Round 2: Tossup 15

This film’s screenplay is the best-known of those written by Joe Dante’s co-host on The Movies That Made Me podcast, Josh Olson. A TIFF (15[1])press junket for this film ended abruptly when the actor playing one of its antagonists repeatedly asked “what is that?” while bashing the conference table. (15[1])This film is widely cited (15[1])as the last mainstream movie to be released on VHS. (15[2])In this film, (15[2])a villain twice asks, “how do you fuck that up?” (15[1])after watching his goons fail to strangle a man. (15[1])The put-on innocence of this film’s first sex scene, in which the female lead (*) roleplays as a high school cheerleader, contrasts with its second, in which shots of the male lead restraining her on a staircase are set to its theme by Howard Shore. A graphic novel inspired this 2005 film, whose inciting incident is the killing of two robbers by small-town (10[1])diner owner Tom Stall. For 10 points, what film about a mob assassin turned family man was the first time David Cronenberg directed Viggo Mortensen? ■END■

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