It's gonna be JUNE!
It's month number sixof 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 June... with one or two smaller films thrown in there just for fun.
This is June. Let's watch some movies.
Romper Stomper (1992)
Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman who is prone to epileptic seizures joins the skins’ merry band, and helps them on their run from justice, but is her affliction also a sign of impurity?
Director: Geoffrey Wright
Writer: Geoffrey Wright
Cast: Russell Crowe
Patriot Games (1992)
When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.
Director: Philip Noyce
Writer: Mace Neufeld
Cast: Harrison Ford, Sean Bean, Samuel L. Jackson
Jurassic Park (1993)
A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writer: David Koepp
Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
A young boy who tries to set his dad up on a date after the death of his mother. He calls into a radio station to talk about his dad’s loneliness which soon leads the dad into meeting a Journalist Annie who flies to Seattle to write a story about the boy and his dad. Yet Annie ends up with more than just a story in this popular romantic comedy.
Director: Nora Ephron
Writer: Nora Ephron
Cast: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan
Speed (1994)
Los Angeles SWAT cop Jack Traven is up against bomb expert Howard Payne, who’s after major ransom money. First it’s a rigged elevator in a very tall building. Then it’s a rigged bus–if it slows, it will blow, bad enough any day, but a nightmare in LA traffic. And that’s still not the end.
Director: Jan de Bont
Writer: Graham Yost
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock
Apollo 13 (1995)
The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1971, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a thrilling saga of heroism. Drifting more than 200,000 miles from Earth, the astronauts work furiously with the ground crew to avert tragedy.
Director: Ron Howard
Writer: William Broyles
Cast: Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon
Safe (1995)
Carol, a typical upper middle-class housewife, begins to complain of vague symptoms of illness. She “doesn’t feel right,” has unexplained headaches, congestion, a dry cough, nosebleeds, vomiting, and trouble breathing. Her family doctor treats her concerns dismissively and suggests a psychiatrist. Eventually, an allergist tells her that she has Environmental Illness.
Director: Todd Haynes
Writer: Todd Haynes
Cast: Julianne Moore, Xander Berkeley
The Rock (1996)
FBI chemical warfare expert Stanley Goodspeed is sent on an urgent mission with a former British spy, John Patrick Mason, to stop Gen. Francis X. Hummel from launching chemical weapons on Alcatraz Island into San Francisco. Gen. Hummel demands $100 million in war reparations to be paid to the families of slain servicemen who died on covert operations. After their SEAL team is wiped out, Stanley and John deal with the soldiers on their own.
Director: Michael Bay
Cast: Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris
Lone Star (1996)
When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.
Director: John Sayles
Writer: John Sayles
The Nutty Professor (1996)
Eddie Murphy stars as shy Dr. Sherman Klump, a kind, brilliant, ‘calorifically challenged’ genetic professor. When beautiful Carla Purty joins the university faculty, Sherman grows desperate to whittle his 400-pound frame down to size and win her heart. So, with one swig of his experimental fat-reducing serum, Sherman becomes ‘Buddy Love’, a fast-talking, pumped-up , plumped down Don Juan.
Director: Tom Shayac
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett Smith
Face/Off (1997)
An anti-terrorism agent goes under the knife to acquire the likeness of a terrorist and gather details about a bombing plot. When the terrorist escapes custody, he undergoes surgery to look like the agent so he can get close to the agent’s family.
Director: John Woo
Cast: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage
Can't Hardly Wait (1998)
It’s graduation day at Huntington Hills High, and you know what that means – time to party. And not just any party, either. This one will be a night to remember, as the nerds become studs, the jocks are humiliated, and freshman crushes blossom into grown-up romance.
Directors: Harry Elfont, Deborah Kaplan
Writers: Harry Elfont, Deborah Kaplan
Cast: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ethan Embry, Lauren Ambrose
Out of Sight (1998)
Meet Jack Foley, a smooth criminal who bends the law and is determined to make one last heist. Karen Sisco is a federal marshal who chooses all the right moves … and all the wrong guys. Now they’re willing to risk it all to find out if there’s more between them than just the law. Variety hails Out of Sight as “a sly, sexy, vastly entertaining film.”
Director: Steven Soderberg
Cast: George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames
Run Lola Run (1998)
Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. She has 20 minutes to raise this amount and meet Manni. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along Lola’s run.
Director: Tom Tykwer
Writer: Tom Tykwer
Cast: Frank Potente
The Truman Show (1998)
Truman Burbank is the star of “The Truman Show”, a 24-hour-a-day “reality” TV show that broadcasts every aspect of his life – live and in color – without his knowledge. His entire life has been an unending soap opera for consumption by the rest of the world. And everyone he knows – including his wife and his best friend – is really an actor, paid to be part of his life.
Director: Peter Weir
Writer: Andrew Niccol
Cast: Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Ed harris
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