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The Goonies (1985)

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• The UK cinema version was cut by 16 secs to edit a hanging scene, and to remove uses of 'shit' and subtitled references to heroin and cocaine. For the 1986 video release the cuts were retained and a sound edit added to remove a muffled use of 'fuck' at the Fratelli's home. The cuts were fully waived by the BBFC in 2004 and the certificate raised to a '12' though some early UK DVD releases mistakenly featured the cut version.
  
  
• Although the UK cuts were fully restored by the BBFC in 2004 following the certificate upgrade to a '12' some early issues of the DVD featured the cut version and a lack of commentary, despite the latter being listed on the menus. The 2nd issue DVD corrected this and the two can be identified by the following..... 1. If the DVD states 2.0 Surround in the Audio Box on the reverse of the sleeve then this is the cut version and the commentary does not work. 2. If the DVD states 5.1 in the Audio Box on the reverse of the sleeve then this is the uncut version with the working commentary.
  
  
• The USA TV version deletes almost 20 minutes of footage, but adds one short scene of Sloth and Chunk coming upon the hole in the floor over the room of Spikes.
  
  
• In a version broadcast on US cable channel HBO, several scenes were cut. These were back for the Disney Channel version, however. They include:
  • Right after the Goonies leave the house on their bikes, they drop by a drug store where Mikey locates a map, and that's how he finds out where to go to find the rock formation.
  • Chunk also licks Ice Cream quarts in a freezer, and Troy shows up and sets fire to One Eyed Willie's map.
  • An octopus that attacks Stef. Data shoves a walkman into its mouth, and it lets go and swims away, dancing.
  • After the Goonies get near the restaurant, but before Stef and Andy join up, there was a scene in which Data uses some of his cool gadgets. They, of course, backfire.
  
  
  
• On the TV version, when Mama Fretelli is pushing people off the plank, there is extra dialogue between her and the kids.
  
  
• There are two more deleted scenes. One is a second stop at the snack shack (drug store), and the second is the Goonies Oath. The Goonies Oath is after the group finds themselves in the wishing well, immediately after Andy says "I'm not a Goonie." She is sworn in, and then sends Troy's jacket up on the bucket.
  
  
• The UK Channel 5 misses out various dialogue, including the statue scene where Brand says "You'd be p**sin' in your faces!", and on two occasions where Chunk uses the word "Sh*t". This is because the version is always shown in the afternoon.
  
  
• In a video release of the movie, the octopus scene is present.
  
  

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