Movie Synonyms Trivia

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From Quiz Movies from 2001 in Other Words

Answer: Planet of the Apes

"Planet of the Apes" is the first remake of the original 1968 film starring Charlton Heston. The 2001 version features Mark Wahlberg as Captain Leo Davidson who travels through a space storm and crash lands on a planet where apes can speak and use humans as slaves and pets. Leo manages to get back to Earth only to find that reality has been altered and apes are now in control of Earth.

From Quiz Movies from 2000 in Other Words

Answer: Gladiator

"Gladiator" is an historical drama about Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius who gets betrayed by the son of the Emperor after the Emperor is murdered. Maximus's family is murdered and he is enslaved and forced to fight for sport as a gladiator. He eventually is able to fight his way to a duel with the man who had his family murdered. The movie stars Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, and Connie Nielsen.

From Quiz Movies from 1998 in Other Words

Answer: Armageddon

"Armageddon" is a sci-fi film about a gigantic asteroid that is on a collision course with Earth. NASA decides to send up a team of deep core oil drillers to drill a hole into the asteroid and plant a nuclear bomb inside in hopes of destroying it.

From Quiz Movies from 1997 in Other Words

Answer: Men in Black

"Men in Black" is a sci-fi comedy about a secret organization that patrols aliens living on the Earth. When an alien bug disguised in human skin murders an Arquilliann in order to steal a jewel containing a tiny galaxy, the Men in Black must track down the bug and keep him from leaving Earth with it or the Arquillianns will destroy Earth.

From Quiz Movies from 1996 in Other Words

Answer: Independence Day

"Independence Day" is a science fiction film about aliens that come to Earth to exterminate humans and strip the planet of its resources. Scientists have to figure out a way to take down the impenetrable shields protecting the alien ships before soldiers can mount an attack.

From Quiz Movies from 1992 in Other Words

Answer: A Few Good Men

"A Few Good Men" is a military courtroom drama about two Marines being tried for the murder of a fellow marine in their rifle company at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. It stars Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon, and Kevin Pollak. Tom Cruise plays a military lawyer who must prove that the murder was an accident and that his clients were ordered to inflict punishment on the weaker private.

From Quiz Movies from 1994 in Other Words

Answer: The Lion King

"The Lion King" is a Disney animated film about a lion cub that gets chased away from his pride when his father, who is the leader of the pride, gets killed by a stampede. Simba, voiced by Jonathan Taylor Thomas and later by Matthew Broderick, grows up and returns to the pride to retake the leadership of the pride from his evil uncle Scar.

From Quiz Movies from 1993 in Other Words

Answer: Philadelphia

"Philadelphia" is a legal drama based on the true story of lawyer Andrew "Andy" Beckett played by Tom Hanks. Beckett keeps his homosexuality and lifestyle hidden from the law firm that he works for until he contracts AIDS and develops visible sores on his body. Because of the homophobic views of his bosses, he gets fired from the firm and then sues the firm for discrimination.

From Quiz Movies from 1987 in Other Words

Answer: The Untouchables

"The Untouchables" is a crime film about a group of federal agents assigned to bring down crime lord Al Capone. It stars Kevin Costner as Eliot Ness and Robert De Niro as Al Capone. Ness is able to take Capone to court on tax evasion charges. In the movie, Capone is able to bribe all the jurists in his case. When Ness finds out, he basically blackmails the judge into switching the jury that Capone bribed with another jury that is hearing a different case at the same courthouse. Knowing now that he cannot win the case, Capone's lawyer changes his client's plea to guilty.

From Quiz 'The Sheep are Quiet': Movies in Other Words 2

Answer: Some Like It Hot

Synopsis: Two fugitive musicians (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon), who inadvertently witness a Chicago gangland massacre, impersonate women in an all-girl band to escape the 'mob'. They're befriended by a lonely vocalist (Marilyn Monroe), with whom the Curtis character becomes besotted. In turn, Lemmon is pursued by satchel-mouthed veteran Joe E Brown. When the gangsters are routed and all is revealed at the Miami denouement (Lemmon: 'But Osgood, I'm a man!'), Brown utters the immortal final line of the movie expressed in the hint. Noted for first depicting men in drag to wide acceptance and commercial success, it was a death knell for the sanctimonious grip of the Hays motion picture code. It also established the versatile Curtis as a romantic-comedy leading man after making his name in a cringeworthy series of matinee swashbucklers in the mid-50s - medieval knights and coiffed crusaders with a thick Bronx accent - spare me! In a key beach scene, Curtis gives a passable Cary Grant imitation - given some of his past performances, who knew? Trivia: Marilyn's pill-popping and erratic behavior on set were by now notorious. Lemmon and Curtis are said to have bet on how many takes she would need to complete a given scene; the film was shot in black and white against the trend for major films of the time because, according to director Billy Wilder, Curtis and Lemmon looked 'unacceptably grotesque' in color. Ergo, they look 'acceptably grotesque' in this?

From Quiz 'The Sheep Are Quiet': Movies in Other Words

Answer: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Yes, that sweaty, ophidiophobic, two-fisted archaeologist and master of numerous dead languages and deadpan wisecracks in the face of deadly peril, Henry Watson Jones Jr. Jones is simply Johnson in Welsh. The etymology of 'Hoosier' (resident of Indiana) is uncertain. Using states for nicknames seems to be a mainly American predilection - I've never heard of an East-Anglia Eastwood, Ontario O'Hara or Queensland Quinn, but we have Tennessee Williams, Minnesota Fats, Washington Irving, and Louisiana May Alcott - wait ... what? This was the second instalment of Stephen Spielberg's hugely successful tribute to the 'matinee cliffhanger' genre which had inspired his youthful moviemaking ambitions. It's ostensibly a prequel to 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' set in 1935. This outing was widely criticized for excessive violence and offence to Hindus, causing outrage in India. Synopsis: Intrepid Indy (Harrison Ford) together with his 11-year-old sidekick Shorty Round (Ke Quan) and current flame Willie Scott (Kate Capshaw) find themselves in remote northern India, arriving in characteristic fashion by burning plane and inflatable raft down a raging rapid, while on the run from Chinese gangsters. The trio is drawn into mysterious village child kidnappings and the theft of a sacred temple stone. Investigations lead them deep under a mountain to the heart of a horrific human-sacrifice cult practising child slavery. After numerous obligatory escapes from the jaws of death (a riproaring underground railroad chase, climbing a cliff above crocodile-infested waters, while shot at by Thuggee archers, among others), they succeed in destroying the cult, freeing the children and returning the sacred stone.

From Quiz Movies In Other Words II

Answer: 12 Angry Men & Twelve Angry Men

The 1957 movie "12 Angry Men" stars Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley, Jack Warden, Jack Klugman, Joseph Sweeney, George Voskovec, John Fiedler, Edward Binns, E. G. Marshall, Robert Webber, and Martin Balsam as twelve jurors. They have to decide the fate of an 18 year old accused of murdering his father. After a preliminary vote of 11 to 1 to convict, the lone hold out, juror #8(Henry Fonda) tries to convince the other jurors that they are making a mistake and there is not enough evidence to convict.

From Quiz Well Known Movies "In Other Words"

Answer: What Women Want

The 2000 movie "What Women Want" stars Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt. Mel plays advertising agent Nick Marshall who, by a freak electrical accident, suddenly gets the gift of being able to hear what all women are thinking. He uses his gift to steal the ideas of his boss Darcy Maguire (Helen Hunt) in order to take over her job. The job that he felt should have been given to him. While Nick is using his trickery throughout the movie, he falls in love with Darcy. His conscience gets the better of him at the end of the movie and he ends up telling Darcy that he stole her advertising ideas.

From Quiz Sandra Bullock Movies - In Other Words

Answer: Practical Magic

The 1998 movie "Practical Magic" is based on a book with the same name by Alice Hoffman. Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman play sisters who though born in a family with magical powers, keep firmly away from such acts. When a turn of events forces them to try witchcraft, they end up with wholly unintended consequences.

From Quiz Chick Flicks in Other Words

Answer: City of Angels

"City of Angels" features Nicolas Cage as an angel and Meg Ryan as a doctor. When Cage's character, known only as Seth, sees Ryan (Maggie) trying desperately to save a patient he has come to take away, he gets attracted by her compassion and sincerity. He then violates protocol and finds a way to make himself seen by her over the course of the next few days and tries to strike up a friendship. In the end, will he able to bridge a seemingly eternal distance to be with her?

From Quiz Musicals, in Other Words

Answer: Funny Girl

"Funny Girl" (1968) was based on the 1964 Broadway musical of the same name. It tells the life story of Fanny Brice, detailing her rise to stage stardom and her turbulent love life with a renowned gambler. Streisand shared the Oscar for Best Actress with Katharine Hepburn for her performance in "The Lion in Winter".

From Quiz In Short

Answer: The African Queen

This film is set in Africa around 1914. It starred Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart as a disparate couple who join forces in attacking a German boat out in a large lake. They have met by chance under dire circumstances, and each helps the other in understanding their situation and relationship. Charlie is a boozehound and a grimy adventurer, Rose has been doing missionary work in the jungle. Rose soon straightens him out. After he finds her pouring his gin into the river, she informs him that 'temptation is what we are put on this earth to resist'. After overcoming many obstacles over the course of many days, they finally arrive at the lake, narrowly escaping discovery by the Germans. This is an excellent film with two of the best actors Hollywood ever churned out.

From Quiz Animated Disney Movies in Other Words

Answer: Lady and the Tramp

"Lady and the Tramp" came out in 1955. It is the classic dog love story between a pampered English cocker spaniel, Lady, and a stray, Tramp. A direct-to-video sequel, entitled "Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure", came out in 2001 and is centered on their son.

From Quiz In Other Words

Answer: Twelve Angry Men

"Twelve Angry Men" (1957) was a tour de force of acting for Henry Fonda, a movie he also produced and bankrolled. Not well received when first released, over the years it has become a cult classic. It was remade several times, perhaps the best known version being the 1997 TV movie starring Jack Lemmon in Fonda's role.

From Quiz Projected Pictures with Designated Names

Answer: Big

"Big" is a romantic comedy in which Tom Hanks stars as a young boy who makes a wish "to be big" and grows up overnight. He leaves home and takes a job with a toy company. Soon, the pressures of adulthood get to him and he finds himself wishing to be a child again.

From Quiz Sets of Moving Pictures with Descriptive Headings

Answer: Paper Moon

"Paper Moon" is the story of Moses (Ryan O'Neal) and Addie (Tatum O'Neal) during the Great Depression. Moses is a bible selling con-artist who is given the task of bringing Addie, who is an orphan, to her aunt's home.

From Quiz Shaken, Not Stirred: "James Bond", In Other Words

Answer: The Man With the Golden Gun

'The Man With the Golden Gun' (1974), was directed by Guy Hamilton and featured Roger Moore in the starring role. The movie featured Christopher Lee as a hitman named Scaramanga, who used golden bullets and his golden gun to kill his victims. Hervé Villechaise played the part of Scaramanga's little assistant, Nick Nack. Britt Ekland and Maud Adams featured as Bond girls in the movie.

From Quiz Movies in Other Words 2

Answer: Steel Magnolias

Released in 1989, this drama is about a beauty shop in Louisana, owned by Truvy, and the tragedies of all of her clients. It stars Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley Maclaine and Julia Roberts, to name but a few. Shelby is diabetic and getting married to a rich southern lawyer. M'Lynn is Shelby's bossy mother. Her friends include a number of different women of all different age groups and points of view. Shelby gets pregnant, much to her mother's disapproval. Due to her medical condition, the pregnancy could be fatal. Shelby says she'd rather have thirty minutes of wonderful, than a lifetime of nothing special. The movie progresses through the realities and tragedies of their lives in Chiquapin Parish, Louisiana.

From Quiz Movies in Other Words

Answer: Metro

1997 film starring Eddie Murphy as Inspector Scott Roper. Roper is a hostage negotiator for the SFPD, who catches a murdering bank robber when he messes up his last job. The robber gets away and goes after the person who put him behind bars. Roper and his partner McCall attempt to rescue Roper's kidnapped girlfriend.

From Quiz Films from the Ealing Studios - Cryptic Style

Answer: The Ladykillers & Ladykillers

"The Ladykillers" was released in 1955. It is a dark comedy starring Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom and Peter Sellers as a gang of not too ruthless villains who hole-up with eccentric widow, Mrs Louisa Wilberforce (Katie Johnson). The gang tell their landlady that they are a musical ensemble and she believes their deceit. Various twists in the plot leave the unsuspecting Mrs Wilberforce with the gang's loot, which she is persuaded to keep. Gang members Peter Sellers and Herbert Lom were later destined to become fierce enemies in the "Pink Panther" series of movies.

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