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26 Movies That Turn 45 in 2023

By Erica Banas // Rock Music Reporter

Represented in this group of movies turning 45 in 2023 are some of the most beloved films of all time along with one of the biggest flops.

In 1978, the Delta Tau Chi members had moviegoers laughing all across the country (Animal House), while Dorothy and her friends helped us ease on down the road (The Wiz.) The year also brought us a Beatles-related film that no one asked for (Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band), a film that would never get made today (Pretty Baby) and one of the greatest movie musicals of all time (Grease.)

Here are 26 movies that turn 45 in 2023!

  • Up in Smoke

    Released on September 15, 1978.

  • Paradise Alley

    Released on September 22, 1978.

  • National Lampoon’s Animal House

    Released on July 28, 1978.

  • Grease

    Released on June 13, 1978.

  • Superman

    Released on December 15, 1978.

  • Midnight Express

    Released on October 6, 1978.

  • The Deer Hunter

    Released on December 8, 1978.

  • Pretty Baby

    Released on April 5, 1978.

  • Halloween

    Released on October 25, 1978.

  • Corvette Summer

    Released on June 2, 1978.

  • The Wiz

    Released on October 24, 1978.

  • Death on the Nile

    Released on September 29, 1978.

  • I Spit on Your Grave

    Released on November 22, 1978.

  • The Driver

    Released on August 2, 1978.

  • Invasion of the Body Snatchers

    Released on December 22, 1978. 

  • Dawn of the Dead

    Released on September 1, 1978.

  • Heaven Can Wait

    Released on June 28, 1978.

  • Every Which Way but Loose

    Released on December 20, 1978.

  • Convoy

    Released on June 28, 1978.

  • Jaws 2

    Released on June 16, 1978.

  • Foul Play

    Released on July 14, 1978.

  • Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!

    Released on October 8, 1978.

  • Ice Castles

    Released on December 31, 1978.

  • Thank God It’s Friday

    Released on May 19, 1978.

  • Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

    Released on July 24, 1978.

  • The Buddy Holly Story

    Released on May 18, 1978.

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