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Get in shape for those summer movie trivia sessions. Find the common denominator for each trio below: tag the actor in all three roles or the common characters’ profession, map the three identical movie settings or name the director of the three movies, or maybe even tag the shared plot device or insider reference. Can you find the common denominator for each trio below? If you do, score a cinematic home run; if you don’t…three strikes, and you’re out!

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  1. Roy Hobbs  /  Oscar “Hap” Felsch  /  Crash Davis
  2. LaLa Land  /  Whiplash  /  Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
  3. Red Desert  /  The Passenger  /  Beyond the Clouds
  4. Peter O’Toole  /  Peter O’Toole  /  Malcolm McDowell
  5. Maria Sophia Coletta Ragetti  /  Cinzia Zaccardi  /  Anna Cabot
  6. All About Eve  /  Birdman  /  The Producers
  7. Rhett Butler  /  Hamish Bond  /  Blackie Norton
  8. The Man Who Knew Too Much  /  Psycho  /  Rear Window
  9. Gloria Wandrous  /   Vivian Ward  /  Holly Golightley
  10. Queen Freya  /  Queen Victoria  /  Princess Mary
  11. Lt. Daniel Kaffee  /  Elle Woods  /   Atticus Finch
  12. Mark Schultz  /  Jimmy Logan  /  Pretty Boy Floyd
  13. Hoyt Brecker  /  Parrish McLean  /  Johnny Hunter
  14. Annie Hall  /  Vicky Cristina Barcelona  /  Deconstructing Harry
  15. Play Misty for Me  /  Flags of Our Fathers  /  Unforgiven
  16. Lady Edwina Esketh  /  Adela Quested  /  Elizabeth Gilbert
  17. Georgie Elgin  /  Linda Nordley  /  Lisa Carol Fremont
  18. Ens. Frank Pulver  /  Nestor Patou  /  CC Baxter
  19. Up the Down Staircase  /  Good Morning, Miss Dove  /  Mr. Holland’s Opus
  20. Tracy Lord  /  Jane Hudson  /  Violet Venable
  21. Claudette Colbert  /  Sophia Loren  /  Elizabeth Taylor
  22. Harry Sanborn  /  Jake Gittes  /  Jack Torrance
  23. Link Larkin  /  Charlie St. Cloud  /  Matt Brody
  24. Mikael Blonkvist  /  Perry Smith  /  James Bond
  25. Viridiana  /  Black Narcissus  /  The Sound of Music
  26. Ramon Navarro  /  Charlton Heston  /  Jack Huston
  27. The Apartment  /  Stalag 17  /  Some Like It Hot
  28. Kathy Bates  /  Judi Dench  /  Emily Blunt
  29. Gangs of New York  /  Hugo  /  Silence
  30. Maggie Pollitt  /  Martha Pineda  /  Leslie Benedict
  31. Barry Lyndon  /  Eyes Wide Shut  /  The Shining
  32. Jo Stockton  /  Regina Lampert  /  Holly Golightley
  33. Charles Laughton  /  Richard Burton  /  Eric Bana
  34. Lora Meredith  /  Marianne Patourel  /   Constance MacKenzie
  35. Arthur Chipping  /  T.E. Lawrence  /  Robinson Crusoe
  36. The High & the Mighty  /  Sully  /  Memphis Belle
  37. Walt Disney  /  Chelsey Sullenberger  /  Sam Baldwin
  38. The Graduate  /  The Birdcage  /  Carnal Knowledge
  39. Alan Bosley  /  Stephen Myers  /  Holland March
  40. Bob Falfa  /  Jack Ryan  /  Rick Deckard
  41. Gustav von Aschenbach  /  John Baxter  /  Vesper Lynd
  42. Brokeback Mountain  /  Life of Pi  /  Wedding Banquet
  43. Andrea Riseborough  /   Eve Best  /  Lia Williams
  44. Humbert Humbert  /  Rene Gallimard  /  Alfred Pennyworth
  45. The Secret of Santa Vittoria  /  Sideways  /  This Earth Is Mine
  46. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers  /  Charade  /  Royal Wedding
  47. Lise Bouvier  /  Suzanne  de Persand  /  Lili Daurier
  48. The Piano  /  Big  /  Sincerely Yours
  49. Roman Holiday  /  The Collector  /  The Little Foxes
  50. The Trouble With Harry  /  Weekend at Bernie’s  /  Corpse Bride
  51. Dirty Pretty Things  /  Prick Up Your Ears  /  The Queen
  52. Domenico Soriano  /  Marcello Rubini  /  Ferdinando Cefalu
  53. Paolo di Leo  /  Neil McCormick  /  Joe Buck
  54. Nora Charles  /  Ursula Georgi  /  Milly Stephenson
  55. Jane Hudson  /  Sebastian Flyte  /  Maria Williams
  56. Mildred Pierce  /  Harriet Craig  /  Crystal Allen
  57. And the Ship Sails On  /  Amarcord  /  Ginger & Fred
  58. Die Hard  /  Fountainhead  /  Towering Inferno
  59. Gwen Stacy  /  Allison Vandermeersh  /  Skeeter Phelan
  60. Inland Empire  /  To Be Or Not To Be  /  A Short Film About Killing
  61. Abby Yates  /  Susan Cooper  /  Michelle Darnell
  62. Nickie Ferrante  /  Cole Porter  /  Philip Shayne
  63. Bang the Drum Slowly  /  Field of Dreams  /  It Happens Every Spring