1998 Movies

To make this list a movie had to be made in 1998.  Obviously many movies made in 1997 earned box office dollars in 1998.  On the other side many movies made in 1998 made money in 1999 and later.   This page will looks at over 250 movies made in 1998.  The movies are listed in two massive tables that lets you rank the movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information.

Our Top 50….Statistically Speaking…..Movies of 1998

Give me Saving Private Ryan any day!

1998 Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort 1998 Movies by movie titles and movie trailers
  • Sort 1998 Movies by the stars or in some cases the director of the movie.
  • Sort 1998 Movies by domestic adjusted box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort 1998 Movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations each 1998 Movies received and how many Oscar® wins each 1998 Movies received.
  • Sort 1998 Movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking Score (UMR).  Our UMR score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
 
The Big Lebowski

Top earners in 1998 for Adjusted USA Box Office:

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24 thoughts on “1998 Movies”

  1. I’ve seen 70 of the 285 films on the chart, not bad I suppose considering most of the films were rubbish that year. But I do have a fondness for the bad as well as the good, depends on how bad.

    Looking at my files I have 86 films from 1998 in my movie collection, lots of bad films here too. 😉

    My favorites include –

    American History X
    Antz
    Armageddon
    Big Hit ,The
    Big Lebowski ,The
    Blade
    Bug’s Life ,A
    Dark City
    Deep Impact
    Deep Rising
    Elizabeth
    Faculty ,The
    Godzilla (1998)
    John Carpenter’s Vampires
    Lethal Weapon 4
    Lock, Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels
    Lost in Space
    Mask of Zorro ,The
    Mighty Joe Young.
    Mulan
    Out of Sight
    Prince of Egypt
    Replacement Killers ,The
    Ronin
    Rush Hour
    Saving Private Ryan
    Shakespeare in Love
    Sphere
    Star Trek VIIII – Insurrection
    Thin Red Line ,The
    You’ve Got Mail

    Top rated films I haven’t seen include – Happiness, The General and A Simple Plan.

    My most watched films from that year I would say are – Armageddon, Godzilla, Star Trek Insurrection, Lost in Space, Blade and Antz.

    The best film of 1998 is Saving Private Ryan (and the most successful) but it’s not a film I watch often, and the other big WWII film of 1998 The Thin Red Line, even less often. I have them both on blu-ray.

    Good stuff Bruce. These pages are getting longer and longer, have your yearly charts reached 300 films yet? Vote Up!

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    1. Hey Steve…..thanks for the feedback on our latest yearly page. Only 70 seen? I figured your total would be closer to triple digits. I have seen all of your favorites….with Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrells, Armageddon, Dark City, You’ve Got Mail, Saving Private Ryan and Bug’s Life being my favorites. WoC has two favorites from this year…Bug’s Life and Mulan. Happiness is a bleak depressing movie that is hard to watch…a one and done movie for me….well done but not a movie I recommend. I have not seen The General. A Simple Plan would be the one I would recommend seeing…though the book is much better.

      The Thin Red Line has some great parts (Nick Nolte is amazing in the movie), it looks amazing, has a great cast….yet somehow it bores me when I watch it. This yearly reviews could be over 300 movies long….heck they could be almost 500 movies long…but after a while…..the movies did so little at the box office and they feature unknown (currently) actors…I have decided to not include them. At this point….I basically look at the Top 50 (first table) when I look at this pages for my own entertainment purposes. Good feedback.

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  2. I saw 62. 17 of top 22, I missed the anime surprisingly. not a good year for great movies for me. 10s and favorites: Shakespeare in love, saving private ryan (a happier ending away from best war movie ever), Armageddon(over a billion world wide box office). 9 and favorites: something about mary, you’ve got mail. 9s not favorites: thin red line, Elizabeth, primary colors, bulworth, playing by heart, 1900, stepmom, the negotiator , lethal weapon 4. I might have overrated some of these because of paucity of 10s this year. hidden gems: American history x (a 7), big Lebowski (a 7), mercury rising (an 8 with the bruce). a non UMR listing , who am I, a Jackie chan movie with one of the funniest car chase scene ever (an 8).

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    1. Hey bob cox…..62 is not too bad. 17 of 22 is much more impressive. I think I enjoyed 1998 much more than you. The summer of 1998 was a battle between potential blockbusters….Armageddon eventually won that battle….as it earned a ton of money. Godzilla did ok….and Deep Impact got the critical glory. Knowing of that battle…..will make the scene in Armageddon where a dog attacks a Godzilla toy much more funny. I will have to check out Who Am I….maybe that car chase scene is on You Tube. Good feedback as always.

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  3. I have seen 13 [or 43.4%] of the top 30 highest domestic grossers in the above charts. My own Top 20 faves in no particular order are as follows [CR=Cogerson Rating]
    Fallen
    A Civil Action
    Mask of Zorro-CR 73%
    Elizabeth
    A Perfect Murder-CR 58%
    Primary Colours
    The Work Horse Whisperer [Joel?]70%-I am watching Redford’s The Natural now!
    Godzilla
    The Faculty- I saw this one in America on my visit the US
    Gods and Monsters
    You’ve Got Mail
    Man in the Iron Mask-49%
    Enemy of the State
    Shakespeare in Love-83%
    The Replacement Killers
    Sliding Doors
    Mighty JoeL Young-54%
    Twilight
    Urban Legend-47%
    Little Voice

    Out of all of those films, THE highlight for me was Sir Maurice Micklewhite defying his tormentors by drunkenly singing Roy Orbison’s ‘It’s [f******] Over’ – magic! like this painstakingly comprehensive review. Sir Maurice deservedly won a Golden Globe for that mesmerising performance, demonstrating once again that he is up there with Brando, Nicholson, DeNiro and all those perceived great Yankee actors. I have no Globes to give out but I can award a hearty “Voted Up!” to this fine piece of Cogerson work.

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    1. Hey Bob….thanks for sharing your thoughts on our 1998 page….only ten more yearly reviews to go. I have seen all of your favorites..I especially enjoyed You’ve Got Mail (Hanks shines in that one), Twilight (need a trailer page on that one) and A Civil Action (one of Travolta’s best roles). I agree that Caine shines in Little Voice. Still shocked that performance did not get him an Oscar nomination…if memory serves me correctly….he was a favorite to win an Oscar for the role…that was of course before the nominations came out. Gladly, he only had to wait one more year to get that second Oscar. Good stuff.

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      1. HI BRUCE Thanks for your feedback. I have explained to you that I provide more stories about Brando than about actors whom I find more entertaining than he, like Widmark and Peck, because I have more information at my fingertips about Marlon. An example of how Brando trivia often fell into my lap without my having to search for it is the S o Bob apple story that I gave you.

        However I don’t’ think that have explained to you that the sixties and early seventies were my formative years as an adult moviegoer. The B westerns of the fifties were well behind me and the ones made in the sixties were fewer and in my view not as good so sir Maurice – plain Mr Micklewhite then – was one of the actors who filled the vacuum with films like Alfie, Zulu, Gambit, Italian Job, Get Carter, Sleuth and especially the Harry Palmer trilogy Ipcress File, Funeral in Berlin and Billion Dollar Brain.

        I loved Harry Palmer as a character as he was a great “ordinary Joe” contrast to the showy, glamorous, smart-ass, womanizing Bond type spy. In addition Harry seemed to me more his own man than the deferential-to-authority Bond-

        “I was depending on you to be an insubordinate b*****d Palmer.” [Col Ross, Harry’s spy superior]

        Accordingly my nostalgia for the Caine of that 1960s – early 1970s period and his films then always encourage me to take advantage of every opportunity to offer comment on this site about Sir M and his work. Sir M is of course a fine actor to boot.

        On IMDB’s 2012’s “ultimate” list of the Top 100 greatest male actors of all time Sir M is a high 14th, up there in the Top 15 with the more publicized Nicholson, Brando, Tracy, Day-Lewis and Olivier. Don’t “arise Sir Maurice!” – take a bow! [He is said to be worth $75 million, traditionally great for a British artist

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        1. Hey Bob….thanks for the explanation of your “sixties and early seventies were my formative years as an adult moviegoer”. For me it would be the 1980s. I started the decade at the age of 12….by the end of the decade I was 22, married with one child. During that 10 year span, my movie taste really developed….led by Harrison Ford, Michael Caine, Kurt Russell and Paul Newman. Bruce Willis was a late addition to the party….at least on the movie side of things. Good feedback as always.

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          1. HI BRUCE

            Thanks for the information about your own formative years.

            I knew about all the guys you’ve mentioned except Kurt. That did surprise me as I cannot recall you drooling over him the way you have over the others and of course over the King of Critics too!

          2. Hey Bob….I have been a fan of Kurt Russell for almost 50 years. I remember his Disney movies as a kid…..then his Dexter Riley teenage Disney movies. I knew him as the jungle boy on an episode of Gilligan’s Island. By the time he graduated to R rated movies like Used Cars (a very funny movie) and Escape From New York (a sci-fi classic) I was at the age where I was trying to sneak into movies even though I was a little too young. He might not be a Top 3 favorite….but if he is not in the Top 5….he is pretty close to it.

            My Top 10. Caine, Willis and Grant in Top 3. Ford, Russell, Hanks, Wayne would be fighting for the last 2 spots in the Top 5…..while Bateman, Bale, Bloom, Nelson and probably a few others rotate in the Top10. Kurt is one of the few that has more than one UMR page. He has his movie ranking page….and an entire page on facts about him. He has had a wonderful life…filled with many of the most famous people to walk this earth. Walt Disney, Elvis, Lady Diane, James Stewart and UFOs. Good comment.

  4. I moved to Bayside in 1998, bought a computer and started listing the films I saw in Queens (Bayside is in Queens). This is all the films I saw in theaters I typed in back then. I did not list any films I had seen in the Bronx or Manhattan after the letter H (those before were done in retrospect which I stopped in H because it was too annoying going through afterward). Until 2002 I still saw films in the city and the Bronx where mom lived. The last film I saw in the Bronx was Clockstoppers in 2002 and the last in the city was 2004’s The In-Laws. So this is an incomplete list but I could probably do it from memory.

    54
    AIR BUD: GOLDEN RECEIVER
    ALAN SMITHEE FILM: BURN HOLLYWOOD BURN
    ALMOST HEROES
    ANTZ
    APT PUPIL
    ARMAGEDDON
    AVENGERS, THE
    BABE: PIG IN THE CITY
    BASEKETBALL
    BIG HIT
    BIG LEBOWSKI
    BLACK DOG
    BLADE
    BLUES BROTHERS 2000
    BORROWERS, THE
    BRIDE OF CHUCKY
    BUG’S LIFE
    BULWORTH
    CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
    CITY OF ANGELS
    CLAY PIGEONS
    CLOCKWATCHERS
    DANCE WITH ME
    DARK CITY
    DEAD MAN ON CAMPUS
    DEE SNIDER’S STRANGELAND
    DEEP IMPACT
    DEEP RISING
    DESPERATE MEASURES
    DIRTY LAUNDRY
    DIRTY WORK
    DR. DOLITTLE
    ELIZABETH
    ENEMY OF THE STATE
    FACULY, THE
    FALLEN
    FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS
    FIRESTORM
    GINGERBREAD MAN
    GODZILLA
    HALF BAKED
    HARD RAIN
    HE GOT GAME
    HOLY MAN
    HOME FRIES
    HOMEGROWN
    I STILL KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER
    JANE AUSTIN’S MAFIA
    LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL (IT.)
    LIVING OUT LOUD
    MEET JOE BLACK
    MIGHTY JOE YOUNG
    NIGHT AT THE ROXBURY
    ONE TOUGH COP
    OPPOSITE OF SEX
    OUT OF SIGHT
    PLEASANTVILLE
    PRACTICAL MAGIC
    RINGMASTER
    RONIN
    RUSH HOUR
    SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE
    SLUMS OF BEVERLY HILLS
    SMALL SOLDIERS
    SNAKE EYES
    SPANISH PRISONER
    STAR TREK: INSURRECTION
    STEPMOM
    THE NEGOTIATOR
    THE SIEGE
    THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY
    THIN RED LINE
    VERY BAD THINGS
    WHAT DREAMS MAY COME
    WHY DO FOOLS FALL IN LOVE
    WRONGFULLY ACCUSED
    YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS
    YOU’VE GOT MAIL

    Jane Austin’s Mafia was the first film I saw in Bayside after I moved in. The first film I actually saw in Bayside was 1997’s The Spanish Prisoner which had expanded in 1998 and I saw was apartment shopping. The Avengers is the first film I spent as high as $9 on and it stunk.

    The following 97 1998 films I have seen since 1999 on DVD, tape or TV with date shown..

    AFFLICTION 1998 2/23 2003 IFC
    AIRBORNE 1998 ALLIANCE ATLANTIC 8/12 2014 DVD
    AIRBOSS II: PREMATURE STRIKE 1998 ANSELL 7/7 2014 DVD
    AMERICAN DRAGONS 1998 MPCA MICHAEL BIEHN 3/11 2009 ACTN
    AMONGST GIANTS 1998 FOX SEARCHLIGHT 10/14 2004 MAX
    AYN RAND: A SENSE OF LIFE 1998 STRAND 1/12 2002 IFC
    BESIEGED (UK-IT.) 1998 FINE LINE XXX XXX 10/12 2009 DRA
    BLOOD ORANGES 1998 TRIMARK 11/23 2016 EPIX
    BLOOD, GUTS, BULLETS AND OCTANE 1998 SHORT FAST 1/12 2005 MMAX
    BLOODSPORT II 1998 TRANSCONTINENTAL FILM 2/14 2004 ACTN
    BONGWATER 1998 FIRST LOOK 9/20 2001 TAPE
    BOY WHO SAVED CHRISTMAS 1998 SONAR ENT. 5/6 2015 EFAM
    BUTTER 1998 LIVE 6/12 2012 SUSP
    CAN’T HARDLY WAIT 1998 COL 7/9 1999 HBO
    CELEBRITY 1998 MIRAMAX 1/24 2000 TAPE
    COOL, DRY PLACE 1998 FOX SEARCHLIGHT 6/21 2012 FXM
    COUSIN BETTE 1998 FOX SEARCHLIGHT 11/15 1999 MMAX
    CUBE (CAN.) 1998 TRIMARK 2/15 2018 EPIX
    DANGEROUS BEAUTY 1998 WB 11/28 1999 HBOP
    DIGGING TO CHINA 1998 LEGACY REL. 6/20 2006 MMAX
    DIVORCING JACK (U.K.) 1998 MOSAIC MOVIES 8/18 2011 SUSP
    ESCAPE FROM WILDCAT CANYON 1998 HALLMARK/SHOWTIME 11/13 2013 EFAM
    EVASIVE ACTION 1998 HALLMARK ENT. 5/7 2014 DVD
    EXTRAMARITAL 1998 PM ENT. 8/19 1999 MAX
    FEMALION 2: THE SEARCH FOR KARA 1998 7/4 2001 TAPE
    FREEDOM STRIKE 1998 A-PIX ENT. 12/18 2012 ACTN
    FREERIDERS (DOC.) 1998 11/14 2002 ACTN
    GENERAL, THE (IRISH) 1998 3/2 2004 TRUE
    GODS AND MONSTERS 1998 SHOWTIME 9/21 2000 SUND
    GORGEOUS (H.K.) 1998 TRI 2/1 2001 TAPE
    GOVERNESS, THE 1998 SONY PICTURES CLASSICS 11/29 2000 SUND
    GREATEST PLACES 1998 SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA 2/17 2003 TAPE
    GUNSLINGER’S REVENGE (IT.) 1998 4/27 2013 WEST
    HAPPINESS 1998 GOOD DAMAGE 8/28 2001 MMAX
    HIDEOUS KINKY (U.K.) 1998 9/19 2000 SUND
    HI-LIFE 1998 LIONS GATE 4/16 2017 STZ
    HOPE FLOATS 1998 FOX 6/28 1999 HBO
    HORSE WHISPERER 1998 TOUCHSTONE / BV 5/17 2005 LOVE
    HOW STELLA GOT HER GROOVE BACK 1998 FOX 2/23 2003 WE
    I WENT DOWN 1998 ARTISAN 3/9 2017 EPIX
    ILLUMINATA 1998 ARTISAN 3/17 2002 MAX
    JUNGLE BOOK: LOST TREASURE 1998 LE MONDE ENT. 6/5 2015 DVD
    KISS THE SKY 1998 MGM 6/11 2013 LOVE
    KISSING A FOOL 1998 UNI 2/15 2005 LOVE
    KUCH KUCH HOLA HAI (INDIA) 1998 7/11 2002 TAPE
    LAND BEFORE TIME VI: THE SECRET OF SAURUS ROCK 1998 UNI 12/19 2018 HBO
    LAST LEPRECHAUN 1998 PEAKVIEWING TRANSATLANTIC 11/22 2012 DVD
    LAST NIGHT 1998 LIONSGATE 1/25 2005 MMAX
    LEGEND OF 1900 (IT.) 1998 MEDUSA 7/26 2005 IFC
    LITTLE MERMAID (AUSTRALIA) 1998 BURBANK ANIMATION 5/8 2013 DVD
    LULU ON THE BRIDGE 1998 TRIMARK 7/25 2001 MMAX
    MARY JANE’S NOT A VIRGIN ANYMORE 1998 12/2 2018 TCM
    MR. JEALOUSY 1998 LIONS GATE 7/28 2002 IFC
    MRS. DALLOWAY (U.K.) 1998 FIRST LOOK 9/1 2011 IFC
    MURDER OF CROWS 1998 NEW CITY 6/10 2013 SUSP
    MYSTERIES OF EGYPT 1998 DESTINATION CINEMA 8/2 2005 DVD
    NAKED MAN 1998 OCTOBER 2/5 2006 SUND
    NATURALLY NATIVE 1998 RED-HORSE NATIVE 5/26 2010 TCM
    NEXT STOP WONDERLAND 1998 MIRAMAX 4/12 2007 LOVE
    NIGHT FLYER 1998 NL 4/17 2002 MAX
    NIGHTMARE IN BIG SKY COUNTRY 1998 NILELITE/ABC 2/18 2014 DVD
    NO CODE OF CONDUCT 1998 DIMENSION 2/26 2014 DVD
    O.K. GARAGE 1998 NEW CITY 9/23 2001 TAPE
    OBJECT OF MY AFFECTION 1998 FOX 8/6 2007 MMAX
    ONE TRUE THING 1998 UNI 3/3 2008 LOVE
    OPERATION DELTA FORCE 3: CLEAR TARGET 1998 NU IMAGE 1/26 2004 MAX
    OUTSIDE OZOMA 1998 TRI 6/6 2013 SUSP
    PANDRA PROJECT 1998 CINETEL 9/16 2010 DVD
    PERMANENT MIDNIGHT 1998 ARTISAN / LIVE 6/25 2013 DRA
    PHANTASM IV: OBLIVION 1998 SILVER SPHERE 10/23 2017 SYFY
    POLISH WEDDING 1998 FOX SEARCHLIGHT 12/6 1999 HBOP
    POSSUMS 1998 HSX FILMS 10/15 2012 EFAM
    POSTAL WORKER 1998 TAUS 2/24 2000 HBOP
    REBIRTH OF MOTHRA 3 (JAP.) 1998 TRI STAR 11/11 2011 EFAM
    RETURN TO SAVAGE BEACH 1998 MALIBU BAY 11/15 1998 MMAX
    SAFE MEN 1998 OCTOBER 11/30 1999 HBO
    SECOND ARRIVAL 1998 3/28 2007 MAX
    SECRET KINGDOM 1998 KUSHNER-LOCKE 11/28 2017 DVD
    SENDER, THE 1998 NEW CITY/PM ENT. 8/2 2010 DVD
    SHADRACH 1998 COLUMBIA 1/13 2017 GET TV
    SHATTERED IMAGE 1998 11/28 2004 MMAX
    SHRUNKEN CITY (ROMANIA) 1998 AMAZING FANTASY ENT. 11/28 2017 DVD
    SLAPPY AND THE STINKERS 1998 TRI 10/26 2009 WAM
    SMOKE SIGNALS 1998 MIRAMAX 12/4 2017 SHO
    SPARKLE 1998 STRAND 5/7 2000 TAPE
    STANDOFF 1998 TRIMARK 11/4 2016 EPIX
    STORM TROOPER 1998 NEW CITY REL. 8/24 2010 DVD
    T.N.T. 1998 ASCOT VIDEO 6/4 2006 MAX
    TACTICAL ASSAULT 1998 MPCA 5/17 2004 MMAX
    THICK AS THIEVES 1998 OCTOBER / ROGUE 2/24 2005 THRMAX
    TUMBLEWEEDS 1998 FL 8/14 2001 LOVE
    TWICE UPON A TESTERDAY 1998 TRIMARK 11/29 2005 IFC
    VAMPIRE’S SEDUCTION 1998 E.I. ENT. 10/6 2003 DVD
    VELVET GOLDMINE 1998 MIRAMAX 4/17 2005 IFC
    WAKING NED DEVINE 1998 FOX SEARCHLIGHT 3/18 2003 WE
    WHAT RATS WON’T DO (U.K.) 1998 POLYGRAM FILMED ENT. 6/10 2007 SUND
    WOO 1998 NEW LINE 8/11 2013 ENC

    The following 15 films were seen on videotape within a year of their debuts in theaters.

    BARNEY’S GREAT ADVENTURE
    CIVIL ACTION
    DISTURBING BEHAVIOR
    GREAT EXPECTATIONS
    HILLARY AND JACKIE (U.K.)
    HURLYBURLY
    IN GOD’S HANDS
    JOHN CARPENTER’S VAMPIRES
    LOLITA
    PECKER
    PI
    PLAYERS CLUB
    REPLACEMENT KILLERS
    RUSHMORE
    SIMPLE PLAN

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    1. Hey Dan….it might be an incomplete list….but it is still a massive and impressive list. That is a lot of movies seen in The Bronx and Manhattan. Sorry you had to pay all the higher prices that are associated with living in New York. But….you do get the opportunity to see every movie ever made on the big screen. Living in Chesapeake….that is not an option….we have one theater that plays “art movies”….and even then they only play one art movie on two days during the week. The weekend they show more popular movies. I would say our tally count of movies watched would be close…though I would still give you the edge. Thanks as always for sharing this information…and remember…you are The Man!

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  5. I have seen 9 films from 1998. Only one of them is in the top 10. I will answer this review and if over 5 films I will answer 1999. I was in my upper level courses at university and didn’t have time for movies.

    The HIGHEST rated movie I have seen is Shakespeare in Love.

    The highest rated movie I have NOT seen is Saving Private Ryan.

    The LOWEST rated movie I have seen is The Adventures of Sebastian Cole.

    Favourite 1998 Movies:

    Shakespeare in Love
    The Horse Whisperer
    Pleasantville
    Little Voice – surprised Michael Caine isn’t listed as a star of the film

    Other 1998 Movies I Have Seen:

    City of Angels
    What Dreams May Come
    A Simple Plan
    Waking Ned Devine
    The Adventures of Sebastian Cole

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    1. Hey Flora….even though these movies seem like recent movies…at 21 years old….they are almost antiques….which some people say happens at 25 years old. Overall I have seen 114 of these movies….47 of the Top 50. 84 of the top 100. Then only 30 of the bottom 182. Your tally is small compared to some of the older yearly reviews….but still…more than many people. Of your favorites….loved Pleasantville and like Little Voice…..but I loved Caine’s performance. You are so right….why is Caine not listed as a co-star. Bad database…bad database. I will fix that error as soon as I finish this comment. Of your nine…the only one I have not seen is The Adventures of Sebastian Cole…and honestly…I have never heard of it before reading your comment. WoC most have uploaded that movie when she was doing some research on Box Office Mojo. Good stuff….these yearly reviews are coming towards the end. Thanks for the feedback.

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