ABCs at the Movies: The Doubles Round!

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David Warner plays Ellic in this film and Spicer Lovejoy in TITANIC



Plot:  Come to the Village of the Dogs, it's easy to find. Just follow the avenue of crutches and the prosthetic legs hanging from the trees. It's where the Virgin Mary keeps appearing in the sky. And the local Marquis' (John Hurt) hobby is burying people alive, sometimes rescued by Ellic (David Warner). Sometimes not!

[Fran]

Suzy Amis, who played Lizzy Calvert (Rose's granddaughter) in "Titanic," played Robin Torrence in this film.

From IMDb:  To prove his brother's innocence, undercover officer Nick enrolls in high school again, dealing with crushes, bullies, humiliations, popularity swings, and quirky teachers and staff to find the real murderer.

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Kate Winslsett played Rose DeWitt Bukater in Titantic and Tula in this film.

Plot: Down-and-dirty musical love story set in the world of the working class. Nick is an ironworker who builds and repairs bridges. He's married to Kitty, a dressmaker, a strong and gentle woman with whom he has three daughters. He is carrying on a torrid affair with a redheaded woman named Tula. Nick is basically a good, hardworking man driven forward by will and blinded by his urges. Like Oedipus at Colonus, he is sent into exile and searches to find his way back through the damage he has done. Explores the cost and value of a relationship through life and death. When the characters can no longer express themselves with language, they break into song, lip-synching the tunes lodged in their subconscious. It is their way to escape the harsh reality of their world - to dream, to remember, and to connect to another human being.

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Kathy Bates, who played (unsinkable?) Molly Brown in Titanic, plays Helen Givings in this fim.

[Fran]

Kathy Bates, who played Molly Brown in "Titanic," played Miss Swaffer in this film.

From IMDb:  This film is about a Russian man who survives a shipwreck. He stays in Britain to start a new life, only to face maltreatment and discrimination. His life turns a new chapter when he falls in love against all odds.

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Leonardo Di Caprio played Jack Dawson in Titanic and Arthur Rimbaud in this film.

Plot: In 1871, Paul Verlaine (1844-1896), an established poet, invites boy genius Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) to live with Paul and his young pregnant wife, Mathiltde, in her father's home in Paris. Rimbaud's uncouth behavior disrupts the household as well as the insular society of French poets, but Verlaine finds the youth invigorating. Stewed in absinthe and resentment, Verlaine abuses Mathiltde; he and Rimbaud become lovers and abandon her. There are reconciliations and partings with Mathiltde and partings and reconciliations with Rimbaud, until an 1873 incident with a pistol sends one of them to prison. Codas dramatize the poets' final meeting and last illnesses. 

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Kathy Bates, who played Unsinkable Molly Brown in Titanic, starred in this film.

Plot:  After her husband (Aykroyd) leaves her, a woman (Bates) travels to London for the funeral of the pop star, Victor Fox (Pryce), she's adored all her life. There, she meets the lover (Everett) of the dead pop star, and convinces him to come back to Chicago with her to figure out who killed the singer.

[Fran]

Billy Zane, who played Caledon "Cal" Hockley in "Titanic," played Adrian in this film.

From IMDb:  Death and spiritual torment stalk three American students visiting the Carpathian mountain homeland of Vlad Tepes.

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Kathy Bates played Molly Brown in Titanic and Helen 'Mama' Boucher in this film.

Plot: 31-year-old waterboy, Bobby Boucher is constantly tormented by the team he works for until he is fired by the coach. He then finds a new coach to work for. Here he finds a new talent, tackling people by pretending they're making fun of them. Soon, he becomes the best linebacker in college football, but he must keep it secret from his overprotective mother.

[Lynne]

starring Leonardo DiCaprio who also starred in Titanic:

from Wiki:

Blood Diamond is an Academy Award nominated 2006 action/adventure drama film co-produced and directed by Edward Zwick, director of Glory and The Last Samurai, and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly and Djimon Hounsou. The title refers to blood diamonds, which are diamonds mined in African war zones and sold to finance the conflicts and profit the warlords and the diamond companies across the world. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Actor (DiCaprio) and Best Supporting Actor (Hounsou).