10 Awesome 90s Movies You've Probably Never Seen

10. Rubin And Ed (1991)

The oddball genre burgeoned in the 80s and 90s, when deus ex machina gizmos saved the day and Urkel won the hearts of a nation. Elaborations of the nerd-hero's quirks ate up large chunks of screen time, and were often enough of a premise in themselves to justify a film.

Crispin Glover's Rubin falls into this category, but wastes no time breaking the mold of the fantastic: his morning routine involves not making breakfast with a Rube Goldberg machine, but prancing around with a cat's squeaky toy. Rubin is a pretty convincing loser. In fact, most all of the characters are. The film is satirical about failure among the successful as well: Head of the Class's Howard Hesseman plays Ed, a mid-lifer addicted to self-empowerment, get-rich-quick seminars that make for some of the film's most comic moments.

The two men become reluctantly tied on an odyssey to bury Rubin's dead cat, but there is little plot per se outside this basic premise. Its entertainment value lies in odd vignettes, whether its circular arguments or Rubin's bizarre dreams, the most notable of which involves a CGI, waterskiing cat, of dancing baby level poor quality.

Glover is also responsible, in character as Rubin, for one of late night television's most memorable moments, when he nearly karate kicked David Letterman with his 4" platforms.