Top Favorite Films of 1988

Directed by Mike Nichols

Starring Melanie Griffith, Sigourney Weaver, Joan Cusack, Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin, Phillip Bosco, Nora Dunn, Oliver Platt, Kevin Spacey, Robert Easton, Olympia Dukakis, Amy Aquino, Jeffrey Nordling, David Duchovny, Barbara Garrick, and Timothy Carhart

Directed by John Carpenter

Starring Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster, George "Buck" Flower, Peter Jason, Raymond St. Jacques, Jason Robards III, John Lawrence, Sy Richardson, Lucielle Meredith, Susan Blanchard, Norman Alden, Jeff Imada, Al Leong, and Tommy Morrison

Directed by Stan Winston

Starring Lance Henriksen, Jeff East, John D'Aquino, Kimberly Ross, Joel Hoffman, Cynthia Bain, Kerry Remsen, Florence Schauffler, Brian Bremer, George "Buck" Flower, Matthew Hurley, Lee de Broux, Chance Michael Corbitt, Dick Warlock, Devon Odessa, Mayim Bialik, and Tom Woodruff Jr.

Directed by Don Coscarelli

Starring James LeGros, Reggie Bannister, Angus Scrimm, Paula Irvine, Samantha Phillips, Kenneth Tigar, Ruth C. Engel, A. Michael Baldwin, Stacy Travis, Ed Gale, and Phil Fondacaro

Directed by Greg Beeman

Starring Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, Heather Graham, Carol Kane, Richard Masur, Michael Manaserri, Harvey Miller, Michael A. Nickles, Nina Siemaszko, Grant Goodeve, James Avery, Grant Heslov, Michael Ensign, Helen Hanft, Parley Baer, and R.A. Milhailoff

Directed by Rod Daniel

Starring Jim Belushi, Mel Harris, William Sadler, Kevin Tighe, Ed O'Neill, James Handy, Daniel Davis, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Cotter Smith, Sherman Howard, David Haskell, Alan Blumenfeld, Dan Castellaneta, and Rondo the Dog

Directed by Peter Markel

Starring Gene Hackman, Danny Glover, Jerry Reed, David Marshall Grant, Erich Anderson, Clayton Rohner, Joe Dorsey, Michael Ng, Don Ruffin, Stuart B. Hagen, and Scott Howell

Directed by Mark Goldblatt

Starring Joe Piscopo, Treat Williams, Vincent Price, Lindsay Frost, Darren McGavin, Clare Kirkconnell, Keye Luke , Robert Picardo, Martha Quinn, Mel Smith, Professor Toru Tanaka, Shane Black, Pons Maar, Beth Toussaint, and Linnea Quigley

Directed by Mick Garris

Starring Scott Grimes, Terrence Mann, Don Keith Opper, Cythnia Garris, Tom Hodges, Douglas Rowe, Liane Curtis, Lindsay Parker, Herta Ware, Sam Anderson, Lin Shaye, Eddie Deezen, Barry Corbin, Frank Birney, David Ursin, Roxanne Kernohan, Gregory Patrick, and Tom McLoughlin

Directed by Joan Freeman

Starring Justine Bateman, Liam Neeson, Britta Phillips, Julia Roberts, Trina Alvarado, Scott Coffey, Deborah Harry, Chris Nash, Michael DeLorenzo, Peter Craig, Tim O'Brien, and Steve Cropper

Directed by Brian Gilbert

Starring Fred Savage, Judge Reinhold, Corinne Bohrer, Swoosie Kurtz, Jane Lynch. Jane Kaczmarek, David Proval, William Prince, Beverly Archer, Gloria Gifford, Kevin O'Rourke, Richard Kind. Elya Baskin, Jeff Kahn, Ajay Naidu, and James Hong

Directed by Chuck Russell

Starring Kevin Dillion, Shawnee Smith, Donovan Leitch Jr., Jeffrey DeMunn, Candy Clark, Jon Seneca, Del Close, Paul McCrane, Sharon Spelman, Beau Billingslea, Art DeFleur, Ricky Paull Goldin, Robert Axelrod, Bill Moseley, Frank Collison, Billy Beck, Michael Kenworthy, Jack Rader, Douglas Emerson, Jack Nance, Erika Eleniak, Jamison Newlander, and Pons Maar

Directed by Armand Mastroianni

Starring Scott Curtis, Sutter Smith, Leigh Closkey, William Lustig, Ben McCabe, Mel Harris, Chuck McCann, Kim Lankford, Wilson Smith, David Povall, Frank Pesce, and Tab Hunter

Directed by Jean Jacques Annaud

Starring Tcheky Karyo, Jack Wallace, Bart the Bear, Youk the Bear, and Andre Lacombe

Directed by Ed Hunt

Starring Tom Bresnahan, Cynthia Preston, David Gale, George Buza, Christine Kossak, Bret Pearson, Bernice Quiggan, Susannah Hoffman, and Kenneth McGregor

Directed by John Landis

Starring Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones, Madge Sinclair, Shari Headley, Paul Bates, Eriq La Salle, John Amos, Frankie Faison, Vanessa Bell Colloway, Louie Anderson, Allison Dean, Jake Steinfeld, Calvin Lockhart, Samuel L. Jackson, Vondie Curtis Hall, Don Amache, Ralph Bellamy, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Victoria Dillard

Directed by Katsuhiro Otomo

Featuring voices of Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Tessho Genda, Hiroshi Otake, Kochi Kitamura, Michihiro Ikemizu, Yuriko Fuchizaki, Masaaki Okura, Takeshi Kusao, Yukimasa Kishino, Tatsuhiko Nakamura, Cam Clarke, Steve Kramer, Jan Rabson, Barbara Goodson, Lewis Arquette, Tony Pope, Bob Bergen, Wally Burr, Johnny Yong Bosch, Jamieson Price, Wendee Lee, Sandy Fox, Kurt Thornton, Steve Blum, Michael McConnohie, and Beau Billingsley

Directed by John McTiernan

Starring Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson, Alan Rickman, Mary Ellen Trainor, Rick Ducommun, Paul Gleason, William Atherton, Hart Bochner, James Shigeta, Alexander Godunov, Bruno Doyon, De'voreaux White, Andreas Wisiniewski, Clarence Gilyard Jr., Joey Plewa, Lorenzo Caccialanza, Gerald Bonn, Dennis Hayden, Al Leong, Gary Roberts, Hans Buhringer, Wilhelm von Homburg, Robert Davi, Grand L. Bush, and Matt Landers

 

Directed by Penny Marshall

Starring Tom Hanks, Jared Ruston, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia, John Heard, David Moscow, Jon Lovitz, Mercedes Ruehl, Josh Clark, Kevin Meaney, James Eckhouse, Debra Jo Rupp, Oliver Block, and Kimberlee M. Davis

 

Directed by Rob Shelton

Starring Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Trey Wilson, Robert Wuhl, William O'Leary, David Neirdof, Danny Gans, Tom Silardi, Henry G. Sanders, Jenny Robertson, Gregory Avellone, Rachel Singer, and George Buck

Directed by Tim Burton

Starring Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Winona Ryder, Glenn Shadix, Annie McEnroe, Maurice Page, Hugo Stanger, Rachel Mittelman, Catherine O'Hara, Jeffrey Jones, Patrice Martinez, Cindy Daly, Sylvia Sidney, Robert Goulet, Dick Cavett, Susan Kellerman, Tony Cox, Maree Cheatham, and voice of Jack Angel

Directed by Dennis Hopper

Starring Sean Penn, Dennis Hopper, Don Cheadle, Grand L. Bush, Randy Brooks, Glenn Plummer, Maria Conchita Alonso, Gerardo Mejia, Rudy Ramos, Sy Richardson, Trinidad Silva, Damon Wayans, R.D. Call, Seymour Cassel, Courtney Gains, Leon, Mario Lopez, Jack Nance, JoMarie Payton, and Tony Todd

Directed by Stephen Frears

Starring John Malkovich, Uma Thurman, Glenn Close, Michelle Pfeiffer, Swoosie Kurtz, Keanu Reeves, Peter Capaldi, Mildred Natwick, Joe Sheridan, Valerie Gogan, and Laura Benson

Directed by David Cronenberg

Starring Jeremy Irons, Genevieve Bujold, Heidi von Palleske, Barbara Gordon, Shirley Douglas, Stephen Lack, Nick Nichols, Lynne Cormack, Miriam Newhouse, David Hughes, Richard W. Farrell, Warren Davis, Jonathan Haley, Nicholas Haley, Marsha Moreau, Jane Luk, Jacqueline Hennessey, Jill Hennessey, Bob Bainsbourgh, and David Cronenberg

Directed by Frank Oz

Starring Steve Martin, Michael Caine, Glenn Headley, Anton Rodgers, Barbara Harris, Ian McDiarmid, Dana Ivey, Meagan Fay, Andre Penvern, Rupert Holliday Evans, and Frances Conroy

Directed by Charles Crichton and John Cleese

Starring John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin, Marie Aitken, Tom Georgeson, Patricia Hayes, Geoffrey Palmer, Cynthia Cleese, Paul Jonfield, Ken Campbell, Al Ashton, Roger Hume, Jeremey Child, Pamela Miles, and Stephen Fry

 

Directed by Keenan Ivory Wayans

Starring Keenan Ivory Wayans, Bernie Casey, Antonio Fargas, Steve James, Issac Hayes, Jim Brown, Ja'net Dubois, Dawnn Lewis, John Vernon, Ariana Richards, Clu Gulager, Kadeem Harrison, Chris Rock, David Alan Grier, Robin Harris, Damon Wayans, Robert Colbert, Jester Hairston, Hawthorne James, Anne Marie Johnson, Gary Owens, Eve Plumb, Clarence Williams III, John Witherspoon, Ben Ryan Ganger, Carl Craig, Kim Wayans, Tony Cox, Tom Wright, Tommy Morgan Jr., Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Peggy Lipton, Don Messick, and Robert Townsend

Directed by Jonathan Demme

Starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Modine, Alec Baldwin, Joan Cusack, Charles Napier, Marlene Willoughby, Ellen Foley, O Lan Jones, Mercedes Ruehl, Oliver Platt, Dean Stockwell, Trey Wilson, Colin Quinn, David Johansen, Tracey Walter, "Sister" Carol East, Al Lewis, Chris Issak, Paul Lazar, Roma Maffia, Nancy Travis, and Joe Spinell

Directed by Alan Parker

Starring Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, R. Lee Ermy, Gailard Sartain, Stephen Tobolowsky, Michael Rooker, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Kevin Dunn, Thomas B. Mason, Frankie Faison, Park Overall, Darius McCrary, and Tobin Bell

Directed by George A. Romero

Starring Jason Beghe, Boo, John Pankow, Kate McNeil, Joyce Van Patten, Christine Forrest, Stephen Root, Stanley Tucci, Janine Turner, William Newman, Patricia Tallman, and David Early

Directed by Robert Englund

Starring Stephen Geoffreys, Patrick O'Bryan, Sandy Dennis, Jim Metzler, Maria Rubell, Lezlie Deane, J.J. Cohen, Paul Willson, Robert Picardo, and Darren E. Burrows

Directed by Terry Gilliam

Starring John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley, Oliver Reed, Robin Williams, Charles McKeown, Winston Dennis, Jack Purvis, Valentina Cortese, Jonathan Pryce, Uma Thurman, Bill Paterson, Sting, Peter Jeffrey, Alison Steadman, Ray Cooper, Don Henderson, Andrew MacLachlan, Jose Lifante, and Kiran Shah

Directed by Graham Baker

Starring James Caan, Mandy Patinkin, Terence Stamp, Kevyn Major Howard, Leslie Bevis, Peter Jason, Conrad Dunn, Jeff Kober, Roger Aaron Brown, Tony Perez, Brian Thompson, Earl Boen, Bebe Drake, Frank Collison, Tom Morga, and Doug MacHugh

Directed by James Bridges

Starring Michael J. Fox, Keifer Sutherland, Phoebe Cates, Tracey Pollan, Swoosie Kurtz, Dianne Weist, John Houseman, Frances Sternhagen, Charlie Schlatter, Alec Mapa, William Hickey, Maria Pitillo, Kelly Lynch, Sam Robards, Jessica Lundy, Annabelle Gurwitch, Susan Traylor, David Hyde Pierce, Josie Bell, Jason Robards, and voices of Fred Newman, Nicholas Guest, Claudette Wells, Jonathan Stark, Reni Santoni, and Wendy Schaal

Directed by Michael Ritchie

Starring Dan Aykroyd, Walter Matthau, Charles Grodin, Donna Dixon, Richard Romanus, Mary Gross, Victoria Jackson, David Clennon, Arye Gross, Michael DeLorenzo, Mickey Jones, J.E. Freeman, David Wohl, Michael Ensign, Carol Mansell, Donna Mitchell, Susan Kellerman, Beverly Archer, Don Stark, and Chevy Chase

Directed by John Sayles

Starring John Cusack, D.B. Sweeny, Clifton James, Christopher Lloyd, Michael Lerner, John Mahoney, Charlie Sheen, David Strathaim, Michael Rooker, Don Harvey, Wendy Makkena, James Read, Perry Lang, Gordon Clapp, Jace Alexander, Bill Irwin, Richard Edson, Kevin Tighe, Michael Mantell, John Anderson, Studs Terkel, John Sayles, Michael Laskin, Bill Raymond, Barbara Garrick, and Nancy Travis

Directed by John R. Cherry III

Starring Jim Varney, Douglas Seale, Oliver Clark, Noelle Parker, Gailard Sartain, Billie Bird, Bill Byrge, Robert Lesser, Patsy Maloney, Lindsey Alley, Key Howard and Tom Nowicki

Directed by Roman Polanski

Starring Harrison Ford, Emmanuelle Seigner, Betty Buckley, Gerald Kline, Djiby Soumare, Alian Doutey, Jacques Ciron, Dominique Pinon, Jimmy Ray Weeks, John Mahoney, Thomas M. Pollard, David Huddleston, Alexandra Stewart, and Yorgo Voyagis

Directed by Daniel Goldberg

Starring Rebecca De Morany, Mary Gross, Ken Marshall, Fred Dalton Thompson, Larry Cedar, Raymond Singer, James Luisi, Rex Ryon, Don Stark, Dave Sherrill, Jon Cedar, Tony Longo, and Rick Avery

Directed by Howard Deutch

Starring John Candy, Dan Aykroyd, Annette Bening, Stephanie Faracy, Chris Young, Ian Giatti, Hilary Gordon, Rebecca Gordon, Robert Prosky, Bart the Bear, Lucy Deakins, and Lewis Arquette

Directed by Michael Lehmann

Starring Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Glenn Shadix, Shannen Doherty, Lisanne Falk, Kim Walker, Penelope Milford, Lance Fenton, Patrick Labyorteux, Jeremy Applegate, Carrie Lynn, Phil Lewis, Renne Estevez, Jennifer Rhodes, William Cort, John Ingel, Mark Carlton, Jeffrey Weissman, Mark Bringleston, and Chuck Lafont

Directed by Dwight H. Little

Starring Donald Pleasance, Danielle Harris, Ellie Cornell, George P. Wilbur, Michael Pataki, Beau Starr, Katherine Kinmont, Sasha Jenson, Gene Ross, Jeff Olson, Carmen Filpi, Michael Flynn, Karen Alston, and Erik Preston

Directed by Ken Russell

Starring Amanda Donohoe, Hugh Grant, Catherine Oxenberg, Peter Capaldi, Sammi Davis, Stratford Johns, Paul Brooke, Imogene Claire, Chris Pitt, Gina McKee, Christopher Gable, Lloyd Peters, Emilio Perez Machado, and Louise Newman

Directed by Tony Randel

Starring Doug Bradley, Ashley Lawrence, Imogen Boorman, Kenneth Cranham, Sean Chapman, William Hope, Barbie Wilde, Simon Bamford, Nicholas Vince, Clare Higgins, and Angus MacInnes

Directed by Don Bluth

Featuring voices of Gabriel Damon, Judith Barsi, Pat Hingle, Helen Shaver, Burke Byrnes, Bill Erwin, Candace Hutson, Will Ryan, and Frank Welker

Directed by Martin Scorsese

Starring Willem Dafoe, Baraba Hershey, Harvey Keitel, David Bowie, Steve Shill, Verna Bloom, Roberts Blossom, Barry Miller, Gary Basaraba, Irvin Kershner, Leo Burmester, Paul Herman, Nehemiah Persoff, Andre Gregory, John Lurie, Alan Rosenberg, Juliette Caton, Harry Dean Stanton, and voices of Illeana Douglas, Ted Rusoff, and Leo Marks

Directed by William Lustig

Starring Robert Z'Dar, Bruce Campbell, Laurene Landon, Richard Roundtree, Tom Atkins, William Smith, Sharee North, Nina Aversen, Victoria Catlin, Jake LaMotta, Dan Hicks, Marcia Hicks, Sam Raimi, William Lustig, George "Buck" Flower, Ken Lerner, and Leo Rossi

 

Directed by David Zucker

Starring Leslie Neilsen, Priscilla Presley, Ricardo Montalban, George Kennedy, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Raye Birk, Susan Beaubain, Nancy Marchand, O.J. Simpson, Jeanette Charles, Joe Grifasi, Nicholas Worth, Lawrence Tierney, Reggie Jackon, Hank Robinson, Tim McCarver, Mark Holton, Maureen Flanigan, John Houseman, David Gale, Tony Brafa, Brinke Stevens, David Katz, Robert LuJane, Charles Gherardi, Prince Hughes, and David Lloyd Austin

Directed by Richard Benjamin

Starring Kim Basinger, Dan Aykroyd, Alyson Hannigan, Seth Green, Tony Jay, Jon Lovitz, Juliette Lewis, Joseph Maher, Wesley Mann, Tanya Fenmore, Suzie Plakson, Maxine Wasa, Earl Boen, Adrian Sparks and voices by Ann Prentiss and Harry Shearer

Directed by Kevin Tenney

Starring Amelia Kinkade, Linnea Quigley, Hal Havins, Allison Barron, Alvin Alexis, Harold Ayer, Billy Gallo, Cathy Podewell, Karen Ericson, Lance Fenton, Donnie Jeffcoat, Jill Terashita, Phillip Tanzani, and voice of James W. Quinn