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A Little Leaguer falls through an earthquake crack at home plate and lands in King Arthur's Camelot, where a backpack of 90s stuff makes him look like a prophesied savior. Critics hated it; 90s kids wore out the VHS. And look closely: that's a pre-Titanic Kate Winslet and a pre-Bond Daniel Craig.
A foster kid prays for the last-place California Angels to win the pennant — because his dad said that's when they'd be a family again — and real angels start nudging fly balls. When the angels sit out the championship, an entire stadium flaps its arms instead. Christopher Lloyd, Danny Glover, and a young Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
The friendly ghost who just wanted a friend. Casper made history as the first feature film with a fully CGI lead character, and the 1995 merchandising blitz — Pizza Hut hand puppets, packed toy aisles — put him everywhere that summer. A Halloween cable staple ever since.
A grieving girl raises orphaned Canada goslings on her father's Ontario farm — and when the geese need a migration route, father and daughter lead the flock south themselves in ultralight aircraft. Inspired by a real 1993 goose-led migration, and shot so beautifully it earned an Oscar nomination for cinematography.
The 1993 tearjerker about a troubled boy who bonds with a captive orca and sets him free — capped by the iconic image of Willy leaping over a breakwater to Michael Jackson's "Will You Be There." Its most astonishing legacy, though, played out in the real ocean.
An inventor's attic shrink ray zaps the kids down to a quarter-inch, and the backyard becomes a jungle — the giant Cheerio, Antie the ant, the LEGO-brick shelter, the sprinkler storm. A 1989 smash whose sequels, TV series, and theme-park attractions made it a fixture of the entire 90s.
The prehistoric buddy comedy that put Blue Sky Studios on the map: a woolly mammoth, a sloth, and a saber-toothed tiger reluctantly team up to return a lost human baby to its tribe, while a nut-obsessed squirrel named Scrat wages an eternal, silent war against a single acorn. A surprise blockbuster that launched one of animation's biggest franchises.
The youth-hockey underdog trilogy that gave a generation the "Flying V," the knuckle-puck, and arenas full of kids chanting "Quack, quack, quack." Emilio Estevez coached the ragtag Ducks — and the movies were so popular Disney went out and founded a real NHL team.
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Henry Rowengartner breaks his arm, it heals with the tendons a little too tight, and suddenly a 12-year-old is throwing 100 mph for the Chicago Cubs. Daniel Stern directs — and steals scenes as loopy pitching coach Phil Brickma. When the arm gives out mid-game, Henry wins with playground tricks. A cable staple of 90s childhoods.