This episode is the second part of a three-part, occasionally personal, journey through one of the better summers for films during the 1980s: the summer of 1986.

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This episode covers the following movies released in July of 1986:About Last Night (Ed Zwick)Aliens (James Cameron)The Assam Garden (Mary McMurray)Big Trouble in Little China (John Carpenter)Club Paradise (Harold Ramis)Echo Park (Robert Dornhelm)The Flight of the Navigator (Randall Kleiser)The Girl in the Picture (Cary Parker)The Great Mouse Detective (Ron Clements, Burny Mattinson, Dave Michener, John Musker)Haunted Honeymoon (Gene Wilder)Heartburn (Mike Nichols)Heaven, Earth, Man (Laurens C. Postma)Lamb (Colin Gregg)Malcolm (Nadia Tass)Maximum Overdrive (Stephen King)Meantime (Mike Leigh)Men (Doris Dörrie)Miracles (Jim Kouf)Nothing in Common (Garry Marshall)Out of Bounds (Richard Tuggle)The Patriot (Frank Harris)Psycho III (Anthony Perkins)Pirates (Roman Polanski)Rainy Day Friends (Gary Kent)Roller Blade (Donald G. Jackson)Robotech: The Movie (Noboru Ishiguro and Carl Macek)Sacred Hearts (Barbara Rennie)Saving Grace (Robert M. Young)She’ll Be Wearing Pink Pajamas (John Goldschmidt)Sincerely Charlotte (Caroline Huppert)Under the Cherry Moon (Prince)Vamp (Richard Wenk)Walter and June (Stephen Frears)Zina (Ken McMullen)