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The Best Movies of 1993
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As with most of my lists, I feel like I need to put a little disclaimer. Some movies on this list might say a different year. I don’t know why. I checked multiple sources to make sure they did in fact come out in 1993.


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Movie: Schindler's List ( 1994 )
In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
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Movie: Jurassic Park ( 1993 )
An industrialist invites some experts to visit his theme park of cloned dinosaurs. After a power failure, the creatures run loose, putting everyone's lives, including his grandchildren's, in danger.
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Movie: Dazed and Confused ( 1993 )
The adventures of high school and junior high students on the last day of school in May 1976.
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Movie: True Romance ( 1993 )
In Detroit, a pop-culture enthusiast steals cocaine from his new wife's pimp and tries to sell it in Hollywood, prompting the mobsters who own the drugs to pursue the couple.
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Movie: The Sandlot ( 1993 )
In the summer of 1962, a new kid in town is taken under the wing of a young baseball prodigy and his rowdy team, resulting in many adventures.
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Movie: Groundhog Day ( 1993 )
A narcissistic, self-centered weatherman finds himself in a time loop on Groundhog Day.
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Movie: Leprechaun ( 1993 )
An evil, sadistic Leprechaun goes on a killing rampage in search of his beloved pot of gold.
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Movie: The Firm ( 1993 )
A young lawyer joins a prestigious law firm only to discover that it has a sinister dark side.
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Movie: Demolition Man ( 1993 )
A police officer is brought out of suspended animation in prison to pursue an old ultra-violent nemesis who is loose in a non-violent future society.
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Movie: Tombstone ( 1993 )
A successful lawman's plans to retire anonymously in Tombstone, Arizona, are disrupted by the kind of outlaws he was famous for eliminating.
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Movie: What's Eating Gilbert Grape ( 1994 )
A young man in a small Midwestern town struggles to care for his mentally-disabled younger brother and morbidly obese mother while attempting to pursue his own happiness.
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Movie: Mrs. Doubtfire ( 1993 )
After a bitter divorce, an actor disguises himself as a female housekeeper to spend time with his children held in custody by his former wife.
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Movie: Rookie of the Year ( 1993 )
When an accident miraculously gives a boy an incredibly powerful pitching arm, he becomes a major league pitcher for the Chicago Cubs.
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Movie: Philadelphia ( 1994 )
When a man with HIV is fired by his law firm because of his condition, he hires a homophobic small-time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit.
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Movie: The Three Musketeers ( 1993 )
France, 1625. Young d'Artagnan heads to Paris to join the Musketeers, but the evil cardinal has disbanded them. d'Artagnan meets Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, three rogue musketeers, and joins them on their quest to save the king and country.
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Movie: The Fugitive ( 1993 )
Dr. Richard Kimble, unjustly accused of murdering his wife, must find the real killer while being the target of a nationwide manhunt led by a seasoned U.S. Marshal.
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Movie: Hocus Pocus ( 1993 )
A teenage boy named Max and his little sister move to Salem, where he struggles to fit in before awakening a trio of diabolical witches that were executed in the 17th century.
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Movie: Last Action Hero ( 1993 )
With the help of a magic ticket, a young movie fan is transported into the fictional world of his favorite action movie character.
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Movie: The Piano ( 1994 )
In the mid-19th century a mute woman is sent to New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a farmer, but is soon lusted after by a farm worker.
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Movie: Sleepless in Seattle ( 1993 )
A recently widowed man's son calls a radio talk-show in an attempt to find his father a partner.
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Movie: Indecent Proposal ( 1993 )
A billionaire offers $1,000,000 to a young married couple for one night with the wife.
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Movie: Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit ( 1993 )
Showgirl Deloris Van Cartier returns as Sister Mary Clarence to teach music to a group of Catholic students whose run-down school is slated for closure.
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Movie: Robin Hood: Men in Tights ( 1993 )
A spoof of Robin Hood in general, and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) in particular.
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Movie: Benny & Joon ( 1993 )
A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
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Movie: Falling Down ( 1993 )
An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.
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Movie: In the Name of the Father ( 1994 )
An Irish man's coerced confession to an I.R.A. bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. Meanwhile, a British lawyer fights to clear their names and free them.
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Movie: Much Ado About Nothing ( 1993 )
Young lovers, and soon to wed, Hero and Claudio conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles, Benedick and Beatrice, to wed as well.
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Movie: Free Willy ( 1993 )
When a boy learns that a beloved killer whale is to be killed by the aquarium owners, the boy risks everything to free the whale.
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Movie: The Age of Innocence ( 1993 )
A tale of nineteenth-century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.
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Movie: The Cement Garden ( 1994 )
Four children live with their terminally ill mother. After she dies, they try to hold things together. In their isolated house, they begin to deteriorate mentally, whilst they hide their mom's decomposing corpse in a makeshift concrete sarcophagus.
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Movie: A Perfect World ( 1993 )
A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor, an escaped convict on the run from the law, while the search for him continues.
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Movie: A Bronx Tale ( 1993 )
An intense drama about a boy torn between his tough, hard-working father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss.
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Movie: Rudy ( 1993 )
Rudy has always been told that he was too small to play college football. But he is determined to overcome the odds and fulfill his dream of playing for Notre Dame.
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Movie: Super Mario Bros. ( 1993 )
Two Brooklyn plumbers, Mario and Luigi, must travel to another dimension to rescue a princess from the evil dictator King Koopa and stop him from taking over the world.
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Movie: Carlito's Way ( 1993 )
A Puerto Rican former convict, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of N.Y.C.
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Movie: Alive ( 1993 )
After crash-landing in the snowswept Andes, a Uruguayan rugby team has no choice but to turn to desperate measures in order to survive.
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Movie: The Secret Garden ( 1993 )
A young, recently-orphaned girl is sent to England after living in India all of her life. Once there, she begins to explore her new, seemingly-isolated surroundings, and its secrets.
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Movie: Sliver ( 1993 )
A book editor has an affair with a high-tech voyeur in an exclusive Manhattan apartment building.
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Movie: Wayne's World 2 ( 1993 )
The inseparable duo try to organize a rock concert while Wayne must fend off a record producer who has an eye for his girlfriend.
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Movie: Cool Runnings ( 1993 )
When a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified from the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored coach to start the first Jamaican Bobsled Team.
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Movie: Addams Family Values ( 1993 )
The Addams Family try to rescue their beloved Uncle Fester from his gold-digging new love, a black widow named Debbie.
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Movie: The Pelican Brief ( 1993 )
A law student uncovers a conspiracy, putting herself and others in danger.
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Movie: Blood In, Blood Out ( 1993 )
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on step-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo.
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Movie: The Nightmare Before Christmas ( 1993 )
Jack Skellington, king of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas Town, but his attempts to bring Christmas to his home causes confusion.
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Movie: Cliffhanger ( 1993 )
Two mountain rescuers are forced to guide a group of thieves to their missing loot.
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Movie: Dennis the Menace ( 1993 )
When his parents must go out of town on business, Dennis stays with Mr. and Mrs. Wilson. He is driving Mr. Wilson crazy, but he is just trying to be helpful, even to the thief who has arrived in town.
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Movie: Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey ( 1993 )
A fun-loving American bulldog pup, a hilarious Himalayan cat, and a wise old golden retriever embark on a long trek through the rugged wilderness of the Sierra Nevada mountains in a quest to reach home and their beloved owners.
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Movie: Menace II Society ( 1993 )
A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.
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Movie: In the Line of Fire ( 1993 )
Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan couldn't save Kennedy, but he's determined not to let a clever assassin take out this president.
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Movie: Bad Boy Bubby ( 2005 )
Bubby has spent thirty years trapped in the same small room, tricked by his mother. One day, he manages to escape and, deranged and naive in equal measures, his adventure into a modern and nihilistic life begins.
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Movie: The Remains of the Day ( 1993 )
A butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer.
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Movie: Fire in the Sky ( 1993 )
An Arizona logger mysteriously disappears for five days in an alleged encounter with a flying saucer in 1975. His co-workers endure ridicule and contempt as they are wrongly accused of murder.
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Movie: Three Colors: Blue ( 1993 )
A woman struggles to find a way to live her life after the death of her husband and child.
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Movie: Hard Target ( 1993 )
A woman hires a drifter as her guide through New Orleans in search of her missing father. In the process, they discover a deadly game of cat and mouse behind his disappearance.
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Movie: Body Bags ( 1993 )
"Body Bags" is a 1993 anthology hosted horror movie with John Carpenter as "The Coroner".
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TV Show: Return to Lonesome Dove ( 1993 )
Captain Call has just buried Gus at Lonesome Dove and plans to head back to his ranch in Montana. Looking at a herd of wild Mustangs, he decides to drive them north with the help of Isom and Gideon Walker. Gideon hires Agostina Vega and Mexican Cowboys to run the Mustangs. Call leads the drive for Nebraska and runs into Cherokee Jack and a group of Indians, which almost costs him his life. In Montana, Newt and Jasper get into a shoot out in the local bar and wind up in jail. The odds of them surviving the lynch mob are slim until Dunnegan has them freed. Newt had rescued Dunnegan's wife Ferris, from a band of cattle rustlers and Dunnegan is thankful. However, Newt and Jasper will have to work for Dunnegan to keep their freedom.
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Movie: The Crush ( 1993 )
A journalist becomes the unwanted center of attention for a 14-year-old girl, who proceeds to sabotage his life after he refuses her sexual advances.
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Movie: This Boy's Life ( 1993 )
The story about the relationship between a rebellious 1950s teenager and his abusive stepfather, based on the memoirs of writer and literature Professor Tobias Wolff.
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Movie: Point of No Return ( 1993 )
A government fakes the death of a criminal to turn this young woman into a killer on its service.
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Movie: So I Married an Axe Murderer ( 1993 )
A San Francisco poet who fears commitment suspects his girlfriend may have a knack for killing off her significant others.
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Movie: Hot Shots! Part Deux ( 1993 )
"Rambo" parody in which Topper Harley leads a rescue team into Iraq to save Iraqi war prisoners and all of their previous rescue teams.
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Movie: Coneheads ( 1993 )
Aliens with conical crania crash-land on Earth.
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Movie: Gettysburg ( 1993 )
In 1863, the Northern and Southern forces fight at Gettysburg in the decisive battle of the American Civil War.
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Movie: Short Cuts ( 1993 )
The day-to-day lives of several suburban Los Angeles residents.
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Movie: And the Band Played On ( 1993 )
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic, and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
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Movie: Searching for Bobby Fischer ( 1993 )
A prepubescent chess prodigy is encouraged to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.
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Movie: The Good Son ( 1993 )
A young boy stays with his aunt and uncle and becomes friends with his cousin, a boy of the same age who shows increasing signs of violent and psychopathic behavior.
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Movie: Dave ( 1993 )
An uncanny Presidential lookalike named Dave is recruited by the Secret Service to become a momentary stand-in for the President of the United States.
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Movie: Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday ( 1993 )
Serial killer Jason Voorhees' supernatural origins are revealed.
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Movie: Kalifornia ( 1993 )
A journalist duo goes on a tour of serial-killer murder sites with two companions, unaware that one of them is a serial killer himself.
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Movie: The Beverly Hillbillies ( 1993 )
Mild-mannered dirt-poor hill-dweller Jed Clampett strikes it rich when oil is discovered on his property. At his cousin Pearl's insistence, he moves his family to Beverly Hills to better enjoy his newfound wealth.
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Movie: Son in Law ( 1993 )
Having gotten a taste of college life, a drastically changed farm girl returns home for Thanksgiving break with her best friend, a flamboyant party animal who is clearly a fish out of water in a small farm town.
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Movie: Boxing Helena ( 1993 )
A surgeon becomes obsessed with the seductive woman he once was in an affair with. Refusing to accept that she has moved on, he amputates her limbs and holds her captive in his mansion.
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Movie: Grumpy Old Men ( 1993 )
A lifelong feud between two neighbors since childhood only gets worse when a new female neighbor moves across the street.
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Movie: The Vanishing ( 1993 )
The boyfriend of an abducted woman never gives up the search as the abductor looks on.
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Movie: RoboCop 3 ( 1993 )
Robocop saves the day once more. This time the half man/half robot takes on ruthless developers who want to evict some people on "their" land.
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Movie: Rising Sun ( 1993 )
When an escort girl is found dead in the offices of a Japanese company in Los Angeles, detectives Web Smith and John Connor act as liaison between the company's executives and the investigating cop Tom Graham.
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Movie: Arizona Dream ( 1994 )
A young New Yorker goes to Arizona where he finds freedom to both love and dream.
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Movie: Needful Things ( 1993 )
A mysterious new shop opens in a small town which always seems to stock the deepest desires of each shopper, with a price far heavier than expected.
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Movie: Striking Distance ( 1993 )
Coming from a police family, Tom Hardy ends up fighting his uncle after the murder of his father. Tom believes the killer is another cop and goes on the record with his allegations. Demoted then to river duty, the killer taunts Tom.
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Movie: Airborne ( 1993 )
California born and raised surfer, Mitchell Goosen has to spend six months in Ohio while learning the hard way- love is where the heart is.
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Movie: Robot in the Family ( 1994 )
A manic search for a valuable relic pits a father, son, and trouble-prone robot against a nasty villain.
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Movie: Cronos ( 1992 )
A mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life resurfaces after four hundred years, leaving a trail of destruction in its path.
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Movie: Romeo Is Bleeding ( 1994 )
A corrupt New York policeman falls under the spell of a seductive and ruthless member of a Moscow crime family.
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Movie: Daybreak ( 1993 )
This drama, based on Alan Bowne's play "Beirut," takes place in a decrepit New York City of the near future, controlled by a fascist government.
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Movie: Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story ( 1993 )
A fictionalized account of the life of the martial arts superstar.
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Movie: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III ( 1993 )
When journalist April O'Neil discovers an ancient scepter with magical powers, the Turtles must cow-a-bunga their way back to 17th century Japan to rescue her from the evil clutches of Lord Norinaga.
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Movie: Body Snatchers ( 1994 )
A teenage girl and her father discover alien clones are replacing humans on a remote U.S. military base in Alabama.
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Movie: Heart and Souls ( 1993 )
An unhappy businessman finds a new sense of purpose after he's tasked with helping a quartet of ghosts fulfill their last wishes before moving on to the afterlife.
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Movie: Return of the Living Dead III ( 1994 )
Having recently witnessed the horrific results of a top secret project to bring the dead back to life, a distraught youth performs the operation on his girlfriend after she's killed in a motorcycle accident.
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Movie: Malice ( 1993 )
A tale about a happily married couple who would like to have children. Tracy teaches art, Andy's a college dean. Things are never the same after she is taken to hospital and operated upon by Jed, a "know all" doctor.
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Movie: Loaded Weapon 1 ( 1993 )
In this Lethal Weapon (1987) spoof, two mismatched LA cops investigate a case involving cocaine-laced girl scout cookies.
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Movie: Manhattan Murder Mystery ( 1993 )
Middle-aged New York married couple Larry and Carol Lipton suspect foul play when their neighbor Paul House's wife Lillian suddenly drops dead.
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Movie: Poetic Justice ( 1993 )
Grieving hairdresser Justice goes on a road trip from South Central L.A. to Oakland on a mail truck alongside her friend and an obnoxious postal worker.
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Movie: Six Degrees of Separation ( 1993 )
An affluent New York City couple finds their lives touched, intruded upon, and compelled by a mysterious young black man who is never quite who he says he is.
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Movie: Batman: Mask of the Phantasm ( 1993 )
Batman is wrongly implicated in a series of murders of mob bosses actually committed by a new vigilante assassin.
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Movie: Swing Kids ( 1993 )
A group of teens adores forbidden music in Nazi Germany just before the outbreak of World War II.
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Movie: What's Love Got to Do with It ( 1993 )
The story of singer Tina Turner's rise to stardom and how she gained the courage to break free from her abusive husband, Ike Turner.
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Movie: Beethoven's 2nd ( 1993 )
Beethoven, the St. Bernard dog, becomes a father, but his girlfriend Missy is dognapped, and his puppies are in danger of the same fate.
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Movie: The House of the Spirits ( 1994 )
A rancher, his clairvoyant wife, and their family face turbulent years in South America in this adaptation of Isabel Allende's best-seller.