The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Movie history events from 1978
Gambling legalised in Atlantic City. (Atlantic City) (Atlantic City)
Jack Twist meets lover-to-be, Randall Malone. (Childress, Texas.) (Brokeback Mountain)
Helen Sharp takes her fiance, Dr Ernest Menville, to see Madeline Ashton perform; Madeline ends up stealing him away from her. (Broadway) (Death Becomes Her)
Debbie does Dallas. (Dallas, Texas) (Debbie Does Dallas)
Local and county police engage in a large gun battle with the murderous Firefly family. (Texas) (The Devil's Rejects)
Donnie Brasco. (Donnie Brasco)
A young Eskimo boy (Poochook) accidentally gets hit by a mysterious ray during a secret British experiment at the North Pole and finds that he is now electrified. (North Pole) (Electric Eskimo)
Michael Corleone's investiture. (New York) (The Godfather: Part III)
Two highschool sweethearts go missing. Their bodies were never found. We later find out that the Creepers took them. (USA) (Jeepers Creepers)
Taxi begins on US TV. (Man on the Moon)
FBI agent and criminal profiler Will Graham comes out of retirement to hunt an elusive serial killer, enlisting the help of Hannibal Lecktor. (Manhunter)
Survivors of the Alliance/NEB war face a newly self-evolved AI that wishes to end human existence. (Screamers)
Superman appears for the first time. (Metropolis) (Superman)
January: The funeral of Olympic athlete Harold Abrahams. (London) (Chariots of Fire)
Wednesday 4th January: Capricorn One appears to take off for its mission to Mars - in fact the astronauts are secretly escorted to a studio in the desert. (Capricorn One)
Monday 23rd January: Joanna Kramer officially takes custody of her son Billy, but leaves him with his father, Ted. (Kramer vs Kramer)
May: A group of rabbits, led by Hazel and Fiver, leave Sandleford Warren and establish a new warren at Watership Down. (Hampshire, UK) (Watership Down)
Monday 8th May: David Berkowitz pleads guilty for the Moskowitz and Violante slayings and sentenced to 365 years prison. (Summer of Sam)
Tuesday 9th May: The body of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is found, riddled by bullets, in the back of a car. (Rome, Italy) (Year of the Gun )
Sunday 14th May: Capricorn One seems to land on Mars - in fact it's in a studio in the desert. (Capricorn One)
Tuesday 4th July: David Scott Freeman falls from a tree, and seemingly jumps through time. (Flight of the Navigator)
Tuesday 4th July: Forrest Gump celebrates Independence Day at his home with Jenny Curran. (Forrest Gump)
Sunday 6th August: Pope Paul VI dies. (Castel Gandolfo, Italy) (The Godfather: Part III)
Tuesday 19th September: Capricorn One explodes on re-entry, meaning the astronauts pretending to be inside while actually in a studio several miles away suddenly become targets. (Capricorn One)
Thursday 28th September: Pope John Paul I dies. (Vatican City) (The Godfather: Part III)
October: Mathematician John Nash begins tutoring students in the Princeton library. (Princeton University) (A Beautiful Mind)
Friday 13th October: KISS plays concert at Cobo Hall, Detroit, MI. (Cobo Hall, Detroit, MI) (Detroit Rock City)
Tuesday 31st October: Michael Myers murders a-plenty, and may or may not die himself. (Haddonfield, Illinois) (Halloween)
Monday 18th December: Tommy DeSimone kills Parnell "Stacks" Edwards. (Queens, New York) (Goodfellas)