Diva's Movies In Other Words Trivia Quiz

Answer: Romeo Must Die

Aaliyah Haughton and Jet Li are great together in this flick from 2000. This is the classic tale of two fueding family members falling in love. Aaliyah is featured on the soundtrack for this movie with "Try Again" and "Back In One Piece", a duet with rapper DMX. Sadly Aaliyah passed away in a plane crash. She was returning from a video shoot for her hit "Rock The Boat".

Answer: An Officer And A Gentleman

Richard Gere (Zack Mayo) and Debra Winger (Paula) star in this film from 1982. He's a Navy Brat and she's devoted to family. Can they get it together? Lou Gossett Jr. won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and he also won Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture at the Golden Globes.

Answer: Tremors

In 1990 Kevin Bacon starred as Valentine McKee in this creature feature along with an all-star cast that included Fred Ward, Michael Gross (of "Family Ties" fame) and Country singer Reba McEntire! The creatures were "Graboids" they were worm like and hell-bent on destruction by terrorizing the whole town.

Answer: Untamed Heart

Christian Slater plays Adam, a busy boy with a congenital heart problem. Marisa Tomei is Caroline, a waitress. Together they find love in each other in this 1993 classic.

Answer: Castaway

Tom Hanks and the volleyball share the screen in 2000. Hanks stars as Chuck Noland who has his whole life planned out to the second. All of that changes in a plane crash. He is isolated on a desert island and he must learn to survive. This epic film was written by William Broyles Jr., who was a former editor of Newsweek magazine.

He also helped with the screenplays for "Apollo 13", "Unfaithful" and "Planet of the Apes" (in 2001)!

Answer: Signs

Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix and Rory Culkin are together in this 2002 blockbuster. Mel is Graham Ness, a town Reverend who finds mysterious circles in his field. It becomes a real challenge to keep one's faith in the eye of the media frenzy that ensues.

He feels he has to pull himself and his family through this. Culkin plays Morgan Ness Graham's son while Phoenix plays Merrill who is Graham's brother.

Answer: Fatal Vision

A "Made For TV" movie and book came out in 1983 based on the true life crimes of Dr. Jefferey MacDonald on the Fort Bragg base located in North Carolina. He brutally murdered his wife and two children. He then tried to cover up the murder by stabbing himself and accusing some hippies. The trial was sensational.

Answer: The Bodyguard

Kevin Costner is Frank Farmer, a ex-secret service agent who is ordered to protect Rachel Marron (Whitney Houston), a singer turned actress (big stretch!) from a stalker. They build a bond of trust that surpasses anything either could have expected. Whitney's acting debut and a number one soundtrack for a record breaking number of weeks made this the blockbuster of 1992.

Answer: White Heat

1949 hit for James Cagney. The gangster with a soft spot for his ma! Cody Jarrett (Cagney) knocks over banks and is a train robber. He gets jailed. The cops stick an undercover agent in his cell to try and get any dirt on his criminal history. There is a prison riot and Cody escapes leading the police on a wild goose chase.

The famous line "Finally made it, Ma! Top o' the world!" is from this movie.

Answer: The Man With One Red Shoe

Tom Hanks again but with Dabney Coleman, Carrie Fisher, Jim Belushi to name a few in this 1985 cult classic. Tom's character, Richard, is picked at random in the airport by Cooper (Dabney Coleman) to throw the CIA a curveball. They set up surveillance on Richard and send in a decoy named Maddie (Lori Singer). They fall for each other.

Answer: Cocktail

Tom Cruise as Brian Flanagan shakes it behind the bar for Jordan Mooney played by Elizabeth Shue of "Adventures In Babysitting". All under the watchful eye of Doug Coughlin played by Bryan Brown of "F/X" in 1988.

Answer: The Couch Trip

Charles Grodin, Dan Aykroyd and Walter Matthau are great in this hit from 1987. Are the psychiatrists more warped than their patients? That's the premise of this movie. Dr. George Maitlin (Grodin) is a radio therapist who has a breakdown. He goes on vacation.

His replacement was suppose to be a Dr. Baird but an escaped mental patient named John Burns (Aykroyd), intercepts the call and assumes Baird's identity. Dr. Baird befriends a panhandler (Matthau) along the way. Who's the one who needs the help?

Answer: Practical Magic

Sandra Bullock plays Sally Owen and Nicole Kidman is her sister Gillian. They weaved a wonderful spell on movie goers in 1998. Stockard Channing from "Grease" and "The West Wing" is also in this movie, as Aunt Frances. Raised by their aunts because their parents died Sally and Gillian Owen knew that they were very different.

They were witches who have been doomed to have the men that they fall for die an untimely death. Well...the Owen sisters try to cheat fate!

Answer: Rub And Tug

This is a 2002 canadian movie about the lives of three full body massage therapists (Linda Booth, Tara Spencer-Nairn and Kira Clavell) and how they change under new manager, Conrad (Don McKellar).

Answer: Girl Happy

Elvis in 1965. Nothing was hotter, so why not put The King in a movie going girl crazy. The Elvis fans swooned all the way out of the theatre wishing that they were co-star Shelley Fabares who played the mob boss' daughter, Valerie Frank, that Elvis' character, Rusty Wells, had to babysit.