Packet 4: Tossup 11

A shot of fire reflected in a character’s glasses caps off a montage in this film in which the camera dollies down a dinner table away from a woman slumped over with her face in a plate of salad. A woman in this film who quotes Greta Garbo’s signature line from Grand Hotel stabs both its male and female leads in the finger. (-5[1])This film’s success earned its co-writer David Koepp (“kep”) the job of adapting Jurassic Park. ILM’s Oscar-winning effects for this film (15[1])included realistic CGI human (*) skin for a sequence in which one of its two leads uses a shovel to snap the other’s neck. The music (10[1])video for Sabrina (10[2])Carpenter’s “Taste” was inspired by this (10[1])1992 (10[1])film, in (10[1])which a romantic quarrel (10[1])over a plastic surgeon leads Helen Sharp and Madeline (10[1])Ashton to take an immortality potion. (10[5])For 10 points, what campy (10[1])fantasy-comedy by Robert Zemeckis stars Goldie Hawn and Meryl Streep? ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

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