The Top 100 Biggest Movies of the '90s - Part 2

The Top 100 Biggest Movies of the ’90s – Part 2

74 – The Birdcage (1996)

TICKETS SOLD:

28,067,998

SYNOPSIS:

A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancé’s conservative moralistic parents.

73 – Total Recall (1990)

TICKETS SOLD:

28,289,938

SYNOPSIS:

Construction worker Douglas Quaid’s obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Recall, a company who manufacture memories. Something goes wrong during his memory implant turning Doug’s life upside down and even to question what is reality and what isn’t.

72 – Basic Instinct (1992)

TICKETS SOLD:

28,368,005

SYNOPSIS:

A violent police detective investigates a brutal murder that might involve a manipulative and seductive novelist.

71 – Hook (1991)

TICKETS SOLD:

28,517,225

SYNOPSIS:

The boy who wasn’t supposed grow up—Peter Pan—does just that, becoming a soulless corporate lawyer whose workaholism could cost him his wife and kids. During his trip to see Granny Wendy in London, the vengeful Capt. Hook kidnaps Peter’s kids and forces Peter to return to Neverland.

70 – The Hunt for Red October (1990)

TICKETS SOLD:

28,604,233

SYNOPSIS:

A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. A lone CIA analyst has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it – because the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find him, too. The hunt is on!

69 – Godzilla (1998)

TICKETS SOLD:

29,064,881

SYNOPSIS:

French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that viciously attacks freighter ships in the Pacific Ocean. A team of experts, including Niko Tatopoulos, conclude that the oversized reptile is the culprit. Before long, the giant lizard is loose in Manhattan as the US military races to destroy the monster before it reproduces and it’s spawn takes over the world.

68 – The Nutty Professor (1996)

TICKETS SOLD:

29,143,443

SYNOPSIS:

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.

67 – Wayne’s World (1992)

TICKETS SOLD:

29,324,656

SYNOPSIS:

The adventures of two amiably aimless metal-head friends, Wayne and Garth. From Wayne’s basement, the pair broadcast a talk-show called “Wayne’s World” on local public access television. The show comes to the attention of a sleazy network executive who wants to produce a big-budget version of “Wayne’s World”—and he also wants Wayne’s girlfriend, a rock singer named Cassandra. Wayne and Garth have to battle the executive not only to save their show, but also Cassandra.

66 – The Mask (1994)

TICKETS SOLD:

29,376,153

SYNOPSIS:

When timid bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss discovers a magical mask containing the spirit of the Norse god Loki, his entire life changes. While wearing the mask, Ipkiss becomes a supernatural playboy exuding charm and confidence which allows him to catch the eye of local nightclub singer Tina Carlyle. Unfortunately, under the mask’s influence, Ipkiss also robs a bank, which angers junior crime lord Dorian Tyrell, whose goons get blamed for the heist.

65 – The Bodyguard (1992)

TICKETS SOLD:

29,398,131

SYNOPSIS:

A former Secret Service agent grudgingly takes an assignment to protect a pop idol who’s threatened by a crazed fan. At first, the safety-obsessed bodyguard and the self-indulgent diva totally clash. But before long, all that tension sparks fireworks of another sort, and the love-averse tough guy is torn between duty and romance.

64 – City Slickers (1991)

TICKETS SOLD:

29,461,708

SYNOPSIS:

Three New York businessmen decide to take a “Wild West” vacation that turns out not to be the relaxing vacation they had envisioned.

63 – Good Will Hunting (1997)

TICKETS SOLD:

29,552,049

SYNOPSIS:

Will Hunting has a genius-level IQ but chooses to work as a janitor at MIT. When he solves a difficult graduate-level math problem, his talents are discovered by Professor Gerald Lambeau, who decides to help the misguided youth reach his potential. When Will is arrested for attacking a police officer, Professor Lambeau makes a deal to get leniency for him if he will get treatment from therapist Sean Maguire.

62 – Speed (1994)

TICKETS SOLD:

29,717,682

SYNOPSIS:

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.

61 – Clear and Present Danger (1994)

TICKETS SOLD:

29,903,926

SYNOPSIS:

CIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel.

60 – Deep Impact (1998)

TICKETS SOLD:

29,949,821

SYNOPSIS:

A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it’s up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian crew into space to destroy the comet before impact. Meanwhile, an enterprising reporter uses her smarts to uncover the scoop of the century.

59 – Rush Hour (1998)

TICKETS SOLD:

30,044,561

SYNOPSIS:

When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn’t want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Detective James Carter to distract Lee from the case. Not content to watch the action from the sidelines, Lee and Carter form an unlikely partnership and investigate the case themselves.

58 – Dumb & Dumber (1994)

TICKETS SOLD:

30,247,440

SYNOPSIS:

Lloyd and Harry are two men whose stupidity is really indescribable. When Mary, a beautiful woman, loses an important suitcase with money before she leaves for Aspen, the two friends (who have found the suitcase) decide to return it to her. After some “adventures” they finally get to Aspen where, using the lost money they live it up and fight for Mary’s heart.

57 – The Rock (1996)

TICKETS SOLD:

30,332,468

SYNOPSIS:

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.

56 – The Mummy (1999)

TICKETS SOLD:

30,587,694

SYNOPSIS:

Dashing legionnaire Rick O’Connell stumbles upon the hidden ruins of Hamunaptra while in the midst of a battle to claim the area in 1920s Egypt. It has been over three thousand years since former High Priest Imhotep suffered a fate worse than death as a punishment for a forbidden love—along with a curse that guarantees eternal doom upon the world if he is ever awoken.

55 – Sleepless in Seattle (1993)

TICKETS SOLD:

30,599,247

SYNOPSIS:

Realising that his father Sam has still not come to terms with his wife Maggie’s death, his eight-year-old son Jonah forces him to call a national radio talk show, with the hopes of finding him a companion

54 – Runaway Bride (1999)

TICKETS SOLD:

30,605,349

SYNOPSIS:

Ike Graham, New York columnist, writes his text always at the last minute. This time, a drunken man in his favourite bar tells Ike about Maggie Carpenter, a woman who always flees from her grooms in the last possible moment. Ike, who does not have the best opinion about females anyway, writes an offensive column without researching the subject thoroughly.

53 – 101 Dalmatians (1996)

TICKETS SOLD:

30,691,447

SYNOPSIS:

An evil, high-fashion designer plots to steal Dalmatian puppies in order to make an extravagant fur coat, but instead creates an extravagant mess.

52 – Doctor Dolittle (1998)

TICKETS SOLD:

30,736,992

SYNOPSIS:

A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle seems to have the world by the tail, until a long suppressed talent he possessed as a child, the ability to communicate with animals is suddenly reawakened with a vengeance! Now every creature within squawking distance wants the good doctor’s advice, unleashing an outrageous chain of events that turns his world upside down!

51 – Ransom (1996)

TICKETS SOLD:

30,819,433

SYNOPSIS:

When a rich man’s son is kidnapped, he cooperates with the police at first but then tries a unique tactic against the criminals.

50 – The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

TICKETS SOLD:

31,051,476

SYNOPSIS:

Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI’s training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.

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