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Don't panic. Douglas Adams' radio-born comedy about the last man to survive Earth's demolition finally reached theaters in April 2005, after more than two decades of false starts, with Martin Freeman in the dressing gown, Sam Rockwell as a two-headed galactic president, and Alan Rickman as the voice of a very depressed robot.
Two best friends, one Tucson reunion, and the lie that they invented Post-its. Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow in 1997, with a dance number Roger Ebert called "the weirdest choreography I have seen outside a 1960s revival." A modest hit in theaters that became a sleepover classic on tape and cable.
Crop circles in a Pennsylvania cornfield, a baby monitor hissing in the dark, and grainy birthday-party footage from Brazil that made a whole theater hold its breath in August 2002. M. Night Shyamalan's follow-up to Unbreakable starred Mel Gibson as a widowed ex-priest and Joaquin Phoenix as his baseball-bat-swinging brother, and it was the summer's biggest haunted house.
Whoopi Goldberg as a Reno lounge singer hiding from the mob in a San Francisco convent, where she turns a hopeless choir into a gospel-and-oldies act that packs the pews. It made $231 million and was America's top video rental of 1993.
Bobby Boucher, his Mama, Coach Klein, and the Mud Dogs' forty-game losing streak. Adam Sandler's 1998 Cajun football comedy drew some of the worst reviews of his career, opened to a November record anyway, and as of 2020 was still the highest-grossing sports comedy ever made.