Hinton, which deployed a galaxy of young actors destined for greater fame-Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Matt Dillon, Emilio Estevez, Ralph Macchio, Diane Lane and (again) Tom Cruise. Still, among this glut of youth movies there were genuine gems: Risky Business, starring Tom Cruise, Rebecca DeMornay and Bronson Pinchot and Francis Ford Coppola’s The Outsiders, adapted from the novel by S.E. That same year saw the rapid ascension of the Brat Pack-then, and now, an infamously misbehaved gaggle of young actors who (so it seemed) could make money for the studios simply by showing up on the set, even if the movie-making ranged from fair-to-middling to mediocre. For one, 1983 saw an uptick in box office success for actors who had made the migration from TV to film via the enormously popular Saturday Night Live (Dan Akroyd, Eddie Murphy, Chevy Chase), springing into big screen vehicles custom-scripted for their comedic styles- Trading Places and National Lampoon’s Vacation being two of the best known. Image courtesy of Warner Brothers/The Ladd Company The Golden Age of Space Exploration: 30 Years After The Right Stuffįor most of us over the age of 40 or 50, we think of the movies of early and middle 1980s as a hodgepodge of commercially popular formulas, popular faces, and the rise of a patently easy-money approach to filmmaking.

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