Round 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?” 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 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 Technicolor (*) fashion show occurs in a 1939 film based on a Clare Boothe Luce play titled for this sort of person. A middle-aged (-5[1])single mother asks her neighbor and a punk played by Greta Gerwig to help her raise her son in a Mike Mills film whose title 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■

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