The Curly Echo: 1985

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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

A View to a Kill (1985)

"Smooth Operator."

Directed by John Glen
Produced by Albert R. Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson
Screenplay by Michael G. Wilson, Richard Maibaum
Based on "James Bond" by Ian Fleming
Starring: Roger Moore, Tanya Roberts, Grace Jones, Patrick Macnee, Christopher Walken
Music by John Barry
Cinematography: Alan Hume
Edited by Peter Davies
Production company: Eon Productions
Distributed by MGM/UA Entertainment Company
Release date: 13 June 1985 (United Kingdom)
Running time: 131 minutes
Country: United Kingdom
Budget: $30 million
Box office: $152.4 million

"A View to a Kill" is an action adventure thriller film directed by John Glen and written by Michael G. Wilson, Richard Maibaum, based on "James Bond" by Ian Fleming. It's the fourteenth installment of the "James Bond" film series which follows Secret Agent James Bond who must get a mad industrialist planing to create a worldwide microchip monopoly by destroying California's Silicon Valley.

Back to the Future (1985)

"17 year old Marty McFly got home early last night. 30 years early."

Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Produced by Bob Gale, Neil Canton
Written by Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover
Music by Alan Silvestri
Cinematography: Dean Cundey
Edited by Arthur Schmidt, Harry Keramidas
Production company: Amblin Entertainment
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date: 3 July 1985 (United States)

Running time: 116 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $19 million
Box office: $389.1 million

"Back to the Future" is a science-fiction adventure comedy film directed and co-written by Robert Zemeckis. This is the first instalment in the "Back to the Future" film series which follows a young man who is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his friend, Dr. Emmett Brown, and must make sure his high-school-age parents unite in order to save his own existence.