CANNON MONTH: Business As Usual (1987)
Based on the real case of Audrey White — who was a consultant on the movie — at a chain of Lady at Lord John boutiques, this Lezli-An Barrett directed and written film finds Babs Flynn (Glenda Jackson) managing a Liverpool shop and accusing the regional manager of sexual harassment after the way he treats […]
CANNON MONTH: Barfly (1987)
A semi-autobiographical version of Charles Bukowski’s life during the time he spent drinking like his life depended on it — as seen through the author’s alter ego Henry Chinaski — with a script by the author that was commissioned by director Barbet Schroeder. And somehow, it’s one of those Cannon movies that aspire to art. […]
CANNON MONTH: Surrender (1987)
Jerry Belsen, who directed and wrote this movie, along with Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Fun With Dick and Jane amongst many others, may have invented the phrase “You know what happens when you assume…” Sean Stein (Michael Caine) is a successful novelist, but he’s been through so many divorces and bad relationships […]
CANNON MONTH: Dancers (1987)
Based on Giselle by Adolphe Adam, Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot, Dancers tells the story of Tony (Mikhail Baryshnikov), who is trying to stage the final dance of Giselle in his career — much like Baryshnikov as this was to be a film record of his dancing in that play — just as he falls in love […]
CANNON MONTH: The Kitchen Toto (1988)
Directed and written by Harry Hook, who also made the 1990 Lord of the Flies, The Kitchen Toto is about Jonathan Graham, a regional police officer in the British colony of Kenya dealing with the uprising of the Kikuyu tribe. When they kill a black priest who’s condemned them, he takes in the man’s young son Mwangi (Edwin […]
CANNON MONTH: Tough Guys Don’t Dance (1987)
I honestly have no idea how to classify this movie and you know what, let’s not put it in an easy bucket. Let’s just enjoy it for what it is. Whatever it is. Roger Ebert tried. He said that it had “an impressive content of sex and violence, but beneath that is a strange nostalgia […]
CANNON MONTH: King Lear (1987)
Yes, Cannon gave Jean-Luc Godard the money to make an experimental French New Wave Shakespeare adaptation written by Peter Sellars and Tom Luddy. It was originally to be written by Norman Mailer, who was also making Tough Guys Don’t Dance with Cannon and that’s a totally different story. Famously, Golan and Globus signed the contract for […]
CANNON MONTH: Penitentiary III (1987)
Five years after we last saw Martel “Too Sweet” Gordone (Leon Issac Kennedy), he’s back in jail after being framed for murder. And by set up, Too Sweet is given some PCP in his water bottle during a boxing match and he turns his opponent El Cid’s (Madison Campudoni) brains into so much jelly. Who […]
CANNON MONTH: Masters of the Universe (1987)
As a 15-year-old, I absolutely hated this movie. He-Man was a known property with a series that was on TV every day, one of the best-selling toys and just about everyone knew everything there was about the mythos of Eternia, but the movie only spends a few minutes in Eternia and has human characters in […]
CANNON MONTH: Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
The Salkinds had made three Superman movies and planned a fourth if Superman III made at least $40 million. It made $80 million even if people absolutely hated it. As for star Christopher Reeve, he was pretty unenthused about coming back to the role one more time and skipped being in Supergirl, which bombed, as did the […]
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