Weekly Quiz

Donald Clarke'sWeekly Movie Quiz

1 Which occasional movie star has been married to both Guy Ritchie and Sean Penn?

2 The script merely says: “Travis looks in the mirror”. Which actor improvised which speech when confronted with these words?

3 Who made friends with a volleyball named Wilson?

4 Andrew Stanton, Brad Bird, Pete Docter and John Lasseter have all done what?

5 Shirley Valentine, Distant Voices Still Lives, Letter to Brezhnev, Priest. Where are we?

6 Who fled the obsessive attentions of Alex Forrest?

7 What might you hear in The Wrestler, Dead Man Walking and Philadelphia?

8 Who reputedly ended up with a tattoo saying “Wino Forever”?

9 Which is the odd one out: Pop Performer, Window Cleaner, Dangerous Mind, Driving Instructor?

10 Shallow Grave, Alien 3, Mala Noche, Grand Theft Auto, Billy Elliot. What are we talking about?

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1. Madonna
2. Robert De Niro and the "You talkin' to me?" speech from Taxi Driver
3. Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) in Cast Away
4. Directed a Pixar feature
5. Liverpool
6. Daniel Gallagher (Michael Douglas) in Fatal Attraction
7. A theme tune composed and sung by Bruce Springsteen
8. Johnny Depp. It originally said "Winona Forever." When he and Winona Ryder broke up he removed the relevant two letters.
9. Dangerous Mind. Each phrase makes a film title when preceded by Confessions of…, but Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is the only such title that is not part of the notoriously awful British comedy franchise.
10. The debut features of the five nominees for Best Director at this year's Oscars. (Or, if your prefer, debut features by the directors of the nominees for Best Picture.)