Round 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 video for Sabrina (10[1])Carpenter’s “Taste” was inspired by this 1992 film, in which a romantic quarrel over a plastic surgeon leads Helen Sharp and Madeline Ashton to take an immortality potion. For 10 points, what campy fantasy-comedy by Robert Zemeckis stars Goldie Hawn and Meryl Streep? ■END■ (0[1])

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