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29th Street (1991) – comedy drama film based on the true-life story of actor Frank Pesce, who won the first New York State Lottery in 1976 [84]; A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story (1991) – biographical drama television film recounting the life of Ricky Bell, a Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back sickened with dermatomyositis, and Ryan Blankenship, a physically impaired child [85]
The decade of the 1990s in film involved many significant developments in the industry of cinema. [1] Numerous feature-length movies were specifically filmed or edited to be displayed not only on theater screens but also the smaller TV screens, like showing more close-ups and less wide shots during dialogue scenes .
English. Box office. $4.8 million. The Long Walk Home is a 1990 American historical drama film starring Sissy Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg, and directed by Richard Pearce. Set in Alabama, it is based on a screenplay about the Montgomery bus boycott (1955–1956) by John Cork and a short film by the same name, produced by students at the ...
Awakenings is a 1990 American biographical drama film directed by Penny Marshall and written by Steven Zaillian, based on Oliver Sacks 's 1973 memoir of the same name. It tells the story of neurologist Dr. Malcolm Sayer, based on Sacks, who discovers the beneficial effects of the drug L -DOPA in 1969.
Highest-grossing films of 1990 Rank Title Distributor Domestic gross 1 Home Alone: 20th Century Fox: $285,761,243 2 Ghost: Paramount: $217,631,306 3 Dances with Wolves: Orion: $184,208,848 4 Pretty Woman: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures: $178,406,268 5 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: New Line: $135,265,915 6 The Hunt for Red October ...
I Love You to Death. I Love You to Death is a 1990 American black comedy film directed by Lawrence Kasdan and starring an ensemble cast featuring Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman, Joan Plowright, River Phoenix, William Hurt, and Keanu Reeves. The screenplay by John Kostmayer is loosely based on an attempted murder that happened in 1983, in Allentown ...
Events. March 2 - The Hunt for Red October is released. It is the first film in Tom Clancy 's Jack Ryan franchise and is met with critical and blockbuster commercial success. March 23 – Pretty Woman is released and grosses $463 million, making Julia Roberts a worldwide star. March 30 – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is released to massive box ...
Glory. (1989 film) Glory is a 1989 American historical war drama film directed by Edward Zwick about the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, one of the Union Army 's earliest African-American regiments in the American Civil War. It stars Matthew Broderick as Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the regiment's commanding officer, and Denzel Washington ...