Spoilers ahead: for the puzzle and the movies/games
This page reveals all categories and answers for this puzzle. It also discusses plot details, story endings, and other spoilers for some of the movies/games shown.
easy
Starring Morgan Freeman
The Shawshank Redemption · Driving Miss Daisy · Bruce Almighty · Invictus
medium
Tom Hanks movies
Cast Away · Forrest Gump · Philadelphia · Big
hard
Sports underdog triumph
Rocky · Hoosiers · Rudy · Cool Runnings
Each film follows an unlikely underdog to an improbable sporting triumph: Rocky going the distance against the heavyweight champion, Hoosiers' small-town Hickory winning the Indiana state title, Rudy earning his single play at Notre Dame, and the first Jamaican bobsled team competing at the Winter Olympics in Cool Runnings.
tricky
Films that take place in a single frenzied night
After Hours · Collateral · Go · Superbad
All four films unfold almost entirely after dark, with narratives that begin in the evening and resolve by dawn: Scorsese's SoHo nightmare in After Hours, a hired killer's single night across Los Angeles in Collateral, three interlocking Christmas Eve stories in Go, and a teenage party quest in Superbad.