MOVIE MAGIC & WIZARDRY
Amateur magician Tony Curtis did his own tricks in a 1953 biopic of this conjurer & escape artist
Houdini
Jamal wins 20 million rupees after getting the final question right in this 2008 movie
Slumdog Millionaire
"Back in the Habit" is the subtitle of this sequel starring Whoopi Goldberg & a choir of nuns
Sister Act 2
Before it was "Schindler's List" on film, the book was "Schindler's" this (meaning the one of the covenant)
Ark
"The Green Mile" was this bad part of Cold Mountain Penitentiary
death row
At age 78, Ian McKellen said this character "is over 7,000 years old, so I'm not too old"
Gandalf
In "Brave", Merida discovers a loophole & "wins" her own hand in marriage through a contest in this sport
Archery
The longest title of an Oscar-nominated film begins with his name & ends "Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan"
Borat
About a CIA analyst on the run, "Six Days of the Condor" was reduced to this many days in the movie version
Three
"Raiders of the Lost Ark" was about the container said to house these
the Ten Commandments
In "Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets", Professor Snape uses this spell to disarm Professor Lockhart
Expelliarmus
In a 1994 film this character receives a Medal of Honor from LBJ after being wounded "in the buttocks"
Forrest Gump
The one-word title of this 2005 George Clooney film begins with the name of a Middle Eastern country
Syriana
Ben Mezrich's "The Accidental Billionaires" became this movie about the startup of Facebook
The Social Network
"Black Hawk Down" refers to a pair of these in Somalia
helicopters
Magician Nicolas Cage hires an assistant in this 2010 Disney film with the same title as a segment of "Fantasia"
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
In "Never Say Never Again", this Bond actor settles for a dance with Kim Basinger after winning a game vs. the villainous Largo
Sean Connery
The title of this Ron Stallworth book that became a movie has only 2 Ks
The Black Klansman
Houston, we have a new title: "Lost Moon" by this astronaut was the basis for "Apollo 13"
Jim Lovell
In the groundbreaking movie "CODA", CODA stands for "child of" these
deaf adults
Sandra Bullock & Nicole Kidman were witch sisters in this 1998 movie
Practical Magic
At the end of a 2009 movie this title guy is offered his dream job but instead continues to protect shoppers at the West Orange Pavilion
Paul Blart: Mall Cop
The title of this Jackie Chan/Owen Wilson comedy parodies a Gary Cooper classic
Shanghai Noon
"The Midwich Cuckoos" inspired this "Damned" 1960 film about children with frightening powers in a small town
Village of the Damned
In a 2007 animated film, this "peasant dish" earns a glowing review for a Parisian restaurant
ratatouille