9 Films & TV Shows Set In North Carolina During The 1980s
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Trouble with the Curve
North Carolina Georgia The 1980s The 2010sWhatever Life Throws at You. — Slowed by age and failing eyesight, crack baseball scout Gus Lobel takes his grown daughter along as he checks out the final prospect of his career. Along the way, the two renew their bond, and she catches the eye of a young player-turned-scout.
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The Men Who Stare at Goats
🇰🇼 Kuwait Michigan North Carolina The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sNo goats. No glory. — A reporter in Iraq might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady, a guy who claims to be a former member of the U.S. Army's New Earth Army, a unit that employs paranormal powers in their missions.
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Bull Durham
North Carolina The 1980sRomance is a lot like baseball. It's not whether you win or lose. It's how you play the game. — Veteran catcher Crash Davis is brought to the minor league Durham Bulls to help their up and coming pitching prospect, "Nuke" Laloosh. Their relationship gets off to a rocky start and is further complicated when baseball groupie Annie Savoy sets her sights on the two men.
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Evil Dead II
North Carolina The 1980sThe Sequel To The Ultimate Experience In Grueling Terror. — Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda find a log cabin in the woods with a voice recording from an archeologist who had recorded himself reciting ancient chants from "The Book of the Dead." As they play the recording an evil power is unleashed taking over Linda's body.
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Raw Deal
Illinois North Carolina The 1980sHis trigger has all the answers. — Mark Kaminsky is kicked out of the FBI for his rough treatment of a suspect. He winds up as the sheriff of a small town in North Carolina. FBI Chief Harry Shannon, whose son has been killed by a mobster named Patrovina, enlists Kaminsky in a personal vendetta with a promise of reinstatement into the FBI if Patrovina is taken down. To accomplish this, he must go undercover and join Patrovina's gang.
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Maximum Overdrive
North Carolina The 1980sStephen King's masterpiece of terror directed by the master himself. — When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of homicidal 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines ... or be killed by them.
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Trick or Treat
North Carolina The 1980sWhat are you afraid of? It's only rock and roll... — Eddie Weinbauer, an metalhead teen who is bullied at school, looks to his heavy metal superstar idol, Sammi Curr, for guidance. When Curr is killed in a hotel fire, Eddie becomes the recipient of the only copy of Curr's unreleased album, which, when played backwards, brings Sammi back to life. As Halloween approaches, Eddie begins to realize that this isn't only rock 'n roll...it's life and death.
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D.A.R.Y.L.
South Carolina Virginia District of Columbia North Carolina Florida The 1980sHe can fly a jet, race a car and outsmart a computer. The government created him and now they want him destroyed. — Daryl is a normal 10-year-old boy in many ways. However, unbeknown to his foster parents and friends, Daryl is actually a government-created robot with superhuman reflexes and mental abilities. Even his name has a hidden meaning -- it's actually an acronym for Data Analyzing Robot Youth Life-form. When the organization that created him deems the "super soldier" experiment a failure and schedules Daryl to be disassembled, it is up to a few rogue scientists to help him escape.
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This Is Spinal Tap
California Georgia Illinois New York North Carolina Ohio Tennessee Washington Tokyo Prefecture The 1980sPrepare to crank those amps up to eleven — "This Is Spinal Tap" shines a light on the self-contained universe of a metal band struggling to get back on the charts, including everything from its complicated history of ups and downs, gold albums, name changes and undersold concert dates, along with the full host of requisite groupies, promoters, hangers-on and historians, sessions, release events and those special behind-the-scenes moments that keep it all real.