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“American” Films

There are hundreds of films whose title consists of the word “American” followed by just one more word. Here are thirty of them. Your challenge is to guess the second/final word of the title using three clues: the year of the film’s release, its stars and a plot summary. How many titles can you complete?

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Stars
Summary
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1973
Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard
A group of teenagers in California's central valley spend one final night after their 1962 high school graduation cruising the strip with their buddies before they pursue their varying goals.
Graffiti
1980
Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton
A Los Angeles escort is accused of a murder he did not commit.
Gigolo
1981
Ron Thompson, Lisa Jane Persky
The story of four generations of a Russian Jewish immigrant family of musicians whose careers parallel the history of American music in the 20th century.
Pop
1984
JoBeth Williams, Tom Conti
A frustrated housewife ghostwrites a story about a dashing international spy, and wins a trip to Paris.
Dreamer
1985
Kevin Costner, David Marshall Grant
Estranged brothers bond over their enthusiasm for cycling while they worry about developing hereditary cerebral aneurysms.
Flyers
1985
Michael Dudikoff, Guich Knock
An American soldier, very skilled in martial arts, single-handedly takes on mercenaries in the Philippines.
Ninja
1986
Mitch Gaylord, Janet Jones
After breaking his arm, a football player gives up on his dream of joining the U.S. Olympics gymnastics team.
Anthem
1992
Jeff Bridges, Edward Furlong
An ex-convict is tracked down by his estranged teenage son, and the pair try to build a relationship and life together in Seattle.
Heart
1992
Edward James Olmos, William Forsythe
A Mexican-American Mafia kingpin is released from prison, falls in love for the first time, and grows introspective about his gangster lifestyle.
Me
1996
Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Franz
Long-repressed feelings of bitterness and betrayal explode when three inner-city losers plot the robbery of a valuable coin in a seedy second-hand junk shop.
Buffalo
1999
Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening
A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.
Beauty
1999
Jason Biggs, Chris Klein
Four teenage boys enter a pact to lose their virginity by prom night.
Pie
2000
Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe
A wealthy New York City investment banking executive hides his alternate ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies.
Psycho
2001
Deep Katdare, Ronobir Lahiri
A college freshman who has never particularly identified with his South Asian heritage is surprised to find that he has been assigned Indian-American roommates.
Desi
2001
Colin Farrell, Scott Caan
Five Southern friends, returning home after the Civil War, fight back when they discover that Yankee soldiers and Pinkerton detectives are helping a railroad baron grab land from farmers along the planned railroad west.
Outlaws
2003
Paul Giamatti, Hope Davis
An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.
Splendor
2003
Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan
A bridegroom-to-be and his two best friends try to make sure the big day runs as smoothly as possible, but are concerned when they learn that a hard-partying friend from high school is in town.
Wedding
2006
Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid
A popular television music talent competition hosted by a pompous egomaniac becomes the setting for an assassination attempt when the President of the United States becomes a celebrity judge in an attempt to rehabilitate his image.
Dreamz
2007
Russell Crowe, Denzel Washington
An outcast New York City cop is charged with bringing down a Harlem drug lord.
Gangster
2008
Nicole Beharie, Will Patton
A single mother struggles to clear her name after being wrongly accused of and arrested for dealing drugs in an impoverished Texas town.
Violet
2012
Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan
Four small-town Michigan boys reunite ten years after their high school graduation.
Reunion
2013
Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper
A con man and his seductive partner are forced to work for a wild F.B.I. Agent who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and the Mafia.
Hustle
2014
Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller
A Navy S.E.A.L., back home with his family after four tours of duty, finds he can’t leave war behind.
Sniper
2015
Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart
A stoner — who is in fact a government agent — is marked as a liability and targeted for extermination.
Ultra
2016
Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf
A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.
Honey
2016
Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Connelly
An All-American college star and his beauty queen wife watch their seemingly perfect life fall apart as their daughter joins the turmoil of '60s America.
Pastoral
2017
Dylan O’Brien, Michael Keaton
After the death of his girlfriend at the hands of terrorists, a man is drawn into the world of counterterrorism, mentored by a tough-as-nails former U.S. Navy S.E.A.L.
Assassin
2017
Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson
An American pilot becomes a drug-runner for the CIA in the 1980s in a clandestine operation.
Made
2017
Andy Biersack, Booboo Stewart
A young rock band, half of its members from England and half from the U.S., drops out of college and moves to the Sunset Strip to chase their dreams.
Satan
2018
Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan
Four young men mistake their lives for a movie and attempt one of the most audacious heists in U.S. history.
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