Anyone who lives through the 1990s knows that it was quite a unique span of time for pop culture, going from the ‘80s excess of Wall Street to the later excess of the Fast and Furious franchise.

Morgan Freeman, left, and Tim Robbins in the classic '90s movie "The Shawshank Redemption." The best ‘90s movies evoke nostalgia for a period when the Cold War had recently ended, Gen X slackers made ...