Pangrams and Movies

1. Zero Dark Thirty
2. A Haunted House
3. Gangster Squad
4. Django Unchained
5. Les Misérables
6. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
7. Lincoln
8. Parental Guidance
9. Texas Chainsaw 3D
10. Silver Linings Playbook
11. Jack Reacher
12. This is 40
13. Life of Pi

The combined titles of these movies are pangrammic; every letter of the alphabet is accounted for. This ties the record for Top-N movies being pangrammic (no smaller value of N has ever yielded pangrammic combined titles). At least it ties it for the past 30 years or so... as far back as I can cull the data. Top-13-pangrammacity has occurred twice before during that span. The most recent was over eighteen years ago when, for the week of 23 September 1994, these movies were tops:

1. TimeCop
2. Terminal Velocity
3. Forrest Gump
4. Quiz Show
5. Clear And Present Danger
6. Natural Born Killers
7. The Mask
8. True Lies
9. Milk Money
10. Corrina, Corrina
11. The Next Karate Kid
12. The Little Rascals
13. Jason's Lyric

1. Revenge of the Nerds II
2. Full Metal Jacket
3. Dragnet
4. Adventures in Babysitting
5. Innerspace
6. The Witches of Eastwick
7. Beverly Hills Cop II
8. Spaceballs
9. The Untouchables
10. Roxanne
11. Predator
12. Benji the Hunted
13. The Squeeze

Who knows, maybe the record can be beaten if those movies continue to inch upward... but already we're on the verge of losing the W (Texas Chainsaw 3D is falling fast). Oh, the perturbations of a movie-loving-pangrammist...

-- Eric

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