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Quiz: Movies from the 1990s

By Elissa Royal, March-April 2005





1. A comic Robin Williams battles suave Pierce Brosnan for a woman's affections in this 1993 movie.

  My Best Friend's Wedding
  As Good As It Gets
  Honeymoon in Vegas
  Mrs. Doubtfire

2. The title of this movie has become a metaphor for doing something over and over until you get it right.

  Groundhog Day
  The Crying Game
  Forrest Gump
  Thelma and Louise

3. This 1994 remake of a television show features all the nail-biting drama of the original in an updated setting.

  Titanic
  The Fugitive
  In the Line of Fire
  Apollo 13

4. Two young college dropouts wrote a screenplay about a math genius from the wrong side of the tracks and ended up sharing an Academy Award for Best Screenplay for this movie.

  The Talented Mr. Ripley
  Quiz Show
  Good Will Hunting
  Awakenings

5. The financial success of this blockbuster was due partly to repeat business from moviegoers who wanted to see what they missed the first time.

  The Full Monty
  The Sixth Sense
  The Silence of the Lambs
  Jerry Maguire

6. This comedy about class stereotypes and the mutual distrust between Northerners and Southerners could have been titled What Not to Wear in Court.

  A Few Good Men
  The Usual Suspects
  The Straight Story
  My Cousin Vinny

7. Life imitated art in the wake of this 1997 movie, which bizarrely preceded the biggest scandal of the Clinton administration.

  American Beauty
  Lone Star
  Courage Under Fire
  Wag the Dog

8. This mind-bending film and its sequels have inspired scholarly analysis of their religious and philosophical themes.

  Avalon
  Being John Malkovich
  The Matrix
  Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

9. Paul Vitti (Robert De Niro in Analyze This, 1999) wasn't the first movie bad guy to see a psychotherapist. In this 1997 dark comedy, John Cusack played a hit man whose ten-year high school reunion coincides with a life crisis.

  The Shawshank Redemption
  True Lies
  Grosse Pointe Blank
  Nobody's Fool

10. Audience members watching this 1993 movie gasped and grabbed their armrests when they read "Objects in mirror are closer than they appear."

  Men in Black
  Jurassic Park
  Ghost
  Terminator 2: Judgment Day