Fame 1980  R, 134 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Alan Parker
Cast: Irene Cara, Lee Curreri, Laura Dean, Antonia Franceschi, Boyd Gaines, Anne Meara, Barry Miller, Debbie Allen, Joanna Merlin, Eddie Barth, Albert Hague, Tresa Hughes, Paul McCrane, Maureen Teefy, Jim Moody
This story focuses on students–Coco (Irene Cara), Doris (Maureen Teefy), Montgomery (Paul McCrane), Raul (Barry Miller), and Bruno (Lee Curreri)–at New York High School for the Performing Arts. From auditions through ensuing years at school, they cope with their teenage problems and keep up with academics in their own unique ways as they work through training that may lead to stardom. The film won Academy Awards for Best Musical Score and Song ("Fame").
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The Hotel New Hampshire 1984  R, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Tony Richardson
Cast: Jodie Foster, Beau Bridges, Rob Lowe, Nastassja Kinski, Amanda Plummer, Lisa Banes, Joely Richardson, Wallace Shawn, Wilford Brimley, Matthew Modine, Paul McCrane, Seth Green, Wally Aspell, Timothy Webber, Jonelle Allen
Win Berry (Beau Bridges) buys an old seminary and turns it into the Hotel New Hampshire. His wacky family–including children Franny (Jodie Foster), John (Rob Lowe), Frank (Paul McCrane), Lilly (Jennifer Douglas), and Egg (Seth Green)–encounters disaster after disaster and are just accidents waiting to happen.
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The Portrait 1993 TV, 89 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Arthur Penn
Cast: Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Cecilia Peck, Paul McCrane, Donna Mitchell, Mitchell Laurance, William Prince, Augusta Dabney, John Murphy, John Bennes
Margaret (Cecilia Peck-Gregory's real-life daughter) returns home after a long absence to finish a portrait of her parents (Peck and Bacall). But things are not the way they used to be in her childhood, such as the house being sold and her father showing the effects of aging.
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 RoboCop 1987 R, 103 min.
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi / Drama / Thriller
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Cast: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith, Dan O'Herlihy, Miguel Ferrer, Robert DoQui, Ray Wise, Felton Perry, Kevin Page, Paul McCrane, Jesse D. Goins, Del Zamora, Calvin Jung, Lee de Broux
In Detroit in the near future, a policeman (Peter Weller) is shot and killed by drug dealers. But, luckily for him, a method has been devised to make a cyborg (half-man, half-machine) ready to fight for all that is just and right in Detroit. The operation is performed at OCP–Omni Consumer Products, the corporation that runs the futuristic city–and RoboCop is out on the streets defending justice. His former partner Officer Anne Lewis (Nancy Allen) tries unsuccessfully to help RoboCop remember his past as he pursues the criminals who tried to kill him. Followed by two sequels.
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| 1. Fame (1980)
2. The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)
3. The Portrait (1993)
4. RoboCop (1987)
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