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Movie Quote of the Day – The Nightmare Before Christmas, 1993 (dir. Henry Selick)
Mayor: How horrible our Christmas will be!
Jack Skellington: No. How “jolly”!
Mayor: Oh. How “jolly” our Christmas will be.
Oscar Vault Monday – In the Name of the Father, 1993 (dir. Jim Sheridan)
In The Name of the Father was Jim Sheridan’s second film, his first being 1989’s My Left Foot, which itself was nominated for several Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director (it won for Best Actor, Daniel Day-Lewis and Best Supporting Actress, Brenda Fricker). This film was a slightly fictionalized account of the Guildford Four, who were falsely convicted of an IRA pub bombing in 1974. They weren’t proven innocent until 1989. I don’t really want to get further into their story, as that would spoil the film entirely. In The Name of the Father was nominated for seven Academy Awards, although it failed to win a single category: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Supporting Actress Emma Thompson, Best Supporting Actor Pete Postlethwaite, Best Actor Daniel Day-Lewis, Best Director and Best Picture. It is currently #226 on IMDb’s Top 250 user-generated list. The other films nominated for Best Picture that year were: The Fugitive, The Piano, The Remains of the Day and winner Schindler’s List.
Movie Quote of the Day – Philadelphia, 1993 (dir. Jonathan Demme)
Andrew Beckett: Congratulations, Counselor.
Joe Miller: Congratulations?
Andrew Beckett: You’ve survived what I assume to be your first gay party intact.
Joe Miller: Let me tell you something, Andrew, when you’re brought up the way I am, the way most people are in this country, there’s not a whole lot of discussion about homosexuality or what do you call it, alternate lifestyles. As a kid you’re taught that queers are funny, queers are weird, queers dress up like their mother. That they’re afraid to fight, that they’re a danger to little kids and that all they want to do is get into your pants. [beat] That pretty much sums up the general thinking out there if you want to know the truth about it.
Andrew Beckett: Thank you for sharing that with me.
Joe Miller: You’re very welcome.
Movie Quote of the Day – Heart and Souls, 1993 (dir. Ron Underwood)
Harrison Winslow: Who came up with this ridiculous concept anyway? Resolve your entire life in one bold stroke? What if I fail? And I will. I’ll fail. I’m telling you. I always fail. Then my whole life will be a complete failure.
Thomas Reilly: No offense, Harrison. But you died a failure because you never tried.
Movie Quote of the Day – Groundhog Day, 1993 (dir. Harold Ramis)
Rita: I’m sorry, what was that again?
Phil: I’m a god!
Rita: You’re a god?
Phil: I’m a god. I’m not the God. . .I don’t think.
Movie Quote of the Day – What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, 1993 (dir. Lasse Hallström)
Momma: You’re my knight in shimmering armor. Did you know that?
Gilbert: I think you mean shining.
Momma: No shimmering. You shimmer, and you glow.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Fugitive, 1993 (dir. Andrew Davis)
Dr. Richard Kimble: I didn’t kill my wife!
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: I don’t care!
Movie Quote of the Day – Benny & Joon, 1993 (dir. Jeremiah Chechik)
Joon: Some cultures are defined by their relationship to cheese.
Benny: [dryly] Is that a fact?
Movie Quote of the Day – Tombstone, 1993 (dir. George P. Cosmatos)
Doc Holliday: It’s true, you are a good woman. [beat] Then again, you may be the antichrist.
Movie Quote of the Day – Jurassic Park, 1993 (dir. Steven Spielberg)
Ray Arnold: Hold on to your butts.
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