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This is FRESH AIR.
I'm Tanya Moseley.
In the summer of 1982, my guest today, entertainment writer Chris Nashawadi, was a 13 year old burgeoning film geek who spent the entire summer that year in movie theaters watching eight feature films that would go on to change the face of cinema as we know it.
Movies like Blade Runner, Conan the Barbarian, Poltergeist, and a sweet movie about an alien trying to find his way back home.
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Et the extraterrestrial is a classic, of course, and was a huge hit when it was released the weekend of July 4 in 1982, making it, at the time the biggest box office hit in Hollywood history.
Some of the other movies that made a splash were Tron the thing, star, Wrath of Khan and Mad the Road Warrior.