Movies from 2000 in Other Words Quiz

Answer: Gladiator

"Gladiator" is an historical drama about Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius who gets betrayed by the son of the Emperor after the Emperor is murdered. Maximus's family is murdered and he is enslaved and forced to fight for sport as a gladiator. He eventually is able to fight his way to a duel with the man who had his family murdered.

The movie stars Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, and Connie Nielsen.

Answer: Meet the Parents

"Meet the Parents" is comedy about a young male nurse named Gaylord 'Greg' Focker (Ben Stiller) who has to meet his fiancee's parents for the first time. His fiancee's father is an ex CIA operative who doesn't care much for his daughter's pick for a husband and gives Greg a hard time and tries desperately to throw a monkey wrench into the relationship.

It stars Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Blythe Danner, and Teri Polo.

Answer: What Women Want

"What Women Want" is a romantic comedy about a womanizing self centered advertising executive who who gets passed over for promotion by a new female executive hired from outside of the company. Nick Marshall (Mel Gibson) finds himself having to come up with advertising ideas for female products that he is totally unfamiliar with.

While experimenting with the products, Nick accidentally electrocutes himself and awakes to find that he has the ability to know what women are thinking.

Answer: Battlefield Earth

"Battlefield Earth" is a science fiction action film about an alien race called Psychlos that conquer the planet Earth and rule it for 1000 years. They use humans as slave labor and train them to mine gold. In order to get the humans to be more efficient at their tasks, the Psychlo leader uses a mind teaching device on one of them.

The device enables the human to understand the Psychlo language but it also helps him to understand how he can use his new found knowledge to defeat the Psychlos and reclaim the planet.

The movie stars John Travolta, Barry Pepper and Forest Whitaker.

Answer: Cast Away

"Cast Away" is a survival drama about FedEx systems analyst Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) who gets stranded on an uninhabited island when the plane he is traveling on crashes in the ocean. After surviving for four years, he manages to build a raft that is strong enough to enable him to get off the island and be rescued.

Answer: Frequency

"Frequency" is a science fiction drama about NYPD homicide detective John Sullivan (Jim Caviezel) who, while on is a ham radio during an aurora borealis, finds out that he is talking to his father who died years earlier. The link to the past helps John solve a serial killer case of the present and also change things that happened in the past like his father's death.

It stars Dennis Quaid, Jim Caviezel, Shawn Doyle, and Elizabeth Mitchell.

Answer: The Replacements

"The Replacements" is a sports comedy about a group of misfit and wannabe football players that get picked to be replacements for a pro football team when the pros decide to go on strike. The team is led by All American college quarterback Shane Falco (Keanu Reeves) who had a career ending disastrous Sugar Bowl showing.

When the team finally gets their act together and have a chance to make it to the playoffs, the strike ends and the regular quarterback crosses the picket line to try and lead the team to victory.

After a lack luster first half, Shane returns to lead the team to a win.

Answer: Snow Day

"Snow Day" is a comedy about a weather forecast gone wrong and people wake up to find the town covered knee deep in snow. The kids in the town get the day off from school but know that the town snow plow man will try his best to remove the snow to prevent another day off for the students.

Some of the students decide to take matters in their own hands to sabotage the snow plow man's efforts so that they can get another day off from school. The movie stars Chevy Chase, Chris Elliott, Mark Webber, and Jean Smart.

Answer: Scary Movie

"Scary Movie" is a parody slasher comedy film about a high school girl named Cindy who is being stalked by a masked serial killer. The movie mainly follows the plot line of the movie "Scream" but throws in lampoons of other films such as "I Know What You Did Last Summer", "The Blair Witch Project", and "Urban Legends". It stars Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Jon Abrahams, Shannon Elizabeth,
Anna Faris, and Regina Hall.

Answer: Space Cowboys

"Space Cowboys" is an action drama about a team of four retired and aged Air Force pilots who get recruited by NASA to help fix a problem with an old style Soviet communications satellite in order to keep it from falling back to Earth. When the team reaches the satellite, they discover that it is actually a launch platform for atomic missiles aimed at the United States.

The movie stars Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, and James Garner.