TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you will be shown an extract from a movie plot and a question. You need to provide the correct answer for it. Short answers containing words that are present in the passage are preferred.
PROBLEM: A disoriented man climbs up into the attic of a sorority house while the occupants hold a Christmas party. Jess Bradford (Olivia Hussey) starts to receives an obscene phone call from "the moaner", a man who has been calling the house. After, she calls sorority friends Barb Coard (Margot Kidder), Phyllis "Phyl" Carlson (Andrea Martin), Clare Harrison (Lynne Griffin), and several other girls to listen. He starts saying perverted things to them before Barb provokes the caller, to which he replies "I'm going to kill you" before hanging up. Barb and Clare slightly argue about the things she said to him and Clare goes upstairs to pack. After she hears the noise of the house's cat and investigates, she is strangled and suffocates by an unseen assailant with plastic wrapping. Her body is brought into the attic and is placed on a rocking chair.The next day, Clare's father arrives to look for Clare to bring home for the holidays; the housemother Mrs. Mac (Marian Waldman) can't seem to help him and neither can Phyl or Barb. Meanwhile, Jess meets with her boyfriend Peter Smythe (Keir Dullea), a neurotic aspiring pianist at the piano recital hall to inform him that she is pregnant and wants to have an abortion. Peter becomes suspicious and urges her to discuss the situation with him. but she refuses. Elsewhere, Mr. Harrison, Barb, and Phyl go to the police to report Clare's disappearance.Clare's boyfriend Chris (Art Hindle) is informed by Jess about the disappearance while playing hockey. They then discussed it with Lt. Kenneth Fuller (John Saxon); a mother, Mrs. Quaife (Martha Gibson), reports that her daughter Janice is missing as well. That evening, Mr. Harrison, Chris, and the sorority sisters join a search party for Janice and Clare. Back at the house, Mrs. Mac looks for the cat and discovers Clare's body before she is hooked into the neck by the killer and dragged up. After the search party finds Janice's dead body, Jess returns home and receives another obscene call in which contacts the police to report it. Unaware of Peter in the house, he startles her and starts to argue about her planned abortion before leaving upset after Lt. Fuller arrives at the house to discuss the phone calls. A technician then places a tap "bug tracer" onto the phone and Lt. Fuller informs that there will be another officer stationed outside the house. As Christmas carolers visit to the house and sing, the killer sneaks into Barb's room and stabs her with a glass unicorn head while her screams are drowned out by the carolers. Jess receives another obscene call that quotes a part of the argument she had with Peter.Phyl goes upstairs to bed and checks into Barb's room before the killer shuts the door from behind and murders her off-screen. Another call comes in and this time, Jess manages to keep Billy on the phone for a minute to allow the police to trace it. Jess is then informed that the calls are coming from the house and is ordered to leave the house immediately. Shocked, Jess puts down the phone and yells up to Barb and Phyl. She arms herself with a fireplace poker and ventures upstairs only to find Barb and Phyl's bodies on the bed. Before leaving, she sees the killer's eye spying on her through the door crack, and she slams the door to flee. Jess is chased through the house before she locks herself in the cellar. Peter appears outside a basement window, telling Jess he heard screaming. He enters and approaches her before she, believing him to be the killer, bludgeons him in self-defense.Lt. Fuller and the police arrive and finds a fatigue Jess in the basement with Peter's dead body. Later, she is sedated and rest in her bed while the officers discuss about the killer; they believe how Peter must have been the killer and the bodies of Clare and Mrs. Mac have oddly not been found yet. The officers leave the house for Jess to sleep and stations an cop outside for the forensics to arrive. As the house becomes quiet, the camera pans to the attic door opening up, discovering the killer was not Peter and says "Agnes, it's me Billy" before the telephone begins to ring while the credits roll., Question: Who plays Peter Smythe?

SOLUTION: Answer: Keir Dullea

PROBLEM: The film begins with Detective Havenhurst driving with his partner Detective Vargas. They receive a call and drive to the scene of a murder. As they push their way through the crowd at the crime scene, they see Brad McCullum leaving with a coffee cup. Inside the house, the detectives find the body of Mrs. McCullum who has just been stabbed with an antique sword. At the scene are the neighbors and chief witnesses, Mrs. and Miss Roberts. The detectives soon realize that they had just seen the murderer leaving the scene.The Robertses tell the detectives that Brad was disturbed, and had changed when he went to Peru recently. In a flashback we see Brad in Peru preparing for a kayak trip on a raging river. Back to the present time, the police have learned that Brad has taken two hostages in the house across the street. The police surround the house, and Brad's fiancée Ingrid arrives. Ingrid talks to Havenhurst about Brad's trip to Peru, saying that Brad's friends all drowned on their kayak trip, which Brad had decided at the last minute not to take part in; he later claimed that the voice of God had told him to stay behind. Several more flashbacks follow of Brad and Ingrid in Brad's bedroom, talking with Mrs. McCullum, looking at nearby houses, having dinner. Back in the present, Brad demands pizza for himself and the hostages, along with a car for transportation to Mexico.In another flashback we see Brad in rehearsals for a Greek tragedy directed by Lee Meyers. As the pizza is delivered to Brad, Lee arrives at the scene of the crime. Lee talks with Havenhurst about Brad, and we flash back to Lee and Brad visiting Uncle Ted's ostrich farm. Brad convinces Uncle Ted to give him the antique sword which would be used in the crime. Brad uses the sword in more rehearsals for the play, in which he plays the part of a man who kills his mother, who is played by his fiancée Ingrid. Brad becomes disruptive and is eventually kicked out of the production, but still travels to Calgary with Lee and his mother to attend a performance. We see some footage of Brad at Machu Picchu, and then at a Central Asian market.A SWAT team arrives to take command of the hostage situation, and the detective talks further with Ingrid and Lee. We see a flashback to Brad and Ingrid's trip to Tijuana, after which they go to Bob Wilson Naval Hospital to "visit the sick in general". Brad buys several pillows at the hospital gift shop. Then Brad and Ingrid walk in Balboa Park, and Brad gives away his bag of pillows, keeping one, and leaves his basketball in a tree.Back at the crime scene, Havenhurst interviews Miss Roberts, who had witnessed the crime. In a flashback to the scene just before the murder, we see the Robertses sitting down with Brad and his mother for coffee. When Brad steps out, his mother tells Mrs. Roberts that Brad has just tried to smother her with a pillow. Brad gets his coffee cup, and then goes to his car and returns with a baseball bat and the sword. He hands the bat to Miss Roberts, saying "kill me before I do it". She does nothing, and he draws the sword and holds it in front of his mother. Miss Roberts tells detective Haverhurst that Brad stabbed her, though we do not see the crime on camera.Ingrid and Lee talk to Brad, urging him to release the hostages and surrender. Ingrid realizes that Brad's hostages are his two pet flamingoes, and the SWAT team moves in and arrests Brad. As Brad is led into the car, we see shots of running ostriches. The final shot is in Balboa Park, where a young boy resembling Brad picks up the basketball.Source: Wikipedia, Question: What does Brad convince Uncle Ted to give him?

SOLUTION: Answer: antique sword

PROBLEM: This first appeared on realmoviereview.comThough it was released worldwide as Fast Track, its US title was The Ex (likely because of a copyright issue), which doesnt really suit the film. The young stars do a good job, and there are some laughs, though the story is only slightly more elaborate than a sit com. Still, it has a few shining moments.Zach Braff is Tom Reilly, a soon-to-be father who finds himself forced to take a job with His father-in-law (Grodin in a very good performance) at an ad agency where he finds him self pitted against his wifes high school friend, and fling, Chip Sanders (Jason Bateman) for his corporate survival.This formula comedy is a mix of TVs The Office and Meet The Parents, which means that it also has a higher frustration level than I usually enjoy in my comedies, as things get progressively worse and worse for poor Tom Reilly. Still, this film will appeal to fans of the hot young cast, and of the movies mentioned above. For others, its not bad and shouldl give a giggle or two., Question: Who played the role of Zach Braff's father-in law in the movie?

SOLUTION:
Answer: Grodin