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Men in Black (1997) film poster1990s

Men in Black (1997)

Ed Solomon wrote, loosely adapted from Lowell Cunningham's Aircel/Malibu comic. The film made approximately five hundred and ninety million dollars worldwide on a ninety million dollar budget.

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Independence Day (1996) film poster1990s

Independence Day (1996)

Dean Devlin co-wrote with Emmerich. The film established Will Smith as the dominant summer blockbuster star of the late 1990s, set up Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin's career-long partnership producing disaster spectacles, and refined the destruction-of-iconic-landmarks visual template that subsequent…

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Demolition Man (1993)

Demolition Man is one of the funniest action films of the early 1990s and one of the most accidentally prescient. Marco Brambilla directed in his feature.

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Jurassic Park (1993) film poster1990s

Jurassic Park (1993)

David Koepp and Michael Crichton adapted Crichton's 1990 novel. The film made approximately one billion dollars worldwide on a sixty-three million dollar budget.

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Mortal Kombat (1995) film poster1990s

Mortal Kombat (1995)

Anderson directed in what amounted to a launching pad for his subsequent career in genre cinema. The film made approximately one hundred and twenty-three million dollars worldwide on an eighteen million dollar budget.

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Mousehunt (1997)

Mousehunt is one of the funniest physical comedies ever produced and one of the most overlooked. Gore Verbinski directed in his feature debut.

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The Mask (1994) film poster1990s

The Mask (1994)

Carrey plays Stanley Ipkiss, a meek bank clerk in Edge City who finds an ancient Norse mask that, when worn, transforms him into a green-faced, zoot-suited cartoon character with reality-bending powers. The film is a Tex Avery cartoon translated into…

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Gettysburg (1993)

Gettysburg is four hours and fourteen minutes of Civil War battle filmmaking and it earns every minute. Tom Berenger plays James Longstreet.

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Ride with the Devil (1999) film poster1990s

Ride with the Devil (1999)

Ride with the Devil is Ang Lee's overlooked Civil War film. Tobey Maguire plays Jake Roedel, the son of a German immigrant in western Missouri who joins a Confederate guerrilla band more out of loyalty to his friends than out…

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