Columbia Pictures Corporation released Blue Thunder to theaters on May 13, 1983. John Badham directs the film which stars Roy Scheider, Warren Oates, and Candy Clark. ‘Blue Thunder’ Synopsis Frank Murphy is the Rambo of helicopter pilots. He is a troubled Los Angeles Police Department officer haunted by experiences in the Vietnam War, and nobody really wants to fly with him. In today’s world we would diagnose him as having Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, but in 1983, we would just say that he is fucked up, and needs some quality time alone in the forrest with a machine gun. One other pilot even goes as far as to say that he wouldn’t fly with him even if you gave him a bull that pissed Jack Daniels. In the 80s, that’s a hilarious joke. But despite the other officers’ reluctance to fly with Frank (and their preference to perform fellatio on male bovines in the name of alcoholism), Murphy gets an eager co-pilot in the form of the wide-eyed JAFO named Richard Lymangood. Lymangood, fresh out of his father-in-law’s grocery store, flies with Frank to help provide assistance to police officers on the ground. Murphy and JAFO get sideways with the department and get suspended when they are off playing peeping Tom on a female Cirque De Soleil performer while a member of the city council is attacked and murdered nearby. Flexibility trumps politicians. That’s the better way to get screwed.   (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Disclaimer This podcast is for entertainment and information purposes only. The theme music for Lunchtime Movie Review, Fireworks is provided courtesy of Alexander Nakarada at serpentsoundstudios.com under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. All original content of this podcast is the intellectual property of Lunchtime Movie Review, the MHM Podcast Network, and Fuzzy Bunny Slippers Entertainment LLC unless otherwise noted. This post contains affiliate links that will take you to Amazon.com and/or the iTunes Store. This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, we will receive an affiliate commission. Advertisers and affiliate partnerships do not influence our content. For more information, please read our Terms of Use about the inclusion of affiliate links on this site.