The Movie Timeline - of all the movie timelines on all the net, you walked into this one
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)
Becky is born. (New York City - 13 Going On 30)
The US government release the Newcomers from quarantine, and the aliens begin living among the Human population. Detective Sergeant Matthew Sykes, with Samuel "George" Francisco--LA's first Newcomer detective--stop another Newcomer, William Harcourt, from selling a powerful and highly-addictive drug to the other Newcomers. (Los Angeles, California - Alien Nation)
Frank Lucas is released from prison. (New York City - American Gangster)
The dude is framed for having not paid money to some people and they pee on his rug for revenge. He then goes on a journey to fix the problem. (The Big Lebowski)
Bill & Ted are killed by evil robot versions of themselves. (Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey)
Post-Perestroika Soviet Secret Police apparatus stops carrying out its own interpretation of the original Marxist-Leninist doctrine. (Blues Brothers 2000)
Mitch Robbins, Phil Berquist, and Ed Furillo go on a cattle drive as a vacation. (City Slickers)
Revolution between humans and enslaved apes. (California - Conquest of the Planet of the Apes)
Wikus Van De Mewre and Anton Gobler become friends. (Johannesburg, South Africa - District 9)
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)
Alex Furlong dies in a car crash... or not. (New York City - Freejack)
Joseph Waller is killed by gunfire. (Green Lantern)
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)
Oskar Rozario is born. (New York City, New York - Kick-Ass 2)
Gil James actually dies in this year. (New York City, New York - Kick-Ass 2)
Leatherface and some other relatives terrorize more people. (Texas - Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III)
Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler buys a copy of Georg Dreyman's book Sonata for a Good Man, dedicated to him. (The Lives of Others)
Sheriff Buddy Deeds dies. (Lone Star)
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)
Cady and her parents go to Africa. (Africa - Mean Girls)
David Justice is a big name around this time. (Moneyball)
'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 2˝: 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)
Future-Sheriff Wynan marries Ellen. (Dallas, Texas - Red State)
Willie Roberts is born. (RoboCop)
Karen White is born. (RoboCop)
Madison Stafford is born. (RoboCop)
Edward Burch is born. (RoboCop)
Richard Burch is born. (RoboCop)
1991 calls. (The Rocker)
Donny Rabbs is shot down. (Kuwait - Runaway Jury)
Groton graduation speech. (Groton, MA - Six Degrees of Separation)
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)
Donny Berger appears in the news. (That's My Boy)
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)
Billy Bob receives a trophy at lineman camp. (Texas - Varsity Blues)
The Iraq War ends. (W.)
South Africa ushers in an era of acceptance and equality, becoming a safe haven for mutants. (South Africa - X-Men: Days of Future Past)
The secret chemical formula for the deadly 'Silent Night' gas goes missing after the fall of the USSR. (XXX)
Tuesday 15th January: John Grogan's name is mispelled "Gorgan" in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Sebastian tells John that he should get a dog. (South Florida - Marley & Me)
Wednesday 16th January: Chris “Alex” McCandless reenters the U.S. (United States/Mexico border - Into the Wild)
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)
Monday 4th February: Chad is born around this time. His mother had been put in a mental institution. (West Virginia - Tucker & Dale Vs Evil)
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)