summertime at the movies Part 2
It's month number eight in our '90s Movie of the Month Club, this month we focus on the best '90s movies released in the month of August... with one or two Oscar Award winners thrown in there just for fun.
This is August. It is very hot outside. In the Northern Hemispehere. Let's watch some movies.
Pump Up the Volume (1990)
Mark Hunter is an intelligent but shy teenager who has just moved to suburban Arizona from New York. At 10pm each school night Mark takes to the shortwave radio in his basement and transforms into pirate DJ “Hard Harry”. Mark’s show, at once thoughtful and profane, becomes an underground hit with students at his high school, inspiring the wrath of his principal and the FCC.
Director: Allan Moyle
Writer: Allan Moyle
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Slacker (1991)
Presents a day in the life in Austin, Texas among its social outcasts and misfits, predominantly the twenty-something set, using a series of linear vignettes. These characters, who in some manner just don’t fit into the establishment norms, move seamlessly from one scene to the next, randomly coming and going into one another’s lives.
Director: Richard Linklater
Writer: Richard Linklater
Cast: Richard Linklater
Unforgiven (1992)
William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute. Joined by his former partner and a cocky greenhorn, he takes on a corrupt sheriff.
Director: Clint Eastwood
Writer: David Webb Peoples
The Fugitive (1993)
Wrongfully accused of murdering his wife, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find her killer and clear his name. Pursuing him is a team of U.S. marshals led by Deputy Samuel Gerard, a determined detective who will not rest until Richard is captured.
Director: Andrew Davis
Writer: Jeb Stewart
Natural Born Killers (1994)
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.
Director: Oliver Stone
Cast: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr.
The Brothers McMullen (1995)
Winner Best Picture at the Sundance Film Festival... The Brothers McMullen deals with the lives of the three Irish Catholic McMullen brothers from Long Island, New York, over three months, as they grapple with basic ideas and values — love, sex, marriage, religion and family — in the 1990s. Directed, written, produced by and starring Edward Burns.
Director: Ed Burns
Writer: Ed Burns
Cast: Ed Burns
Desperado (1995)
A gunslinger is embroiled in a war with a local drug runner.
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Writer: Robert Rodriguez
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors.
Director: Bryan Singer
Writer: Christopher McQuarrie
Cast: Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benecio Del Toro, Kevin Pollak, Chaz Palminteri, Kevin Spacey
Shine (1996)
Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
Director: Scott Hicks
Writer: Scott Hicks
Cast: Geoffrey Rush
Trainspotting (1996)
Mark Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
Director: Danny Boyle
Writer: Irvine Welsh
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle
The Full Monty (1997)
Sheffield, England. Gaz, a jobless steelworker in need of quick cash persuades his mates to bare it all in a one-night-only strip show.
Director: Peter Cantaneo
Cast: Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy, Tom Wilkinson
Cop Land (1997)
Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he’s long admired. Yet something ugly is taking place behind the town’s peaceful facade.
Director: James Mangold
Writer: James Mangold
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta
Blade (1998)
When Blade’s mother was bitten by a vampire during pregnancy, she did not know that she gave her son a special gift while dying: All the good vampire attributes in combination with the best human skills.
Director: Stephen Norrington
Writer: David S. Goyer
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson
Dick (1999)
Comedy about two high school girls who wander off during a class trip to the White House and meet President Richard Nixon. They become the official dog walkers for Nixon’s dog Checkers, and become his secret advisors during the Watergate scandal.
The Sixth Sense (1999)
A psychological thriller about an eight year old boy named Cole Sear who believes he can see into the world of the dead. A child psychologist named Malcolm Crowe comes to Cole to help him deal with his problem, learning that he really can see ghosts of dead people.
Director: M. Night Shyamalam
Cast: Bruce Willis, Toni Collette, Haley Joel Osment
Trouble deciding which movie to watch tonight? Spin the wheel. Let fate decide.
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