Just like the Jeopardy category Before & After.
The answer is a combination of two movie titles.
First one...
Matthew McConaughey is a lawyer who teams up with Uma Thurman to exact vengeance.
BullSchmidt had our inaugural correct answer with...A Time to Kill Bill
A dropout from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest, while a daughter invites her dying mother and the rest of her estranged family for Thanksgiving dinner.
shareA reluctant Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, sets out to the Lonely Mountain with a spirited group of dwarves to reclaim their mountain home and the gold within it from the dragon Stanton, who has taken over a scientific research company upon the death of his benevolent father and is now hard-driving the scientists to perfect their time machine. Poupée Gamin stars as "The Bald, Blue Skinned Chick With The Nice Rack."
EDIT: It's been a full day now, so in accordance with my usual practice I'm going to put the answer under a spoiler cover.
The two movies are:
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
Journey to the Center of Time (1967)
The second is regarded by many as one of the worst movies ever made, on a par with Plan Nine From Outer Space. And yes, it does have a hairless blue skinned woman with impressive attributes: https://images.mubicdn.net/images/cast_member/271278/cache-340343-1526946527/image-w856.jpg
So anyway, the answer is:
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey to the Center of Time
In 1929, Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, determined to stamp-out all resistance from Libyan nationalists led by rebel guerrilla leader Omar Mukhtar, appoints sportswriter George Plimpton to pose as a rookie quarterback for the Detroit Lions for a "Sports Illustrated" article.
EDIT: It's been a full day now, so in accordance with my usual practice I'm going to put the answer under a spoiler cover.
The two movies are:
Paper Lion (1968)
Lion of the Desert (1980)
And so ... Paper Lion of the Desert
Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Thailand and befriends the King. Stars Rex Harrison as "Richard Matheson."
EDIT: It's been a full day now, so in accordance with my usual practice I'm going to put the answer under a spoiler cover.
The two movies are:
Anna and the King of Siam (1946)
I Am Legend (2007)
So ... Anna and the King of Siam Legend
The King and I Am Legend
Did you prefer The Omega Man or I Am Legend?
I preferred The Omega Man, between those two. Heston was good in everything I've seen him in. I preferred his portrayal of Thomas More over Paul Scofield's in A Man For All Seasons, although I'm in the minority on that.
That's not the right answer. You're on the right track, but that's not it. I'll repeat part of the original clue: Stars Rex Harrison as "Richard Matheson." -- Harrison wasn't in The King And I.
I'm stumped. The only Rex Harrison film I've ever seen is My Fair Lady and that doesn't seem to fit.
Heston over Scofield as Thomas More?! That is treason, good sir! ;)
Heston said Scofield's performance was too "astringent" for his taste. I found it too "saintly." There was only one moment where it seemed More had any real fear about the situation, even though the man knew his course of action would likely end in decapitation or worse. I don't care how firmly convinced a man is of his eternal reward, someone in that position will have more than a few moments of terror. Heston's More came across much more as an actual human being to me.
shareI understand what you're saying, but I would counter that a devout 16th century man thought much more about the afterlife than we do today. Perfectly captured in this exchange...
Duke of Norfolk: Oh confound all this. I'm not a scholar, I don't know whether the marriage was lawful or not but dammit, Thomas, look at these names! Why can't you do as I did and come with us, for fellowship!
Thomas More: And when we die, and you are sent to heaven for doing your conscience, and I am sent to hell for not doing mine, will you come with me, for fellowship?
More had some great lines. Here's my favorite:
Roper: So now you’d give the Devil benefit of law?
More: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
Roper: I’d cut down every law in England to do that!
More: Oh? And, when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you – where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country’s planted thick with laws from coast to coast – man’s laws, not God’s – and, if you cut them down – and you’re just the man to do it – d’you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
A funny story about that exchange. When Robert Bolt's play was running on Broadway, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter went to see it. SCOTUS members aren't recognizable to the general public, and they like it that way. So the people around him had no idea who he was. When that exchange happened, Frankfurter excitedly said, "That's it! That's exactly it!" or something to that effect, several times. The nearby audience members thought this eighty-ish year old man was going nuts.
Ha! Great Frankfurter story!
shareAn aging bachelor living with his brother Orville and his half crazed mother pursues a singer while a cop with multiple personalities teams up with a cop who lives in his car with his cat.
shareA hard nosed cop struggles with new rules concerning police brutality while a young couple learn how to steal under the tutorage of a experienced thief.
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