1989
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cinematographer: Dean Cundey
After visiting 2015, Marty McFly must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985...without interfering with his first trip. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/batman-1989 Tue, 24 Mar 2020 15:42:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/batman-1989
Director: Tim Burton
Cinematographer: Roger Pratt
The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being Jack Napier, a criminal who becomes the clownishly homicidal Joker. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/born-on-the-fourth-of-july-1989 Thu, 28 Nov 2019 16:01:34 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/born-on-the-fourth-of-july-1989
Director: Oliver Stone
Cinematographer: Robert Richardson
The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-simpsons-1989 Mon, 07 Oct 2019 11:22:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-simpsons-1989
Director: Mike B. Anderson, Mark Kirkland, Steven Dean Moore, Bob Anderson, Matthew Nastuk, Jim Reardon, Michael Polcino, David Silverman, Wesley Archer, Nancy Kruse, Chris Clements, Lance Kramer, Rob Oliver, Chuck Sheetz, Rich Moore, Matthew Faughnan, Timothy Bailey, Jeffrey Lynch, Susie Dietter, Pete Michels, Raymond S. Persi, Carlos Baeza, Swinton O. Scott III, Dominic Polcino, Neil Affleck, Michael Marcantel, Lauren MacMullan, Matthew Schofield, Ralph Sosa, Mark Ervin, Jen Kamerman, Milton Gray, Brad Bird, Kent Butterworth, John Harvatine IV, Gregg Vanzo, Alan Smart, David Mirkin, Klay Hall, Shaun Cashman, Guillermo del Toro, Don Hertzfeldt, Bill Plympton, Jennifer Moeller
The satiric adventures of a working-class family in the misfit city of Springfield. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/friday-the-13th-part-viii-jason-takes-manhattan-1989 Mon, 07 Oct 2019 10:46:24 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/friday-the-13th-part-viii-jason-takes-manhattan-1989
Director: Rob Hedden
Cinematographer: Bryan England
A boatful of graduating high school students headed to Manhattan accidentally pull Jason Voorhees along for the ride. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-simpsons-simpsons-roasting-on-an-open-fire-1989 Sun, 06 Oct 2019 20:36:43 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-simpsons-simpsons-roasting-on-an-open-fire-1989
Director: David Silverman
The family is forced to spend all of their savings to get Bart's new tattooo removed, and with no money for Christmas, Homer is forced to become a store Santa. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/seinfeld-1989 Wed, 02 Oct 2019 14:13:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/seinfeld-1989
Director: Andy Ackerman, Tom Cherones, David Steinberg, D. Owen Trainor, Joshua White, Jason Alexander, Art Wolff
Cinematographer: Wayne Kennan, Charles W. Short, Jerry D. Good, Robert Berry, George La Fountaine Sr.
The continuing misadventures of neurotic New York City stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld and his equally neurotic New York City friends. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/seinfeld-good-news-bad-news-1989 Mon, 30 Sep 2019 02:07:44 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/seinfeld-good-news-bad-news-1989
Director: Art Wolff
Cinematographer: George La Fountaine Sr.
Jerry and George argue whether an overnight visitor Jerry is expecting is coming with romantic intentions. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/1952-ivan-i-aleksandra-1989 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 23:23:29 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/1952-ivan-i-aleksandra-1989
Director: Ivan Nichev
Cinematographer: Georgi Nikolov
A young boy and his girlfriend live with political terror in Bulgaria in 1952. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/major-league-1989 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 23:17:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/major-league-1989
Director: David S. Ward
Cinematographer: Reynaldo Villalobos
The new owner of the Cleveland Indians puts together a purposely horrible team so they'll lose and she can move the team. But when the plot is uncovered, they start winning just to spite her. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/tetsuo-the-iron-man-1989 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:51:11 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/tetsuo-the-iron-man-1989
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Cinematographer: Kei Fujiwara, Shin'ya Tsukamoto
A businessman accidentally kills The Metal Fetishist, who gets his revenge by slowly turning the man into a grotesque hybrid of flesh and rusty metal. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/disorganized-crime-1989 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:35:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/disorganized-crime-1989
Director: Jim Kouf
Cinematographer: Ronald Víctor García
Career criminal Frank plans a bank heist and sends for his buddies to help pull the job. Before his buddies arrive, he's caught, forcing his cohorts to pull the job alone. Frank soon escapes, setting off a search by the bumbling cops. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/chambre-a-part-1989 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:08:24 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/chambre-a-part-1989
Director: Jacky Cukier
Cinematographer: Yves Angelo
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Director: Neil Jordan
Cinematographer: Philippe Rousselot
Two escaped cons only prayer to escape is to pass themselves off as priests and pass by the police blockade at the border into the safety of Canada. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/fat-man-and-little-boy-1989 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:54:43 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/fat-man-and-little-boy-1989
Director: Roland Joffé
Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond
This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/pet-sematary-1989 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:54:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/pet-sematary-1989
Director: Mary Lambert
Cinematographer: Peter Stein
After tragedy strikes, a grieving father discovers an ancient burial ground behind his home with the power to raise the dead. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/everybodys-baby-the-rescue-of-jessica-mcclure-1989 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:53:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/everybodys-baby-the-rescue-of-jessica-mcclure-1989
Director: Mel Damski
Cinematographer: Shelly Johnson
A caring community and variety of people nation-wide come together to rescue a baby who is trapped in an abandoned water well, but they have a short time before something bad might happen. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/collision-course-1989 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:51:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/collision-course-1989
Director: Lewis Teague
Cinematographer: Donald E. Thorin
A Japanese investigator (Morita) and a Detroit cop (Leno) team up to track down a stolen prototype turbocharger. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/dick-francis-blood-sport-1989 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:40:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/dick-francis-blood-sport-1989
Director: Harvey Hart
Cinematographer: Albert J. Dunk
Cleveland teams with an insurance investigator in the search for a stolen $6 million dollar horse in the Canadian Rockies. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/halloween-5-1989 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:37:26 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/halloween-5-1989
Director: Dominique Othenin-Girard
Cinematographer: Robert Draper
One year after the events of Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988), the Shape returns to Haddonfield once again in an attempt to kill his now-mute niece. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/she-devil-1989 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:28:24 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/she-devil-1989
Director: Susan Seidelman
Cinematographer: Oliver Stapleton
A surprisingly resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-dream-team-1989 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:27:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-dream-team-1989
Director: Howard Zieff
Cinematographer: Adam Holender
Four mental patients on a field trip in New York City must save their caring chaperon, who ends up being taken to a hospital in a coma after accidentally witnessing a murder, before the killers can find him and finish the job. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/my-boyfriends-back-1989 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:59:24 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/my-boyfriends-back-1989
Director: Paul Schneider
Cinematographer: Larry Pizer
A female singing group from the '60s reunites for a TV special. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/casualties-of-war-1989 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:42:32 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/casualties-of-war-1989
Director: Brian De Palma
Cinematographer: Stephen H. Burum
During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/second-sight-1989 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:42:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/second-sight-1989
Director: Joel Zwick
Cinematographer: Dana Christiaansen
John Larroquette is the head of a detective agency that is hired to find a missing person, probably kidnapped. They employ the help of a mystic/psychic to help find the missing girl. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/wired-1989 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:38:42 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/wired-1989
Director: Larry Peerce
Cinematographer: Tony Imi
The ghost of John Belushi looks back on his troubled life and career, while journalist Bob Woodward researches Belushi's life as he prepares to write a book about the late comic actor. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/speed-zone-1989 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:31:59 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/speed-zone-1989
Director: Jim Drake
Cinematographer: François Protat, Robert Saad
An illegal race that takes place over the United States and nothing will stop this bunch of racers except for the occasional cop or a damsel in distress. Jackie Chan's car is not in this ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-war-of-the-roses-1989 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:51:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-war-of-the-roses-1989
Director: Danny DeVito
Cinematographer: Stephen H. Burum
A married couple try everything to get each other to leave the house in a vicious divorce battle. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/johnny-handsome-1989 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:50:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/johnny-handsome-1989
Director: Walter Hill
Cinematographer: Matthew F. Leonetti
After being double crossed and thrown in jail, a deformed gangster gets a new face and rehabilitation, but his desire for revenge looms. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/great-balls-of-fire-1989 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:45:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/great-balls-of-fire-1989
Director: Jim McBride
Cinematographer: Affonso Beato
The life and career of wildly controversial rock 'n' roll star Jerry Lee Lewis. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/crimes-and-misdemeanors-1989 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:45:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/crimes-and-misdemeanors-1989
Director: Woody Allen
Cinematographer: Sven Nykvist
An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated with another woman. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/say-anything-1989 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:44:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/say-anything-1989
Director: Cameron Crowe
Cinematographer: László Kovács
A noble underachiever and a beautiful valedictorian fall in love the summer before she goes off to college. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/beware-children-at-play-1989 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:44:26 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/beware-children-at-play-1989
Director: Mik Cribben
Cinematographer: Mik Cribben
A mentally-disturbed teenager kidnaps and brainwashes children into cannibalistic psychopaths - but not when the adults intervene. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/winter-people-1989 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:43:51 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/winter-people-1989
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Cinematographer: François Protat
A young widower moves with his daughter into a North Carolina mountain town in 1934. He quickly takes up with a young woman with an illegitimate baby. First he must prove himself to her ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/scenes-from-the-class-struggle-in-beverly-hills-1989 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:35:05 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/scenes-from-the-class-struggle-in-beverly-hills-1989
Director: Paul Bartel
Cinematographer: Steven Fierberg
The widow's houseboy and the divorcee's chauffeur bet on which will bed the other's employer first. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/return-from-the-river-kwai-1989 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:24:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/return-from-the-river-kwai-1989
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Cinematographer: Arthur Wooster
A group of war prisoners from the Kwai bridge building camp undertake a harsh journey to Japan. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/lock-up-1989 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:20:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/lock-up-1989
Director: John Flynn
Cinematographer: Donald E. Thorin
With only six months left of his sentence, inmate Frank Leone is transferred from a minimum security prison to a maximum security prison by a vindictive warden. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/curse-ii-the-bite-1989 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:15:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/curse-ii-the-bite-1989
Director: Frederico Prosperi
Cinematographer: Roberto D'Ettorre Piazzoli
After being bitten by a radioactive snake, a young man begins to spawn snake-like creatures with a vicious, murdeous nature. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/jacknife-1989 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:15:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/jacknife-1989
Director: David Hugh Jones
Cinematographer: Brian West
A conflict develops between a troubled Vietnam veteran and the sister, with whom he lives, when she becomes romantically involved with the Army buddy who reminds him of the tragic battle ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/dream-a-little-dream-1989 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:07:26 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/dream-a-little-dream-1989
Director: Marc Rocco
Cinematographer: King Baggot
An accident puts the consciousness of an elderly dream researcher into the body of a bratty teenager. The problem? The kid prefers dreamworld limbo to real life. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/kamilla-og-tyven-ii-1989 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 18:57:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/kamilla-og-tyven-ii-1989
Director: Grete Salomonsen
Cinematographer: Odd Hynnekleiv
Kamilla goes on fighting to get Sebastian accepted, both while in jail and after being released. She's the only one believing that he wills top stealing. Is her support enough to keep him away from that? ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/look-whos-talking-1989 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 18:22:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/look-whos-talking-1989
Director: Amy Heckerling
Cinematographer: Thomas Del Ruth
After a single, career-minded woman is left on her own to give birth to the child of a married man, she finds a new romantic chance in a cab driver. Meanwhile, the point-of-view of the newborn boy is narrated through voice-over. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/beyond-the-door-iii-1989 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 18:02:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/beyond-the-door-iii-1989
Director: Jeff Kwitny
Cinematographer: Adolfo Bartoli
A shy co-ed and her classmates travel to Europe to see a ritual. With a satanist/professor with them, he lures them into deadly traps to become sacrifices to Satan. One co-ed is a virgin, ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/lean-on-me-1989 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 17:59:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/lean-on-me-1989
Director: John G. Avildsen
Cinematographer: Victor Hammer
The dedicated but tyrannical Joe Clark is appointed the principal of a decaying inner-city school and he is determined to improve by any and all means. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/k-9-1989 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 17:48:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/k-9-1989
Director: Rod Daniel
Cinematographer: Dean Semler
To stop an elusive criminal, a maverick detective enlists the aid of a police dog who's an unusually intelligent smart alec. ]]>