Best of 1986

Between two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah"s husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.

Lucy Honeychurch shares a brief romance with George Emerson in Florence. Yet as she tries to move on with her life and look for marriage elsewhere, can she truly forget the events of that summer?

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.

A troubled, but talented musician flees the US to escape his problems, finding refuge and support in Paris.

Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.

A man recently released from prison manages to get a job driving a call girl from customer to customer.

Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.

Fast Eddie Felson teaches a cocky but immensely talented protégé the ropes of pool hustling, which in turn inspires him to make an unlikely comeback.

A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.

An ambitious Pakistani Briton and his white boyfriend strive for success and hope when they open a glamorous laundromat.

A burnt-out photojournalist becomes involved in a Central American revolution.

A writer recounts a childhood journey with his friends to find the body of a missing boy.

Peggy Sue, on the verge of a divorce, faints at her 25th high school reunion, and wakes up to find herself back in 1960, leading her to try to spot and correct the mistakes that led to disappointments and an unhappy marriage.

Three southern sisters try to come to grips with the meaning of their mother"s suicide.

A free-spirited woman "kidnaps" a yuppie for a weekend of adventure. But the fun quickly takes a dangerous turn when her ex-convict husband shows up.

The relationship between Sid Vicious, bassist for British punk group Sex Pistols, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen is portrayed.

A new speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with the janitor, a deaf woman speechless by choice.

A nerdy florist finds his chance for success and romance with the help of a giant man-eating plant who demands to be fed.

A couple cheated by a vile businessman kidnaps his wife in retaliation, not knowing that their enemy is delighted that they did.

A rich but troubled family find their lives altered by the arrival of a vagrant who tries to drown himself in their swimming pool.

A successful advertising executive finds his freewheeling life crashing to a halt when his parents end their longtime marriage.

A young woman"s body is found frozen in a ditch. Through flashbacks and interviews, we see the events that led to her inevitable death.

American reporter Sue Charlton travels to the Australian outback to meet eccentric poacher Mick "Crocodile" Dundee and invites him to New York City, where he comes face-to-face with the complexities of modern life. Can this bushman adapt?

Eighteenth-century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.

To save Earth from an alien probe, Admiral James T. Kirk and his fugitive crew go back in time to San Francisco in 1986 to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it: humpback whales.