1. Because he wants to be a gunman, he tries to hide his nearsightedness.
Solved by TehipiteTom (comment #5).
2. A pair of brothers hired to repair a small tractor.
Solved by OhKen (comment #12).
3. A young woman, who doesn’t really like to talk about herself, plays touch football in a skirt.
Solved by Kathy (comment #7).
4. He is killed with a crossbow while diving into his swimming pool.
HINT: He is killed by a woman. Our hero wanted him alive.
Solved by lunofajro (comment #20).
5. She makes roses out of paper. She dreams of someday making them out of silk, but she is shot to death before that can happen.
HINT: Her former lover finds her in bed with another man and shoots them both. The other man shoots and kills him, but his own wound will ultimately prove fatal.
Solved by sopka (comment #21).
6. “I don’t like cold things touching my skin.”
Solved by Amy (comment #15).
7. Three sailors having a picnic in a park on a freezing winter day.
Solved by George (comment #1).
I’m pretty sure #7 is The Last Detail butI haven’t seen it in years.
Not bad after years!
Arg, these are all ringing vague, unattainable bells. Must…. focus…
Is #1 Little Big Man?
#1 is Unforgiven.
Sorry, Louise. Tom got it.
I can’t believe I actually know one — or at least I think so. #3 is The Big Chill.
Yay, Kathy for knowing one!
I can’t believe I freaking missed the Big Chill.
just. can’t.
Is four the “Last Action Hero?”
Is #2 “The Straight Story”? Or is that too easy…..
witless chum, no, OhKen, yes.
#6 sounds really, really familiar. I don’t think it’s Miller’s Crossing, but I don’t have any better guess, so what the hell.
#6 is To Catch a Thief?
Amy, yes. Tom, that’s why it sounds familiar.
Is #5 that movie? With Lee Remick?
umm… Anatomy of a Murder?
Although Lee Remick is indeed in Anatomy of a Murder, that is not the answer.
And Ben Gazzara. He’s a good actor.
#4 is “For your Eyes Only”
Dead Man with johnny Depp as new lover and gabriel byrne as the former