Film Excess - Free Ukraine - Stop Putin - End the war NOW!!: 1990 in films and TV-series

7/24/2024

1990 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess

The Top 8 of the Year

1. Goodfellas - Martin Scorsese + Best American Movie of the Year + Gangster Movie of the Year + Breakthrough Actor of the Year: Ray Liotta + Best Epic of the Year + Best True-Crime of the Year + Most Deserved Hit of the Year

2. Ghost - Jerry Zucker + Best Drama of the Year + Best New York Movie of the Year

3. Misery - Rob Reiner + Best Psychological Thriller of the Year + Breakthrough Actress of the Year: Kathy Bates + Comeback Actor of the Year: James Caan

4. Dances with Wolves - Kevin Costner + Best Debut of the Year + Best Western of the Year

5. The Hunt for Red October - John McTiernan + Best Huge Hit of the Year + Best Spy Thriller of the Year

6. Hamlet - Franco Zeffirelli + Most Undeserved Flop of the Year

7. Home Alone - Chris Columbus + Best Blockbuster of the Year + Best Chicago Movie of the Year + Best Christmas Movie of the Year + Best Comedy of the Year + Best Family Movie of the Year + Best New York Movie of the Year + Shooting Star Actor of the Year: Macaulay Culkin

8. The Godfather Part III - Francis Ford Coppola

Other good, recommendable films of the year (in alphabetical order):

Back to the Future Part III - Robert Zemeckis

The Bottom 4 of the Year

1. Hard to Kill - Bruce Malmuth + Worst Poster of the Year + Most Undeserved Hit of the Year

2. Night of the Living Dead - Tom Savini

3. Days of Thunder - Tony Scott

4. Fuglekrigen i Kanøfleskoven - Jannik Hastrup

Other mediocre, poor and/or failed movies of the year (in alphabetical order):

Another 48 Hrs. - Walter Hill

Die Hard 2 - Renny Harlin

It, miniseries - Tommy Lee Wallace + Best Horror Title of the Year + Best Maine Title of the Year + Best Miniseries of the Year + Best Poster of the Year + Best Villain of the Year: Tim Curry as Pennywise

[16 titles in total]

Notes:

The first lists of 1990 pack a small number of titles. The year so far is remarkable for its commercial hit rate and the enormous treasures that several films were able to rack together.

The year's best is Martin Scorsese's gangster epic of Brooklyn's Henry Hill, Goodfellas. Silver and bronze go to Jerry Zucker's crowd-pleasing romance drama Ghost and Rob Reiner's sensational Stephen King adaptation thriller Misery. The Top 8 goes on with Kevin Costner's major hit western debut Dances with Wolves; John McTiernan's solid U-boat Cold War thriller The Hunt for Red October; Franco Zeffirelli's grand, majestic Shakespeare adaptation Hamlet; Chris Columbus' franchise-starting holiday favorite Home Alone; and with Francis Ford Coppola's gangster trilogy finale The Godfather Part III rounding off the list.

The year's worst is Bruce Malmuth's preposterous Steven Seagal-starring actioner Hard to Kill. The Bottom 4 list goes on with Tom Savini's uncalled for horror remake Night of the Living Dead; Tony Scott's Top Gun-emulating racing bore Days of Thunder; and with Jannik Hastrup's cynical bird animation Fuglekrigen i Kanøfleskoven rounding off the list.

Kevin Costner had a triumphant year with his huge gamble western epic Dances with Wolves, his first directorial effort, which he also starred in, being a major commercial and critical success. Joe Pesci also had a remarkable year, starring in hits Goodfellas and Home Alone, a film that also saw the major arrival of the big child sensation of the decade, Macaulay Culkin, and Patrick Swayze (Ghost), Sean Connery (The Hunt for Red October), Bruce Willis (Die Hard 2), Eddie Murphy (Another 48 Hrs.) and Steven Seagal (Hard to Kill) all proved staying box office power in on-brand output. On the other hand Mel Gibson, trying something new, saw a commercial ceiling over his star power with Hamlet's flop.

Among the great filmmakers who underwhelmed this year was Walter Hill (Another 48 Hrs.).

Future updates will greatly expand the number of reviewed titles.

Biggest flops of the year:

[The loss is based solely on the cost and box office earnings for the films. Marketing costs and additional revenue (home video, TV rights and other auxiliary profits) are not taken into account]

1. Hamlet - 6.89 mil. $ range

2. Fuglekrigen i Kanøfleskoven - 1.4 mil. $ range

3. Night of the Living Dead - 0.2 mil. $ range

= Combined losses: 8.49 mil. $

Biggest hits of the year:

[The gain is based solely on the cost and box office earnings for the films. Marketing costs and additional revenue (home video, TV rights and other auxiliary profits) are not taken into account]

1. Ghost - 180.32 mil. $ range

2. Home Alone - 172.64 mil. $ range

3. Dances with Wolves - 149.18 mil. $ range

4. Back to the Future Part III - 58 mil. $ range

5. The Hunt for Red October - 50.2 mil. $

6. Die Hard 2 - 26 mil. $ range

7. Misery - 20 mil. $ range

8. Hard to Kill - 12.2 mil. $ range

9. Another 48 Hrs. - 11.4 mil. $ range

10. Goodfellas - 5 mil. $ range

= Combined profits: 684.94 mil. $

1990 titles currently on the watch-list:

Treasure Island, Two Evil Eyes, Rimeinzu, Nightbreed, Paris Is Burning, Short Time, Dreams, Meet the Applegates, Quick Change, Maniac Cop 2, Kaj's Fødselsdag, The Exorcist III, My Father's Glory, Daddy Nostalgia, Repossessed, Henry & June, Days of Being Wild, Sneblind

Previous annual lists:

2023 in films - according to Film Excess

2022 in films - according to Film Excess

2021 in films - according to Film Excess

2020 in films - according to Film Excess

2019 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]

2019 in films - according to Film Excess
2018 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2018 in films - according to Film Excess
2017 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
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2016 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
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Donald Sutherland has passed away

Born in Canada, Sutherland battled polio as a child. His first credit was in Suspense (1963, TV-series) and his first film was The Castle of the Living Dead (1964). Later credits in his remarkable career include The Saint (1965-66), The Dirty Dozen (1967), M*A*S*H (1970), Kelly's Heroes (1970), Klute (1971), Don't Look Now (1973), 1900 (1976), Casanova (1976), The Eagle Has Landed (1976), Ordinary People (1980), A Dry White Season (1989), JFK (1991), Outbreak (1995), Fallen (1998), Virus (1999), Fierce People (2005), Pride & Prejudice (2005), Lord of War (2005), The Hunger Games (2012), The Undoing (2020, miniseries) and many more. He passed away at age 88. R.I.P.

Roger Corman has passed away

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Corman had a sprawling, intellectually hungry life as a youth and young man before arriving with his first film in 1955, Five Guns West. He would follow that with titles such as Apache Woman, It Conquered the World, Attack of the Crab Monsters, Teenage Cave Man, A Bucket of Blood, House of Usher, The Little Shop of Horrors, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Intruder, The Raven, The Terror, The Masque of Red Death, The Tomb of Ligeia, The Wild Angels, The Trip, Bloody Mama and many more. As a producer he was behind almost 500 films. Arguably among the most important filmmakers of the 20th century, Corman passed away at age 98. R.I.P.

William Friedkin has died

Born in Chicago, Friedkin accrued TV credits prior to his advance to the big screen as the director of Good TImes (1967), The Birthday Party (1968), The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968) and The Boys in the Band (1970) before his major breakthrough, The French Connection (1971), for which he won his only Oscar. He followed it up with the even bigger smash, The Exorcist (1973), arguably the best horror film of all time, for which he was Oscar-nominated. Later credits include Sorcerer (1977), Cruising (1980), To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), Rampage (1987), Rules of Engagement (2000), Killer Joe (2011) and The Devil and Father Amorth (2017, documentary). Friedkin passed away at age 87. R.I.P.

Louise Fletcher has passed away

Born in Alabama to deaf parents, Fletcher got her first credits in late-1950s TV-series.She took a 10 year-long sabbatical to devote her time to motherhood after the release of A Gathering of Eagles, but then came back and soon saw her career's most important part, as Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), for which she won her sole Oscar. Later credits include Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), The Lucky Star (1980), Brainstorm (1983), Two Moon Junction (1988), Cruel Intentions (1999), A Perfect Man (2013) and many more. Fletcher passed away at age 88. R.I.P.

Jean-Luc Godard has passed away

Born in Paris, France, Godard lived much of his life in Switzerland. He wrote for French film criticism magazine Cahiers du Cinema and became foundational for the New French Wave that inspired new waves in scores of other countries across the world with his Breathless (1960). Later credits include A Woman Is A Woman (1961), Vivre Sa Vie (1962), Le Petit Soldat (1962), Contempt (1963), Alphaville (1965), Pierrot le Fou (1965), 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967), Weekend (1967), Every Man for Himself (1980), King Lear (1987), Century of Cinema (1995, documentary), Goodbye to Language (2014) and many more. Godard died of assisted suicide at age 91. R.I.P.

Wolfgang Petersen has died

James Caan has died

Caan was born the son of Jewish immigrants from Germany in New York. He got his start on TV in the early 1960s. His credits include El Dorado (1966), The Rain People (1969), Brian's Song (1971, TV movie), The Godfather (1972), - for which he earned his only Oscar nomination, - Slither (1973), The Gambler (1974), Funny Lady (1975), Rollerball (1975), Silent Movie (1976), Hide in Plain Sight (1980), - the only film he also directed, - Thief (1981), Misery (1990), Honeymoon in Vegas (1992), Bottle Rocket (1996), Eraser (1996), Dogville (2003), Elf (2003), Las Vegas (2003-07), Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) and many more. Caan passed away at age 82. R.I.P.

Jean-Louis Trintignant has died

Born in Vaucluse, France, Trintignant's theatrical debut as an actor was in If All the Guys in the World... (1955). Later credits include ...And God Created Woman (1956), The Seven Deadly Sins (1961), Inferno (1964), A Man and A Woman (1966), My Love, My Love (1967), A Man to Kill (1967), The Great Silence (1968), Z (1969), The Assassination (1972), Three Colors: Red (1994), Amour (2012), Happy End (2017) and many more. He also wrote and directed two films in the 1970s. Trintignant passed away at age 91. R.I.P.

Ray Liotta has died

Adopted from an orphenage at a young age, Liotta got hooked on acting in high school. He had various TV credits in the late 1970s and early 80s, with his film debut in The Lonely Lady (1983). Later credits include Something Wild (1986), Field of Dreams (1989), Goodfellas (1990), Cop Land (1997), Hannibal (2001), Blow (2001), Narc (2002), John Q (2002), Identity (2003), Observe and Report (2009), Youth in Revolt (2009), The Details (2011), Killing THem Softly (2012), The Place Beyond the Pines (2012), Shades of Blue (2016-18), The Simpsons (2018, TV-series), Marriage Story (2019), The Many Saints of Newark (2021), Black Bird (2022, TV-series) and many more. Liotta passed away at age 67 in his sleep while on production in the Dominican Republic. R.I.P.

Philip Baker Hall has died

Born in Ohio, Hall didn't start acting until he was 30. His long list of credits include Zabriskie Point (1970), Miami Vice (1987, TV-series), Midnight Run (1988), Ghostbusters II (1989), Cheers (1993, TV-series), Hard Eight (1996), The Rock (1996), Air Force One (1997), Boogie Nights (1997), Seinfeld (1991-98), Rush Hour (1998), The Insider (1999), Magnolia (1999), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Bruce Almighty (2003), Dogville (2003), The Zodiac (2005), Zodiac (2007), Curb Your Enthusiasm (2004-09), Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011), Modern Family (2011-12) and many more. Hall passed away at age 90. R.I.P.

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