Events

• The film Jurassic Park, a dinosaur epic with massive special effects, breaks box-office records by becoming the highest-grossing film of ever made (at the time) and a plot described as a "roller-coaster ride through a haunted house."
• Family romance film Sleepless in Seattle revives the genre of the Courtship of Eddie's Father, with an extensive soundtrack of oldies music.
• March 31 - Actor Brandon Lee is accidentally killed during the filming of The Crow.
• April 12 - Actress Lisa Bonet files for divorce from Lenny Kravitz.
• April 17 - The Bangles' Susanna Hoffs marries screenwriter Jay Roach in Los Angeles, California.
• Actress Kim Basinger files for bankruptcy after a California judge orders her to pay $7.4 million for refusing to honor a verbal contract to star in the movie Boxing Helena. As a result, Basinger loses the town that she purchased in 1989, Braselton, Georgia, to her partner in the deal, the pension fund of Chicago-based Ameritech.
• May 28 - Produced by Hollywood Pictures, Super Mario Bros. opens, marking the first video game film released, starring Bob Hoskins as Mario and John Leguizamo as Luigi.

Top grossing films (U.S.)