Bollywood Balderdash

This weekend was Chris' birthday and in his honor, some friends came over on Saturday for a cook-out. After eating burgers, hot dogs, cake, and ice cream, we ended up playing Beyond Balderdash. The original Balderdash involves coming up with definitions for unusual words and tricking your opponents into picking the wrong one (hopefully your own), while trying to figure out for yourself which is the correct definition. Beyond Balderdash find the players bluffing movie plots and the significance of dates, abbreviations, and then names of famous people. Among the terms for which we made up explanations were two movie titles for which we came up with a group of plots that were so creative that I had to share them here.

New Pastures

1. A businesswoman from Los Angeles moves to the country to make a new life after losing her husband in an earthquake.
2. Documentary about triple-crown winners after retirement.
3. Czechoslovakian production with subtitles about three jailbirds who get into trouble when they arrive in their hometown.
4. Cutting-edge research scientists attempt to publicize a cure for the Hanta virus in the face of government opposition.
5. Aliens, dissatisfied with life in outer space, disguise themselves and take up residence in rural Iowa.

The Mysterious Mr Wong

1. A small production about a Chinese immigrant cooking homeless people from the streets of New York in Chinatown.
2. Foreign comedy about a case of mistaken identity between a jewel thief and a dentist.
3. Bela Lugosi stars as a Chinese crook trying to capture twelve coins that will make him powerful.
4. The last Charlie Chan novel committed to film, noted for a cameo appearance by Vincent Price.
5. Hong Kong police seek a mafia figure.

What a hoot! This was a fun game, one that I look forward to playing again, perhaps with some of my new law school classmates! You'll have to cut me some slack on the title of this entry; I couldn't think of any other B word related to cinema with which to achieve alliteration with Balderdash. By the way, in both cases, the third plot outline is the true one. :J