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Answer: Jessica Chastain

"Zero Dark Thirty" was something of a breakout role for Jessica Chastain. She was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar and won a Golden Globe Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama).
The movie is about the ten year search for Osama Bin Laden post-2011 and only Maya (Chastain) is convinced where he is. The quote is a reference to his whereabouts.
The title is military-speak for half past midnight, a metaphor for the darkness and secrecy of the mission the movie covers. The movie was "explosive" not in the conventional sense but as this movie showed Americans torturing Iraqis, this caused much discomfort in the movie's home country.

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Answer: Napoleon Dynamite

Napoleon is sullen, aloof and socially awkward. He's not good at sport and is regularly having to deal with bullies. His two friends at school are a shy girl, Deb, and a Mexican exchange student called Pedro whom Napoleon helps to run for class president. In the above scene he struggles to understand what a potential date could possibly see in him. Pedro, as usual, gets straight to the heart of the matter by asking Napoleon if he's actually asked the prospective girl to go with him and then suggests that he uses his impressive art skills to draw a picture of her and present it to her as a gift.

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Answer: Jumpin' Jack Flash

Whoopie Goldberg plays Terry Dolittle, a computer operator in a bank. She is contacted online by an undercover spy who needs help getting out of Eastern Europe as he is in danger from the KGB. His codename is "Jumpin' Jack Flash". She needs to decode his password from the song. The scene develops into a commentary of misheard lyrics.
The "Mick" referred to in the quotation is Mick Jagger, lead singer of the Rolling Stones.


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Answer: Lawrence of Arabia

The 1962 epic film "Lawrence of Arabia" was directed by David Lean and it told the story of T. E. Lawrence's time in the Arabian Peninsula around the time of World War I. During the film Lawrence is torn between his allegiance to the British army that he represents and the people that he meets in Arabia. Lawrence's famous "It's clean" response was prompted from a question by Jackson Bentley who was perplexed as to why Lawrence had stayed in the desert so long and that he seemed to enjoy it.


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Answer: Easy A

Olive moves to a new school and makes the mistake of using the high school gossip factory to improve her social life. Inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter", Olive acts sexually active and aware to get people to like her, until the attention becomes overwhelming. She resorts to a webcast to come clean about how it was all lies and exaggeration abetted by the other pupils.


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Answer: Slaughterhouse-Five

Billy Pilgrim, who'd survived the bombing of Dresden as a prisoner of war (POW) during World War II and suffered post traumatic stress as a result, narrates segments of his life during this film in random order. These include his experiences as a POW, his confrontations with Paul Lazzaro who is looking to kill him, his marriage to the affluent Valencia and the raising of his children. On his daughter's wedding night he is abducted by aliens, taken to Tralfamadore, placed as an exhibit in a zoo and forced to mate with a lost Hollywood starlet. It is during this latter period that the above quote arises and Billy discovers that the aliens have the ability to see in four dimensions. This enables them to see events before they occur and Billy argues that they should be using this power to change the course of events.

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Answer: Lacey Chabert

Only Lacey Chabert and Neve Campbell were on "Party of Five" and only Lacey was in "Mean Girls". "Mean Girls" (2004) tells the story of Cady (Lindsay Lohan), a girl who is attending high school for the first time after being home schooled her entire life. At school she has to navigate the teenage world of popularity and gossip.

Janis (Lizzy Caplan) and Damian (Daniel Franzese) befriend Cady on her first day and warn her about the popular girls called the Plastics. Gretchen (Lacey Chabert) is one of the followers of Regina George (Rachel McAdams). As Janis points out she knows all of the gossip of the school.

Chabert appeared on "Party of Five" from 1994 to 2000. She has remained active in both movies and on TV since.

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Answer: Johnny Storm

Whilst in space a group of astronauts are caught in a cloud of cosmic radiation which alters their DNA and imbues them with super powers. In the above scene the team is being examined while they've been quarantined. The nurse has taken Johnny Storm's (also known as the Human Torch) temperature which has peaked at 209 degrees. The film is based on characters from the Marvel Comics universe and stars Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba and Chris Evans.

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Answer: Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy

This movie is a sequel to "Before Sunrise" (1995) when two young people shared a night in Vienna nine years earlier and lost touch. They meet in Paris and the entire movie is a dialogue between the two former lovers albeit set against a summery Paris that they walk through. The two leads wrote the screenplay themselves and the movie was shot in long takes that feel as if it is shot in real time. Not a gossipy movie really but certainly one of the most dialogue driven (and enjoyable) movies i have ever seen.


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Answer: Firefighting

In "Backdraft", Chicago firefighters try to trace an arsonist who sets fires using a fictional chemical substance.

The quote in the question comes from the parole hearing of one Ronald Bartel. Every year during Bartel's parole application, arson investigator Captain Rimgale engineers the application's rejection by playing on Bartel's obsession with fire.

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