Wednesday 2 March
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
8:30pm, SBS 2
PG
USA, 1989
Director: Stephen Herek
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin
What's it about?
This cult comedy, a surprise hit at the time of its release, follows two slacker airheads (Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter) about to fail their history class, but who are given the chance to take an epic trip through time, where they'll get to cross paths with Napoleon, Beethoven, Socrates, Billy the Kid and Abraham Lincoln. They'll learn that Caesar is not just the name of a salad dressing, and many more excellent things, which will help them ace their final exam.
Peggy Sue Got Married
10:10pm, SBS 2
M
USA, 1986
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, Barry Miller
What's it about?
Kathleen Turner earned a Best Actress Oscar nom for her amazing performance as Peggy Sue, a forty-something mother who attends her 25-year high school reunion after separating from her cheating husband, Charlie (Nicolas Cage). When she faints at the reunion, she wakes up in 1960… and is given the chance to change her fate. There are so many great one-liners in this charming comedy by Francis Ford Coppola, which also features cameos from future stars Helen Hunt and Jim Carrey.
Wednesday 9 March
The Golden Child
8:30pm, SBS 2
M
USA, 1986
Director: Michael Ritchie
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Charles Dance, Charlotte Lewis
What's it about?
Fresh from his Beverly Hills Cop success, Eddie Murphy starred in this funny and entertaining madcap fantasy adventure, playing Chandler Jarrell, a detective specializing in missing children. He is told he is the 'Chosen One' and sent on a madcap mission to save the 'Golden Child', a youth with mystical powers who's been abducted by an evil cult in Tibet.
Brewster's Millions
10:15pm, SBS 2
PG
USA, 1985
Director: Walter Hill
Starring: Richard Pryor, John Candy, Lonette McKee
What's it about?
In one of Richard Pryor's iconic roles, he plays a minor-league baseball player learns that he's about to inherit $300 million from a great-uncle he's never met. The catch? First, he has to spend $30 million in 30 days, which is actually a lot harder than you might imagine.
Wednesday 16 March
The Warriors
8:30pm, SBS 2
MA15+
USA, 1979
Director: Walter Hill
Starring: James Remar, Michael Beck, David Patrick Kelly, Dorsey Wright
What's it about?
A bonafide cult classic, Walter Hill's brings an element of Greek tragedy to the story of the gangs of New York in the late '70s. A charismatic gang leader summons all the various local street gangs in the Bronx, and pitches his idea of a brokered truce, to enable them to terrorise the citizens as one. Not everyone welcomes the idea, and the deadly consequences set off a renewed turf war.
River's Edge
10:15pm, SBS 2
MA15+
USA, 1987
Director: Tim Hunter
Starring: Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper
What's it about?
Keanu Reeves has a decidedly un-excellent adventure in this disturbing high school drama, which is based on an actual event. When a group of teenagers discover that one of their friends has killed his girlfriend, they are faced with a moral dilemma, struggling to choose between calling the police or helping their friend.
Wednesday 23 March
Weird Science
8:30pm, SBS 2
M
USA, 1985
Director: John Hughes
Starring: Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly LeBrock, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Robert Downey Jr.
What's it about?
In a bid to boost their popularity at school, two nerds attempt to create the perfect virtual woman by hacking into a secret government program. Out of this experiment comes Lisa, a goddess who seems to have endless powers. A pure product of its time, complete with hair perms, floppy disks and '80s synthesizers, Weird Science is the ultimate teenage boy's fantasy.
Fletch
10:15pm, SBS 2
M
USA, 1985
Director: Michael Ritchie
Starring: Chevy Chase, Joe Don Baker, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson
What's it about?
Two years after National Lampoon's Vacation, Chevy Chase brought his unique 'suave goofball' schtick to the role of investigative reporter Fletch. While working undercover on a drug dealing ring in Venice Beach, Fletch is approached by wealthy cancer victim with an odd request: He wants Fletch's help to murder him, so that his family can get his life insurance money. But Fletch smells a rat, and starts digging further into the story.
Wednesday 30 March
Into the Night
8:30pm, SBS 2
MA15+
USA, 1985
Director: John Landis
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dan Aykroyd, David Bowie
What's it about?
Recently divorced, Ed Okin is struggling with insomnia and depression, until a beautiful jewel smuggler, Diana, enters his life with fracas and and pulls him into an exciting game of international intrigue. A romantic thriller starring award-winning actors Michelle Pfeiffer and Jeff Goldblum, as well as the late David Bowie as a sleazy and mysterious British hitman.
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Red Dawn
10:40pm, SBS 2
M
USA, 1984
Director: John Milius
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, Jennifer Grey
What's it about?
In this Cold War-era classic, director John Milius imagines a world in which things haven't quite turned out in favour of the United States: the 'Commies' are on the march globally, and America is the only one still standing, but not for long. A group of high school students, played by young familiar faces like Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey and Charlie Sheen, decide to team together to fight against the Soviets.
