The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
September: Daniel Larusso and his mom move to LA and meet Mr. Miyagi, who teaches Daniel karate. (Reseda, Los Angeles, CA - The Karate Kid)
Friday 7th September: Joe Cronin dies. (Osterville, Massachusetts - Fear Strikes Out)
Friday 14th September: John "Jack" McClane is born. (A Good Day to Die Hard)
Saturday 15th September: John "Jack" McClane is born. (A Good Day to Die Hard)
Friday 28th September: Dieter Pirmasens flees from East Germany to West Germany. (The Lives of Others)
October: Joel Goodson, U-Boat commander and dealer of human fulfillment, enters the Princeton School of Business. (Risky Business)
Monday 29th October: Marjolaine Legault is born. (Illinois - Source Code)
Tuesday 30th October: During Arnie Blondestone's first year out of journalism school, he gets knocked cold for covering Devil's Night for the "Detroit Tribute." (John Dies at the End)
Wednesday 31st October: Mr. Miyagi defends Daniel against bullies. (Reseda, Los Angeles, CA - The Karate Kid)
November: A prototype, almost silent, Typhoon class Soviet sub and its senior crew defect to the United States. (The Hunt for Red October)
November: Mr. Miyagi makes Daniel work around his house so that he can learn karate moves. (Reseda, Los Angeles, CA - The Karate Kid)
November: Georg Dreyman's new play premieres. (East Germany - The Lives of Others)
Tuesday 6th November: Scott Howard discovers that he is a werewolf. (Beacontown, Nebraska - Teen Wolf)
Wednesday 7th November: Scott tries not to turn into a wolf at school. (Beacontown, Nebraska - Teen Wolf)
Saturday 10th November: Sarah Connor tapes a message for her unborn son and debates whether to tell him about his father that was sent by him from the future to protect her. (Mexico - The Terminator)
Saturday 17th November: Marsha Swanson collapses in the snow at Michael McCann's front yard and dies. Her infant daughter wanders over to his front door. (Virginia - A Simple Twist of Fate)
Saturday 17th November: Victoria Swanson, birth mother of Mathilda McCann, dies. (A Simple Twist of Fate)
Wednesday 21st November: Donald J. Blake is born according to a falsified ID. (Thor)
December: Daniel learns about Mr. Miyagi's past and goes out with Ali Mills. (Reseda, Los Angeles, CA - The Karate Kid)
Wednesday 12th December: Rick Masters is seen at the Bank of America in Brentwood. (Los Angeles, California - To Live and Die in LA)
Tuesday 18th December: Rick Masters meets with someone. (Los Angeles, California - To Live and Die in LA)
Wednesday 19th December: Mr. Miyagi defeats John Kreese. (Reseda, Los Angeles, CA - The Karate Kid Part II)
Wednesday 19th December: Daniel Larusso beats John Kreese in a karate tournament. (Reseda, Los Angeles, CA - The Karate Kid)
Thursday 20th December: Secret Service agent Richard Chance thwarts an assassination attempt on President Reagan by an Islamic Radical. (Los Angeles, California - To Live and Die in LA)
Friday 21st December: Richard Chance gives Jimmy Hart a fishing rod. Rick Masters prints counterfeit money. (Los Angeles, California - To Live and Die in LA)
Saturday 22nd December: Jimmy Hart finds Rick Masters' counterfeit operation and gets shot to death by one of his men. (Los Angeles, California - To Live and Die in LA)
Monday 24th December: Richard Chance finds the building that Rick Masters and his men abandoned after counterfeiting. He also discovers Jimmy Hart's body in the dumpster. (Los Angeles, California - To Live and Die in LA)
Monday 24th December: The day that Jimmy Hart would have retired from the U.S. Secret Service. (Los Angeles, California - To Live and Die in LA)
David stops getting detention in sixth grade after his mother and his brother die. His father gets him interested in politics. (Brooklyn, New York - The Adjustment Bureau)
Mr. Lewin goes to a temple to pray for his dying wife. He meets Francy there. Mrs. Lewin dies soon after. (Adventureland)
Thomas and Martha Wayne are shot to death during a robbery, in front of their son Bruce. (Batman Begins)
Mitch Planko starts shaving his pubic region in sixth grade. (The Change-Up)
An extremely overweight Helen Sharp is evicted from her apartment and forcibly removed by police - whilst constantly rewinding a video showing nemesis Madeline Ashton dying. (Death Becomes Her)
The angel Loki bets the angel Bartleby that the rap film Krush Grove will out-perform E.T. at the box office. (Dogma)
A gothic girl curses Chuck Logan, stating that anyone he becomes romantic with will not find love with him, but with the next man she meets. (Good Luck Chuck)
Don Ready has sex with a beauty queen. Blake's parents conceive him and the father runs off. (Temecula, California - The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard)
The Goonies find the treasure of One-Eyed Willy and defeat the Fratellis. (Astoria, Oregon - The Goonies)
Benjamin Chudnofsky starts doing business with a Korean criminal named Kim. (Los Angeles, California - The Green Hornet)
The Gathering occurs. (Highlander)
Jackie Brown is arrested for smuggling drugs for her husband; she gets off with a slap on the wrist, but her career is ruined. (Jackie Brown)
O-Ren Ishii kills mob boss Matsumoto, for murdering her parents. (Kill Bill: Volume 1)
Machete Cortez serves time for being involved in human trafficking. (United States - Machete Kills)
Jack Harris learns how to negotiate. (Chicago, Illinois - Middle Men)
Kathy H, Tommy D and Ruth move into The Cottages. Kathy becomes a carer. (Never Let Me Go)
A zombie outbreak takes place. (Louisville, Kentucky - Night of the Living Dead 3D)
Peggy Sue goes to the Buchanan Class of 1960 Reunion. (Peggy Sue Got Married)
John Rocca dies. (Bodega Bay, California - Puppet Master II)
Akasha, the evil Mother of all Vampires, is accidentally awaken by the vampire Lestat. (The Queen of the Damned)
Pacific Tech University students Chris Knight and Mitch Taylor make a breakthrough in laser technology. (California - Real Genius)
A woman trusts a man who then runs off with her sister and her van. (Road Trip)
Jennifer Seki is born. (RoboCop)
The band Vesuvius performs at the High Five Club. (The Rocker)
Millie marries Hoppy Dupree. (New Orleans, Louisianna - Runaway Jury)
An anchorman starts working for CGS. (Seeking a Friend for the End of the World)
Joan Berkman stops dating Otto's father. (New York City - The Squid and the Whale)
7 members of Georgetown University graduate and begin their lives as adults. (Georgetown, Washington D.C - St. Elmo's Fire)
Garfield H.S. had 77 students pass the A.P. Calculus Exam. (East Los Angeles, CA - Stand and Deliver)
High school basketball player Scott Howard is shocked to discover he is a werewolf, then goes on to discover the importance of being himself and win the big game. (Beacontown, Nebraska - Teen Wolf)
Ted arrives to take Mary to the prom, but has a lavatory-based accident and is hospitalised. (Rhode Island - There's Something About Mary)
Future freedom fighter Evey born. (V for Vendetta)