Black Widow (1987)

In this very straightforward easy-to-watch soapy 80s thriller, a Government agent (Debra Winger) tries to prove that a series of deaths are connected not just by bad lurching editing but by a mysterious 'black widow' with crimped blonde hair who marries rich men then kills them for their money.

★★★☆☆

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An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)

This eighties romantic drama is basically the very first Police Academy movie, just as not-very funny as all the others, with Richard Gere in the Steve Gutenberg role playing a new recruit trying to make his way through a thirteen week-long training camp, with a dastardly training officer, climbing walls, and the expectations of female sex partners threatening to get between him and his attainment of true self-satisfied manhood.

★★★☆☆

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