Screen Test
Your monthly dose of movie trivia
1. Step Brothers has Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly playing grown (albeit childish) men, whose parents marry. Name the only other movie to star the pair.
2. Twelve-year-old Abigail Breslin plays the title role in Kit Kittredge: An American Girl. For which movie did young Breslin earn an Oscar nomination?
3. True or false: Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D star Brendan Fraser was born in Canada.
4. Fred Durst directs his second movie this month, The Longshots. Durst is best known as the lead singer for which band?
5. Saturday Night Live’s Andy Samberg provides the voice of HAM III in the animated feature Space Chimps. It’s only Samberg’s second feature film, the first came out last year and was about a wannabe daredevil. Name it.
6. X Files: I Want to Believe is the second movie to be spun from the X Files TV show. In which year did the first X Files movie come out —1998, 2000, 2001 or 2003?
7. Sir Ben Kingsley appears in seven movies this year, including last month’s The Love Guru and this month’s The Wackness. One of his first acting jobs (in the late 1960s) saw him play Ron Jenkins on a long-running British soap opera. Name that show.
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Answers
1. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
2. Little Miss Sunshine
3. False. He was born in Indianapolis but raised partly in Ottawa.
4. Limp Bizkit
5. Hot Rod
6. 1998
7. Coronation Street