Name the Movies of Female Child or Teen Actress Quiz

Answer: Altered States

In 1980, Drew Barrymore made her debut in the film "Altered States", playing the role of Margaret Jessup. She was the daughter of intelligent and slightly mad scientist Eddie Jessup (William Hurt). Eddie was a respected full professor in Harvard Medical School, who did work on sensory deprivation, using untested hallucinogens in mystical Mexican rituals. His wife Emily (Blair Brown), who was also a respected academic, was concerned about her husband's altered states resulting from the experiments.

Answer: My Girl

After making her film debut in the 1989 film "Uncle Buck", Anna Clumsky made her first starring role in the 1991 film "My Girl", playing the role of Veda. Her father Harry (Dan Ackroyd) was a mortician and widower. Her upbringing led her to suffer from hypochondria as she often saw dead people in her house.

Her best friend, Thomas J. Sennett (Macaulay Culkin), was a boy she often liked to hang out with in her neighborhood. Thomas later died from an attack by a swarm of bees. Her father later hired a new receptionist named Shelley DeVoto (Jamie Lee Curtis), who her father later dated. Their lives changed dramatically with the appearance of Shelley. Shelley had the ability to communicate with Veda which her father could not do.
In 1994, she played the same character in the sequel "My Girl 2".

Answer: Mrs. Doubtfire

Mara Wilson played the role of Natalie Hillard in the 1993 film "Mrs. Doubtfire". Her parents Daniel (Robin Williams) and Miranda (Sally Field) decided to divorce after a disastrous party held for their son, Chris (Matthew Lawrence). Daniel later disguised himself as a female housekeeper, named Mrs. Doubtfire, to spend more time trying to get close to his children, in order to save the marriage.

Answer: Poltergeist II: The Other Side

Heather O'Rourke played the role of Carol Anne Freeling in the three "Poltergeist" films in 1982, 1986 and 1988. In the 1986 film "Poltergeist II: The Other Side", the Freeling family moved to a new house, but their troubles with the supernatural forces continued to happen.

Answer: The Way We Live Now

Before Linda Blair appeared as Regan MacNeil in the 1973 film "Exorcist", she made her film debut as Sara Aldridge in the 1970 film "The Way We Live Now". In this film, she was the daughter of Lionel (Nicholas Pryor) and Jane (Lois Smith). Lionel who was an advertising executive was suffering a mid-life crisis, going through a series of bad love affairs. Lionel eventually returned to his wife after realizing his mistakes.

In 1977, Linda Blair continued to play the role of Regan MacNeil in the sequel "The Exorcist II".

Answer: Little Miss Sunshine

Abigail Breslin made her film debut in 2002 film "Signs" at the age 6 as Bo Hess, alongside Mel Gibson, who played her father.

In the 2006 film "Little Miss Sunshine" she played the role of Olive, the youngest child of Richard (Greg Kinnear) and Sheryl (Toni Collette). Her family members were determined to take her to the finals of a beauty pageant by taking a cross-country trip in their Volkswagen bus.

Answer: Madison

Brie Larson was the youngest student, at the age of six, when she started a training program at the American Conservatory Theatre. In 1998, she started her career appearing in a comedy sketch on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno".

In 2001, she played a minor role as Racing Girl No. 2 in her film debut "Madison". This film was a story about a man's personal struggle to victory in hydro-plane racing, in a river port in Madison, Indiana.

Answer: I Am Sam

Dakota Fanning played the role of Lucy Dawson in the 2001 film "I am Sam". Lucy was abandoned by her mother. Her challenged father, Sam, was struggling to look after her. As Sam's difficulties became problematic, Lucy was taken away from his custody. Sam hired a lawyer who was cold-hearted to handle the case. During the process, Sam taught the cold-hearted lawyer a great deal about love and family values.

Answer: Rollercoaster

In the 1977 suspense film "Rollercoaster", Helen Hunt played the role of Tracy Calder, the daughter of Harry (George Segal). Harry was a safety inspector who uncovered a blackmail plot by the terrorist, after investigating a roller coaster in California which went of its track.

The terrorist seemed to be always a step ahead of Harry and the FBI. The blackmail money was personally dropped by Harry but he discovered the FBI had marked the money, making it useless to the terrorist. The terrorist planned another attack on a giant roller coaster on its opening day, and Harry was prepared to stop him.

Answer: Lucas

Winona Ryder played the role of Rina in the 1986 film "Lucas". She was a friend of Lucas Blye (Corey Haim), Maggie (Keeri Green) and Cappie (Charles Sheen) Lucas Blye, a 14-year-old boy was an intelligent high school student in suburban Chicago. He was infatuated with Maggie, an older girl who just moved to town. Cappie was an older boy in a football team. Cappie was initially one of the tormentors who constantly bullied and teased Lucas.

When Cappie contracted hepatitis. Lucas brought him his homework every day to ensure Cappie did not fail and have to repeat a year of school. Cappie was grateful and became his protector.

However, Lucas was heartbroken when he found out that Maggie and Cappie were in love with each other.