Remember 99? When the Best Movies Came Out?

In honor of The To Do List, out this week, here are our favorite films from the year in which its based - the stellar film year 1993.

Maggie Careys stellar, nonchalantly female-centric rom com The To Do List stars Aubrey Plaza and Alia Shawkat (oh, and Johnny Simmons and Bill Hader) and is set in Boise, Idaho, 1993, the year and location Carey graduated from high school. Clinton and Gore ruled America, midriffs were high fashion, and it was quite a year for movies. In honor, heres a list of some of our 1993 faves that spotlighted history, faced cultural tragedies, played with formula, got sappy and sentimental, introduced Hollywood outsiders, garnered nominations, won awards and did some weird, kooky things.

Dazed & Confused (Richard Linklater): Not quite the first slacker flick (that would be Linklaters Slacker, from 1991) with those delicious aimless teens coming of age in Austin, Texas, 1976. Who could forget the line:"If I ever say these were the best years of my life, remind me to kill myself."

The Piano (Jane Campion): Roger Ebert called it "one of the most enchanting love stories ever filmed." Anna Paquins breakout role as Flora McGrath earned her Best Supporting Actress at the Academy Awards, Holly Hunter won Best Actress and Campion became the first female director to win the Palme dOr at Cannes. Oh, to live back in 1993.

True Romance (Tony Scott): Just a year before Quentin Tarantinos Pulp Fiction changed us all, he wrote Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette into the romantic role models of every adolescent parents nightmare. (And Brad Pitt played a bit-part stoner.)

Sleepless in Seattle (Nora Ephron): A very different, equally as life-changing romance. RIP, our romcom queen.

Naked (Mike Leigh): The British visionarys first true black comedy that took best director and best actor (for David Thewlis) prizes at Cannes and the Critics Prize at Toronto.

Philadelphia (Jonathan Demme): The no-frills, hardhitting, thoroughly tear-jerking first Hollywood blockbuster to tackle the flammable social atmosphere of the AIDs era. Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington at their mainstream highest.

The Firm (Sydney Pollack): Tom Cruise as a John Grisham-born lawyer, necktie and suspenders in tact!

Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis): Bill Murray. Bill Murray. Bill Murray. "Did you ever have d j vu?"

The Thing Called Love (Peter Bogdanovich): River Phoenix and Samantha Mathis in an almost female-centric, small town romance that was not Phoenixs best performance (and, its almost too sad to point out, his final.)

Schindlers List (Steven Spielberg): Best Picture, Best Director: the Holocaust epic could (but needs not) singlehandedly represent 1993 as a iconic year in movies.

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