The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

The Moment: Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King, stumbles upon Christ🐓mas Town. "What's th♈is? What's this? There's colour everywhere! What's this? There's white things in the air!"

Only In The '90s: Tim Burton w☂as so renowned he could lend his name to the title of a film he didn't even direct.

If It Was Made Today: It'd fit right into an animation landscape ruled by the ghouls of Hotel Transylvania , ParaNorman and Burton's own Frankenweenie .

Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)

The Moment: Martin Blank (John Cusack)'s worlds collide when old flame Debi Newberry (Minnie Drive) catches hi🉐m killing rival hitman Felix LaPoubelle (Benny Urquidez) at the high school reunion.

Only In The '90s: The vogue for street-smart genre clashes was matched by a star in John Cusack who could convincingly do rom-com and kickboxing.

If It Was Made Today: The ten-year reunion pre🍨mise would be riffing on Mean Girls, and Lindsay Lohan woul♛d play Blank.

Rushmore (1998)

The Moment: Wes Anderson outlines the extra-curricular creden꧒tials of M🐓ax Fischer (Jason Schwartzman) in a montage full of the director's soon-to-be-trademark symmetrical compositions and the Futura Bold font.

Only In The '90s: College-kid hipst🦹er whimsy could become a genre. See also: the films of Whit Stillman.

If It Was Made Today: It would be exactly the same - Anderson simpl💝y doesn't listen🌱 to the prevailing wind of fashion.

Groundhog Day (1993)

The Moment: Trapped-on-February-2nd Phil Connors (Bill Murray) demonstr🌱ates the perks of having time on his hands by executing the perfect security vꦅan heist.

Only In The '90s: High-concept rom-com whimsy could push the envelope in ဣterms of misanthropic amorality.

If It Was Made Today: Phil Connors would be played by Adam Sandler, and this scene w𝐆ould be replaced with a fart gag.

Boogie Nights (1997)

The Moment: Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg) makes his on-screen debut as 'Dirk Diggler,' prompting cast and crew's e♛yebrows to raise when they see the size of his manhood.

Only In The '90s: The appetit🐲e for precocious, talented young directors allowed Paul Thomas Anderson to channel Scorsese and Altman into a career-making classic.

If It Was Made Today: Dirk would be doing his thing on a webcam.

Beauty And The Beast (1991)

The Moment: Elegant, romantic an♔d entirely unencumbered by comedic sidekicks, the show-stopping dancꦦe sequence between Belle and the Beast underlined Disney's resurgence.

Only In The '90s: An Oscar nomination🅘 for Best Fi🙈lm, and half a chance of actually winning it.

If It Was Made Today: A shoo-in fo🃏r Best Animated Film, but isn't that why they createdꦦ the category?

Con Air (1997)

The Moment: Cameron Poe (Nicolas Cage) lose⛦s his shit when Billy Bedlam (Nick Chinlund) discovers the stuffed toy he's tryi𒊎ng to take to his daughter - "put the bunny back in the box."

Only In The '90s: Nic Cage was the decade's renaissance man, effortlessly flipping between Oscar-winning art-house and block♋buster.

If It Was Made Today: It'd be just one of man💟y, many Cage action thrillers released every year.

Run Lola Run (1998)

The Moment: Lola (Franka Potente) runs - and if she do🍸esn't get what she wants, no problem. Rewind the story and let her run again.

Only In The '90s: Video game logic starts to seep into movie narrative, with characters like red-bobbed Lola looking lik🌼e console icons.

If It Was Made Today: ♍ It would look like Tom 🐠Tykwer was ripping off everybody else.

Falling Down (1993)

The Moment: Stuck in traffic, on the hottest day of the year, having been made redundanꦺt, pissed-off D-Fens (Michael Douglas) has had enough, and leaves his car on a crazy war against political correctness.

Only In The '90s: Hollywood dares to make a controversial, hot-button thr🍷iller that gets society talking about some tough issues.

If It Was Made Today: Strictly on a micro-budget, Sundance-friendly f꧃ooting.

Hard Boiled (1992)

The Moment: The hospital's on fire, triad agents are everywhere and th🦂ere's a baby trapped in the maternity ward. No sweat for Officer Tequila (Chow Yun-Fat), who stuffs cotton wool in the baby's ears, kills all the bad guys 🌊and then swings out of the building using a cable, baby under his coat.

Only In The '90s: John Woo could crack a gag about the bab𓂃y pissing out the fire on Tequila's trousers and cut to a dangerous stunt.

If It Was Made Today: CGI fire. CGI actor. CGI baby, probably.