The Movie Timeline - of all the movie timelines on all the net, you walked into this one
Friday 29th August: Captain Insano opens a can of whoop-ass on Herculon at the Expedition Center. (Baton Rouge, Louisiana - The Waterboy)
Sunday 31st August: Diana, Princess of Wales, dies after suffering massive chest injuries in an early morning car accident. (Paris, France - The Queen)
September: Will Hunting solves a graduate-level problem that Prof Gerald Lambeau leaves on a chalkboard for his students, hoping someone might find the solution by the end of the semester. (Boston, Mass. - Good Will Hunting)
September: Inspector Lee and Detective Carter team up to save Soo Yung from Juntao. (Los Angeles, CA - Rush Hour)
September: A bomb explodes at the American Consulate while Detective James Carter and Chief Inspector Lee are on vacation. (Hong Kong, China - Rush Hour 2)
September: Bobby Boucher plays football for South Central Louisiana State University Mud Dogs, coached by Coach Klein. He is also the team's waterboy. (Louisiana - The Waterboy)
Wednesday 24th September: Sean Archer disguised as Castor Troy escapes from prison. (Los Angeles, California - Face/Off)
Wednesday 1st October: Theorizing about why city maintenance workers are trying to fix the flooded subway tunnel, Jerry Fletcher says, "Well water mains don't usually break unless it's wintertime. The pipes burst open because it's cold, it's only the first of October." (New York, NY - Conspiracy Theory)
Friday 10th October: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans and encounter human excavation group which destorys the pyramid. (Bouvet Island, Antarctica - Alien Vs. Predator)
Thursday 16th October: The Jupiter II, en route for Alpha Centauri, blasted off on October 16th, 1997. The film based on the series, Lost in Space (1998), began production in 1997. -imdb.com (Lost in Space)
Thursday 6th November: John Donaghy, father of Amelia Donaghy, commits suicide. Amelia is the first person to find his body. (New York City - The Bone Collector)
Friday 7th November: Starship Troopers, which Neil Patrick Harris stars in, is released and is the inspiration behind Ron Fox's desire to become a federal agent. (Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay)
Friday 28th November: Carter sees Luke on Thanksgiving. (Los Angeles, CA - Rush Hour)
Friday 28th November: Carter sees Luke on Thanksgiving. (Los Angeles, CA - Rush Hour)
Sunday 30th November: Aside from a small pocket of resistance in an isolated area of the African Congo, the alien threat has been neutralized - and the world begins to rise from the ashes. Reconstruction begins immediately as the big cities, monuments and landmarks of the world are slowly restored to their former glory. (Independence Day: Resurgence)
December: Bobby's mother pretends that she is ill and Bobby stays with her at the hospital. (Louisiana - The Waterboy)
December: Gary has an overdose. Andy drives him to the hospital four times over the limit and ends up rolling the car and almost severing his femoral artery, at which point Gary makes a "miraculous recovery" and runs off into the night, leaving Andy to get arrested after twelve hours of life-saving surgery. (UK - The World's End)
Sunday 7th December: Martin Asher kills someone. (Taking Lives)
Thursday 11th December: A man's passport is issued. (The Bourne Identity)
Friday 12th December: Elijah P. Rogers dies. (New York City, New York - Kick-Ass 2)
Sunday 21st December: Jack Frost goes to an island in the Pacific. (Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman)
Monday 22nd December: People use bananas to destroy Jack's babies. (Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman)
Tuesday 23rd December: Jack Frost is defeated. (Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman)
Wednesday 31st December: Vicki Vaillancourt gathers people together to show support for Bobby. (Louisiana - The Waterboy)
Cameron James arranges for Patrick Verona to date Kat Stratford, so he can date Kat's younger sister Bianca. (10 Things I Hate About You)
Dwayne's father, the Major, wins $10 million dollars in a lottery. (30 Minutes or Less)
Trish Piedmont has an unplanned pregnancy. (Los Angeles, CA - The 40 Year Old Virgin)
Summer is in her high school yearbook (500 Days of Summer)
David Norris makes a cover story for GQ called "Youngest Congressman Ever." (New York City - The Adjustment Bureau)
Elyse Houston starts maturing after fourth grade. (East Great Falls, Michigan - American Pie: Band Camp)
Texas-sized asteroid blown up by an expert oil-driller, saving the Earth and the human race. (Armageddon)
Ash Williams starts working at S-Mart. (Michigan - Army of Darkness)
Grand Central Terminal is renovated. (New York City - Arthur)
Marty McFly Jr born. (Back to the Future Part III)
In the car on the way to his wedding, Jesse thinks he sees Celine walking into a deli on the corner of 13th and Broadway; he does. (New York - Before Sunset)
Nick and Lissa screw over Nick's friend Bryce in order to raise $10,000 sharpish. (Best Laid Plans)
Leigh Anne Tuohy's father dies. (Memphis, Tennessee - The Blind Side)
Bride of Chucky. (Bride of Chucky)
Senator Jay Billington Bulworth has a breakdown during his re-election campaign and starts telling the truth in rap and verse; he's voted back in. (Bulworth)
Chem department is responsible for a glitch. (The Cabin in the Woods)
Child's Play 3. (Child's Play 3)
God appears at a church, after The Last Apostle stops two angels from finding a loophole in God's law. (New Jersey - Dogma)
Ray Pluto's wife and daughter die in a hit-and-run. (New York City, New York - Double Whammy)
Godzilla goes on the rampage. (New York - Godzilla)
Criminal Raymond Calitri emigrated to the US from England. (Gone in 60 Seconds)
A girl who is one day filmed by Samuel M. Barrett is born. (New Orleans, Louisiana - Hatchet II)
Gigi Phillips stalks Chad, a drummer living in a storage space. He uses her to get rides. (Baltimore, Maryland - He's Just Not That Into You)
The Human Stain. (The Human Stain)
Jackie Brown is again arrested for smuggling, she sets up the man she smuggles for to take the fall and walk away with a half million dollars. (Los Angeles, CA - Jackie Brown)
Max Anderson, brother of Trevor Anderson, places four geo-sensors in various locations around the world, including Iceland to moniter for seismic activty. During this time, certain conditions trigger the sensors and they go off. Max goes to Iceland to check on the one there and discovers an entrance to the center of the earth, where he dies trying to get out (Iceland, around the world - Journey to the Center of the Earth)
Jack Byrnes' clearances are no longer active. (Little Fockers)
Promotion of National Responsibility Act, No 43. (The Manchurian Candidate)
Neo fights agents controlling the Matrix - or does he? Probably not. (The Matrix)
Jack, Wayne, and Buck have a lot of money by this time. (Los Angeles, California - Middle Men)
AVERAGE EXECUTIVE SALARY 1998 $2,300,000-$3,350,000 (The Other Guys)
Frank David Castle is born. (Punisher: War Zone)
Peter Block is born. (Repo! The Genetic Opera)
Ronnie Shields is born. Danny Donahue and Anson Wheeler start advertising Minotaur. (Los Angeles, CA - Role Models)
Lola (last name unknown) visits a casino and wins 100,000DM in 10 minutes. (Berlin, Germany - Run Lola Run)
Nick Easter makes a list of potential jurors. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - Runaway Jury)