Unrelated Movies & TV Shows With Same Title [8] Quiz

Answer: Weeds

In 2012, when "Weeds", starring Mary-Louise Parker as a mother who turns to pot-dealing, entered its eighth and final season, it became the show with the most episodes of all Showtime Channel shows (102 episodes). It wasn't until 2018 when the Showtime show "Shameless" surpassed it, ending its run in 2021 with 134 episodes.

In the 1987 movie "Weeds" directed by John D. Hancock, noted for directing "Bang The Drum Slowly", the always reliable Nick Nolte plays Lee Umstetter, imprisoned for armed robbery.

After reading books from the prison library, and attending a performance for the prisoners of the play "Waiting for Godot", Lee starts writing plays about prison life, and staging them too.

Answer: Legion

The movie "Legion" (2010) starred Paul Bettany as a fallen angel named Michael who comes to the aid of a group of people in a diner, after informing them that God has lost faith in the human race, and they might just be doomed. That "Dominion" show on SyFy takes place 25 years after the events of the movie "Legion".

As for the TV show "Legion", it was based on a Marvel comics hero named David Haller, whose alter ego is Legion. As a mutant, his superpowers were telepathy, telekinesis and teleportation. And telemarketing. No, just kidding about that last one.

Answer: Russian Doll

The 2001 movie "Russian Doll" is a comedy starring Hugo Weaving as a private investigator who aspires to becoming a crime novelist. The 2016 "Russian Doll" drama involves a woman who witnesses a crime but is summarily abducted in the middle of her 911 phone call.
The Netflix TV show "Russian Doll" starred Natasha Lyonne as Nadia Vulvokov, a woman who attends a party in a hipster New York apartment only to die later that evening and come back life to relive the night. She dies again though. And again, and again, etc. She tries to figure out why she is caught in this time loop.

Answer: Once Upon a Time

In the movie, "Once Upon a Time", Cary Grant plays a theatre producer named Jerry Flynn, a theatre producer who needs to get a hold of $1000,000 within a week, lest he lose his theatre. The TV show is one I actually worked on several times during its run.

It has an interesting premise. The town of Storybrooke, Maine is populated by people who are parallels to fairy tale characters we've all read and heard about for years. The characters all have names that are based on the fairy tales, i.e. actress Ginnifer Goodwin plays Mary Margaret Blanchard, whose parallel characters is Snow White ("Blanche" being French for "White"). Ms. Goodwin married actor Josh Dallas, (David Nolan, whose parallel character was "Prince Charming")

Answer: Firefly

You'll see "Firefly" on pretty much any list of TV shows deemed the best shows to get cancelled after only one season. It came from creator Joss Whedon ("Buffy The Vampire Slayer") and starred Nathan Fillion as Captain Malcom Reynolds of a Firefly-class spaceship called Serenity, in the year 2517.

There was a movie adaptation of this series in 2005, called "Serenity" from Universal Pictures. But the science fiction film called "Firefly" had nothing to do with the TV "Firefly" universe. Instead, that 2005 indie film was about a handful of people who experienced unfortunate events on Halloween, but their memory about exactly what is very vague.

But those loose ends do indeed come together in the surprise end.

Answer: Skins

Wings Hauser and Linda Blair play Joe and Maggie Joiner in the drama "Skins", about a separated couple who reunite when their son is murdered by Nazi-skinheads. In 2002's "Skins" Graham Greene plays Mogie Yellow Lodge, whose fellow Sioux brother is a police department investigator, looking into a murder on the Pine Ridge reservation.

The 2011 TV series "Skins" was about a group of high school students in Baltimore, that was an American remake of a British Channel 4 program that debuted in 2007, also named "Skins". Nicholas Hoult of Marvel's "X-Men" movies starred in it.

Answer: The Bear

The director Jean-Jacques Annaud directed the 1984 film "The Bear" similarly to his 1981 film "Quest For Fire" in which there is almost no dialogue spoken by humans. In this story he focuses on an orphan bear cub taken under the wing (or paw) by an adult male bear. Hunters are the danger.

The 1988 film bio "The Bear" starred Gary Busey as legendary University of Alabama football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant. The comedy-drama TV series on FX is about a young highbrow fine-dining chef who, after a death in the family, returns to run the family business, a lowbrow sandwich shop called the Original Beef of Chicagoland.

Answer: The Outsider

"The Awakening", "Hero", and "Crash" are among the most commonly used movie titles according to an article in "The Guardian", but all the unrelated films and TV series mentioned in the question were titled, "The Outsider." On top of all those entertainments mentioned, there are films with the title "The Outsider" from Malaysia (2018), Italy (2018), documentary features from Great Britain (2018), and the USA (2021), and TV series from Great Britain (1983), Mexico (2021), and China (2023).

There are even two TV movies titled "The Outsider", and countless TV series episodes also titled "The Outsider."

Answer: Happy Valley

The 2008 documentary titled "Happy Valley" explored a Utah County nicknamed "Happy Valley" that looked like paradise by some statistics, but also had some very dubious sociological distinctions. The Penn State football team is located in Happy Valley, Pennsylvania, and 2014 documentary feature turned a critical eye on the abuse scandal the school suffered at the hands of an assistant coach named Jerry Sandusky. "Happy Valley" the TV series in The United Kingdom, focused on the life and job of a fictitious Police Sergeant Catherine Cawood, in the Yorkshire area. There is also a low budget indie feature film called "Happy Valley" from 2007, and a 2012 TV movie with the same title.

Answer: Revolution

"Revolution" was director Hugh Hudson's following film after his triumphant Best Picture Oscar win for "Chariots of Fire." "Revolution" however, starring Al Pacino as a Scottish trapper caught up in the whirlwind of the American Revolution disappointed critics and audiences alike.

The somewhat post-apocalyptic TV series "Revolution" costarred Giancarlo Esposito and Billie Burke. Some episodes had titles the same as Led Zeppelin songs and some episodes had titles named after Stephen King novels. There's also a 1968 documentary about San Francisco's counterculture called "Revolution" and a 2018 reality-TV show about dancing with the same title.