The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Jerry White is born. (Detroit, Michigan - RoboCop)
Paul Franklin is born. (RoboCop)
Douglas Albert is born. (RoboCop)
Fish stops calling Matt "Max". (Cleveland, Ohio - The Rocker)
Danny starts dating Beth Jones. (Los Angeles, CA - Role Models)
Danny starts dating Beth Jones. (Los Angeles, CA - Role Models)
Royal Tenenbaum dies. (The Royal Tenenbaums)
Royal O'Reilly Tenenbaum dies of a heart attack at, according the narrator, age 68. His gravestone says he "died tragically rescuing his family from the wreckage of a destroyed sinking battleship." (The Royal Tenenbaums)
Rikki Coleman has an abortion and breaks off an affair with Neil Pollard. (New Orleans, Louisianna - Runaway Jury)
Mr. Murphy and his wife go on vacation. (Cancun - Runaway Jury)
FBI agents Lyndsey Perez and Peter Strahm become partners. (Saw VI)
Adam Project takes place. (Soldier)
David Aames gets depressed and decides to let Life Extension freeze him cryogenically so that he can live in a lucid dream. (New York City, New York - Vanilla Sky)
The Mees photograph a storm. (We Bought a Zoo)
Mary Fiore meets Dr. Steve Edison and is attracted to him, and then learns he is the groom in the wedding she is planning. (San Francisco, CA - The Wedding Planner)
The U.S. Government contracts Trask Industries to build Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Camp is a detention center for mutants dangerous enough to be deemed national security threats. (Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - X-Men: Days of Future Past)
Friday 12th January: A date in Tim's inbox. (Dinner for Schmucks)
Friday 26th January: Alice, a website designer, meets Adam, a celebrity mountaineer, and within minutes as eloped with him. (London - Killing Me Softly)
February: Sonny Koufax's surprise birthday party at Hooter's, where Vanessa works. (Manhattan, New York - Big Daddy)
Monday 5th February: Guardian reporter Joanna Noble receives an anonymous letter incriminating Adam Tallis, the celebrity mountaineer. (London - Killing Me Softly)
Friday 9th February: Robert dies. (New York City, New York - Kick-Ass 2)
Saturday 17th February: Jason Wilson's driver's license is issued. (Wickliffe, Ohio - Accepted)
Thursday 1st March: John Edward Gammell driver's license expires. (San Francisco, California - Memento)
Friday 2nd March: The date on the sticker of David Aames' car. (New York City, New York - Vanilla Sky)
Thursday 5th April: New York Times headlines include "With U.S. Training, Colombia Melds War on Rebels and Drugs" and "AS U.N. ORGANIZES, REBELS ARE TAKING CHARGE OF KOSOYO". (Marley & Me)
Thursday 12th April: A monolith is found on Jupiter. (2001: A Space Odyssey)
Wednesday 18th April: Jason Bourne's passport expires. (The Bourne Identity)
Monday 7th May: Swimming website is updated. (Swimfan)
Wednesday 23rd May: Eric Kirby and Ben Hildenrand go parasailing on Isla Sorna. After they crash-land on the island, Ben is killed by raptors, leaving Eric to eek out a meager existence on his own for the next 8 weeks. (Isla Sorna, Costa Rica - Jurassic Park III)
Thursday 24th May: The date on a sheet containing fingerprints. (St. Charles - Taking Lives)
Saturday 26th May: Macgruber's passport is issued. (MacGruber)
June: Cover of this month's issue of SCIENCE DISCOVERIES reads: STALLYNS USE WORLD NUCLEAR ARSENAL TO FUEL AMPLIFIERS (Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey)
Friday 1st June: New Stallyns' Album #1 (Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey)
Friday 1st June: London Daily Sentinel Headline: Wyld Stallyns to play Wembley Stadium (Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey)
Friday 1st June: The Ultimate Guide to Surfing by Jay Moriarty is published. (Chasing Mavericks)
Friday 1st June: Leticia Musgrove visits her husband on Death Row at the Georgia State Penitentary. (Atlanta, Georgia - Monster's Ball)
Friday 1st June: A newspaper article titled "HITHHIKER REMAINS FOUND ROUTE 9" is published. (Offspring)
Friday 1st June: Jack Freeman is born. (Detroit, Michigan - RoboCop)
Friday 1st June: Jack Freeman is born. (Pittsburg, Pennsylvania - RoboCop)
Saturday 16th June: The Mountain Herald headline: "Local Girl Missing." (West Virginia - Wrong Turn)
Saturday 30th June: A coupon at a massage parlor expires. (New York - Final Destination 5)
July: Michael Moore and survivors of the Columbine massacre convince Kmart to withdraw sales of handgun bullets . (Atlanta - Bowling for Columbine)
July: Nicholas Angel gets a commendation for his outstanding achievement on Operation Takedown. (London, England - Hot Fuzz)
Wednesday 4th July: Henry A. Bellinger sets his house on fire. (Los Angeles, California - I See You)
Friday 10th August: A large group of aliens continue to hold out in the African Congo - the lone survivors of a crashed City Destroyer. The ESD repeatedly offers their support and assistance to the local government, but is met with aggressive refusal. (Congo - Independence Day: Resurgence)
Saturday 11th August: The wedding of Amy Ellis to Edward Fletcher-Wooten. (The Wedding Date)
Saturday 25th August: John Chambers dies. (Woodland Hills, California - Argo)
September: James Bond infiltrates a military base, where Colonel Tan-Sun Moon is illegally trading African conflict diamonds for weaponry. After Moon's assistant Zao discovers Bond is a British agent, the colonel attempts to escape in a hovercraft. Bond distracts the soldiers with an explosion, which disfigures Zao's face with diamonds, and takes to another hovercraft to give chase. During the duel with Bond, Moon's hovercraft plunges down a waterfall, apparently killing Moon. Bond is captured by North Korean soldiers and imprisoned by the Colonel (North Korea - Die Another Day)
September: Clarice Starling's license registration plate expires. (Virginia - Hannibal)
September: Janis has shorter hair when high school starts. (Evanston, Illinois - Mean Girls)
Saturday 1st September: 1 and 2 September 2001, as England beat Germany 5 - 1 on the night of the 1st. Match held in Munich ,Germany. (Isolated Farmhouse Somewhere in Scotland. - Dog Soldiers)
Saturday 1st September: Dre Parker's height is measured on the day he starts kindergarten. (The Karate Kid)
Monday 10th September: The day before the 9/11 terrorist attacks that later lead to the Patriot Act. (Red State)
Tuesday 11th September: One of Brady's future ads will question where Huggins was on this day. (The Campaign)
Tuesday 11th September: Thomas Schell calls his wife Linda and then leaves a voicemail that his son Oskar hears when he is let out of school early. Thomas dies at the World Trade Center. (New York City - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close)
Tuesday 11th September: Flight 93 crashes after passengers foil the terrorist plot. (Shanksville, Pennsylvania - Flight 93)
Tuesday 11th September: Tom Bowens father is killed in terrorist attack (Non-Stop)
Tuesday 11th September: Ted meets his drug dealer. (Boston, Massachusetts - Ted)
Tuesday 11th September: United Airlines Flight 93 is hijacked by Al-Qaeda terrorists. Through the actions of the plane's passengers, it never reaches its intended target and crash lands in rural Pennsylvania. (Newark, New Jersey - United 93)
Tuesday 11th September: 9/11 later causes the US government to cut interest rates to 1%. (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps)