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The Goonies
1985
A thrill-a-minute adventure film. When brothers Mikey (Sean Astin) and Brand (Josh Brolin) learn that greedy developers are forcing their family to move, they and their friends decide to have one last, precious adventure together. With the help of a treasure map they've found in the attic, the group, known as the Goonies, go in .. Read more
| Starring | Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Corey Feldman, Martha Plimpton |
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| Director | Richard Donner |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Family |
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The Goonies
A thrill-a-minute adventure film. When brothers Mikey (Sean Astin) and Brand (Josh Brolin) learn that greedy developers are forcing their family to move, they and their friends decide to have one last, precious adventure together. With the help of a treasure map they've found in the attic, the group, known as the Goonies, go in search of buried gold hoping against hope that if they find it, Mikey and Brand will succeed in keeping their home.
| Starring | Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Corey Feldman, Martha Plimpton, Steve Antin, Kerri Green, Ke Huy Quan, Mary Ellen Trainor, Jeff B. Cohen |
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| Director | Richard Donner |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 49 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 49 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Big Adventures |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Family |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: 04 Oct 2004 Blu-ray: 06 Oct 2008 Production year: 1985 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (5)
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Before making it big directing Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone, Chris Columbus wrote the screenplay from a story by a certain Steven Spielberg for this good-natured romp, in which a gang of children tackles pirates while searching for a hoard of missing treasure. The tale rattles along like a juvenile Raiders of the Lost Ark and the young leads — including Martha Plimpton, Sean Astin and Corey Feldman — are a likeable bunch. There's also some nice hamming from villains Anne Ramsey, Joe Pantoliano and Robert Davi.
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The bottomless pit of the Spielberg genre, a silly tale which takes forever to get going and is acted by children who have not studied elocution. The trick effects when they come are OK, but it's a long annoying haul to that point.
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95 out of 101 people found this review helpful
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superb family film
The Goonies are a crazy bunch of misfit kids, whose only hope of saving their neighbourhood from greedy developers who want to use the area to build a new golf course, is to find the lost treasure of a 17th Century pirate. With only a dusty map and their spirit of adventure they set off.
this is a very exciting film, that my 9 year old daughter loved. well worth renting out. -
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
The Goonies
I remember watching this film in my mid teens and really loving it, so I thought I'd give it another go. It just goes to show how ones perception of things changes as you get older. Characters that I once found funny and exciting turned out to be little more than annoying. In a way I wish I hadn't watched this film again and preserved the memories of what I remember being an enjoyable movie.
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