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Like going to the movies? Imagine seeing these one-word movie titles whose numerous meanings practically write the scripts by themselves:

– “Hooker.” A prostitute decides to change her life by crocheting rugs at swap meets.

– “Batter.” A washed-up home-run hero devotes his life to saving the flying creatures. When his baseball fortune runs out, he sells his grandma’s bundt-cake recipe.

– “Rapper.” A disillusioned hip-hop artist decides to stop talking and start doing. She trades her drug habit for a nun’s habit and her microphone for a ruler to teach at her old high school.

– “Hacker.” A troubled genius is driven mad when Internet pranksters destroy his life’s work. He develops a program that literally cuts his tormentors down to size.