On This Day in 80s Movies

Step back into the golden age of cinema with our ‘On This Day in 80s Movies’ section. Every day, we revisit the film releases and cinematic events that defined the decade. From blockbuster premieres to groundbreaking achievements in filmmaking, explore the moments that made the 80s a landmark era for movies.

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On This Day: April 28, 1989 - Loverboy Hits Theaters

On This Day: April 28, 1989 - Loverboy Hits Theaters

On April 28, 1989, the romantic comedy Loverboy starring Patrick Dempsey was released in theaters. Directed by Joan Micklin Silver, this film followed the story of a college student who takes a job delivering pizza and gets a little more than he bargains for when rich women start requesting...
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On This Day: April 27 1984 - Love Letters Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 27 1984 - Love Letters Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 27 1984, the romantic drama Love Letters premiered in theaters. Directed by Amy Holden Jones, the film starred Jamie Lee Curtis, Bonnie Bartlett, and James Keach. Love Letters told the story of a young woman who, after discovering her late mother’s secret affair through old...
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On This Day: April 26, 1985 - Stick Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 26, 1985 - Stick Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 26, 1985, the action thriller Stick premiered in theaters. Directed by and starring Burt Reynolds, the film was based on the novel by Elmore Leonard and featured a strong supporting cast including George Segal, Candice Bergen, and Charles Durning. Reynolds played a recently...
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On This Day: April 26, 1985 - Just One of the Guys Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 26, 1985 - Just One of the Guys Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 26, 1985, the teen comedy Just One of the Guys premiered in theaters. Directed by Lisa Gottlieb, the film starred Joyce Hyser as a high school journalist who disguises herself as a boy to prove she can be taken seriously in a male dominated world. With a clever premise and...
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On This Day: April 25, 1986 - 8 Million Ways to Die Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 25, 1986 - 8 Million Ways to Die Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 25, 1986, the neo noir crime drama 8 Million Ways to Die premiered in theaters. Directed by Hal Ashby, the film starred Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette, Alexandra Paul, and others in a gritty story about a disgraced cop who gets pulled into a violent underworld of drugs and...
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On This Day: April 25, 1986 - Violets Are Blue Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 25, 1986 - Violets Are Blue Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 25, 1986, the romantic drama Violets Are Blue premiered in theaters. Directed by Jack Fisk, the film starred Sissy Spacek, Kevin Kline, and Bonnie Bedelia. It told the story of a photojournalist who returns to her hometown after years abroad and reconnects with her high school...
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On This Day: April 25, 1980 - Where the Buffalo Roam Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 25, 1980 - Where the Buffalo Roam Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 25, 1980, the counterculture comedy Where the Buffalo Roam premiered in theaters. Directed by Art Linson, the film starred Bill Murray as famed journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, alongside Peter Boyle and Craig T. Nelson. The movie offered a fictionalized and loosely...
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On This Day: April 24, 1987 - My Demon Lover Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 24, 1987 - My Demon Lover Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 24, 1987, the supernatural romantic comedy My Demon Lover premiered in theaters. Directed by Charlie Loventhal and starring Scott Valentine and Michelle Little, the film followed a New York street performer dealing with a strange and unfortunate curse that complicates his love...
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On This Day: April 24, 1981 - The Hand Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 24, 1981 - The Hand Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 24, 1981, the psychological horror film The Hand premiered in theaters. Directed by Oliver Stone and starring Michael Caine, Andrea Marcovicci, and Bruce McGill, the film told the story of a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident, only to believe that the...
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On This Day: April 24, 1981 - Ms. 45 Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 24, 1981 - Ms. 45 Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 24, 1981, the cult revenge thriller Ms. 45 premiered in theaters. Directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Zoe Tamerlis, Steve Singer, and Jack Thibeau, the film followed a mute garment worker in New York City who becomes a vigilante after experiencing two brutal assaults in one...
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On This Day: April 24, 1981 - Cattle Annie and Little Britches Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 24, 1981 - Cattle Annie and Little Britches Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 24, 1981, the western drama Cattle Annie and Little Britches premiered in theaters. Directed by Lamont Johnson, the film starred Burt Lancaster, Rod Steiger, Diane Lane, and Amanda Plummer in a fictionalized tale based on two real life teenage girls who idolized outlaws and set...
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On This Day: April 24, 1987 - Extreme Prejudice Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 24, 1987 - Extreme Prejudice Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 24, 1987, the action thriller Extreme Prejudice premiered in theaters. Directed by Walter Hill, the film starred Nick Nolte, William Forsythe, and Clancy Brown in a gritty modern western about lawmen, drug cartels, and covert military operations along the Texas-Mexico border...
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On This Day: April 23, 1989 - Teen Witch Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 23, 1989 - Teen Witch Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 23, 1989, the teen fantasy comedy Teen Witch premiered in theaters. Directed by Dorian Walker and starring Robyn Lively, Zelda Rubinstein, and Carol Kaye, the film followed a high school girl who discovers she is a witch on the verge of her sixteenth birthday and suddenly gains...
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On This Day: April 23, 1982 - Tag The Assassination Game Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 23, 1982 - Tag The Assassination Game Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 23, 1982, the thriller Tag The Assassination Game premiered in theaters. Directed by Nick Castle, the film starred Robert Carradine, Linda Hamilton, and Michael Winslow. The story followed a group of college students playing a campus-wide game of mock assassination using toy...
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On This Day: April 22, 1988 - The Unholy Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 22, 1988 - The Unholy Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 22, 1988, the supernatural horror film The Unholy premiered in theaters. Directed by Camilo Vila, the movie starred Ben Cross as a young priest assigned to a New Orleans parish where his predecessors have mysteriously died. As he digs deeper, he uncovers a dark, seductive force...
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On This Day: April 22, 1983 - The Deadly Spawn Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 22, 1983 - The Deadly Spawn Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 22, 1983, the low budget cult horror film The Deadly Spawn premiered in theaters. Directed by Douglas McKeown and starring Charles George Hildebrandt and Tom DeFranco, the movie told the story of a group of teens and scientists trying to survive after a flesh eating alien...
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On This Day: April 22, 1983 - Exposed Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 22, 1983 - Exposed Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 22, 1983, the drama thriller Exposed premiered in theaters. Written and directed by James Toback, the film starred Nastassja Kinski as a young woman who leaves her small town life behind to become a successful model in New York. Along the way, she becomes involved with a...
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On This Day: April 22, 1988 - Return of the Killer Tomatoes Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 22, 1988 - Return of the Killer Tomatoes Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 22, 1988, Return of the Killer Tomatoes hit theaters as the follow up to the cult comedy Attack of the Killer Tomatoes from 1978. The film brought back the absurd horror parody style and added a heavy dose of self aware humor, breaking the fourth wall and poking fun at sequels...
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On This Day: April 22, 1988 - Casual Sex? Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 22, 1988 - Casual Sex? Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 22, 1988, the comedy film Casual Sex? premiered in theaters across the United States. Starring Lea Thompson and Victoria Jackson, the movie followed two women who set off for a relaxing vacation at a health spa, hoping to break free from their routines and maybe find romance...
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On This Day: April 21, 1989 - Speed Zone Premiered in Theaters

On This Day: April 21, 1989 - Speed Zone Premiered in Theaters

On this day April 21, 1989, the action comedy Speed Zone premiered in theaters. Directed by Jim Drake, the movie featured a star studded cast including John Candy, Eugene Levy, Joe Flaherty, Donna Dixon, and Brooke Shields. A spiritual successor to the Cannonball Run films, it followed a group...
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