December at the movies
It's month number twelve in our '90s Movie of the Month Club. This month we focus on the best '90s movies released in the month of December... we saved the best for last.
This is December. The holidays are here and the year is almost over. Let's watch some movies.
A Few Good Men (1992)
When cocky military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee and his co-counsel, Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway, are assigned to a murder case, they uncover a hazing ritual that could implicate high-ranking officials such as shady Col. Nathan Jessep.
Director: Rob Reiner
Cast: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore
Tombstone (1993)
Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to don a badge again and get help from his notorious pal Doc Holliday when a gang of renegade brigands and rustlers begins terrorizing the town.
Director: George P. Cosmatos
Cast: Kurt Russel, Val Kilmer, Powers Booth
Schindler's List (1993)
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writer: Thomas Keneally, Steven Zaillian
Cast: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
The City of Lost Children (1995)
A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.
Directors: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
Cast: Ron Perlman
Heat (1995)
Obsessive master thief, Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective, Vincent Hanna pursues him without rest. Each man recognizes and respects the ability and the dedication of the other even though they are aware their cat-and-mouse game may end in violence.
Director: Michael Mann
Cast: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer
Scream (1996)
A killer known as Ghostface begins killing off teenagers, and as the body count begins rising, one girl and her friends find themselves contemplating the ‘rules’ of horror films as they find themselves living in a real-life one.
Director: Wes Craven
Writer: Kevin Williamson
Cast: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette
Jackie Brown (1997)
Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to get to her boss, she hatches a plan—with help from a bail bondsman—to keep the money for herself. Based on Elmore Leonard’s novel “Rum Punch”.
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert De Niro
A Simple Plan (1998)
The Mitchell brothers stumble across a downed airplane that contains millions of dollars. They plot to keep the money- but greed causes distrust amongst them.
Director: Sam Raimi
Cast: Bill Paxton
Rushmore (1998)
When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max, who quickly falls in love with her. Max turns to the father of two of his schoolmates for advice on how to woo the teacher. However, the situation soon gets complicated when Max’s new friend becomes involved with her, setting the two pals against one another in a war for her attention.
Director: Wes Anderson
Cast: Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, “Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate’s Daughter,” before it’s even written. When a lovely noblewoman auditions for a role, they fall into forbidden love – and his play finds a new life (and title). As their relationship progresses, Shakespeare’s comedy soon transforms into tragedy.
Director: John Madden
Cast: Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow
The Hurricane (1999)
The story of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Denzel Washington
Galaxy Quest (1999)
The stars of a 1970s sci-fi show – now scraping a living through re-runs and sci-fi conventions – are beamed aboard an alien spacecraft. Believing the cast’s heroic on-screen dramas are historical documents of real-life adventures, the band of aliens turn to the ailing celebrities for help in their quest to overcome the oppressive regime in their solar system.
Director: Dean Parisot
Cast: Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman
Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.
Director: James Mangold
Cast: Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it’s better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
Director: Anthony Minghella
Cast: Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law
Magnolia (1999)
An epic mosaic of many interrelated characters in search of happiness, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Cast: Julianne Moore, William H. Macy, John C. Reilly
Trouble deciding which movie to watch tonight? Spin the wheel. Let fate decide.
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