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 9 - Actor Tom Cruise marries actress Mimi Rogers.

• July 19 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is rereleased and celebrated for its 50th birthday.

• November 18 - The Last Emperor, Bernardo Bertolucci's epic drama about the historical events 20th Century China, is released in the U.S.

• November 21 - Actor Bruce Willis marries actress Demi Moore.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Awards

Films released in 1987

• 84 Charing Cross Road starring Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft and Judi Dench

• Adventures in Babysitting (Also known as "A Night on the Town" in the UK), starring Elisabeth Shue

• L'Ami de mon amie (My Girlfriend's Boyfriend or Boyfriends and Girlfriends)

• American Ninja 2: The Confrontation

• Angel Heart, directed by Alan Parker, starring Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro and Lisa Bonet

• Anna, starring Sally Kirkland and Paulina Porizkova

• Aria (10 short films)

• Assassination

• Au revoir, les enfants - Golden Lion award

• Babette's Feast (Babettes Gæstebud) - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

• Baby Boom, starring Diane Keaton

• Backfire

• Bad Taste, written and directed by Peter Jackson et al.

• Bagdad Café, also known as Out of Rosenheim, Golden Space Needle award (for 1988)

• Barfly

• *batteries not included starring Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy

• The Bedroom Window

• Bellman and True

• The Belly of an Architect

• Benji the Hunted

• Best Seller, starring James Woods and Brian Dennehy

• Beverly Hills Cop II

• The Big Easy, starring Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin

• Black Widow, starring Debra Winger and Theresa Russell

• Blind Date, starring Bruce Willis and Kim Basinger

• Born in East L.A.

• The Brave Little Toaster

• Broadcast News, directed by James L. Brooks, starring William Hurt, Albert Brooks and Holly Hunter

• Burglar, starring Whoopi Goldberg

• Business as Usual

• Buy & Cell

• Can't Buy Me Love, starring Patrick Dempsey and Amanda Peterson

• Captain Khorshid, directed by Nasser Taghvai

• The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland

• Catch The Heat

• Cherry 2000

• The Chipmunk Adventure

• Cold Steel

• Commando Squad

• Cry Freedom, starring Kevin Kline and Denzel Washington

• Cyclone

• Dark Eyes, starring Marcello Mastroianni

• Daughter of the Nile (Niluohe nuer)

• The Dead directed by John Huston starring his daughter, Anjelica Huston

• Deadline

• Deadly Prey

• Dead of Winter

• Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam, aka Dear America

• Death Before Dishonor

• Death Wish 4: The Crackdown

• Diary for My Loves (Napló szerelmeimnek)

• Dirty Dancing, starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey

• Down Twisted

• Dragnet

• Empire of the Sun, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Christian Bale

• Enemy Territory

• Ernest Goes to Camp

• Evil Dead II

• Extreme Prejudice

• Family Viewing

• Fatal Attraction, starring Michael Douglas, Glenn Close and Anne Archer

• Fatal Beauty, starring Whoopi Goldberg

• Five Corners, starring Tim Robbins, Jodie Foster, and John Turturro

• Flowers in the Attic

• Full Metal Jacket, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Matthew Modine and Vincent D'Onofrio

• Gardens of Stone, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring James Caan, Anjelica Huston and James Earl Jones

• The Gate

• Ghost Chase

• G.I. Joe: The Movie

• Le Grand Chemin

• Going Home, directed by Terence Ryan, nominated for Canadian Gemini Award

• Good Morning, Vietnam, directed by Barry Levinson, starring Robin Williams

• Ground Zero

• Hamburger Hill

• Harry and the Hendersons, starring John Lithgow and Melinda Dillon

• The Hanoi Hilton

• Hello Again

• Hellraiser

• The Hidden

• Hiding Out, starring Jon Cryer

• High Tide

• Hollywood Shuffle

• Hope and Glory, directed by John Boorman - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)

• House II: The Second Story

• A Hungarian Fairy Tale (Hol volt, hol nem volt)

• Innerspace, starring Dennis Quaid, Martin Short and Meg Ryan

• Ironweed, starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep

• Ishtar, starring Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman and Isabelle Adjani

• Jaws: The Revenge

• Jocks

• Julia and Julia

• King Lear

• La Bamba featuring Lou Diamond Phillips and Esai Morales

• Lady Beware with Diane Lane

• The Last Emperor - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture

• Leonard Part 6 - Won three Razzie Awards for Worst Picture, Actor and Screenplay

• Less Than Zero, starring Andrew McCarthy, Jami Gertz and Robert Downey, Jr.

• Lethal Weapon, starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover

• The Liberators, directed by Kenneth Johnson, starring Robert Carradine, Larry B. Scott, James Mainprize, Cynthia Dale and James Douglas

• Light of Day

• Like Father Like Son

• The Living Daylights

• The Lost Boys, directed by Joel Schumacher, starring Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Kiefer Sutherland, Corey Feldman, Jami Gertz and Dianne Wiest

• Made in Heaven starring Timothy Hutton and Kelly McGillis

• Maid to Order

• Making Mr. Right

• Malone

• Mannequin, starring Andrew McCarthy and Kim Cattrall

• Man On Fire

• Masters of the Universe starring Dolph Lundgren, Frank Langella and Courteney Cox

• Matewan

• Maurice

• Mio in the Land of Faraway

• The Monster Squad

• Moonstruck, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Cher, Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia, Olympia Dukakis and Danny Aiello

• Mr. Nice Guy starring Mike MacDonald and Jan Smithers

• Mutant Hunt

• My Life as a Dog, directed by Lasse Hallström, Golden Space Needle award

• My Little Girl

• Near Dark

• Nekromantik

• A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

• No Man's Land starring Charlie Sheen, D. B. Sweeney, and Randy Quaid

• No Way Out with Kevin Costner, Will Patton, Sean Young and Gene Hackman

• Number One With A Bullet

• Nuts starring Barbra Streisand and Richard Dreyfuss

• Opera directed by Dario Argento

• Outrageous Fortune

• Overboard starring Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn

• Over the Top starring Sylvester Stallone

• Pelle the Conqueror - Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film (for 1988)

• Planes, Trains and Automobiles - starring Steve Martin and John Candy

• A Prayer for the Dying

• Predator, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger

• The Principal, starring Jim Belushi

• Prince of Darkness starring Donald Pleasence, Jameson Parker and Victor Wong

• The Princess Bride, directed by Rob Reiner, starring Cary Elwes and Robin Wright Penn

• Project X (film) directed by Jonathan Kaplan, starring Helen Hunt and Matthew Broderick

• Radio Days, directed by Woody Allen

• Rage To Kill

• Raising Arizona, starring Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter

• Real Men

• Red Sorghum (Hong gao liang) - Golden Bear award (for 1988)

• Rent-A-Cop

• Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise with Robert Carradine and Courtney Thorne-Smith

• RoboCop starring Peter Weller and Nancy Allen

• Roxanne starring Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah

• Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise

• The Running Man

• Scenes from the Goldmine

• The Secret of My Succe$s, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Michael J. Fox

• Slam Dance

• The Sicilian

• Some Kind of Wonderful starring Eric Stoltz, Mary Stuart Masterson and Lea Thompson

• Someone to Watch Over Me directed by Ridley Scott starring Tom Berenger and Mimi Rogers

• Spaceballs directed by Mel Brooks, starring Brooks, John Candy and Rick Moranis

• Square Dance

• Squeeze, The

• Skateout, starring Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez

• Star Slammer

• The Stepfather

• Steel Dawn

• Steele Justice

• Straight to Hell

• Street Smart, starring Christopher Reeve and Morgan Freeman

• Street Trash

• Stripped to Kill

• Summer School, starring Mark Harmon and Kirstie Alley

• Superman IV: The Quest for Peace starring Christopher Reeve

• Suspect, starring Cher and Dennis Quaid

• Switching Channels

• Teen Wolf Too, starring Jason Bateman

• Three for the Road

• Three Men and a Baby, starring Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson

• Throw Momma from the Train, starring Danny DeVito, Billy Crystal, Anne Ramsey and Kate Mulgrew

• Tin Men

• Tropic of Ice

• Under the Sun of Satan (Sous le soleil de Satan) - Palme d'Or award

• The Untouchables, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro, Andy García and Charles Martin Smith

• Waiting for the Moon

• Walker

• Wall Street, directed by Oliver Stone, starring Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen and Daryl Hannah

• Wanted: Dead or Alive

• Weeds

• The Whales of August starring Bette Davis and Lillian Gish

• The Wild Pair

• Wild Thing

• Who's That Girl, starring Madonna and Griffin Dunne

• Wings of Desire, directed by Wim Wenders

• Wish You Were Here with Emily Lloyd and Tom Bell

• The Witches of Eastwick, starring Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer

• Het mysterie van het lam ("The Mystery of the Lamb"), is a Belgium animated feature directed by Frederic Duchau.

• Withnail and I

Wide-release movies

January-March

April-June

July-September

October-December

Births

• April 9 - Jesse McCartney, actor and singer

• April 12 - Brendon Urie, Panic! at the Disco vocalist

• April 27 - William Moseley, actor

• September 22 - Tom Felton, actor

• September 28 - Hilary Duff

• September 7 - Evan Rachel Wood, Actress

• September 11 - Tyler Hoechlin, actor

• October 18 - Zac Efron, actor

• November 5 - Kevin Jonas, Musician

• November 18 - Courtney Weller

• November 30 - Dougie Poynter, McFly bassist

Deaths

• January 15 - Ray Bolger, actor, singer, dancer

• March 3 - Danny Kaye, actor

• March 21 - Robert Preston, actor, singer

• May 14 - Rita Hayworth, actress

• June 1 - Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, director

• June 22 - Fred Astaire, actor, singer, dancer

• July 3 - Viola Dana, actress

• August 1 - Pola Negri, actress

• August 28 - John Huston, actor, director

• September 25 - Mary Astor, actress

• October 13 - Kishore Kumar, actor, singer

Film Debuts

• Patricia Clarkson

• Uma Thurman

• Bruce Willis