Best and Most Memorable Film Kisses Part 2
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Howard the Duck (1986) A Strange Duck/Human Kiss | After being befriended by struggling Cleveland, Ohio punk-rock musician Beverly Switzler (Lea Thompson), visiting Howard T. Duck from a parallel universe was invited to share her bed, where she proceeded to seductively consider what it would be like to fall in love with a duck: "Aw, maybe I might find happiness in the animal kingdom, duckie?" After more come-on lines, such as: "OK, let's go for it, Mr. Macho" and "I just can't resist your intense animal magnetism", she proposed to the nervous duckie, "Just one goodnight kiss, sweet duckie" - which was viewed in silhouette after she turned out the light; however, three intruders interrupted them; as Carter (Miles Chapin) witnessed what was going on, he stated: "My god, this relationship defies all the laws of nature." |  |
| A Room With a View (1986) A Passion-Awakening Kiss | In this typically-Edwardian, Merchant Ivory-produced repressed romance, young feisty, passionate and ravishing Britisher Miss Lucy Honeychurch's (Helena Bonham Carter) heart and sexuality were awakened during a chaperoned trip to Florence - after an unexpected, sensuous and impetuous kiss in a wheat field by handsome and intense free-spirited admirer George Emerson (Julian Sands), she was forced to break her engagement to prissy suitor Cecil Vyse (Daniel Day-Lewis) |  |
| Top Gun (1986) "Take My Breath Away" Kiss | Although it was a cliched, sometimes unbelievable and distracting romance in this homoerotic, adrenalized and formulaic film ("I feel the need, the need for speed"), it was nonetheless stylishly-executed; arrogant and cocky Lt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell (Tom Cruise) - a naval ace fighter pilot entered into a romance with surprise! -- his intelligent, civilian-contracted instructor Charlotte "Charlie" Blackwood (Kelly McGillis) whom he first met at a bar and serenaded karaoke-style with You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling -- amidst the aerial scenes and muscle-bound volleyball game scenes; in one dark scene, they kissed each other during a make-out session, to the tune of Take My Breath Away |    |
| Broadcast News (1987) Warm-Up Teasing Kisses | During a budding but mismatched romance between talented and spunky female news producer Jane Craig (Holly Hunter) and intellectually-feeble, handsome network news anchorman Tom Grunick (William Hurt), the two attended a Correspondent's Dinner event, but Jane pulled him outside before they went through security (embarrassed that the condoms she had boldly brought in her purse would be discovered); outside, Tom felt Jane's breast through her clothing and teasingly ran his fingers along the top of her low-cut dress; she laughed and told him: "At least kiss me when you do that"; he replied: "You just can't stop editing me, huh?"; she quipped back: "This is hysterical" and they passionately kissed; she told him: "I was half-hoping I wouldn't have a good time tonight. You know why?" - he asked: "Because you're nuts?" - she added: "Right, right. Isn't she fun to tease"; he explained: "More and more lately, I've been watching your reactions, seeing all your energy. I've been wondering what it'd be like to be inside all that energy"; she took a drink to strengthen her resolve to his sexual advance and replied: "Me too"; when he responded that he couldn't say why he just said what he did, she answered for him: "Well, I can think of two reasons...three, I just thought of a third. If you talk about it, you don't have to do it...Another is, you're trying to make it all about sex and heat and nothing else, or it's that great feeling that you don't want to hold anything back. You know, intimacy" |   |
| Broadcast News (1987) The Promise of Time-Off Kiss | As the entire office was packing up after a severe hiring cutback, handsome but vacuous network news anchorman Tom Grunick gestured to young intensely-driven, workalcoholic female producer Jane Craig (Holly Hunter) to join him in one of the offices to talk privately; she complained about the "awful" situation everyone faced: "It just hurts...physically, doesn't it? Like something's wrong with your bones. Like your organs are shifting inside your body"; unsympathethic and callous about everyone's plight, he said: "Maybe I haven't been here long enough" - and then congratulated her on her promotion to the position of bureau chief; he then explained how the same thing had happened at every station where he had previously worked ("I'm sorry I can't stand here feeling bad because I don't feel worse"); he then asked whether she would join him during her "fourteen weeks" of time off, before he had to relocate in a week to a new position in London: "Let's get the hell away to some island fast and, and find out how we are together away from this" - she responded in awe: "Well, I just think that's an extraordinary proposal"; when he wondered whether she meant "yes," she replied with an affirmative and enthusiastic 'yes': "That's more than 'yes'. That's 'you bet'!"; after he passionately kissed her, she wrapped her arms around him; later however, after she realized that he had breached some ethical boundaries by faking tears in a cutaway shot during an interview, she left him at the airport to take the trip by himself |   |
| Dirty Dancing (1987) Dancing Moves Kisses | In this popular teen dance film, macho Catskill Mountains resort hotel resident dance instructor and sexy suitor Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze), while teaching 17 year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman (Jennifer Grey) expressive R 'n' B, hip-to-hip dance moves, also put other romantic moves on her; dancing shirtless with her, she also stripped down to her white bra and jeans, as he caressed and kissed her |    |
| A Man in Love (1987) (aka Un Homme Amoureux) Kisses as Prelude to Love-Making | French director Diane Kurys told a tale of infidelity in an art film about the life of the Italian poet Cesare Pavese, between self-possessed married movie star Steve Elliott (Peter Coyote) and his earthy and sensual leading lady co-star Jane Steiner (Greta Scacchi), as Gabriella, Pavese's last love; they had a passionate off-screen love affair that occurred at a hotel room - with the unbuttoning of her blouse, then kissing, then love-making |  |
| Moonstruck (1987) A Kiss for a Wolf | In a memorable scene in Ronny's apartment, 37 year-old Italian bookkeeper Loretta Castorini (Cher) after being widowed for seven years, was recently engaged to Momma's boy Johnny Cammareri (Danny Aiello); she cooked up a steak, served with a bottle of whiskey, to Johnny's younger estranged and tortured brother Ronny Cammareri (Nicolas Cage) who was still cynical about love; a bread-slicer bakery accident five years earlier involving Johnny had left him maimed (one-handed) and without a fiancee; both called each other "stupid" for not following through with love since their mutual life-altering events; Loretta confessed to Ronny about the loss of her previous husband: "I got no man, no baby, no nothin'. You know, how did I know that that man was a gift I couldn't keep. My one chance at happiness"; she also offered unsolicited advice to him about his life, calling him a wolf: "That woman didn't leave you, OK. You can't see what you are, and I see everything...You are a wolf!...That woman was a trap for you. She caught you and you couldn't get away. So you, you chewed off your own foot. That was the price you had to pay for your freedom...And now, now you're afraid because you know the big part of you is a wolf that has the courage to bite off its own hand to save itself from the trap of the wrong love. That's why there's been no woman since that wrong woman. OK? You're scared to death of what the wolf would do if you try and make that mistake again!"; then Loretta admitted why she was marrying Johnny - whom he called a 'fool': "Because I have no luck"; Ronny stood up: "He [Johnny] made me look the wrong way and I cut off my hand. He could make you look the wrong way, you could lose your whole head!"; Ronny called her: "A bride without a head" and she retorted back: "A wolf without a foot"; and then, Ronny tossed the dining table aside and grabbed Loretta for a passionate kiss. For a moment, Loretta pushed him away with: "Wait a minute! Wait a minute!", but then lunged back for another kiss; he cried out: "Son of a bitch," as he carried her into his bedroom ("To the bed!") and she surrendered to him: "Take me to the bed. I don't care about anything"; during the night, they both stood in the moonlight (that "looks like a big snowball") and kissed again In the climactic breakfast proposal scene, after Johnny broke off his engagement to Loretta, Ronny proposed to Loretta instead (with Johnny's stunned reaction: "WHAT?!"), using the same engagement ring; he requested her hand in marriage: "Loretta Castorini: "Will you marry me?" - Loretta accepted and assured her mother of her love: "I love him awful"; they kissed to seal the deal, after Johnny smiled: "She loves me" |       |
| A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) An Enticing and Seductive "Freddy Krueger" Tongue-Tied Kiss | In the third film in the long-running horror-film franchise, a group of suicidal teens, all children of the vigilante parents in Springwood who had burned and killed child murderer Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), were experiencing a group hypnosis therapy session during their treatment at Westin Hills Psychiatric Hospital. During his own dream experience, mute and infatuated teen Joey Crusel (Rodney Eastman) followed cute candy-striper Marcie (Stacey Alden) down the hallway to an unoccupied room, where she confided how she was attracted to him; in the empty dorm room, sexy Marcie enticed Joey by inviting him to "unzip me" - and she soon stood bare-breasted before him, asking: "Do you like my body, Joey?" Wearing only a skimpy white thong, she urged him to lie back, crawled on top of him, and then kissed him. The probing and deep kiss gagged Joey as Marcie's tongue grew supernaturally and burrowed deep into his mouth. Two elongated tongues burst from her mouth and twisted around Joey's wrists on the headboard, and two more tongues lashed his feet to the footboard bedposts. Her face and body were transformed into the grotesque Freddy Krueger, who quipped: "What's wrong, Joey? Feeling tongue-tied?" |    |
| The Princess Bride (1987) The Most Passionate and Pure Kiss | In this classic fairy tale by director Rob Reiner, the Grandfather (Peter Falk) was reading a bedtime story to his grandson (Fred Savage) who was often perturbed by the many kissing parts: "They're kissing again. Do we have to read the kissing parts?"; the young boy asked: "Is this a kissing book?" as evidenced by an early kissing scene before a golden sunset between the two fairy tale characters; ultimately it was a "kissing book" - the Grandfather introduced the "most passionate" kiss between Buttercup/Princess Bride (Robin Wright) and white horseback-riding Westley (Cary Elwes) to the grandson: "Since the invention of the kiss there have been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind. The End" |    |
| Roxanne (1987) Awkward Long-Nosed Kiss | Roxanne (Daryl Hannah) delivered a heartfelt, romantic speech in the film's happy ending, to a disbelieving, long-nosed C.D. Bales (Steve Martin) as he sat on her roof; after she professed her love to him: "All these other men, Charlie, they've got flat, featureless faces. No character! No fire! No nose! Charlie - you have a big nose. You have a beautiful, great big, flesh-and-bone nose! I love your nose! I love your nose, Charlie. I love you, Charlie. Well?, he responded: "Are you kidding?"; he then slid down her roof onto the porch and acrobatically performed a full body somersaulting flip off the porch to the ground in front of her; after a few awkward moments of finding the right angle and having him tilt his head to the right, she kissed him |   |
| Some Kind of Wonderful (1987) Secretly in Love | Lone outsider and high school senior Keith Nelson (Eric Stoltz) had tomboy friend Watts (Mary Stuart Masterson) - who was secretly in love with him - help him to learn how to kiss, since he was smitten with and had a crush on the unattainable and pretty Amanda Jones (Lea Thompson), and had just been offered a date |  |
| Big (1988) Awkward Adolescent Fondling/Kissing | Young teen Josh Baskin (Tom Hanks) - in a 35 year old's body - awkwardly fell in love with yuppie toy executive Susan Lawrence (Elizabeth Perkins) - who earlier had asked to spend the night for a 'sleep-over' followed by Josh's guileless reply about sleeping on the top bunk: "Well, OK, but I get to be on top"; later, they shared a tender, simple and innocent scene in which he gently touched her breast through her bra before offering her a sweet kiss |  |
| Big Top Pee-Wee (1988) Record-Long Screen Kiss | This was the second installment of the big-screen series (following Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985)) starring Paul Reubens as gawky man-child Pee Wee Herman, in which he was involved in an unlikely love-triangle; he shared a 1 minute 30 second kiss (whittled down from 3 minutes) - his first screen kiss - with Italian trapeze artist Gina Piccolapupula (Valeria Golino) from the traveling Cabrini Circus - while Gina's elephant Flora took a bath near them, and after they had identified some shapes made by the clouds in the sky. During the lengthy kiss, the camera pulled back slowly from the lustfully-smooching couple. They were interrupted when Pee Wee's sweet, chaste schoolteacher fiancee Winnie Johnston (Penelope Ann Miller) spotted them, angrily tossed Pee Wee's egg-salad sandwiches that she had made for his lunch into the water, and stormed off; when Gina later asked who Winnie was and Pee-Wee responded: "She's my fiancée," Gina slapped Pee Wee in the face and left. Winnie identified why their kiss was inevitable: "You're a man. She's Italian." After he reconciled with Gina, the couple made love - symbolically accompanied by clichéd orgasmic images including a train entering a tunnel, explosive fireworks, bubbling and red-hot volcanic lava, white surf crashing against rocks, and two female mud-wrestlers battling each other. In the film's conclusion, Pee-Wee had become Gina's trapeze partner in the show - and they kissed as the film ended with an iris closing in on them, while Pee-Wee winked at the camera |     |
