February 1985

'80s All Over

Scott Weinberg and Drew McWeeny

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.6 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

An Oscar-winning actor directs a bunch of dancers with a dream, Richard Harris hits the road with someone else's kid, and it's time for classy Porky's! We meet Kiefer Sutherland for the first time, Matthew Modine tries to make weight, and Kurt Russell does the serial-killer two-step. All that plus Harrison Ford's best performance, a Jeff Goldblum cult oddity, and the greatest high school movie ever made? Don't you forget about February of 1985.

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0:00.0	There are few decades in film history that have been as scrutinized as the 1980s. But to really understand the decade and its movies, it's going to take a couple some ones
0:23.2	who were there for it the first time around.
0:25.7	Drew McQueenie and Scott Weinberg are ready to review every major film of the decade
0:30.5	one month at a time.
0:31.9	The look at what worked then, what endures now, and how it felt to be there when it all went
0:36.9	down.
0:39.4	Turn back the calendar with us.
1:24.5	It's the 80s all over. Thank you. I'm going to New York City decided to pick an official anthem, and to absolutely no one's surprise, it was G.G. Allen's New York tonight. Oh, no, no, wait, it was New York, New York.
1:33.2	Also, Coca-Cola changed the course of Western civilization and waged war on my teeth by
1:37.6	introducing cherry-coked consumers, both canned and bottled.
1:41.2	EastEnders aired its first episode on the BBC.
1:43.9	Mickey Mouse made his first
1:45.2	official trip to China, and no, I don't know how that worked either, and I was alive when it
1:48.6	happened. And music belonged to the ladies.
1:56.2	What's Love Got to Do With It and Cindy Lopper slated the Grammys? Radio was dizzy in love
2:00.2	with Madonna, whose album Like a Virgin sat on top of the charts
2:02.9	all month, even as a debut album
2:04.7	by young Whitney Houston hit shelves.
2:07.3	How well I know if he really loves me?
2:11.2	I say a friend with every heartbeat.
2:15.1	That is indeed the sweet sound of
2:16.7	February 1985 that you hear, my friends.
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