Movies from 1995 in Other Words Quiz

Answer: Toy Story

"Toy Story" is a Pixar animated film about what toys do when nobody is watching them or playing with them. When a child named Andy gets a new spaceman toy for his birthday, he makes it his favorite toy. His old favorite toy, a cowboy doll named Woody, voiced by Tom Hanks, becomes jealous and tries to win back his spot as the favorite toy.

Answer: Waterworld

"Waterworld" is a post apocalyptic film about the world being covered entirely by water. The movie centers around a mutant called "The Mariner" (Kevin Costner) who is able to breathe under water and sails the ocean much like a nomad. The Mariner assists in helping a small group of people in their quest to find dry land.

Answer: The Quick and the Dead

"The Quick and the Dead" is a Western film about a quick draw contest be held in a town run by an evil outlaw sheriff. One of the entries of the contest is a woman who, when she was a small child, was basically forced by the evil sheriff to kill her own father. She enters the contest in hopes of killing the man responsible for her father's death.

Answer: Outbreak

"Outbreak" is a medical disaster film about a deadly African virus that finds its way to a small town in the USA. An infected monkey is smuggled into the country to be sold on the black market but infects the smuggler and the person he tries to sell the monkey to.

The virus quickly spreads through the town and the town is quarantined. Colonel Sam Daniels, a USAMRIID virologist played by Dustin Hoffman has to find the monkey which carries antibodies to the virus so he can create a serum to save the the town's people before the government orders the town to be incinerated to prevent the spread of the virus.

Answer: Crimson Tide

"Crimson Tide" is a film about nuclear submarine that loses contact with US command during a crisis situation. A mutiny breaks out aboard the ship when new Executive Officer Lieutenant Commander Ron Hunter (Denzel Washington) refuses to agree with the Captain to launch a preemptive strike on a Soviet target.

Answer: Clueless

"Clueless" is a coming-of-age romantic comedy about a wealthy spoiled Beverly Hills high school girl. Cher (Alicia Silverstone) belongs to a clique of well to do snobs who try to transform a plain new-comer into someone worthy of joining their group. When the new girl is attracted to Cher's ex step-brother, Cher realizes that she is actually in love with him.

Answer: Mallrats

"Mallrats" is a comedy about two college students who break up after one discovers that the other is going to be a contestant on a dating game show that is being filmed at the local mall. Not wanting his girlfriend to win a date with someone else, college student T.S. Quint (Jeremy London) enlists the help of a couple of stoners to try and destroy the set before the show can air.

Answer: Grumpier Old Men

"Grumpier Old Men" is the comedy sequel to the original "Grumpy Old Men". When the local bait shop gets bought and turned into a restaurant, both Max (Walter Matthau) and John (Jack Lemmon) try to disrupt the new owner's plans. Later, Max falls in love with the new owner of the restaurant played by Sophia Loren.

Answer: Species

"Species" is a science fiction film about scientists receiving a transmission from an alien race with instructions on how to combine the DNA of humans with the DNA of the alien. The experiment goes bad when the female test subject escapes the lab and starts killing people. The lab hires a group of specialists to track down and destroy the new half human half alien creature.

Answer: Casino

"Casino" is a crime film about a sports handicapper named Sam "Ace" Rothstein (Robert De Niro) who works for a Chicago mob. Sam gets sent to Las Vegas to oversee a gambling establishment that is controlled by the mob. When the FBI starts to figure out the illegal happenings and connections the casino has to the mob, the mob tries to murder Sam in order to protect themselves.