It's gonna be May!
It's month number five of our '90s Movie of the Month Club, this month we focus on a mix of some of the best small studio and big budget '90s movies that were released or premiered in the month of May.
This is May. Let's watch some movies.
Thelma and Louise (May 21, 1991)
Two best friends set out on an adventure, but it soon turns around to a terrifying escape from being hunted by the police, as these two girls escape for the crimes they committed.
Director: Ridley Scott
Writer: Callie Khouri
Barton Fink (1991)
Winner of the 1991 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or... A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
Directors: Joel and Ethan Coen
Writers: Joel and Ethan Coen
Cast: John Turturro, John Goodman
One False Move (May 8, 1992)
A small town police chief awaits the arrival of a gang of killers.
Director: Carl Franklin
Writer: Billy Bob Thornton
Farewell My Concubine (1993)
Winner of the 1993 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or... The story of two men, who met as apprentices in the Peking Opera, and stayed friends for over 50 years.
Dccirector: Kaige Chen
Writer: Pik Wah Lee
Menace II Society (May 26, 1993)
A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.
Directors: The Hughes Brothers
Writers: The Hughes Brothers
Cast: Tyrin Turner, Larenze Tate
The Piano (1993)
A mute woman is sent to 1850s New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, but is soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation.
Director: Jane Campion
Writer: Jane Campion
Cast: Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Same Neill
The Crow (May 13, 1994)
A man brutally murdered comes back to life as an undead avenger of his and his fiancée's murder.
Directors: Alex Proyas
Writer: David Schow
Cast: Brandon Lee, Michael Wincott, Rochelle Davis
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Winner of the 1994 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or... The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Writer: Quentin Tarantino
Braveheart (May 24, 1995)
When his secret bride is executed for assaulting an English soldier who tried to rape her, Sir William Wallace begins a revolt against King Edward I of England.
Director: Mel Gibson
Writer: Randall Wallace
Crimson Tide (May 12, 1995)
On a U.S. nuclear missile sub, a young First Officer stages a mutiny, to prevent his trigger happy Captain from launching his missiles, before confirming his orders to do so.
Director: Tony Scott
Writer: Michael Schiffer
Cast: Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman, Viggo Mortensen
Welcome to the Dollhouse (May 24, 1996)
An unattractive seventh grader struggles to cope with inattentive parents, snobbish classmates, a smart older brother, an attractive younger sister, and her own insecurities in suburban New Jersey.
Director: Todd Solondz
Writer: Todd Solondz
Cast: Heather Matarazzo, Christina Brucato, Victoria Davis
Secrets and Lies (1996)
Winner of the 1996 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or... A successful black woman discovers that her birth mother is a underprivileged white woman, but the woman denies it. As emotions run high, everyone's secrets are exposed.
Director: Mike Leigh
Writer: Mike Leigh
Cast: Timothy Spall, Brenda belthyn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste
The Fifth Element (May 9, 1997)
In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr. Zorg at bay.
Director: Luc Besson
Writer: Luc Besson
Cast: Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman
He Got Game (May 1, 1998)
A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter sentence.
Director: Spike Lee
Writer: Spike Lee
Cast: Denzel Washington, Milla Jovovich, Ray Allen
Election (May 7, 1999)
A high school teacher's personal life becomes complicated as he works with students during the school elections, particularly with an obsessive overachiever determined to become student body president.
Director: Alexander Payne
Writer: Alexander Payne
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Chris Klein
Trouble deciding which movie to watch tonight? Spin the wheel. Let fate decide.
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