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'90s Movie of the Month Club - June

  • Writer: Friday Mike
    Friday Mike
  • Jun 1, 2018
  • 5 min read

It's gonna be JUNE!

This is June. Let's watch some movies.

 

Romper Stomper (1992)

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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

 

Patriot Games (1992)

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When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.

Director: Philip Noyce

Cast: Harrison Ford, Sean Bean, Samuel L. Jackson

 

Jurassic Park (1993)

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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.

 

Sleepless in Seattle (1993)

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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

 

​​​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

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

Cast: Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon

 

​Safe (1995)

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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)

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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)

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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

 

​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.

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.”

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

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

Cast: Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Ed harris

 

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