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Cassie drops unsettling hints about her real age when a special guest joins the ladies to form a dynamic trio on par with the First Wives Club. It's the '90s, for God's sake!

Vital stats:

Studio: Paramount Pictures

Opened: September 20, 1996

Opening weekend gross: $18,913,411

Director: Hugh Wilson

Stars: Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton

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Original theme music by Phil Dimotsis.

Back from hiatus, Cassie and Jenna discuss Harold Ramis' 1996 comedy—or is it sci-fi horror?—Multiplicity. 

How would you...chaa-aaa-aange the world? Would you remake Powder with John Travolta? Too late! The Travoltassance rolls onward in this (some would say Capra-esque) family drama.

Vital stats:

Studio: Walt Disney

Opened: July 5, 1996

Opening weekend gross: $24,517,121

Director: Jon Turteltaub

Stars: John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick, Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker

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Original theme music by Phil Dimotsis.

Return to the Powderverse in this very timely review of 1996's iconic blockbuster, Independence Day.

Vital stats:

Studio: 20th Century Fox

Opened: July 2, 1996

Opening weekend gross: $50,228,264

Director: Roland Emmerich

Stars: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Randy Quaid, Vivica A. Fox, Judd Hirsch

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Original theme music by Phil Dimotsis.

Welcome to our Fabrizio fancast! We're taking things in a slightly different direction this week by designing our own superweapons and rhapsodizing about everyone's favorite 90s teen heartthrob from Titanic. 

Vital stats:

Studio: Warner Bros.

Opened: June 21, 1996

Opening weekend gross: $24,566,446

Director: Chuck Russell

Stars: Danny Nucci, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Vanessa Williams, James Caan

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Original theme music by Phil Dimotsis.

Do you love sight gags and hate humanity? Have we got the movie for you! Jim Carrey took home Hollywood's first $20M paycheck for The Cable Guy - let Cassie and Jenna tell you whether we think he earned it.

Vital stats:

Studio: Sony Pictures

Opened: June 14, 1996

Opening weekend gross: $19,806,226

Director: Ben Stiller

Stars: Jim Carrey, Matthew Broderick, Leslie Mann, Owen Wilson

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Original theme music by Phil Dimotsis.

Nicolas Cage’s performance in Michael Bay’s 1996 Blockbuster The Rock is like a classic string-of-pearls molecular configuration: elegant, but also really unstable.

Vital stats:

Studio: Hollywood Pictures

Opened: June 7, 1996

Opening weekend gross: $25,069,525

Director: Michael Bay

Stars: Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris

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Original theme music by Phil Dimotsis.

Blockbuster season rolls on with 1996’s Mission: Impossible. Tune in as Cassie and Jenna relive their favorite movie soundtracks and uncover the shocking secret to Tom Cruise’s success. 

Vital stats:

Studio: Paramount Pictures

Opened: May 24, 1996

Opening weekend gross: $45,436,830

Director: Brian de Palma

Stars: Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart, Jean Reno, Ving Rhames, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vanessa Redgrave, Emilio Estevez

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Original theme music by Phil Dimotsis.

Welcome to the suck zone! Get swept up in the first summer blockbuster of 1996 with your new friends Dusty, Got Milk, Cameron, Mullet, Old Guy, Ginger Brillo, Woman, and Buzzcut ... and a special appearance from an old favorite. We got cows!

Vital stats:

Studio: Warner Bros.

Opened: May 10, 1996

Opening weekend gross: $49,051,405

Director: Jan De Bont

Stars: Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes, Philip Seymour Hoffman

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Original theme music by Phil Dimotsis.

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Primal Fear is a well-acted, nuanced, mature legal thriller. Watch it in a cold room.

Vital stats:

Studio: Paramount

Opened: April 5, 1996

Opening weekend gross: $9,871,222

Director: Gregory Hoblit

Stars: Richard Gere, Edward Norton, Laura Linney, John Mahoney, Frances McDormand

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Original theme music by Phil Dimotsis.