Round 6: Tossup 2

In a 1935 comedy with this title, a barrage of nuns, priests, and officers seize the crops of “Loser,” a peasant who owns a spotted horse. This title is shared by the magnum opus of Aleksandr Medvedkin and a film in which Marla Maples, Donald Trump’s second wife, plays a real estate agent. In a film with this title, an aria from Così fan tutte cuts out while a man reaches his hand across a sofa to a woman who phone-stalked him. In the opening of a film with this title, a man who says “I’m champagne, and you’re shit” after being dumped on a date is played by Jon (*) Lovitz. (10[1])A subplot in that film with this title concerns the separation of the parents of Joy, a lonely woman who meets a Russian cabbie. Life During Wartime is the sequel to an unrated 1998 film with this title (10[1])in which the husband of one of the three Jordan sisters conceals his pedophilia. For 10 points, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Dylan Baker starred in a black comedy by Todd Solondz titled for what emotion? ■END■

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