A Time to Rend Trivia Quiz

Answer: Heart Rended

"The Notebook" (2004) is a story told to an elderly woman by a man named Duke. It details a long love story between Noah Calhoun and Allie Hamilton. Noah works in a lumber mill, and Allie is an heiress who is in town for the summer. The two fall in love, and Noah tells Allie that he will fix up a local abandoned mansion for the two of them to spend their lives together. However, her parents disapprove, so they are forced to go their separate ways. Noah's heart is broken, so he enlists in the armed services during WWII. While he is gone, he writes to Allie every day for one year, but what he doesn't know is that Allie's mother has been keeping his letters from her. When he returns from the war, he purchases the old mansion and fixes it up. In the meantime, Allie becomes engaged to a man who lives in the upper class like she does so her parents approve.

Just before her wedding, Allie sees a photo of Noah standing in front of the mansion of their dreams, but it is all fixed up. She goes to track him down, and it is only then that she finds out about his letters. Her mother has kept them, so she gives them to Allie who then stops her wedding and marries Noah.

Throughout the movie, the audience is given hints that the older fellow named Duke is actually Noah, and the woman he is reading to who has dementia is actually Allie. This is, in fact, the case. Her memory for him comes and goes, so early in her dementia she had written all about their lives together in a special notebook that he could read to her to help her remember. On one day when her memory of him comes back, they dance together to their song, "I'll Be Seeing You". When her memory fails while they are dancing, Allie panics and needs to be sedated. Noah is overcome with his brokenhearted feelings and has a heart attack, a literal broken heart.

There are lots of spoilers here, so I will leave the ending (a real tear jerker) for you.

Answer: Heart Rended

In the movie "Beaches" (1988), CC Bloom and Hillary Whitney have been lifelong friends. They first met when they were quite young under the boardwalk in Atlantic City. CC is there hiding from her stage mom, and Hillary is lost. They become pen-pals as they grow up. Eventually, Hillary finds CC working in a dive bar because her performing career has stalled. At this point, Hillary is a civil rights lawyer who needs a job and a place to stay. The two move in with one another and Hillary begins working with the ACLU.

CC gets a job as a Broadway actress. The two marry men, and they move apart from one another. When they each get divorces, they come together again to discuss their relationship. It is then that they realize that over all the years, CC has been jealous of Hillary's intelligence, and Hillary has been jealous of CC's talent. It is when they are freshening their relationship that Hillary tells CC that she is pregnant, and that she plans to raise the child as a single mother. CC is very supportive, and even goes so far as to become engaged to Hillary's obstetrician. Her career seems to be over at this point, so she sees it as a natural way to stay and help Hillary raise her new child.

Before Hillary gives birth, CC's agent calls with a wonderful chance for a comeback in New York City. She drops everything and goes, and finds out later that Hillary has given birth to a little girl that she names Victoria Cecelia, with the middle name after CC. When Victoria was a young girl, Hillary developed viral cardiomyopathy. This disease affects her heart, and she will require a heart transplant in order to live. The problem is that Hillary has a rare blood type, so finding a donor match before she dies is highly unlikely. When Hillary develops her illness, CC has made it on Broadway, even winning a Tony Award.

When CC learns about Hillary's illness, she takes her and Victoria to a beach house for a vacation. She has the opportunity to bond with Victoria, and Hillary has the chance to see them developing their relationship. At the end of the summer, Hillary and Victoria go home, while CC goes to Los Angeles to perform in a concert. During the rehearsal, she gets a note telling her that her friend has collapsed. She rushes to Hillary and the three of them go back to the beach house where they had spent their summer. Hillary gets sicker quite quickly, and dies there. CC gets custody of Victoria after the funeral. The two go back to Los Angeles where CC performs her concert. She ends the concert with the song "The Glory of Love", one that they had both liked when they were young. When singing it, she raises her tear-stained face and waves to the sky, baring her rended heart for all to see while she waves to Hillary's spirit in the heavens.

Answer: Heart Rended

In "Ghost" (1990)), Sam Wheat and Molly Jensen are a couple living in New York City. Early in the movie, Sam is killed by a mugger when Sam and Molly are out with his banker co-worker named Carl Bruner. When he dies, a bright light shines and he becomes a ghost. Unfortunately, he is unable to talk with the heartbroken Molly. He tries to stay near where she is in the hope that they will be able to interact one day. On one of those occasions, he is in Molly's apartment when the mugger breaks in. Molly isn't home, but does return soon after the break in. Sam scares her cat, who can see him, who in-turn attacks the mugger. The mugger runs away and Sam chases him. When the killer returns to his own apartment with Sam in tow, Sam discovers that his name is Willie, and that Sam was targeted in the mugging. It turns out that Sam's supposed friend and co-worker Carl Bruner was after all of the banking passwords that Sam kept. Carl had been laundering drug money through a bank account in the fictitious name of "Rita Miller" and he needed the passwords so that he could gain access to the money.

Sam soon meets up with Oda Mae Brown. She advertises herself as a psychic, but it seems that she is a bit of a charlatan in most cases. However, Sam realizes that she can see him and convinces her to help him to contact Molly. Molly goes to Oda Mae, but has a really hard time believing that Sam is present. Sam then tells Oda Mae that every time Molly told him that she loved him, he said "ditto". At that point, Molly is convinced that Sam is present.

Sam, Oda Mae, and Molly devise a plan to withdraw the draw money from the bank. Oda Mae pretends to be Rita Miller, the fictitious name on the account, then goes to the bank and withdraws the money for a charitable donation. Sam haunts Carl who turns to Molly for help to stop the tormenting from Sam. Carl discovers the deception, and since he is getting pressure from the owners of the drug money, he and his henchman Willie go to Oda Mae's to try to get it back. Sam has warned her to hide, so she isn't there. He scares Willie who runs into traffic and is hit by a vehicle. Shadowy figures can be seen dragging his ghost into the ground.

Oda Mae and Sam return to Molly's apartment. Oda Mae allows him to possess her body so that Sam can dance with Molly one more time. This makes him weak, so when Carl breaks in, he is not able to help when Carl takes Molly hostage and demands the money. Sam gets his strength back and attacks Carl who swings a large hook. It misses the ghost and goes through a large window. The window breaks into many pieces, including one large one that stabs and kills Carl. The shadowy figures take Carl's ghost into the underworld.

At the end of the movie when Sam checks on Molly and Oda Mae, a bright beam of light appears. This lets both Oda Mae and Molly to both see and hear Sam. Sam tells Molly he loves her and she responds, "ditto" before he turns and walks into the light away from his girlfriend with the rended heart.

Answer: Heart Rended

Oliver Barrett IV is a character in "Love Story" (1970). He is an heir to old money and attends Harvard. He meets Jennifer "Jenny" Cavilleri who is a student at Radcliffe College. He falls madly in love despite her Italian American, blue collar background.

After they have fallen in love, Jenny tells Oliver that she plans to move to Paris after graduation to study on a scholarship. Oliver becomes upset that she hasn't included him in her plans, and proposes marriage. Jenny accepts his proposal and they go to Oliver's parents mansion so that she can meet his family. His parents don't like Jenny because of her Italian-American roots and her blue collar background. Oliver's father tells him that he will be disinherited if he proceeds with the wedding. They decide to marry anyway, and lose access to Oliver's father's money.

In the meantime, they continue with their lives, with Jenny teaching school and Oliver attending Harvard law school. They struggle financially because they don't have Oliver's father's support, but they do make it through to the end of Oliver's program where he graduates third in his class. He gets a position at a New York City law firm and want to move to the next stage of their lives - having a family. Unfortunately, Jenny is unable to conceive and undergoes a series of blood tests. It is then that doctors tell Oliver that Jenny is terminally ill. He decides to keep the diagnosis from her, but does tell her after a while.

Jenny decides on a Catholic funeral and makes arrangements for that from the hospital. As she lays dying, Jenny tells Oliver that her last wish is for him to hold her as she dies. After she passes, Oliver's heart is rended. He leaves the hospital and finds his father outside. His dad has just rushed in from Massachusetts to be with Oliver and Jenny. Oliver tells him that Jenny is gone and when his father says, "I'm sorry." It is then that Oliver says one of the most famous line in romantic movie history. He says, "Love - Love means never having to say you're sorry." This is a true heart rending movie.

Answer: Heart Rended

Aurora Greenway is a widow who lives in Houston in "Terms of Endearment" (1983). She shares a close but controlling relationship with her daughter Emma. Emma rebels against the controlling nature of their relationship and marries a college professor named Flap Horton. Aurora is not pleased, but continues to reach out to her daughter even though they have frequent disagreements.

Emma and Flap move to Iowa with their three children for Flap's career, but they encounter financial difficulties, and Emma suspects that Flap is having an affair. While at the grocery store one day, Emma doesn't have enough money to pay her bill. A stranger named Sam Burns steps in and pays for her groceries. Soon after, Emma and Sam start an illicit love affair.

While Emma is in Iowa, Aurora starts an affair with her next door neighbour Garrett Breedlove. Back in Iowa, Emma catches Flap flirting with one of his students. She is so angry that she takes the children to Texas to be with her mother. While she is in Texas, Flap accepts a promotion that will move him to Nebraska. Emma decides to give him a second chance and moves back to Flap. Once in Nebraska, Emma discovers that Flap wanted to move to Nebraska so he could be with his girlfriend.

Soon after this discovery, Emma develops terminal cancer. Aurora stays by her dying daughter's side even though her heart is breaking. When Emma passes, she shows her love for her mother by giving her custody of the children. Aurora's heart is rended, but she steps up and begins to raise the children after Emma dies.

Answer: Heart Not Rended

Paul Sheldon appears as a successful author in "Misery" (1990). His work has been in the Victorian romance genre where his books have focused on a character named Misery Chastain. However, he decides that he wants to get away from writing in that genre, so he writes a new book in which he kills off that character. Upon finishing that new manuscript, Paul drives from Colorado where he has been writing to his home in New York City.

Unfortunately for him, Paul crashes his car during a blizzard shortly after setting out. He is rescued by a woman named Annie Wilkes. Annie describes herself as Paul's number one fan. He is bedridden because he has two broken legs and a dislocated shoulder from the crash. Annie takes him home and promises that she will look after him until the phone lines are repaired and the roads are opened.

All seems well at first until Annie reads Paul's latest manuscript where her favourite character is killed off. She gets very angry with Paul. She forces him to burn the only copy of his manuscript, then presents him with a typewriter and demands that he write a new story in which Misery Chastain is not killed. Paul takes to sneaking around while Annie is gone. He unlocks his bedroom door with a Bobby pin and finds a scrapbook that contains articles about Annie's time as a nurse. She had been brought to trial for murdering some babies when she worked as a nurse, but was never found guilty because of lack of evidence. Annie figures out that Paul has been creeping around when she isn't there, so she takes a sledgehammer ties both legs to a length of wood, and breaks both of his ankles.

In the meantime, the local sheriff is trying to figure out why Paul disappeared and where he has gone. Clues lead him to Annie who has drugged Paul and placed him in the basement. Annie shoots and kills the sheriff, and threatens to kill Paul in a murder-suicide. He talks her out of that by asking for time to finish the new novel. She pushes his wheelchair back to his room, but he is able to hide a container of lighter fluid in his pants that goes undiscovered by her.

After Paul finishes the new novel, he presents it to Annie, but before she reads it, he sets it on fire with the lighter fluid. He tells her that he has learned that technique from her. A violet struggle ensues during which Annie shoots Paul, and he bashes her head with a cast iron door stop. The hit to the head finally kills Annie, so Paul is able to escape. Eighteen months later, a very definitely non-heartbroken Paul presents his first post-Misery novel to his agent.

Answer: Heart Not Rended

In "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975), Randle McMurphy is a criminal serving his time on a work release farm. In order to avoid the hard labour that involves, he pretends to be insane so he can be transferred to a hospital for the criminally insane. There, he meets a hard-nosed nurse named Nurse Ratched, the one responsible for his ward. She is like a tyrant, and he tries everything he can to antagonize her.

McMurphy quickly becomes the leader on his ward, instigating things with the other patients that go against Ratched's rules. As a result, she punishes him with the loss of privileges like cigarettes and card-playing. At one point, he steals a school bus and takes many of the other patients on a fishing trip. When they return, McMurphy ends up in a fight with other prisoners and orderlies over one prisoner's cigarette allotment. The prisoners who were in the fight, including McMurphy, are sent to the "disturbed ward" after the fight.

McMurphy is subjected to electroconvulsive therapy. When he returns to the ward, he first pretends to be brain damaged, but then shows his friends that he is back to normal by making an escape plan. Before the escape, he decides that they need to have a Christmas party on the ward. He sneaks his girlfriend and her friend, and some alcohol in after hours. Although he had planned to escape that evening, McMurphy passed out and slept through to morning.

When Nurse Ratched arrives in the morning and finds her ward in a mess, she threatens to tell one of the patient's mother about his behaviour with the women and alcohol. He commits suicide, and she tries to encourage the other patients to continue with their day as usual. McMurphy gets very angry that she wants to ignore the death of his fellow patient, and he tries to strangle her. This leads to him from being taken from the ward. When he returns on a stretcher late one night, one of the patients who he has planned to escape with finds that he has been lobotomized. The other patient smothers McMurphy with a pillow, then makes his own escape. So, although the movie is heartbreaking for the viewer, McMurphy's heart is saved from rendering by his fellow patient who put him out of his misery.

Answer: Heart Not Rended

Pansy Milbank appeared in the movie "Michael" (1996). Pansy runs a boarding house in Iowa. A tabloid newspaper gets wind of the fact that she has an Angel as a tenant, so they send three photojournalists to get to the bottom of the story. The photojournalists are Frank, Huey, and Dorothy. One of the photojournalists also takes their dog Sparky.

When they arrive at Pansy's, the photojournalists find a man with wings who smells like cookies. Despite the fact that he looks rather unkempt, Pansy tells them that he is an angel named Michael. Michael reveals that he is an archangel. Pansy expands on that and tells the photojournalists that he overcame Lucifer in the War of Heaven.

Pansy unexpectedly dies, so Frank and Huey decide to take Michael to Chicago, a place he wants to see. Along the way, the group learns that Michael's goal is to encourage Frank and Dorothy to fall in love even though they have both had bad experiences with love in the past. Suddenly, Sparky is killed when he is hit by a truck. Michael uses up his last miracle to bring him back to life. The dog is fine, but Michael is spent and begins to rapidly weaken. The group arrives in Chicago just in time for Michael to see the Sears Tower, a goal of his. Michael then disappears.

Frank and Dorothy separate, so Michael returns one more time. This time, he has Pansy with him who has also presumably become an angel. They get Frank and Dorothy back together. Then, at the end of the movie, Michael and Pansy go dancing across the screen. It is evident that Pansy's heart is not rended because she is obviously very happy to be with her angel friend Michael as she smiles and dances along with him.

Answer: Heart Not Rended

Jo Harding is a character in the movie "Twister" (1996). She plays a woman who experienced trauma as a young girl when her father was killed as the result of a tornado in Oklahoma. She grows up to be fascinated with tornadoes, and with ways of developing early warning systems for the devastating storms.

Jo's estranged husband Bill has moved on and is engaged to a new woman. Unfortunately, Jo has not signed the divorce papers so he travels to Oklahoma to complete that so he can move on with his life. When they were together, Bill had conceptualized a tornado warning system that he called "Dorothy". In order to work, Dorothy needed to be released directly into the path of a tornado.

A former colleague of Bill's has stolen his idea and developed his own tornado early warning system. When Bill learns of this, he gets angry and agrees to assist Jo for one day as she attempts to launch Dorothy. They have four Dorothy prototypes, so head into the field to chase storms on a particularly active day for tornadoes.

The first Dorothy prototype is destroyed when Jo's truck is forced to crash into a ditch. After taking a break, the team rushes out to a developing F3 tornado. A power line breaks and crushes Dorothy II. Jo is frustrated and admits that she still loves Bill. Bill admits that he still cares for Jo, but his fiancé overhears this conversation on the CB radio. Despite their feelings, Jo signs the divorce papers the next day so the Bill can get on with his life. Shortly after this, Bill's fiancé ends their relationship so that he can go back to Jo.

A rare nocturnal F4 tornado forms the next evening. It does damage to their vehicles and heads towards Jo's aunt's town. Unfortunately, Jo and her team do not arrive before her aunt's property is demolished. Her aunt encourages her to continue with her research into early warning systems. Jo and Bill alter the design of the last two Dorothy prototypes to make them more aerodynamic.

The next day, an extremely large F5 tornado forms. It is one mile wide, but when Jo and Bill place Dorothy III in its path, it is destroyed by an uprooted tree that has become airborne. They bolt Dorothy IV to the bed of the truck and place it directly in the path of the tornado. The device immediately works, gathering all sorts of scientific data when its probes function. The truck is destroyed, though, so Jo and Bill are forced to run. They find a pump house and strap themselves to the pipes inside. The walls are destroyed, but they survive. Jo's heart is definitely not rended since she reconciles with Bill, and is able to make major contributions to the scientific community with all of her work.

Answer: Heart Not Rended

Ellis Redding, also known as "Red" is a character in "The Shawshank Redemption" (1994). He is aman who is in prison for life after being found guilty of murder when he was young. Red is known to smuggle contraband into the prison for other inmates. He makes multiple applications for parole, but is consistently denied his freedom.

One day, a new prisoner named Andy Dufresne arrives. He has been found guilty of murdering his wife and her lover, but claims a wrongful conviction. He asks Red for a rock hammer under the guise of carving a chess set for himself.

Red and Andy become close friends over the years that they serve together. After about 20 years, Andy tells Red that if he ever gets out, he should travel to a field near Buxton with a particular oak tree because Andy will have buried something there for Red. Andy also tells Red that he dreams of going to Zihuatanejo, Mexico when he gets out of prison.

One morning, it is discovered that Andy has used the rock hammer to tunnel out of the prison and escape, hiding the hole he creates behind a series of pin-up girl posters. Red stays behind in Shawshank Prison until he is finally granted parole a year later. He ends up following Andy's directions and finds a tin box with a letter and some money beneath the tree near Buxton that Andy described. Red travels to Zihuatanejo, Mexico with a heart that is definitely not rended because he finds his friend there living as a free man.