The Secret of My Success - Apr 5, 1987

Over on Strange Kid's Club I talk about some of the DVDs released today. Included is a compilation of four Michael J Fox comedies. They are all pretty good so I thought I'd finish out the week with ads for all Michael J Fox movies.

Here's the ad for The Secret of My Success which is included on the aforementioned DVD collection.  Michael J Fox plays Brantley Foster.  A well educated kid from Kansas who moves to New York to make it big.  When he finds it hard to get a job, he visits his uncle who happens to be CEO of a major corporation.  His uncle gives him a spot in the mail room.  Brantley falls for a beautiful executive and decides to pose as an executive to woo her.  Oh, and while wooing the executive, Brantley starts having sex with his aunt.

This is actually a pretty funny movie.  Michael J Fox is charming as ever and his aunt is ballsy and hilarious.  The movie is also populated with TONS of 80s actors like SuperGirl herself, Helen Slater.  Fox's aunt is played by Margaret Whitton who played the evil Indians owner Rachel Phelps in Major League.  You'll also see Christopher Murney who played Eddie Arcadian in The Last Dragon and Fred Gwynne who was Herman Munster in The Munsters and the judge in My Cousin Vinny.  Finally, in the opening credit sequence you see four models turn their heads rapidly.  Cindy Crawford is the third model to turn her head.

This movie shows up on TNT a lot as a "New Classic".  I watch it whenever I get the chance.  It's still funny and I just enjoy watching Fox at the height of his powers (just two years after Back to the Future and two years before Back to the Future II).

See ads for other Michael J Fox movies here.

See the trailer here:

From the Hip - Feb 13, 1987

Here's the ad for From the Hip starring Judd Nelson, Elizabeth Perkins, John Hurt, Ray Walston and David Allen Grier.  This movie was written by David E Kelly who is famous for creating Ally McBeal, LA Law, The Practice and Doogie Howser, MD.  It was directed by Bob Clark who is famous for directing Porky's and A Christmas Story.

Judd Nelson stars as Robin "Stormy" Weathers, a lawyer that uses over the top theatrics to win cases. His antics get him a promotion at his firm and the job of defending a school teacher accused of murder. Should he he play it by the book or continue his unorthodox behavior to win the case?

Watch the trailer:

Disorderlies - Aug 21, 1987

Looking at hip hop movies this week.

Here's an ad for Disorderlies. It starred the rap group The Fat Boys (who were also in yesterday's Krush Groove) as bumbling orderlies at an old folks' home who are hired to care for an elderly billionaire. It's fairly amusing. Very much in the vein of the 3 Stooges.

Other hip hop movies:
- Krush Groove (1985)

Here's the trailer from video detective:

HAPPY NEW YEAR! -- Three Men and a Baby - January 1, 1988

Happy New Year 2011, everyone!

Here's a New Year's ad for Three Men and a Baby. Like newspapers tend to do, they modified the ad image to promote the fact that it was New Year's.

Here's the original ad:

The Running Man - November 20, 1987

Finishing out my celebration of running my first marathon, here's an ad for The Running Man staring The Arnold. It's a pretty classic Schwarzenegger movie. Not bad and Richard Dawson puts in a great performance as Killian.

Other running movies:
Run
Marathon Man
Running
Chariots of Fire