The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Tuesday 14th February: Chris Brander sends fellow sixth-grader Jamie Palamino a dozen red roses. (New Jersey - Just Friends)
Thursday 23rd February: The body of homecoming queen Laura Palmer is discovered. (Twin Peaks - Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me)
March: Cleveland Indians owner, Rachel Phelps devises a plan to bring in a bunch of has-been & never-will-be players to lose so she can move the team to Miami. (Cleveland, Oh - Major League)
Sunday 19th March: Jeff Kohlver has a photo session with model Janelle. (Hard Candy)
July: Jordan Tate is crowned Miss July '89. (Under Siege)
August: Dr John Hammond creates an amusement park of genetically-engineered dinosaurs. (nr Costa Rica - Jurassic Park)
Saturday 5th August: A block in Bed Stuy erupts in violence after Radio Raheem is murdered and Sal's Famous Pizzeria is burned to the ground. (Do the Right Thing)
Wednesday 23rd August: Seven strangers hide in a farmhouse as the bodies of the recent dead reactivate and attempt eat them. (nr Evens City, PA - Night of the Living Dead)
September: The Cleveland Indians win a 1-game play-off against the New York Yankees and clinch the A.L. East title, thereby thwarting owner Rachel Phelps' plan to move the team. (Cleveland, Oh - Major League)
October: The prologue of Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood takes place. (Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood)
October: The Chicago White Sox defeat the Cleveland Indians for the A.L. Pennant. (Cleveland, Oh / Chicago, Ill - Major League II)
Wednesday 18th October: Time magazine publishes Vicki Vale's photos of the war in Corto Maltese. (Gotham City, USA - Batman)
Friday 20th October: Adam Tallis allegedly raped someone. (Killing Me Softly)
Thursday 9th November: The Berlin Wall comes down. (Germany - The Lives of Others)
Friday 24th November: Harvey Dent is elected DA of Gotham City and vows to "shed the light of the law on that nest of vipers". (Gotham City, USA - Batman)
December: Maureen Johnson protests at losing her performance space. (New York - Rent)
Sunday 24th December: Mark begins his film. (Los Angeles - Rent)
Monday 25th December: Maureen Johnson protests at losing her performance space. (East Village, New York City, New York - Rent)
Sunday 31st December: The Titanic arrives, finally. (New York - Ghostbusters 2)
Apes revolt against humans (Conquest of the Planet of the Apes)
Nascar driver Cole Trickle has a near fatal wreck during the Daytona Fircracker 400. (Daytona, Fla - Days of Thunder)
Hateful, loud-mouthed Mona Dearly dies. A lot of people are implicated. (Verplanck - Drowning Mona)
First landing of humans on the moon. (Luna (Earth's Moon) - Forbidden Planet)
A new generation of Gremlins take control of some media offices. (New York - Gremlins 2: The New Batch)
The Gulf War begins. (The Kingdom)
FBI Agent Joe Devine produces Steven Schat's film "Arizona" as part of a mob sting operation. (California and Rhode Island - The Last Shot)
Michael Clayton begins work as a lawyer's lawyer. (Michael Clayton)
Rhonda Fisher, sister to future lyricist Sophie Fisher, marries Gary. (Music and Lyrics)
Angel Dumott Schunard dies of AIDS. (Rent)
Hannibal Lecter kills two police officers during his escape from custody. (Memphis, Tn - The Silence of the Lambs)
Laura Burney fakes her death to escape her obssessive and abusive husband. (Cape Cod - Sleeping with the Enemy)
Graboid worms terrorise locals. (Perfection, Nevada - Tremors)
James Cole appears from the future – he is locked in a mental hospital. (Twelve Monkeys)
Wednesday 14th February: Chris Brander sends fellow seventh-grader Jamie Palamino a dozen red roses. (New Jersey - Just Friends)
April: Madonna kicks off Blond Ambition Tour 1990 but fails to realize that the first leg of the tour was during the rainy season in Japan. (Japan - Madonna: Truth or Dare)
April: James Cole taken into psychiatric custody, before disappearing while in heavy restraints. (Baltimore - Twelve Monkeys)
Sunday 15th April: Ava Gardner dies of bronchial pneumonia. (London, England - The Aviator)
May: The night of the prom, Rene and Brodie share a motel room; Brodie asks Rene to sleep under the bed in case his mother walks in. (Mallrats)
June: Heather Jones and Rene Mosier graduate from North High School, while T.S. Quint, Brodie Bruce, Brandi Svenning, and Gwen Turner graduate from Henry Hudson High School. (Chasing Amy)
October: After struggling with complacency, turmoil in the front office & the return of Rachel Phelps as owner, the Cleveland Indians repeat as A.L. East Champs defeat the White Sox in the A.L.C.S. for a World Series berth. (Cleveland, Oh - Major League II)
Wednesday 31st October: Angel's memorial service - Angel's friends sing the reprise of I'll Cover You. (Los Angeles - Rent)
Wednesday 31st October: 5 very dumb men from Mars land in Big Bean, Illinois. (Big Bean, Ill. - Spaced Invaders)
December: Mark Cohen finishes his film, and Roger Davis finishes his song. (Rent)
Monday 10th December: Dr. Armand Hammer dies of bone marrow cancer. (Chernobyl: The Final Warning)
Sunday 23rd December: The McAllister family accidentaly leave 8 year-old Kevin home alone while they leave for France. (Chicago - Home Alone)
Monday 24th December: John McLane foils a terrorist attack at Dulles International Airport. (Washington, DC - Die Hard 2)
Monday 24th December: Kevin McAllister stops two burglers from robbing his house by setting up loads of traps around his home. (Chicago - Home Alone)
Monday 24th December: Mimi nearly dies. (Los Angeles - Rent)
Tuesday 25th December: Kevin McAllister's mother returns home to her son, who has been left home alone for two days. (Chicago - Home Alone)
Bill & Ted are killed by evil robot versions of themselves. (Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey)
Revolution between humans and enslaved apes. (California - Conquest of the Planet of the Apes)
The Complex Corporation purchases Mooby, The Golden Calf, and goes into production on The Mooby Fun-Time Hou; the former Angel of Death, Loki, starts to plot the death of the executives of the corporation as they are idolaters. (Dogma)
Future paedophile-torturer Hayley Stark is born. (Hard Candy)
House of Sand and Fog. (House of Sand and Fog)
Chan Wing Yan is expelled from police cadet school and becomes an undercover cop for the Hong Kong Police. (China - Infernal Affairs)
Jack Starks suffers a near-fatal head injury while serving in The Gulf. (Iraq - The Jacket)
Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler buys a copy of Georg Dreyman's book Sonata for a Good Man, dedicated to him. (The Lives of Others)
Brodie Bruce starts to lose all ambition in life and retreats into a world of comics and Sega; this begins to affect his relationship with his girlfriend, Rene Mosier. (Mallrats)
'Pop' have their sixth and final number one hit. (Music and Lyrics)
Quentin Hapsburg kidnaps Dr Alfred Meinheimer to influence energy policy by the government; the plot is thwarted by Lt. Frank Drebin of Police Squad. (Washington DC - The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear)