Retro Reels Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. A couple who participated in a potent medical experiment gain telepathic ability and then have a child who is pyrokinetic. (2,11)
  2. 6. The story of Lady Jane Grey, who was Queen of England for only nine days. (2)
  3. 9. The new owner of the Cleveland Indians puts together a purposely horrible team so they'll lose and she can move the team. But when the plot is uncovered, they start winning just to spite her. (2)
  4. 11. Framed by their ruthless arch-nemesis, a pair of mismatched LAPD officers must put their differences aside to get even with the brutal crime baron who sent them to rot in a maximum-security prison. (3,12)
  5. 12. Biographical story of the rise from nowhere of early rock and roll singer Ritchie Valens who died at age 17 in a plane crash with Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper. (2,7)
  6. 14. Four teenagers must prove their mettle as they begin their journey at the New York High School of Performing Arts. They must navigate through heartbreak, school work, adolescence and challenges. (1,4)
  7. 16. In Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1964, the rivalry between two gangs, the poor Greasers and the rich Socs, heats up when one gang member accidentally kills a member of the other. (2)
  8. 18. Military cadets take extreme measures to ensure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local condo developers. (1)
  9. 19. A talented New York City bartender takes a job at a bar in Jamaica and falls in love. (1,8)
  10. 22. A young artist, searching for his vocation, makes a mannequin so perfect he falls in love with it. Finding the mannequin in a store window, he gets a job there and his creation comes to life. (1,9)
  11. 24. A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. But when Billy takes their authority too far, they become the hunted. (2)
  12. 25. Aliens help a feisty old New York couple in their battle against the ruthless land developer who's out to evict them. (3,20)
  13. 26. A poor girl must choose between the affections of dating her childhood sweetheart or a rich but sensitive playboy. (3,12)
  14. 29. A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III. (2,8)
  15. 30. To help his discouraged son get through college, a funloving and obnoxious rich businessman decides to enter the school as a student himself. (3,12)
  16. 31. Two high-school nerds use a computer program to literally create the perfect woman, who promptly turns their lives upside-down. (2,12)
Down
  1. 1. It is the dawn of World War III. In the western mountains of America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces. (2)
  2. 2. A man who can enter and manipulate people's dreams is recruited by a government agency to help cure the President of the United States of his nightmares about nuclear war but stumbles upon an assassination plot. (1,10)
  3. 3. An impatient young stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless, greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing. (2)
  4. 5. A broken-down, middle-aged country singer gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter, and tries to put his troubled life back together. (2)
  5. 7. A big city teenager moves to a small town where Rock and Roll music and dancing have been banned by backward local parents and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace. (1,9)
  6. 8. The story of Jaime Escalante, a high school teacher who successfully inspired his dropout-prone students to learn calculus. (3,15)
  7. 10. A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and faces danger while encountering an alien aquatic species. (2)
  8. 13. The troubled life and career of jazz musician Charlie Parker. (1,4)
  9. 15. Two newly paired cops who are complete opposites must put aside their differences in order to catch a gang of drug smugglers. (2,13)
  10. 17. A girl's "sweet" sixteenth birthday is anything but special: her family forgets about it, and she suffers from every embarrassment possible. (2,14)
  11. 20. A young Southern California woman, who has just caught her fiancé cheating on her, befriends three humanoid aliens after their spaceship lands in her swimming pool. (4,17)
  12. 21. An aspiring teenage cartoonist and his friends come to the aid of a singer trying to save her family property from developers. (3,14)
  13. 23. A young man buys a computer that accidentally becomes sentient and begins to turn its affections toward the man's attractive female neighbour. (2,14)
  14. 27. Kurt Sloane must learn the ancient kick boxing art of Muay Thai in order to avenge his brother. (1)
  15. 28. A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims. (2,8)