1. Two co-stars: One won an Academy Award for playing a mentally disabled person, one won an Academy Award for his directorial debut.
Solved by Melville (comment #1).
2. To find room in the budget for a social service program, the President persuades the Secretary of Commerce to stop a series of Public Service Announcements about cars.
Solved by Tom Hilton (comment #2).
3. “Nice thing about you, Joe, is that you can sound like a liberal, but at heart you’re an American.”
Solved by George (comment #6).
4. Dressed as playing cards at a costume party.
Solved by Melville (comment #1).
5. Groucho Marx has an uncredited walk-on cameo—his last screen appearance.
Solved by George (comment #6).
6. “My guys are not stupid. They always put the big Jews on my schedule.”
Solved by George (comment #6).
7. The candidate tells a completely fabricated story about his WWII veteran uncle, and cries every time.
Solved by Hogan (comment #8).
#1 is All The President’s Men.
#4 is The Manchurian Candidate (the original one from 1962, though maybe they did the same thing in the remake, which I haven’t seen).
The same scene was not in the remake, Mel. The remake, by the way, was good. Not the original, but good.
is #2 [i]Dave[/i]?
And #3 is maddeningly familiar. The Candidate maybe?
And I’m guessing the theme is…movies that have ‘the’ in the title, except when they don’t. 😉
is 7 Citizen Kane?
Actually, #5 is The Candidate. #3 is the Gore Vidal penned The Best Man.
#6 is Bullworth.
And the theme is–Halloween.
Oh, the theme is “elections to public office”, probably with connotation being on Presidential, but I think any office.
#7 is Primary Colors.