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'90s Movie of the Month Club - May

  • Writer: Friday Mike
    Friday Mike
  • May 1, 2018
  • 3 min read

It's gonna be May!

This is May. Let's watch some movies.

 

Thelma and Louise (May 21, 1991)

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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

 

Barton Fink (1991)

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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.

Cast: John Turturro, John Goodman

 

One False Move (May 8, 1992)

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A small town police chief awaits the arrival of a gang of killers.

Director: Carl Franklin

 

Farewell My Concubine (1993)

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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

 

​​​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.

 

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

Cast: Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Same Neill

 

​The Crow (May 13, 1994)

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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)

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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.

 

Braveheart (May 24, 1995)

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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

 

​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

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

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

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

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

Cast: Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Chris Klein

 

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