# Name the Movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 29, 2005, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742 "2005-04-29T17:42:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/21 "2005-04-29T18:55:47Z")
“A man turns into an animal, kills another animal, then wakes up naked in a zoo.” That’s a quote from an actor who was justifying being in a movie where a parent and child magically trade places. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/22 "2005-04-29T19:03:23Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Nope **Miss Mapp** got it – **2001** and **Quatermass and the Pit** (in the U.S., **Five Million Years to Earth** ) > > Correct! GRRR! I was deliberately excluding Bond movies. > [@](#): > > “A man turns into an animal, kills another animal, then wakes up naked in a zoo.” An American Werewolf in London? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/23 "2005-04-29T19:08:31Z")
> [@sqweels](#): > > “A man turns into an animal, kills another animal, then wakes up naked in a zoo.” Altered States? ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/24 "2005-04-30T06:07:37Z")
1. Mid-1980’s films about a young housewife who has a businessman husband who ignores her and who is fascinated by the adventures of a free-spirited young woman. When she falls and hits her head, she gets amnesia and imagines that she _is_ the young woman she has been fantasizing about. She gets into real adventures where her life is in danger and begins an affair with a much more exciting man than her husband. Since she has amnesia, neither she nor this man realize that she is married. The adventures end happily with the crooks being caught, but then the woman recovers her memories. Her boring husband wants her to come back home with him and the man she has been having an affair with is willing to give her up, but she realizes that she actually loves this new man, so she chooses to leave her husband for him. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/25 "2005-04-30T06:33:28Z")
Extra credit for number 6. What’s the film from a decade and a half later with certain of the elements of these two 1980’s films (since it’s also about a young housewife in an unhappy marriage who follows the fantasy adventures of a young woman and who gets amnesia and imagines that she _is_ the woman of her fantasies and who then has an affair with a more exciting man) but not other elements (since she doesn’t have to choose between her husband and the new man after recovering her memory)? ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/26 "2005-04-30T06:41:34Z")
1. Three movies from 97/98 that feature a man drawing a picture of an underdressed female (from a live model) using a piece of coal, while looking like he’s finally unravelled the mystery of life. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/27 "2005-04-30T06:51:11Z")
> [@Priceguy](#): > > 1. Three movies from 97/98 that feature a man drawing a picture of an underdressed female (from a live model) using a piece of coal, while looking like he’s finally unravelled the mystery of life. Titanic, Great Expectations and As Good as It Gets. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/28 "2005-04-30T06:54:45Z")
> [@Lisa-go-Blind](#): > > Titanic, Great Expectations and As Good as It Gets. Correct. Impressive. ---
**Author:** ![Antonius\_Block](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@Antonius\_Block](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antonius_Block)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/29 "2005-04-30T08:29:56Z")
> [@Wendell Wagner](#): > > 1. Mid-1980’s films about a young housewife who has a businessman husband who ignores her and who is fascinated by the adventures of a free-spirited young woman. When she falls and hits her head, she gets amnesia and imagines that she _is_ the young woman she has been fantasizing about… > > Extra credit for number 6. What’s the film from a decade and a half later with certain of the elements of these two 1980’s films… The first two are [American Dreamer](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086886/) (1984) and [Desperately Seeking Susan](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089017/) (1985). The “extra credit” is [Nurse Betty](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0171580/) (2000). The amnesiac heroines are played by Rosanna Arquette, JoBeth Williams, and Renée Zellweger respectively, and the reason that RZ doesn’t have to make the lover/husband choice is that it’s witnessing her husband’s murder that causes the PTSD / amnesia, so he’s conveniently out of the picture. ---
**Author:** ![Antonius\_Block](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@Antonius\_Block](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antonius_Block)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/30 "2005-04-30T08:35:27Z")
In my post immediately above, the order of **Rosanna Arquette** (DSS) and **JoBeth Williams** (AD) should be switched. I’d written it correctly at first, and then switched the movie names to go in chronological order without switching the “respective” heroines. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/31 "2005-04-30T11:12:06Z")
> [@Antonius Block](#): > > The first two are [American Dreamer](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086886/) (1984) and [Desperately Seeking Susan](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089017/) (1985). The “extra credit” is [Nurse Betty](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0171580/) (2000). The amnesiac heroines are played by Rosanna Arquette, JoBeth Williams, and Renée Zellweger respectively, and the reason that RZ doesn’t have to make the lover/husband choice is that it’s witnessing her husband’s murder that causes the PTSD / amnesia, so he’s conveniently out of the picture. Huh, and here I was thinking DSS and “Overboard” with Goldie Hawn, but I guess she didn’t replace anyone. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/32 "2005-04-30T16:20:39Z")
Antonius Block writes: \> The first two are American Dreamer (1984) and Desperately Seeking Susan \> (1985). The “extra credit” is Nurse Betty (2000). Correct. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/33 "2005-04-30T18:38:30Z")
1. 2 films, one from the 70’s, one from the 50’s. An extraterrestrial creature in accidentally let on board a spaceship, lurks about the ship killing off crew members one by one, and is finally disposed of by opening an airlock. (I know these aren’t close together in time frame–just want to make a point that even great sci-fi films are not above lifting plots.) ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/34 "2005-04-30T18:56:29Z")
1. _It! The Terror from Beyond Space_ (1958) and _Alien_ (1979). ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/35 "2005-04-30T19:37:48Z")
> [@Wendell Wagner](#): > > 1. _It! The Terror from Beyond Space_ (1958) and _Alien_ (1979). Right!! As good as Alien was, I remember leaving the theater thinking, “I’ve seen this movie before!” ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/36 "2005-04-30T20:02:07Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Nope **Miss Mapp** got it – **2001** and **Quatermass and the Pit** (in the U.S., **Five Million Years to Earth** ) Yes! (No wonder I wasn’t sure of the title; it’s got two of them.) Here’s one for you: Two early 1960’s movies in which a neurotic young lady goes running around a big, spooky house that may possibly contain a ghost or two… or maybe she’s just losing her mind. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/37 "2005-04-30T20:26:12Z")
> [@Miss Mapp](#): > > Yes! (No wonder I wasn’t sure of the title; it’s got two of them.) > > Here’s one for you: > > Two early 1960’s movies in which a neurotic young lady goes running around a big, spooky house that may possibly contain a ghost or two… or maybe she’s just losing her mind. House on Haunted Hill and The Screaming Skull (one of my all-time favorite MST3K’s). ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/38 "2005-04-30T20:38:07Z")
> [@want2know](#): > > House on Haunted Hill and The Screaming Skull (one of my all-time favorite MST3K’s). Those aren’t the two I was thinking of, although they do fit the description. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2005, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/39 "2005-05-01T06:54:34Z")
Two mid-80s movies in which River Phoenix plays one of a group of young boys who break into a junkyard and encounter a dog there. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2005, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/40 "2005-05-01T07:00:52Z")
_Stand By Me_ (I’m positive of that one) and _Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade_? (I don’t remember a junkyard dog but he was with a group of boys battling grave robbers, lions, snakes and other things so I’ll take a guess.) Either way, the movie in Al Freeman played the murderer of a character he had earlier portrayed on a television miniseries, and the movie in which Katharine Hepburn mentions the prospects of piercing her nipples to hang jewelry and mentions the seizure causing beauty of her bare breasts in youth. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742.md?page=3)