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What was life like in 1980?

What was life like in the 1980's?

  • Looking for movies that evoke how it is to live in the time in which they are set. I just saw Nashville by Robert Altman, and I felt that the movie did a good job of making the viewer feel what people's lives in the 1970's were like. I'm not necessarily looking for Altman-esque movies. I'm looking more for a movie that can make the viewer feel how it was to live in the year or era in which it is set, like Nashville did. Of particular interest to me are movies set in the 1980's and 1990's.

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    Despite being a comedy, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083929/ feels genuinely like the early to mid-1980s to me. For the 1990s, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105415/ is good, though it and Fast Times are very specifically American/US-based. Until you specified 1980s/1990s, I thought immediately of http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151568/. Mike Leigh, the director, went to special effort to get the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topsy-Turvy#Depiction_of_Victorian_society in the 1880s right, and it shows.

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alms

Two John Sayles movies have great early 20th century details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Men_Out and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matewan

octothorpe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Robe_(film) really captured the cold and grime of 17th-century New France. One got a fantastic sense of just how hard life was in those conditions.

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bonsai forest

Donny Darko does a good job of establishing it's time frame in 1988

jrishel

This is probably a rather odd suggestion, but I've always felt that http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081573/ really captures 1980 to a tee.

BrianJ

Laugh if you will, but the scenes of kids in "Say Anything" struck me as pretty accurate: a bunch of guys sitting around doing nothing.

wenestvedt

I highly recommend http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withnail_and_I as a rarely-seen accurate depiction of the late 1960's.

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