IMMP
The Inter-Millennium Media Project, where a GenX dad subjects his Millennial son to 20th century media.
Displaying Episode 11 - 20 of 43 in total of IMMP with the tag “drama”.
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157: NO WAY OUT (1987)
November 11th, 2024 | 1 hr 5 mins
80s, drama, movie, thriller
From the heyday of the techno thriller, we've got a very 80s movie with Gene Hackman, Kevin Costner, and lots of political and criminal intrigue. It's NO WAY OUT.
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156: Disney's SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (1983)
October 28th, 2024 | 1 hr 10 mins
80s, disney, drama, halloween, horror, kids, movie
A children's horror movie set in an old-timey American town menaced by an evil carnival. Doesn't sound very Disney, does it?
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153: John Carpenter's STARMAN
September 16th, 2024 | 1 hr 14 mins
80s, drama, john carpenter, movie, romance, scifi
In 1984 Earth was visited by a movie that blended science fiction with a road-trip romance. Was it magical? It's STARMAN.
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148: MAX MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME
July 8th, 2024 | 1 hr 7 mins
80s, action, adventure, drama, movie
The 2024 Summer Road Trip continues through post-apocalypse Australia...without highways? And mainly without cars? It's MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME
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147: MAD MAX 2: THE ROAD WARRIOR
June 24th, 2024 | 49 mins 34 secs
80s, action, drama, movie
The IMMP Summer Road Trip continues with the story of a heroic gyro copter pilot. And some guy named Max. It's THE ROAD WARRIOR.
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146: MAD MAX (1979)
June 10th, 2024 | 52 mins 57 secs
70s, action, drama, movie
The IMMP 2024 Summer Road Trip starts off on the deadly highways of Australia with George Miller and Byron Kennedy's original MAD MAX from 1979.
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143: EARTH II (1971 TV movie)
April 29th, 2024 | 57 mins 42 secs
70s, drama, movie, scifi, tv
Way back in 1971, when the Apollo program was still cool, a TV pilot imagined a techno-utopia in orbit. Governed by D&D. It's EARTH II.
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138: Bette Davis in NOW, VOYAGER
February 19th, 2024 | 55 mins 58 secs
40s, drama, movie, romance
Melodrama month continues with 1942's NOW, VOYAGER. Bette Davis and Paul Henreid star in a saga of metal health, personal transformation, and really, really bad parenting.
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137: MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION (1935)
February 5th, 2024 | 1 hr 4 secs
30s, drama, movie, philosophy, romance
Before THE CELESTINE PROPHECY...before THE SECRET...before female characters had agency?...there was...the 1935 film MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION.
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131: Irwin Allen’s THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE
November 13th, 2023 | 52 mins 5 secs
70s, adventure, drama, movie
It's a little early for New Year's, but never too early for an Irwin Allen disaster movie like 1972's THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE.