SHOW NOTES: Stand by Me (1986)

Synopsis Stand by Me follows four twelve-year-old boys — Gordie, Chris, Teddy, and Vern — who set out on a two-day journey to find the body of a missing boy named Ray Brower. What begins as an exciting adventure quickly becomes something much more meaningful as the boys confront danger,

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SHOW NOTES: Valley Girl (1983)

Synopsis Valley Girl is a 1983 romantic comedy that captures the vibrant culture clash between two distinct Los Angeles teenage worlds. The story follows Julie Richman, a popular, trendsetting Valley girl from the San Fernando Valley, who grows tired of her arrogant boyfriend and her shallow, conformist social circle. When

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SHOW NOTES: One Crazy Summer (1986)

Synopsis An aspiring teenage cartoonist goes to Nantucket for the summer and accidentally gets drafted into a high-stakes class war, where the only way to save a singer’s ancestral home from greedy yacht-club billionaires is by unleashing pure 1980s chaos with the help of a ragtag group of misfits. It’s

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SHOW NOTES: Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

Synopsis Kurt Russell stars as Jack Burton, a big-talking, wisecracking truck driver who’s suddenly hurled into a wild adventure even he could never invent. At the root of it all is Lo Pan, a 2,000-year-old evil magician who rules an empire of spirits beneath San Francisco’s Chinatown. Doomed to a

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SHOW NOTES: The Dark Crystal (1982)

Synopsis Jen, raised by the noble race called the Mystics, has been told that he is the last survivor of his own race, the Gelflings. He sets out to try to find a shard of the dark crystal, a powerful gem that once provided balance to the universe. After the

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SHOW NOTES: The Goonies (1985)

Synopsis The Goonies takes us to Astoria, Oregon, where a group of kids who live in the “Goon Docks” are about to lose their homes to a country club developer. Mikey Walsh (played by Sean Astin) stumbles upon an old treasure map in his family’s attic, leading him and his

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