13. Misery
In Misery, the horrific spinster Anne Wilkes (Kathy Bates) is watching Love Connection, the Chuck-Woolery-hosted dating show.
Welcome to the game Valpower.
Recap:
Q - Quiz show/game show scene in a movie
1. White Men Can't Jump
2. Identity (2003), Motel owner watches that show with Vanna White (Wheel of Fortune? I'm not familiar with US game shows.) (Yes, Vanna White is Wheel of Fortune.)
3. Quiz Show
4. Requiem for a Dream
5. Diner
6. Rain Man
7. 101 Dalmatians
8. Radio Days
9. National Lampoon's European Vacation
10. Trainspotting
11. Groundhog Day
12. Magnolia
13. Misery
The original Jeopardy host, Art Fleming, was in a really funny Jeopardy scene in Airplane II: The Sequel.
14. Airplane II: The Sequel
Nobody want to take a guess at a hint for one more movie where two men watch Jeopardy?
Robin Hood should give you a clue as to the leading actor and Sherwood Forest should help with the title of the movie.
Maybe it will help if you think of Robin getting lost in Sherwood Forest and what the Merry Men's task might be as a result.
It must be Finding Forrester (starring Sean Connery, who played Robin Hood in Robin and Marian). I never saw Finding Forrester, so I wouldn't have thought of it without the hints.
Bravo, bree.
15. Finding Forrester
How about:
R = (a scene in/at a)
Railroad/railway station (close to the tracks is OK, too, but not on a train)
1. Brief Encounter
2. Anna Karenina (any of the many versions)
3. It's a Wonderful Life
(George Bailey meets his brother Harry at the train station when Harry returns from college.)
5. The Illusionist
6. Fiddler on the Roof
7. Julia
Great it should be easy to attain fifty or more titles since railway stations feature in so many films. Here are some in no particular order:
8. Les Uns et les Autres (Bolero, 1981, a Parisian railway station from which the Jews and later the Germans are deported and the French soldiers return and a country railway station where the Jewish couple left their baby)
9. Eurotrip (2004, another Parisian railway station where Michelle Trachtenberg has an altercation with a "charmeur")
10. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone (2001, Harry boards the train for Hogwart's from an odd platform)
11. X-men (2000, the mutants run amok in a New York railway station)
12. The Ghost and the Darkness (1996, Lions kill victims at Tsavo station in Kenya)
13. Once upon a Time in the West (1968, arrival of Claudia Cardinale and of Harmonica at Western stations).
14. Some like it Hot (1959, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in drag join a ladies' orchestra at the railway station)
15. Soldat Bom (1948, classic Swedish comedy with an uptight station master as hero)
16. Light in the Piazza
17. Gypsy
18. Married to the Mob
19. Michael (does subway and el train platforms count?)
WOW. I'd say we're off to a good start. Shooting for 50 or more.
eoe - Sure, subways are on tracks, too.
Recap:
R = (a scene in/at a) Railroad/railway station (close to the tracks is OK, too, but not on a train) Subway platforms OK, too.
1. Brief Encounter
2. Anna Karenina (any of the many versions)
3. It's a Wonderful Life
4. Waterloo Bridge
5. The Illusionist
6. Fiddler on the Roof
7. Julia
8. Les Uns et les Autres (Bolero, 1981, a Parisian railway station from which the Jews and later the Germans are deported and the French soldiers return and a country railway station where the Jewish couple left their baby)
9. Eurotrip (2004, another Parisian railway station where Michelle Trachtenberg has an altercation with a "charmeur")
10. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone (2001, Harry boards the train for Hogwart's from an odd platform)
11. X-men (2000, the mutants run amok in a New York railway station)
12. The Ghost and the Darkness (1996, Lions kill victims at Tsavo station in Kenya)
13. Once upon a Time in the West (1968, arrival of Claudia Cardinale and of Harmonica at Western stations).
14. Some like it Hot (1959, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in drag join a ladies' orchestra at the railway station)
15. Soldat Bom (1948, classic Swedish comedy with an uptight station master as hero)
16. Light in the Piazza
17. Gypsy
18. Married to the Mob
19. Michael
20. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
21. Coming To America
22. Charade
23. Narnia
24. Continental Divide
25. Dr Zhivago
26. Silver Streak
27. The Sting
28. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
29. North By Northwest
30. The Fugitive
If the underground counts, I can also think of:
31. An American Werewolf in London (The werewolf munches up some people on an underground station)
32. While you were sleeping (Sandra Bullock saves somone from being hit by a train)
33. Die Hard 3 (A bomb creates havoc in a subway station)
34. Mimic (several subway stations)
35. Underworld (Vampires chase werewolves at a railway station)
36. Ghost (Patrick Swayze learns how to control his ghost powers at a subway station)
37. Babycakes (Ricky Lake meets love of her life at subway station)
38. Unbreakable (Both a subway station and railway station are featured)
39. Crocodile Dundee (Mick and his sheila declare their love in a full subway station)
40. Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (A Berlin railway station full of drug addicts)
41. Save the Last Dance
42. Shall we Dance
43. The Third Man
44. Love in the Afternoon
