It`s pretty obvious that 1991 will not be remembered as a banner year for movies.
It may, however, be remembered as a big year for movies about loss of memory, which in varying degrees figured in the plots of ”Regarding Henry,” ”Dead Again,” ”The Fisher King” and ”Hook.”
While the pundits and others who hand out awards scavenge through the slim pickings, here are some other bits of 1991 movie trivia noted in passing. We take no responsibility for omissions.
Films featuring beehives: ”My Girl.”
Films with other insects: ”The Silence of the Lambs.”
Films with Macaulay Culkin: ”My Girl,” ”Only the Lonely” (in a bit part obviously filmed before the ”Home Alone” phenomenon, he plays John Candy`s nephew).
Films set in the South: ”Doc Hollywood,” ”Rambling Rose,” ”Rush,”
”The Prince of Tides,” ”JFK,” ”Thelma & Louise,” ”Cape Fear.”
Films set in Los Angeles: ”Barton Fink,” ”Point Break,” ”Bugsy,”
”The Rocketeer,” ”Dead Again,” ”Boyz N the Hood,” ”Bill & Ted`s Bogus Journey,” ”The Taking of Beverly Hills,” ”Father of the Bride.”
Films set in Chicago: ”Only the Lonely,” ”Curly Sue” (and whatever other movie John Hughes may have produced), ”V.I. Warshawski,”
”Backdraft.”
Films set in New York: ”Billy Bathgate,” ”Regarding Henry,”
”Straight Out of Brooklyn,” ”The Butcher`s Wife,” ”Soapdish,” ”29th Street.”
Films set in forests: ”Robin Hood,” ”At Play in the Fields of the Lord,” ”Black Robe,” ”Beauty and the Beast.”
Films featuring restaurants: ”All I Want for Christmas,” ”Life Is Sweet,” ”The Rocketeer,” ”Frankie & Johnny.”
Films about mortuary makeup artists: ”Only the Lonely” (Ally Sheedy),
”My Girl” (Jamie Lee Curtis).
Films with Robin Williams: ”Dead Again,” ”The Fisher King,” ”Hook.” Films with Robert de Niro: ”Guilty by Suspicion,” ”Backdraft,” ”Cape Fear.”
Films with Dustin Hoffman playing heavies: ”Billy Bathgate,” ”Hook.”
Best work in a cameo playing herself: Zsa Zsa Gabor in the credits for
”Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear.”
Films starring off-screen couples: ”Bugsy” (Warren Beatty and Annette Bening), ”Dead Again” (Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson), ”Paradise” (Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith).
Sophomore slumps: ”Late for Dinner” (W.D. Richter, director of ”The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai”).
Neat special effects: ”Terminator 2: Judgment Day,” ”Prospero`s Books,” ”The Addams Family,” ”Star Trek VI,” ”The Rocketeer,” ”F/X 2.”
Just OK special effects: ”Hook.”
Movies with horses: ”Robin Hood,” ”City Slickers,” ”Hot Shots.”
Cameos by rock stars: ”The Doors” (John Densmore), ”Hook” (David Crosby and Phil Collins).
Starring performance by a rap star: ”Cool as Ice” (Vanilla Ice).
Good performances by musical artists: ”Rush” (Gregg Allman), ”Boyz N the Hood” (Ice Cube).
Life (on film) after death: ”Defending Your Life,” ”Dead Again,”
”Switch,” ”Truly, Madly, Deeply.”
Remakes: ”Cape Fear,” ”Father of the Bride.”
Films starring 1990 Oscar winners: ”At Play in the Fields of the Lord”
(Kathy Bates), ”The Super” (Joe Pesci), ”Soapdish” (Whoopi Goldberg),
”JFK” (Pesci and best director Kevin Costner), ”Robin Hood” (Costner).
Films directed by 1990 Oscar winners: None.
