'80s Box Office Hits That No One Talks About Anymore
For one of the loudest, wildest decades in the history of American culture, there were many box office hits in the 1980s that went out with barely a whisper.
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For one of the loudest, wildest decades in the history of American culture, there were many box office hits in the 1980s that went out with barely a whisper.
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