Bring your big hair, shoulder pads, fingerless gloves, rubiks cubes and space hoppers, load up the soda stream, stock up with sherbet dib-dabs, and leave the flicks to Showtime. This July Showtime are going retro and bringing you back to the 80’s, join us as we re-live the magic through some of the most awesome movies of cinema history.
It's risky business behind the taps and bottles of New York's bar scene in the 80’s hit movie Cocktail, but cocky outsider Tom Cruise dreams the color of money and all the right moves to become a libation legend and a top gun bartender. Can Elisabeth Shue's endless love change him, or does he risk losin' it all?
Let Tom take your breath away once more in Top Gun, the hit that had us feeling the need for speed. Devil-may-care navy pilot Pete Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is sent to Miramar Naval Air Station for advanced training. Here he vies with Tom Kasansky (Val Kilmer) for the coveted "Top Gun" award. When not so occupied, Mitchell carries on a romance with civilian consultant Charlotte Blackwood (Kelly McGillis), lots of blazing jets, rock and roll and dogfight finales!
Grab your leg warmers, and relive the song What a Feeling that made Flashdance an Oscar winner in 1984. Jennifer Beals is a maniac on the floor, and in this film, she's dancin' like she's never danced before. The hit features Beals as a welder with aspirations of attending a prestigious dance academy. In the meantime, she spends her nights performing risqué dance numbers at a club.
Another instant musical cinematic sensation was Saturday Night Fever; a hit film that propelled John Travolta to stardom, made white polyester suits an instant fashion craze and almost single-handedly popularized disco music. Travolta plays Tony Manero, a Brooklyn paint store clerk who'd give anything to break out of his dead-end existence. In life, Tony is a peasant; on the disco dance floor, he's a king. As the soundtrack plays one Bee Gees hit after another (including "Stayin' Alive"), we watch white-suited Tony strut his stuff amidst flashing lights and sweaty, undulating bodies. Tony's class aspirations are mirrored in his relationship with his dance partner Stephanie (Karen Lynn Gorney), a secretary eager to move into the glamorous world of Manhattan.
Few filmmakers managed to capture the awkward coming-of-age catastrophes of '80s teens the way John Hughes did in the teenage classic Pretty in Pink. Andie Walsh (Molly Ringwald) is a poor but fashion-conscious girl living in the dingy part of town with her terminally underemployed dad. Andie develops a crush on one of the rich boys in her school, Blane McDonnagh. When Andie and Blane try to get together, the pair encounter resistance from their respective social circles. The romance versus high school social politics finally culminates at the big night of the prom in a Cinderella style ending!
Join Showtime this July and take a trip down memory lane to the Kokomo or the Copacabana, follow Coughlin's law, rediscover how deep is your love, juggle great balls of fire, be pretty in pink and enjoy the hot summer nights as you relive the feeling of the 80’s classics.
Editors Notes:
7th July SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (1977) | Movietime at 21:00 KSA
13th July TOP GUN (1986)| Movietime at 21:00 KSA
14th July FLASH DANCE (1983)| Movietime at 21:00 KSA
22nd July PRETTY IN PINK (1986) | Movietime at 21:00 KSA
29th July COCKTAIL (1988) | Movietime at 21:00 KSA
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