Rainwear interest books & films

Rainwear in Films	1980-89	Films Home
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1980
Private Benjamin, Howard Zief, US, 1980	With Goldie Hawn in a rubber army poncho (W)
Lili Marleen, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980	At the end of the film the heroine Hannah Schygulla appears in a superb SBR mackintosh and goes off to the Albert Hall. The best part of the film needless to say. (Sandy) This is the story of a young singer in Munich who is in love of a jew and are separated by circumstances of the war. (Cire Noir)
Liste Noire, Alain Bonnot, La France, 1980	This film saw the return on the screen of great actress Annie Girardot (already seen with a raincoat in Traitement de Choc by Alain Jessua). She is exacting revenge for the killing of her son. She wears a beautiful long PVC shiny black raincoat with a belt. (Cire Noir.)
Friday the 13th, Part 1,Sean S. Cunningham, US, 1980	One of the camp counsellors wears a shiny, green mac in the rain. (Martin)
La Femme de l'aviateur, Eric Rohmer, France, 1981	No better susurrus on film. (LE, with warmest thanks to Alan D) The key moments.
Die Faelschung (False Witness / Circle of Deceit), Volker Schloendorff, Germany, 1981	After a novel of Nicolas Born. Shows Gila von Weitershausen wearing a Klepper mac. (Peter)
California Dolls, 1981	This film is about a showman and two female wrestlers played by Laurene Landon and Vicki Frederick. On a wet day the girls wear very shiny hooded PVC jackets with hoods up ... Laurene in yellow, Vicki in green. (Bob)
On Golden Pond, Bruce Gilbert, US, 1981	Jane Fonda with a beige trenchcoat and brown boots. There are two scenes in which she appears with the beautiful trenchcoat (probably a Burberry) and boots. They are when she visits her father's summer house, and when she leaves there. (Aquira)
Les Uns et les Autres, Claude Lelouch, La France, 1981	This rather long film shows one scene with Geraldine Chaplin with a SBR black mac and a see through umbrella. (Cire Noir) Jac adds: Each time she goes at the railway crossing, Nicole Garcia wears a macintosh. Single-breasted and belted white mac when the action happens in the '50s, single-breasted black macintosh in the '60s ; she wears it full buttoned up and collar turned up.
Coup de Torchon, Bertrand Tavernier, France, 1981.	The end of this french film noir based on a story by Jim Thomson shows Isabelle Huppert leaving a village of Senegal in the night. She has a scene with Philippe Noiret where she explains him why she is taking the boat. She wears a gorgeous black pvc belted raincoat. Isabelle Huppert had already been seen with a shiny blue pvc mac with a zip in La Denteliere. (Cire Noir)
Diva, Jean-Jacques Beineix, France, 1981	A stylish, beautifully fimed gangster suspense movie involving a Diva, a mailman and his girlfriend, gangsters and the law.... It has with 3 wonderful twisting subplots. French/ subtitled English. The shoplifting girlfriend wears a see-through pink plastic belted rain jacket (also a short vinyl skirt) which you can hear. And a blue see-through raincoat shows up later in a scene not for the queasy...(Evad)
All the Marbles, Robert Aldrich, France, 1981	Vicki Frederick and Laurene Landon are the California Dolls, a team of wrestlers looking for success. Their trainer is played by Peter Falk. One big scene is in the rain and the two girls are wearing shiny, short, pvc raincoats (blue and green). (Cire Noir)
Eye of the Needle, Richard Marquand, GB, 1981	After a novel of Ken Follett, with Donald Sutherland and Kate Nelligan. Shows Kate Nelligan on a small island wearing SBR Mac and rubber boots. (Anon) Milo adds: The Nelligan character wears a yellow mackintosh when she discovers the body of her husband.
Ein pikantes Geschenk, Michel Lang, France/ Italy, 1982 aka. Le Cadeau	In a short scene in a hotel lobby, a lady wears a translucent red Rainjacket. Nice Girls anyway. (JB)
The Trail of the Pink Panther, Blake Edwards, USA/UK, 1982	Intrepid television reporter (Joanna Lumley) wears a classic Trench as she breaks into Inspector Clousseau's apartment and is attacked by Chinese manservant Kato, who ends up wearing the frying pan! (Kiwimac)
Author, Author! Arthur Hiller, US, 1982	Al Pacino plays a single father with lots of kids. Tuesday Weld plays the author's wife who is about to leave him. She wears a green trenchcoat. (Johan)
A Little Sex, Bruce Paltrow, US, 1982	Kate Capshaw strips down and puts on a trench mac, then goes out into the rain to surprise her husband...(W)
Mille Milliards de $, Henri Verneuil, La France, 1982.	Also featuring the late french star, Patrick Dewaere, Caroline Cellier puts on a beautiful long shiny black raincoat for the last scene. (Cire Noir.)
Le Beau Mariage, Eric Rohmer, France, 1982	This is the story of Sabine (Beatrice Romand) who decide to get married without knowing who she will marry to. Arielle Dombasle is her friend and confident. She wears a long pvc black shiny raincoat in two very short scenes. (Cire Noir)
Mortelle Randonnée, Claude Miller, France, 1982.	A story of a crazy love with Michel Serrault as a detective following the rather enigmatic Isabelle Adjani who wears in few scenes a short plastic blue mac with a hood. Isabelle Adjani had already appeared with a blue pvc shiny raincoat in La Gifle. (Cire Noir)
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, Robert Altman, US, 1982	A fan club of James Dean meets on the anniversary of his death and reveal the truth about their lives to each other. There is a quick shot in a flashback scene of one of the girls wearing a hooded vinyl raincoat. (Evad)
Blade Runner, Ridley Scott, US, 1982	Has a scene where a "replicant" (human android or robot) is chased by Harrison Ford. As she runs she has on a clear plastic raincoat. The scene is short but exciting (PVC)
Meurtres à domicile, Marc Lobet, Belgium/France, 1982	Anny Duperey wears the trenchcoat (Burberry) in this movie. Co-star was her husband at the time, Bernard Giraudeau, she plays the part of a young woman police officer obliged to invistigate a murder commited in her own house. Anny appeard with the same trench in le déomon dans l'ile during the same decade with Jean Claude Brially. At the start of her career, in one of her early movies, she also appeared in trenchcoat. (André)
Tootsie, Sydney Pollack, US, 1982	Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman) is a tv actor who is difficult to work with, and cannot find a job. Desperate, he lands the female lead in a tv soap, and becomes famous. He falls in love with the female lead (Jessica Lange) in the series, but cannot express it, since no one knows their rising star is a man... There is a brief view of Hoffman in a red vinyl raincoat, in the scene where s/he and a film crew are on location at a fountain. (LB)
Le Choc, Robin Davis, France, 1983	Le Choc sees Catherine Deneuve wearing a tightly belted white single texture trenchcoat for the majority of the film. The mac has many adventures including being thrown back and forth by Catherine and Alain Delon. Great view of the inside including the red buggy. One of my favourite films. (Dannimac)
The Hunger, Tony Scott, UK, 1983	Susan Sarandon with Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie. (Curious!! - a sunny day with raincoat?) (Nikita)
Doctor Who - The Five Doctors, Peter Moffatt, GB, 1983	Elisabeth Sladen is wearing a purple translucent plastic mac. (WK)
La Crime, Philippe Labro, France, 1983	Stars Claude Brasseur, Gabrielle Lazurre, Dayle Haddon and Jean Louis Trintignant. Claude Brasseur plays the role of the chief of the criminal police pursuing an investigation where a Minister shoud have been involved. Gabrielle Lazurre plays a journalist and it is she who wears the rainwear - a green Burberry trenchcoat. But Dayle Haddon also has a nice "ensemble" jacket and skirt, not nice enough unfortunately to prevent her being killed, even though she was wearing it at the time. (André)
Hotel New Hampshire, Tony Richardson, US, 1983	A woman with red hair wear a translucent plastic mac. (WK)
Terms of Endearment, James L. Brooks, US, 1983	Debra Winger is wearing a translucent plastic jacket and Shirley McLaine wears a clear plastic rain bonnet. (WK)
Mr Mom, Stan Dragoti, US, 1983.	A female crossing guard (the actress' name escapes me) wears an old fashioned yellow slicker with the buckle closures, and a matching sou'wester rain hat on the job.(Bill, David) Ron adds: Terri Garr also wears what I would bet money on to be a beige Burberry trench coat. And Ann Jillian comes knocking on Mr. Mom's door (Michael Keaton) wearing a London Fog beige trench tightly belted, and after entering the home and talking with him, she unties the belt on her trench coat, whisks it off her shoulders and lets it fall to the floor, revealing her bikini underwear! Michael Keaton then trips on the trench coat that is now on the floor. One of the best trench coat movies I have seen. (Ron)
Les Ripoux, Claude Zidi, France, 1984	With Philippe Noiret and Thierry Lhermitte as two policemen. A prostitute is wearing a shiny red raincoat with a shiny black belt . (MacRain) Bernard adds: In another scene, the prostitute, Grace de Capitani , wears a long white classical trenchcoat. (Bernard)
Ghostbusters, Ivan Reitman, US, 1984	Waders and a yellow rainjackets are worn when the busters enter the sewers to find the ghosts. When they return they are all over covered in ghost slime . (Jan H)
Lassiter, Roger Young, US, 1984	Reaching with a certain lack of conviction for period authenticity (the film is set in 1934) director Roger Young has Jane Seymour wear a single-texture rubberised cotton mackintosh for some of the film's key moments.. Not an obvious choice for this period, but a stroke which haply confers significance on an otherwise undistinguished entertainment. Seymour wears her smart blue mackintosh with allure and panache. A treat. (H)
L'Amour à Mort, Alain Resnais, France, 1984	Sabine Azema wears throughout the film a black mac with hood and small cape, almost like your Miss Kingfisher. (JLZ)
Liste Noire, Alain Bonnot, France, 1984	This film saw the return on the screen of great actress Annie Girardot (already seen with a raincoat in Traitement de Choc by Alain Jessua). (Cire Noir.) Annie Girardot plays the part of a mother who wants to revenge the murder of her daughter killing all the people involved in it. In most of the picture she wore a black trench coat "ciré noir". Macrain thinks it is the best rainwear movie ever. (André) (Therefore it is - LE)
Champions, John Irvin, UK/USA, 1984	Actress Jan Francis appears in this film about Bob Champion the ex-jockey. Playing the part of a nurse she is frequently seen in her Burberry trenchcoat: looking stunning, of course. (Kevin)
The River, Mark Rydel, US, 1984	Mel Gibson, Sissy Spacek, Scott Glenn, and just about everyone else in the cast sport olive drab vinyl rainsuits, and black rubber wellies. (Bill) A family channel movie has many of the characters dressed in various color raincoats and rainsuits - the only saving grace to this very bad movie (David)
The Berlin Affair, Liliana Cavani, Italy/ West Germany, 1985	A filmic adaptation of a Japanese novel by Tanazaki, known under the title (amongst other titles) "The Buddist Cross". Director Liliana Cavani sets the story in Hitler's Third Reich, when sexuality was severely controlled and oppressed and lust for the flesh was strictly forbidden. But lust and flesh are all young Nazi diplomat's wife Louise ends up living (or dying?) for, when she first is charmed, then seduced and finally manipulated by the daughter of the Japanese ambassador. In this movie Gudrun Landgrebe wears a trenchcoat in many scenes, and although she never does the belt up but in one shot, she looks absolutely fabulous in it... (Johan)
The Laundromat, Robert Altman, 1985, USA.	Carol Burnett and Amy Madigan star as two lonely strangers who meet in a laundromat late one night, and find out they have a lot in common. Features Carol in a clear accordion rain bonnet. (Lorhod)
The Girl in the Picture, Cary Parker, UK, 1985	This is a very gentle comedy starring John Gordon Sinclair as Alan, a photographer working for a small shop called 'Smile Please' in Glasgow, and the lovely Irina Brook as Mary, his student girlfriend. At the start of the film he's practising how to tell her he wants her to move out, but then he catches her in the act of moving out without ever having mentioned it to him. Then, of course, he wants her to move back in, and at the end of the film decides that he "probably does definitely" love her. There are three raincoats to be seen in this film. In the early part of the film Mary wears a hooded, waxed jacket, but later wears a loose cotton raincoat with rolled up sleeves. Caroline Guthrie as Annie (who is arranging her wedding photographs) wears a nice pale blue raincoat. There are also some brief appearances by Simone Lahbib as a mysterious girl in a thin black trenchmac who keeps being noticed by Alan. (Dave)
Sylvia, Michael Firth, New Zealand, 1985	A film with Eleanor David, set in New Zealand, with her in a rubberised (or possibly waxed) single-breasted mac in several scenes - one where she walks in out of pouring rain, with the mac beautifully shiny as a result! (Huw, PEC)
Fanfan, Alexandre Jardin, France, 1985	Vincent Perez can't decide himself between his wife an the lovely Fanfan played by Sophie Marceau who wears in a couple of scene a long shiny black PVC super styled raincoat. She's never been as beautiful as in this. (Cire Noir)
Life Force, Tobe Hooper, GB, 1985	Features a black shiny PVC cape, worn by Mathilda May (?) (David)
Urgence, Gilles Behat, France, 1985	Actresses : Fanny Bastien, Nathalie Courval, Muriel Robin Lisa (played by Fanny Bastien) is the witness of a terrible plot by a group of neo-nazis. During the whole film, they try to eliminate her. She finds refuge with a journalist played by Richard Berry. Both of them try not only to escape from that group - but only to prevent the bombing of an antirascist concert. Fanny Bastien wears a white translucent plastic mac during the entire film. She runs with eat in numerous scenes. Nathalie Courval who plays the colleague of Richard Berry wears a shiny long PVC mac and Muriel Robin (who makes her movie debut here) wears a blue plastic hooded raincoat in the pouring rain. (Cire Noir)
Golden Eighties, Chantal Akerman, 1985	Several women are wearing translucent plastic macs and jackets in different colours. (WK) In this sort of musical in a shopping gallery from Bruxelles, several destinies are crossed. Plastic macs and jackets from different colors are seen several times and in groups. Features Myriam Boyer, Delphine Seyrig, Lio, Fanny Cottençon, Nathalie Richard.(Cire Noir)
Dance with a stranger, Mike Newell, GB, 1985	This is the film about Ruth Ellis featuring a Klepper mac. (Bob) Miranda Richardson is Ruth Ellis and the story takes place in 1954. The klepper mac can been seen in two (long) scenes. Unfortunately the mac is not buttoned and belted, but it's easy to imagine that way! (MacRain)
Sac de Noeuds, Josiane Balasko, 1985	Rose-Marie (played by Isabelle Huppert) in order to escape from her husband goes on the run with the suicidal Anita (played by Josiane Balasko who also direct the film). During the entire film, Isabelle Huppert wears a very pretty and slightly translucent plastic red mac. It is interesting to note that Isabelle Huppert wears a raincoat in at least three different films : la Denteliere, Coup de Torchon as well as Sac de Noeuds). (Cire Noir)
On ne meurt que deux fois, France, 1985	A crime movie in which Charlotte Rampling plays the victim's mistress. She wears a long black plastic raincoat in one (unfortunately only) short scene. (HGG) 'A treat for fans of La Rampling' - IDMB
Bras de Fer, Gerard Vergez, 1985	It is the story of a french resistance fighter during the forties who feels that he is manipulated by his friend. Everything become ambiguous in a story featuring Bernard Giraudeau and Christophe Malavoy as well as Angela Molina who wears a long belted shiny black pvc raincoat in a couple of scenes. (Cire Noir)
St Elmo's Fire, Joel Schumacher, US, 1985	In St Elmo's Fire Andy McDowell wears a rubberised mac in two scenes. The sound quality in the part where she takes off her mac is exceptional. (Anon) I can't help adding: I think the scene here with Andie McDowell in her glorious white trenchmac is really lovely! Wow!! - LE.
A Murder Is Announced, David Giles, UK/USA/Australia, 1985	Samantha Bond who plays Julia Simmons, wears big knee high green rubber boots when she works in her garden. There are a couple of nice long shots when they can be seen (Samatha is talking to people), and also one or two ones closer in (one where she is pushing a wheelbarrow. So, sadly, there are only two or three scenes with her wearing the boots, but you do see them each time! (Michael)
Manner, Doris Dorrie, Germany, 1985	A women wears a translucent plastic mac in a bar. (WK)
Psycho III, Anthony Perkins, US, 1986	In the third part of the series directed by Anthony Perkins himself,the actress Roberta Maxwell wears a Burberry in the last part of the movie. She plays the role of a journalist making an investigation into Norman Bates. (André)
Eleven Days, Eleven Nights, Joe D'Amato, Italy, 1986	The opening sequence shows an otherwise naked woman wearing a pvc mac seducing a passenger on a ferry. (David)
Grand Guignol, Jean Marboeuf, France, 1986	A troup of actors is devoting its work to the Grand Guignol old theatrical style but life reveal itself more cruel than the theater. The film opens with Claire Nadeau wearing a plastic mac with a hood an Catherine Dat wears during the whole of it a short black shiny pvc mac. (Cire Noir)
Maine Ocean, Jacques Rozier, France, 1986	Actresses : Lydia Feld, Rosa-Maria Gomes This beautiful piece of poetry of two hours and fifteen minutes shows two girls wearing the type of sea side "Guy Cotten" rainwear. The film is highly recommended. (Cire Noir)
Faubourg Saint Martin, Jean-Claude Guiguet , France, 1986	Actress : Françoise Fabian Films by Jean-Claude Guiguet are rare but always strong. In this one, Françoise Fabian who plays a very classy and human prostitute wears a long belted shiny PVC mac (can you imagine Françoise Fabian dressed like this ?) She wears it during the entire film. (Cire Noir)
Dirty Dancing, Emile Ardolino, US, 1987	Jennifer Gray wears her swish little slicker in the torrential rain as Patrick Swayze uses a post to break into his car. (SH)
Outrageous Fortune, Arthur Hiller, US, 1987	Bette Midler looks quite sexy as she sashays through the rain in her shiny purple slicker, which she accesorizes with an umbrella and a kinky beret (her slicker is reversible, as it turns up in another scene in yellow). (Bill)
The Bedroom Window, Curtis Hanson, US, 1987	Terry (Steve Guttenberg) is having a tryst with Sylvia (Isabelle Huppert), a married woman. Whilst he is in his bathroom, she witnesses through his bedroom window Denise (Elizabeth McGovern) being attacked. He thinks she should tell the Police. Problem: that would expose their affair. To get around this, he tells the Police that he witnessed it. Oh, what a tangled web ensues! At the very start of the film, we briefly see Isabelle Huppert wearing a white raincoat. It's a special style that you only see in films. When she's approaching the house she has it on, but immediately she's through the door it's gone. I think they call it "the jump cut"! (Dave P)
The Witches of Eastwick, US, 1987	Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer rendezvous at Cher's house during a rainstorm, Sarandon decked out in a simple beige trenchcoat with matching hat, Pfeiffer sporting a green PVC slicker. (Bill)
Tin Men, Barry Levinson, US, 1987	While arguing with a trenchcoated Richard Dreyfus in a torrential downpour, Barbara Hershey protects herself from the elements not only with an umbrella, but a bright, attractive red raincoat, with matching hat, and even a pair of clear rain booties! (Bill)
A Chorus of Disapproval, Michael Winner, UK, 1988	With Anthony Hopkins and Jeremy Irons. In the Pub scene I think it's Patsy Kensit wearing a magnificent black PVC coat, quite a long scene, well worth checking out. (Mark). Bob writes: the actress in the grey/silver raincoat is Jenny Seagrove.
School Daze , Spike Lee, US, 1988	Also stars Spike Lee as Half Pint, a tale of discord at an all-black college, also includes some musical numbers, towards the end, there are several scenes where the character Jane, is wearing a dazzling long red polyurethane raincoat! (LH)
The Deliquents, Chris Thomson, Australia, 1989	Kylie Minogue wears a long clear plastic mac while walking through the city. (SH)
Late-1980s Butter TV Commercial (c. 1989-1992)	In a "Give Them All A Little Pat Of Butter" ad the patroller wore a simple yellow mackintosh with a clear rain-net over the police cap. (RLW)
Steel Magnolias, Herbert Ross, US, 1989	Stars Julia Roberts, Sally Fields, Tom Skerrit, Daryl Hannah and others. Film centers around a beauty shoppe somewhere in the Southern part of the U.S. and some of the small townspeople connected to it. In the middle part, you see Daryl Hannah's character dashing from an old pick-up truck into the shoppe during a downpour, wearing a long red slicker with a clear sou'wester type rainbonnet. The scene is somewhat brief, yet exciting. (LH)
My Brother's Wife, Jack Bender, US, 1989	A must-have trench coat DVD is My Brother's Wife starring John Ritter and Poly Bergen. The movie is supposed to be set in the 1960's, but features Poly Bergen in a London Fog 'Lissette' trench coat, circa 1982-1986, without a belt. Even without the belt, a treasure! It has now been released on DVD.
Sea of Love, Harold Becker, US, 1989	Al Pacino's Frank asks Helen (Ellen Barkin) to meet him in the supermarket wearing only her raincoat. The material is some sort of polyurethane, in black. The lightening flashes and flashes again as these two ace performers show what it's all about. (H)