Paramount Pictures Films of 1979
This list contains the films produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures in 1979. List in order of when films were released in the United States.
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- DirectorWalter HillStarsMichael BeckJames RemarDorsey WrightA street gang known as the Warriors must fight its way from the Bronx to its home turf on Coney Island when its members are falsely accused of assassinating a respected gang leader.Written and Directed by Walter Hill; Box office: $22,490,039
- DirectorAlbert BrooksStarsDick HaynesAlbert BrooksMatthew TobinA film crew sets out to record a year in the life of an average family, but things quickly start going wrong.Box office: $364,642
- DirectorJan TroellStarsJason RobardsMia FarrowMax von SydowThe desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and an American painter, against the will of her father. Amid this man-made tension comes a hurricane so devastating, the lives of the lovers and the entire island are imperiled.
- DirectorMichael RitchieStarsKeith CarradineMonica VittiRaf ValloneA smalltime US filmmaker goes to Cannes to try to get his movie in the limelight. A wife of one of the producers there gets interested in his story and they begin an affair.
- DirectorAnthony HarveyStarsAli MacGrawDean Paul MartinMaximilian SchellA rising tennis star falls for an older woman engaged with a wealthy man she doesn't love. Will he become the next John McEnroe? Will she choose love over financial security?
- DirectorJonathan SarnoStarsNancy SnyderNancy BoykinJoel ColodnerLaurie believes that it's possible to communicate with plants via telepathy and devotes all her time and love to them. Her plants do warn her of her sister Rilla's new boyfriend Robert. When Laurie's found dead on the street under her balcony one morning, Rilla doubts that it was an accident. Only a plant was witness that night, so she tries to find a way to learn the truth from it.
- DirectorJohn FrankenheimerStarsTalia ShireRobert FoxworthArmand AssanteA government health inspector is dispatched to assess the damage a logging company is causing to a patch of forest claimed by Native Americans, and comes face to face with true terror wreaking havoc in the woods.Budget: $12 million; Box office: $54 million
- DirectorDon SiegelStarsClint EastwoodPatrick McGoohanRoberts BlossomAlcatraz is the most secure prison of its time. It is believed that no one can ever escape from it, until three daring men make a possibly successful attempt at escaping from one of the most infamous prisons in the world.Budget: $8 million; Box office: $43 million
- DirectorIvan ReitmanStarsBill MurrayHarvey AtkinKate LynchWacky hijinks of counselors and campers at a less-than-average summer camp.Starring Bill Murray; Budget: $1.6 million; Box office: $43,046,003
- DirectorTerence YoungStarsAudrey HepburnBen GazzaraJames MasonWhen her father is murdered, a pharmaceutical heiress becomes the next target of an unknown killer amid the international jet set.Budget: $12 million; Box office: $8,218,695
- DirectorDavid GilesStarsLaurence OlivierGeraldine McEwanCarolyn JonesA filmed record of Laurence Olivier's farewell theatrical performance as the canny, psychotic captain of the August Strindberg play.Released in U.S. July 13, 1979
- DirectorTed KotcheffStarsNick NolteCharles DurningMac DavisA satire of American professional football in which a veteran pass-catcher's individuality and refusal to become part of the team family are bitterly resented by his disciplinarian coaches.Box office: $26,079,312
- DirectorRichard C. SarafianStarsFarrah FawcettCharles GrodinArt CarneyAfter a rich old man dies in a suspicious car accident in Acapulco, Mexico, his widow wants his insurance company to pony up five million dollars. Hotshot investigator Jake Decker (Charles Grodin) and charming model Ellie (Farrah Fawcett-Majors) come in to check it out.
- DirectorAlan J. PakulaStarsBurt ReynoldsJill ClayburghCandice BergenA divorced man falls in love, but somehow he can't get over his ex-wife. This affects his love life in comic ways. Based on Dan Wakefield's novel.Directed Alan J. Pakula; Budget: $10 million; Box office: $35,649,012
- DirectorWillard HuyckStarsMiles ChapinBlanche BakerDavid Marshall GrantThe believable, fresh-faced characters are naive American college students; armed with their French-English dictionaries they compulsively seek out hundreds of monuments, romanticize the nomadic artist's life, and look for grown-up love.
- DirectorRobert WiseStarsWilliam ShatnerLeonard NimoyDeForest KelleyWhen an alien spacecraft of enormous power is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk resumes command of the overhauled USS Enterprise in order to intercept it.Budget: $46 million; Box office: $139 million