The Movies of the Eighties
- ISBN-10
- 0517056607
- ISBN-13
- 9780517056608
- Category
- Film criticism
- Pages
- 287
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1990
- Publisher
- Gramercy
- Authors
- Ron Base, David Haslam
Description
Recounts the events of the decade in film, including the inside stories of the greatest films of the 1980s in the United States and abroad
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