{"id":11845,"date":"2009-02-02T23:26:27","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T07:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2009\/02\/02\/months-and-movies.html"},"modified":"2018-01-15T16:02:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T00:02:39","slug":"months-and-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2009\/02\/02\/months-and-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Months and movies"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I stopped by Netflix today, and the system recommended two movies that had titles with month names in them.<\/p>\r\n<p>So here's today's challenge: come up with a set of twelve movie titles that contain month names, one for each month. Each movie should ideally be fairly well-known. No one-word titles. Preferably, no TV movies, but those are acceptable in a pinch. The month names in the titles don't have to refer to the month; for example, any movie with the word \"May\" in the title counts, even if the word in that context doesn't refer to the month.<\/p>\r\n<p>Warning: This challenge may not be possible. I came up with only four on my own; IMDB searches led me to eight more, but I had heard of only four of those, and at least one of them appears to be extremely obscure.<\/p>\r\n<p>Still, come up with as many as you can.<\/p>\r\n<p>I'll list my answers later in this entry. But first, some side notes:<\/p>\r\n<p>I'm going to disqualify the one that I thought of for May. It was <cite>Seven Days in May<\/cite>--nothing wrong with that title, but as I did other searches, I realized it was far from unique. All of the following are actual movie titles (though some are the English titles of foreign movies):<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Seven Days in January<\/li>\r\n<li>Two Days in February<\/li>\r\n<li>The Prince Edward Island Development Plan, Part 2: Four Days in March<\/li>\r\n<li>Two Days in April<\/li>\r\n<li>Seven Days in May<\/li>\r\n<li>Six Days in June [also Five]<\/li>\r\n<li>Four Days in July<\/li>\r\n<li>Three Days in August<\/li>\r\n<li>7 Days in September [also Four, also A Few]<\/li>\r\n<li>Two Days in October<\/li>\r\n<li>Four Days in November<\/li>\r\n<li>One Day in December<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>So that's a fun set, but let's disqualify all of them from the above challenge.<\/p>\r\n<p>Bonus round: Come up with a set of seven movies whose titles contain the names of the days of the week. I could only think of one on my own; searches led me to three others that I'd heard of, and three others that I hadn't heard of. One of the day names appears in three famous titles; the others in at most one or two, though it depends on what you mean by \"famous,\" of course.<\/p>\r\n<p>One possible set of answers to both the month-name challenge and the day-name challenge after the cut.<\/p>\r\n<p>One possible set of answers for the month names:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>The January Man<\/li>\r\n<li>Demons of February **<\/li>\r\n<li>March of the Penguins *<\/li>\r\n<li>Enchanted April<\/li>\r\n<li>What Dreams May Come<\/li>\r\n<li>Henry &amp; June *<\/li>\r\n<li>Born on the Fourth of July *<\/li>\r\n<li>August Rush *<\/li>\r\n<li>Come September **<\/li>\r\n<li>October Sky<\/li>\r\n<li>Sweet November **<\/li>\r\n<li>December Boys **<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Where * means I had to look it up, and ** means I'd never heard of it.<\/p>\r\n<p>One possible set of answers for the day names:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Sunday Bloody Sunday<\/li>\r\n<li>Stormy Monday **<\/li>\r\n<li>If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium *<\/li>\r\n<li>Ash Wednesday **<\/li>\r\n<li>Today Was Thursday **<\/li>\r\n<li>Friday the 13th [also Freaky Friday, also His Girl Friday]<\/li>\r\n<li>Mr. Saturday Night *<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stopped by Netflix today, and the system recommended two movies that had titles with month names in them. 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