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Before getting to the answers, it’s worth mentioning about errors in the clues. I’d like to congratulate the many people who realised there was a mistake last issue, worked around it, and came up with the correct answer - despite me. Well done to you all. I’ve said many times before to always allow a couple of years either side of what I give you simply because some references list films differently. As the newsletter says, we use the year a film was made and sometimes they aren’t released until a year or two later. Some references list the year of release and others list the year it was made. I have also said that, if everything fits a certain movie except for one small detail, ie the year, the setting or something like that, send it anyway. You probably are right but, if not, if you sent your entry early enough, you have time to try again. I am human and I do typos, as in this case - yes, it should have read 2006 and not 2004. I didn’t send a correction simply because almost everyone that played worked it out. There was only a small number of players who didn’t and, since I don’t like to bombard readers unnecessarily, I deemed it not worth sending a correction, given information I have given on prior occasions and again above.

Here are the answers to the two movies from Monday, 4th February, 2008:

Answer to movie number one:

The first movie for Monday was from 2006 and tells of a man who is a stressed out senior executive in a large conglomerate. His job is threatened by an ambitious young business school graduate, while his yuppie wife sees more of her technical toys than she does of him. His children are typical hormone-filled teenagers with a biting sarcasm to add to the cocktail. When his boss forces him to cancel his family vacation in order to clinch a vital takeover, he rents a van and decides the family will, instead, take a road trip to the place where the takeover is being completed - except he doesn’t tell his family the real reason why that place of all places.

This movie was "RV", directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and starring Robin Williams, Jeff Daniels and Kristin Chenoweth. The script was written by Geoff Rodkey.

Answer to movie number two:

The second movie for Monday was from 1964 and tells of a runaway aerial performer who returns to watch one of her children rehearsing on the lot where she works. There were difficulties between them last time they met but, this time, there is a happy reunion. So happy that they end up performing together - but only after a terrible tragedy had hit the troupe they perform with.

This movie was "Circus World", directed by Henry Hathaway and starring John Wayne, Claudia Cardinale and Rita Hayworth. The script was written by Ben Hecht, Julian Halevy and James Edward Grant.

The first movie for today is from 1953 and tells of one night in the life of a police force in the central United States. A crazy, mixed up policeman is ready to throw in both his job and his marriage to run away with a cheap saloon dancer. However, he accepts an assignment from a suave but crooked attorney to take a magician, who turned to crime and became a hood, over the state line in order to get money for his flight from reality.

The second movie for today is from 2002 and, based on a novel, tells of a man who arrives in Europe wearing a lot more clothing than he needs to. He moves into a run-down halfway house which is overshadowed by menacing gasworks. It’s located around the corner from the house where the man originally grew up and every brick in that house is tainted with his deep, disturbing childhood memories. His story unfolds in flashbacks where he is watching, as an adult, from the shadows, while his younger self is moving, unknowingly, towards his dreadful fate - and the death of his mother. The answers will be in Monday's edition. Good luck.

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