Do the Right Thing(1989)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 80

On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.



Driving Miss Daisy(1989)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 75

An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.



When Harry Met Sally...(1989)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship.



Dead Poets Society(1989)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

English teacher John Keating inspires his students to look at poetry with a different perspective of authentic knowledge and feelings.



Say Anything...(1989)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 67

A noble underachiever and a beautiful valedictorian fall in love the summer before she goes off to college.



Parenthood(1989)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 68

The Buckmans are a midwestern family all dealing with their lives: estranged relatives, raising children, pressures of the job, and learning to be a good parent and spouse.



Sex, Lies, and Videotape(1989)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 68

A sexually repressed woman's husband is having an affair with her sister. The arrival of a visitor with a rather unusual fetish changes everything.



Born on the Fourth of July(1989)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 62

The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.



Crimes and Misdemeanors(1989)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 64

An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated with another woman.



The Abyss(1989)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 55

A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and face danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.



Field of Dreams(1989)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 57

An Iowa corn farmer, hearing voices, interprets them as a command to build a baseball diamond in his fields; he does, and the 1919 Chicago White Sox come.



Drugstore Cowboy(1989)

Combined Rating:
65
Combined Critics Rating: 58

A pharmacy-robbing dope fiend and his crew pop pills and evade the law.



My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown(1989)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 49

Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.



Sea of Love(1989)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 51

A detective investigating a series of murders becomes involved with a woman who may be the culprit.



Henry V(1989)

Combined Rating:
54
Combined Critics Rating: 42

In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.



All Dogs Go to Heaven(1989)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 38

A dog returns from the dead looking for revenge on his killer using an orphan girl who can talk to animals.



Valmont(1989)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 47

Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an...



A Dry White Season(1989)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 55

Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener's son is brutally beaten up by the police ...



UHF(1989)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 31

An unemployed visionary becomes the manager of a local public station. The station becomes a success, with all sorts of hilarious sight gags and wacky humor.



Lock Up(1989)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 26

With only six months left of his sentence, inmate Frank Leone is transferred from a minimum security prison to a maximum security prison by a vindictive warden.




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