Today in Movies
Collateral (2004)
January
25th,
2005,
Max Durocher kills Vincent, saving Annie Farrell from death
Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an assassin.
The Last King of Scotland (2006)
January
25th,
1971,
Idi Amin overthrows president Milton Obote
Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and asks Garrigan to become his personal doctor.
Open Water (2003)
January
25th,
1998,
Tom and Eileen Lonergan are left in the water by a diving boat
Two divers are left out at sea without a boat. There’s nothing but water for miles, unless they look at what’s underneath them...
North Country (2005)
January
25th,
1992,
Lois Jenson, who Josey Aimes is based on, quits her job
A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States -- Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.
Dillinger (1973)
January
25th,
1934,
John Dillinger is captured in Tucson, Arizona
The life of American public enemy number one who was shot by the police in 1934. After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Federal law they sort out several other mobsters, while Dillinger's bank robbing exploits make him something of a folk hero. Escaping from jail he finds Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson have joined the gang and pretty soon he is Public Enemy Number One. Now the G-men really are after him.
