In this epilogue to our season on the awesome movie year of 1987, we talk about alternate movies we considered including in all of our different categories this season, and read suggestions from some listeners about their favorite 1987 movies.

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The finale of our season on the awesome movie year of 1987 features our audience choice pick, Paul Verhoeven’s RoboCop. Directed by Paul Verhoeven from a screenplay by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner and starring Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Miguel Ferrer, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith and Daniel O’Herlihy, RoboCop prevailed over two other classic action movies in our 1987 audience choice poll.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/robocop-1987), Michael Wilmington in the Los Angeles Times (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-07-17-ca-2777-story.html), and Dave Kehr in the Chicago Tribune (https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1987-07-17-8702220474-story.html).

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You can find our producer David Rosen’s Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com, on Twitter at @piecingpod and the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod.

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This bonus episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1987 features a special Thanksgiving pick, John Hughes’ Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Written and directed by John Hughes and starring Steve Martin, John Candy and Laila Robins, Planes, Trains and Automobiles marked Hughes’ transition from teen movies to more adult fare.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/planes-trains-and-automobiles-1987), Richard Schickel in Time, and Janet Maslin in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/25/movies/film-planes-trains-and-automobiles.html).

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You can find our producer David Rosen’s Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com, on Twitter at @piecingpod and the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod.

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The twelfth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1987 features our future cult classic pick, Bruce Robinson’s Withnail and I. Written and directed by Bruce Robinson and starring Paul McGann, Richard E. Grant, Richard Griffiths and Ralph Brown, Withnail and I was inspired by Robinson’s own experiences as a young man in the 1960s.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Vincent Canby in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/19/movies/film-withnail-and-i-a-british-60-s-comedy.html), Joel Siegel in the Chicago Reader (https://chicagoreader.com/film/two-english-guys/), and Hilary Mantel in The Spectator (http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/27th-february-1988/37/cinema).

Thanks to our guest Jon Towlson, author of 40 Cult Movies: From Alice, Sweet Alice to Zombies of Mora Tau. Check out Jon on Twitter at @systemshocks and purchase his book on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/40-Cult-Movies-Alice-Zombies/dp/B0CKLR41KW).

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You can find our producer David Rosen’s Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com, on Twitter at @piecingpod and the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod.

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Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1987 installment, featuring a special Thanksgiving pick, John Hughes’ Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

The twelfth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1987 features our producer David Rosen’s pick, Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead II. Directed and co-written by Sam Raimi and starring Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks and Kassie Wesley, Evil Dead II helped launch the ongoing Evil Dead franchise.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/evil-dead-2-dead-by-dawn-1987), Caryn James in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/13/movies/film-evil-dead-2-dead-by-dawn.html), and Kevin Thomas in the Los Angeles Times (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-03-13-ca-5566-story.html).

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You can find our producer David Rosen’s Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com, on Twitter at @piecingpod and the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod.

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The eleventh episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1987 features the Academy Awards Best Picture winner, Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor. Directed and co-written by Bernardo Bertolucci and starring John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O’Toole and Ying Ruocheng, The Last Emperor was nominated for nine Oscars and won them all.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-last-emperor-1987), Sheila Benson in the Los Angeles Times (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-11-20-ca-15017-story.html), and Pauline Kael in The New Yorker.

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You can find our producer David Rosen’s Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com, on Twitter at @piecingpod and the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod.

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Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1987 installment, featuring our producer David Rosen’s pick, Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead 2.

The tenth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1987 features a special Halloween selection, Joel Schumacher’s The Lost Boys. Directed by Joel Schumacher and starring Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Kiefer Sutherland, Dianne Wiest, Jami Gertz and Corey Feldman, The Lost Boys had a major influence on the development of the vampire genre.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-lost-boys-1987), Caryn James in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/31/movies/film-the-lost-boys.html), and Michael Wilmington in the Los Angeles Times (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-07-31-ca-188-story.html).

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You can find our producer David Rosen’s Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com, on Twitter at @piecingpod and the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod.

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The ninth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1987 features a Sundance Film Festival award winner, Lizzie Borden’s Working Girls. Directed and co-written by Lizzie Borden and starring Louise Smith, Ellen McElduff, Amanda Goodwin and Marusia Zach, Working Girls premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival and won Special Jury Recognition at Sundance in 1987.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode comes from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/working-girls-1987), Vincent Canby in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/27/movies/film-working-girls.html), and Sheila Benson in the Los Angeles Times (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-03-27-ca-291-story.html).

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You can find our producer David Rosen’s Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com, on Twitter at @piecingpod and the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod.

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Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1987 installment, featuring a special Halloween selection, Joel Schumacher’s The Lost Boys.

The eighth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1987 features Jason’s personal pick, Rob Reiner’s The Princess Bride. Directed by Rob Reiner from a screenplay by William Goldman and starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon and Andre the Giant, The Princess Bride was adapted by Goldman from his own 1973 novel.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-princess-bride-1987), Janet Maslin in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/25/movies/film-princess-bride-full-length-fairy-tale.html), and Michael Wilmington in the Los Angeles Times (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-09-25-ca-6496-story.html).

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You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ and on Twitter @signalbleed

You can find our producer David Rosen’s Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com, on Twitter at @piecingpod and the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod.

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Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1987 installment, featuring a Sundance Film Festival award winner, Lizzie Borden’s Working Girls.

The seventh episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1987 features our foreign film pick, Abbas Kiarostami’s Where Is the Friend’s House?. Written and directed by Abbas Kiarostami and starring Babak Ahmadpour, Ahmed Ahmadpour and Khodabaksh Defai, Where Is the Friend’s House? is the first movie in Kiarostami’s acclaimed Koker trilogy.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Gemma Files in Eye Weekly, Jonathan Rosenbaum in the Chicago Reader (https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/where-is-my-friends-house/), and Dennis Schwartz in Ozus World Movie Reviews (https://dennisschwartzreviews.com/whereismyfriendshouse/).

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You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ and on Twitter @signalbleed

You can find our producer David Rosen’s Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com, on Twitter at @piecingpod and the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod.

You can also follow us all on Letterboxd to keep up with what we've been watching at goforjason, signalbleed and bydavidrosen.

Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year, plus fellow podcasts Piecing It Together and All Rice No Beans, and music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosen

All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.com

Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1987 installment, featuring Jason’s personal pick, Rob Reiner’s The Princess Bride.