ANTO-NAMES

GAMES Magazine

April, 2001

Stephen Sniderman

 

[Note from JA: I rarely use names of movies in this blog because most of them fade with time. The movie titles that answer the clues below are clever antonyms, but can also be (mostly) in-the-language expressions.] 

Substitute an antonym (or logical counterpart) for each word in the phrases below to get a movie title and familiar expression:

 

1. The Dropout

2. Audience Here

3. Mister Irascibility

4. Safe Disconnections

5. Spending Klutziness 

6. Separate the Children

7. Anomalous Nobodies

8. The Exceptional Innocents

9. Conformist Having an Effect

10. None Noisy off the Eastern Back 

Answers:

 

1. The Graduate

2. Cast Away

3. Miss Congeniality

4. Dangerous Liaisons

5. Saving Grace

6. Meet the Parents

7. Ordinary People

8. The Usual Suspects

9. Rebel Without a Cause

10. All Quiet on the Western Front