1989 in Film
This third installment of a popular franchise follows this grave robber's pursuit of the Holy Grail! Watch out, Nazis!
What is Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade?
Want more Moore? You can catch her in such hits as Brother Bear 2 and Ralph Breaks the Internet. Or you might check out this moderately successful coming-of-age film. Beware the chemotherapy.
What is A Walk to Remember?
Jack Ma employed forty swindlers? No! Ali Baba had them forty thieves! Genie starts Friend Like Me with this bit from the Thousand and One Nights, but she's the story's main protagonist.
Who is Sheherezade?
This killer clown birthed the We live in a society! meme.
Who is the Joker?
He found mainstream fame upon joining this Happy Days spin-off. Na-Nu Na-Nu!
What is Mork and Mindy?
Morgan Freeman is, when he isn't helping to lead the 54th Massachusetts Infantry. Or teaching in the inner city. Or chasing Mickey Rourke around New Orleans. This film won Best Picture!
What is Driving Miss Daisy? Who is Driving Miss Daisy?
The armpit of the Ivies! They educated John Krasinski!
What is Brown University?
Walt Whitman wrote the now-famous poem for this eternally famous statesman.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
You know, we're living in a society! We're supposed to act in a civilized way! When the nearest telephone is being hogged by inconsiderate jerk-offs, just scream like this famous Seinfeld character.
Who is George Costanza? Who is Jason Alexander's character?
Nominated four times for an Academy Award, he only won once for this film.
What is Good Will Hunting?
Fathoms below, Batman! Sierra Boggess wanted to be part of our world in 2008. But she debuted the mermaid princess in the Disney Renaissance's germ. She was also Weebo (the robot) in Flubber: a Bobby Billy connection!
Who is Jodi Benson?
Todd Anderson might have gotten his start at Welton Academy, but he would eventually find himself in a dystopic future where eugenics are encouraged in this film central to AP Bio classes.
What is Gattaca?
He's not really dead, everybody knows that. Synonymous with the West Coast scene, he knows California knows how to party.
Who is 2pac?
He reorganized the Republic into the first Galactic Empire for a safe and secure society. All it took was an attempt on his life that left him scarred and deformed.
Who is Sheev Palpatine?
Very heavily associated with San Francisco, one might assume he was born and raised in the Bay Area. He wasn't; he was born in this toddlin' town.
What is Chicago?
Our favorite non-Marlon Brando method actor won his first Academy Award for his performance in this film. That was over one score and ten years ago!
What is My Left Foot?
Russell Crowe plays a different man in uniform in this Oscar-nominated film also directed by Peter Weir. Nominated for ten separate categories, it went home with two. Peter Jackson's group took the other eight.
What is Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World?
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
This play is great and all, but the Kirkpatricks' adaptation is arguably better.
What is Hamlet?
Samuel Shenton founded this society dedicated to enlighten the world about its physical dimensionality in 1956.
What is the International Flat Earth Research Society?
For three years, he attended this school, where he met Superman. He left because of creative differences.
What is Juilliard School?
The first film of 1989, premiering on January 13, 1989. Captain Phillip--not Tommy Hink--has to protect his underwater fort from giant squids and things in this film. Really.
What is DeepStar Six?
Not only is he mentally abusive to Puck, he was also the leader of a crime gang who paved the way for a cyborg policeman, the president of the United Federation of Planets, and Forman's macho suburban dad. He was also Thrax and Annorax in the Star Trek universe.
Who is Kurtwood Smith?
Baltimore's football team bears this name for the city's most famous resident.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
Founded in 1660, this organization has been led by Sir Christopher Wren, Sir Isaac Newton, Lord Kelvin, Sir Ernest Rutherford, and Sir Joseph Thomson. One might regard this a living engineers' community.
What is the Royal Society?
In 1988, he played this half of the nihilistic duo of Samuel Beckett's magnum opus at the Lincoln Center. It's one of his few serious theatrical works. Rumor has it he's still waiting.
Who is Estragon?