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OK that was an exaggeration but I said it because I can't think of a single movie I have seen with Joan Cusack that didn't have John Cusack. Of course there are movies I have seen with him but not...

The Cusack siblings are in the same amount of movies because they are always in the same movies. It must be written into their contracts that they are a package deal.

Thanks for all the hard work...

These movies are 40-30 years old so I watched most of them in the '80s and '90s for the first time, usually on TV or VHS.[/QUOTE]

I was half kidding. I am sure I saw a lot more 80s movies that...

There are a few on there that I haven't heard of either. Of course, I would guess that most of us haven't watched 251 80's movies total, much less just from this list. When do you sleep?

For...

Witness
1985
Peter Weir

I'll second The Land Before Time. It is too cute for adults but decades later it is still great to little kids (or at least for my son it was.)

An American Tale
1986
Don Bluth

The Dark Crystal
1982
Jim Henson, Frank Oz

I feel like most of my favorites are in so I'm nominating my wife's favorites now. Personally these puppets creep me out a little.

I was hoping someone else would nominate this:

Steel Magnolias
1989
Herbert Ross

My wife would be mad if I didn't make sure this made it into the tournament:

The Neverending Story
1984
Wolfgang Peterson

Second

Big
1988
Penny Marshall

Field of Dreams
1989
Phil Alden Robinson

Second Top Gun

Raising Arizona
1987
Joel Coen

Second

Second

A Christmas Story
1983
Bob Clark

Sorry, that was seconded already so instead:

I second Labyrinth.

Stand By Me
1986
Rob Reiner