You'll Need Help From Your Mom To Name All These Julia Roberts Movies

Julia Roberts was born in Georgia, to two actors and playwrights. She has enjoyed quite an illustrious film career, that seemed to be destined from the beginning of her life. She started out as a teenager, already began to rake in starring roles by the age of 20, and has grown into an academy award winning actress. She landed major roles early on with already successful actors like Denzel Washington, which solidified her career trajectory. She was one of the most high paid actresses in the 1990s and named People's prettiest woman in the world, but has always shown modesty and niceness in the spotlight.

Her career has actually spanned generations, which might make this quiz just a little bit tricky for some of the younger readers. However, we have faith that nobody will have too much trouble naming these super famous Julia Roberts movies.

She has been in so many different kinds of movies, some that are huge successes and others that maybe haven't made quite the favorable impact at the box office. You will definitely need help from your mom to complete this quiz, as her long winding career stretches back into the 1980's and this quiz is for true Julia Roberts fans!

Question 1

In Which Movie Does Roberts Start Out In The Red Light District?

In which of the following films does Roberts portray Vivian Ward? After helping an international business man, Edward Lewis, with his broken-down car, he hires Vivian for an evening, pretending to be his girlfriend. He continues to hire her and starts treating her like a real girlfriend. He takes her to San Francisco, by private jet, to see an opera, the plot of which mirrors their own relationship. Though the movie ends on a cliffhanger, never showing if Edward and Vivian end up together, this movie is viewed as a great, climactic, and untraditional love story.

Question 2

What Is Roberts' Most Famous Biopic?

Roberts’s portrayal of the titular activist in this acclaimed biopic made visible an epic story about one woman’s fight for drinkable water. Roberts plays a mother who gets a job as a clerk in the office of a lawyer who takes pity on her. She is exposed to a case between a resident of Hinkley, California and the Pacific Gas and Electric Company. She discovers that PG&E has been paying for the medical bills of multiple residents who are suffering from the carcinogenic chromium in their water. With the help of Hinkley residents, she builds a strong case against PG&E and ultimately, forces PG&E to stop contaminating their water and pay the plaintiffs million dollars in damages.

Question 3

Roberts, The Romantic Restaurant Critic?

In this 1997 comedy, Roberts plays Julianne, a New York City restaurant critic. Days before she turns 28, she receives a call from her college friend Michael. He tells her that he will be marrying a young girl in the next few days. Julianne is bummed because years ago, she and Michael made a pact to get married at the age of 28. She does everyone she can to stop his wedding, but in the end realizes that he does not love her.

Question 4

Can You Name This Romantic Comedy?

This movie came out in 2010, four years after the memoir it is based on was published. Julia Roberts plays the recently divorced thirty-one-year-old Elizabeth Gilbert who, regardless of her successful career, finds herself in spiritual turmoil. To recover from her divorce, Gilbert first embarks on a disastrous rebound relationship. After it ends, feeling more hopeless than ever, she decides to travel the world for a year in search of fulfillment. She spends a few months each in Italy, India, and Indonesia, attending to different parts of her soul.

Question 5

Can You Name This Fantasy Film?

In this 1991 adventure film, Roberts portrays one of the most famous fairies in our cultural imagination. The film follows Peter, a San Franciscan Lawyer, whose family travels to see his wife's grandmother, Wendy. One night, Peter, Wendy, and Moira, discover that Peter and Moira's children have been kidnapped by Captain Hook. They are taken to Neverland by Julia Roberts' character to save them. In the end, Hook and Peter duel for possession of the children. In the end, Peter wakes up in Kensington Gardens and reconciles with his family.

Question 6

Which 2001 Remake Did Roberts Make A Success?

This high grossing heist film is a remake of the 1960 movie with the same name. It follows Danny, an ex-convict, and his partner-in-crime Rusty. They set out to rob multiple casinos in Las Vegas. The two recruit a team to aid them in the heist, including Reuben, who funds the crime. Roberts plays Tess, Danny's ex-wife, who is the girlfriend of one of their recruits. In the end, Danny is briefly imprisoned for his parole violation. The movie was so successful and suspenseful, it warranted two sequels.

Question 7

Which 1998 Drama Starred Julia Roberts?

In this movie, co-starring Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon, Roberts plays Isabel, the girlfriend then second wife of a New York City attorney, Luke. Isabel is young, stylish, and resented by Luke’s first wife Jackie, with whom he has two children—Anna and Ben. When Isabel and Luke get engaged, Jackie (Sarandon) falls terminally ill with Lymphoma. As her illness progress, both she and Isabel must come to terms with Isabel’s place in her step children’s lives. At the end of the film, Jackie’s death and the marriage between Isabel and Luke are both accepted and imminent.

Question 8

What Was The Highest Grossing Film In Britain In 1999?

In this high grossing film, Roberts plays a Hollywood actress, Anna Scott. Her costar, Hugh Grant, plays Will Thacker, the owner of an independent bookstore. When Anna wanders into his bookstore, a serendipitous romance begins. After a few dates, Anna returns to America with her American boyfriend, sending Will into a dry spell. After a while apart, Anna and Will reunite, but Will says it would be too painful to try to be with her due to her fame. In the end, they are happily married.

Question 9

Which Movie Was Roberts' Big Break?

Roberts' teenaged performance in this 1988 coming-of-age movie is referred to as the beginning of her long, successful career. It is also Matt Damon’s film debut, making it a movie to remember. The movie is about three girls working in a restaurant in Connecticut. Roberts plays Daisy, the wilder of two sisters, who is looking for a way to get out of the suburbs. Each of the girls experiences romance in a unique way and in the end, they each discover that the friendship between the three of them is the most important relationship in their lives.

Question 10

Whose Voice Does Roberts Play In Charlotte's Web?

The popular film adaptation of Charlotte's Web, the popular children's novel by E.B. White, came out in 2006. It tells the story of a friendship between Wilbur the pig and a spider. After Fern, the farmer's daughter, takes Wilbur in, he becomes friends with the spider above his pen, Charlotte. Charlotte saves Wilbur from slaughter by weaving praise-filled messages into her web, making Wilbur a neighborhood spectacle. Although Charlotte dies from exhaustion, Wilbur befriends her offspring, Nellie, Aranea, and Joy.

Question 11

Which International Holiday Was Roberts' 2010 Film About?

This 2010 blockbuster film is a montage of narratives. It stars dozens of famous actors, including Anne Hathaway, Ashton Kutcher, and Jessica Biel. The plot follows intertwining narratives about characters in Los Angeles before, during, and after one epic holiday. Julia Roberts plays Kate Hazeltine, a captain in the U.S. Army. On one day leave, she flies to Los Angeles to see her son, Edison. She costars in this film with her niece, Emma Roberts, who plays Edison's teenaged babysitter.

Question 12

Which Movie Is Loosely Based On Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?

This movie is based on a novel by Valerie Martin that was inspired by the work of Stevenson. Julia Roberts plays Jekyll's maid, who spies on his assistant Edward Hyde. After discovering that Hyde is violent, she lies to the police about seeing him and he disappears. When she finds Hyde, days later, in Jekyll's bed, it is revealed that Jekyll and Hyde are the same person. Mary decides to leave the volatile setting, but before she can something goes awry with Jekyll's antidote.

Question 13

For Which Film Was Roberts Nominated For Best Supporting Actress?

This drama came out in 2013. With a remarkable cast, including Meryl Streep, Ewan McGregor, Abigail Breslin and more, it was one of the most watched movies of 2013. The plot is dark and complex, following a family united in the face of the mother, Violet's, severe illness. Roberts plays the daughter of Violet, Barbara, who comes back to Oklahoma from Colorado. Barbara ends up driving back to Colorado because her mother has a hopeless and seemingly heartless drug addiction.

Question 14

Which Movie Was Shot In Paris During Fashion Week?

This 1994 comedy-drama by Robert Altman was shot during Paris Fashion Week and features some models and stars as themselves and others as fictional characters. In one of the narrative threads, a B list TV personality attempts to keep up with A-listers at high profile events. Roberts plays Anne, a journalist who misses many of the fashion shows to stay in the hotel with another journalist, Joe. It also follows two has-been icons that, after decades, are rekindling a romance.

Question 15

In Which Female Focused Film Does Roberts Come Of Age?

Roberts starred in this dramatic film at the age of 22. In this film, with icons like Dolly Parton and Sally Field inhabiting the starring roles, Roberts establishes herself as a woman actor to be reckoned with. She plays Shelby, the eldest child of Fields' character, M'Lynn. The film follows Shelby through engagement, marriage, birth, and a premature death as a result of birth complications. After Shelby's death, M'Lynn begins to care for her grandchild and community, showing how strong women can be in the face of anything.

Question 16

Do You Remember When Roberts Played A Nurse?

In this 1991 drama, Roberts delivers a great performance as a live-in caretaker for Victor, a 28 year old dying from Leukemia. When he finishes chemotherapy, they move together and begin to fall in love. After a while, she discovers that he has been lying and is still in need of chemotherapy. He claims that he just wants a normal life until he dies. With some resistance from Victor, they decide to go back to the hospital so he can fight for his life with her.

Question 17

Which Of The Following Films Is Roberts' Most Recent?

Roberts' most recent film, released in 2017, is based on a best selling novel. It is about a young boy, August, who has a rare facial deformity. The film opens just as he is going to a mainstream school for the first time. He is bullied at school for his deformity and makes only one friend, Summer. His parents, played by Roberts and Owen Wilson, defend him to the school administration, but the bullying is severe. In the end, August receives an award from the school for the strongest outstanding student.

Question 18

Who Is Roberts' Acclaimed Costar In Something To Talk About

Something To Talk About was released in 1995. It follows a young wife Grace, played by Roberts, before, during, and after she discovers her husband, Eddie, is cheating on her with another woman. A lot of the people in her life tell her to forget about it and move on, to stay with Eddie. Instead, she takes her daughter from him and decides to move in with her sister on a ranch. Like her, her sister is furious with Eddie for destroying the marriage. Can you remember which famous actor plays Eddie?

Question 19

Which Adventure Film Do Roberts And Brad Pitt Star In?

Pitt's character, Jerry, is on a road trip in search of an antique gun to smuggle into the United States, where he lives with his girlfriend Samantha, played by Roberts. He is being black mailed by someone to do this mission. Samantha gets kidnapped by a hitman for Jerry's blackmailer. Samantha ends up using the gun to kill the blackmailer's second in command, Bernie, who has double crossed both his boss and Jerry and Samantha. After the chaos ends, Samantha and Jerry are happily married.

Question 20

Which Early Roberts Movie Is All About Wine?

Call your mom in for this one: it is from 1989. In one of her first film roles, Roberts plays Maris Collogero the daughter of an Italian patriarch who is murdered. Sebastian Collogero, the patriarch, runs a vineyard in California until a railroad baron comes along trying to claim the land. When Sebastian is murdered by this baron, played by Dennis Hopper, his son Marco, to revenge his father, starts a small guerrilla war against the tycoon and his company.

Question 21

This Movie Is A Near Death Experience

This psychological horror film was released in 1990. A popular remake was released in 2017. The 1990 film starred Roberts as one of five medical students who, convinced by one of the, begin to experiment to try to learn about life after death. The convincer, Nelson, induces death and is resuscitated and claims he glimpsed an afterlife. Interested, the other students follow suit and begin to induce near death experiences. They all begin have weird and terrifying experiences with visions and ghosts and decide to stop experimenting with death.

Question 22

How Many Characters Did Roberts Play in Full Frontal?

Full Frontal is a low rated film, released in 2002. The plot takes place over the course of a day, and follows multiple characters in Hollywood. It plays around with film structure and narrative continuity by presenting a film within a film and having actors in multiple roles. Although the reviews were mostly negative, citing the unpolished nature of its experimental style, the most redeeming feature is the talented cast. Do you remember how many characters Julia Roberts plays in this odd movie?

Question 23

When Did Roberts Play Miranda, The Mother?

In this dramatic movie, Roberts plays the character of Miranda Collins, a successful writer who gave up her only child for adoption. Her daughter Kristen, as an adult preparing for her wedding day, decides to go find her birth mother, as she feels a part of her life is incomplete. The movie was released in 2016 and received horrible reviews. Some critics call it the worst film Roberts ever starred in, as the plot line is unanimously viewed as unsuccessful.

Question 24

What Robert Frost Poem Gives A Title To This Movie?

In this 2008 drama, Roberts plays the role of Lisa, a matriarch, who on the day of her college graduation dies in a tragic car accident. The film, starring Ryan Reynolds and Willem Defoe, revolves around her extending family before, during, and after the events of the tragedy. Ryan Reynolds plays Lisa's son, Michael, a successful author with a stilted relationship to his parents. After her death, her family grieves and Michael destroys his most recent manuscript. Do you remember which Robert Frost poem is recited in the movie, giving it its title?

Question 25

Expert Question: Do You Know Roberts Upcoming Film?

In this upcoming movie, to be released later in 2018, Roberts plays a mother, Holly, whose adult son surprises his family on Christmas Eve. The film is set to take place over the course of twenty four hours, in which Holly learns that her son is in harms way. She does everything she can to help her son and save the downfall of her family. Any true Roberts fan would be on the edge of their seat to see this new movie!

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