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Here are the answers to the two movies from Monday, 18th February, 2008:

Answer to movie number one:

The first movie for Monday was from 1992 and tells of a mousy librarian who seizes on a weapon, discovered after it was used in the motel room murder of a Federal Agency informer. She uses the fact she has the weapon as a way of shaking up her pristine image and becomes a femme fatale in the process. Her "girl who cries wolf" plot has one deadly drawback, however, in the form of a sadistic mobster who fears that she also possesses evidence which could have him convicted.

This movie was "The Gun in Betty Lou’s Handbag", directed by Allan Moyle and starring Penelope Ann Miller, Alfre Woodard and Cathy Moriarty. The script was written by Grace Cary Buckley.

Answer to movie number two:

The second movie for Monday was from 1958 and, based on a Broadway play, tells of a rich actress living in luxury in a European city. Her sister and brother-in-law introduce her to a financial genius who has come to the city for a very important dinner function. He is a lifelong bachelor who masquerades as a married man to keep his single status secure. He tells the actress that he’s married, which is fine with her. She has no interest in being married and no guilt over having an affair with a supposedly married man who’s separated from a wife who doesn’t understand him. He takes a new job and sees her every weekend but, when he is told he must move to the other side of the world for a long time, complications arise for both of them.

This movie was "Indiscreet", produced and directed by Stanley Donen and starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Phyllis Calvert. The script was written by Norman Krasna and based on his play, "Kind Sir".

The first movie for today is from 1963 and tells of two brothers who are at opposite extremities of bachelorhood. The older brother is passing into a more mature, responsible phase of his life. He no longer sees the the excesses and ferocious personality of his younger brother as especially appealing. This has come as great news to their long-suffering father, who is a wax fruit manufacturer from the eastern United States - who believes that any unmarried man over a certain age is a bum.

The second movie for today is from 2003 and tells of a young girl who, with her older brother and their hard-working, divorced mother, lives in the suburbs in the western United States. A good student who writes poetry when she’s not studying, the girl nevertheless falls under the beguiling spell of the hottest girl at her school, who is also the leader of an elite, cell-phone-wielding posse of girls in low-slung jeans and barely-there t-shirts. The girl is thrilled when the leader invites her to go shopping but, when she realises that shopping means helping themselves, she proves herself by helping herself to the wallet of a complete stranger. Within days, the girl has been transformed - and not for the better. The answers will be in Monday's edition. Good luck.

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