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Foundation date 1 january 1974
Atlantic Entertainment Group, also known as Atlantic Releasing Corporation was an independent film production and distribution company founded by Tom Coleman and Michael Rosenblatt in 1974. Their initial releases were mostly geared to arthouse audiences, with an especially large number of Australian productions, as well as releasing two Brazilian productions, Eu Te Amo and Lady on the Bus, that introduced American audiences to actress Sonia Braga. They shifted their focus to small-budgeted independent films in the early '80s, beginning with the surprise success of Valley Girl in 1983, directed by Martha Coolidge. Night of the Comet, released in 1984, would be their first film to open on over 1000 screens. In 1985, they began a relationship with Paramount Pictures where the studio provided them money for larger-scale theatrical releases in exchange for home video and television rights to their films. In January 1989, Atlantic made a new deal with Kartes Video Communications for home video rights to the movies previously covered in the Paramount deal. However, they ultimately ceased operation shortly after this deal, amidst large financial losses from larger-budgeted films such as 1969.
Some of the company's most notable films include:
The Murri Affair (1974)
He Is My Brother (1975)
Something to Hide (1976)
Caddie (1976)
In Search of Bigfoot (1976)
Max Havelaar (1976)
The Day the Music Died (1977)
Bonjour Amour (1977)
Madame Rosa (1977)
Lady on the Bus (1978)
The Irishman (1978)
Boarding School (1978)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978)
The Getting of Wisdom (1978)
The Odd Job (1978)
Once in Paris... (1978)
Bahia (1979)
Womanlight (1979)
Boardwalk (1979)
Rude Boy (1980)
I Sent a Letter to My Love (1980)
The Attic (1980)
Below the Belt (1980)
Montenegro (1981)
Eu Te Amo (1981)
Breach of Contract (1982)
The Loveless (1982)
Smash Palace (1982)
By Design (1982)
Aphrodite (1982)
Norman Loves Rose (1982)
Waltz Across Texas (1982)
Valley Girl (1983)
Kamla (1984)
Talk to Me (1984)
Alphabet City (1984)
Vamping (1984)
1984 (1984)
City Limits (1984)
Night of the Comet (1984)
Roadhouse 66 (1985)
Water (1985, produced by Handmade Films)
Teen Wolf (1985)
Starchaser: The Legend of Orin (1985)
Stephen King's World of Horror (1986) (TV)
Nomads (1986)
Echo Park (1986)
Stoogemania (1986)
Extremities (1986)
The Men's Club (1986)
The Fringe Dwellers (1986)
Modern Girls (1986)
The Umbrella Woman (1987)
Wild Thing (1987)
Steele Justice (1987)
Summer Heat (1987)
Wish You Were Here (1987)
A Tiger's Tale (1987)
Home Is Where the Hart Is (1987)
The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987)
Teen Wolf Too (1987)
Stormy Monday (1988)
Patty Hearst (1988)
A Soldier's Tale (1988)
For Queen & Country (1988)
A World Apart (1988)
Cop (1988)
A Summer Story (1988)
1969 (1988)
The library was bought by Island Pictures, which was later absorbed into PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. For a number of years, Paramount Pictures had TV and video distribution rights to Atlantic's library, some from their previous deal with the company, others inherited when Viacom, who had purchased TV rights to many earlier Atlantic releases, merged with Paramount. MGM now distributes most of the library as a result of purchasing the pre-1996 portion of PolyGram's library.
Filmography of Atlantic Entertainment Group (40 films)
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The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987)
, 1h37Directed by Rodney Amateau
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Fantasy, Adventure, Musical, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films, Musical films
Actors Mackenzie Astin, Anthony Newley, Phil Fondacaro, Katie Barberi, Jim Cummings, Debbie Lee Carrington
A garbage can spaceship is seen flying near Earth. The same garbage can is then shown inside an antique shop owned by Captain Manzini. A boy named Dodger is being assaulted by four bullies in a park. Juice, the leader, steals Dodger's money and drops him in a puddle. Dodger goes to Manzini's antique shop where he works. Manzini takes Dodger's clothes and cleans them while warning him to stay away from the garbage can. Later, Dodger sees Tangerine, Juice's girlfriend, who seems to be the most compassionate one towards Dodger, and tries to persuade her to buy something. Dodger is attracted to Tangerine and covertly smells her hair while she is distracted. The other bullies enter the shop and attempt to rough up Dodger again, but he manages to outwit them. However, amidst the tussle, the garbage can is knocked over. The bullies then bring Dodger into a sewer, handcuff him to a rail, and open a sewage pipe on him. Dodger is saved by little mysterious people named the Garbage Pail Kids.
Extremities (1986)
, 1h29Directed by Robert Malcolm Young
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Rape and revenge films, Films based on plays, Auto-justice
Actors Farrah Fawcett, James Russo, Alfre Woodard, Diana Scarwid, Sandy Martin, Maurice Costello
Marjorie (Fawcett) is a young woman who works in a museum and lives with two female roommates, Pat (Woodard) and Terry (Scarwid) in Los Angeles. One night, while getting into her car, she is attacked at knifepoint by a masked assailant (Russo), who forces her to touch him sexually.
The Men's Club (1986)
, 1h41Directed by Peter Medak
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Roy Scheider, Harvey Keitel, Richard Jordan, Craig Wasson, Frank Langella, Treat Williams
A band of friends go on a drunken, all-night spree, spending a night in a high-class San Francisco brothel.
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Cop (1988)
, 1h50Directed by James B. Harris
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors James Woods, Lesley Ann Warren, Charles Durning, Charles Haid, Raymond J. Barry, Randi Brooks
LAPD detective Sgt. Lloyd Hopkins (Woods) discovers the brutal murder of a young woman. Her body hangs over her bed, and her blood is splattered all over her apartment. Hopkins notices a great deal of feminist literature with titles like Rage in the Womb on her bookshelf. He also sees two classified ads for anonymous sexual encounters. When he returns home, his 8-year old daughter wakes up and begs him for a story. He launches into a profane description of one of his cases, much to the girl's delight. His wife orders him to stop, and they have an argument over the inappropriateness of his stories. Frustrated, he calls up his buddy Dutch Pelz (Durning), and they go on a stakeout, which culminates with Hopkins shooting the suspect. Hopkins asks Dutch to stay at the scene and file the paperwork so that he can take the suspect's voluptuous girlfriend home and have sex with her.
A Tiger's Tale (1988)
, 1h37Directed by Peter Douglas
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Ann-Margret, C. Thomas Howell, Charles Durning, Kelly Preston, Ann Wedgeworth, William Zabka
Bubber Drumm is a Houston high school student. Rose Butts is an alcoholic, more than twice his age, and the mother of his girlfriend, Shirley. Bubber and Rose begin an affair after Bubber fixes Shirley up with his pal, Ransom McKnight.
Patty Hearst (1988)
, 1h50Directed by Paul Schrader
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Crime
Themes Psychologie
Actors Natasha Richardson, William Forsythe, Ving Rhames, Frances Fisher, Jodi Long, Olivia Barash
Patty Hearst évoque l'histoire vraie de Patricia Hearst, petite fille du magnat de la presse William Randolph Hearst, qui a été enlevée par l'Armée de libération symbionaise, groupuscule terroriste, avant de se rallier à la cause de ses ravisseurs.
For Queen & Country (1988)
, 1h45Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Denzel Washington, Bruce Payne, Dorian Healy, Sean Chapman, Amanda Redman, Graham McTavish
Reuben James (Washington), although having grown up in London, was born in St. Lucia, West Indies, and joined the British Army to escape the poverty of inner city life. He serves with the Parachute Regiment, doing a tour in Northern Ireland for three years at the height of The Troubles in the late 1970s, and later fighting in the 1982 Malvinas/Falklands in the South Atlantic for the remainder of his military career, eventually becoming a war hero himself.
1969 (1988)
, 1h35Directed by Ernest Thompson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Robert Downey Jr., Kiefer Sutherland, Winona Ryder, Mariette Hartley, Bruce Dern, Joanna Cassidy
The boys (Robert Downey, Jr. and Kiefer Sutherland) arrive on Easter morning and shout their greetings across the glen to their family during a lakeside Easter Sunrise service, much to the amusement of Ralph's younger sister Beth (Winona Ryder) and mother Ev (Joanna Cassidy) and embarrassment of Scott's mother Jessie (Mariette Hartley) and father Cliff (Bruce Dern).
Stormy Monday (1988)
, 1h33Directed by Mike Figgis
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Romance
Actors Melanie Griffith, Tommy Lee Jones, Sting, Sean Bean, James Cosmo, Prunella Gee
A young man, Brendan (Sean Bean), seeks work in a jazz club ('The Key Club') owned by Finney (Sting). There is some suggestion that Finney has past connections with organised crime but is attempting to leave these behind. Two gangsters arrive to make Finney an offer 'he cannot refuse' for his club but Brendan overhears them and warns Finney, who then turns the tables on them. At the same time Newcastle is preparing to host a visit from a group of American investors that it hopes to engage in a grandiose regeneration project. Kate (Melanie Griffith), a waitress, has been recruited to service the delegation. Kate and Brendan meet and fall in love. Among the visiting group is Cosmo (Tommy Lee Jones) a corrupt businessman who we learn uses Kate as a prostitute to secure business deals. It is Cosmo who has been putting the pressure on Finney as the club stands in the way of his plans for the city leading to an eventual conflict.
A Summer Story (1988)
, 1h35Directed by Piers Haggard
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors James Wilby, Imogen Stubbs, Susannah York, Kenneth Colley, Jerome Flynn, Sophie Ward
In the summer of 1902 Frank Ashton, an educated young man from London, is on a walking holiday in Devon with a friend. When he falls and twists his ankle, Ashton is helped at a nearby farmhouse and stays there for a few days to recover, while his friend goes on. Ashton quickly falls for the village girl who looks after him, Megan David, and she falls in love with him, to the great distress of her cousin Joe Narracombe, who wants her for himself. Ashton and Megan spend a night together, and after that he takes the train to a seaside town to cash a cheque at a bank, promising to return the next morning and take Megan away with him and marry her.
A World Apart (1988)
, 1h52Directed by Chris Menges
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about racism
Actors Jodhi May, Barbara Hershey, Jeroen Krabbé, Tim Roth, David Suchet, Kate Fitzpatrick
Set in Johannesburg in 1963, the film examines the abrupt ending of 13-year-old Molly's blithe childhood when her father, a member of the South African Communist Party, is sent into exile. Ostracised by her peers, Molly draws closer to her mother as she attempts to further the campaign against apartheid. Their relationship is challenged by hardship, political intimidation, and the older woman's eventual arrest.
Wish You Were Here (1987)
, 1h32Directed by David Leland
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality
Actors Emily Lloyd, Tom Bell, Heathcote Williams, Jesse Birdsall, Geoffrey Hutchings, Charlotte Barker
Sixteen-year-old Lynda Mansell (Emily Lloyd) lives in a small English seaside town in the early 1950s. She is feisty and precocious and tries to shock other people with her vulgar and saucy tongue (her favourite insult is "Up yer bum"). Bored with conventional jobs (which she frequently loses) and her town's dull young men, Lynda has her first sexual experience with Dave (Jesse Birdsall) but after she has slept with one of her father's middle-aged friends (Tom Bell), her life changes. She becomes pregnant and her father, a somewhat rigid and conventional man, disowns her. Desperately she tries to seek an illegal abortion but in the end decides to become a mother.
The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987)
, 1h37Directed by Rodney Amateau
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Fantasy, Adventure, Musical, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films, Musical films
Actors Mackenzie Astin, Anthony Newley, Phil Fondacaro, Katie Barberi, Jim Cummings, Debbie Lee Carrington
A garbage can spaceship is seen flying near Earth. The same garbage can is then shown inside an antique shop owned by Captain Manzini. A boy named Dodger is being assaulted by four bullies in a park. Juice, the leader, steals Dodger's money and drops him in a puddle. Dodger goes to Manzini's antique shop where he works. Manzini takes Dodger's clothes and cleans them while warning him to stay away from the garbage can. Later, Dodger sees Tangerine, Juice's girlfriend, who seems to be the most compassionate one towards Dodger, and tries to persuade her to buy something. Dodger is attracted to Tangerine and covertly smells her hair while she is distracted. The other bullies enter the shop and attempt to rough up Dodger again, but he manages to outwit them. However, amidst the tussle, the garbage can is knocked over. The bullies then bring Dodger into a sewer, handcuff him to a rail, and open a sewage pipe on him. Dodger is saved by little mysterious people named the Garbage Pail Kids.
Teen Wolf Too (1987)
, 1h34Directed by Rod Daniel, Christopher Leitch
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes L'adolescence, Films about animals, Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Teen movie
Actors Jason Bateman, Kim Darby, John Astin, Paul Sand, James Hampton, Kathleen Freeman
Todd Howard (Jason Bateman), the cousin of Scott Howard, has recently been accepted into Hamilton University on a full athletic scholarship on the recommendation of Coach Bobby Finstock (Paul Sand), who was Scott's basketball coach at Beacontown High. Finstock's hope is that Todd has the family genes to become a werewolf and turn Finstock's new struggling boxing team into championship contenders. Having never been much good at sports, and because he is more interested in being a veterinarian, Todd is certain that Finstock has the wrong guy. During a meet and greet reception of school alumni, Todd has his first "wolf-out" while dancing with a seductive hostess. At first, Todd is horrified by his "family affliction", and fellow students begin to harass him. Then, during his first boxing match, after nearly getting knocked out, Todd has his second "wolf-out" only this time he is able to display his supernatural agility and strength and has a dramatic come from behind victory, thus earning the admiration of the students as well as the strict Dean Dunn (John Astin).
Heathcliff: The Movie (1986)
, 1h10Directed by Bruno Bianchi
Origin Canada
Genres Comedy, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about cats, Children's films
Actors Mel Blanc, Jeannie Elias, Stan Jones, Danny Mann, Peter Cullen, Marilyn Lightstone
On a rainy day, Heathcliff (Mel Blanc) recalls his past exploits to his three nephews (and a mouse), through a compilation of episodes originally broadcast on the TV series.