# New Thread: 27 to 9 to 3 to 1 Movie Game

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-27-to-9-to-3-to-1-movie-game/326771>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 18, 2005, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-27-to-9-to-3-to-1-movie-game/326771 "2005-10-18T17:37:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-27-to-9-to-3-to-1-movie-game/326771/101 "2005-10-19T18:32:50Z")

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next is

Channing/Graham/Hall  
**Six Degrees of** Kevi…, uh… **Separation**  
Donald Sutherland

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**Author:** ![Desperate\_Welfie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@Desperate\_Welfie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desperate_Welfie)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-27-to-9-to-3-to-1-movie-game/326771/102 "2005-10-19T18:42:30Z")

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Right movie, wrong actor.

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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-27-to-9-to-3-to-1-movie-game/326771/103 "2005-10-19T18:47:29Z")

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> [@Desperate Welfie](#):
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> Right movie, wrong actor.

well \*\*Will Smith \*\* then

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**Author:** ![Desperate\_Welfie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@Desperate\_Welfie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desperate_Welfie)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-27-to-9-to-3-to-1-movie-game/326771/104 "2005-10-19T18:52:58Z")

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Nope

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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-27-to-9-to-3-to-1-movie-game/326771/105 "2005-10-19T18:53:06Z")

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btw - was \*\*Russel Crowe \*\* correct?  
you’re “right on both counts” was unclear as to whether it pertained to movie/actor in the previous post, or both previous posts

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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-27-to-9-to-3-to-1-movie-game/326771/106 "2005-10-19T18:56:23Z")

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> [@Desperate Welfie](#):
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> Nope

how about **Ian McKellan**

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**Author:** ![Desperate\_Welfie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@Desperate\_Welfie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desperate_Welfie)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-27-to-9-to-3-to-1-movie-game/326771/107 "2005-10-19T19:02:46Z")

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Russell Crowe is correct, Ian McKellan is not.

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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-27-to-9-to-3-to-1-movie-game/326771/108 "2005-10-19T19:03:36Z")

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I actually have to stop playing for a while, because I’ve gotten nothing done today  
(don’t tell my boss)  
see you later tonight - here’s a recap so someone else can solve this one

Gyllenhall/Roberts/Rockwell  
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind **Richard Kind**  
Bailey/Getty/Taylor  
Mannequin **James Spader**  
Campbell/Curry/Messing  
McHales Navy **French Stewart**  
Kind/Spader/Stewart  
Stargate **Kurt Russell**

Quinn/Visnjic/Wiest  
Practical Magic **Stockard Channing**  
Arkin/Baker/Price  
Edward Scissorhands **Anthony Michael Hall**  
Baranski/Kennedy/Stamp  
Bowfinger **Heather Graham**  
Channing/Graham/Hall  
Six Degrees of Separation  
(not Sutherland,Smith) Ian McKellan ?

Lindo/Russo/Schreiber  
Ransom **Gary Sinese**  
Goldstein/Pasdar/Paxton  
Near Dark **Lance Hendricksen**  
Fletcher/Forsythe/Lynch  
Virtuosity (?Russell Crowe?)

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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-27-to-9-to-3-to-1-movie-game/326771/109 "2005-10-19T19:06:21Z")

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Gyllenhall/Roberts/Rockwell  
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind **Richard Kind**  
Bailey/Getty/Taylor  
Mannequin **James Spader**  
Campbell/Curry/Messing  
McHales Navy **French Stewart**

```
	Kind/Spader/Stewart
		Stargate **Kurt Russell**

```

Quinn/Visnjic/Wiest  
Practical Magic **Stockard Channing**  
Arkin/Baker/Price  
Edward Scissorhands **Anthony Michael Hall**  
Baranski/Kennedy/Stamp  
Bowfinger **Heather Graham**

```
	Channing/Graham/Hall
		Six Degrees of Separation 
		(not Sutherland,Smith,McKellan)

```

Lindo/Russo/Schreiber  
Ransom **Gary Sinese**  
Goldstein/Pasdar/Paxton  
Near Dark **Lance Hendricksen**  
Fletcher/Forsythe/Lynch  
Virtuosity **Russell Crowe**

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**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-27-to-9-to-3-to-1-movie-game/326771/110 "2005-10-19T19:16:06Z")

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Gary Sinise, Lance Henriksen and Russell Crowe - The Quick And The Dead.

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**Author:** ![Desperate\_Welfie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@Desperate\_Welfie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desperate_Welfie)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-27-to-9-to-3-to-1-movie-game/326771/111 "2005-10-19T19:20:20Z")

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> [@Lil' Mahoney](#):
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> Gary Sinise, Lance Henriksen and Russell Crowe - The Quick And The Dead.

That’s right.

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**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-27-to-9-to-3-to-1-movie-game/326771/112 "2005-10-19T19:24:12Z")

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> [@Lil' Mahoney](#):
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> Gary Sinise, Lance Henriksen and Russell Crowe - The Quick And The Dead.

And the actor would be Keith David?

Richard Masur for Six Degrees?

Making the answer **The Thing**?

And another sentence with an extraneous question mark? 😛

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**Author:** ![Desperate\_Welfie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@Desperate\_Welfie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desperate_Welfie)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-27-to-9-to-3-to-1-movie-game/326771/113 "2005-10-19T19:31:06Z")

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Good job **Lil’ Mahoney**!

And **anyrose** , you rock since you did most of it by yourself!

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**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-27-to-9-to-3-to-1-movie-game/326771/114 "2005-10-19T19:32:31Z")

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Well I just keep coming in and stealing all the glory, huh? 😃

Well here’s a new one:

Ursula Andress  
Thora Birch  
Benjamin Bratt  
Neve Campbell  
Sean Connery  
Amanda de Cadenet  
Billy Drago  
Robert Duvall  
Harrison Ford  
Andy Garcia  
Valeria Golino  
Barbara Hershey  
Sally Kellerman  
Ben Kingsley  
Bruno Kirby  
Donal Logue  
Kyle MacLachlan  
Michael Madsen  
John C. McGinley  
Burgess Meredith  
River Phoenix  
Oliver Platt  
Tom Skerritt  
Maggie Smith  
JT Walsh  
Floyd Westerman  
Alicia Witt

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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-27-to-9-to-3-to-1-movie-game/326771/115 "2005-10-19T19:42:02Z")

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i was going to try to work \*\*Sneakers \*\* into my game  
but you’ve got \*\*Donal Logue/Ben Kingsley/River Pheonix \*\* already up there  
are you looking for Sidney Poitier?

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**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-27-to-9-to-3-to-1-movie-game/326771/116 "2005-10-19T19:44:36Z")

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> [@anyrose](#):
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> i was going to try to work \*\*Sneakers \*\* into my game  
> but you’ve got \*\*Donal Logue/Ben Kingsley/River Pheonix \*\* already up there  
> are you looking for Sidney Poitier?

Sneakers is correct, but I’m afraid Sidney isn’t.

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**Author:** ![Desperate\_Welfie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@Desperate\_Welfie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desperate_Welfie)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-27-to-9-to-3-to-1-movie-game/326771/117 "2005-10-19T19:50:29Z")

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Amanda de Cadenet, Valeria Golino, Alicia Witt were all in **Four Rooms**

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**Author:** ![Desperate\_Welfie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@Desperate\_Welfie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desperate_Welfie)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-27-to-9-to-3-to-1-movie-game/326771/118 "2005-10-19T19:54:01Z")

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Andy Garcia, Sean Connery, and Billy Drago were in **The Untouchables** …

with **Robert De Niro**?

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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-27-to-9-to-3-to-1-movie-game/326771/119 "2005-10-19T19:54:41Z")

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> [@Lil' Mahoney](#):
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> Sneakers is correct, but I’m afraid Sidney isn’t.

David Strathairn?

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**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-27-to-9-to-3-to-1-movie-game/326771/120 "2005-10-19T19:54:59Z")

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> [@Desperate Welfie](#):
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> Amanda de Cadenet, Valeria Golino, Alicia Witt were all in **Four Rooms**  
> Andy Garcia, Sean Connery, and Billy Drago were in The Untouchables…
> 
> with Robert De Niro?

Yes, Yes, but No to De Niro

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