The Movies of 1987
Trivia, Word Search, and a Quiz
To celebrate its 75th anniversary, Paramount Pictures launches a new on-screen logo. Two of its movies, Fatal Attraction and Beverly Hills Cop II, go on to gross in the top three for the year. But it is ultimately beaten out by Buena Vista's release of Leonard Nimoy's surprising box office hit Three Men and a Baby.
Here's some more trivia from the world of cinema in 1987:
- Elliot Page and Evan Rachel Wood are born this year. They would later star together in Into the Forest (2015). Zac Efron and Ronda Rousey are also born this year.
- Actor Christian Bale makes his big screen debut in Empire of the Sun, as does Jason Bateman in Teen Wolf Too, Bryan Cranston in Amazon Women on the Moon, Dylan McDermott in Hamburger Hill, Ben Stiller in Hot Pursuit, and Brad Pitt in No Man's Land as an uncredited extra.
- Ishtar becomes a notorious box office failure, recouping only $14 million of its $51 million budget.
- Lethal Weapon is the first movie to show a modern cell phone, followed later in the year more famously by Wall Street when Gordon "Greed is Good" Gekko uses his grey Motorola brick on the beach.
- Golden Age star Rita Hayworth dies this year, as does Fred Astaire a month later. The two famously danced together in You Were Never Lovelier (1942) and You'll Never Get Rich (1941). Also dying is Lorne Green, and actor-comedians Danny Kaye and Jackie Gleason.
1987 Movies Word Search
The movies in the following two word searches were movies released in 1987. Just like all the movies on this page (unless otherwise noted).
The first word search is easy: 20 movie titles hidden in a small 22 × 20 letter grid. The second is more challenging: 36 movie titles in a large 34 × 32 letter grid.
So load your printer with standard 8.5" × 11" paper, download, hit print and start solving. Our PDF files print out beautifully and are always free to download on our site.
More Word Searches
These word search puzzles are on particular movies from 1987. They each have 36 terms hidden in a large 34 × 32 letter grid.
Moonstruck Lethal Weapon The Princess Bride Three Men and a Baby
10 Question Quiz on 1987 Movies
How well do you know what came out on the Silver Screen in 1987? Take our quiz and find out. There's no time limit and no scoring. Just have fun!
1. In Fatal Attraction, married man Dan, played by Michael Douglas, has a one-night stand with Alex, played by Glenn Close, who stalks him when she is scorned. How is Alex killed at the end of the movie?
2. What character did Robin Williams play in the comedy Good Morning, Vietnam?
3. Which singer plays Loretta, a widowed, thirty-seven year old bookeeper who falls in love with her fiancé's younger brother Ronny, played by Nicolas Cage in Moonstruck?
4. What type of character does Jack Nicholson play in The Witches of Eastwick, which also stars Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Susan Sarandon?
5. What is the name of Jennifer Grey's character who falls in love with dance instructor Johnny Castle (played by Patrick Swayze) in Dirty Dancing?
6. Complete the following line, repeated over and over again by Mandy Patinkin's character in The Princess Bride: "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. ___."
7. The Mel Brooks slapstick movie Spaceballs is primarily a parody of which popular sci-fi movie franchise?
8. In Broadcast News, Albert Brooks plays a TV reporter who gets a chance to anchor the weekend news. What happens to him live on air?
9. Steve Martin falls for Daryl Hannah in the romantic comedy Roxanne, but believes she would never be attracted to him because of a particular feature of his face. What is this feature?
10. What memorable line does Steve Martin say to John Candy in Planes, Trains & Automobiles when they awake to discover they are cuddling together in a motel bed?
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