Packet 4: Tossup 2

In a film titled for this sort of person, a character remarks, “gotta be careful of hydrophobia!” upon being bitten in the leg. A Greil Marcus essay inspired a scene from a film titled for this sort of person in which a mother asks, “can’t things just be pretty?” (-5[1])when her daughter plays a song by The Raincoats. In the credits of a film titled for this sort of person, shots of animals representing each character’s personality fade into shots of the actor (15[1])portraying them. The discovery of a dead man with a knife in his back kicks off a François Ozon musical murder mystery titled for these people. A six-minute (15[1])Technicolor (*) fashion show occurs in a 1939 (10[1])film based on a Clare Boothe Luce (10[1])play titled (10[1])for this (10[1])sort of person. (10[1])A middle-aged (10[1]-5[1])single mother asks (10[1])her neighbor and a punk played by Greta Gerwig to help her raise her son (10[1])in a Mike Mills film whose title (10[1])places these people in the 20th century. For 10 points, what sort of people (10[1])title a George Cukor comedy with an all-female cast? ■END■ (10[1])

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