The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
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)
Tuesday 11th September: Two Port Authority Officers, Will Jimeno and John McLoughlin, become trapped under the rubble of the World Trade Center. (New York City - World Trade Center)
Tuesday 11th September: The world trade center was attack by terrorists. (Manhattan, New York City, Usa - World Trade Center)
Wednesday 12th September: Daniel and Mariane Pearl fly to Islamabad to cover the war in Afghanistan. (Islamabad - A Mighty Heart)
October: Thomas Gabriel designs a program that would back-up all financial information for the United States at a facility called Woodlawn. (Live Free or Die Hard)
October: Kevin Peltier is fired from a brokerage house on a Friday morning. (New Orleans, Louisianna - Runaway Jury)
October: Henry Wood has his 5th birthday party on a Sunday. He teaches his dad Jacob a song. (New Orleans, Louisianna - Runaway Jury)
October: On a Monday, Kevin shoots 11 people in the brokerage house including Jacob Wood. (New Orleans, Louisianna - Runaway Jury)
Friday 5th October: Jake Hoyt is taken on a 24hour hell ride through the mean streets of L.A. and the world of corrupt cops with the help of Alonzo Harris. (Los Angeles, California - Training Day)
Monday 15th October: American League Division Series Elimination Game: New York Yankees $114,457,768 vs $39,722,689 Oakland Athletes. Yankees lose. (Seattle, Washington - Moneyball)
Tuesday 16th October: Enron reveals $1.2 billion deficit. (Texas - Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room)
Monday 22nd October: Gordon Gecko is released from prison. USA Today newspaper headlines a "Grim Discovery At Ground Zero". (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps)
Wednesday 31st October: Michael Myers finally succeeds in killing his sister Laurie. (Northern California - Halloween: Resurrection)
November: Dr Nathan Conrad's daughter is kidnapped by jewel thieves. (Don't Say A Word)
Friday 2nd November: The 'Oakland A's trade Mark Bellhorn to the Chicago Cubs for Adam Morrissey. (Moneyball)
Monday 5th November: Johnny Damon, Ron Gant, Jason Giambi, Gil Heredia, Jason Isringhausen and Greg Myers granted Free Agency by the Oakland Athletics. (Moneyball)
Sunday 11th November: Ottilio Panza's work visa is signed by a sponsor that does not exist. (The Boondock Saints 2: All Saints Day)
Saturday 1st December: Martin Asher kills someone. (Taking Lives)
December: Jesse's car's license plate expires. (Dude, Where's My Car?)
December: Clarice Starling's license plate expires. (Hannibal)
Sunday 2nd December: Enron files for bankruptcy. (Texas - Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room)
Wednesday 5th December: David Aames shows his disfigured face to Sofia Serrano. (New York City, New York - Vanilla Sky)
Sunday 9th December: Gretchen Wieners' parents give her hoop earrings. She pretends that she does not like them. (Evanston, Illinois - Mean Girls)
Monday 10th December: The film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is released. (United Kingdom - Run, Fat Boy, Run)
Friday 14th December: Thomas Schell had a surprise planned for his and Linda's anniversary on this day. (New York City - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close)
Saturday 22nd December: The Oakland Athletics select Luis Lopez off waivers from the Toronto Blue Jays. (Moneyball)
Friday 28th December: I Am Sam, which features Sean Penn playing a retarded man, is released. (Tropic Thunder)
Monty Brogan enters prison on a seven-year sentence for drug-dealing. (25th Hour)
Elyse writes a bagpipe part for Matt. Matt plays in a kilt at the eight grade recital. Steve Stifler and his friends watch and make fun of him. Matt tries to impress them by tying Elyse's underwear to the flagpole. (East Great Falls, Michigan - American Pie: Band Camp)
Austin Powers captures Dr Evil, and arrives back from 1975 with Foxy Cleopatra to save the world. (Hollywood - Austin Powers in Goldmember)
Two small time crooks sneak a nuclear bomb onto a plane and nearly kill millions of people, but are stopped by a local Ad agent; there is a government cover up. (Miami, Fl - Big Trouble)
Buick LeSabre 2002 is made. (The Bourne Legacy)
Jason Bourne becomes an assassin. (The Bourne Ultimatum)
Elvis Presley and JFK fight an evil Egyptian mummy out to suck all the residents' souls. (East Texas Rest Home - Bubba Ho-Tep)
Evan Treborn, a student, loses Kayleigh in various ways in different timelines. (The Butterfly Effect)
Charles Townsend Agency detectives Natalie Cook, Dylan Saunders, and Alex Munday uncover and stop a plan to sell a database which has all the people in the Witness Protection Program to criminals. (California - Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle)
Dave and Ronnie get married. (Chicago, Illinois - Couples Retreat)
Jason Evans starts working with Professor Jack Hall. (The Day After Tomorrow)
Chuck becomes National Beard Champion. (Dinner for Schmucks)
Giant spiders attack the town. (Prosperity, Arizona - Eight Legged Freaks)
Oskar Schell enters his father's room for the first time in a year and wants to solve a mystery that his father had left him before he died. (New York City - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close)
Alex starts making Demonik. (Grandma's Boy)
Stanton High Gymnastics Team is ranked second at CT State Championships. (Connecticut - Grown Ups 2)
Burt Wonderstone and Anton Marvelton start performing at Doug Munny's hotel. (Las Vegas, Nevada - The Incredible Burt Wonderstone)
Undercover cop Chan Wing Yan is killed in an attempt to regain his identity and expose Lau, a criminal mole in the police department. (Hong Kong, China - Infernal Affairs)
Bobby's daughter is born. (New York City - It's Kind of a Funny Story)
Ollie Trinke meets Maya, and has to choose between his career and his daughter's school show. (New Jersey - Jersey Girl)