Movie Missing Word Quiz II

Answer: Remember

"An Affair to Remember," (1957), which stars Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr as a couple who fall in love and arrange to meet on top of the Empire State Building if things are meant to be; and "Remember the Titans," (2000), which stars Denzel Washington as the coach of a high-school football team in their first season as a racially integrated school.

Answer: Vampire

"Embrace of the Vampire," (1994), which stars Jennifer Tilly, as well as Alyssa Milano as a girl who begins to have strange, erotic dreams courtesy of a vampire; and "Vampire Holocaust" (1997), a truly bad B movie which stars Nick Stodden and Coelle Peck.

Answer: Remains

"Love and Human Remains," (1993), which stars Thomas Gibson and Ruth Marshall as roommates who search for love and meaning in their lives while a serial killer stalks their neighborhood; and "Remains of the Day," (1993), which stars Anthony Hopkins as a butler who falls in love with a housekeeper (Emma Thompson) after World War II, and begins to question his loyalties to his Nazi-supporting employer.

Answer: Love

"Bye Bye Love," (1995), which stars Matthew Modine, Paul Reiser, and Randy Quaid as three friends who are coping with fatherhood and divorce; and "Love and Sex," (2000), which stars Famke Janssen as a writer who explores her search for the perfect relationship while writing an article, and realizes that she might just have found what she was looking for with a painter (Jon Favreau).

Answer: Window

"Rear Window," (1954) a classic Hitchcock film starring Jimmy Stewart as a wheelchair-bound photographer who becomes convinced that he's watching his neighbor commit a murder from the building across the street; and "Window Bed," (1999), a black and white film starring John Albineri and Ivor Roberts.

Answer: Friends

"Circle of Friends," (1995), which stars Minnie Driver and Chris O'Donnell as friends who become more at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland; and "Friends & Lovers," (1999), which stars Stephen Baldwin and Robert Downey, Jr., in a story about a group of friends who go skiing and experience a turn of events in the dynamics of their friendships.

Answer: Grave

"Shallow Grave," (1994), which stars Ewan McGregor in a fantastic movie in which three friends discover their new housemate dead, but with a lot of cash; and "Grave Secrets," (1989), which stars Paul Le Mat as a professor of psychic phenomena who, with the help of a woman who sees ghosts (Renée Soutendijk), investigates the source of the disturbances.

Answer: First

"Murder in the First," (1995), which stars Christian Slater, Kevin Bacon, and Gary Oldman in a wonderful true story about a criminal sent to Alcatraz in the '30s who is punished more severely than could be seen fit; and "First Knight," (1995), which is a mediocre Arthurian tale starring three great actors (Sean Connery, Julia Ormond, and Richard Gere).

Answer: Die

"Live and Let Die" and "Die Another Day"--two James Bond films; the first (1973) starring Roger Moore as 007, and the second (2002) starring Pierce Brosnan as 007.

Answer: Learning

"Higher Learning," (1995), an ensemble cast about a university and the interactions of the students and teachers, which features Omar Epps, Laurence Fishburne, Kristy Swanson, Jennifer Connelly, Tyra Banks, Michael Rappoport, Ice Cube, and Busta Rhymes; and "Learning to Swim," (1999), about a young boy who must overcome his fear of the water after witnessing his younger brother's death by drowning.

Answer: Life

"Imitation of Life," (1959), a classic story starring Lana Turner as an actress whose life is changed when a black maid and her daughter (who tries to pretend she is white) move in with her; and "Life or Something Like It," (2002), which stars Angelina Jolie as a reporter who becomes convinced that she needs to act quickly to change her life based on the prediction of a homeless man.

Answer: House

"Road House," (1989), which stars Patrick Swayze as a bouncer at a rambunctious bar; and "House of Yes," (1997), an amusing black comedy that stars Parker Posey as an unbalanced woman who thinks she is Jackie O, and the interesting relationship between her and her brother, brought out by the visit of her brother and his finaceé (Tori Spelling).

Answer: Rainbow

"The Serpent and the Rainbow," (1988), a Wes Craven movie starring Bill Pullman as a scientist who visits Haiti to uncover the truth behind the rumors of zombies; and "The Rainbow Thief," (1990), which stars Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif, in a film about a thief who befriends the heir to a fortune in the hope of obtaining the money for himself.

Answer: Boys

"The Lost Boys," (1987), which stars Corey Haim and Jason Patric in a story about boys who move to Santa Carla after their parents' divorce only to find themselves in the midst of a group of teenage vampires; and "Boys Don't Cry," (1999), which stars Hilary Swank in an Oscar-winning performance in this wonderful, true story of a girl who poses as a boy in a small midwest town and falls in love with one of the locals (Chloë Sevigny).

Answer: Road

"Arlington Road," (1999), which stars Jeff Bridges and Tim Robbins in a film about a professor who begins to suspect that his new neighbor is a terrorist; and "Road to Perdition" (2002), which stars Tom Hanks and Paul Newman as Irish gangsters in the 1930s.

Answer: Hope

"The Great White Hope," (1970), which stars James Earl Jones as a boxer who deals with being the first black heavyweight contender and being in love with a white woman (Jane Alexander); and "Hope Floats," (1998), which stars Sandra Bullock and Harry Connick, Jr., in a story about a woman who returns to her hometown after a divorce (her husband is sleeping with her best friend; it is revealed on national television) and deals with old friends and acquaintances knowing about her humiliation.

Answer: Green

"The Big Green," a 1995 Disney movie about kids playing soccer starring Steve Guttenberg; and "Green Mile," (1999), a fantastic adaptation of a Stephen King serial novel starring Tom Hanks as a guard on death row who discovers that one of the inmates (Michael Clarke) is not what he seems.

Answer: Party

"The Anniversary Party," (2001), a film about, interestingly enough, an anniversary party that fetes a couple (Alan Cumming and Jennifer Jason Leigh, who also share writing credits) who reunite after a separation; and "Party Line," (1994), which stars José Manuel Cerveno in a study of three Mexican-Americans obsessed with phone sex and the chance of it leading to the real thing.

Answer: Ghost

"The Canterville Ghost," (1986), a kid's classic starring Alyssa Milano and Sir John Gielgud; and "Ghost World," (2001), which stars Thora Birch and Steve Buscemi in a film about the way the friendship between two girls changes during the summer after high school.

Answer: Club

"Fight Club," (1999), a film starring Brad Pitt and Ed Norton, about anarchy and disorder in the life of a disillusioned twenty-something whose existence is changed by an encounter with a stranger; and "Club Paradise," (1986), which stars Robin Williams and Peter O'Toole in a movie about two men who try to restore a small holiday camp to fame, despite the efforts of a magnate who wants to buy the whole island.