Movies from 1980 in Other Words Quiz

Answer: Stir Crazy

"Stir Crazy" is a comedy starring Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor as two unemployed friends who get misidentified as a pair of bank robbers and get sentenced to 125 years in jail. While their lawyers work to prove their innocence, the two friends join the prison rodeo in hopes that they can escape the prison.

Answer: Coal Miner's Daughter

"Coal Miner's Daughter" is a biographical film about the early life and career of country music legend Loretta Lynn. It stars Sissy Spacek as Loretta and Tommy Lee Jones as her husband Doolittle. Sissy Spacek sang all the songs in the movie and she received the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Loretta Lynn.

Answer: Any Which Way You Can

"Any Which Way You Can" is a romantic comedy and sequel to the movie "Every Which Way But Loose". After losing the girl and his last fight at the end of the first movie, Philo Beddoe (Clint Eastwood) is reunited with Lynn Halsey-Taylor (Sondra Locke) two years down the road. Philo agrees to a fight that is promoted by a mobster and then backs out.

The mobsters kidnap his girlfriend in order to force him to fight. The not so tough biker gang "The Black Widows" also make a return and always come up holding the short end of the stick in their confrontations with Philo.

Answer: Raging Bull

"Raging Bull" is boxing movie filmed entirely in black and white and is a biographical film about the fighting years of middle and light-heavy weight boxer Jake LaMotta. Robert De Niro won the Best Actor Oscar for his role as Jake LaMotta.

Answer: The Final Countdown

"The Final Countdown" is a science fiction time travel film about the aircraft carrier Nimitz getting caught in a time disturbance and being hurled back to the year 1941 just before the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Captain, played by Kirk Douglas, doesn't know if he should get into the fight against the Japanese because it may alter the future, or if he should just let Pearl Harbor be destroyed again.

The Captain decides to get into the fight but just before he can, the time disturbance sucks the ship back to 1980.

Answer: Caddy Shack

"Caddy Shack" is a comedy about a group of golf caddies at an upper class country club called Bushwood. It centers around a caddy named Danny Noonan (Michael O'Keefe) who is trying to earn money to go to college. At the end of the movie, Danny finds himself in a foursome playing against the smug owner of the country club for a share of $40,000.

Answer: The Idol Maker

"The Idol Maker" is a musical drama about a restaurant worker and part time song writer and talent agent who discovers that a young saxophone player he knows happens to be a charismatic and good singer. Vincent Vacari (Ray Sharkey) turns the young man into a teen idol. Vince then decides to take on another young singer in hopes of making him a bigger success than Elvis Presley.

Answer: The Elephant Man

"The Elephant Man" is a biographical movie about the later life of John Merrick (John Hurt), a severely deformed man. A doctor named Frederick Treves (Anthony Hopkins) discovers and removes Mr. Merrick from a side show and tries to provide him with a life better than that of a circus freak. John Merrick's real life name is Joseph Carey Merrick.

Answer: The Blues Brothers

"The Blues Brothers" is a musical comedy about two shady brothers named Jake (John Belushi) and Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) who form a blues band in order to make enough money to pay the back taxes on the parochial school that they attended as children. Through the movie, they believe that they are "On a mission from God".

Answer: The Empire Strikes Back

"The Empire Strikes Back" is the second installment of the "Star Wars" movie franchise, by release order. After the destruction of the Death Star, Imperial forces begin chasing down the rebel alliance. Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) goes to a planet so that he can be trained to be a Jedi Knight like his father. Luke also discovers that the evil Darth Vader (voiced by James Earl Jones) is actually his father Anakin Skywalker, a great Jedi who had turned to the dark side of the Force.