Moviefone Anniversaries

"Valley Girl" could have (like) been a (totally) lame teensploitation comedy (fer shure), created to capitalize on the novelty 1982 hit song by Frank ...

It's been 20 years since Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez decided to lace-up his P.F. Flyers and "pickle The Beast." Sunday, April 7 marks the original 1...

Today, it seems audiences know "Bye Bye Birdie" only from the prominent mention of it on "Mad Men," when the Sterling Cooper agency tried to copy Ann-...

In Jerry Lewis' original "The Nutty Professor," when his nerdy Julius Kelp transformed into oily, abrasive lounge lizard Buddy Love, many viewers thou...

Forty-five years later, it's hard to appreciate what a revolutionary film "The Graduate" was. Not just for its depiction of driftless youth and the se...

"Tootsie" may have lost the Best Picture and Best Actor race to "Gandhi" 30 years ago, but if you're looking for laughs instead of epic grandeur, Dust...

It's been 20 years since “A Few Good Men” hit theaters (on December 11, 1992), yet "You can't handle the truth!" is still one of the best-known mo...

Even if you've never seen "Sophie's Choice," you know what the term means: An impossible, heart-wrenching decision that will destroy you no matter wha...

Thirty five years ago, the world caught a lasting case of disco fever, one that still rages to this day. "Saturday Night Fever," which opened on Decem...

After 25 years, maybe it's time to reconsider "Empire of the Sun," one of Steven Spielberg's most underrated films (released on Christmas Day, 1987). ...

It's hard to believe it's been 20 years since Disney's "Aladdin" first opened. When it hit theaters back in 1992, it became the highest-grossing movie...

"So, you guys like to tell jokes, huh? Giggling and laughing like a bunch of young broads sitting in a schoolyard. Well, let me tell a joke. Five guys...

"Mawwiage." Say just that one mispronounced word out loud, and you're bound to get a laugh from a nearby "Princess Bride" fan. Not only is director Ro...

"Life is good in Los Angeles... it's paradise on Earth. That's what they tell you, anyway." In the case of "L.A. Confidential" -- which was released 1...

Ingrid Bergman, more than anyone else from the golden age of cinema, had a face made for the silvery light of black-and-white movies. The adjectives g...

"All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine." Who'd have guessed that Jeff Spicoli, among the alumni of Ridgemont High School, wou...

It's rare that you can trace an entire genre of movies to a single source, but you can with modern film comedy. Most of the landmark comedy films and ...

Batter up! Today's starting lineup is the cast of "A League of Their Own," the landmark baseball comedy released 20 years ago this month (on July 1, 1...

Can you imagine Dustin Hoffman as the hard-boiled, romantic, replicant-hunting sleuth hero of "Blade Runner"? It's true, the "Tootsie" star was one...