The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
David Scott Freeman appears, having skipped the past 8 years of his life. (Flight of the Navigator)
Ronald Reagan lives. (A Good Day to Die Hard)
Blake, future car salesman, is born. (Temecula, California - The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard)
Martin Blank and Debi Newberry graduate high school at Grosse Pointe. (Grosse Pointe - Grosse Pointe Blank)
Connor MacLeod kills the Kurgan, winning the prize. (New York - Highlander)
The last murder to be recorded until twenty years later happens around this time. (Sandford, Gloucestershire - Hot Fuzz)
Nick Webber "writes" Lets Get This Party Started (Hot Tub Time Machine 2)
Oren and The Crazy 88 win control of vice in Tokyo. (Japan - Kill Bill: Volume 1)
Doc "Skitchy" Rivers loses his parole date when he punches Warden Hazen. (Allenville Penitentiary, Texas - The Longest Yard)
Michael Emerson and his younger brother, Sam Emerson move with their just-divorced mother, Lucy, in with her father. (Santa Carla, California - The Lost Boys)
During spring, an earthquake happens in Italy. (Italy - Manhunter)
Johnathon Switcher assembles a mannequin, it comes to life as Emmy Hesire when they are alone. (New York - Mannequin)
The events of A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge take place. (A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge)
Marjane loses her virginity to Fernando, who realizes that he is a homosexual. (Vienna, Austria - Persepolis)
After revealing his origins on a radio show, Norman Bates tries to kill his pregnant wife Connie. Instead, he decides to burn down Bates Motel and free himself from his demons. (Kern County, California - Psycho IV: The Beginning)
Sodium amytal does not make Hannibal Lecter reveal wear he buried a Princeton student. Instead, he gives a recipe for dip. (Baltimore, MD - Red Dragon)
The Marijuana Drought (Los Angeles - Reservoir Dogs)
John Biggs is born. (Detroit, Michigan - RoboCop)
Drummer Robert "Fish" Fishman is kicked out of Vesuvius after a gig at the Agora. (Cleveland, Ohio - The Rocker)
James Court is investigated for this 1982 to this tax year. (Seattle, Washington - Say Anything...)
Robot Number Johnny Five gains human qualities after a lightning strike. (Short Circuit)
Garfield H.S. had 78 students pass the A.P. Calculus Exam. (East Los Angeles, CA - Stand and Deliver)
A Klingon Bird of Prey carrying the crew of the Enterprise procures two humpback whales, George and Gracie. (San Francisco - Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)
Leatherface and his family get new victims. (Texas - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2)
Han Solo Berger is born. (That's My Boy)
Goose dies following loss of control from flying through Iceman's - not Maverick's - jetwash. (Over the Pacific - Top Gun)
The town of Virgil, Texas celebrates its sesquicentennial with a Celebration of Specialness. (Virgil, Texas - True Stories)
Dr. Kathryn Railly starts working at Baltimore County Hospital. (Baltimore, Maryland - Twelve Monkeys)
Jason Morris is born. (Indiana - Valentine's Day)
George W Bush helps his father's presidential campaign. (W.)
Chas and his friends go to England, Scotland, and another country. (Warlock)
Andy and Gary reenact the Knife Game from Aliens. Gary stabs Andy in the middle finger. (Newport Haven, UK - The World's End)
Peter Rasputin, who will later be known as Colossus, is born prematurely with a mutation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster. (Soviet Union - X-Men: Days of Future Past)
Carl Peterson skateboards for the last time till 2006. (You, Me and Dupree)
Zack Brown and Miri Linky meet for the first time in 1st grade. (Zack & Miri Make a Porno)
January: Elizabeth and Nick meet for the first time (The Parent Trap)
January: Rocky and his family become bankrupt. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Rocky V)
Saturday 4th January: Charlyne Yi is born. (Los Angeles, California - Paper Heart)
Wednesday 8th January: Mary Mattock is evaluated. (Kings Park Psychiatric Center, Kings Park, NY - Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet)
Wednesday 8th January: Elizabeth and Nick get married. (The Parent Trap)
Friday 24th January: Vincente Minnelli dies. (Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows)
April: Rocky's license plate expires. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Rocky IV)
April: Joan and Bernard Berkman separate. They take joint custody of their sons Walt and Frank. (Brooklyn, New York - The Squid and the Whale)
Saturday 5th April: Police call off search for missing hiker Lois Einhorn; coincidentally former Dolphins kicker Ray Finkle escapes Shady Oaks Mental Institution about the same time. (Tampa, Fl - Ace Ventura: Pet Detective)
Monday 14th April: Donald Jacobi's 12th birthday. (Birmingham, Alabama - Manhunter)
Tuesday 15th April: International Creative Management, Inc. sends a letter to Bernard Berkman. (Brooklyn, New York - The Squid and the Whale)
Wednesday 23rd April: Otto Preminger dies from lung cancer and Alzheimer's disease. (New York - Introducing Dorothy Dandridge)
Saturday 26th April: Chernobyl disaster. Hybra Tech gets on the front lines of the effects. (Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis)
Saturday 26th April: The Chernobyl nuclear power plant melts down, causing a spike in premature mutant expressions for generations. (Chernobyl, Ukraine - X-Men: Days of Future Past)
May: Walt plays "Hey You" at the school talent show. (Brooklyn, New York - The Squid and the Whale)
Thursday 8th May: A newspaper which says that Mary McGarricle has been sentenced to 30 years in prison has the date Saturday May 8th, 1986. (That's My Boy)
Friday 9th May: Short Circuit is released. (United States - The Squid and the Whale)
Saturday 24th May: Martin Asher kills a man. (Canada - Taking Lives)
Saturday 24th May: Martin Asher kills Andrew Lapierre and takes his identity. (Taking Lives)
Monday 26th May: Jenna Rink turns 12. (13 Going On 30)
Wednesday 28th May: Michael Jerome Williams, Jr. is born. (Memphis, Tennessee - The Blind Side)
Monday 2nd June: Chris McCandless graduates from W.T. Woodson High School. (Fairfax, Virginia - Into the Wild)
Tuesday 10th June: Chris McCandless sets out on a cross-country journey. (Into the Wild)
Tuesday 10th June: Liz Kline is born in 1986 Detroit michigan (Detroit - RoboCop)
Wednesday 11th June: Carrie Bradshaw first steps foot in New York City. (New York City, New York - Sex and the City 2)