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Here are the answers to the two movies from Monday, 31st December, 2007:

Answer to movie number one:

The first movie for Monday was from 2003 and tells of an ambitious newcomer who studied at a prestigious school for her chosen career as a teenager - until injury sidelined her. She is devastated when she learns her boyfriend has cheated on her with someone who has the same career as she does. However, as luck would have it, she is chosen to replace her rival when the other is injured. The performance could be her professional breakthrough. A guest crew member is creating an elaborate piece while another from behind the scenes juggles fund-raising to pay for the extravaganza. In the meantime, she must take on a second job waiting tables to supplement her income - and she meets a new boyfriend.

This movie was "The Company", directed by Robert Altman and starring Neve Campbell, Malcolm McDowell and James Franco. The script was written by Barbara Turner and was based on a story by Barbara Turner and Neve Campbell.

Answer to movie number two:

The second movie for Monday was from 1958 and tells of the European social season - a time when bright and not-so-bright teenagers enter society attending one official function after another. The father of a teenage girl invites her to his home country from where she lives with her mother - to whom he was once married - so she can attend some of these functions. The daughter, however, is bored with the people and ways of her father’s home but then meets, and falls for, a musician from her own country. He has a dubious reputation and, after mixed up telephone calls, embarrassing situations and advances - some wanted and some not so - things happen quickly.

This movie was "The Reluctant Debutante", directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Rex Harrison, Kay Kendall and Sandra Dee. The script was written by William Douglas Home.

The first movie for today is from 1949 and, based on a story by one of the cast, tells of a group of people and their chase for a priceless piece of jewellry. Involved are a private eye, a continental person who would stop at nothing to obtain the jewels and a kleptomaniac who doesn’t talk to anyone. Also involved is a group of entertainers who don’t have much money and whom the kleptomaniac feeds by making daily journeys to a food store to obtain food. Others pursue the small group across rooftops, through blinking electricly-lit advertising signs and many other hair-raising escapades.

The second movie for today is from 1997 and tells of a wild-eyed transport worker in the eastern United States as he rants and raves about many diverse plots being perpetrated by everyone in power. He meets one girl whom he voyeuristically watches using some assistance. He barges into her office in a government department one day, again ranting and raving, and it becomes clear the man has a serious problem with his thought processes. Releasing a newsletter about his thoughts, he is torturously interrogated by a deadly serious official. He manages to get away but then a cat-and-mouse game begins between him, a Federal Agency and the woman he went to visit. The answers will be in Monday's edition. Good luck.

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