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Howard the Duck

Howard the Duck (1986) more movies like this

directed by Willard Huyck
featuring Lea Thompson, Jeffrey Jones, Tim Robbins, Ed Gale, Chip Zien

In this sci-fi comedy from executive producer George Lucas, Howard the Duck is an extra-terrestrial fowl who is accidentally beamed to earth by physicist Dr. Jenning (Jeffrey Jones) and his assistant Phil (Tim Robbins). The two go looking for Howard and find him in the home of Beverly Switzer (Lea Thompson), who was rescued by the interstellar ...

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Dennis the Menace

Dennis the Menace (1993) more movies like this

directed by Nick Castle, Jr.
featuring Walter Matthau, Mason Gamble, Joan Plowright, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson

John Hughes continues the trend he began with the Home Alone series in Dennis the Menace, the Hughes-scripted film version of Hank Ketcham's long-running comic strip, cartoon show, and television comedy. The film opens as Dennis (Mason Gamble) is seen careening down a sidewalk in a beautiful and idealistic suburban town on his training-wheeled ...

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Spacecamp

Spacecamp (1986) more movies like this

directed by Harry Winer
featuring Leaf Phoenix, Kate Capshaw, Lea Thompson, Kelly Preston, Larry B. Scott, Tom Skerritt

This is an eerily prescient family adventure starring Kate Capshaw as Andie, a frustrated NASA astronaut who's never actually been into outer space. Her husband, flight controller Zach (Tom Skerritt), is sympathetic, but he can't influence her place in the rotation. Andie is assigned to train a group of intelligent high school students at the ...

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Back to the Future Part II

Back to the Future Part II (1989) more movies like this

directed by Robert Zemeckis
featuring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson, Harry Waters, Jr.

Things have barely settled from the excitement and resolve of the original Back to the Future, when in pops that crazy inventor Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) with news that in order to prevent a series of events that could ruin the McFly name for posterity, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox ) and his girlfriend are whisked into the future to the ...

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The Wild Life

The Wild Life (1984) more movies like this

directed by Art Linson
featuring Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Eric Stoltz, Jenny Wright, Lea Thompson

Comprised of classic teen movie elements scattered like croutons over a salad, this undistinguished high school drama involves several inconsequential stories at once, set in a seven-day period before the beginning of school. Tom Drake (Christopher Penn, Sean's brother) is a high-school wrestler who loves Eileen (Jenny Wright), but she is more ...

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All the Right Moves

All the Right Moves (1983) more movies like this

directed by Michael Chapman
featuring Tom Cruise, Craig T. Nelson, Lea Thompson, Charles Cioffi, Paul Carafotes

High school athlete Tom Cruise would do anything to escape the dull provincialism of his home town. Cruise's bullying coach Craig T. Nelson cajoles Cruise into seeking an athletic scholarship to a major university. Inevitably, the boy begins to question his goals in life, and soon his soul is the object of a tug of war between Nelson and Cruise's ...

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The Substitute Wife

The Substitute Wife (1994) more movies like this

directed by Peter Werner
featuring Farrah Fawcett, Lea Thompson, Peter Weller, Karis Bryant, Cory Lloyd

A dying wife and mother makes plans for her family in this made-for-television drama. Lea Thompson stars as Amy Hightower, a frontier wife and mother of four who is ill and expected to die. In an unusual move to make sure her family is cared for, she finds a prostitute named Pearl (Farrah Fawcett) and teaches her how to be a wife and mother. The ...

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Some Kind of Wonderful

Some Kind of Wonderful (1987) more movies like this

directed by Howard Deutch
featuring Eric Stoltz, Mary Stuart Masterson, Lea Thompson, Craig Sheffer, John Ashton

In a gender-reversed version of his previous hit Pretty in Pink, John Hughes retreads all-too- familiar ground in Some Kind of Wonderful, the story of a sensitive, young would-be artist, Keith (Eric Stoltz), who vies for the affection of his high school's popularity queen, Amanda (Lea Thompson), seemingly out of some deep-rooted insecurity ...

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Back to the Future

Back to the Future (1985) more movies like this

directed by Robert Zemeckis
featuring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Crispin Glover, Lea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson

Contemporary high schooler Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) doesn't have the most pleasant of lives. Browbeaten by his principal at school, Marty must also endure the acrimonious relationship between his nerdy father (Crispin Glover) and his lovely mother (Lea Thompson), who in turn suffer the bullying of middle-aged jerk Biff (Thomas F. Wilson), ...

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Article 99

Article 99 (1992) more movies like this

directed by Howard Deutch
featuring Ray Liotta, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Lea Thompson, John C. McGinley, Kathy Baker

The title Article 99 refers to a fictional legal loophole which states that American veterans cannot be treated in VA hospitals unless their illnesses are related to their military service. The pinchpenny administrator of a Kansas City hospital intends to follow this proviso to the letter, while his irreverent staff does everything it can to ...

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Nightbreaker (1989) more movies like this

directed by Peter Markle
featuring Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Lea Thompson, Melinda Dillon, Joe Pantoliano

Father-and-son actors Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez star in the made-for-TV movie Nightbreaker. The film was first telecast March 9, 1989, two months after the debut of another TNT Cable Service "original", Finish Line. The earlier film also starred a father and son, James and Josh Brolin; but, whereas the Brolins were cast in parent-child roles ...

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Casual Sex? (1988) more movies like this

directed by Geneviève Robert
featuring Lea Thompson, Victoria Jackson, Stephen Shellen, Jerry Levine, Andrew Dice Clay

In the late '80s, good-time girl Stacy (Lea Thompson) and her timid friend, Melissa (Victoria Jackson), decide to hit a health spa for singles in hopes of spicing up their unfulfilled sex lives. Afraid of AIDS, Stacy has gone celibate, while Melissa has only ever managed to get it on with two lame guys. Arriving at the resort, the women spend ...

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Going Undercover (1988) more movies like this

directed by James Kenelm Clarke
featuring Chris Lemmon, Jean Simmons, Lea Thompson, Nancy Cartwright, Mills Watson

A bungling gumshoe tries hard to affect a hard-boiled demeanor, despite the fact that his latest assignment is to protect the bratty young heiress to a fortune in this lively spoof of detective movies. Henry Brilliant, Private Eye, is no stranger to the ways of the wealthy as he too comes from a blue-blooded family, but he tries to ignore that to ...

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Back to the Future Part III (1990) more movies like this

directed by Robert Zemeckis
featuring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen, Thomas F. Wilson, Lea Thompson

The final installment in the Back to the Future trilogy picks up where the second film left off, but it casts off the dizzying time travel of the first two films for mostly routine comedy set in the Old West. Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) receives a 70-year-old letter from his inventor friend, Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd), who tells Marty that he ...

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The Wizard of Loneliness (1988) more movies like this

directed by Jenny Bowen
featuring Lukas Haas, Lea Thompson, Lance Guest, John Randolph, Dylan Baker

In this film, based on the novel by John Nichols, young Wendall Olet (Lukas Haas) is sent to live with his Aunt Sybil (Lea Thompson) and Uncle John (Lance Guest) when is father is called on to fight in World War II. Lonely and unhappy, Wendall harbors the delusion that he possesses amazing powers and becomes involved in some family secrets. ...

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Senior Skip Day (2007) more movies like this

directed by Nick Weiss
featuring Larry Miller, Tara Reid, Gary Lundy, Norm MacDonald, Lea Thompson

Larry Miller, Tara Reid, and Lea Thompson star in this rowdy party film about a high school senior who hatches a plan to throw the ultimate skip-day bash. Adam is determined to end his high school career with a bang, and what better way to do that than to throw a party in Principal Dickwalder's home? Principal Dickwalder is a strict disciplinarian ...

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California Dreaming (2006) more movies like this

directed by Linda Voorhees
featuring Dave Foley, Lea Thompson, Patricia Richardson, Vicki Lewis, Ethan Phillips

Dave Foley and Lea Thompson star in first-time feature filmmaker Linda Voorhees' comedy drama about a middle-class family from Omaha who slowly slide to the end of their rope during a cross-country trip to Doheny Beach. Stu and Ginger Gainor are your typical American family: Stu is the kind of guy who thrives on the status quo lest he offend ...

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The Unspoken Truth (1995) more movies like this

directed by Peter Werner
featuring Lea Thompson, Patricia Kalember, Robert Englund, Dick O'Neill, Karis Bryant

Made for television, The Unspoken Truth is the factual story of Brianne Hawkins (Lea Thompson), who after enduring a lifetime of abuse at the hands of her family marries the even more abusive Clay Hawkins (James Marshall). Given to beating his wife at the slightest provocation, Clay finally goes completely over the edge when he shoots and kills a ...

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Jane Doe: How to Fire Your Boss (2007) more movies like this

directed by James A. Contner
featuring Lea Thompson, Joe Penny, Shashawnee Hall, William R. Moses

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The Right to Remain Silent (1996) more movies like this

directed by Hubert de la Bouillerie
featuring Lea Thompson, Robert Loggia, Judge Reinhold, Laura San Giacomo, Patrick Dempsey

In this police actioner, a brand-new lady cop's lack of enthusiasm at getting a job behind a criminal processing desk instead of on the streets proves unfounded. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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