The movies I grew up on

These are the movies released between 1983 and 1989 that I watched a TON on cable. I kept hearing a lot of these flicks name-dropped on The Rewatchables and wanted to catalogue them. I cut it off at 1990 because I started to see movies in theaters a bit more often, and also began renting movies more.

These are not necessarily my favorite movies from that period. Some I haven't watched in 30 years. Some I might even hate if I saw them now. 


National Lampoon's Vacation
WarGames
A Christmas Story 
All Of Me
Ghostbusters
Gremlins
Karate Kid
Police Academy (and sequels)
Splash
Star Trek 3
Back To The Future
National Lampoon's European Vacation 
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Ferris Bueller's Day Off 
The Golden Child
Space Camp (the first live action movie I saw in theaters, I think)
Stand By Me
Transformers: The Movie
Adventures In Babysitting
Broadcast News 
Dragnet
Harry and the Hendersons
Jaws: The Revenge
Planes, Trains and Automobiles 
The Princess Bride
Raising Arizona
Roxanne
The Secret of My Success
Spaceballs 
Summer School
Three Men and a Baby
Three O'clock High
Beaches
Beetlejuice
Big
Bull Durham
Caddyshack 2
Casual Sex? 
Cocktail
Coming To America 
Daffy Duck's Quackbusters
Die Hard
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 
Funny Farm
The Great Outdoors
Heathers
Johnny Be Good
License To Drive 
The Naked Gun
Switching Channels 
Twins
Vice Versa
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Willow
Always
Back To The Future 2
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
The Burbs
Dad
Dream a Little Dream
The Dream Team
Family Business 
Field of Dreams
Ghostbusters 2
Glory
Gross Anatomy
Honey I Shrunk The Kids
Karate Kid 3
Little Monsters
Look Who's Talking
Major League
The Adventures of Milo and Otis
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 
No Holds Barred
Parenthood
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
She Devil (THAT movie fucking sucks, this I can confirm)
She's Out Of Control
Steel Magnolias
Troop Beverly Hills
UHF
Uncle Buck
The War of the Roses
Weekend At Bernie's
Who's Harry Crumb?
The Wizard

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