Lisa Jane Persky

A poor Russian family in search of the American Dream finds it after three generations in the 1980s when their great-grandson emerges as a rock star.

The complex life of Divine, the gleefully brash muse of director John Waters, who became one of the first drag superstars of the big screen.

Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal became rom-com icons for their irresistible turns as modern lovers on the eve of the 1990s in this swooning classic, directed by the late Rob Reiner. Received wisdom about relationships comes loose as the two characters do some more growing up in the scenic Big Apple.

Sporting conical crania, extraterrestrials Beldar and Prymaat crash land on Earth and find themselves stranded in New Jersey, where they are forced to live out a life as typical suburban humans, much to the chagrin of both their new and old planets.