Movies in Other Words 2 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Steel Magnolias

Released in 1989, this drama is about a beauty shop in Louisana, owned by Truvy, and the tragedies of all of her clients. It stars Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley Maclaine and Julia Roberts, to name but a few.

Shelby is diabetic and getting married to a rich southern lawyer. M'Lynn is Shelby's bossy mother. Her friends include a number of different women of all different age groups and points of view.
Shelby gets pregnant, much to her mother's disapproval. Due to her medical condition, the pregnancy could be fatal. Shelby says she'd rather have thirty minutes of wonderful, than a lifetime of nothing special.
The movie progresses through the realities and tragedies of their lives in Chiquapin Parish, Louisiana.

Answer: Burn After Reading

The film was released in 2008 and stars John Malkovitch, Tilda Swinton, George Clooney and Brad Pitt. Osbourne Cox is a CIA analyst who quits his job, after being demoted because of his drinking problem. He decides to write a memoir about his life in the CIA.

His wife, Katie, wants to divorce him, and her divorce lawyer tells her to make copies of his personal and financial files off the computer and onto an optical disc. The disc ends up at Hardbodies, a workout gym. An employee of the gym gets the disc from the gym's custodian and figures out that it contains classified government information. With another employee who needs cosmetic surgery, he intends to use the disk to blackmail Osbourne. Osbourne does not fall for their blackmail attempt.

They eventually take the information to the Russian embassy who ask for more information. The film progresses through a comedy of errors. Without giving too much away, several of the characters die, Osbourne is in a vegetative state and the CIA decide to never repeat what they did in this case erer again.

Answer: Bolt

"Bolt" is an animated film released in 2008. It stars the voices of John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Susie Essman, and Mark Waltman. It tells the story a dog who plays a superhero in a hit TV show. Bolt has trouble realizing that he doesn't have superpowers.

He is accidentally shipped from Hollywood to New York City. From there, he has to make his way home with the help of a old cat and a hamster in a plastic ball. He discovers that he does not need superpowers to be a hero.

Answer: Fireproof

This drama was released in 2008. Capt. Caleb Holt lives by the firefighter's decree: Never leave your partner behind. In his home life and marriage, Caleb lives by his own rules. Married seven years, Caleb and Catherine Holt have drifted so far apart that Catherine wishes she had never married. Caleb's father suggests an "experiment" called the Love Dare.

It is a 40 day experiment, roughly based on his parents' new found religious beliefs. Caleb decides to give it a shot. Does it save his marriage? You will have to see the movie to find out.

Answer: 12 Angry Men

"12 Angry Men" is a drama released in 1957 starring Henry Fonda. The movie focuses on a jury's deliberations in a murder case. A 12-man jury is sent to deliberate in the first-degree murder trial of an 18-year-old Latino accused in the stabbing death of his father. If found guilty, he could face the death penalty.

The case appears to be an open-and-shut one. The defendant has a weak alibi; a knife he claims to have lost is found at the murder scene and several witnesses either heard screaming, saw the killing or the boy running from the scene. Eleven of the jurors instantly vote guilty with one juror, Juror No. 8 casting a not guilty vote. Deliberation continues and minds are changed. I don't want to say more and spoil the whole movie.

Answer: Batman Begins

This action thriller was released on 15 June 2005 and starred Christian Bale as Batman. At the age of 8 years, Bruce Wayne falls into a cave where he encounters a swarm of bats. He develops a fear of bats, and later pleads with his parents to leave an opera featuring bat-like creatures.

After leaving the theater, Bruce Wayne's parents are both killed in a robbery by a mugger. Bruce blames himself for their murder. He feels that had he not been frightened, he and his parents would have never ran into the mugger. Bruce moves to Asia where he is taken in by an mentor who teaches him how to fight evil. Back in Gotham, Bruce creates nis new "alter ego" image, that of a bat, in order to strike fear into the criminals and the corrupt of Gotham. So the story of "Batman" begins.

Answer: Jaws

This suspenseful horror thriller was released on 20 June 1975. It centers on the town of Amity, New York; a small seaside town that depends heavily on visiting tourists. A rougue great white shark takes up residence in the waters off Amity. There are several shark attacks, which the town leaders are afraid will hurt their business enterprises and try to cover them up.

The town sheriff thinks otherwise. After a very close call involving the mayor's son, the town council finally agrees to hire a shark hunter to kill the menacing creature.

In the end, the shark is killed but is Amity really safe?

Answer: Notorious

The movie is a dramatic romantic thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant. Alicia Huberman is a free living girl, who loves to drink and associate with many men. Her father was a German spy in USA and committed suicide in prison.

A government agent asks her to spy on a group of her father's Nazi friends in Rio de Janeiro. This is her chance to clear her guilty name. She falls in love with the agent, but he seems not to be attracted by the life she is living. Alicia goes to Brazil with the government agent.

The agent suggests Alicia should marry the spy they are after in order to gain access into his house. During a party, Alicia and the agent find some uranium dust hidden in the spy Sabastien's canteen. He discovers that Alicia is a spy and he starts slowly poisoning her.

Answer: Brief Encounter

This movie is a classic romantic drama set in 1945, during WWII, in and around the fictional Milford railway station. A married women, Laura, meets a doctor in the station's waiting room. The doctor (Alec) removes something from her eye then leaves to catch his train.

They eventually begin meeting regularly each Thursday. Even though they are both married, they begin to fall in love. Feeling guilty and knowing it is wrong, they come to the mutual understanding that things must stop. Laura and Alec have a romantic final visit to the tea room. Laura then gives a last goodbye to Alec as his train leaves the station.

Answer: Stand By Me

The movie is a dramatic adventure, released in 1986 and directed by Rob Reiner. The film is narrated by the writer and begins when a man is seated in his car reading the newspaper about a man stabbed to death in a fast food restaurant. He begins to tell a story of how he was 12 years old when he first saw a dead human being.

The movie flashes back to days gone by. We see several young boys, Gordy, Chris, and Teddy, playing cards in a treehouse. Another friend, Vern, comes over and tells them how he overheard his brother and his friend talking about how they'd seen the body of a kid named Ray Brower who'd gone missing.

They decide to try to find the dead body and bring it back hoping to get some sort of credit for doing so. The boys begin their journey and then realise that nobody brought any food.

They decide to put their money together and come up with a total of $2.37. As their journey progresses, the boys experience many things, such as being chased by a junkyard dog, almost being killed by a train, and getting attacked by leeches when they try to cut through water.

The boys learn a lot on their journey. They all go home, and the writer says that eventually they all drifted apart through junior high school. The film returns to present time, and the writer is sitting at his computer. He reveals that the man in the newspaper article at the beginning of the film was Chris Chambers. He was stabbed in the throat trying to break up a fight in a fast food restaurant, dying instantly. He finishes typing and switches off his monitor, and we see a fully grown Gordy outside playing with his children as the film goes off.