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Opening Scene Description
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Answer
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Genre
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In the 1930s, a man sits on a bench at a train station and begins to reminisce of playing baseball with his father.
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The Natural
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Sports Drama
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Waves crash on a beach and upon a disheveled man in the water. He sees two children playing in the sand before being apprehended by armed agents.
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Inception
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Science Fiction
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A gong is struck and a red cloud appears, from which a female singer and chorus line dancers emerge. The performer sings in Mandarin and English. During the show, two men negotiate the purchase of ancient remains, with the buyer poisoning the seller.
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
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Action/Adventure
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Church bells ring as a young postulant sings to herself in the nearby mountains
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The Sound of Music
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Musical
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A mother and son leave Newark, New Jersey and drive cross-country to their new apartment in Reseda, California.
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The Karate Kid
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Sports Drama
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While playing video games, a sick boy is visited by his grandfather who wants to read him a book.
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The Princess Bride
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Action/Adventure
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A montage showing a teenage girl hanging out with her friends ends with her using a computer system to select her wardrobe for the upcoming school day.
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Clueless
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Comedy
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A man tries to disembark a plane at LAX while holding an extremely large stuffed bear.
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Die Hard
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Action
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A woman seemingly lies dead on a hotel room bed while two men speak in Russian and a computer technician watches the whole thing on his monitor.
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Mission: Impossible
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Action
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In the dark of night, a man sits in his car, across the street from a house. He gathers a revolver and a bottle of alcohol, then takes a swig.
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The Shawshank Redemption
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Drama
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A police officer attempts to speak to owners of a large suburban home while the family and their visiting relatives make last-minute preparations for their upcoming vacation.
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Home Alone
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Comedy
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A couple returns home to celebrate the husband's professional award. In their bedroom, he is shot by an an intruder he knew from his past, who then turns the gun on himself.
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The Sixth Sense
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Thriller
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Nazi soldiers drag a young boy away from his parents after they arrive at a concentration camp. As the boy screams and reaches for his mother and father, the camp's metal gates bend toward him until he is knocked unconscious by the guards.
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X-Men
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Science Fiction
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A delivery man picks up a package from a metal worker in a remote workshop.
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Cast Away
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Adventure Drama
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A woman's voice narrates over the rewatching of a 1980s Monday Night Football game.
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The Blind Side
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Sports Drama
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The camera zooms in from a wide urban view to a room in which two lovers that just finished a mid-day tryst are conversing about the feasibility of legitimizing their relationship.
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Psycho
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Horror
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The computer functions of an enormous space ship come alive as it detects a transmission from another planet on its return to Earth. The crew is awakened from stasis.
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Alien
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Science Fiction Horror
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A teenage boy sneaks into his friend's garage and tests an over-sized speaker system before realizing he's late for school.
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Back to the Future
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Science Fiction Comedy
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