# Play Nia Vardalos' "Victor/Victoria Likes It Hot" Game! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 14, 2004, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948 "2004-04-14T12:44:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/221 "2004-04-15T15:05:51Z")
**Dark Victory at Entebbe** A spoiled heiress diagnosed with a brain tumor must rescue passengers on a hijacked plane. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/222 "2004-04-15T15:09:31Z")
Here’s one I thought of a couple of years ago and have been saving: **Mulan Rouge!** , the story of a Chinese girl who disguises herself as a man, runs off to Paris, and falls in love with the star of the city’s most famous nightclub. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/223 "2004-04-15T15:11:56Z")
**Nanook of the North by Northwest** An Eskimo is mistaken for a spy and is pursued across the country. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/224 "2004-04-15T15:15:28Z")
**A Thomas Crown Affair to Remember** A star-crossed couple pulls off a daring daytime robbery at a bank, dumps the money in a trash can atop the Empire State Building, planning to meet there in one year. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/225 "2004-04-15T15:20:03Z")
**It’s a Wonderful Imitation of Life** An angel shows a light-skinned black girl how her life would have been if she’d been born white. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/226 "2004-04-15T15:24:38Z")
**Dead Man Walking the Green Mile** –Sean Penn as John Coffey, and Tom Hanks as Sister Helen Prejean. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/227 "2004-04-15T15:29:54Z")
**Clash of the Titanic** – While a steamy love affair bews on the doomed ship, we see the ship itself slug it out with the iceberg in a Ray Harryhausen tour-de-force. **Bring 'em Back Dead Alive** – real-life old-time animal hunter Frank Buck goes searching for zombies. \*\* Crocodile Dundee Hunter\*\* – modern-day animal hunter Steve Irwin goes after Paul Hogan. Hilarity ensues. **Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenhooker** – R-rated update of the classic. **The Old Man and the Seabiscuit** – In a modern take on Hemingway’s book, that old guy goes after a racehorse. **FlashGordonDance** – Dale Arden performs a wet dance and wears her uniform off one shoulder. **Dr. NoLittle** – James Bond must defeat Rex Harrison and his Giant Pink Snail. Watch for the remake with Eddie Murphy. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/228 "2004-04-15T15:33:25Z")
**Batmanhattan** - a tale of New York’s most neurotic crimefighter. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/229 "2004-04-15T15:39:57Z")
\*\*Little Shop of Needful Things \*\* - A Stephen King Musical! A satanic florist sells plants that tear a town apart. With Do-wop singers! \*\*Everybody Loves Misery \*\* - But Kathy Bates loves Ray Romano a little \*too \* much. “I’m your #1 Fan!” \ \*\*The Thomas Crown Affair To Remember \*\* - An affair with playboy/theif Cary Grant leaves Faye Dunaway in a wheelchair. \*\*Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band of Brothers \*\* - The Bee Gees and Peter Peter Frampton fight in World War II. \*\*The Devil & Harry Potter \*\* - Turns out all those silly fundies were right! \*\*The Trouble with Harry and the Hendersons \*\* - John Lithgow try to hide Bigfoot after killing him with his car. Also starring Shirley MacLaine as Bigfoot’s ex-wife and Jerry Mathers as his son. **Fried Green Mile** - deathrow + restaurant = best food in town. (ick) **Ocean’s 17** - After pulling of a Vegas caper, Sinatra and crew are imprisoned with Allied prisoners at a World War 2 German POW camp. **Finding Forest Gump** - Tom Hanks takes “Run, Forest, Run!” a little too literally and ends up in hiding with Sean Connery \*\*A Christmas Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice \*\* - They’ll need a bigger bed before Christmas Future arrives! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/230 "2004-04-15T15:48:01Z")
> [@DeVena](#): > > \*\*The Thomas Crown Affair To Remember \*\* Exactly 15 minutes too late on that one, we nearly simulposted it! **Die! Die! My Darling Clementine** Wyatt Earp and his brothers Morgan and Virgil are held captive by a deranged old religious fanatic, played by Tallulah Bankhead. **Funny Girl, Interrupted** Follies star Fanny Brice is commited to a mental institute when her marriage to Nicky Arnstein disintegrates. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/231 "2004-04-15T15:48:18Z")
In the spirit of Tv/Movies… **Get Kotter** - Gabe Kaplan stars as a teacher willing to stop at nothing to find out who killed his brother. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/232 "2004-04-15T15:53:27Z")
**Battlestar Gothika** - The crew of the Galactica fend off the Cylon menace as they flee the thing that terrifies them most… Halle Berry’s acting. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/233 "2004-04-15T15:54:20Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > **Funny Girl, Interrupted** > Follies star Fanny Brice is commited to a mental institute when her marriage to Nicky Arnstein disintegrates. I was just about to post this one. 🙂 Only I had her committed for ever marrying the bastard to begin with. **The Masque of the Red Sonja** Brigitte Nielsen brings plague to a fancy party. **A Few Good Men at Work** Tom Cruise, Charlie Sheen, and Emilio Estevez play garbagemen who get in over their heads when they find the body of a dead Marine. **St. Elmo’s Fire Down Below** Disillusioned twenty-somethings have to track down the source of a toxic waste epidemic. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/234 "2004-04-15T15:56:51Z")
**Stephen King and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcatcher** –Donny Osmond gains mysterious powers, and all hell breaks loose. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/235 "2004-04-15T15:59:08Z")
**Monster’s Strictly Ballroom** Baz Luhrmann’s hilarious romp about a racist prison guard and the African-American wife of an executed prisoner entering a ballroom dance contest. **Sexy Beastmaster** Proof that Ben Kingsley shouldn’t wear a loincloth. **V.I. Warshawski, the Final Battle** Kathleen Turner plays a plucky female P.I. who has to defeat a race of lizards looking to colonize earth. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/236 "2004-04-15T16:00:00Z")
**Analyze Them!** - Therapist Billy Crystal and Mobster Robert DeNiro’s wacky hijinks are cut short by an army of invading giant ants. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/237 "2004-04-15T16:00:56Z")
**Bridge Over the Mystic River Kwai** - a touching tale starring Alec Guinness coming to grips with his imprisonment by the Japanese and his molestation in British boarding school. **How to Make a Fried Steel YaYa** - the ultimate chick flick, it focuses on a college student who comes homes to hear tales from her old aunts of their lesbian friend who lived with an openly diabetic pregnant woman fifty years ago. **Se7en Things I Hate About You** - a teenager is in love with the girl of his dreams, but she can’t date until her older sister is either dating or decapitated **Johnny Dangerous Liaisons** - my scheming former manipulated me into losing my virginity— once! **The Boys in the Company C Band** - from the makers of _Glory_ comes this tale of the first all gay unit- a techno band in Vietnam. **What’s Eating Gilbert’s Grapes of Wrath?** - a nerdy boy with gorgeous cheekbones has to take his 500 lb mother and retarded brother from Oklahoma to California to find sustenance during the Depression. Their lives take a turn for the better when they become the first rockabilly/Rap crossover artists. **They Call Me Mister Ed** - a crimesolving horse must combat prejudice against animals in the New South. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/238 "2004-04-15T16:02:14Z")
**Bridge Over the Mystic River Kwai** - a touching tale starring Alec Guinness coming to grips with his imprisonment by the Japanese and his molestation in British boarding school. **How to Make a Fried Steel YaYa** - the ultimate chick flick, it focuses on a college student who comes home and to hear tales from her old aunts of their lesbian friend who lived with an openly diabetic pregnant woman fifty years ago. **Se7en Things I Hate About You** - a teenager is in love with the girl of his dreams, but she can’t date until her older sister is either dating or decapitated **Johnny Dangerous Liaisons** - my scheming former lover manipulated me into losing my virginity— once! **The Boys in the Company C Band** - from the makers of _Glory_ comes this tale of the first all gay unit- a techno band in Vietnam. **What’s Eating Gilbert’s Grapes of Wrath?** - a nerdy boy with gorgeous cheekbones has to take his 500 lb mother and retarded brother from Oklahoma to California to find sustenance during the Depression. Their lives take a turn for the better when they become the first rockabilly/Rap crossover artists. **They Call Me Mister Ed** - a crimesolving horse must combat prejudice against animals in the New South. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/239 "2004-04-15T16:02:34Z")
**Chariots of the Bonfire of the Vanities** -Two young runners, one Christian and one Jewish, see their lives fall apart when they accidentally run over a black boy. **Annie, Get your Shogun Boat** Legendary sharpshooter Annie Oakley finds love while part of a musical company performing in a Japan wracked by civil war. Don’t miss the song, “Can’t Help Lovin’ that Man of Mine that You Can’t Get With a Gun”, sung by Betty Hutton, Ava Gardner, and Toshiro Mifune. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/240 "2004-04-15T16:05:44Z")
**Pleasantvillage of the Damned** - Mysterious pregnancies result in children with the power to transform the world into color and radically alter their parents’ behavior. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948.md?page=13)