History BetterThanItSounds / Film

*** Alternatively: Eccentric old loner helps his friend’s father hook up with a teenaged girl.

** Alternately: Two members of MontyPython pretend not to know each other. Americans act rudely, behave selfishishly, speak in vulgarities, and eat fish.

* ''[[spoiler: [[FaceOff Face/Off]]]]'': Surgery turns agent into criminal. And vice-versa.

** ''[[spoiler: DieHard with a Vengeance]]'': Newly-introduced biracial New York couple bickers while solving children's puzzles, irritating a visiting European man.

** ''[[spoiler: DieHard with a Vengeance]]'': Two men who just met must defeat criminal by solving logic puzzles.

* ''[[spoiler:{{Bolt}}]]'': A dog believes he has superpowers, a cat and a fanboy hamster give him a [[ThisIsReality reality check]].

* ''[[spoiler: [[Film/PhoneBooth Phone Booth]]]]'': A JerkAss in New York gets into a phone booth and can't get out.

** ''[[spoiler:The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat]]'': The talking cat, despite having an icepick put through his head a year earlier, is now married and has either hallucinations or flashbacks about being a Nazi and going into space. Satan is a homosexual.

* ''[[spoiler:FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren]]'': Lots of children get sick, and join a cat-eyed cult led by three brothers, whose mother is a head in a box. One brother eventually grows up to become their father, only to get beaten up in a ''[[RuleOfCool spectacular]]'' fashion. Meanwhile, a man sees dead people, [[ContemplateOurNavels thinks about deep things]], and fights ''lots'' (often doing all three at the same time).

* ''[[spoiler: {{Jumanji}}]]'': A (board) game of life or death.

** ''[[spoiler:LittleShopOfHorrors]]'': Musical adaption about an awkward orphan who wants to win a battered beauty's heart by tending to a plant that came from space.

*** OR: A Japanese soft drinks company indirectly destroys New York. The viewer only knows this if [[AllThereInTheManual they spend too much time]] [[ViralMarketing on the internet.]]

* ''[[spoiler: FerrisBuellersDayOff]]'': Smartass kid neglects his education, shamelessly manipulates the sympathy of his parents and those around him and, for his own self-gratification, triggers a series of events that results in the destruction of his best friend's father's priceless car. Without remorse. Despite this, everyone loves him.

* ''[[spoiler:TheWizardOfOz]]'': Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she runs into and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again. This actually appeared as a capsule synopsis in a TV guide, making it the UrExample.([[http://www.suddenlysenior.com/vanostrandmoviequiz.html More where that one came from]])

* ''[[spoiler:Forklift Driver Klaus - The First Day on the Job]]'': Forklift safety film goes horribly awry. [[CrossesTheLineTwice This is played for laughs.]]

*** Alternatively: [[TheNostalgiaCritic A guy with a sword. His father. They don't get along.]]

* [[spoiler: ''Sling Blade'']]: A retarded man makes friends with a young boy.

* ''[[spoiler:TheWizardOfOz]]'': Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she runs into and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again. This actually appeared as a capsule synopsis in a TV guide, making it the UrExample. ([[http://www.suddenlysenior.com/vanostrandmoviequiz.html More where that one came from]])

** ''[[spoiler: [=~The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly~=]]]'': Gunslinger, sheriff, and bandit search for graveyard.

* ''[[spoiler: Heathers]]'': A popular girl falls for a bad boy as they plan to blow up their school. Hijinks ensue.

* ''[[spoiler: The Howling]]'': Woman is romantically pursued by supernatural stalker named Edward. Based on the popular novel of the same name.

* ''[[spoiler:{{Main/Igor}}]]'': A mad scientist's assistant invents something revolutionary, with the help of an immortal suicidal rabbit and a brain in a jar. His plans backfire when his invention does not turn out evil, and instead aspires to be {{Annie}}.

** Alteratively: Rich, white man with daddy issues gets [[MindRape mind raped]] by 7 people he doesn't know, on the request of a Japanese man he didn't know he threatened.
** Or: [[{{Titanic}} Jack Dawson]], [[ThirdRockFromTheSun Tommy Solomon]], {{Juno}}, [[StarTrekNemesis Shinzon of Remus]], [[{{Avatar}} Dr. Patel]], and [[TheLastSamurai Katsumoto]] break into [[BatmanBegins Scarecrow]]'s mind to convince him to break up [[TheUsualSuspects Mr. Kobayashi]]'s MegaCorp empire while Edith Piaf tries to kill all of them.

** Alternatively : A film where you're not sure [[AllJustADream whether anything really happens]].

* ''[[spoiler:Life Is Beautiful]]'': The second half of the movie is set in a Nazi death camp. It's a ''comedy.''

** ''[[spoiler:The Great Muppet Caper]]'': A pair of twin brothers who don't look anything alike reporting for a newspaper go, along with their oddball photographer, to England to investigate jewel robberies done to the local fashion designer. A would-be model pretends she is said designer to score a date with one of the brothers and is then framed for the robberies.
** ''[[spoiler:The Muppets Take Manhattan]]'': A group of oddball college graduates go to New York to bring their college stage play to Broadway.
** ''[[spoiler:Muppets From Space]]'': A young man with identity issues ponders his existence. George Clinton and other funk greats provide background music.

* ''[[spoiler: Quest for Camelot]]'': A girl who has never left the family farm teams up with a blind hermit and a talking, two-headed dragon (which constant argues with itself) to save a kingdom.

* ''[[spoiler: Secret of NIMH]]'': A single mother uses her connections to a shady organization to move her house to a more convenient place.

* ''[[spoiler: NightOnTheGalacticRailroad]]'': Two boys go for a ride on train that runs along The Milky Way.