1987 in film

The following is an overview of events in 1987 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. Paramount Pictures celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1987.

Highest-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1987 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Events

• January 31 - The Cure for Insomnia premieres at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois, to officially become the world's longest film according to Guinness World Records.
• May 23 - Starlog Salutes Star Wars is held in Los Angeles, California, the first officially sponsored Star Wars convention to commemorate the franchise's 10th anniversary.
• June 29 - The James Bond franchise celebrates its 25th anniversary and premieres its 15th film, The Living Daylights
• July 17 - Walt Disney's classic masterpiece Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is re-released worldwide for its 50th anniversary.
• 1987 - Paramount Pictures launches a new on-screen logo to celebrate 75 years.

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: The Last Emperor - Hemdale, Columbia

Best Director: Bernardo Bertolucci - The Last Emperor

Best Actor: Michael Douglas - Wall Street

Best Actress: Cher - Moonstruck

Best Supporting Actor: Sean Connery - The Untouchables

Best Supporting Actress: Olympia Dukakis - Moonstruck

Best Foreign Language Film: Babette's Feast (Babettes Gæstebud), directed by Gabriel Axel, Denmark

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: The Last Emperor

Best Actor: Michael Douglas â€" Wall Street

Best Actress: Sally Kirkland â€" Anna

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: Hope and Glory

Best Actor: Robin Williams â€" Good Morning, Vietnam

Best Actress: Cher â€" Moonstruck

Other

Best Director: Bernardo Bertolucci â€" The Last Emperor

Best Foreign Language Film: My Life as a Dog, Sweden

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Under the Sun of Satan (Sous le soleil de Satan), directed by Maurice Pialat, France

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Au revoir les enfants (Goodbye, Children), directed by Louis Malle, France / W. Germany

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Tema (1979) (The Theme), directed by Gleb Panfilov, USSR

Notable films released in 1987

U.S.A. unless stated

#

• 84 Charing Cross Road, starring Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft, Judi Dench - (U.K./U.S.A.)

A

• Adventures in Babysitting (aka A Night on the Town in the UK), starring Elisabeth Shue
• Aha Naa Pellanta - (India)
• L'Ami de mon amie (My Girlfriend's Boyfriend or Boyfriends and Girlfriends), directed by Éric Rohmer - (France)
• Amazing Grace and Chuck, starring Jamie Lee Curtis, William Petersen, Alex English, Gregory Peck
• Amazon Women on the Moon, starring Arsenio Hall, Griffin Dunne, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rosanna Arquette, Steve Guttenberg, Steve Forrest
• Angel Heart, directed by Alan Parker, starring Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet
• Anguish (Angustia), starring Zelda Rubinstein - (Spain)
• Anna, starring Sally Kirkland and Paulina Porizkova
• Aria, 10 short films by directors including Robert Altman, Jean-Luc Godard, Nicolas Roeg - (U.K.)
• Assassination, starring Charles Bronson
• Au revoir les enfants (Goodbye, Children), directed by Louis Malle - Golden Lion award - (France)
• An Autumn's Tale (Chou tin dik tong wah), starring Chow Yun-fat - (Hong Kong)

B

• Babette's Feast (Babettes Gæstebud), directed by Gabriel Axel, starring Stephane Audran - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film - (Denmark)
• Baby Boom, directed by Charles Shyer, starring Diane Keaton, Sam Shepard, Harold Ramis
• Bad Taste, written and directed by Peter Jackson - (New Zealand)
• Bagdad Café, aka Out of Rosenheim, Golden Space Needle award (for 1988) - (West Germany/U.S.A.)
• Barfly, directed by Barbet Schroeder, starring Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway, Alice Krige
• *batteries not included, starring Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy
• The Bedroom Window, directed by Curtis Hanson, starring Steve Guttenberg, Isabelle Huppert, Elizabeth McGovern
• Bellman and True, directed by Richard Loncraine - (U.K.)
• The Belly of an Architect, directed by Peter Greenaway, starring Brian Dennehy, Chloe Webb - (U.K./Italy)
• Benji the Hunted
• Best Seller, starring James Woods and Brian Dennehy
• A Better Tomorrow 2 (Jing hung bun sik), directed by John Woo, starring Chow Yun-fat - (Hong Kong)
• Beverly Hills Cop II, starring Eddie Murphy and Judge Reinhold
• Beyond Therapy, directed by Robert Altman, starring Julie Haggerty, Jeff Goldblum, Glenda Jackson
• The Bicyclist (Bicycleran) - (Iran)
• The Big Easy, directed by Jim McBride, starring Dennis Quaid, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman, Ned Beatty
• The Big Town, starring Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, Tommy Lee Jones, Suzy Amis, Lee Grant, Bruce Dern
• Black Widow, directed by Bob Rafelson, starring Debra Winger and Theresa Russell
• Blind Chance (Przypadek) - (Poland)
• Blind Date, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Bruce Willis and Kim Basinger
• Born in East L.A., starring Cheech Marin
• The Brave Little Toaster
• Broadcast News, directed by James L. Brooks, starring William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter, Lois Chiles, Robert Prosky, Joan Cusack
• Burglar, starring Whoopi Goldberg
• Business as Usual, starring Glenda Jackson and John Thaw - (U.K./U.S.A.)
• Buy & Cell, starring Robert Carradine

C

• Can't Buy Me Love, starring Patrick Dempsey and Amanda Peterson
• Captain Khorshid (Nakhoda Khorshid), directed by Nasser Taghvai - (Iran)
• The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland - (Canada)
• Cherry 2000, starring Melanie Griffith
• A Chinese Ghost Story (倩女幽魂), starring Leslie Cheung - (Hong Kong)
• The Chipmunk Adventure
• Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Crónica de una muerte anunciada), starring Rupert Everett, Ornella Muti, Gian Maria Volonté - (France/Italy/Colombia)
• City on Fire (Lóng hÇ" fÄ"ng yún), starring Chow Yun-fat - (Hong Kong)
• Coast to Coast, starring Lenny Henry - (U.K.)
• Cobra Verde, directed by Werner Herzog, starring Klaus Kinski - (West Germany)
• Cold Steel, starring Brad Davis and Sharon Stone
• Crazy Love (Amor Loco) - (Belgium)
• Critical Condition, starring Richard Pryor
• Cross My Heart, starring Martin Short, Annette O'Toole, Paul Reiser
• Cry Freedom, directed by Richard Attenborough, starring Kevin Kline and Denzel Washington - (U.K./U.S.A./South Africa)
• The Cry of the Owl ( Le cri du hibou), directed by Claude Chabrol - (France)

D

• Dark Eyes (Oci ciornie), starring Marcello Mastroianni - (Italy/U.S.S.R.)
• Dark Tower, directed by Freddie Francis, starring Michael Moriarty, Jenny Agutter, Carol Lynley
• Daughter of the Nile (Niluohe nuer) - (Taiwan)
• Days to Remember (Die Verliebten), starring Barbara Sukowa - (West Germany)
• The Dead, directed by John Huston, starring his daughter, Anjelica Huston - (U.K./Ireland/U.S.A.)
• Dead of Winter, starring Mary Steenburgen
• Deadline, starring Christopher Walken
• Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam, aka Dear America
• Death Wish 4: The Crackdown, starring Charles Bronson and Kay Lenz
• Desyat Negrityat (10 Little Indians) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Diary for My Lovers (Napló szerelmeimnek) - (Hungary)
• Dirty Dancing, directed by Emile Ardolino, starring Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey and Jerry Orbach
• Down Twisted, starring Carey Lowell
• Dragnet, starring Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Harry Morgan, Alexandra Paul, Dabney Coleman, Christopher Plummer
• Dragon Ball: Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle (Doragon Bōru: Majin-Jō No Nemuri Hime) - (Japan)

E

• Eastern Condors (Dung fong tuk ying), starring Sammo Hung - (Hong Kong)
• Eat the Rich, directed by Peter Richardson - (U.K.)
• Eddie Murphy Raw, performance documentary
• Eien no 1/2 (Half of Eternity) - (Japan)
• Empire of the Sun, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson
• The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (Yuki Yukite Shingun) - (Japan)
• End of the Line, starring Kevin Bacon, Wilford Brimley, Mary Steenburgen, Holly Hunter
• Enemy Territory, starring Gary Frank, Ray Parker, Jr., Frances Fisher
• Ernest Goes to Camp, starring Jim Varney
• Escape from Sobibor, starring Alan Arkin, Joanna PacuÅ‚a, Rutger Hauer - (U.K./Yugoslavia)
• Evil Dead II, starring Bruce Campbell
• Extreme Prejudice, directed by Walter Hill, starring Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, María Conchita Alonso, Rip Torn

F

• La Famiglia (The Family), directed by Ettore Scola, starring Vittorio Gassman and Stefania Sandrelli - (Italy)
• Family Viewing - (Canada)
• Far Side of the Moon (La face cachée de la lune) - (France)
• Fatal Attraction, directed by Adrian Lyne, starring Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, Anne Archer
• Fatal Beauty, starring Whoopi Goldberg
• Five Corners, starring Tim Robbins, Jodie Foster, John Turturro
• Flowers in the Attic, starring Victoria Tennant, Kristy Swanson, Louise Fletcher
• Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (Quatre aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle), directed by Éric Rohmer - (France)
• The Fourth Protocol, starring Michael Caine and Pierce Brosnan - (U.K.)
• Freckled Max and the Spooks (Pehavý Max a straÅ¡idlá) - (Czechoslovakia)
• From the Hip, directed by Bob Clark, starring Judd Nelson, Elizabeth Perkins, John Hurt
• Full Metal Jacket, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Matthew Modine, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey, Adam Baldwin, Arliss Howard

G

• G.I. Joe: The Movie, with the voices of Don Johnson and Burgess Meredith
• Gardens of Stone, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring James Caan, Anjelica Huston, D.B. Sweeney, James Earl Jones
• The Gate, starring Stephen Dorff
• The Glass Menagerie, directed by Paul Newman, starring Joanne Woodward and John Malkovich
• Good Morning, Babylon, starring Vincent Spano and Greta Scacchi - (Italy)
• Good Morning, Vietnam, directed by Barry Levinson, starring Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker, J. T. Walsh, Bruno Kirby
• The Good Wife, aka The Umbrella Woman, starring Rachel Ward, Bryan Brown, Sam Neill
• Le Grand Chemin (The Great Highway) - (France)
• Da Grande - (Italy)
• Ground Zero, starring Colin Friels and Jack Thompson - (Australia)

H

• Hamburger Hill, directed by John Irvin, starring Dylan McDermott
• Hamlet Goes Business (Hamlet liikemaailmassa), directed by Aki Kaurismäki - (Finland)
• The Hanoi Hilton, starring Michael Moriarty
• Happy New Year, starring Peter Falk, Charles Durning, Wendy Hughes, Tom Courtenay
• Harry and the Hendersons, starring John Lithgow and Melinda Dillon
• Hello Again, starring Shelley Long, Corbin Bernsen, Judith Ivey, Sela Ward, Gabriel Byrne
• Hellraiser, directed by Clive Barker - (U.K./U.S.A.)
• The Hidden, starring Kyle MacLachlan and Michael Nouri
• Hidden City, directed by Stephen Poliakoff, starring Charles Dance - (U.K.)
• Hiding Out, starring Jon Cryer
• High Season, starring Jacqueline Bisset, James Fox, Kenneth Branagh
• High Tide, directed by Gillian Armstrong, starring Judy Davis - (Australia)
• Hollywood Shuffle, directed by and starring Robert Townsend
• Hope and Glory, directed by John Boorman, starring Sammi Davis, Sarah Miles - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy) - (U.K./U.S.A.)
• House II: The Second Story, starring Arye Gross and Jonathan Stark
• House of Games, directed by David Mamet, starring Joe Mantegna and Lindsay Crouse
• Housekeeping, directed by Bill Forsyth, starring Christine Lahti
• A Hungarian Fairy Tale (Hol volt, hol nem volt) - (Hungary)

I

• I ragazzi di via Panisperna (Via Panisperna Boys) - (Italy)
• Innerspace, directed by Joe Dante, starring Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan
• In the Mood, directed by Phil Alden Robinson, starring Patrick Dempsey and Beverly D'Angelo
• Intervista (Interview), directed by and starring Federico Fellini - (Italy)
• Iron Earth, Copper Sky (Yer Demir Gök Bakır) - (Turkey)
• Ironweed, directed by Héctor Babenco, starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep
• Ishtar, directed by Elaine May, starring Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani, Charles Grodin
• I've Heard the Mermaids Singing - (Canada)

J

• Jaws: The Revenge, starring Lorraine Gary and Michael Caine
• Julia and Julia, starring Kathleen Turner - (Italy)

K

• Kaash (If Only) - (India)
• Kadamai Kanniyam Kattupaadu - (India)
• Kelid (The Key) - (Iran)
• King Lear, directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Peter Sellers, Burgess Meredith, Molly Ringwald
• King of the Children (Háizǐ Wáng), directed by Chen Kaige - (China)
• Kingsajz (Kingsize) - (Poland)
• The Kreutzer Sonata - (U.S.S.R.)

L

• La Bamba, featuring Lou Diamond Phillips and Esai Morales
• Lady Beware, starring Diane Lane
• The Last Emperor, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, starring John Lone and Joan Chen - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture - (China/U.K./Italy)
• The Last of England, directed by Derek Jarman, starring Tilda Swinton and Nigel Terry - (U.K.)
• Late Summer Blues (Blues Lahofesh Hagadol) - (Israel)
• Laughter and Grief by the White Sea (Smekh i gore u Bela morya) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Law of Desire (La ley del deseo), directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Antonio Banderas, Carmen Maura - (Spain)
• Leonard Part 6, starring Bill Cosby - won three Razzie Awards for Worst Picture, Actor and Screenplay
• Less Than Zero, starring Andrew McCarthy, Jami Gertz, Robert Downey, Jr., James Spader
• Lethal Weapon, directed by Richard Donner, starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover
• Light of Day, starring Michael J. Fox, Joan Jett, Gena Rowlands
• The Lighthorsemen - (Australia)
• Like Father Like Son, starring Dudley Moore and Kirk Cameron
• Lionheart, starring Eric Stoltz and Gabriel Byrne
• The Living Daylights, starring Timothy Dalton (as James Bond), with Maryam d'Abo, Joe Don Baker - (U.K.)
• The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, starring Maggie Smith and Bob Hoskins - (U.K.)
• Long Gone, starring William Petersen, Virginia Madsen, Dermot Mulroney
• The Lost Boys, directed by Joel Schumacher, starring Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Kiefer Sutherland, Corey Feldman, Jami Gertz, Dianne Wiest
• Love at Stake, starring Patrick Cassidy, Kelly Preston, Barbara Carrera
• Love is a Fat Woman (El Amor es una mujer gorda) - (Argentina)
• Loyalties - (Canada/U.K.)
• El Lute: Run for Your Life (El Lute: camina o revienta) - (Spain)

M

• Macbeth, an opera - (France)
• Made in Heaven, directed by Alan Rudolph, starring Timothy Hutton and Kelly McGillis
• Maid to Order, starring Ally Sheedy
• Making Mr. Right, directed by Susan Seidelman, starring Ann Magnuson and John Malkovich
• Malone, starring Burt Reynolds, Cliff Robertson, Kenneth McMillan, Lauren Hutton, Cynthia Gibb
• A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines (Chelovek s bulvara Kaputsinov) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Man On Fire, starring Scott Glenn
• The Man Who Planted Trees (L'homme qui plantait des arbres) - (Canada)
• Mannequin, starring Andrew McCarthy and Kim Cattrall
• Masks (Masques), directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Philippe Noiret - (France)
• Masters of the Universe, starring Dolph Lundgren, Frank Langella, Courteney Cox
• Matewan, directed by John Sayles, starring Chris Cooper, Will Oldham, David Strathairn
• Maurice, directed by James Ivory, starring James Wilby, Hugh Grant and Ben Kingsley - (U.K.)
• Miami Connection
• Mio in the Land of Faraway (Mio Min Mio), starring Christopher Lee and Christian Bale - (Sweden/U.S.S.R./Norway)
• The Monster Squad
• A Month in the Country, starring Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh and Natasha Richardson - (U.K.)
• Moonstruck, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Cher, Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello
• Morning Patrol, directed by Nikos Nikolaidis â€" (Greece)
• The Moro Affair (Il Caso Moro), starring Gian Maria Volonté - (Italy)
• The Mother of Kings (Matka Królów), produced in 1982 but not released until 1987 - (Poland)
• Mr. India, starring Anil Kapoor and Sridevi - (India)
• Mr. Muhsin (Muhsin Bey) - (Turkey)
• Mr. Nice Guy, starring Mike MacDonald and Jan Smithers
• My Life as a Dog (Mitt liv som hund), directed by Lasse Hallström - Golden Space Needle award - (Sweden)
• My Little Girl, starring Mary Stuart Masterson and James Earl Jones

N

• Nadine, directed by Robert Benton, starring Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger
• Nayakan - (India)
• Near Dark, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, starring Adrian Pasdar, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton
• Nekromantik - (West Germany)
• Night Zoo (Un Zoo la Nuit) - (Canada)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, starring Craig Wasson and Heather Langenkamp
• No Man's Land, starring Charlie Sheen, D. B. Sweeney, Randy Quaid
• No Way Out, directed by Roger Donaldson, starring Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Sean Young, Will Patton, Iman
• Nowhere to Hide, starring Amy Madigan and Michael Ironside
• Number One with a Bullet, directed by Jack Smight, starring Robert Carradine and Billy Dee Williams
• Nuts, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Barbra Streisand, Richard Dreyfuss, Karl Malden, Maureen Stapleton, Eli Wallach, James Whitmore

O

• O.C. and Stiggs, directed by Robert Altman, starring Daniel H. Jenkins, Neill Barry, Martin Mull, Jane Curtin, Dennis Hopper
• On the Silver Globe (Na srebrnym globie) - (Poland)
• Opera, directed by Dario Argento - (Italy)
• Orphans, directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Matthew Modine, Kevin Anderson, Albert Finney
• Outrageous Fortune, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Bette Midler and Shelley Long
• Over the Top, directed by Menahem Golan, starring Sylvester Stallone, Robert Loggia, David Mendenhall
• Overboard, directed by Garry Marshall, starring Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn

P-Q

• Partition, starring Saeed Jaffrey - (U.K.)
• Pathfinder (Veiviseren) - (Norway)
• Pelle the Conqueror, directed by Bille August, starring Max von Sydow - Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film (for 1988) - (Denmark)
• Personal Services, directed by Terry Jones, starring Julie Walters - (U.K.)
• The Pick-up Artist, starring Robert Downey, Jr., Molly Ringwald, Danny Aiello, Dennis Hopper
• Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
• Planes, Trains and Automobiles, directed by John Hughes, starring Steve Martin and John Candy
• A Prayer for the Dying, starring Mickey Rourke - (U.K./U.S.A.)
• Predator, directed by John McTiernan, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Carl Weathers
• Prick Up Your Ears, directed by Stephen Frears, starring Gary Oldman, a biopic of playwright Joe Orton - (U.K.)
• Prince of Darkness, directed by John Carpenter, starring Donald Pleasence, Jameson Parker, Victor Wong
• The Princess Bride, directed by Rob Reiner, starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Wallace Shawn, André the Giant
• The Principal, starring James Belushi and Louis Gossett, Jr.
• Prison on Fire (Jian yu feng yun), starring Chow Yun-fat and Tony Leung - (Hong Kong)
• Project A Part II ('A' gai wak juk jap), directed by and starring Jackie Chan, starring Maggie Cheung - (Hong Kong)
• Project X, directed by Jonathan Kaplan, starring Matthew Broderick and Helen Hunt
• Queenie, television miniseries, starring Mia Sara

R

• Radio Days, directed by Woody Allen, starring Dianne Wiest, Mia Farrow, Michael Tucker, Julie Kavner, Wallace Shawn
• Raising Arizona, directed by the Coen Brothers, starring Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter
• Rampage, directed by William Friedkin, starring Michael Biehn
• Real Men, starring James Belushi and John Ritter
• Red Sorghum (Hong gao liang), directed by Zhang Yimou, starring Gong Li and Jiang Wen - Golden Bear award (for 1988) - (China)
• Reflections (Već viÄ'eno) - (Yugoslavia)
• Rent-a-Cop, starring Burt Reynolds, Liza Minnelli, Dionne Warwick
• Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise with Robert Carradine and Courtney Thorne-Smith
• RoboCop, directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Peter Weller and Nancy Allen
• Roxanne, directed by Fred Schepisi, starring Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah
• Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise (ÅŒritsu UchÅ«gun: Oneamisu no Tsubasa) - (Japan)
• The Running Man, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Richard Dawson

S

• Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, directed by Stephen Frears, starring Shashi Kapoor and Claire Bloom - (U.K.)
• Satyamev Jayate - (India)
• The Secret of My Succe$s, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Michael J. Fox and Helen Slater
• September, directed by Woody Allen, starring Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Sam Waterston, Jack Warden, Elaine Stritch
• Shaka Zulu, starring Henry Cele - (South Africa)
• Shy People, directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, starring Barbara Hershey and Jill Clayburgh
• The Sicilian, directed by Michael Cimino, starring Christopher Lambert
• Siesta, directed by Mary Lambert, starring Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne, Isabella Rossellini, Martin Sheen, Jodie Foster
• Sign 'o' the Times, a concert film with Prince
• Sister, Sister, starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judith Ivey, Eric Stoltz
• Slam Dance, starring Virginia Madsen, Tom Hulce, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
• Some Kind of Wonderful, starring Eric Stoltz, Mary Stuart Masterson, Lea Thompson, Craig Sheffer
• Someone to Love, directed by and starring Henry Jaglom, with Orson Welles
• Someone to Watch Over Me, directed by Ridley Scott, starring Tom Berenger, Mimi Rogers, Lorraine Bracco
• Spaceballs, directed by and starring Mel Brooks, with John Candy, Rick Moranis, Daphne Zuniga, Bill Pullman, Joan Rivers
• Square Dance, starring Winona Ryder
• The Squeeze, starring Michael Keaton
• Stage Fright (Deliria) - (Italy)
• Stakeout, directed by John Badham, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, Madeleine Stowe
• The Stepfather, starring Terry O'Quinn
• Steel Dawn, starring Patrick Swayze
• Straight to Hell, starring Courtney Love and Joe Strummer - (U.K./U.S.A./Spain)
• Street Smart, starring Christopher Reeve, Kathy Baker and Morgan Freeman
• Street Trash
• Storm - (Canada)
• Subway to the Stars (Um Trem para as Estrelas) - (Brazil)
• Summer School, directed by Carl Reiner, starring Mark Harmon and Kirstie Alley
• Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, starring Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Mariel Hemingway, Jon Cryer
• Surrender, starring Sally Field, Michael Caine, Steve Guttenberg, Peter Boyle
• The Surrogate Woman (Ssibaji) - (South Korea)
• Suspect, directed by Peter Yates, starring Cher, Dennis Quaid, John Mahoney, Joe Mantegna, Liam Neeson
• Swimming to Cambodia, directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Spalding Gray

T

• A Taxing Woman (Marusa no onna) - (Japan)
• Teen Wolf Too, starring Jason Bateman
• The Theme (Tema), winner of Golden Bear - (U.S.S.R.)
• Three for the Road, starring Charlie Sheen
• Three Men and a Baby, directed by Leonard Nimoy, starring Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson, Nancy Travis
• Throw Momma from the Train, starring Danny DeVito, Billy Crystal, Anne Ramsey, Kate Mulgrew
• A Tiger's Tale, starring Ann-Margret, C. Thomas Howell, Kelly Preston
• Tin Men, directed by Barry Levinson, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Danny DeVito, Barbara Hershey, John Mahoney, Jackie Gayle
• Tough Guys Don't Dance, directed by Norman Mailer, starring Ryan O'Neal, Isabella Rossellini, Lawrence Tierney
• Train of Dreams - (Canada)
• Tras el cristal (In a Glass Cage), starring Marisa Paredes - (Spain)
• Travelling North, starring Leo McKern - (Australia)
• Tropic of Ice (Jään kääntöpiiri) - (Finland)
• The Trouble with Spies, directed by Burt Kennedy, starring Donald Sutherland and Lucy Gutteridge

U-V

• Under the Sun of Satan (Sous le soleil de Satan), starring Gérard Depardieu and Sandrine Bonnaire - Palme d'Or award - (France)
• The Untouchables, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro, Andy García, Charles Martin Smith, Patricia Clarkson
• Vera - (Brazil)

W

• Waiting for the Moon - (U.K./U.S.A./France/West Germany)
• Walker, starring Ed Harris - (U.S.A./Mexico/Spain)
• Walk Like a Man, directed by Melvin Frank, starring Howie Mandel
• Wall Street, directed by Oliver Stone, starring Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah, Terence Stamp, Martin Sheen
• Wanted: Dead or Alive, starring Rutger Hauer
• Weeds, starring Nick Nolte
• The Whales of August, starring Bette Davis, Lillian Gish, Vincent Price
• Where Is the Friend's Home? (Khane-ye doust kodjast?) - (Iran)
• White Mischief, starring Greta Scacchi, Charles Dance, Joss Ackland, Trevor Howard, John Hurt - (U.K.)
• White of the Eye, starring Cathy Moriarty and David Keith - (U.K.)
• White Water Summer, starring Kevin Bacon
• Who's That Girl, starring Madonna and Griffin Dunne
• Why? (Proc?) - (Czechoslovakia)
• Wild Thing, starring Kathleen Quinlan
• Wings of Desire, directed by Wim Wenders, starring Bruno Ganz and Peter Falk - (West Germany/France)
• Wish You Were Here, directed by David Leland, starring Emily Lloyd and Tom Bell - (U.K.)
• The Witches of Eastwick, directed by George Miller, starring Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer
• Withnail and I, directed by Bruce Robinson, starring Paul McGann, Richard E. Grant, Richard Griffiths - (U.K.)

XYZ

• The Year My Voice Broke - (Australia)
• Yeelen (Brightness) - (Mali)
• Zegen, directed by Shohei Imamura - (Japan)

Wide-release films

Januaryâ€"March

• January 1987
  • January 9 - Assassination
  • January 16
    • The Bedroom Window
    • Critical Condition
  • January 23
    • Jocks
    • The Stepfather
  • January 30
    • Outrageous Fortune
    • Radio Days

• February 1987
  • February 6
    • Black Widow
    • Light of Day
  • February 13
    • Mannequin
    • Over the Top
  • February 20 - Square Dance
  • February 27
    • A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
    • Number One with a Bullet
    • Some Kind of Wonderful

• March 1987
  • March 6
    • Angel Heart
    • Lethal Weapon
    • Raising Arizona
    • Tin Men
  • March 13 - Evil Dead II
  • March 20
    • Burglar
    • Hollywood Shuffle
    • Street Smart
  • March 27 - Blind Date

Aprilâ€"June

• April 1987
  • April 3
    • Making Mr. Right
    • Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
  • April 10
    • The Secret of My Success
    • Three for the Road
    • The Aristocats (re-release)
  • April 17
    • Rumpelstiltskin
    • Project X
    • Wild Thing
  • April 24 - Extreme Prejudice

• May 1987
  • May 1 - American Ninja 2: The Confrontation
  • May 8 - Gardens of Stone
  • May 15
    • The Gate
    • Ishtar
  • May 20 - Beverly Hills Cop II
  • May 22
    • The Chipmunk Adventure
    • Ernest Goes to Camp

• June 1987
  • June 3 - The Untouchables
  • June 5
    • Cyclone
    • Harry and the Hendersons
  • June 12
    • Predator
    • The Witches of Eastwick
  • June 17 - Benji the Hunted
  • June 19 - Roxanne
  • June 24 - Spaceballs
  • June 26
    • Dragnet
    • Full Metal Jacket
    • Straight to Hell
  • June 29 - The Living Daylights (London premiere)

Julyâ€"September

• July 1987
  • July 1
    • Adventures in Babysitting
    • Innerspace
  • July 10
    • The Brave Little Toaster
    • Maid to Order
    • The Squeeze
    • White Water Summer
  • July 17
    • Jaws: The Revenge
    • Nowhere to Hide
    • RoboCop
    • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film) (re-release)
  • July 20 - Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise
  • July 22 - Summer School
  • July 24
    • La Bamba
    • Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
  • July 31 - The Lost Boys

• August 1987
  • August 5 - Stakeout
  • August 7
    • The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland
    • Masters of the Universe
    • Who's That Girl
  • August 14
    • Can't Buy Me Love
    • Lady Beware
    • The Monster Squad
    • No Way Out
  • August 21
    • The Big Easy
    • Born in East L.A.
    • Dirty Dancing
  • August 28
    • The Fourth Protocol
    • Hamburger Hill
    • House II: The Second Story
    • Matewan

• September 1987
  • September 18 - Amazon Women on the Moon
  • September 2
    • Best Seller
    • The Big Town
  • September 4 - Man on Fire
  • September 15 - King Lear
  • September 18
    • Fatal Attraction
    • Hellraiser (U.S.; UK Sep. 11, 1987)
    • Maurice
    • Orphans
    • The Principal
  • September 25
    • The Princess Bride
    • Real Men
  • September 30 - Barfly

Octoberâ€"December

• October 1987
  • October 2
    • Anna
    • Slam Dance
  • October 7
    • Baby Boom
    • Like Father Like Son
  • October 9
    • Someone to Watch Over Me
    • Surrender
  • October 11 - House of Games
  • October 16
    • Weeds
    • The Whales of August
  • October 20 - The Hidden
  • October 23
    • The Glass Menagerie
    • The Last Emperor (Italy; NYC Nov. 18 1987; LA Nov. 19, 1987; US Dec. 18, 1987)
    • No Man's Land
    • Prince of Darkness
    • The Sicilian
    • Suspect
  • October 30
    • Fatal Beauty
    • Rampage

• November 1987
  • November 6
    • Cry Freedom
    • Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
    • Hello Again
    • Hiding Out
    • Less Than Zero
    • Made in Heaven
    • Steel Dawn
    • Wanted: Dead or Alive
  • November 13
    • Cross My Heart
    • Hope and Glory
    • The Running Man
  • November 20
    • Cinderella (1950 film)(re-release)
    • Flowers in the Attic
    • Nuts
    • Sign o' the Times
    • Teen Wolf Too
  • November 25
    • Planes, Trains and Automobiles
    • Three Men and a Baby

• December 1987
  • December 4 - Walker
  • December 11
    • Cold Steel
    • Throw Momma from the Train
    • Wall Street
  • December 16
    • Broadcast News
    • Moonstruck (NYC; USA Dec. 18, 1987)
    • Overboard
  • December 17 - The Dead
  • December 18
    • *batteries not included
    • Eddie Murphy Raw (U.S.)
    • Ironweed
    • Leonard Part 6
    • September
  • December 23 - Good Morning, Vietnam
  • December 25
    • Empire of the Sun
    • Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night

Births

• January 5 - Kristin Cavallari, television personality/actress
• January 7 - Lyndsy Fonseca, actress
• January 31 - Zoe Costello, actress
• February 5 - Darren Criss, actor
• February 9 - Michael B. Jordan, actor
• February 21
  • Ashley Greene, actress
  • Ellen Page, Canadian actress
• April 4 - Sarah Gadon, actress
• April 9 - Jesse McCartney, actor, singer-songwriter and voice actor
• April 19 - Oksana Akinshina, actress
• April 27 - William Moseley, English actor
• June 27 - Ed Westwick, English film and television actor
• July 26 - Miriam McDonald, Canadian actress
• July 27 - Mara Wilson, actress and writer
• August 8 - Katie Leung Scottish film, television and stage actress
• August 25 - Stacey Farber, Canadian actress
• September 7 - Evan Rachel Wood, actress
• September 11 - Tyler Hoechlin, actor
• September 22 - Tom Felton, English actor
• September 28 - Hilary Duff, actress
• September 29 - Anaïs Demoustier, actress
• October 18 - Zac Efron, actor and singer
• December 28 - Adam Gregory, actor

Deaths

• January 9 - Arthur Lake, 81, American actor
• January 14 - Douglas Sirk, 89, German director, Imitation of Life, Written on the Wind
• January 15 - Ray Bolger, 83, American actor, singer, dancer, The Wizard of Oz, Babes in Toyland
• February 23 â€" Esmond Knight, 80, British actor, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
• February 25 â€" John Collin, 58, British actor, Tess
• February 28 - Joan Greenwood, 65, English actress, Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Man in the White Suit
• March 2 - Randolph Scott, 89, American actor
• March 3 - Danny Kaye, 74, American actor, White Christmas, The Court Jester
• March 21 - Robert Preston, 68, American actor, singer, The Music Man, Victor Victoria
• March 28 â€" Patrick Troughton, 67, English actor, Jason and the Argonauts, Scars of Dracula
• May - Michael Gover, 73, Danish actor, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, A Clockwork Orange
• May 14 - Rita Hayworth, 68, American actress, Gilda, The Lady from Shanghai
• June 1 - Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, 72, Indian writer, director, Mera Naam Joker, Awaara
• June 6 â€" Fulton Mackay, 64, Scottish actor, Porridge
• June 22 - Fred Astaire, 88, American actor, singer, dancer, Top Hat, Swing Time
• June 24 - Jackie Gleason, 71, American actor, comedian, musician, The Hustler, The Toy
• July 3 - Viola Dana, 90, American actress, That Certain Thing
• July 7 - Hannelore Schroth, 65, German actress, The Captain from Köpenick
• July 31 - Joseph E. Levine, 81, American producer, A Bridge Too Far, The Lion in Winter
• August 1 - Pola Negri, 90, Polish actress, Madame DuBarry, Carmen
• August 17 - Clarence Brown, 97, American director, National Velvet, The Yearling
• August 28 - John Huston, 81, American actor, director, The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
• August 29 - Lee Marvin, 63, American actor, The Dirty Dozen, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
• September 4 - Richard Marquand, 49, Welsh director, Return of the Jedi, Jagged Edge
• September 5 â€" Bill Fraser, 79, English actor, Up Pompeii, Up the Chastity Belt
• September 13 - Mervyn LeRoy, 86, American director, Mister Roberts, Quo Vadis
• September 23 - Bob Fosse, 60, American director and choreographer, All That Jazz, Cabaret
• September 25 - Mary Astor, 81, American actress, The Maltese Falcon, Meet Me in St. Louis
• September 25 - Emlyn Williams, 81, Welsh actor, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Citadel
• October 2 - Madeleine Carroll, 81, English actress, The 39 Steps, Secret Agent
• October 13 - Kishore Kumar, 58, Indian actor, singer, Life of Pi, Sholay
• December 4 - Rouben Mamoulian, 90, Georgian director, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Mark of Zorro

Film debuts

• Patricia Arquette - A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
• Alec Baldwin - Forever, Lulu
• Jason Bateman - Teen Wolf Too
• Kenneth Branagh - A Month in the Country
• Sandra Bullock - Hangmen
• Patricia Clarkson - The Untouchables
• George Clooney - Return to Horror High
• Courteney Cox - Down Twisted
• Stephen Dorff - The Gate
• Edie Falco - Sweet Lorraine
• Gong Li - Red Sorghum
• Richard E. Grant - Withnail and I
• Anthony LaPaglia - Cold Steel
• Nathan Lane - Ironweed
• Brad Pitt - No Man's Land
• Chris Rock - Beverly Hills Cop II
• David Spade - Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
• Ben Stiller - Empire of the Sun
• Nancy Travis - Three Men and a Baby
• Jesse Ventura - Predator
• Robin Wright - The Princess Bride

See also

• List of American films of 1987
• List of British films of 1987r
• List of French films of 1987
• List of German films of the 1980s
• List of Bollywood films of 1987r
• List of Italian films of 1987r
• List of Japanese films of 1987
• List of Swedish films of the 1980s

References