1980s comedy road movies

Down by Law

Film Age rating: 11 Year: 1986 IMDB Rating: 7.7

A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.

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Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1987 IMDB Rating: 7.6

An irritable marketing executive, Neal Page, is heading home to Chicago for Thanksgiving when a number of delays force him to travel with a well meaning but overbearing shower ring curtain salesman, D...

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Midnight Run

Film Age rating: 13 Year: 1988 IMDB Rating: 7.5

A bounty hunter pursues a former Mafia accountant who embezzled $15 million of mob money. He is also being chased by a rival bounty hunter, the F.B.I., and his old mob boss after jumping bail.

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Stranger Than Paradise

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1984 IMDB Rating: 7.4

A Hungarian immigrant, his friend, and his cousin go on an unpredictable adventure across America.

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National Lampoon's Vacation

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1983 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Clark Griswold is on a quest to take his family to the Walley World theme park for a vacation, but things don't go exactly as planned.

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Pee-wee's Big Adventure

Film Age rating: 4 Year: 1985 IMDB Rating: 7

The eccentric and childish Pee-wee Herman embarks on a big adventure when his beloved bicycle is stolen. Armed with information from a fortune-teller and a relentless obsession with his prized possess...

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Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1985 IMDB Rating: 6.7

Big Bird is sent to live far from Sesame Street by a pesky social worker. Unhappy, Big Bird runs away from his foster home, prompting the rest of the Sesame Street gang to go on a cross-country journe...

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Fandango

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1985 IMDB Rating: 6.7

Five college buddies from the University of Texas circa 1971 embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain futures, in Vietnam and otherwise.

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Outrageous Fortune

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1987 IMDB Rating: 6.2

Refined actress Lauren Ames finally has a chance to study with the great theatre professor Stanislav Korzenowski. Sandy Brozinsky, a brash, loud actress, decides through happenstance to also study wit...

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