The Movie Timeline - here's looking at movies, kid
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)
Fishing troller The Andrea Gail from Gloucester, Massachusetts is caught in violent storm after two weeks at sea. (The Perfect Storm)
Andre Toulon is revived then killed a few hours later. (Bodega Bay, Californa - Puppet Master II)
Donny Rabbs is shot down. (Kuwait - Runaway Jury)
Sam Baldwin's wife dies, he and his son Jonah move to Seattle. (Sleepless in Seattle)
Spy Game. (Spy Game)
Four turtles finally defeat the Shreader after he drinks the last bottle of ooze. (New York - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze)
After shooting a man for attempted rape, Thelma & Louise go on the run from Arkansas to Arizona - facing capture & certain imprisonment, the ladies decide to "keep going" over the edge of the Grand Canyon. (Thelma and Louise)
US soldiers Archie Gates, Troy Barlow, Chief Elgin and Conrad Vig set out to find the gold Saddam allegedly stole from Kuwait. (Iraq - Three Kings)
The Iraq War ends. (W.)
The secret chemical formula for the deadly 'Silent Night' gas goes missing after the fall of the USSR. (XXX)
Sunday 27th January: Muhammad Siyad Barre, the dictator of the Somali Democratic Republic since 1969, flees Mogadishu as rebels overrun his palace and capture the Somali capital. (Black Hawk Down)
February: At Food City, a high-school counselor begins a quest for the perfect egg carton. He is observed by Holden McNeil and Banky Edwards (who are working at the supermarket). The incident will be used by Holden and Banky as inspiration for part of their 37 comic series. Around this same time, a woman who manually masturbates caged animals for a living observes a similar incident at supermarket, but the counselor is different. (Clerks)
February: During Operation Desert Storm, Capt Ben Marco, Raymond Shaw and their troop are kidnapped by Manchurian Global agents and brainwashed. (Iraq - The Manchurian Candidate (2004))
Sunday 10th February: Laura Tollins is murdered. (The Number 23)
Thursday 14th February: A student at East Great Falls High School adds advice to the book about how men can shave their pubes to make their penises look bigger. (East Great Falls, Michigan - American Pie Presents: The Book of Love)
Thursday 14th February: Chris Brander sends fellow eighth-grader Jamie Palamino a dozen red roses. (New Jersey - Just Friends)
April: Dante Hicks and Caitlin Bree break up. (Clerks)
May: Steven Connolly, future Islington schoolboy and lover of teacher Sheba Hart, is born. (Notes on a Scandal)
Wednesday 3rd July: Terminator 2: Judgement Day is released and becomes a big hit. (USA - American Pie 2)
Monday 22nd July: Cannibal and serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is caught. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Dahmer)
Sunday 1st September: Harry Potter starts his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone)
Sunday 1st September: Harry Potter begins his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. (Scotland - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone)
Wednesday 11th September: Jeffrey Lebowski writes a cheque for 69 cents to pay for some milk at Ralph's Supermarket. (Los Angeles - The Big Lebowski)
October: Deloris Van Cartier witnesses mob boss Vince La Rocca kill someone, and she is hidden in a convent as Sister Mary Clarence. (Reno, Nevada and San Francisco California - Sister Act)
Wednesday 30th October: The so-called "perfect storm" hits the North Atlantic producing remarkably large waves along the New England and Canadian coasts. (The Perfect Storm)
Tuesday 17th December: Billionaire Howard Stark, father of Tony Stark, dies. (USA - Iron Man)
Detective Nick Curran investigates a murder in which the victim is killed exactly as described in the novel "Love Hurts" by Catherine Trammell. (San Francisco, Ca. - Basic Instinct)
Despite growing up poor and in a rough neighborhood, Tre Styles goes to college and makes something of his life. (Los Angeles - Boyz n the Hood)
Brassed Off. (Brassed Off)
Buffy, the vampire slayer, defeats vampire king Lothos. (Los Angeles, California - Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Dark Blue. (Dark Blue)
President Bill Mitchell goes into a coma during a tryst; Bob Alexander arranges for Dave Kovik, who looks like the president, to impersonate him. (Dave)
William Hayes comes to New York to begin work in the Clinton presidential campaign. (New York - Definitely, Maybe)
Godzilla fights King Ghidorah and destroys Tokyo. (Tokyo - Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah)
Brent Gage becomes a memebr of the Frequent Sleepers Club. (Hacienda Courts - The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard)
Jacob Kell destroys Connor MacLeod's apartment, killing Connor's friend Rachel and causing Connor to retreat into The Sanctuary. (New York - Highlander: Endgame)
Jack Starks dies. (The Jacket)
Lethal Weapon 3. (Lethal Weapon 3)
An unconscious CIA agent, Charli Baltimore, washes ashore after being left for dead by Timothy & One-eyed Jack; she would wake two months later, pregnant & having no clue who she is. (New Jersey coast - The Long Kiss Goodnight)
Ian Malcolm stops Ingen from taking dinosaurs for another Jurassic park in San Diego. (Isla Surna (Site B) - The Lost World: Jurassic Park)
Strickler's disease first diagnosed. (New York - Mimic)
Liu Kang defeats Goro and Shang Tsung in Mortal Kombat and saves Earthrealm, for now. (outworld - Mortal Kombat)
A day-dreaming kid named Barry teams up with Chuck Norris and wins the karate tournament. (Texas - Sidekicks)
Khan Noonien Singh, the product of genetic engineering and eugenics experiments, assumes dictatorial control over one quarter of the planet Earth, from South Asia to the Middle East. (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)
Michael Raynor arrives from 2022 to prevent an alien invasion of Earth. (Time Runner)
George H.W. Bush is voted out of the White House. (W.)
Tom, Jerry, Dan, and Billy graduate high school. (Without a Paddle)
Saturday 4th January: Two college students, Robert Gambini & Stan Rothenstein, are arrested for murder; with the aid of Gambini's lawyer cousin, Vincent, the DA would later drop all charges. (Beechum County, Al - My Cousin Vinny)
Sunday 12th January: HAL 9000, Artificial Intelligence Computer System, becomes operational. (2001: A Space Odyssey)
Sunday 12th January: Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it I can sing it for you... (Urbana Illinois - 2001: A Space Odyssey)
Sunday 2nd February: Weatherman Phil Connors kills himself, rescues strangers, steals the groundhog, and eventually seduces his producer boss. (Punxsatawney, PA - Groundhog Day)