20th Anniversary
of 1997 Films
Absolute
Power (1997) - A career
thief witnesses a horrific crime involving the U.S. President.
Air
Force One (1997) - Hijackers
seize the plane carrying the President of the United States and his family, but
he - an ex-soldier - works from hiding to defeat them.
Alien
Resurrection (1997) –
Two centuries after her death, Ellen Ripley is revived as a powerful
human/alien hybrid clone who must continue her war against the aliens.
Amistad (1997) - In 1839, the revolt of Mende
captives aboard a Spanish owned ship causes a major controversy in the United
States when the ship is captured off the coast of Long Island. The courts must
decide whether the Mende are slaves or legally free.
An
American Werewolf in Paris
(1997) - An American man unwittingly gets involved with French werewolves who
have developed a serum allowing them to transform at will.
Anaconda (1997) - A "National
Geographic" film crew is taken hostage by an insane hunter, who takes them
along on his quest to capture the world's largest - and deadliest - snake.
Anastasia (1997) - The last surviving child of
the Russian Royal Family joins two con men to reunite with her grandmother, the
Dowager Empress, while the undead Rasputin seeks her death.
As Good as It Gets (1997) -
A single mother/waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an
unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.
Austin
Powers: International Man of Mystery
(1997) - A 1960s hipster secret agent is brought out of cryofreeze to oppose
his greatest enemy in the 1990s, where his social attitudes are glaringly out
of place.
Batman
& Robin (1997) -
Batman and Robin try to keep their relationship together even as they must stop Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy from
freezing Gotham City.
Boogie Nights
(1997) - The story of a young man's adventures in the Californian pornography
industry of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Breakdown (1997) - A man searches for his missing
wife after his car breaks down in the middle of the desert.
Chasing
Amy (1997) - Holden and
Banky are comic book artists. Everything's going good for them until they meet
Alyssa, also a comic book artist. Holden falls for her, but his hopes are crushed when he finds out she's a lesbian.
Con Air (1997) - Newly paroled ex-con and
former U.S. Ranger Cameron Poe finds himself trapped in a prisoner transport
plane when the passengers seize control.
Contact
(1997) - Dr. Ellie
Arroway, after years of searching, finds conclusive radio proof of
extraterrestrial intelligence, sending plans for a mysterious machine.
Cop
Land (1997) - The
sheriff of a suburban New Jersey community populated by New York City police
officers slowly discovers the town is a front for mob connections and
corruption.
Cube (1997) - Six complete strangers of
widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in an
endless maze containing deadly traps.
Dante's
Peak (1997) - A volcanologist
arrives at a countryside town recently named the second most desirable place to
live in America and discovers that the long dormant volcano, Dante's Peak, may
wake up at any moment.
Donnie
Brasco (1997) - An FBI
undercover agent infiltrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with
the mafia life, at the expense of his regular one.
Event
Horizon (1997) - A
rescue crew investigates a spaceship that disappeared into a black hole and has
now returned...with someone or something new on-board.
Face/Off (1997) - In order to foil an extortion
plot, an FBI agent undergoes a facial transplant surgery and assumes the
identity and physical appearance of a terrorist, but the plan turns from bad to
worse when the same terrorist impersonates the FBI agent.
Funny
Games (1997) - Two violent young men take a mother, father,
and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic
"games" with one another for their own amusement.
G.I.
Jane (1997) - A female
Senator succeeds in enrolling a woman into Combined Reconnaissance Team
training where everyone expects her to fail.
Gattaca (1997) - A genetically inferior man
assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of
space travel.
George
of the Jungle (1997) - A
man raised in the jungle by apes falls in love with a wealthy American heiress.
Good Will Hunting (1997) - Will
Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a
psychologist to find direction in his life.
Grosse
Pointe Blank (1997) - Martin
Blank is a professional assassin. He is sent on a mission to a small Detroit
suburb, Grosse Pointe, and, by coincidence, his ten-year high school reunion
party is taking place there at the same time.
Hercules (1997) - The son of the Greek Gods Zeus
and Hera is stripped of his immortality as an infant and must become a true
hero in order to reclaim it.
Home
Alone 3 (1997) - Alex
Pruitt, a young boy of nine living in Chicago, fends off thieves who seek a
top-secret chip in his toy car to support a North Korean terrorist
organization's next deed.
I
Know What You Did Last Summer
(1997) - After a nasty accident, four friends begin to drift apart. One year
later Julie James gets an anonymous message and then a slicker wearing, hook
wielding killer begins to rip apart her life.
Jackie
Brown (1997) - A
middle-aged woman finds herself in the middle of a huge conflict that will
either make her a profit or cost her life.
L.A. Confidential (1997) - As
corruption grows in 1950s LA, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal,
and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of
justice.
Liar
Liar (1997) - A
fast-track lawyer can't lie for 24 hours due to his son's birthday wish after
he turns his son down for the last time.
Life
Is Beautiful (1997) -
When an open-minded Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the
Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect
his son from the dangers around their camp.
Lolita
(1997) - A man marries
his landlady so he can take advantage of her daughter.
Lost
Highway (1997) - After
a bizarre encounter at a party, a jazz saxophonist is framed for the murder of
his wife and sent to prison, where he inexplicably morphs into a young mechanic
and begins leading a new life.
Men
in Black (1997) - A
police officer joins a secret organization that polices and monitors
extraterrestrial interactions on Earth.
My
Best Friend's Wedding
(1997) - When a woman's long-time friend reveals he's engaged, she realizes she
loves him herself and sets out to get him, with only days before the wedding.
Picture
Perfect (1997) - A
young advertising executive's life becomes increasingly complicated when, in
order to impress her boss, she pretends to be engaged to a man she has just
met.
Princess
Mononoke (1997) - On a
journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka finds himself in
the middle of a war between the forest gods and Tatara, a mining colony. In
this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime.
Private
Parts (1997) - The
autobiographical story of Howard Stern, the radio rebel who is now also a TV
personality, an author and a movie star.
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
(1997) - Two dim-witted, inseparable friends hit the road for their ten-year
high school reunion and concoct an elaborate lie about their lives in order to
impress their classmates.
Scream
2 (1997) - Two years
after the first series of murders, a new psychopath dons the Ghostface costume
and a new string of killings begins.
Selena
(1997) - The true story
of Selena Quintanilla-Perez, a Texas-born Tejano singer who rose from cult
status to performing at the Astrodome, as well as having chart topping albums
on the Latin music charts.
Seven
Years in Tibet (1997) -
True story of Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountain climber who became friends
with the Dalai Lama at the time of China's takeover of Tibet.
Soul
Food (1997) - One
person can keep a family together and, when that one person is gone, a family
can be torn apart.
Spawn
(1997) – An elite
mercenary is killed, but comes back from Hell as a reluctant soldier of the
Devil.
Starship
Troopers (1997) -
Humans in a fascistic, militaristic future do battle with giant alien bugs in a
fight for survival.
The
Borrowers (1997) - A
secret family of four-inch people living inside the walls of a house must save
The
Boxer (1997) - Young
Danny Flynn is released from prison after 14 years after "taking the
rap" for the IRA and tries to rebuild his life in his old Belfast
neighborhood.
The
Devil's Advocate (1997)
- An exceptionally adept Florida lawyer is offered a job to work in New York
City for a high-end law firm with a high-end boss - the biggest opportunity of
his career to date.
The
Fifth Element (1997) -
In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in
the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr. Zorg at bay.
The Full Monty (1997) - Six
unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to
go for "the full monty" - total nudity.
The
Game (1997) - After a
wealthy banker is given an opportunity to participate in a mysterious game, his
life is turned upside down when he becomes unable to distinguish between the
game and reality.
The
Jackal (1997) - An
imprisoned IRA fighter is freed to help stop a brutal, seemingly
"faceless" assassin from completing his next job.
The
Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
- A research team is sent to the Jurassic Park Site B Island to study the
dinosaurs there while another team approaches with another agenda.
The
Rainmaker (1997) - An
underdog lawyer takes on a fraudulent Insurance company.
The
Relic (1997) – A Homicide
detective and an anthropologist try to destroy a South American lizard-like
god, who's on a people eating rampage in a Chicago museum.
The
Saint (1997) - Simon
Templar (The Saint), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret
process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on toppling the
Russian government, as well as the woman who holds its secret.
Titanic (1997) - A
seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard
the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.
Tomorrow
Never Dies (1997) -
James Bond heads to stop a media mogul's plan to induce war between China and
the UK in order to obtain exclusive global media coverage.
Volcano (1997) - A volcano erupts in downtown
Los Angeles, threatening to destroy the city.
Wag
the Dog (1997) - Shortly
before an election, a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to
fabricate a war in order to cover up a presidential sex scandal.
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