Charles acquired cult status in 1988, in his television acting debut, as the Liverpudlian slob Dave Lister, in BBC2's new science fiction comedy series Red Dwarf.

After various appearances in film and television, Ryder continued her career with the cult film Heathers ( 1988 ), a controversial satire of teenage suicide and high school life, which drew Ryder further critical and commercial attention.

He then starred as Rick Deckard in Ridley Scott's cult sci-fi classic Blade Runner ( 1982 ), and in a number of dramatic-action films: Peter Weir's Witness ( 1985 ) and The Mosquito Coast ( 1986 ), and Roman Polanski's Frantic ( 1988 ).

Apart from the infamous appearance of several of Kenton's streets in one episode of the cult BBC TV series " Fawlty Towers " starring John Cleese, the only known reference to Kenton in modern popular culture is the song " Kenton Kev ", by the Berlin-based punk-jazz band The Magoo Brothers on their album " Beyond Believable ", released on the Bouncing Corporation label in 1988.

He also starred in cult classic Waxwork ( 1988 ), and featured alongside a young Viggo Mortensen in the 1990 film Tripwire.

A previous suggestion by Hans Goedicke that the Year of the 33rd Count appears for Pepi II in a royal decree for the mortuary cult of Queen Udjebten was withdrawn by Goedicke himself in 1988 in favour of a reading of ' the Year of the 24th Count ' instead, notes Spalinger.

Donner has mixed commercial flops ( The Toy, Inside Moves, Radio Flyer ) and successes ( The Goonies, the Lethal Weapon series, Scrooged ( 1988 ) and Ladyhawke ( 1985 )-which both have enjoyed large cult followings ).

Piper also starred in the 1988 John Carpenter cult classic, They Live.

* Pin ( film ), a 1988 cult horror movie

Other famous Mackem musicians include punk rockers The Toy Dolls, who broke the top five of the charts with " Nellie the Elephant " in December 1984 ; the punk rock band Leatherface ; the lead singer of dance outfit Olive, Ruth Ann Boyle, who achieved a UK chart-topper with " You're Not Alone " in May 1997, and has gone on to work with fellow chart-toppers Enigma ; A Tribe of Toffs made number 21 with their cult hit " John Kettley is a Weatherman " in December 1988.

This category covers articles on the subject of Red Dwarf, which is a British science fiction situation comedy franchise, primarily comprising eight series of a television sitcom that ran on BBC2 between 1988 and 1999 and subsequently achieved a global cult following.

After a leading role in Peter Greenaway's cult success Drowning by Numbers ( 1988 ), her first major role in front of a mass audience was as Joanna Farley in a 1989 television episode of Poirot, the Agatha Christie based detective series.

The " OBEY " slogan was not only a parody of propaganda, but also a direct homage to the " OBEY " signs found in the 1988 cult classic film, They Live, starring Roddy Piper.

* Miracle Mile ( film ), a 1988 apocalyptic thriller cult film

Miracle Mile is a 1988 apocalyptic thriller cult film written and directed by Steve De Jarnatt, and starring Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham that takes place mostly in real time.

The 1988 cult film Miracle Mile is set in the area.

In 1988, relatives were concerned when a couple sold their home and moved to the community in the wake of prophecies of nuclear war, and raised concerns that the group was a cult, whose members could not leave because Stair controlled their money.

In Soviet Union this cartoon enjoyed a big success in the box office in 1988 and got a truly cult status among kids after being shown multiple times on TV, dubbed in Russian by Soyuzmultfilm studio.

The first fully Singapore funded film came in 1991's Medium Rare, which was based on a real-life local cult killer, Adrian Lim, who was hanged in 1988 for murder.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s she starred in a number of B-movies and cult films such as After Death ( 1988 ) and Liquid Dreams ( 1991 ).

On April 23, 1988 a neighbor told Kirtland police officer Ron Andolsek that she suspected that a cult was living at the farm house and that Lundgren's son warned the neighbor's children that on May 15th the earth would open up and demons would emerge.

On April 28, 1988, a former cult member, referred by the FBI, called Kirtland Police and reported the cult's conspiracy to take over the Kirtland Temple to Chief Dennis T. Yarborough.

He rapidly gained cult status with Everton fans especially after his two goals against rivals Liverpool at Anfield and his performances helped the club to a sixth place finish, their best finish since 1988, though it wasn't quite enough to secure a UEFA Cup place.

* The hairdo and its later incarnations were featured in John Waters ' 1988 cult film, Hairspray.

The cartoonist visited John Lennon and Yoko Ono at their 1969 Bed-In for Peace in Montreal, and their testy exchange later appeared in the documentary film Imagine: John Lennon ( 1988 ).

This trade has become renowned as one of the most lopsided in baseball history, including a mention by Susan Sarandon in her opening soliloquy in the 1988 film Bull Durham: " Bad trades are a part of baseball.

* In the 1988 film Heathers, Winona Ryder and her friends are depicted as playing croquet.

Production techniques were also changed, with a new studio being built and the inclusion of more location filming, which had moved from being shot on film to videotape in 1988.

He is best known in the film industry for his role as Prince Humperdinck in Rob Reiner's 1987 film The Princess Bride, though he also has had supporting parts in some other successful films such as the original Child's Play ( 1988 ).

* Cocktail ( 1988 film )

Other regular collaborators include actor Robert Silverman, art director Carol Spier, sound editor Bryan Day, film editor Ronald Sanders, his sister, costume designer Denise Cronenberg, and, from 1979 until 1988, cinematographer Mark Irwin.

Two years later he played Pontius Pilate in Martin Scorsese's 1988 film The Last Temptation of Christ.

She appeared partially nude in Prime Suspect ( 1988 ) and Compelling Evidence ( 1995 ), but her most infamous film is 1997's Different Strokes: The Story of Jack and Jill ... and Jill.

The story of Donald Campbell's last attempt at the water speed record on Coniston Water was told in the BBC television film Across the Lake in 1988, with Anthony Hopkins as Donald.

According to a survey by The Washington Post, The Thin Blue Line made dozens of critics ' top ten lists for 1988, more than any other film that year.

In this documentary, Morris brought to a pinnacle the revolutionary technique that he had first introduced to the world in his 1988 The Thin Blue Line: the use of re-enactments in a documentary film — a technique ( re-enactments ) which had previously been thought to be inappropriate for use in a " documentary " film.

It was also unfavorably compared to the 1988 film Big, in which Tom Hanks also played a child in a grown man's body.

* 1988 – Sidney Harmon, American film producer ( b. 1907 )

Heathers is a 1988 dark comedy film starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater.

The film The Big Blue, directed by Luc Besson in 1988, was inspired by his life story ( and the life story of the Italian diver Enzo Maiorca ); Mayol was one of the screenwriters.

He has worked under major directors, such as Stephen Frears ( in the 1988 period drama Dangerous Liaisons ); Gus Van Sant ( in the 1991 independent film My Own Private Idaho ); and Bernardo Bertolucci ( in the 1993 film Little Buddha ).

His other film roles have been in The Lightship ( 1986 ), Streets of Gold ( 1986 ), Burning Secret ( 1988 ), The Russia House ( 1990 ), White Fang ( 1991 ), Becoming Colette ( 1992 ), Introducing Dorothy Dandridge ( 1999 ), and Everyman's Feast ( 2002 ).

In 1988, the animated film Akira was released.

* Lincoln ( 1988 film ), a telefilm starring Sam Waterston adapted from Gore Vidal's novel

Often cited as the best actress in the history of Indian film cinema, Dixit made her film debut in Abodh ( 1984 ) and received wider public recognition with Tezaab ( 1988 ).