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10 Totally Awesome Adventure Movies from the 1980s!

1. Back To The Future

2. E.T. the Extra Terrestrial

3. Adventures in Babysitting

4. Big Trouble in Little China

5. Howard The Duck

6. Romancing The Stone

7. The Goonies

8. Raiders of The Lost Ark

9. The Empire Strikes Back

10. Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure

A mousy romance novelist (Kathleen Turner) sets off for Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister (Mary Ellen Trainor), and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure hunting for treasure with a mercenary rogue (Michael Douglas).

Director: Robert Zemeckis.

Screenplay by Diane Thomas.

Producers: Michael Douglas, Joel Douglas and Jack Brodsky.

Composer: Alan Silvestri.

Robert Rodriguez is a local Austin hero. As a film maker, he has worked extensively in the Austin area and used local crafts people and locations for his films. He has been able to select a group of movies for the Summer Classic Film Series, and present them to the audience with a live introduction for a few years now. This last Sunday, he had three films that he wanted to talk about that…