90s Movie Trivia!

Ian Belknap
5 min readMay 15, 2024

These juicy behind-the-scenes tidbits will blow what remains of your tiny mind.

As much as anything, 1992’s Reservoir Dogs ensured that a generation of insufferable fuckfaces would go to film school.

Perhaps 1993’s most provocative hit, Indecent Proposal starring fetching and fresh-faced “it girl” Robert Redford, is often cited by economists as the last time a million dollars was actually kind of a lot of money.

1998’s Practical Magic, starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, was, turns out, not at all practical. Like in the slightest. This was the first recorded case of a film title being actually somewhat misleading.

1990’s Dick Tracy ushered in the Decade of Film Adaptations of Adventure Comic Strips From Like Forty Years Previous That Have Honestly Never Been More Culturally Relevant: Terry and the Pirates, Prince Valiant, Steve Canyon, Mandrake the Magician, Buz Sawyer, and Rip Kirby — young moviegoers couldn’t get enough! Screen legend Al Pacino turned in an impressively nuanced performance as Tracy’s nemesis Big Boy Caprice — spending up to nine hours of every shooting day getting barrel afer barrel of sausage gravy injected directly into his face.

The pathos! The intrigue!

1993’s The Nightmare Before Christmas was the first feature film to put tiresome shop-at-Hot Topic goth-poser bullshit on the map!

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Ian Belknap

Founder WRITE CLUB. Essays, satire: Rumpus, Chicago Trib, Chicago Reader, American Theatre Mag, etc. Partner & I sold pilot to Sony-Tristar writerianbelknap.com