The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Narrowly avoiding the twin towers, the US President's plane crash-lands in Manhattan, now a top-security prison. (New York - Escape From New York)
Brad and Caroline Sexton hide from the IRS in an Amish community. (For Richer or Poorer)
George Simmons cheats on Laura and doesn't marry her. (California - Funny People)
Don Michael Corleone dies. (The Godfather: Part III)
Bruce is born. (Hotel for Dogs)
Burt and Anton's Magical Friendship show begins. (The Incredible Burt Wonderstone)
Ollie becomes a pariah. (Highlands, New Jersey - Jersey Girl)
Mindy Macready is born. (New York City, NY - Kick-Ass)
A postal truck runs over Ben Stone while he's in high school. He gets a settlement. (Vancouver, British Columbia - Knocked Up)
Jonathan Kent dies in a tornado. (Smallville, Kansas - Man of Steel)
Agents J and K foil an intergalactic plot and prevent the destruction of the Earth. (Men in Black)
Jack Harris helps Wayne Beering and Buck Dolby work on selling internet pornography. (Los Angeles, California - Middle Men)
Kris begins second grade. (Springwood, Ohio - A Nightmare on Elm Street)
Joanna sleeps with Ron Lumbergh. (Office Space)
Ron Lumbergh moves to Atlanta. (Atlanta, Georgia - Office Space)
An alien hunter threatens the city. (Los Angeles - Predator 2)
A female chimpanzee who will one day be known as Bright Eyes is born. (Africa - Rise of the Planet of the Apes)
Brian Fellman is born. (Detroit, Michigan - RoboCop)
Martin Isby is born. (RoboCop)
Emill Rivera is born. (RoboCop)
Greg Lewis is born. (RoboCop)
Romy White and Michelle Weinbeger attend their 10 year high school reunion. (Arizona - Romy and Michele's High School Reunion)
At her sister's wedding, Sarah Huttinger learns her family is the basis for the book 'The Graduate'. (California - Rumor Has It)
After the murder of two people who attended a special screening of the movie Stab, Sydney and her friends try to find out who did it. (Windsor College, Ohio - Scream 2)
Catalina Wine Mixer becomes biggest helicopter leasing event in western hemisphere. (Catalina, CA - Step Brothers)
Seth draws penises and gets in trouble when Becca sees one of his drawings. (Superbad)
Phillippe Neuville is killed. (Tell No One)
Margot Beck is seemingly murdered by a serial killer. (Tell No One)
Sarah Connor dies from leukemia. Her ashes are tossed at sea. (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines)
Evey's political activist parents are killed. (V for Vendetta)
A volcano erupts. (Los Angeles - Volcano)
Ben Cappadora Ned Devine wins (Chicago, IL - Waking Ned)
Dylan Mee is born. (Los Angeles, California - We Bought a Zoo)
Columbus has his first orthodontist appointment, gets his first B and goes to his first dance, which is ladies' choice. Nobody chooses him. (Zombieland)
Wichita sees her first R-rated movie ("Anaconda"), gets her first tattoo (a porpoise, fake) and has her first kiss (Scotty Lynch). (Zombieland)
Saturday 4th January: Jason Bourne joins the CIA. (The Bourne Ultimatum)
Sunday 5th January: Michael Lee Bradshaw dies. (Rennie's Landing)
Saturday 18th January: A date stamped in Jason Bourne's passport. (The Bourne Supremacy)
Wednesday 29th January: The date on a sign in a comic book store that says "THE FORCE WILL BE HERE". (Paul)
Sunday 23rd February: Scientists clone a sheep named Dolly. (The 6th Day)
Friday 28th February: Two bank robbers face off against Los Angeles police officers and a SWAT team. (United States - 44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out)
April: Holden McNeil prints a run of his personal comic Chasing Amy. (Chasing Amy)
April: Will Hunting's probation period begins. (Boston, Mass. - Good Will Hunting)
Thursday 10th April: HMS Devonshire is sunk of the coast of China. The British claim the ship was in international waters, while the Chinese say it had strayed into their territory. (South China Sea - Tomorrow Never Dies)
Friday 11th April: Machine-gunned bodies of 17 British sailors are recovered by Vietnamese Government. Ballistic reports show that the ammunition used is the same as that used by the Chinese military. (Vietnam - Tomorrow Never Dies)
Friday 11th April: Machine-gunned bodies of 17 British sailors are recovered by Vietnamese Government. Ballistic reports show that the ammunition used is the same as that used by the Chinese military. (Vietnam - Tomorrow Never Dies)
Friday 11th April: The Carver Global Satellite Network is launched, but a curious power outage interrupts Elliot Carver's inaugural broadcast in mid-speech. (Hamburg, Germany - Tomorrow Never Dies)
Saturday 12th April: The body Paris Carver, wife of media mogul Elliot Carver, is found in a hotel room with the body of an unidentified man. (Hamburg, Germany - Tomorrow Never Dies)
Sunday 13th April: War between the Chinese and British is averted by a joint covert op between MI6 & Chinese secret service exposes the existence of a "stealth ship," which had been playing both sides against the other. (South China Sea - Tomorrow Never Dies)
Monday 14th April: MI6 releases statement to the press stating that Elliot Carver died while on a cruise on his yacht in the South China Sea - authorities believe his death to be a suicide. (London, England - Tomorrow Never Dies)
Sunday 27th April: Andrew Cunanan begins his killing spree. (Minneapolis, Minnesota - The Versace Murder)
May: Banky Edwards and Alyssa Jones are guests at a New York comic con, where they are reunited with Holden McNeil. (Chasing Amy)
June: Albus Dumbledore is murdered by Snape using the killing curse. (Hogwarts - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)
Monday 30th June: Detective Inspector Lee and his special task force crush Juntao's organization and recover artifacts from 5000 years of China's heritage. (Hong Kong, China - Rush Hour)
Monday 30th June: Detective Inspector Lee and his special task force crush Juntao's organization and recover artifacts from 5000 years of China's heritage. (Hong Kong, China - Rush Hour)
Tuesday 8th July: Dre Parker is born. (Detroit, MI - The Karate Kid)
Wednesday 9th July: Ben Willis kills David Egan because he blames him for the death of his daughter. On the way home, he is hit by a car full of teens. Helen, Julie, Barry, and Ray dump him in a harbor. (Southport, North Carolina - I Know What You Did Last Summer)
Monday 14th July: Cyrus Grissom plans a skyjacking of a prison transfer plane, and is foiled by parolee Cameron Poe, who has been released for his daughter's birthday so he can finally meet her. (Con Air)
Tuesday 15th July: Gianni Versace murdered in Cunanan killing spree. (Miami, Florida - The Versace Murder)
August: Roderick meets Burt during the Burning Man festival. (Black Rock Desert, Nevada - Away We Go)