ABCs at the Movies: The Doubles Round!

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Under The Tuscan Sun starred Diane Lane who appeared in A Little Romance (1979) with Laurence Olivier who costarred with Michael Caine in Sleuth (1972).



IMDB Plot: Academy Award nominee Diane Lane stars as Frances Mayes, a 35-year-old San Francisco writer whose perfect life has just taken an unexpected detour. Her recent divorce has left her with terminal writer's block and extremely depressed, and her best friend, Patti, is beginning to think she might never recover. Frances decides to take a break and she buys a villa in the beautiful Tuscan countryside and decides to begin anew. Restoring her new home, she eventually finds the fulfillment she was searching for, including love. Based on Frances Mayes' memoir of the same name.

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"Vamp" featured Chris Makepeace, who appeared in "The Falcon and the Snowman" with Sean Penn, who appeared in "21 Grams" with Naomi Watts, who appeared in "Ned Kelly" with Heath Ledger, who starred in "The Dark Knight" with Michael Caine.

From IMDb:  Two fraternity pledges go to a sleazy bar looking for strippers to entertain their college friends. They have problems with transportation, biker gangs, and, worst of all, the staff of the bar, all of whom seem to be vampires, with Grace Jones playing the head vampire.

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Sir Michael starred with Nicholas Cage.  Plot:  A Chicago weather man, separated from his wife and children, debates whether professional and personal success are mutually exclusive.

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Sir Michael starred with Christopher Reeve in this adaptation of the stage play.

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SPOILER: According to separate interviews with Michael Caine and Christopher Reeve, they had hesitations regarding the filming of the infamous "kissing" scene. Once they decided to go through with it they both consumed large amounts of alcohol in order to keep themselves calm and drunk enough that they'd do anything anyone asked them to do. Caine reportedly later regretted the scene and vowed to never film another homosexual sequence. To this day he never has.

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Michael Caine had an uncredited part in "Yield to the Night."

From IMDb:  A young woman who has been abused and taken advantage of by all the men in her life, finally finds a man she believes truly loves her, but she snaps when she finds out that he, too, is cheating on her, and she kills her boyfriend's mistress.

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Zachariah is a 1971 film starring John Rubinstein as Zachariah and Don Johnson as his best friend Matthew. The film is loosely based on Herman Hesse's novel Siddhartha, surrealistically adapted as a musical Western. The band Country Joe and the Fish perform as an inept gang of robbers (more adept as musicians) called "the Crackers," who are always "looking for people who like to draw." In the same vein, Zachariah boasts: "I can think, I can wait, and I'm fast on the draw." This is a parody of Siddhartha's famous line: "I can think, I can wait, I can fast."

John Rubinstein was in "The Boys from Brazil" with Sir Laurence Olivier who was in "Sleuth" with Michael Caine.

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After Alfred Pennyworth, we can't leave out Lucius Fox.  Now for an "N" Degrees of Morgan Freeman Round!

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Morgan Freeman played Alex Cross in this film.



IMDB Plot: Based on the book by James Patterson and a partner to the film Kiss the Girls, Morgan Freeman stars as the detective/psychologist Alex Cross. After losing his partner in an out of control 'bust' Alex Cross stops working and cannot forgive himself. He is drawn back to work reluctantly when a senator's daughter is kidnapped and the kidnapper seems to want to deal with Alex personally.

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Morgan Freeman stars with Jack Nicholson.

Plot:  Two terminally ill men escape from a cancer ward and head off on a road trip with a wish list of to-dos before they die.

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SPOILER: According to separate interviews with Michael Caine and Christopher Reeve, they had hesitations regarding the filming of the infamous "kissing" scene. Once they decided to go through with it they both consumed large amounts of alcohol in order to keep themselves calm and drunk enough that they'd do anything anyone asked them to do. Caine reportedly later regretted the scene and vowed to never film another homosexual sequence. To this day he never has.

Very disappointing, I didn't know Michael Caine was a homophobe.