Can You Name These Classic '90s Movies?

Younger quizzers may not remember this, but most people in the U.S. navigated the internet with America Online in the 1990s. Back then, every time a new email arrived, a man’s voice would say, “You’ve got mail,” inducing excitement and a small endorphin rush. Oddly, the movie You’ve Got Mail was inspired by a 1937 Hungarian play called Perfumerie, by Miklos Laszlo, which was written long before AOL was a thing.

The McCallister family left young Kevin home alone for the first time in 1990, in Home Alone, and they ran off without him again at the airport in 1992, in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. Additional sequels feature other kids, not Kevin, who are similarly abandoned somewhere.

Will Smith made these movies in the following order: Made in America (1993), Independence Day (1996), Men in Black (1997), and Wild Wild West (1999). His characters were Tea Cake Walters, Captain Steven Hiller, James Darrell Edwards III/Agent J, and U.S. Army Captain James West, respectively.

The Silence of the Lambs starred Anthony Hopkins as serial killer Hannibal Lecter. He was intelligent and cultured—and totally terrifying and unhinged. Fava beans and a nice Chianti, anyone?

Leonardo DiCaprio said this line while playing the part of Jack in Titanic. The amazing thing is, director James Cameron came up with the line at the last minute, and DiCaprio was skeptical about saying it. Luckily, he did, so we all have that iconic scene to remember. Titanic was the highest-grossing film of the 1990s.

Tom Hanks played the titular character in Forrest Gump. As Forrest passes through the decades, he meets football coach Bear Bryant, Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard Nixon, and former Beatle John Lennon. All were cleverly inserted into scenes with Tom Hanks.

In Airheads, Adam Sandler played Pip the drummer, Brendan Fraser played Chazz the vocalist and guitarist, and Steve Buscemi played Rex the bassist. The band members used water pistols to force a radio station to play their demo track. Bonus points for you if you remembered that their band was the Lone Rangers.

In the movie Jerry Maguire, Cuba Gooding as Rod Tidwell says this line to Tom Cruise as the title character. This movie also features two of the most romantic movie lines ever: “You complete me” and “You had me at hello.”

Toy Story was released by Pixar in 1995. It was Pixar’s first full-length feature, and it was also the world's first full-length computer-animated movie. It was a revolutionary achievement, created by a team of 27 animators. To figure out how to animate the toy soldiers, some animators strapped wooden boards to their feet and tried to move.

In the movie Se7en, Brad Pitt’s character asks a question that he does not want the answer to: “What’s in the box?” If you don’t know, we're not going to tell you here. Just be aware that the movie involves the seven deadly sins, and you should watch it if you dare.

The Matrix is about a dystopian future. Morpheus, played by Laurence Fishburne, offers Neo, played by Keanu Reeves, the choice between a red pill and a blue pill. The red pill brings knowledge, while the blue pill brings peace and ignorance. Choose carefully!

The Coen brothers make movies like no others, mixing quirky characters, dark comedy, and extreme violence. They describe Fargo as “a homespun murder story,” and that’s about right. Luckily, police chief Marge Gunderson is smarter than all of the bad guys put together.

Steven Spielberg’s film, Saving Private Ryan, is about a search-and-rescue mission to find Private Ryan, for the sake of his family, after his three brothers were killed in action. Captain John H. Miller, played by Tom Hanks, leads the mission to find Ryan, played by Matt Damon. The D-Day scenes were shot in Ireland.

The 1998 version of The Parent Trap features two Lindsay Lohans. The actress played twins Hallie Parker and Annie James, who were separated when their parents divorced. It’s a remake of a 1961 film of the same name that starred Hayley Mills as twins Sharon McKendrick and Susan Evers. Both movies were produced by Disney.

Of the four choices here, only Mrs. Doubtfire was released in the ‘90s—in 1993. Other ‘90s Robin Williams movies include Hook, Aladdin, Jumanji, The Birdcage, and Good Will Hunting. The man made so many good movies!

John Singleton, the writer and director of Boyz N the Hood, wrote the script as part of his application to film school. He sold it to Columbia Pictures after he graduated. Singleton is the first African American and the youngest person to be nominated for the Best Director Academy Award.

In the movie Groundhog Day, Bill Murray’s character is a TV weatherman named Phil Conners. He repeatedly wakes up on February 2—which happens to be Groundhog Day. He must redo the day until he gets it right! Each time he wakes up, the clock radio in his room at the Cherry Tree Inn is playing the same Sonny and Cher song.

The Bodyguard stars Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner, with no appearance by Leonardo DiCaprio. By the way, if you’ve never seen DiCaprio and Johnny Depp in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, you’re in for an exceptional dramatic experience.

Yes, Clueless is loosely based on the novel Emma, which was published back in 1815. However, Jane Austen never wrote dialogue like “Searching for a boy in high school is as useless as searching for meaning in a Pauly Shore movie” or “Do you prefer ‘fashion victim’ or ‘ensemble-ly challenged’?”

In 1994’s Pulp Fiction, Uma Thurman and John Travolta famously dance the Twist to Chuck Berry’s song You Never Can Tell. They’re in a dance contest, but we don’t get to see the other competitors, and we don't need to. Travolta, you may remember, was in another iconic dance scene back in 1997, in Saturday Night Fever.