TURBULENCE
4K ULTRA HD + BLU-RAY
Release Date: Jul 09, 2024

Mike Epps
“Strays”
(debut)

Waiting for Guffman

January 31st, 1997
Sony Pictures Classics
Directed by Christopher Guest (co-writer of “This Is Spinal Tap”)
Starring Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Fred Willard, and Catherine O’Hara
Opening Weekend Box Office: $37,990
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Description: An aspiring director and the marginally talented amateur cast of a hokey small-town Missouri musical production go overboard when they learn that someone from Broadway will be in attendance.

Dante’s Peak

February 7th, 1997
Universal Pictures
Directed by Roger Donaldson (“Species”)
Starring Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton
Opening Weekend Box Office: $18,479,435
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Description: 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.

FOOLS RUSH IN
DVD
Release Date: Feb 24, 1998

Vegas Vacation

February 14th, 1997
Warner Bros. Pictures
Directed by Stephen Kessler
Starring Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, Randy Quaid, and Ethan Embry
Opening Weekend Box Office: $12,837,927
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Description: In the fourth outing for the vacation franchise, the Griswolds have to survive Vegas fever when they go to Las Vegas for a fun family vacation.

Norman Reedus
“Floating”
(debut)

Lost Highway

February 21st, 1997
October Films
Directed by David Lynch
Starring Bill Pullman and Patricia Arquette
Opening Weekend Box Office: $212,710
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Description: Anonymous videotapes presage a musician’s murder conviction, and a gangster’s girlfriend leads a mechanic astray.

LEPRECHAUN: 7-MOVIE COLLECTION
BLU-RAY STEELBOOK
Release Date: Aug 13, 2019

Leelee Sobieski
“Jungle 2 Jungle”
(debut)

Private Parts

March 7th, 1997
Paramount Pictures
Directed by Betty Thomas
Starring Howard Stern, Robin Quivers, Paul Giamatti, and, Allison Janney
Opening Weekend Box Office: $14,616,333
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Description: The autobiographical story of Howard Stern, the radio rebel who is now also a TV personality, an author and a movie star.

Leslie Bibb
“Private Parts”
(debut)

Liar Liar

March 21st, 1997
Universal Pictures
Directed by Tom Shadyac (“The Nutty Professor”)
Starring Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney, and Jennifer Tilly
Opening Weekend Box Office: $31,423,025
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Description: A fast-track lawyer can’t lie for 24 hours due to his son’s birthday wish after disappointing him for the last time.

Chasing Amy

April 4th, 1997
Miramax Films
Directed by Kevin Smith (“Clerks” & “Mallrats”)
Starring Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams, Jason Lee, and Jason Mewes
Opening Weekend Box Office: $52,446
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Description: 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.

Eric Bana
“The Castle”
(debut)

Cate Blanchett
“Paradise Road”
(debut)

Anaconda

April 11th, 1997
Columbia Pictures
Directed by Luis Llosa (“The Specialist”)
Starring Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Jon Voight, Eric Stoltz, and Owen Wilson
Opening Weekend Box Office: $16,620,887
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Description: A “National Geographic” film crew is taken hostage by an insane hunter, who forces them along on his quest to capture the world’s largest – and deadliest – snake.

ANACONDA
WALMART EXCLUSIVE BLU-RAY STEELBOOK
Release Date: Feb 26, 2024

STEPHEN KING’S THE SHINING
SHOUT FACTORY BLU-RAY
Release Date: Mar 12, 2024

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

May 2nd, 1997
New Line Cinema
Directed by Jay Roach
Starring Mike Myers, Elizabeth Hurley, Michael York, and Seth Green
Opening Weekend Box Office: $9,548,111
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Description: A world-class playboy and part-time secret agent from the 1960s emerges after thirty years in a cryogenic state to battle with his nemesis Dr. Evil.

Mena Suvari
“Nowhere”
(debut)

The Fifth Element

May 9th, 1997
Columbia Pictures
Directed by Luc Besson (“Léon: The Professional”)
Starring Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Milla Jovovich, Ian Holm, and Chris Tucker
Opening Weekend Box Office: $17,031,345
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Description: 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.

Shannon Elizabeth
“Blast”
(debut)

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

May 23rd, 1997
Universal Pictures
Directed by Steven Spielberg (“Jurassic Park”)
Starring Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, and Vince Vaughn
Opening Weekend Box Office: $72,132,785
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Description: A research team is sent to the Jurassic Park Site B island to study the dinosaurs there, while an InGen team approaches with another agenda.

THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK
INTERNATIONAL 4K ULTRA HD STEELBOOK
Release Date: Dec 17, 2024

THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK
INTERNATIONAL 4K ULTRA HD STEELBOOK
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Con Air

June 6th, 1997
Touchstone Pictures
Directed by Simon West
Starring Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich, and Steve Buscemi
Opening Weekend Box Office: $24,131,738
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Description: Newly-paroled ex-con and former U.S. Ranger Cameron Poe finds himself trapped in a prisoner-transport plane when the passengers seize control.

Jessica Biel
“Ulee’s Gold”
(debut)

Batman & Robin

June 20th, 1997
Warner Bros. Pictures
Directed by Joel Schumacher (“Batman Forever”)
Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Clooney, Chris O’Donnell, Uma Thurman, and Alicia Silverstone
Opening Weekend Box Office: $42,872,605
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Description: Batman and Robin try to keep their relationship together even as they must stop Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy from freezing Gotham City.

Face/Off

June 27th, 1997
Paramount Pictures
Directed by John Woo (“Broken Arrow”)
Starring John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen, and Alessandro Nivola
Opening Weekend Box Office: $23,387,530
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Description: To foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery to assume the identity of the criminal mastermind who murdered his only son, but the criminal wakes up prematurely and seeks revenge.

Hercules

June 27th, 1997
Walt Disney Pictures
Directed by Ron Clements & John Musker (“Aladdin”)
Starring Tate Donovan, Danny DeVito, and James Woods
Opening Weekend Box Office: $249,567
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Description: The son of Zeus and Hera is stripped of his immortality as an infant and must become a true hero in order to reclaim it.

Men In Black

July 2nd, 1997
Columbia Pictures
Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld (“Get Shorty”)
Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino, Vincent D’Onofrio, Rip Torn, and Tony Shalhoub
Opening Weekend Box Office: $51,068,455
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Description: A police officer joins a secret organization that polices and monitors extraterrestrial interactions on Earth.

Academy Award Winner

70TH ACADEMY AWARDS

Best Original Musical or Comedy Score (Danny Elfman) — Nominee
Best Art Direction (Bo Welch and Cheryl Carasik) — Nominee
Best Makeup (Rick Baker and David LeRoy Anderson) — WINNER

Contact

July 11th, 1997
Warner Bros. Pictures
Directed by Robert Zemeckis (“Forrest Gump”)
Starring Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, and James Woods
Opening Weekend Box Office: $20,584,908
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Description: Dr. Ellie Arroway, after years of searching, finds conclusive radio proof of extraterrestrial intelligence, sending plans for a mysterious machine.

Gerard Butler
“Mrs. Brown”
(debut)

Rebecca Gayheart
“Nothing to Lose”
(debut)

PRINCESS MONONOKE
SHOUT! FACTORY BLU-RAY STEELBOOK
Release Date: Oct 20, 2020

Air Force One

July 25th, 1997
Columbia Pictures
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen (“Das Boot”)
Starring Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, and Glenn Close
Opening Weekend Box Office: $37,132,505
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Description: Communist radicals hijack Air Force One with the U.S. President and his family on board. The Vice President negotiates from Washington D.C., while the President, a veteran, fights to rescue the hostages on board.

Good Burger

July 25th, 1997
Paramount Pictures | Nickelodeon Movies
Directed by Brian Robbins
Starring Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell
Opening Weekend Box Office: $7,058,333
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Description: A dim-witted teenager and his new coworker try to save the old burger joint they work for from failing after the opening of a brand new burger restaurant across the street, which’s planning to put them out of business.

GOOD BURGER
25TH ANNIVERSARY BLU-RAY STEELBOOK
Release Date: Jul 19, 2022

Anne Dudley
“The Full Monty”
70th Academy Awards
Best Original Musical or Comedy Score
(winner)

Event Horizon

August 15th, 1997
Paramount Pictures
Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson
Starring Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Joely Richardson, and Jason Isaacs
Opening Weekend Box Office: $9,511,915
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Description: A rescue crew investigates a spaceship that disappeared into a black hole and has now returned…with someone or something new on-board.

Erika Christensen
“Leave It to Beaver”
(debut)

Excess Baggage

August 29th, 1997
Columbia Pictures
Directed by Marco Brambilla (“Demolition Man”)
Starring Alicia Silverstone, Benicio del Toro, and Christopher Walken
Opening Weekend Box Office: $6,309,583
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Description: A bratty teenager fakes her own kidnapping, but gets mistakenly kidnapped for real instead.

EXCESS BAGGAGE
RETRO VHS BLU-RAY
Release Date: Jun 04, 2019

The Game

September 12th, 1997
PolyGram
Directed by David Fincher (“Demolition Man”)
Starring Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger, and James Rebhorn
Opening Weekend Box Office: $14,337,029
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Description: After a wealthy San Francisco banker is given an opportunity to participate in a mysterious game, his life is turned upside down as he begins to question if it might really be a concealed conspiracy to destroy him.

IN & OUT
KINO LORBER 4K ULTRA HD + BLU-RAY
Release Date: Jul 30, 2024

Samantha Morton
“This Is The Sea”
(debut)

L.A. Confidential

September 19th, 1997
Warner Bros. Pictures
Directed by Curtis Hanson (“The River Wild”)
Starring Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, and Kim Basinger
Opening Weekend Box Office: $5,211,198
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Description: As corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen – one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy – investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.

Katie Holmes
“The Ice Storm”
(debut)

Dominique Swain
“Lolita”
(debut)

THE ICE STORM
CRITERION BLU-RAY
Release Date: Jul 23, 2013

The Edge

September 26th, 1997
20th Century Fox
Directed by Lee Tamahori (“Mulholland Falls”)
Starring Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, and Harold Perrineau
Opening Weekend Box Office: $7,733,445
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Description: An intellectual billionaire and two other men struggle to band together and survive after getting stranded in the Alaskan wilderness with a blood-thirsty Kodiak Bear hunting them down.

ROCKETMAN
DISNEY MOVIE CLUB EXCLUSIVE
20TH ANNIVERSARY BLU-RAY
Release Date: Feb 27, 2018

Boogie Nights

October 10th, 1997
New Line Cinema
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, Don Cheadle, John C. Reilly, William H. Macy, Heather Graham, and Philip Seymour Hoffman
Opening Weekend Box Office: $50,168
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Description: Back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, an idealistic porn producer aspires to elevate his craft to an art when he discovers a hot young talent.

Orlando Bloom
“Wilde”
(debut)

The Devil’s Advocate

October 17th, 1997
Warner Bros. Pictures
Directed by Taylor Hackford (“Dolores Claiborne”)
Starring Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, Charlize Theron, Jeffrey Jones, and Connie Nielsen
Opening Weekend Box Office: $12,170,536
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Description: An exceptionally-adept Florida lawyer is offered a job at a high-end New York City law firm with a high-end boss–the biggest opportunity of his career to date.

DEVIL’S ADVOCATE
SPECIAL EDITION DVD
Release Date: Dec 01, 1998

I Know What You Did Last Summer

October 17th, 1997
Columbia Pictures
Directed by Jim Gillespie
Starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, and Freddie Prinze Jr.
Opening Weekend Box Office: $15,818,645
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Description: Four young friends bound by a tragic accident are reunited when they find themselves being stalked by a hook-wielding maniac in their small seaside town.

Maya Rudolph
“Gattaca”
(debut)

Starship Troopers

November 7th, 1997
TriStar Pictures
Directed by Paul Verhoeven (“Basic Instinct” & “RoboCop”)
Starring Denise Richards, Jake Busey, and Neil Patrick Harris
Opening Weekend Box Office: $22,058,773
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Description: Humans in a fascist, militaristic future wage war with giant alien bugs.

STARSHIP TROOPERS
25TH ANNIVERSARY 4K STEELBOOK
Release Date: Nov 1, 2022

Mischa Barton
“Lawn Dogs”
(debut)

Eddie Marsan
“The Man Who Knew Too Little”
(debut)

Alien Resurrection

November 26th, 1997
20th Century Fox
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (“The City of Lost Children”)
Starring Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, and Ron Perlman
Opening Weekend Box Office: $16,474,092
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Description: 200 years after her death, Ellen Ripley is revived as a powerful human/alien hybrid clone. Along with a crew of space pirates, she must again battle the deadly aliens and stop them from reaching Earth.

ALIEN ANTHOLOGY
4-FILM BLU-RAY DIGIBOOK
Release Date: Oct 26, 2010

Flubber

November 26th, 1997
Walt Disney Pictures
Directed by Les Mayfield (“Miracle on 34th Street”); Screenplay by John Hughes
Starring Robin Williams, Marcia Gay Harden, and Christopher McDonald
Opening Weekend Box Office: $26,725,207
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Description: An absent-minded professor discovers “flubber,” a rubber-like super-bouncy substance.

FLUBBER
VHS
Release Date: Apr 21, 1998

Paul Bettany
“Bent”
(debut)

Good Will Hunting

December 5th, 1997
Miramax Films
Directed by Gus Van Sant
Starring Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Robin Williams, and Minnie Driver
Opening Weekend Box Office: $272,912
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Description: 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.

Academy Award Winner

70TH ACADEMY AWARDS

Best Picture (Lawrence Bender) — Nominee
Best Director (Gus van Sant) — Nominee
Best Actor (Matt Damon) — Nominee
Best Supporting Actor (Robin Williams) — WINNER
Best Supporting Actress (Minnie Driver) — Nominee
Best Original Screenplay (Matt Damon and Ben Affleck) — WINNER
Best Original Dramatic Score (Danny Elfman) — Nominee
Best Original Song (Elliott Smith) — Nominee
Best Film Editing (Pietro Scalia) — Nominee

Amistad

December 10th, 1997
DreamWorks Pictures
Directed by Steven Spielberg (“Jurassic Park”)
Starring Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Djimon Hounsou, and Matthew McConaughey
Opening Weekend Box Office: $4,573,523
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Description: 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.

Home Alone 3

December 12th, 1997
20th Century Fox
Directed by Raja Gosnell; Screenplay by John Hughes
Starring Alex D. Linz, Olek Krupa, and Scarlett Johansson
Opening Weekend Box Office: $5,085,482
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Description: Alex Pruitt, an 8-year-old boy living in Chicago, must fend off international spies who seek a top-secret computer chip in his toy car.

HOME ALONE COLLECTION
4-FILM DVD
Release Date: Oct 08, 2013

Scream 2

December 12th, 1997
Dimension Films
Directed by Wes Craven (“Scream”)
Starring David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jamie Kennedy, Jerry O’Connell, Jada Pinkett, Liev Schreiber, Timothy Olyphant, Laurie Metcalf, and Omar Epps
Opening Weekend Box Office: $32,926,342
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Description: Two years after the first series of murders, as Sidney acclimates to college life, someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string of killings.

Titanic

December 19th, 1997
20th Century Fox
Directed by James Cameron (“Terminator 2: Judgment Day”)
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, and Kathy Bates
Opening Weekend Box Office: $28,638,131
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Description: A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.

HIGHEST GROSSING FILM OF 1997
$1,843,201,268

1ST to pass $1 billion at box office
March 1, 1998

Tomorrow Never Dies

December 19th, 1997
United Artists
Directed by Roger Spottiswoode (“Turner & Hooch”)
Starring Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh, Teri Hatcher, and Judi Dench
Opening Weekend Box Office: $25,143,007
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Description: James Bond sets out to stop a media mogul’s plan to induce war between China and the UK in order to obtain exclusive global media coverage.

As Good As It Gets

December 25th, 1997
TriStar Pictures
Directed by James L. Brooks (“Broadcast News”)
Starring Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, and Greg Kinnear
Opening Weekend Box Office: $12,606,928
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Description: A single mother and waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.

Academy Award Winner

70TH ACADEMY AWARDS

Best Picture (James L. Brooks, Bridgit Johnson, and Kristi Zea) — Nominee
Best Actor (Jack Nicholson) — WINNER
Best Actress (Helen Hunt) — WINNER
Best Supporting Actor (Greg Kinnear) — Nominee
Best Film Editing (Richard Marks) — Nominee
Best Original Screenplay (Mark Andrus and James L. Brooks) — Nominee
Best Original Musical or Comedy Score (Hans Zimmer) — Nominee

Jackie Brown

December 25th, 1997
Miramax Films
Directed by Quentin Tarantino (“Pulp Fiction”)
Starring Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, and Robert De Niro
Opening Weekend Box Office: $9,292,248
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Description: A flight attendant with a criminal past gets nabbed by the FBI for smuggling. Under pressure to become an informant against the drug dealer she works for, she must find a way to secure her future without getting killed.

Kundun

December 25th, 1997
Touchstone Pictures
Directed by Martin Scorsese (“Casino”)
Starring Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, Gyurme Tethong, and Tulku Jamyang Kunga Tenzin
Opening Weekend Box Office: $72,095
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Description: From childhood to adulthood, Tibet’s fourteenth Dalai Lama deals with Chinese oppression and other problems.

KUNDUN
KINO LORBER BLU-RAY
Release Date: Oct 29, 2019

THE BOXER
SHOUT SELECT BLU-RAY
Release Date: Apr 30, 2019