The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Movie history events from 1982
Chelsea Gamble Starts Free Animals Now. (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective)
Sydney Wade attends a protest rally against anti-partheid. The flag is burnt. (Washington D.C.) (The American President)
A supernatural force at 112 Ocean Ave tears the Montelli family apart. (Amityville, New York) (Amityville II: The Possession)
Vintage water bottle is made. (Back to the Future Part II)
Microchips are put beneath the skin of every human being born from this year onward. (Bug)
Evan Treborn is born, or in one timeline, deliberately strangles himself in the womb. (The Butterfly Effect)
Cam Brady runs for class president in fifth grade and takes down the jungle gym. (Pine Crest, North Carolina) (The Campaign)
Dave Lockwood becomes Mitch Planko's best friend. (The Change-Up)
Cal meets Emily and falls in love with her. (Crazy, Stupid, Love)
The Evil Force possesses more people. (Evil Dead II)
An evil force possesses four people. (The Evil Dead)
Jeff Spicoli graduates from Ridgemont High. (San Diego, CA) (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
After high school, Mike Damone gets in trouble for scalping Ozzy Osbourne tickets and works at 7-Eleven. Rat and Stacy have a passionate love affair but still haven't gone all the way. Jeff Spicoli saves Brooke Shields from drowning and blows his reward money on hiring Van Halen to play at his borthday party. (Ridgemont, CA) (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
James Taylor meets his quota (Funny People)
Galaxy Quest TV series is cancelled. (USA) (Galaxy Quest)
Britt Reid, son of James Reid, is born. (Los Angeles, California) (The Green Hornet)
Lenny Feder gets a job. (New England) (Grown Ups 2)
One of Lou's balls is crushed by a quarterback on the Bears. (Hot Tub Time Machine)
Burt meets Anton, and the two start practicing magic tricks. (The Incredible Burt Wonderstone)
Joe Dirt begins traveling and camping around. (Joe Dirt)
Marriage of Samantha and Richard Cole (California) (Liar Liar)
Machete Cortez commits theft and is convicted. (Mexico) (Machete Kills)
Vote to ban Andy Kaufman from Saturday Night Live. (Man on the Moon)
Becky Fuller is born. (Morning Glory)
Marjane buys punk music off the black market. The Baba Levy's house is destroyed. Marjane is later sent to Vienna. (Teheran, Iran) (Persepolis)
Norman Bates is released from a mental institution and works at his motel again. He meets Mary, who is shot and believed by the police to have committed murders. Norman meets Emma Spool, his aunt who believes she is his mother. Norman kills her. (Kern County, California) (Psycho II)
Norman Bates commits more murders and is sent back to the mental institution. (Kern County, California) (Psycho III)
Chan Yin is born. (RoboCop)
Rocky Balboa loses his fortune and moves back to his lower class Philadelphia neighborhood, where he trains upcoming fighter Tommy Gunn and manages him through 22 victories in one year. (Rocky V)
Mickey Goldmill's gymnasium is willed to Rocky Balboa Jr. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) (Rocky V)
Laura Hunter is born. (Saw II)
James Court is investigated for this tax year to 1986. (Seattle, Washington) (Say Anything...)
Hannibal Lecter is put in a cell. (Baltimore, MD) (The Silence of the Lambs)
Roy Raymond sells Victoria's secret. (Stanford, California) (The Social Network)
According to Darcy, this is the year that Ethan's backpack is from. (Something Borrowed)
Garfield H.S. had 18 students pass the A.P. Calculus Exam. (East Los Angeles, CA) (Stand and Deliver)
The Thing assimilates final indigenous lifeform. (The Thing)
Spinal Tap go on their second nation-wide tour of the United States. (United States) (This is Spinal Tap)
Sidney "Sid" Phillips is born. (Toy Story)
Dewey Cox performs onstage for the last time for 25 years. (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story)
Harry meets Sally again, on a plane. (When Harry Met Sally)
Monday 1st February: Derek Frost is born (Northfield, Illinois) (Source Code)
Sunday 14th February: Brian Spilner drives carelessly. (2 Fast 2 Furious)
Friday 5th March: John Belushi dies from an overdose of cocaine and heroin. (Los Angeles, California) (Wired)
Thursday 18th March: Divya Narendra is born. (Bronx, New York) (The Social Network)
Thursday 18th March: Jennifer K. Mack's bogus airline tickets are produced by David Kessler. (Seattle, Washington) (WarGames)
Friday 19th March: Eduardo Saverin is born. (Sao Paulo, Brazil) (The Social Network)
Saturday 20th March: Jenny Curran dies. (Forrest Gump)
April: Stacy has sex with Mike Damone. (Ridgemont, CA) (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
Wednesday 14th April: Dale Denton is born. (Clark County) (Pineapple Express)
Tuesday 27th April: Young Playwrights Festival begins. (Child's Play)
May: Mr. Vargas takes his class on a field trip to a hospital. Spicoli sneaks on the trip. (Ridgemont, CA) (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
Sunday 2nd May: Claire Spencer plays the cello at a concert in Carnegie Hall. (Carnagie Hall) (What Lies Beneath)
Sunday 16th May: Young Playwrights Festival ends. (Child's Play)
Wednesday 26th May: Jenna Rink turns 8. (13 Going On 30)
Friday 28th May: When Rocky III comes out, Frank Stallone wonders who he is. (Fred Claus)
June: Mr. Hand goes to Spicoli's house to teach him history as payback for wasting 8 hours of class time over the school year. Damone apologizes to Ratner at the prom for having sex with Stacy. Brad stops a robber while working at Mi-T-Mart. (Ridgemont, CA) (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
Tuesday 1st June: An alien ship stops above the city. (Johannesburg, South Africa) (District 9)
Thursday 3rd June: Final exams take place at Ridgemont High. (Ridgemont, CA) (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
Saturday 5th June: A nineteen-year-old is sacrificed. (Gatlin, Nebraska) (Children of the Corn)
Sunday 6th June: Katherine Lowell - fake name of Lissa - would have been born, if her fake ID were correct. (Best Laid Plans)
Saturday 12th June: Brad Hamilton becomes manager of Mi-T-Mart. (Ridgemont, CA) (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
Saturday 19th June: Septha "Robin" LaRue is sacrificed. (Gatlin, Nebraska) (Children of the Corn)
July: Events seen in Chris's flashback from Friday the 13th Part 3 take place. (Friday the 13th Part 3: 3D)
Monday 5th July: Aliens are ferried from their mothership to the District 9 township. (Johannesburg, South Africa) (District 9)
Saturday 24th July: Wesley Allan Gibson is born. (Chicago, Illinois) (Wanted)
Saturday 31st July: Wesley Gibson's father leaves him. (Chicago, Illinois) (Wanted)
Saturday 31st July: Mountain Herald headline: "Hiker Disappears." It is about Brett Schmidt. (West Virginia) (Wrong Turn)
Friday 13th August: Fast Times at Ridgemont High is released in theaters. (Funny People)
Wednesday 25th August: Colonel Luis Toro military ID later used by James Bond is signed. (Octopussy)
Monday 30th August: Mary "Roberta" Wells is sacrificed. (Gatlin, Nebraska) (Children of the Corn)
September: Linda Barrett attends college in Riverside and lives with her abnormal psych proffessor. (Riverside, CA) (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
Thursday 2nd September: Officer Nancy Taylor is commended for her work on the case of the Common Wealth of Massachusetts vs. Kenneth Waters. (Ayer, Massachusetts) (Conviction)
Thursday 16th September: The Sabra and Shatila massacre was a massacre of Palestinian and Lebanese civilians carried out between September 16 and 18, 1982 by the Lebanese Forces Christian militia group, following the assassination of Phalangist leader and president-elect Bachir Gemayel. (Palestinian Refugee Camp) (Waltz With Bashir)
October: Norwegian scientists are stationed in Antarctica. (Antarctica) (The Thing)
Saturday 16th October: Chris Vail is born. (Wickliffe, Ohio) (Accepted)
Monday 18th October: Harry Grimbridge attends a merchant's council meeting. (Northern California) (Halloween III: Season of the Witch)
Tuesday 19th October: Harry Grimbridge attends a football game. (Northern California) (Halloween III: Season of the Witch)
Wednesday 20th October: Harry Grimbridge buys more Halloween masks. (Northern California) (Halloween III: Season of the Witch)
Thursday 21st October: Harry Grimbridge has dinner with his daughter Ellie. (Northern California) (Halloween III: Season of the Witch)
Saturday 23rd October: Men in business suits chase Harry Grimbridge. He says, "They're going to kill us all" and is killed that night. (Northern California) (Halloween III: Season of the Witch)
Wednesday 27th October: Admiral Jim Sandecker helped CIA agent Carl in an unknown event. He would remind Carl of this when Sandecker asks Carl for a favor in helping get Dirk and Al out of Mali. (Sahara)
Friday 29th October: Ellie Grimbridge investigates her father's death with Dr. Daniel Challis. (Northern California) (Halloween III: Season of the Witch)
Saturday 30th October: Ellie and Dan continue their investigation. (Santa Mira, California) (Halloween III: Season of the Witch)
Sunday 31st October: Elliot takes his first ride across the moon; ET phones home. (Los Angeles, Ca) (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)
Sunday 31st October: Challis tries to stop the airing of a Silver Shamrock commercial that will make masks kill whoever wears them. (Santa Mira, California) (Halloween III: Season of the Witch)
Monday 1st November: Federal agents storm Elliot's house as he and E.T. fall gravely ill. (Los Angeles, Ca) (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)
Tuesday 2nd November: E.T. goes home. (Los Angeles, Ca) (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)
Tuesday 9th November: Andy Barclay is born. (Child's Play)
December: Becky Barnett and Jerome marry. (California) (Boogie Nights)
December: The Thing arrives at US science center and its cells imitate the people there. (Antarctica) (The Thing)
December: Norwegians uncover a spaceship and try to survive against The Thing. (Antarctica) (The Thing)
Monday 6th December: Indiana Jones has sex with a woman and leaves to go on adventures. The woman is pregnant with Will. (Disaster Movie)
Saturday 18th December: Catherine "Bastava" Cave is sacrificed. (Gatlin, Nebraska) (Children of the Corn)
Friday 24th December: Billy is raped by his mother when her lover is impotent. (Black Christmas)