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Movie
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Date
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Based On
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Midnight Madness
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February 8, 1980 | |
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The Watcher in the Woods (horror film)
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April 17, 1980
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Novel by Florence Engel Randall
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Herbie Goes Bananas
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June 25, 1980
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The Last Flight of Noah’s Ark
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June 25, 1980
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Based on The Gremlin’s Castle (story) by Ernest K. Gann
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Popeye
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Dec. 12, 1980
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Based on the Popeye comic strip
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The Devil and Max Devlin
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March 6, 1981
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Amy
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March 20, 1981
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Dragonslayer
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June 26, 1981
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The Fox and the Hound
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July 10, 1981
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Based on the novel by Daniel P. Mannix
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Condorman
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August 7, 1981
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Based on The Game of X by Robert Sheckley
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Night Crossing
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February 5, 1982
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Based on the true stories Strelzyk and Wetzel families
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Tron
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July 9, 1982
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Tex
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July 30, 1982
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Based on the Novel by S.E. Hinton
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Trenchcoat
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March 11, 1983
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
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April 29, 1983
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Based on the Novel by Ray Bradbury
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Never Cry Wolf
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October 7, 1983
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Based on Fawley Mowat’s Autobiography by the same name
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Return to Oz
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June 21, 1985
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Loosely based on the novels by Frank Baum
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The Black Cauldron
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July 24, 1985
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Based on the first two books in The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander
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The Journey of Natty Gann
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Sept. 27, 1985
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One Magic Christmas
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Nov. 22, 1985
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The Great Mouse Detective
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July 2, 1986
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Based on the children’s book series, Basil of Baker Street by Eve Titus
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Flight of the Navigator
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July 2, 1986
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Benji the Hunted
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June 17, 1987 | |
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The Man from Snowy River II:Return to Snowy River
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April 15, 1988
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Based on the Banjo Paterson poem by the same name
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Oliver & Company
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November 18, 1988
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Inspired by Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
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Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
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June 23, 1989
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Cheetah
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August 18, 1989
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(features the phrase Hakuna Matata)
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The Little Mermaid
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November 17, 1989
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Based on the Danish fairy tale by Hans Christian Anderson
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