1. He tells her he loves her. She tells him she’s engaged to another man. He pulls the tablecloth, and everything on it, off the restaurant table.
HINT: He pulls the tablecloth with his teeth.
Solved by Melville (comment #25).
2. He tells her he loves her. She slaps him across the face, but soon, she’s in his bed, in an apartment in Brooklyn.
Solved by Nobody in Particular (comment #3) and Daven (comment #6).
3. She slaps him across the face, but soon, she’s in his bed, in a hotel room in Berlin.
HINT: The villain of this movie is modeled after Rupert Murdoch.
Solved by TehipiteTom (comment #22).
4. At the very end of the movie, she finally realizes she loves him, and tells him so. But it’s too late, he leaves anyway.
Solved by TehipiteTom (comment #1).
5. At the very end of the movie, he finally realizes he wants to be with her, and tells her at a press conference.
Solved by TehipiteTom (comment #1).
6. At the very end of the movie, he finally realizes he wants to be with her, and tells her at a New Year’s Eve party.
Solved by Evn (comment #4) and Daven (comment #6), three minutes later.
7. She wants to be loved, and she is. But she wants to be craved, and she is not.
Solved by Amy (comment #10).
Note: Nobody in Particular’s answer to #2 got stuck in the spam folder. So he solved it before Daven but it never showed up. Both get credit. NiP’s comment was restored to chronological order, making his #3 and everyone else’s moves forward.
4 describes Gone With the Racist-Ass KKK-Glorifying Wind, but I’m not sure if that’s the movie you have in mind.
5 is Notting Hill, I think.
I forgot that if I used GWTW you’d go a little nuts.
# 2 sounds like Moonstruck … ? She slaps him and says, “Get over it!” 😀
I’m kind of sure #6 is When Harry Met Sally.
That’s not nuts, De; it’s a perfectly reasonable description. GWTW the movie is a marginally less despicable adaptation of one of the most despicable works of fiction in the English language.
Number 2 is “Moonstruck”
Number 3 is the James bond tie in, don’t know the movie.
Number 6 is “When Harry Met Sally”
Number 5 could also be “The American President” (if you stretch it) and “Worth Winning” (if you count an auction as a press conference since the press are there)
What Daven said. ‘cept I wouldn’t know #3.
And I’d have called it When Harry Met the-most-shallow-and-over-bloated-love-stories-of-our-time-and those-two-jerks-deserve-each-other Sally.
It’s “a little nuts” to take the time to type out the whole thing, Tom. I meant I would trigger a kneejerk ARG reaction from you, which I did, not that it’s a nutty opinion.
7 is Kissing Jessica Stein.
Okay, Daven, haven’t seen Worth Winning. You have a point about The American President, but Benning’s character isn’t actually AT the press conference, so bzzzzt.
Roberta, you mean When Harry Ripped Off Every Woody Allen Movie And Called It Meeting Sally?
Worth Winning is a bad comedy romance staring Mark Harmon. He’s made a bet that he can get three different women to marry him in one month and he will win a Picasso painting from his friend.
One “target” is a blonde bombshell who has everyone chasing her, one is an already-married socialite and one is a concert pianist who hates men.
He wins the bet, falls in love with the pianist, the women find out about the bet and the whole thing goes up in smoke.
Final scene is a charity auction for the pianist to play at a private engagment at which point he shows up and starts bidding for her, admitting that he’s in love with her, walking across the diner’s tables as he goes to the stage, bantering bids back and forth with the lady he so terribly wronged while the press are covering the event for the social page. It’s news because he’s a very popular weatherman on a local news station.
It’s predictable, trite and I cry every time. Some of the scenes are hillarious when you first see them, but campy the second and thrid times. He did this movie when he was pretty young so he looks like a kid. I think the pianist is also well known, but as I can’t find the movie on my shelf, which means it’s in the Oubliette of Storage, and I dont’ want to do Google right now, I dont’ know her name. I do know that one of the ladies from SCTV was on there (the lady in the cheetah print clothing, don’t remember her name either). And it is funny.
Anyhow, enough babbling and spoilers.
Oh, and Benning’s character WAS listening to the press conference in her car on the radio, and the car just steered itself over to the White House.
Not trying to cause problems, I had read the clues to my wife and she mentioned The American President, and I realzed that she is right.
Okay, but Notting Hill is the Very Obvious Answer.
Daven, IMDb is your friend. The first 3 women listed are:
Madeleine Stowe
Lesley Ann Warren
Maria Holvoe
Rant about When Harry Met Sally by rkl
Deb, I know you’ve always said that, but especially being as I never saw Manhattan (and now I never will) I don’t have the same reaction. I just know that generationally it is like some fucking flagship for love, and I think it’s crap. Men and women are never really friends. There is a scene where she is just so viciously attacking of him, I don’t know what kind of friendship that is anyway. (The wagon wheel table scene, for those following along at home.) And they finally sleep together. And he freaks and runs. And then they are two lonely, (one dumped, again) people in New York. And then it’s the holidays. And you know what escalates loneliness? The holidays. Especially in New York. And you know when you get the most impulsive and romantic? During the holidays when you’re lonely in New York. And suddenly it’s that he’s always loved her. Which he said through every breath of the past 20 years was not the case.
Good luck to those two.
(wheww.)
(Why am I on my computer and not at a video store right now and on my way to your house? because everyone in the entire world had the same idea… to rent Goblet of Fire before Order of the Phoenix comes out, so there are no DVDs available. I must go hunt, but I am likely showing up empty handed… well, I may have laundry. Arth has already been warned. About the no movie, not about the laundry.)
LOL Deborah, your quiz, you get to say what the right answer is. If you say it’s Notting Hill, then it is. It’s cool, not upset or anything. Just pointing out the two movies.
Anyhow, I’m just being difficult.
And I was also being lazy today with not looking it up on IMDb, trying to get thing together to get my wife to the doctor. Thanks for finding that info for me.
😉
Hope your wife is okay.
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Oh, is #3 that movie with Jonathan Pryce? The one with Michelle Yeoh, I think?
Tom, I do most of the work here, the least you could do is come up with a title.
Yeah, but you wrote the book. 😉
Tomorrow Never Dies?
#1 is Life is Beautiful?
Tom, yes and it would be really cheating to answer my own quiz.
Roberta, no.
Is #1 My Left Foot?
Melville saves at the eleventh hour AGAIN!