27 Movies That Turn 20 In 2018

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1. Mulan

Disney

Fun fact: Disney will release a live action version of this classic in 2019 starring Chinese actress Liu Yifei.

2. Armageddon

Touchstone Pictures

Fun fact: Apparently, NASA screens this to management training hirees, who have to pick out inaccuracies in the film. So far, more than 160 have been found.

3. There's Something About Mary

20th Century Fox

Fun fact: This was the third most popular movie in the U.S. in1998.

4. Saving Private Ryan

Paramount Pictures

Fun fact: At the time, Steven Spielberg cast Matt Damon as Private Ryan because he wanted a relatively unknown actor for the role.

5. The Parent Trap

Disney

Fun fact: This was Lindsay Lohan's first leading role, which Scarlet Johansson had also auditioned for.

6. A Bug's Life

Disney Pixar

Fun fact: This was the movie where Pixar first began showing "bloopers"at the end of the film.

7. Shakespeare In Love

Universal Pictures

Fun fact: Judi Dench won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Queen Elizabeth, even though she only appears in the movie for like six minutes.

8. The Truman Show

Paramount Pictures

Fun fact: This was Jim Carrey's first ~serious~ lead role.

9. Antz

DreamWorks Animation

Fun fact: This film was known as the "edgier bug cartoon of 1998," having been released six weeks before A Bug's Life.

10. Godzilla

TriStar Pictures

Fun fact: The film's director based Mayor Ebert and his aide Gene on the movie critics Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, who had given his previous movies bad reviews.

11. Blade

New Line Cinema

Fun fact: This Marvel movie does not include a Stan Lee cameo.

12. The Mask of Zorro

TriStar Pictures

Fun fact: Sean Connery was actually originally offered the role of Don Diego de la Vega.

13. You've Got Mail

Warner Bros.

Fun fact: All of Joe's and Kathleen's emails are uploaded to an official website that still exists today.

14. The Man in the Iron Mask

United Artists Corporation

Fun fact: This was Leonardo DiCaprio's first leading role after Titanic.

15. Deep Impact

Paramount Pictures

Fun fact: This movie was based on the theory that predicted the end of the world to fall on 2000, and it hit theaters two months before its other 1998 disaster movie counterpart, Armageddon.

16. Babe: Pig in the City

Universal Pictures

Fun fact: This sequel to the 1995 film Babe (which had seven Oscar nominations) garnered only one nom for itself: Best Original Score.

17. Meet Joe Black

Universal Pictures

Fun fact: This film did so poorly in theaters that it didn't make enough to recoup its production budget.

18. American History X

New Line Cinema

Fun fact: Edward Norton turned down Saving Private Ryan to do this movie.

19. The Big Lebowski

Working Title Films

Fun fact: The Dude says the word "man" 147 times during the movie.

20. The Prince of Egypt

DreamWorks Animation

Fun fact: The four-minute scene where Moses parts the Red Sea (sorry spoiler lol) took two years to be animated.

21. Bride of Chucky

Universal Pictures

Fun fact: According to Jennifer Tilly, the doll sex scene was all improvised.

22. City of Angels

Regency Enterprises

Fun fact: This movie is actually a remake of a German movie called Wings of Desire.

23. Patch Adams

Universal Pictures

Fun fact: Robin Williams channeled his Patch Adams character IRL and spent time visiting sick children throughout his life.

24. The Rugrats Movie

Nickelodeon Movies

Fun fact: This was Nickelodeon's first animated movie shown in theaters.

25. Halloweentown

Disney

Fun fact: The city in Oregon where this movie was filmed, St. Helens, holds a monthlong Spirit of Halloweentown event to celebrate the movie.

26. Doctor Dolittle

20th Century Fox

Fun fact: This movie is actually based on a book of the same name.

27. Spice World

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Fun fact: There were plans to include then-Prime Minister Tony Blair in a cameo, but in the end, it didn't happen.

This post was translated from Spanish.

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