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In Wes Craven's classic slasher film, several Midwestern teenagers fall prey to Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), a disfigured midnight mangler who preys on the teenagers in their dreams -- which, in turn, kills them in reality. After investigating the phenomenon, Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) begins to suspect that a dark secret kept by her and her friends' parents may be the key to unraveling the mystery, but can Nancy and her boyfriend Glen (Johnny Depp) solve the puzzle before it's too late?

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Welcome to Cuesta Verde, where every house looks the same and one of them is about to get very different.

Five-year-old Carol Anne starts chatting with the TV static. Chairs slide across the kitchen by themselves. Then a storm rolls in, a tree eats her brother through his bedroom window, and the spirits drag Carol Anne into the closet. Into another dimension. Her voice keeps coming through the TV. Fun!

Enter Tangina, a pint-sized medium with zero patience. Her diagnosis: lost souls are drawn to Carol Anne's light, and something much nastier, "the Beast," wants her for itself. Mom dives through the portal, hauls her daughter back, and Tangina calls the house clean.

Plot twist: it is not clean. Dad's company built the whole neighborhood on a cemetery. They moved the headstones. Not the bodies. Cue skeletons, a house-eating void, and one very done family fleeing to a motel, where Dad launches the TV out the door.

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Killer Klowns from Outer Space is what happens when someone asks, “What if aliens came to Earth… but instead of being terrifying, they were fucking creepy clowns?” A small town in California is minding its own business when a mysterious circus tent suddenly appears in the woods. And, because apparently nobody in this town has ever seen a horror movie, people start wandering toward it. Inside is an entire race of murderous extraterrestrial clowns who have come to Earth looking for dinner—and humans are apparently what’s on the menu. Armed with cotton-candy guns, balloon animals, killer shadow puppets, and giant clown mallets, the Klowns proceed to turn the town into their personal circus. Meanwhile, a couple of teenagers try to convince everyone that the clowns are actually aliens and that maybe—just maybe—they should stop going anywhere near them.

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Seymour Krelborn is a nerdy, downtrodden employee at a failing Skid Row flower shop who spends his days pining for his coworker Audrey, who is stuck in an abusive relationship with a sadistic dentist (Steve Martin). Everything changes when Seymour discovers a strange, unidentified plant during a total eclipse. He names it Audrey II, and it turns the struggling shop into a sensation. There's just one problem: the plant is a wisecracking, soul-singing carnivore that needs human blood to survive, and its appetite keeps growing. As Seymour gets sucked into the fame, the fortune, and a few increasingly bad decisions, he has to figure out how far he'll go for a shot at success and the girl of his dreams, before Audrey II decides to take over the whole world.

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Summer camp, counselors, mysterious killings

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 Hoosiers follows Norman Dale, a former college basketball coach with a troubled past, who takes a job coaching the high school team in the tiny Indiana town of Hickory. The team is struggling, the town has very strong opinions about basketball, and Norman's unconventional coaching style isn't exactly winning him any popularity contests. But with the help of a talented young player, a troubled former basketball star, and a team that slowly learns to trust one another, Hickory begins to find its rhythm. As the boys make an unlikely run towards the state championship, Norman has to confront his own past while the team learns that being the smallest school in the tournament doesn't mean that they can't play with the biggest. Set against the backdrop of the 1950s Indiana basketball, Hoosiers is ultimately a story about second chances, teamwork, small town pride, and believing in yourself when pretty much everyone else thinks you're already v- Set against the backdrop of 1950s Indiana basketball, Hoosiers is ultimately a story about second chances, teamwork, small town pride, and believing in yourself when pretty much everyone else thinks you've already lost.

Kristin and Carole are off this week, so Jeannine is joined by a returning favorite: Tommy, back in the co-host chair for a movie he specifically requested and clearly knows inside and out.

Flight of the Navigator follows 12-year-old David Freeman, who vanishes in the woods in 1978 and wakes up eight years later without having aged a single day. His little brother is now older than he is. His parents have moved on without him. And NASA wants very badly to know exactly where he's been. Then David finds Max, a wildly sarcastic alien spacecraft, and the two of them end up on a journey that's part sci-fi adventure and part heartbreaking meditation on what it means to lose everyone you love to time itself.

They get into the cast too. Long before Sex and the City, a young Sarah Jessica Parker appears in this film, and by her own account, she barely remembers making it. Veronica Cartwright, who plays David's mom, brings a resume that includes Alien and The Birds. And they spend real time on lead actor Joey Cramer's story, since his life after the movie took a much harder turn than anyone watching in 1986 could have guessed.

There's also a great bit of movie trivia: director Randal Kleiser and George Lucas were college roommates, and the special effects company behind the film's groundbreaking CGI spaceship folded not long after the movie came out.

Did Flight of the Navigator age well? Listen and find out.

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Dirty Dancing takes us to a Catskills resort in the summer of 1963, where 17-year-old Baby Houseman falls in with the staff after hours and ends up covering for dance instructor Penny by stepping in as Johnny Castle's new partner. We can't get past the age gap between Baby and Johnny, something nobody in 1987 seemed to blink at. We also dig into the abortion subplot that almost cost the movie its Clearasil sponsorship, since the company backed out once they found out and the writer refused to cut it anyway.

Turns out the shoot was just as dramatic as the movie itself. Filming ran 43 brutal days in 105-degree heat, and Patrick Swayze blew out his knee doing his own stunt on the log scene. By the time they got to the lake scene in October, the water was almost 40 degrees, and Jennifer Grey only did it because she was young and broke. The final lift was never rehearsed; they went for it live on camera and it worked. Vestron's own producer reportedly told the team to burn the negative and collect the insurance after seeing the rough cut. The movie then made $214 million and became the top video rental the following year.

Did Dirty Dancing age well? Listen and find out.

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This episode is dedicated to Dolly Parton, who passed away last week at 80. Kristin, Jeannine, and Carole had another movie planned, but pivoted to spend the week with one of Dolly's most beloved films instead.

9 to 5 follows three coworkers, played by Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton, who've had enough of their sexist, credit-stealing boss Franklin Hart. After a shared joint leads to three increasingly unhinged revenge fantasies, each woman gets her own dream sequence. Judy imagines hunting Hart down like the deer head mounted on his office wall. Doralee flips the office harassment script and turns him into the one getting ogled. Violet's fantasy goes full animated Snow White, right down to a poisoned cup of coffee.

Then the plot takes a hard left. A broken chair and a mixed-up mug send Hart to the hospital under circumstances nobody can quite explain, and what started as workplace satire turns into a full screwball caper involving a stolen body and a getaway that gets harder to justify to the cops by the minute.

They also spend real time on the people behind it: Fonda's decades as an outspoken activist, Tomlin's path from Laugh-In to Grace and Frankie, and the fact that Dolly wrote the film's title track using her own acrylic fingernails to create that iconic clicking rhythm.

Did 9 to 5 age well? Listen and find out.

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Stand by Me follows four twelve-year-old boys: Gordie, Chris, Teddy, and Vern, who set out on a two-day journey to find the body of a missing boy named Ray Brower. What begins as an exciting adventure quickly becomes something much more meaningful as the boys confront danger, fear, and the complicated realities of growing up.

Starring:

Wil Wheaton

River Phoenix

Corey Feldman

Jerry O'Connell

Kiefer Sutherland and

Richard Dreyfuss

Released: August 22, 1986

Rated: R

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