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Timeline Movies: 1983 - Everything That Happened In Movies In 1983
2025 • E53 Sep 14, 2025 17m
1983 was an important year for film, and not just because it was the year a film called Octopussy was in theaters and we all pretended that wasn’t weird. Three different Stephen King movies scared up tickets, clinching his reputation as the most popular horror figure of the decade; an exciting new filmmaker tried to beat Disney Animation at its own game; and the biggest film franchise of all time came to a close… for the first time.