Ready to feel super old? It's been 20 years since some of your favorite childhood movies were released. The year 1996 was filled with some memorable gems, including a kid genius with magical abilities and Michael Jordan playing basketball with cartoons. Get ready for some major nostalgia as you take a look back at some of the greatest movies from that year, and then check out some of the best teen movies from 1999.
Following the aftermath of an alien invasion, a group of people head to the Nevada desert to take part in one last counterattack on July 4.
Terror looms in a fictional town in California, as one high school student and her friends become the target of a mysterious killer called Ghostface.
This action film marks the beginning of the never-ending series, in which Tom Cruise plays IMF agent Ethan Hunt, who is framed for the murder of his fellow agents during a mission gone wrong.
In this Adam Sandler classic, the actor plays an aspiring ice hockey player who realizes he has a true knack for playing golf.
Before he was an Oscar-winning actor, Leonardo DiCaprio was a hopeless romantic in this modern spin on William Shakespeare's classic play with Claire Danes.
This five-time Oscar-nominated movie tells the story of a sports agent who attempts to pick up the pieces after he's fired.
This live-action remake tells the classic Disney story of a young couple who eventually fall for each other when their Dalmatians have a whole lot of puppies.
This film is not for the light-hearted. After a young girl is brutally raped by two white supremacists, her father, Carl Lee Hailey (Samuel L. Jackson), gets revenge by murdering them both during the court hearing. When the KKK begins to organize in the area, lawyer Jake Brigance (Matthew McConaughey) agrees to take Carl's case.
In this musical film based on Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical of the same name, Madonna stars as Evita Perón, the first lady of Argentina.
A team of storm chasers tries to analyze tornadoes with a device called "Dorothy" during a terrible storm across Oklahoma.
Before it was an FX series, Fargo was an Oscar-winning comedy about one man's crime that begins to fall apart when a persistent police officer named Marge Gunderson won't let go of her case.
Eddie Murphy has a terrible case of split personalities as his character professor Sherman Klump finds a way to lose weight instantaneously, with some unusual side effects.
After running away from his terrible aunts, an orphan embarks on a trip to NYC with a group of bugs who live inside a giant peach.
In this '90s classic, the Looney Tunes team up with NBA legend Michael Jordan to defeat their arch nemesis Mr. Swackhammer and his minions from Moron Mountain with a little game of basketball.
Before she was the troublemaking Georgina Sparks on Gossip Girl, Michelle Trachtenberg was a kid spy. When her private journal falls into the wrong hands, Harriet M. Welsch tries to regain the trust of her friends.
After being hidden from the public eye by his malicious master, a bell-ringer struggles to gain his independence in order to help his friend.
In the followup to 1995's The Brady Bunch Movie, America's straight-laced family hilariously struggles to be "normal" in a contemporary '90s setting.
Before it was a hit Broadway musical, it was a hit comedic film. Mara Wilson stars as Matilda, a kid genius whose parents and brother just don't understand her.
Two fathers go on a last-minute shopping spree on Christmas Eve as they desperately try to find a Turbo-Man action figure for their sons.
This is definitely a must watch if you love sappy romantic comedies. Barbra Streisand plays a young woman whose newfound beauty consequently causes problems in her marriage.