The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Movie history events from 1991
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)
Fishing troller The Andrea Gail from Gloucester, Massachusetts is caught in violent storm after two weeks at sea. (The Perfect Storm)
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 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: 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)
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)