Monkey Shines(1988)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 54

A quadriplegic man has a trained monkey help him with his paralysis, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master.



The Accidental Tourist(1988)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 46

An emotionally distant writer of travel guides must carry on with his life after his son is killed and his marriage crumbles.



Bloodsport(1988)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 32

Follows Frank Dux, an American martial artist serving in the military, who decides to leave the army to compete in a martial arts tournament in Hong Kong where fights to the death can occur.



Cocktail(1988)

Combined Rating:
50
Combined Critics Rating: 30

A talented New York City bartender takes a job at a bar in Jamaica and falls in love.



Akira(1988)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 25

A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.



Colors(1988)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 33

An experienced cop and his rookie partner patrol the streets of East Los Angeles while trying to keep the gang violence under control.



Hotaru no haka(1988)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 22

A young boy and his little sister struggle to survive in Japan during World War II.



Frantic(1988)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 22

In a hotel room in Paris, a doctor comes out of the shower and finds that his wife has disappeared. He soon finds himself caught up in a world of intrigue, espionage, gangsters, drugs and murder.



School Daze(1988)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 42

A not so popular young man wants to pledge to a popular fraternity at his historically black college.



Stand and Deliver(1988)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 28

The story of Jaime Escalante, a high school teacher who successfully inspired his dropout prone students to learn calculus.



Beaches(1988)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.



Le grand bleu(1988)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 18

The rivalry between Enzo and Jacques, two childhood friends and now world-renowned free divers, becomes a beautiful and perilous journey into oneself and the unknown.



High Hopes(1988)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 42

Slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mother, who's aging quickly and becoming forgetful, mum's ghastly upper-middle-class neighbors, and ...



The Unbearable Lightness of Being(1988)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 17

In 1968, a Czech doctor with an active sex life meets a woman who wants monogamy, and then the Soviet invasion further disrupts their lives.



Talk Radio(1988)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 24

A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national.



She's Having a Baby(1988)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 23

Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their parents) expect from them. Do they want ...



Above the Law(1988)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 13

A former Special Operations Vietnam vet works as a Chicago cop, and uncovers C.I.A. wrongdoing.



Running on Empty(1988)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 18

The eldest son of a fugitive family comes of age and wants to live a life of his own.



Biloxi Blues(1988)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A group of young recruits go through boot camp during the Second World War in Biloxi, Mississippi. From the play by Neil Simon.



Another Woman(1988)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Facing a mid-life crisis, a woman rents an apartment next to a psychiatrist's office to write a new book, only to become drawn to the plight of a pregnant woman seeking that doctor's help.




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