The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Movie history events from 1997
Ryan Grimm moves to East Great Falls. Erik Stifler becomes his friend and gives him pointers during second grade. (East Great Falls, Michigan) (American Pie 5: The Naked Mile)
Austin Powers is defrosted. (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery)
Mr. and Mrs. De Tessant die. (Away We Go)
Ashley, daughter of Lily and Lowell, is born. (Chicago, Illinois) (Away We Go)
Batman, Robin and Batgirl battle Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy (Gothem City) (Batman and Robin)
Adam Webber leaves his family’s shelter for the first time. (Blast from the Past)
After being released from prison, Elwood Blues tries to revamp the Blues Brothers with a new lineup. (Joliet, Illinois) (Blues Brothers 2000)
A boy who will not have a girlfriend when he's 17 is born. (The Bounty Hunter)
Serial killer Carl Stargher buys an albino German Shepherd pup, licenses it & names him Valentine. (Woodcrest, Ca.) (The Cell)
Dante's Peak erupts. (Washington) (Dante's Peak)
A massive explosion in the Lincoln Tunnel traps a group of survivors inside, led out by taxi driver Kip Litora. (New York) (Daylight)
Narrowly avoiding the twin towers, the US President's plane crash-lands in Manhattan, now a top-security prison. (New York) (Escape From New York)
Brad and Caroline Sexton hide from the IRS in an Amish community. (For Richer or Poorer)
George Simmons cheats on Laura and doesn't marry her. (California) (Funny People)
Don Michael Corleone dies. (The Godfather: Part III)
Bruce is born. (Hotel for Dogs)
Ollie becomes a pariah. (Highlands, New Jersey) (Jersey Girl)
Mindy Macready is born. (New York City, NY) (Kick-Ass)
A postal truck runs over Ben Stone while he's in high school. He gets a settlement. (Vancouver, British Columbia) (Knocked Up)
Agents J and K foil an intergalactic plot and prevent the destruction of the Earth. (Men in Black)
Jack Harris helps Wayne Beering and Buck Dolby work on selling internet pornography. (Los Angeles, California) (Middle Men)
Kris begins second grade. (Springwood, Ohio) (A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010))
Joanna sleeps with Ron Lumbergh. (Office Space)
Ron Lumbergh moves to Atlanta. (Atlanta, Georgia) (Office Space)
An alien hunter threatens the city. (Los Angeles) (Predator 2)
A female chimpanzee who will one day be known as Bright Eyes is born. (Africa) (Rise of the Planet of the Apes)
Romy White and Michelle Weinbeger attend their 10 year high school reunion. (Arizona) (Romy and Michele's High School Reunion)
At her sister's wedding, Sarah Huttinger learns her family is the basis for the book 'The Graduate'. (California) (Rumor Has It)
After the murder of two people who attended a special screening of the movie Stab, Sydney and her friends try to find out who did it. (Windsor College, Ohio) (Scream 2)
Catalina Wine Mixer becomes biggest helicopter leasing event in western hemisphere. (Catalina, CA) (Step Brothers)
Seth draws penises and gets in trouble when Becca sees one of his drawings. (Superbad)
Phillippe Neuville is killed. (Tell No One)
Margot Beck is seemingly murdered by a serial killer. (Tell No One)
Sarah Connor dies from leukemia. Her ashes are tossed at sea. (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines)
Evey's political activist parents are killed. (V for Vendetta)
A volcano erupts. (Los Angeles) (Volcano)
Ben Cappadora Ned Devine wins £6,894,620 on the lottery, and dies from the shock. (Chicago, IL) (Waking Ned)
Columbus has his first orthodontist appointment, gets his first B and goes to his first dance, which is ladies' choice. Nobody chooses him. (Zombieland)
Wichita sees her first R-rated movie ("Anaconda"), gets her first tattoo (a porpoise, fake) and has her first kiss (Scotty Lynch). (Zombieland)
Sunday 5th January: Michael Lee Bradshaw dies. (Rennie's Landing)
Sunday 23rd February: Scientists clone a sheep named Dolly. (The 6th Day)
April: Holden McNeil prints a run of his personal comic Chasing Amy. (Chasing Amy)
April: Will Hunting's probation period begins. (Boston, Mass.) (Good Will Hunting)
Thursday 10th April: HMS Devonshire is sunk of the coast of China. The British claim the ship was in international waters, while the Chinese say it had strayed into their territory. (South China Sea) (Tomorrow Never Dies)
Friday 11th April: Machine-gunned bodies of 17 British sailors are recovered by Vietnamese Government. Ballistic reports show that the ammunition used is the same as that used by the Chinese military. (Vietnam) (Tomorrow Never Dies)
Friday 11th April: Machine-gunned bodies of 17 British sailors are recovered by Vietnamese Government. Ballistic reports show that the ammunition used is the same as that used by the Chinese military. (Vietnam) (Tomorrow Never Dies)
Friday 11th April: The Carver Global Satellite Network is launched, but a curious power outage interrupts Elliot Carver's inaugural broadcast in mid-speech. (Hamburg, Germany) (Tomorrow Never Dies)
Saturday 12th April: The body Paris Carver, wife of media mogul Elliot Carver, is found in a hotel room with the body of an unidentified man. (Hamburg, Germany) (Tomorrow Never Dies)
Sunday 13th April: War between the Chinese and British is averted by a joint covert op between MI6 & Chinese secret service exposes the existence of a "stealth ship," which had been playing both sides against the other. (South China Sea) (Tomorrow Never Dies)
Monday 14th April: MI6 releases statement to the press stating that Elliot Carver died while on a cruise on his yacht in the South China Sea - authorities believe his death to be a suicide. (London, England) (Tomorrow Never Dies)
Sunday 27th April: Andrew Cunanan begins his killing spree. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) (The Versace Murder)
May: Banky Edwards and Alyssa Jones are guests at a New York comic con, where they are reunited with Holden McNeil. (Chasing Amy)
June: Albus Dumbledore is murdered by Snape using the killing curse. (Hogwarts) (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)
Monday 30th June: Detective Inspector Lee and his special task force crush Juntao's organization and recover artifacts from 5000 years of China's heritage. (Hong Kong, China) (Rush Hour)
Monday 30th June: Detective Inspector Lee and his special task force crush Juntao's organization and recover artifacts from 5000 years of China's heritage. (Hong Kong, China) (Rush Hour)
Tuesday 8th July: Dre Parker is born. (Detroit, MI) (The Karate Kid (2010))
Tuesday 15th July: Gianni Versace murdered in Cunanan killing spree. (Miami, Florida) (The Versace Murder)
August: Roderick meets Burt during the Burning Man festival. (Black Rock Desert, Nevada) (Away We Go)
Monday 4th August: Skynet goes online. (The Terminator)
Wednesday 6th August: Microsoft pays $150 million for a minority stake in its struggling rival, Apple Computers. (Pirates of Silicon Valley)
Saturday 16th August: Telli Hays is trapped in a research center at Saint Haley Mill's University and is forced to listen to country music no stop. Turning her into Two-Step Telli. (Pleasant Storm, Iowa) (Bradman)
Friday 29th August: Machines destroy the Earth, or they don’t. (Terminator 2: Judgment Day)
Friday 29th August: Judgement Day- 3 billion people die as a result of Skynet's artificial intelligence (Terminator 2: Judgment Day)
Friday 29th August: Skynet becomes self-aware, and destroys human civilisation. (The Terminator)
Sunday 31st August: Diana, Princess of Wales, dies after suffering massive chest injuries in an early morning car accident. (Paris, France) (The Queen)
September: Will Hunting solves a graduate-level problem that Prof Gerald Lambeau leaves on a chalkboard for his students, hoping someone might find the solution by the end of the semester. (Boston, Mass.) (Good Will Hunting)
September: Inspector Lee and Detective Carter team up to save Soo Yung from Juntao. (Los Angeles, CA) (Rush Hour)
September: A bomb explodes at the American Consulate while Detective James Carter and Chief Inspector Lee are on vacation. (Hong Kong, China) (Rush Hour 2)
Wednesday 24th September: Sean Archer disguised as Castor Troy escapes from prison. (Los Angeles, California) (Face/Off)
Friday 10th October: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans and encounter human excavation group which destorys the pyramid. (Bouvet Island, Antarctica) (Alien Vs. Predator)
Thursday 16th October: The Jupiter II, en route for Alpha Centauri, blasted off on October 16th, 1997. The film based on the series, Lost in Space (1998), began production in 1997. -imdb.com (Lost in Space)
Thursday 6th November: John Donaghy, father of Amelia Donaghy, commits suicide. Amelia is the first person to find his body. (New York City) (The Bone Collector)
Friday 28th November: Carter sees Luke on Thanksgiving. (Los Angeles, CA) (Rush Hour)
Friday 28th November: Carter sees Luke on Thanksgiving. (Los Angeles, CA) (Rush Hour)
Sunday 21st December: Jack Frost goes to an island in the Pacific. (Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman)
Monday 22nd December: People use bananas to destroy Jack's babies. (Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman)
Tuesday 23rd December: Jack Frost is defeated. (Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman)