Micanopy Watches 0-10

0 through 10, we put together a list of movies to check out. Can you guess the movie for the number?

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0 - This movie was originally about an unsuccessful decade-long manhunt. The screenplay was completely re-written when the real life target was killed.

1 - Enjoyed one of the longest theatrical runs in movie history: 11 years! (Source)

2 - Jason Statham's film debut.

3 - The writer/director was inspired to write the movie after seeing billboards while travelling "somewhere down in the Georgia, Florida, Alabama corner."

4 - Birmingham, 1963. A single explosion rocked a community and awakened a sleeping nation.

5 - Gary Oldman played his character as a cross between then-Presidential candidate Ross Perot and Bugs Bunny.

6 - The movement of a main character is based on baby penguins and toddlers with full diapers.

7 - Filming had to be stopped several times due to a shortage of horses for the final battle sequences.

8 - The oscillation overthruster device reappeared as a spectral analyzer in Star Trek: The Next Generation: Pen Pals (1989).

9 - The first female dominated film to gross $100 million dollars.

10 - A modernized retelling of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew."

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By NaomiB on February 2, 2021