Movies from 1991 in Other Words Quiz

Answer: The Silence of the Lambs

"The Silence of the Lambs" is a 1991 horror-thriller starring Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, and Scott Glenn. Foster plays FBI trainee Clarice Starling who has to chase down a serial murderer who kidnaps young women so he can remove their skin to make a suit.

Answer: Hot Shots!

"Hot Shots" is a comedy film and a lampoon of the movies like "Top Gun", and "Iron Eagle" with a spattering of films like "Marathon Man", "Rocky", "9 1/2 Weeks" and "Dances with Wolves". It stars Charlie Sheen as U.S. Navy pilot Topper Harley.

Answer: Backdraft

"Backdraft" is a drama thriller about two firemen who are brothers and working at the same firehouse. It stars Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, and Robert De Niro. Baldwin plays Brian McCaffrey, a recruit at a firehouse where his older brother Lt. Stephen "Bull" McCaffrey (Kurt Russell) works. Brian finds out that another fireman at the firehouse is starting arson fires around the city.

Answer: My Girl

"My Girl" is a comedy-drama about an 11-year-old girl who is a hypochondriac and lives with her father and grandmother in a funeral home. Eleven-year old Vada Sultenfuss, played by Anna Chlumsky, develops a friendship with a young boy in the neighborhood named Thomas Sennett (Macaulay Culkin).

The two experience a sort of puppy love for each other and the companionship ends when Thomas dies from an allergic reaction after getting stung by a swarm of bees.

Answer: Necessary Roughness

"Necessary Roughness" is a sports comedy about 34 year old farmer and ex-high school quarterback Paul Blake (Scott Bakula) who gets recruited to play for a floundering college football team. Under Blake's guidance, the team manages to defeat the number one team in their division on the last game of the season.

Answer: Toy Soldiers

"Toy Soldiers" is an action drama about a boarding school that gets taken over by a group of terrorists. The leader of the terrorists demands the release of his drug kingpin father who is being held for trial in the U.S. and hold the kids of the school as hostages.

A small group of the students disrupt the plans of the terrorists and help their fellow students to escape the school before it is blown up. The film stars stars Sean Astin, Wil Wheaton, Louis Gossett Jr., Andrew Divoff, Mason Adams and Denholm Elliott.

Answer: Deceived

"Deceived" is a thriller film about an art dealer who fakes his own death after he gets caught up in an art treasure forgery scheme. Before his fake death, Jack Saunders (John Heard) switches a real artifact with a fake and stashes it in his home in hopes of retrieving it later. His wife, played by Goldie Hawn, finds out later that he is still alive and tracks him down.

Answer: Hook

"Hook" is a fantasy film about a lawyer named Peter Banning (Robin Williams) who finds out that he is actually Peter Pan when his two kids are kidnapped by the infamous Captain Hook (Dustin Hoffman). Peter enlists the help of 'The Lost Boys' in order to free his children from Hook.

Answer: Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead

"Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead" is a comedy about a young female high school graduate who has to figure out a way to support her family when her mother goes on a vacation for the summer and the babysitter that was hired to watch them dies of a heart attack. Sue Ellen Crandell (Christina Applegate) fakes her age and resume to get a job at a clothing manufacturer as a receptionist but ends up being picked for an executive position because of her fake resume.

Answer: Sleeping With The Enemy

"Sleeping With The Enemy" is a thriller about an abused wife who fakes her own death in order to escape her abusive husband. After escaping, Laura Burney (Julia Roberts) starts life anew in another town but gets tracked down by the abusive husband when he figures out that she faked her death.