Best Movies of the 1980s

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1980s Movie Trivia: Rejected Roles

Click below to see which actors turned down roles in the best movies of the 1980s. Where does this sort of trivia come from? Movie fans from around the world submit fun trivia to us from TV interviews, books, magazine articles, DVD commentary, and other Hollywood and entertainment sources around the Internet.

Featured Trivia:

Chuck Norris in The Karate Kid?
Chuck Norris turned down the part of John Kreese (Cobra Kai Sensei).

See who turned down these 1980s films:

1980...

- Airplane! (8)
- Ordinary People (8)
- The Blue Lagoon (5)
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1981...

- Raiders of the Lost Ark (9)
- Body Heat (6)
- The Postman Always Rings Twice (5)
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1982...

- First Blood (8)
- 48 Hrs. (7)
- The Verdict (6)
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1983...

- Risky Business (10)
- Terms of Endearment (8)
- Yentl (8)
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1984...

- Amadeus (7)
- Ghost Busters (7)
- Splash (6)
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1985...

- The Breakfast Club (7)
- Back to the Future (7)
- Brazil (6)
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1986...

- Platoon (7)
- Top Gun (7)
- Blue Velvet (4)
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1987...

- Fatal Attraction (9)
- The Untouchables (6)
- The Princess Bride (6)
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1988...

- Rain Man (10)
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit (9)
- Big (8)
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1989...

- Batman (23)
- UHF (7)
- Dead Poets Society (6)
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Popular Actors in the 1980s Click to see which films they turned down:
- Dustin Hoffman - Mickey Rourke - Jack Nicholson - Sylvester Stallone - Debra Winger - John Travolta - Kevin Costner - Mel Gibson - Al Pacino - Barbra Streisand	- Bill Murray - Madonna - Natalie Wood - Tom Cruise - Sigourney Weaver - Robert De Niro - Val Kilmer - Michael Keaton - Tom Hanks - Sally Field