Movies from 1999 in Other Words Quiz

Answer: American Beauty

"American Beauty" is a drama about a middle-aged magazine executive who hates his job and is unhappy in his marriage. Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) decides to leave his job and becomes infatuated with his teen age daughter's friend. Lester's quest is to have a sexual relationship with the young girl.

Answer: American Pie

"American Pie" is a comedy about a group of high school seniors who make a pact to finally have sex before the year is out. One of the group does end up having sex with one of his friend's mother, while the others figure out that having sex isn't the be all end all of existence.

Answer: Big Daddy

"Big Daddy" is a comedy about an immature 32 year old who adopts a child to show his girlfriend that he is ready to be in a serious relationship. Unbeknownst to him, Sonny Koufax (Adam Sandler) discovers that his girlfriend has moved on into a relationship with an ambitious older man. Sonny now has to weigh the options of raising the child or to giving him back to the adoption agency.

The child also happens to be the love child of his best friend and a woman who he had a one night stand with.

Answer: Blast From The Past

"Blast From the Past" is a romantic comedy about a scientist who builds an elaborate bomb shelter in his back yard during the early part of the cold war of the '60s. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, Dr. Calvin Webber (Christopher Walken) and his pregnant wife Helen (Sissy Spacek) lock themselves into the shelter.

They set the timer on the door to open 35 years later. Helen has her baby in the shelter and when the door lock opens, the couple send their now adult son Adam (Brendan Fraser) topside to see what has happened and to get supplies. Adam also has a desire to find a female companion.

Answer: Deep Blue Sea

"Deep Blue Sea" is a sci-fi horror film about scientists looking for a way to help or cure Alzheimer patients. During experiments with sharks, the sharks become super intelligent and begin attacking the scientists of the ocean laboratory.

Answer: Double Jeopardy

"Double Jeopardy" is a suspense thriller about a married couple who go out on a sail boat for a romantic weekend. While on the boat, Libby Parsons (Ashley Judd) passes out and when she awakens, finds that her husband is gone and there is blood all over her and the boat.

She gets convicted of murder and is separated from her son Matty. While in prison, Libby finds out that her husband may have faked his murder and is still be alive. When she gets out on parole, she hunts down her husband with the intention of killing him knowing that she cannot be charged with the same crime twice.

Answer: Galaxy Quest

"Galaxy Quest" is a sci-fi comedy about actors from a cancelled space-adventure television series who are recruited by real aliens to take command of their spaceship and help them fight an evil enemy. The Thermians have been receiving TV transmissions of the "Galaxy Quest" TV show on their own planet and believe that it is real and not just a show.

Answer: The Green Mile

"The Green Mile" is a drama about a prison officer in charge of the death row section of a prison. When new inmate John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan) is wrongfully convicted of murdering two children and sent to death row, supervisor in charge Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) discovers that John Coffey has a supernatural ability that enables him to cure the sick and even restore life after death in certain cases.

Answer: Office Space

"Office Space" is a comedy about a group of office workers who hate their jobs. When the company hires some consultants to see who can be fired to save money, the group devise a scheme to install an illegal program into the company's computer system. The program will take the rounded off pennies of transactions and place them into an account that the group will share.

Answer: Payback

"Payback" is a mob film about two gangsters who team up to steal money from the local Chinese triads. After the $140,000 heist is successful, Porter (Mel Gibson) is betrayed by his partner Val Resnick (Gregg Henry) who shoots Porter and leaves him for dead. Porter survives and hunts down Val to get his half of the money they stole.