1987 in film
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[edit] Events
- May 9 - Actor Tom Cruise marries actress Mimi Rogers.
- November 21 - Actor Bruce Willis marries actress Demi Moore.
[edit] Top grossing films
- Three Men and a Baby, starring Ted Danson, Steve Guttenberg, and Tom Selleck
- Fatal Attraction, starring Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, and Anne Archer
- Beverly Hills Cop II, starring Eddie Murphy
- Good Morning, Vietnam, starring Robin Williams
- Moonstruck, starring Cher, Nicolas Cage
- The Untouchables, starring Kevin Costner, Sean Connery and Robert De Niro.
- The Secret of My Succe$s, starring Michael J. Fox
- Stakeout, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, Madeleine Stowe, and Aidan Quinn
- Lethal Weapon, starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, and Gary Busey
- The Witches of Eastwick, starring Susan Sarandon, Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer
[edit] Awards
- Best Picture: The Last Emperor - Hemdale, Columbia
- Best Director: Bernardo Bertolucci - The Last Emperor
- Best Actor: Michael Douglas - Wall Street
- Best Actress: Cher - Moonstruck
- Best Supporting Actor: Sean Connery - The Untouchables
- Best Supporting Actress: Olympia Dukakis - Moonstruck
- Best Foreign Language Film: Babette's Feast (Babettes Gæstebud), directed by Gabriel Axel (Denmark)
- Drama:
- Best Picture: The Last Emperor
- Best Actor: Michael Douglas - Wall Street
- Best Actress: Sally Kirkland - Anna
- Musical or Comedy:
- Best Picture: Hope and Glory
- Best Actor: Robin Williams - Good Morning, Vietnam
- Best Actress: Cher - Moonstruck
- Other
- Best Director: Bernardo Bertolucci - The Last Emperor
- Best Foreign Language Film: My Life as a Dog (Sweden)
PALM D'OR (Cannes Film Festival):
- Under the Sun of Satan (Sous le soleil de Satan), directed by Maurice Pialat, France
[edit] Films released in 1987
- Adventures in Babysitting
- L'Ami de mon amie (My Girlfriend's Boyfriend or Boyfriends and Girlfriends)
- Anna
- Aria (10 short films)
- Au revoir, les enfants
- Babette's Feast (Babettes Gæstebud)
- Baby Boom, starring Diane Keaton
- Backfire
- Bad Taste, written and directed by Peter Jackson et al.
- Bagdad Café, also known as Out of Rosenheim
- The Bedroom Window
- Bellman and True
- The Belly of an Architect
- Beverly Hills Cop II
- The Big Easy
- The Brave Little Toaster
- Broadcast News
- Business as Usual
- Dark Eyes
- Daughter of the Nile (Niluohe nuer)
- Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam, aka Dear America
- Diary for My Loves (Napló szerelmeimnek)
- Dirty Dancing
- Family Viewing
- Fatal Attraction
- Fatal Beauty
- Five Corners, starring Tim Robbins, Jodie Foster, and John Turturro
- Full Metal Jacket
- Ghost Chase
- Le Grand Chemin
- Ground Zero
- A Hungarian Fairy Tale (Hol volt, hol nem volt)
- Innerspace
- The Gate
- Good Morning, Vietnam
- Hanoi Hilton
- The Hidden
- Hiding Out, starring Jon Cryer
- High Tide
- The Last Emperor
- The Living Daylights
- The Lost Boys
- Lethal Weapon
- Masters of the Universe starring Dolph Lundgren & Courteney Cox
- Matewan
- Mio in the Land of Faraway
- The Monster Squad
- Moonstruck
- Mr. Nice Guy starring Mike MacDonald and Jan Smithers
- My Life as a Dog
- A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
- Overboard starring Kurt Russell & Goldie Hawn
- Predator
- The Principal
- Prince of Darkness starring Donald Pleasence, Jameson Parker and Victor Wong
- The Princess Bride
- Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise with Robert Carradine and Courtney Thorne-Smith
- RoboCop starring Peter Weller
- Roxanne starring Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah
- The Secret of My Succe$s
- Some Kind of Wonderful starring Eric Stoltz, Mary Stuart Masterson and Lea Thompson
- Spaceballs directed by Mel Brooks
- Square Dance
- Stakeout
- Straight to Hell
- Summer School with Courtney Thorne-Smith
- Superman IV: The Quest For Peace starring Christopher Reeve
- Teen Wolf Too
- Three Men and a Baby
- Tropic Of Ice
- Under the Sun of Satan (Sous le soleil de Satan)
- The Untouchables
- Waiting for the Moon
- Walker
- Wall Street
- Wish You Were Here with Emily Lloyd and Tom Bell
- The Witches of Eastwick
- Withnail and I
[edit] Births
- February 11 - Jesse McCartney, actor and singer
- September 22 - Tom Felton, actor
- September 28 - Hilary Duff
- July 30 - Phillip Mataway
- November 18 - Courtney Weller
[edit] Deaths
- January 15 - Ray Bolger, actor, singer, dancer
- March 3 - Danny Kaye, actor
- 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
- October 13 - Kishore Kumar, actor, singer
