1. “After the therapy, and the psychiatry, and the meetings, you know what it all comes down to? You’re all fucked up.”
Hint: Based on a true story, the star (who speaks this line) is an Oscar winner who was nominated an additional seven times. Solved by George (comment #14).
2. The character played by a two-time Oscar winner hides a gun in a cup of coffee.
Hint: The writer/director is most famous as a playwright.
Solved by George (comment #11).
3. This 1930s musical has the same name as a 2004 remake–but not a remake of this movie.
Solved by Melville (comment #2).
4. “I like the stink of the streets. It cleans out my lungs. And it gives me a hard-on.”
Solved by George (comment #10).
5. The actual San Quentin gas chamber was measured so it could be perfectly replicated in the studio for this movie.
Solved by Melville (comment #1).
6. “Hey! Didn’t I see you on Cops?”
Hint: 2008.
Solved by George (comment #11).
7. Based on a true story about an unsolved crime, a cartoonist is the investigator.
Solved by Bill (comment #3).
Is #5 I Want to Live?
#3 is Shall We Dance.
#7 is Zodiac.
Where is everybody?
I’m here for the first time in weeks. And as is my MO, I got nothing.
Number 4 makes me think Sin City…
I only knew #3, Melville beat me to it, and I actually have to work at work today. No time to IMDB sleuth.
OK, I’ll take one guess–is #2 Tom Hanks in Road to Perdition? Haven’t seen the film, but seems like it might fit.
I’ll try to get hints up tomorrow.
Evn, # 4 isn’t even in the same decade.
George, nice guess, but no.
Ah, #4 is Once Upon a Time in America–should have got that sooner.
Is #1 Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon?
Is #2 Gene Hackman in David Mamet’s Heist?
Is #6 Rachel Getting Married?
Well done George, but although #1 is Pacino, it is not Dog Day Afternoon.
Number 2 is Heist. (Written/directed by David Mamet, starring Gene Hackman.)
Ok, after much work in the Pacino oeuvre, I’ve determined #1 is Two for the Money.