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It's been a few months -- maybe even a year -- since we last played an IMDB game. celisnebula brought out the movie quotes version today, so I figured I could bring out the movie keywords version, too!

You know the drill: I list five keywords from IMDB.com, and you guess the film I'm talking about. I strike the keywords out once the movie is guessed correctly, give the name, and acknowledge the first person to get it right.

1. fire extinguisher, cockroach, unconventional love story, megacorporation, Biblical allegory WALL-E cck_brit and mundungus42

2. high school, virgin, lawyer, driving test, comedy of manners Clueless theredzebra1

3. stroke, look alike, bodyguard, shower, employment agency Dave inspired_ideas

4. yuppie, funeral, cocaine snorting, house party, adultery The Big Chill inspired_ideas

5. flying saucer, incompetence, farmhouse, alien abduction, Wilhelm scream Lifted averygoodun

6. band, nun, based on sketch comedy, brother brother relationship, soul music The Blues Brothers snarkywench_64

7. millinery, New York City, character name in title, dance contest, widow Hello Dolly inspired_ideas

8. based on graphic novel, human experimentation, 2020s, government, anarchism V for Vendetta benebu

9. green skin, hazmat suit, friendship, pig Latin, door Monsters, Inc. theredzebra1

10. chaos, death of cast member, coin flipping in air, loss of girlfriend, dual identity The Dark Knight benebu

11. mad bomber, subway, Los Angeles California, wristwatch, Jaguar car Speed bambu345

12. exchange student, suicide attempt, Chevrolet Camaro, surrealism, paperboy Better Off Dead averygoodun and mundungus42 got it simultaneously

13. 1980s, canceled wedding, broken heart, bitten on the arm, singer acting The Wedding Singer distaff_exile

14. defibrillation, hiding in closet, stranded, flower, heart E.T. ozratbag2

15. prison, 19th century, teacher student relationship, title in title, greed The Count of Monte Cristo morethansirius

16. doctor patient relationship, freakshow, gothic, actress, 23rd Psalm The Elephant Man morethansirius

17. Mexico, male nudity, false accusation, poetic justice, banker The Shawshank Redemption averygoodun

18. New York, homelessness, loss of lover, Juilliard, prodigy August Rush brandi1498

19. comet, secret admirer, fire hose, nimble, babe scientist Roxanne swerley

20. concentration camp, Statue of Liberty, stabbed in chest, cage fighting, weather manipulation X-Men mundungus42

We first played this in April, and I brought it back out in July. If you're tired of playing, pass on by, but if you aren't, here's the IMDB Keyword Game again:

[01] -- Go to IMDB.com and look up 20 movies.
[02] -- Post five official IMDB "Plot Keywords" for each movie.
[03] -- Have your friends guess the movie names.

Boy, you guys are good! This didn't take long at all:

1. The Mummy: ancient burial ground, color remake of B&W movie, Biblical plagues, camel, brother sister relationship bluestocking79 and casualmonday got this simultaneously!

2. Tootsie: cocktail party, acting lesson, audition, gender disguise, soap opera droxy

3. Sleepless in Seattle: destiny, Empire State Building New York, grief, radio, widower gardengrrl13

4. The Adventures of Robin Hood: archery, england, outlaw, gentleman thief, usurper droxy; gardengrrl13recognized it as a Robin Hood movie, but she added "Prince of Thieves" to it, so she missed on a technicality. Errol Flynn, not Costner or Elwes ... though Elwes is yummy, too. (Next time I do this game, remind me not to do any movies that have remakes. It's too tough to guess which one it is, unless -- like in #1 -- I say it's a remake.)

5. Enchanted: part animated, fish out of water, Central Park New York, misunderstanding, prince hjsnapepm

6. Ratatouille: food, separation from family, whimsical, restaurant, puppetry casualmonday

7. A Fish Called Wanda: naked man, American in the UK, key, run over by a steamroller, dog killed droxy

8. Return to Me: death of wife, Irish Catholic, restaurant, Italy, heart gardengrrl13

9. Babe: fable, fear of death, Christmas, duck, underdog minuet99

10. The Lion in Winter: dysfunctional marriage, heir, medieval, brother brother relationship, mother son relationship hjsnapepm

11. Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Hollywood, run over by a steamroller, buxom, racism, 1940s gardengrrl13

12. Spaceballs: Winnebago, princess, wedding ceremony gone awry, planet of the apes, parody gardengrrl13

13. Blade Runner: melancholy, Los Angeles California, origami, detective, murder droxy

14. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: pub, demolition, bathrobe, based on radio show, meaning of life tudorpot

15. Gosford Park: 1930s, class differences, fake accent, mother son relationship, maid tudorpot

16. Monty Python and the Holy Grail: suspected witch, plague, dismemberment, quest, cult movie cast snarkywench_64 (I feel happy!)

17. Love, Actually: multiple story line, Christmas, crush, language barrier, Wisconsin hjsnapepm

18. Indian Summer: reunion, independent film, nostalgia, thirty something, summer camp minuet99

19. Grumpy Old Men: Internal Revenue Service, bloopers during credits, Minnesota, rivalry, ice fishing bluestocking79

20. That Thing You Do!: appliance store, nameless character, 1960s, directed by star, fictional band sshg316

extra-tough bonus (or so I thought): Boundin': jackalope, singing, self esteem, dancing, sheep shearing gardengrrl13

I admit: I was LOL at the fact that I thought of two movies with "run over by a steamroller" in the keywords. 'Cause that's not a common plot device ....