24 December 2021

MovieQuiz 6501 (closed)

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Your mission, should you choose to accept it
find the actor or director that connects the movies below.
 
movie 1: Heaven Can Wait (1943)
 link #1 = Don Ameche (1908)
movie 2: Trading Places (1983)
 link #2 (director) = John Landis (1950)
movie 3: Coming to America (1988)
link #3= Cuba Gooding Jr. (1968)
movie 4: What Dreams May Come (1998)
link #4 = Lucinda Jenney (1954)
movie 5: Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
link #5 = Francis Ford Coppola (1939)
movie 6:  Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
link #6 = Cary Elwes (1962)
movie 7:  Kiss the Girls (1997)
link #7 = Jeremy Piven (1965)
movie 8:  Family Man (2000)
link #8 = Amber Valletta (1974)
movie 9:  Man About Town (2006)
link #9 = John Cleese (1939)
movie 10: Scorched (2003)
link #10 = Alicia Silverstone (1976)
movie 11:  Clueless (1995)
link #11 = Jeremy Sisto (1974)
movie 12:  Thirteen (2003)
link #12 = Holly Hunter (1958)
movie 13:  Always (1989)
link #13 = Steven Spielberg (1946)
movie 14:  Catch Me If You Can (2002)
link #14 = Martin Sheen (1940)
movie 15:  The Way (2010)
link #15 = James Nesbitt (1965)
movie 16:  Waking Ned Devine (1998)
link #16 = Fionnula Flanagan (1941)
movie 17:  Blessed (2004)
link #17 = Andy Serkis (1964)
movie 18:  Career Girls (1997)
link #18 = Mike Leigh (1943)
movie 19:  Vera Drake (2004)
link #19 = Eddie Marsan (1968)
movie 20:  B. Monkey (1998)
link #20 = Ian Hart (1964)
movie 21:  Enemy of the State (1998)
link #21 = Jack Black (1969)
movie 22:  Shallow Hal (2001)
link #22 = Bruce McGill (1950)
movie 23: Courage Under Fire (1996)
link #23 = Meg Ryan (1961)
movie 24:  In the Cut (2003)
link #24 = Jennifer Jason Leigh (1962)
movie 25:  eXistenZ (1999)
link #25 = David Cronenberg (1943)
movie 26:  The Dead Zone (1983)
link #26 = Ken Pogue (1934)
movie 27:  The Silent Partner (1978)
link #27 = John Candy (1950)
movie 28:  Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
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How to play:
The above 28 movies are connected by 27 persons ('links'): actor or director.
Make a note of the name of that person, including their YOB (year of birth).
(If multiple people are connecting a pair of movies, write 'm all down so you can retrace your steps later in case your final answer is incorrect. Link #2 is the only giveaway!)

Use a calculator or a spreadsheet to add-up all 27 YOB's.
That total is a number of five figures: ABCDE
Substitute it into https://www.imdb.com/name/nm00ABCDE/
to find the name of an actress that passed away at age 88.

Solution:
 
 
 
 
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