The Great Movies Game

[homoe]

W

What Maisie Knew :Julianne Moore Steve Coogan Joanne Vanderham


Delves into the effect of a bitter divorce on a couple's 6-year-old daughter.

[Gemme]

X

Xanadu
1980
Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, Michael Beck

[homoe]

Y
You've Got Mail : Tom Hanks Meg Ryan Jean Stapleton

The film tells of Kathleen Kelly, who owns a children's bookstore in New York. It is a small but profitable labor of love -- until Fox books, a mega-chain of super-sized bookstores, begins building across the street. Joe Fox, an executive with the family-owned firm, is directly responsible for this particular branch.

[JDeere]

Z

Zachariah

1971

[homoe]

A

Akeelah and the Bee

The story revolves around the efforts of an English professor (Laurence Fishburne) to coach a promising young girl (Keke Palmer) to victory at the National Spelling Bee, much to the chagrin of the girl's mother and friends.

[JDeere]

B

Babe

1995

[homoe]

C

Crossing Delancey

Crossing Delancey is generally an affable, thoroughly charming little romance that benefits substantially from Amy Irving's compelling performance. The story revolves around a successful bookseller named Isabelle (Irving) whose inability to find a husband greatly concerns her meddling grandmother, with the matchmaking efforts that ensue leading Isabelle straight to kindly pickle-maker Sam Posner.

[JDeere]

D

Damien: Omen II

1978

[homoe]

E

Extremely Loud and Incredible Close

Eleven-year-old Oskar Schell is an exceptional child: amateur inventor, Francophile, pacifist. And after finding a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11, he embarks on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York. As Oskar roams the city, he encounters a variety of individuals, all survivors in their own way. Ultimately, Oskar’s journey ends where it began, but with the solace of that most human experience: community.

[JDeere]

F

Failure To Launch

2006

[homoe]

G

Ghost : Whoopie Goldberg Demi Moore Patrick Swayze

While out on the town one evening, New York couple Sam and Molly are confronted by a mugger. After submitting to his demands, Sam is murdered anyway. He then finds himself a disembodied spirit, invisible to the living world, wandering without hope until he finds a spiteful spirit aboard the subway.

[JDeere]

H

Hall of Mirrors

2001

[homoe]

I

In The Valley of Elah

Tommy Lee Jones plays a career soldier whose son mysteriously goes AWOL, shortly after returning to the U.S. from the front lines in Iraq. Charlize Theron plays a local police detective who helps him get to the bottom of the soldier's disappearance

[JDeere]

J

Jabberwocky

1977

[Kelt]

K

Key Largo 1948

Bogie and Bacall

(I hope that one didn't already show up..)

[Orema]

Originally Posted by Kelt

K

Key Largo 1948

Bogie and Bacall

(I hope that one didn't already show up..)

It has shown up, but I think that's okay since there's no way to keep track of what's already been listed. Also, there are only so many movies that start with K or X, so it's inevitable that there will be duplicates.

[Orema]

L

Last Exit to Brooklyn

Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stephen Lang, Burt Young

1989

[TheHinduPose]

M:
Mississippi Burning
(excellent film)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095647/

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mississi...0-years-later/

http://vault.fbi.gov/Mississippi%20B...%20of%209/view

[Gemme]

N

Now and Then
1995
Christina Ricci, Demi Moore, Rosie O'Donnell

[JDeere]

O

Oasis of the Zombies

1981