Mill Creek Entertainment's Through The Decades: 1980s Film Collection Heads Home On DVD On Apr. 12

Back in January, Mill Creek Entertainment released DVD collections of Through the Decades: 1960s Film Collection and Through the Decades: 1970s Film Collection.   Each four-disc collection came packed with great movies from these respective decades.

Well, if the 1960s were fabulous and the 1970s were marvelous, then it stands to reason that the 1980s must be great as Mill Creek is back on Apr. 12 with its next decade-themed collection of ten-priced-to-collect films in Through the Decades: 1980s Film Collection.

So, what gems do we have that time around?   How about some comedy action with director Rod Daniel’s 1987 laugh-filled release of Like Father, Like Son, teaming Dudley Moore and Kirk Cameron as father and son who get a magic potion-whammy and flip positions.   If you like the old switch-a-roo, then how about Brian Gilbert’s 1988 “flipper,” Vice Versa, which finds Judge Reinhold and Fred Savage as father and son exchanging bodies when they come in contact with a mystical Tibetan skull!!

Still in the comedy vein are director Fred Schepisi’s 1987 reworking of the Cyrano de Bergerac tale, Roxanne, starring Steve Martin, Rick Rossovich and Daryl Hannah, filmmaker Paul Flaherty’s 1989 flick, Who's Harry Crumb?, toplining John Candy, and writer/director David Seltzer’s 1988 stand-up comedians story, Punchline, teaming Sally Field with Tom Hanks.

Action.   You want action?   Then look no further than director John Badham’s 1983 cop-in-the-sky-thriller, Blue Thunder, starring Roy Scheider, Candy Clark and Daniel Stern.
More action?   The Through the Decades: 1980s Film Collection also has director Richard Benjamin’s Cold War thriller, Little Nikita, starring Sidney Poitier and River Phoenix, director 1986 kids-versus-drug-dealers story, Band of the Hand, and lastly, director Peter Yates’ 1987 murder mystery/court room drama, Suspect, starring Cher, Dennis Quaid and Liam Neeson.