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1. Lindsay Lohan stars in a 2003 remake of a 1976 film, which starred Jodie Foster in the original of the same name. In both, a teenage girl has switched bodies with her mother and both mother and daughter must deal with walking in each other's shoes. It's not Jason killing the teenaged counselors at Camp Crystal Lake, in this first offering from a very popular horror series, it's his mother, seeking vengeance for her son's death.
2. Tim Burton directed Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci in his 1999 adaptation of the classic Washington Irving tale of Ichabod Crane's 1799 search for the headless horseman, who has been beheading residents of a small settlement. Kevin Bacon plays a scientist who, with his team, discovers a serum that causes invisibility, but when he tests the serum on himself, he becomes not only invisible, but also homicidal (2000).
3. 2003 comedy starring Steve Martin as a stuffed shirt attorney/single father who is shocked when the supposed attorney he met online ends up to be an escaped prisoner (Queen Latifah) who wants him to clear her name. Geoffrey Rush stars as a millionaire who offers money to six strangers to spend the night in a ghost-inhabited, former mental institution, in this 1999 remake of a 1959 Vincent Price horror flick.
4. 1956 Hitchcock classic starring James Stewart and Doris Day, in which Day sings "Que Sera, Sera" to their young son, shortly before he is kidnapped. Kenneth Branagh directed himself as Benedick, opposite his then wife Emma Thompson as Beatrice, in his 1993 adaptation of a Shakespeare comedy. The plot concerns a young couple who attempt a love match between Benedick and Beatrice, who do nothing but fight with one another.
5. This quirky comedy, about driving seven-year-old Olive across the country to compete in a pageant, starred Toni Collette as mom, Greg Kinnear as dad and Alan Arkin as Grandpa. It was nominated for the 2006 Best Picture award. Herbert Ross directed and Neil Simon adapted the screenplay from his play for Walter Matthau and George Burns, who starred as feuding former vaudeville comedians who are reluctantly talked into performing a reunion show in this 1975 comedy.
6. After spending seven years in prison for a manslaughter he committed while protecting his wife, former U.S. Ranger, Nicolas Cage, is flying home with notorious criminals who manage to take control of the plane in this 1997 action flick. Another 1997 action flick has Gary Oldman as a Russian terrorist leader who hijacks the plane of the President, played by Harrison Ford, and takes hostages, including the President's wife and daughter.
7. Nia Vardalos was nominated for a screenwriting Oscar for this surprisingly popular, 2002 independent comedy, in which she starred as a Chicago woman whose father is livid when he learns she wants to marry a man of a different ethnicity. This cute 1998 comedy stars Adam Sandler as a man who falls for Drew Barrymore as he helps her plan her nuptials and eventually rescues her from tying the knot with Mr. Wrong.
8. Oscar winner Jodie Foster stars, in 2002, as a claustrophobic woman who moves into a New York brownstone with her diabetic daughter. They are forced to take refuge in a "safe" room when three criminals come searching for money hidden there. This 1985 Merchant-Ivory adaptation of an E.M. Forster novel stars Helena Bonham Carter as a young woman who must choose between her fiance, played by Daniel Day-Lewis, and the exciting young man she met in Italy, played by Julian Sands.
9. This campy, musical, horror spoof, cult classic is about innocent young tourists Brad and Janet who happen upon Dr. Frank-N-Furter's castle and learn about the "Time Warp," among other things. Featuring the song "Ol' Man River," MGM's 1951 film is based on the Kern/Hammerstein Broadway musical about love and race relations between performers aboard the Cotton Blossom, which traverses the Mississippi River.
10. Lawrence Kasden directed this 1990 black comedy loosely based on a true story about a wife, played by Tracy Ullman, who attempts to kill her cheating husband, played by Kevin Kline. Robert Zemeckis' 1992 black comedy starred Goldie Hawn as a writer who vows to kill her rival, an actress, portrayed by Meryl Streep, but an aging remedy foils her attempts.
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