Only People With A Sense Of Humor Can Name All These Jack Black Films
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Originally born Thomas Jacob Black, Jack Black grew up in Santa Monica, California with his parents who both did satellite engineering. While attending college at the University of California at Los Angeles (or UCLA), he was a part of the Actors' Gang theater group. Originally created by famous actor Tim Robbins, it used European avant-garde theatrical techniques to express political views in a radical manner. It was through collaborating with this group that landed Jack Black his first film role in the movie Bob Roberts which premiered in 1992.
From there, he appeared in several television shows such as The X-Files and played minor roles in movies like Demolition Man and I Still Know What You Did Last Summer as well as a few uncredited ones. But his breakthrough movie was the 2000 film High Fidelity which led to dozens of starring roles in various films from comedies to adventure films to animated kids flicks. He’s also well-known for creating the comedy rock band Tenacious D with Kyle Gass, which has gained a cult following over the years with single hit songs such as “Tribute” and many others. So if your sense of humor is decent, then come take this quiz and see how good it is!
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In an alternate universe version of 1990, two candidates running for the role of Senator in Pennsylvania is taking place. So a fictional British filmmaker named Terry Manchester decides to create a documentary about the campaign of one of the candidates. Meanwhile, a reporter known as Bugs Raplin (also fictional) is hoping to use Terry’s film as a means to expose the candidate as a phony despite his campaign slogan of supporting traditional family values and being harsh against substance.
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A typical California teen named Mitchell Goosen is forced to live with his aunt and uncle in Ohio after his parents (who are both zoologists) get the chance to work in Australia for six months on a special grant. Arriving during winter, Mitchell has a hard time adjusting to the weather and the Ohio lifestyle which isn’t helped when he and his cousin Wiley are bullied by a group of hockey players who make fun of him for being a surfer.
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Following the events of the previous two films, Bastion Bux’s father has remarried a woman named Jane who has a daughter of her own who’s not fond of the idea of having a stepfather and brother. Bastion’s also starting high-school, and get chased by a group of bullies called the Nasties into the school library where he finds the book that’s a gateway to the world of Fantasia. Using it, he escapes the Nasties who pick up the book in turn.
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Best friends Bud Macintosh and Doyle Johnson, nicknamed “Squirrel” and “Stubs” respectively, try to get out of going to an Environmental Party with their environmentalist girlfriends which ends up backfiring and the girls decide to go with two other guys instead to a lake. But when the boys go to the lake themselves, they don’t find their girlfriends there and head home. On the way, though, they enter an experimental facility that’s similar to the Biosphere after mistaking it for a mall.
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Following a failed marriage proposal, ordinary guy Steven M. Kovacs moves into his own apartment and then bribes local cable guy Ernie "Chip" Douglas to give him access to movie channels for free following advice from his friend Rick. Then as Steven and Chip start hanging out more, Steven tries to woo the girlfriend he proposed to back but he always gets interrupted by Chip. This causes tension between the two as Steven tells Chip to leave him alone who responds with his own form of revenge.
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After hundreds of space ships leave the surface of Mars and head for Earth, the United States prepares for their arrival by setting up a location for their first contact with the Martians in Pahrump, Nevada. Though the Martian Ambassador claims they come in peace, a dove is taken out along with dozens of people. Assuming the Martians mistook the dove as an act of war, a second meeting is arranged at the United States Congress building, but that doesn’t go well either.
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When the FBI and the MVD collaborate on a mission together, the younger brother of a mobster is accidentally taken out. So the mobster retaliates by hiring a mysterious assassin to eliminate the FBI Director. As the FBI and MVD catch onto this, two members from each group named Carter Preston and Valentina Koslova respectively turn to former sniper Declan Mulqueen who knows someone that might be able to help them identify the assassin in exchange for being released from prison.
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Following a series of false accusations, a lawyer named Robert Clayton Dean loses his job, his wife and his bank account is frozen. Thinking the head of a mafia family is responsible for this, he contacts a friend of his who reveals that Dean is being pursued by the NSA for accidentally having a disc that has evidence of a conspiracy involving a deceased congressman an NSA official and a new piece of legislation that could increase the surveillance capabilities of intelligence agencies.
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With the Depression at its height, an uninspired playwright named Marc Blitzstein is having a hard time working on his latest musical The Cradle Will Rock when he’s visited by two imaginary figures who encourage him to finish it. Meanwhile, the Federal Theatre Project loses support from the Works Progress Administration during an ongoing investigation by the US government into so-called communist infiltrations which puts shows like The Cradle Will Rock in jeopardy though this doesn’t deter people like Orson Welles.
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Adapted from a collection of short stories of the same name, this movie revolves around several different individuals living in America. What they have in common is being extreme substance-users and committing petty crimes, as well as appearing at or near certain locations such as a dive-bar in Iowa. The ‘main character’ of this movie is a guy identified as "FH" who's connected to the other characters in some shape or form as he starts to make his way toward redemption.
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When his latest girlfriend Laura leaves him, record store owner Rob Gordon starts to question why all of his relationships up until now haven’t worked out. Meanwhile, a couple of shoplifting delinquents named Vince and Justin offer Rob a music recording they did. As Rob considers signing them onto a record deal with his planned label Top 5 Records, he also tries getting Laura back and even attends the funeral of her father who’s recently passed away, leading them to start living together again.
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Since middle school, three best friends Darren Silverman Wayne LeFessier and J.D. McNugent have been Neil Diamond fans to the point of forming a tribute band called Diamonds in the Rough. After performing at a bar, Darren meets psychiatrist Judith Fessbeggler and starts dating her. However, she turns out to be very controlling and forces Darren to separate from his friends. So Wayne and J.D. attempt to get Darren out of his relationship by kidnapping Judith and having him get together with a former sweetheart.
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With a fixation for women who are physically beautiful, Hal Larson and his friend Mauricio habitually go to nightclubs to hit on pretty girls who end up rejecting them. Later Hal meets Tim Robbins, a life coach who hypnotizes him into only seeing a woman’s inner beauty as opposed to her outward appearance. This causes Hal to see the daughter of his company’s president Rosemary, who’s morbidly obese, as a beautiful blonde woman whom he falls for and the two start dating.
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Despite being smart, California teen Shaun Brumder doesn’t take his studies seriously and just wants to live a carefree lifestyle. But when a surfing friend of his perishes in an accident, he decides to become a writer after picking up a book written by Marcus Skinner who happens to be an English professor at Stanford University. So Shaun sets to work on improving his grades in order to apply for Stanford, but several incidents happen to keep him from getting in so easily.
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Back when large mammals dominated the world along with the earliest humans, a ground sloth named Sid gets abandoned by his family who migrated south along with several other creatures. While wondering around aimlessly, he bumps into Manfred “Manny,” a woolly mammoth who’s heading north and decides to follow him. The two then come across a human mother and her baby who’ve just escaped an attack by a pack of saber-toothed tigers. While the mother drowns, Sid and Manny take it upon themselves to reunite the baby with his human tribe.
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After a series of onstage antics gets him kicked out of his band, guitar player Dewey Finn returns to his apartment which he shares with his friend Ned and Ned’s girlfriend Patty who tell him that he needs to start paying his share of the rent or move out. Out of desperation, Dewey pretends to be Ned for a substitute teacher position that’s opened up at a local prep school. Instead of teaching, though, he decides to mold the students into his own rock band to compete in an upcoming Battle of the Bands concert.
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Best friends and co-workers Tim Dingman and Nick Vanderpark start drifting apart when Nick invents a product that can instantly make dog feces disappear which makes him extremely rich. Tim, meanwhile, grows increasingly jealous of Nick. Then after Nick’s horse Corky goes missing, which Tim eliminated by accident, Nick offers a large reward for anyone who can find him. So Tim and a drifter named J-Man concoct a scheme to split the reward by pretending to find the horse by chance.
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In a community of anthropomorphic fish called Reef City, a cleaner wrasse named Oscar has dreams of fame and fortune but currently owes a lot of money to his boss at the Whale Wash carwash. Out of sympathy, his angelfish friend Angie gives him a pearl from her grandmother to help pay off his debt. Instead, he spends it on a seahorse race bet which backfires. To make matters worse, he gets attacked by a shark which then gets crushed by an anchor leading the nearby fish to think he slew it and becomes famous.
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During the 1930s, an actress named Ann Darrow gets hired by a filmmaker named Carl Denham who has financial problems. Along with his motley film crew, including screenwriter Jack Driscoll whom Ann is smitten by, Carl takes them in his private steamer to the mysterious Skull Island where he plans to shoot his latest film. Unfortunately, the island’s natives attack them and Ann is captured in the process. She is then offered as a sacrifice to a massive creature that takes her away.
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Shot like a documentary, this independent film tells the story of a washed-up TV actor named Danny Roane who has recently been blackballed (aka secretly rejected) by Hollywood for his drinking antics. After sobering up, he decides to direct his first feature length movie while struggling with his drinking. This is also mixed in with a mockumentary about the actual director of this film Andy Dick, who’s a TV actor as well, as he struggles to make his first film.
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Orphaned since he was a baby, Ignacio now works as a cook for the monastery he was raised in at Oaxaca, Mexico. However, he secretly dreams of being a luchador (the Mexican equivalent to a wrestler) despite it being forbidden by the monastery. But after Ignacio gets robbed by a thief named Steven, he decides to achieve his dream in order to earn enough money to afford better food for the orphans at the monastery which Steven agrees to help him with.
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Leaving his family and home behind, a young man named JB heads to Hollywood to form the best rock band ever. It is here that he meets KG, an acoustic guitarist whom he sees as an inspiration. In reality, KG is unemployed and exploits JB to do various chores and tasks for him in exchange for auditioning for a fictitious band of his. But after a while, KG feels bad and apologizes, leading the two to form their own band.
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As the holidays approach, two women experience emotional heartbreaks and decide a change is needed in their lives. One is Iris Simpkins, a British wedding columnist who still loves her ex-boyfriend even though he cheated on her and is engaged to another woman, and the other is Amanda Woods, an LA businesswoman who breaks up with her cheating boyfriend. The two find each other through a house-swapping website and agree to stay in each other’s houses for two weeks.
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Successful writer Margot takes her son Claude on a weekend trip to visit her sister Pauline after she just got married to a guy named Malcolm. However, Margot doesn’t approve of Malcom because he’s an unsuccessful musician. On top of that, Pauline is pregnant which she hasn’t told Malcolm yet. In the meantime, Margot’s planning to collaborate on a screenplay with another successful author named Dick Koosman who plans to interview her at a local bookstore near where Pauline lives.
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A VHS store in Passaic, New Jersey is about to be torn down due to its owner Elroy Fletcher refusing to rent DVDs unless he can earn enough money to renovate the building. So he heads out of town for a few days, leaving his employee Mike to run things and keep his friend Jerry from messing things up due to being a klutz. Jerry is also paranoid, as he attempts to sabotage an electrical substation thinking it’s melting his brain only to get magnetized and erase all the VHS tapes forcing Fletcher to make his own movies.
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In a world occupied by talking animals, legend tells of a Dragon Warrior who will arise to take on any threat imaginable. So when a martial arts contest is held to find the Dragon Warrior, the adopted son of a noodle chef named Po jumps at the chance to participate. Unfortunately, he has a hard time getting in and by the time Po does, he’s chosen as the Dragon Warrior by the Grand Master Oogway. This doesn’t please Master Shifu, Oogway’s pupil, or the Furious Five warriors who reluctantly take Po in to train him.
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In an attempt to make a Vietnam veteran’s memoir into a movie, new director Damien Cockburn is stuck dealing with a bunch of actors whose crazy antics he can’t control. So taking advice from the memoir’s author, Cockburn decides to drop the actors in the middle of a jungle with hidden cameras and rigged explosives. However, things immediately go wrong when Cockburn accidentally steps on a landmine and the actors quickly discover the jungle lies in the territory of a notorious substance ring.
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At an early point in history, two cavemen named Zed and Oh are forced to leave their village after Zed ate a fruit from the Tree of Knowledge and accidentally burned down the village as well. On their travels, they meet Cain and Abel with the former fatally harming the latter who forces the cavemen to accompany him. Later, the three find out that two girls from the cavemen’s village have been kidnapped and sold as slaves before Cain betrays them.
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Stuck in a bad job, newspaper mailbox employee Lemuel Gulliver tries to convince a journalist named Darcy Silverman that he could write a report about his ‘travels’ which he ends up plagiarizing from other sources. Unaware of this, Darcy is impressed with Gulliver’s writing and assigns him to do a story on the Bermuda Triangle next. When he gets there, though, Gulliver gets caught in a waterspout and washes on the shore of Lilliput, an island nation occupied by tiny people.
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In 1996 Carthage, Texas, an assistant mortician named Bernie Tiede befriends wealthy widow Marjorie Nugent despite the rest of the town not liking her. The two become inseparable as Nugent constantly demands Tiede’s attention. Eventually, Tiede decides to do away with her and use her money to support the community. Then when Tiede is arrested after a police search leads to the discovery of Nugent’s body, several Carthage citizens show support for his actions before he’s sentenced to life imprisonment.
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Brad Harris, Stu Preissler, and Kenny Bostick are three men from different backgrounds with separate lives but one passion that unites them. This passion is birding, where people spot and observe birds in their natural habitats as a hobby. In fact, there’s an annual competition for birders which revolves around getting the most bird sightings in North America within one year. As the three men participate in this competition, they also have to overcome personal issues as this hobby of theirs strongly affects their loved ones.
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Following his father’s passing, teenager Zach Cooper and his mother move from New York to the city of Madison in Delaware. There, he befriends a girl named Hannah though her overprotective father doesn’t approve. But as Zach notices strange things going on at Hannah’s home, which make him think Hannah is in trouble, he breaks into the house along with his new friend Champ. Inside, they discover several manuscripts for a book series and open one out of curiosity which unleashes a monster from it.
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After a successful performance in Pennsylvania, polka band leader Jan Lewan is met by his clarinetist Mickey who is thinking about quitting along with several others as the band has gotten too big to maintain. Jan, in turn, persuades Mickey to stay followed by an elderly couple offering to invest money into Jan’s band. Because it is illegal to accept investments without proper registration, an investigator from the Securities and Exchange Commission visits Jan and forces him to pay back his investors in three days’ time.
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Forced to serve detention, four high school students discover an old video game and decide to play it. But after they’ve selected their characters, the game transports them into the game’s world where the teens’ appearances change to that of the characters they’ve chosen. While some of them don’t look too bad such as Spencer’s Smolder Bravestone or Martha’s Ruby Roundhouse, others like Anthony “Fridge”’s Franklin “Mouse” Finbar and Bethany’s Sheldon "Shelly" Oberon come as complete surprises as Fridge misread ‘Mouse’ as ‘Moose’ and Bethany mistook ‘Shelly’ for a girl’s name.
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When he was 21, a man named John Michael Callahan got into a severe car accident after a day of bar hopping. Though he survived, Callahan was left paralyzed and so he became a cartoonist. His work appeared in places like the Willamette Week, a newspaper published in Oregon, despite the controversial elements his cartoons contained which often led to protests against the newspaper. Though he passed away in 2010, Callahan’s work has been adapted into two cartoon series and a memoir about him was the basis for this movie.