The Top 20 Movies of 1993

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Every year in film, there are certain movies that end up sticking with a person for life. Great films are made every year, and the next and the next. Since the 60's, there hasn't been a year, that hasn't produced at least 20 great or good movies. Here is a list for the best of 1993.

The Top 20 Movies of 1993!!!!!!!





# 20  In the Line of Fire

Plot Summary: Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan couldn't save Kennedy, but he's determined not to let a clever assassin take out this president.

  # 19  Body Snatchers: The Invasion Continues

Plot Summary: A teenage girl and her father discover alien clones are replacing humans on a remote U.S. military base in Alabama.

 # 18  Cool Runnings

 Plot Summary: Based on the true story of the First Jamaican bobsled team trying to make it to the winter Olympics. 

 # 17  Philadelphia 

Plot Summary:  When a man with AIDS is fired by a conservative law firm because of his condition, he hires a homophobic small time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit.

# 16  What's Eating Gilbert Grape?

Plot Summary:  Gilbert has to care for his brother Arnie and his obese mother, which gets in the way when love walks into his life.

# 15  Benny & Joon

Plot Summary: A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.

 

# 14  Robin Hood: Men in Tights

Plot Summary: A spoof of Robin Hood in general, and 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves' in particular.

 

# 13  In the Name of the Father

Plot Summary: Man's coerced confession to an IRA bombing he didn't do imprisons his father as well; a British lawyer helps fight for their freedom.

 # 12  Hard Target

Plot Summary: A woman hires a drifter as her guide through New Orleans in search of her father, who has gone missing. They discover a deadly game of cat and mouse behind his disappearance in the process.

# 11  Loaded Weapon 1

Plot Summary: An LA detective is murdered because she has microfilm with the recipe to make cocaine cookies. A "Lethal Weapon" style cop team tries to find and stop the fiends before they can dope the nation by distributing their wares via the "Wilderness Girls" cookie drive.

 

# 10  Hot Shots! Part Deux

Plot Summary: "Rambo" parody in which Topper Harley leads a rescue team into Iraq to save Iraqi war prisoners and all of their previous rescue teams.

 

# 9  Cliffhanger

Plot Summary: A botched mid-air heist results in suitcases full of cash being searched for by various groups throughout the Rocky Mountains.

# 8  Carlito's Way

Plot Summary: A Puerto-Rican ex-con, 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 NYC.

# 7  The Nightmare Before Christmas

Plot Summary: Jack Skellington, king of Halloweentown, discovers Christmas Town, but doesn't quite understand the concept. 

 

# 6 Groundhog Day

Plot Summary: A weatherman finds himself living the same day over and over again.

# 5 Jurassic Park

Plot Summary: During a preview tour, a theme park suffers a major power breakdown that allows its cloned dinosaur exhibits to run amok.

# 4 Last Action Hero

Plot Summary: A young movie fan gets thrown into the movie world of his favorite action film character.

# 3 Dazed and Confused

Plot Summary: The adventures of incoming high school and junior high students on the last day of school, in May of 1976.

# 2  True Romance

Plot Summary: Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.

# 1  Tombstone

Plot Summary: A successful lawman's plans to retire anonymously in Tombstone, Arizona, are disrupted by the kind of outlaws he was famous for eliminating.