Movies from 1985 in Other Words Quiz

Answer: Sweet Dreams

"Sweet Dreams" is an auto-biographical film about the later years of singing artist Patsy Cline. The film stars Jessica Lange as Patsy and Ed Harris as her husband Charlie Dick. The film covers the beginning of her career up to the time of her death in an airplane crash.

Answer: Heaven Help Us

"Heaven Help Us" is a comedy drama about a group of misfits attending an all-boys Roman Catholic high school run by Brothers called St. Basil. The school has a sadistic teacher who delights in humiliating and sometimes torturing the boys. When the headmaster of the school finally sees first hand how mean the teacher is to his students, he transfers him to a place where he is not allowed to teach children.

Answer: American Flyers

"American Flyers" is a sports drama film about two brothers who enter a three day bicycle race called "The Hell of the West." The older brother wants to do this race because he has a terminal illness and wants to do one last thing together with his brother.

Answer: Mask

"Mask" is a biographical film about teenager named Roy L. "Rocky" Dennis (Eric Stoltz) who suffers from a facial deformity called craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, also called "lionitis". The movie centers on Rocky's high school years and his personal life difficulties dealing with his deformity.

Answer: Vision Quest

"Vision Quest" is a sports coming-of-age movie about a high school wrestler who falls in love with an older woman who is boarding at his house. Louden Swain (Matthew Modine) decides that he wants to drop his weight down so that he can wrestle in the toughest weight class. Carla (Linda Fiorentino) ends up falling for Louden but decides to leave town earlier than she wanted to because she knows that their feelings for each other are interfering with his wrestling dreams.

Answer: Real Genius

"Real Genius" is a comedy about a college student who is recruited by one of his professors to help develop a high powered laser. After several failures, Chris Knight (Val Kilmer) succeeds in getting the laser to work only to find out later that he was duped into creating a secret weapon for the CIA.

Answer: Cocoon

"Cocoon" is a science fiction film about a small group of aliens from a planet called Antarea who come to the planet Earth to retrieve some of their people who were stranded on Earth thousands of years ago. The stranded Antareans were placed into shell-like pods and placed into the ocean so they could hibernate until rescue.

Answer: Fright Night

"Fright Night" is a horror film about a teenager named Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale) who, while looking through his bedroom window, sees his neighbor kill a young woman by biting her neck. While his neighbor is biting the woman, he looks out of the window and sees Charley watching him. Realizing that his neighbor is a vampire, Charley must now fight off the vampire's attempts to kill him.

In order to fight the vampire, Charley enlists the help of Peter Vincent (Roddy McDowall), the host of a late night TV horror series and actor who plays a fictional vampire slayer.

Answer: Gotcha!

"Gotcha!" is a comedy action movie about a college student named Jonathan Moore (Anthony Edwards) who has fun playing a game on campus called 'Gotcha'. It is a hide and seek assassin game where participants hunt down each other between classes and shoot each other with paint balls. Jonathan goes on a trip to Germany and finds himself in a real life espionage situation when a woman he meets plants a roll of film in his backpack. Jonathan is followed back to the U.S. by KGB agents looking for the film.

When Jonathan is chased to his college campus, he uses the skills he acquired in the Gotcha game to defeat the agents chasing him.

Answer: Back to the Future

"Back to the Future" is a science fiction comedy about an eccentric inventor named Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) who builds a time machine out of a DeLorean automobile. He asks his young friend Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) to film the testing of the machine at a mall parking lot. Marty agrees but during testing, Marty finds himself behind the wheel and is accidentally transported to the year 1955.

He interferes with history by accidentally changing the circumstances where his mother falls in love with his father thus changing the future. Marty then has to put things right before he can return to 1985 or it will be as if he never existed.