Greater Fort Lauderdale Movie and TV Quiz

Films and TV with Scenes Shot in Greater Fort Lauderdale

  1.  What movie about man's best friend starred a leading lady from Friends?

  2.  What terrifying Robert Mitchum re-make featured Robert DeNiro as the villain and Jessica Lange as the frightened wife?

  3. Demi Moore "took it off" in this movie based on the comic novel by Carl Hiaasen and also staring a deranged Burt Reynolds?

  4. Shirley MacLaine was grandma in this movie starring good sister Toni Collette and flaky sister Cameron Diaz.

  5. Billy Crystal tries to help troubled mobster Robert DiNero get his head straight in this Soprano inspired comedy.

  6. Celebrating its 50th anniversary, "the hilarious inside story of those rip-roaring spring vacations," this movie starring Connie Francis and George Hamilton made Fort Lauderdale an instant beach, bikini and romance getaway for the college set.

  7. Directed by Steven Soderbergh, this fast-paced romantic-comedy-crime thriller has George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez at opposite ends of the law and falling in love in the trunk of a car.   

  8. Lifetime partners attempt to create the perfect family for a son set to marry ultra-conservative politician's prim daughter in this hilarious comedy starring Robin Williams and Nathan Lane.

  9. Rock icon Cher changes the lives of twin brothers played by Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear who have some serious separation issues.

  10.  Funny men Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, Michael O'Keefe and Bill Murray compete for the big prize in a golf tournament in which a destructive gopher dances to Kenny Loggins "I'm Alright" in the climax of this 1980 cult film.

  11. This new A&E TV series by Clifton Campbell ("White Collar") stars Australian actor Matt Passmore as a transplanted Chicago detective who thinks he's got it easy when he joins the Palm Glade police force.  He soon learns it's "Sunny with a Chance of Homicide" in his new South Florida hometown.

  12.  Which housewives' series had Alexis, Tamra, Gretchen & Vicki sipping champagne at the W, shopping on Las Olas Boulevard and getting up close and personal with alligators in the Everglades?

 

Answer key: 1. Marley and Me; 2. Cape Fear; 3. Striptease; 4. In Her Shoes; 5. Analyze This; 6. Where the Boys Are; 7. Out of Sight; 8. The Bird Cage; 9. Stuck on You; 10. Caddyshack; 11. The Glades; 12. The Real Housewives of Orange County

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