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In this newsletter, we give a description of the plots for two movies, picked at random, as well as the year they were made and, just for fun, take the challenge and see if you can guess what they are. You can send your answers in but, be warned - the ONLY prize is the joy of knowing you got either or both right!! The answers will follow in the next newsletter. Just send your guesses, whether you only know one, or both, or even if you're not sure, in the BODY of the message to mailto:namethatmovie@namethatmovie.net Closing time for entries is 9am, Eastern Australian Time, on the Monday or Thursday following each newsletter. Write to us if you're not sure what that time is where you are.

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Congratulations to all who entered for Thursday 28th February, 2008. Please check the Hall of Fame at our web site, http://www.namethatmovie.net - for current placings. If your name isn't listed, that's because we are out of room and, as in the last series, we have those details recorded here. You can write to us any time if you would like to know what your current placing is.

Here are the answers to the two movies from Thursday, 28th February, 2008:

Answer to movie number one:

The first movie for Thursday was from 1950 and tells of an ex-longshoreman attending a convention in the western United States. He meets a woman from the opposite side of the country at the convention. He is proud of his rough and ready background while she, holding the same job as he does, hence them both attending, is equally as proud of her education and her dedication to those who elected her into the position she now holds. In such close proximity to each other, they are thrown together and find that opposites do, indeed, attract. Their joint escapades throughout the convention get them both into trouble back at their respective homes.

This movie was "Key to the City", directed by George Sidney and starring Clark Gable, Loretta Young and Raymond Burr. The script was written by Robert Riley Crutcher.

Answer to movie number two:

The second movie for Thursday was from 1993 and tells of a waitress who is married to a man who is a drunken lout. Her son-in-law is an aspiring make-up artist who pals around with a man who runs a pool maintenance service and who is frustrated and disturbed by his wife’s career. Meanwhile, another couple meet a surgeon and his painter wife at a concert. One of them takes a leisure trip with his buddies and they discover a dead, naked woman in a stream. Their lives, and those of many others, overlap and intertwine until a natural disaster shakes up everyone and everything involved.

This movie was "Short Cuts", directed and co-written by Robert Altman and starring Andie MacDowell, Tim Robbins and Jack Lemmon. The script was co-written with Frank Barhydt. Mr. Altman received the only Academy Award ® nomination - for Best Director.

The first movie for today is from 1991 and tells of a home for wayward and orphaned children. The child who is credited with having the worst attitude in the home clashes with the grim and heavy-handed headmaster, who exposes a regimen of hard labour and calisthenics. A hip music teacher ahead of his time arrives and he indoctrinates the boys in the forbidden pleasures of a largely forbidden type of music. He is also making time with the owner of a dance club on the wrong side of the tracks. She just happens to be the ex-flame of the town’s sheriff.

The second movie for today is from 1950 and tells the continuing story of a middle-class woman from Europe. In the pallid capital city of her homeland, on a very special day for the military, she finds herself caught up in the exuberant melee following the wonderful news that heralds the end of the war. She has just come from a visit to her doctor and, realising that she doesn’t have a long time left to live, she bravely decides to keep the news from her family so that they may enjoy the end of the war and their final days together, as normally as possible, without the family realising they are their final days together. The answers will be in Thursday's edition. Good luck.

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