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G · 81 min · Directed by Don Bluth

Young Fievel Mousekewitz is separated from his family on the voyage from Russia to America, and sets out alone across New York to find them, dodging cats the whole way.

Tiger: You lost your family? I lost my family, too, years ago, I mean. Eight brothers! Ten sisters! Three fathers!

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PG · 111 min · Directed by Robert Zemeckis

Marty McFly is accidentally sent back to 1955 in Doc Brown’s DeLorean time machine, and has to make sure his teenage parents fall in love before he can get back to the future.

McFly: Lou! Give me a milk... Chocolate!

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PG · 106 min · Directed by Matthew Robbins

The tenants of a New York apartment building that’s about to be torn down get help from an unlikely place: a family of tiny, living spaceships.

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PG-13 · 99 min · Directed by John Carpenter

Truck driver Jack Burton gets pulled into a mystical battle beneath San Francisco’s Chinatown when he helps a friend rescue his fiancée from the ancient sorcerer Lo Pan.

Jack Burton: Ready? I was BORN ready.

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PG · 90 min · Directed by Stephen Herek

Two well-meaning slackers from San Dimas are about to fail history, so a visitor from the future lends them a time-traveling phone booth to collect historical figures for their final report.

Bill: Be excellent to each other!

Ted: Party on, dudes!

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PG · 115 min · Directed by Steven Spielberg

A lonely boy named Elliott finds an alien stranded in his backyard, hides him from the grown-ups, and helps him find a way to phone home.

Elliott: He’s a man from outer space and we’re taking him to his spaceship.

Greg: Well, can’t he just beam up?

Elliott: This is REALITY, Greg.

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PG-13 · 102 min · Directed by John Hughes

High-schooler Ferris Bueller fakes being sick and takes his best friend and his girlfriend on a day-long joyride through Chicago, always one step ahead of his principal.

Ferris: Hi. Do you speak English?

Garage Attendant: Uh, what country do you think this is?

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PG · 107 min · Directed by Phil Alden Robinson

An Iowa farmer hears a mysterious voice telling him to build a baseball diamond in his cornfield, and when he does, legendary players from the past walk out of the corn to play.

Terence Mann: I’m going to beat your head in with a crowbar until you go away.

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PG · 90 min · Directed by Randal Kleiser

In 1978, 12-year-old David is knocked out in the woods. He wakes up eight years later without having aged a day, and finds his mind is linked to an alien spaceship and its wisecracking robot pilot, Max.

David: So you need ME and my inferior brain to fly that thing?

Max: Correction, I need the superior information in your inferior brain to fly this... thing.

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PG · 107 min · Directed by Ivan Reitman

Three scientists kicked out of their university start a ghost-catching business in New York City, just in time for a supernatural disaster to descend on Manhattan.

Dr. Raymond Stantz: Symmetrical book stacking. Just like the Philadelphia mass turbulence of 1947.

Dr. Peter Venkman: You’re right Ray, no human being would stack books like this.

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PG · 114 min · Directed by Richard Donner

With their homes about to be bulldozed, a group of kids follows an old treasure map in search of the pirate One-Eyed Willy’s fortune, with a family of crooks hot on their trail.

Francis Fratelli: Tell us everything! Everything!

Chunk: Everything? ..OK! I’ll talk! In third grade, I cheated on my history exam. In fourth grade, I stole my uncle Max’s toupee and I glued it on my face when I was Moses in my Hebrew School play...

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PG-13 · 127 min · Directed by Steven Spielberg

Indiana Jones teams up with his father, played by Sean Connery, to find the Holy Grail before the Nazis can get their hands on it.

Indiana Jones: Archaeology is the search for fact... not truth.

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PG · 126 min · Directed by John G. Avildsen

After moving to California, Daniel LaRusso is bullied by a gang of karate students, until his apartment building’s handyman, Mr. Miyagi, agrees to teach him. Wax on, wax off.

Daniel Larusso: How did you do that? How did you do that?!

Miyagi: Don’t know. First time.

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G · 69 min · Directed by Don Bluth

After losing his mother, a young dinosaur named Littlefoot leads a small band of young friends on a long journey to find the Great Valley.

Ducky: That’s OK, Petri, lots of things can’t fly. Rocks, trees, sticks, Spike.

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PG · 94 min · Directed by Wolfgang Petersen

Hiding from bullies in his school’s attic, Bastian starts reading a mysterious book about the land of Fantasia, and slowly realizes the story needs him to save it.

Bastian: MOOOOOOON CHIIIIILLLLLLD!

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PG · 90 min · Directed by Tim Burton

When his beloved bicycle is stolen, Pee-wee Herman sets off on a cross-country search to get it back. This was Tim Burton’s first feature film.

Pee-wee: I’m bad, Dottie, real bad. You don’t want to get mixed up with a guy like me. I’m a loner. A rebel.

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PG · 98 min · Directed by Rob Reiner

A grandfather reads his sick grandson a story of true love and high adventure, with a farm boy turned pirate, a princess, a giant, a vengeful swordsman and a whole lot of R.O.U.S.es.

Buttercup: We’ll never survive.

Westley: Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.

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PG · 91 min · Directed by Sylvester Stallone

Rocky Balboa travels to the Soviet Union to take on Ivan Drago, the towering boxer who killed his friend Apollo Creed in the ring.

Rocky: Going in one more round when you don’t think you can - that’s what makes all the difference in your life.

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PG · 98 min · Directed by John Badham

A military robot called Number 5 is struck by lightning, comes to life, and escapes, finding a friend in an animal-loving woman while the army tries to track him down.

Stephanie Speck: Life is NOT a malfunction!

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PG · 96 min · Directed by Mel Brooks

Mel Brooks’s Star Wars spoof: space bum Lone Starr and his half-man, half-dog sidekick Barf rescue Princess Vespa from Dark Helmet, who plans to steal her planet’s air.

Dark Helmet: What’s the matter, Colonel Sandurz? CHICKEN?

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PG · 124 min · Directed by Irvin Kershner

With the Rebels on the run from the Empire, Luke trains with Yoda while Han and Leia try to stay one step ahead of Darth Vader, leading up to one of the most famous twists in movie history.

Princess Leia: Why, you stuck up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf-herder!

Han Solo: Who’s scruffy-looking?

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PG · 134 min · Directed by Richard Marquand

Luke and his friends rescue Han from Jabba the Hutt, then the Rebellion launches an all-out attack on the new Death Star while Luke faces Darth Vader and the Emperor.

Han Solo: 3PO! You tell that slimy piece of worm-ridden filth, he’ll get no such pleasure from us! [to Chewbacca]

Han Solo: Right?

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PG · 93 min · Directed by Steve Barron

Four turtles trained in ninjutsu by their master, Splinter, battle the Shredder and his Foot Clan in New York City. The turtle suits were built by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. (Technically 1990, but we’ll allow it.)

Donatello: You’re a claustrophobic.

Casey Jones: You want a fist in the mouth? I’ve never even looked at another guy!

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PG · 84 min · Directed by Nelson Shin

In the year 2005, the Autobots and Decepticons battle for Cybertron while the planet-eating Unicron closes in. It was Orson Welles’s final film role, as the voice of Unicron.

Unicron: I have summoned you here for a purpose.

Megatron: Nobody summons Megatron!

Unicron: Then it pleases me to be the first.

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PG · 97 min · Directed by Jay Levey

“Weird Al” Yankovic plays a daydreamer who takes over a failing UHF television station and turns it into a hit with a lineup of very strange shows.

Stanley Spadowski: Oh, Joel Miller. You’re a lucky, lucky boy ’cause you know why? You get to drink from, the fire hose!!!

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PG · 100 min · Directed by Todd Holland

Fred Savage stars as a boy who runs away with his younger brother to compete in a video game championship in California. It gave audiences their first look at Super Mario Bros. 3.

Corey: It’s like the Adventures of Link. He has to find Zelda, you have to find a house. Same difference!

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