Tuesday Trivia: Dance

1. He magically gets the cops to dance to a Latin beat.
Solved by Evn (comment #1) and Roberta (comment #3).

2. A tango at a charity ball, featuring the hero and the villain’s girlfriend.
Solved by MJ Ray (comment #13).

3. He’s supposed to be performing a lovely ballroom dance, but he’s drunk; she covers for him and makes it look like a comedy dance routine.
Solved by Roberta (comment #3).

4. As soon as his parents are out of town, he dances alone to rock & roll.
Solved by Evn (comment #2) and Roberta (comment #3).

5. Her costume is stolen while she’s on break, and she becomes hysterical, but she must return to the dance in dirty clothes.
HINT: Although this movie revolves entirely around dance, and takes place entirely at a dance, it is not a musical.
Solved by Melville (comment #14).

6. The dairyman dances by himself in the barn while tending the animals.
Solved by Ben (comment #10).

7. With garbage can lids on their feet.
Solved by Melville (comment #7).

16 comments

  1. Evn says:

    1: The Mask

    2. True Lies?

    4.

  2. Evn says:

    Oops. 4: Risky Business

  3. Roberta says:

    1. The Mask, I think
    2. Wait, isn’t that the Mask as well?
    3. Holiday Inn
    4. Risky Business

    (holy crap!)

    I admit the others ring some bells… although one of them may be a Bond film, so it shouldn’t. But if it has a Bond bond, then it still could.

  4. Evn says:

    #5 makes me think of Drop Dead Gorgeous, but I don’t think that’s right…

  5. deblipp says:

    Oops, that was like, instant. You guys get the tie.

  6. deblipp says:

    Oh, and nobody got 2 or 5 (yet).

  7. Melville says:

    #2 is Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta Jones inThe Mask of Zorro
    #6 isJames Cromwell in Babe
    #7 is Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, and Michael Kidd in It’s Always Fair Weather

  8. deblipp says:

    Melville, for #2, Zeta-Jones is the villain’s daughter, not girlfriend. There’s a better match.

    #6; I don’t recall a dance, and Cromell plays a shepherd, not a dairyman.

    #7 is correct.

  9. Melville says:

    Melville, for #2, Zeta-Jones is the villain’s daughter, not girlfriend.

    Ah, yes, I remembered that 5 minutes after posting. My bad.

    #6; I don’t recall a dance, and Cromell plays a shepherd, not a dairyman.

    He definitely does a dance, though, now that I think of it, I don’t remember if it was in the barn.

  10. Ben says:

    I thought #2 was True Lies too, but I’m pretty sure #6 is Fiddler on the Roof.

  11. Roberta says:

    D’OH!!!
    (Yeah, that be Fiddler.)

  12. deblipp says:

    Okay, I confess: I’ve never seen True Lies, so maybe it’s there too.

  13. MJ Ray says:

    If 2 isn’t True Lies (which was my first thought, but I’m not sure whether that was a charity ball – it’s a really slow film to get going and then it gets silly… fun, but silly), then I guess it’s Never Say Never Again.

  14. Melville says:

    I thought and thought, and suddenly it came to me: #5 is They Shoot Horses, Don’t They

  15. deblipp says:

    Melville, you’re my hero.

  16. Melville says:

    🙂