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 who were there for it the first time around. Drew McQueenie

and Scott Weinberg are ready to review every major film of the decade one month at a time.

The look at what worked then, what endures now, and how it felt to be there when it all went

down.

Turn back the calendar with us.

It's the 80s all over. Thank you. I'm going to Let's get physical, physical, I want to get physical. Let's get physical. Olivia Newton-John single physical went to

number one where it stayed for 10 straight weeks.

First class U.S. male went up from 18 to 20 cents.

Bear Bryant won his 315th game to become college football's winning as coach,

and on November 30th,

John Holmes was arrested in Miami, Florida on fugitive charges related to the Wonderland

murders later portrayed so vividly in Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights. There's a wild time,

but even so, there were a few movies that snuck out in November of 1981. I'm Drew McGuany,

and welcome to 80s all over. As always, I'm joined by my co-host, Scott Weinberg. November of 1981. I'm Drew McGuinney and welcome to 80s all over. As always,

I'm joined by my co-host, Scott Weinberg. Hi, everybody. I'm Scott. It's weird going from

October of 1981 to November of 1981 because it felt like the buildup to October was like

six weeks of heavy insane movie watching. And this month was relatively slim pickings.

Yeah, October was overloaded with lots of stuff.

And I don't know if November back in the day used to be considered like the dry period before a December Oscar bait.

It seemed like for the most part, November was not dissimilar to February in a way.

It feels like a lot of that must have been like rollout stuff because a lot of the little

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