This week’s new movie releases bring us life stories of poets (“Emily”), big-screen spin-offs of small-screen series (“Luther: The Fallen Sun”), titles named after floor coverings (“Linoleum”) and thrillers about drugged-out wild animals on a rampage (“Cocaine Bear”).
So, let’s go with that motley assortment of themes for this week’s quiz. All of the questions below have to do with films about either poets, TV show adaptations, ones with the word “floor” in the title or … whatever “Cocaine Bear” is.
1. Jeff Bridges played a children’s book author and artist (but not a poet) in 2004’s “The Door in the Floor,” based on one portion of John Irving’s novel, “A Widow for One Year.” What Oscar-winning actress played his estranged wife?
2. “Cujo” is one of the ultimate crazed animal feature films, but its director, Lewis Teague, had previous experience with killer critters. Three years before its release, in 1980, he directed what underrated B-movie horror flick featuring a growth hormone-enhanced title character written by Schenectady’s own John Sayles? …
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