March
(March Radness)
It's month number three of our '90s Movie of the Month Club, where we watch movies from the '90s released in that current month. This month's list includes a raging house party, a high stakes poker game, some weddings, a funeral, brother's keepers, a kidnapped Bunny, blue pills, red pills, and a renegade Soviet Captain intent on starting WWIII after stealing an undetectable nuclear submarine... or perhaps he has other intentions.
Welcome to March. Let's watch a movie.
The Hunt for Red October (March 2, 1990)
In November 1984, the Soviet Union's best submarine captain in their newest sub violates orders and heads for the USA. Is he trying to defect or to start a war?
Director: John McTiernan
Writer: Tom Clancy (novel) & Ted Tally (screenplay)
Cast: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn
House Party (March 9, 1990)
Kid decides to go to his friend's house party, but even he can't predict what's in store for him.
Director: Reginald Hudlin
Writer: Reginald Hudlin
New Jack City (March 8, 1991)
A crime lord ascends to power and becomes megalomaniacal while a maverick police detective vows to stop him.
Director: Mario Van Peebles
Writer: Thomas Lee Wright
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Allen Payne
Four Weddings and a Funeral (March 7, 1994)
Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.
Director: Mike Newell
Writer: Richard Curtis
Cast: Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell
Chungking Express (March 8, 1996)
Quentin Tarantino Presents... Two melancholy Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious female underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant he frequents.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong
Writer: Kar-Wai Wong
Fargo (March 8, 1996)
Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.
Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Writers: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Flirting with Disaster (March 22, 1996)
A young man, his wife, and his incompetent case worker travel across country to find his birth parents.
Director: David O. Russell
Writer: David O. Russell
The Big Lebowski (March 6, 1998)
"The Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.
Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Writers: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Cast: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (March 5, 1999)
A botched card game in London triggers four friends, thugs, weed-growers, hard gangsters, loan sharks and debt collectors to collide with each other in a series of unexpected events, all for the sake of weed, cash and two antique shotguns.
Director: Guy Ritchie
Writer: Guy Ritchie
Cast: Nick Moran, Jason Flemyng, Jason Statham
The Matrix (March 31, 1999)
A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.
Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Writers: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
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