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Welcome to this episode of the FilmJerk Podcast, which covers a wide variety of aspects of 1980s cinema. Sometimes we’ll cover a specific film, or a specific filmmaker’s career during the decade, or one of the many film distributors (completely independent or studio dependent) that popped up and/or flamed out during the decade. Today's episode talks about the Management Company Entertainment Group, or MCEG, who would only release four films over the course of nineteen months, while also producing one of the biggest hits of 1989.   The movies discussed during this episode: Boris and Natasha (1992, Charles Martin Smith) Breaking the Rules (1992, Neal Israel) Catch Me If You Can (1989, Stephen Sommers) Chains of Gold (1991, Rob Holcolm) The Chocolate War (1988, Keith Gordon) C.H.U.D. 2: Bud the Chud (1990, John Irving) Cold Heaven (1992, Nicolas Roeg) Convicts (1990, Peter Masterson) Fatal Charm (1992, Fritz Kiersch [as Alan Smithee]) The Fourth War (1990, John Frankenheimer) Getting It Right (1989, Randal Kleiser) Home Movies (1980, Brian De Palma) Limit Up (1990, Richard Martini) Look Who's Talking (1989, Amy Heckerling) Look Who's Talking Too (1990, Amy Heckerling) Slipping Into Darkness (1988, Eleanor Gaver) Without You, I'm Nothing (1990, John Boskovich)