summertime at the movies
It's month number seven in our '90s Movie of the Month Club, this month we focus on a mix of some of the best big budget blockbuster '90s movies that were released in the month of July... with one or two smaller films thrown in there just for fun.
This is July. Let's watch some movies.
Boyz N the Hood (1991)
Boyz n the Hood is the popular and successful film and social criticism from John Singleton about the conditions in South Central Los Angeles where teenagers are involved in gun fights and drug dealing on a daily basis.
Director: John Singleton
Writer: John Singleton
Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
Nearly 10 years have passed since Sarah Connor was targeted for termination by a cyborg from the future. Now her son, John, the future leader of the resistance, is the target for a newer, more deadly terminator. Once again, the resistance has managed to send a protector back to attempt to save John and his mother Sarah.
Director: James Cameron
Writer: William Wisher
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong
Point Break (1991)
In the coastal town of Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. The F.B.I. believes that the members of the gang could be surfers and send young agent Johnny Utah undercover at the beach to mix with the surfers and gather information.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Writer: W. Peter Iliff
A League of Their Own (1992)
As America’s stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey. Competitive sisters Dottie Hinson and Kit Keller spar with each other, scout Ernie Capadinoand grumpy has-been coach Jimmy Dugan on their way to fame.
Director: Penny Marshall
Writer: Lowell Ganz
Cast: Tom Hanks, Geena Davis
In the Line of Fire (1993)
Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection detail in Dallas. Thirty years later, a man calling himself “Booth” threatens the life of the current President, forcing Horrigan to come back to protection detail to confront the ghosts from his past.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Writer: Jeff McGuire
Cast: Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich
Clueless (1995)
Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school’s pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other. Emboldened by her success, she decides to give hopelessly klutzy new student Tai a makeover. When Tai becomes more popular than she is, Cher realizes that her disapproving ex-stepbrother was right about how misguided she was – and falls for him.
Director: Amy Heckerling
Writer: Amy Heckerling
Cast: Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash, Paul Rudd
A Time to Kill (1996)
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
Director: Joel Schumacher
Writer: Akiva Goldsman
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Samuel L. Jackson, Sandra Bullock
Independence Day (1996)
On July 2, a giant alien mothership enters orbit around Earth and deploys several dozen saucer-shaped ‘destroyer’ spacecraft that quickly lay waste to major cities around the planet. On July 3, the United States conducts a coordinated counterattack that fails. On July 4, a plan is devised to gain access to the interior of the alien mothership in space, in order to plant a nuclear missile.
Director: Roland Emmerich
Cast: Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum
Men in Black (1997)
After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent Kay and new recruit Agent Jay find themselves in the middle of a deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies.
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Pi (1998)
The debut film from Darren Aronofsky in which a mathematical genius Maximilian Cohen discovers a link in the connection between numbers and reality and thus believes he can predict the future.
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore
There's Something About Mary (1998)
Having never fully recovered from a prom date that became a total disaster, a man finally gets a chance to reunite with his old prom date, only to run up against other suitors including the sleazy detective he hired to find her.
Directors: The Farrelly Brothers
Cast: Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon, Ben Stiller
American Pie (1999)
At a high-school party, four friends find that losing their collective virginity isn’t as easy as they had thought. But they still believe that they need to do so before college. To motivate themselves, they enter a pact to all “score.” by their senior prom.
Directors: The Weitz Brothers
Cast: Jason Biggs, Chris Klein, Tara Reid
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
After Dr. Bill Hartford’s wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings – and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writer: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman
Trouble deciding which movie to watch tonight? Spin the wheel. Let fate decide.
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