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9	* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Salt}}]]'': Woman loses her job and her husband after getting in touch with her original contractors.
10	* ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/SaludosAmigos]]'': A travelogue of South America with cameos from Donald Duck and Goofy has a Spanish title but is presented in English.
11	* ''[[spoiler:[=SamSam=]]]'': A superhero is sad about not having superpowers. Meanwhile, a girl's parents have conflicting ideas about what their daughter should become. Also features a scene where a bunch of aliens break in a young boy's room to shoot pee at him with squirt guns.
12	* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Sanjuro}}]]'': A man wants some noisy kids to shut up so he can take a nap.
13	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/SantaClausAndTheMagicDrum]]'': Man wanted really badly to work for Santa Claus, but Santa never answered him, so he decides to play a drum instead. Also, it's not even a hour long, but they have time to sing the same song about working for Santa three times and play it instrumentally twice.
14	* ''[[spoiler: Film/SantaClausConquersTheMartians]]'': Extraterrestrials learn the true meaning of giving after one of their kind gets pummeled with toys for attempting to kill a spirit associated with the winter solstice.
15	* ''[[spoiler: Film/TheSantaClause]]'': Tim Allen kills a man and is forced to assume his identity.
16	** ''[[spoiler: Film/TheSantaClause 2]]'': Tim Allen must find a wife as part of the new identity.
17	** ''[[spoiler: Film/TheSantaClause 3]]'' : Martin Short takes Tim Allen's new identity via loophole.
18	* ''[[spoiler: Film/SantasSlay]]'': Santa is pissed. Why wouldn't he be? He's Jewish! And Satan!
19	* ''[[spoiler:Animation/SatelliteGirlAndMilkCow]]'': A spacecraft is turned into a human girl by the wizard Merlin reincarnated as a toilet paper roll. She falls in love with a man who was so sad about being friendzoned by his crush that he turned into a cow and is now hunted by a giant furnace and a guy with unexplained magic powers who wants to suck out his liver with a magic toilet plunger. That's not even taking things out of context, that's literally the plot summary.
20	* ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/SausageParty]]'': A [[{{Pun}} biting]] satire on religion with talking food. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids Don't take your children.]]
21	* [[spoiler:''Film/SavingMrBanks'']]: A well known business man and film maker wanted to make a [[Film/MaryPoppins passion project]] only to find out that the author is not the team player he thought she was.
22	** Alternatively: {{Disneyfication}}: the Movie.
23	* ''[[spoiler:Film/SavingPrivateRyan]]'': Pennsylvania teacher leads rescue team.
24	* ''[[spoiler:Franchise/{{Saw}}]]'': Fending off depression, a terminally ill craftsman and his puppet mascot pose puzzles to strangers.
25	* ''[[spoiler:Film/SayAnything]]'': Slacker [[StalkingIsLove tries unusual things]] to conquer the heart of a golden girl.
26	** Alternatively: In the SignatureScene, a guy holds a boombox.
27	* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Scanners}}]]'': World is rocked by the mind-blowing effects of a tranquilizer prescribed to pregnant women. Got some really dumb sequels.
28	* ''[[spoiler: Film/SchindlersList]]'': Rich alcoholic industrialist womanizer engages in human trafficking.
29	** Alternatively: A greedy and vain Slav factory owner decides he’s rather be loved than rich and is given posthumous worldwide recognition as a hero by a Hollywood producer.
30	* ''[[spoiler:Schizopolis]]'': A man writing a speech that no one will give has an affair with his wife but breaks it off when he falls in love with the same woman. Also, the guy who impersonates Dr. Galazkiewicz in the Bud Light commercials has a fat fetish and an incoherent man with offensive genitalia has lots of sex.
31	* ''[[spoiler:Film/SchoolOfRock]]'': An unemployed middle-aged man steals the identity of a substitute elementary school teacher, and gives the children an unusual curriculum.
32	* ''[[spoiler:Film/SchoolTies]]'': A Jew goes to school. Trouble ensues.
33	* ''[[spoiler:Film/ScoobyDoo2002]]'': Four young adults and a dog solve a mystery at a haunted island/theme park.
34	** ''[[spoiler:Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed]]'': Four young adults and a dog solve a mystery about costumes transformed into monsters.
35	* ''[[spoiler:Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld]]'': An egotistical slacker cheats on his girlfriend and dies.
36	** Alternative: Egotistical slacker engages in murder to date delivery girl.
37	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Scream 1996}}]]'': A survival guide about slasher movies.
38	** ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Scream 2}}]]'': A survival guide about slasher movie sequels.
39	** ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Scream 3}}]]'': A survival guide about slasher movie trilogies.
40	** ''[[spoiler: [[Film/{{Scream 4}} Scre4m]]]]'': A survival guide about slasher movie remakes.
41	** ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Scream 2022}}]]'': A survival guide about slasher movie [[RevisitingTheRoots requels]].
42	** ''[[spoiler:Film/ScreamVI]]'': A survival guide about slasher movie franchises.
43	* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheSeaWolves]]'': Old Englishmen board a German ship to break stuff.
44	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Seabiscuit}}]]'': [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy Spider-Man]] rides a horse.
45	* ''[[spoiler:Film/SearchingForSugarman]]'': The true story of South African fans searching for their late music idol, only to give a washed up day laborer the most extreme artistic career comeback in music history.
46	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Se7en}}]]'': Religiously obsessed diarist fabricates convoluted domino-effect murder/suicide.
47	* ''[[spoiler: Secret Honor]]'': UsefulNotes/RichardNixon, completely alone, talks into a tape-recorder in his study for an hour and a half.
48	* ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/TheSecretLifeOfPets]]'': A pair of hobos infiltrate a terrorist organization and effortlessly kill their [[TheDragon second-in-command]]. Unable to replicate their success, the hobos spend much of the rest of the movie on the run from these terrorists, whose leader is hell-bent on killing those two himself. This is a family film from a studio best known for its slapstick comedy.
49	* ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH]]'': A single mother uses her connections to a shady organization to move her house to a more convenient place.
50	** Or, a movie based very loosely on a book that changes the ending and characers' personalities and is a G-rated movie where characters are stabbed with blood coming out.
51	* ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfKells]]'': A boy is told to not go in the forest, yet does so anyway.
52	* ''[[spoiler: [[Anime/{{Arrietty}} The Secret World Of Arrietty]]]]'': Short girl befriends tall boy despite the wishes of her parents.
53	* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Serenity}}]]'': A commercial for granola bars causes a schizophrenic [[WaifFu ninety pound girl]] and a ShellShockedVeteran to topple a government.
54	* ''[[spoiler:Film/SesameStreetPresentsFollowThatBird]]'': Citizens of an acid-tripped one-road town go on country-wide manhunt for a 10-foot tall adolescent who's run away from foster care.
55	** Alternatively, overgrown kid runs away from xenophobic foster family, attempts to hitchhike back to his former home, and is kidnapped and imprisoned by con men. Meanwhile, residents of his old neighborhood go on a manhunt and eventually rescue him. Intended for children.
56	** ''[[spoiler:Series/SesameStreet: Don't Eat the Pictures]]'': Said 10-foot-tall adolescent gets locked in a famous museum overnight. While everyone goes on a manhunt for him (again), he tries to help conduct a lost soul to the afterlife.
57	** ''[[spoiler:The Cookie Thief]]'': BigEater gets framed for stealing artwork from a different museum. A ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' alumni gets roped into their predicament.
58	** ''[[spoiler: Series/ChristmasEveOnSesameStreet]]'': The same 10-foot-tall adolescent from before nearly freezes to death while standing on a roof. The B-plot is a recreation of a classic short story about personal sacrifice.
59	** ''[[spoiler: Big Bird In China/Japan]]'': A bird and a dog [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} (but not the ones you're probably thinking about)]] go on an Asian vacation (twice!). Weird things happen.
60	** ''[[spoiler: Film/TheAdventuresOfElmoInGrouchland]]'': A three-year-old jumps into a trash can to retrieve his blanket. Involves a little AudienceParticipation.
61	* ''[[spoiler: Untitled Sesame Street movie]]'': Citizens of an acid-tripped one-road town get unexpectedly evicted from said town and must enlist the help of a TV host.
62	* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheSeventhSeal]]'': Man plays board game as he travels through his ravaged homeland.
63	* ''[[spoiler:Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings]]'': A grieving man attempts to organize a family reunion but instead accidentally initiates a {{Kaiju}} battle that nearly annihilates two worlds.
64	* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheShapeOfWater]]'': A mute lady has sex with a fish man. [[SincerityMode It's actually really romantic.]]
65	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Sharktopus}}]]'': Cliche monster movie with bad acting, horrible CGI and a half-shark half-octopus.
66	* ''[[spoiler:Film/ShaunOfTheDead]]'': Two slackers discover that the dead have risen and decide to go to the pub.
67	* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheShawshankRedemption]]'': Man spends years and years damaging public property.
68	* ''[[spoiler:Film/Shazam2019]]'': Manchild takes crash course in heroism while being targeted by a guy who wanted his job.
69	** ''[[spoiler:Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods]]'': Manchild tries handling his family working with him, while being targeted by sisters who dowright hate that their job exists.
70	* ''[[spoiler:Film/SherlockHolmes2009]]'': Mildly autistic shut-in matches wits with resurrected peer while attempting to sabotage best friend's engagement.
71	** ''[[spoiler:Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows]]'': Mildly autistic shut-in matches wits with math teacher after sabotaging his best friend's honeymoon.
72	* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheShining]]'': A hotel near some of America's most popular ski resorts shuts down for the Winter and is left in the care of a hallucinating drunk and his insane family.
73	*** A glorifed janitor greets his wife & son after opening the bathroom door.
74	** ''[[spoiler:Film/DoctorSleep]]'': The insane son becomes a pen pal of a girl trying to evade a group of people who like to huff smoke. He eventually brings everyone to that hotel.
75	* ''[[spoiler: Film/ShootEmUp]]'': A Brit with a carrot fetish has numerous gunfights with a father of one over a baby.
76	** Eighty-six minutes of Clive Owen and Paul Giamatti shooting at each other over a baby.
77	** An anti-gun message who uses guns to solve all of their problems.
78	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Shooter}}]]'': Evil industrial-military cabal uses robot gun to frame world's most awesome special forces sniper for the President's murder. In a turn of events that no-one could have predicted (and driven on by the knowledge that the cabal also killed his dog) the sniper uses his awesome abilities to [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge take them all out one by one]] - illustrating along the way the inherent danger in various forms of domestic cooking gas supply.
79	* ''[[spoiler:Film/ShortCircuit]]'': A computer geek and his perpetually horny Indian friend try to rescue a peacenik Weapon of Mass Destruction from technophobic security guard for dissection. [[FriendToAllLivingThings Friend To All Animals]] tries to protect said [[WeaponOfMassDestruction WoMD]] from both of them.
80	** Alternatively, something originally designed to be a marital aid, now equipped with a deadly laser, wanders away from the place it was created and only convinces it's designer to help after it laughs at one of it's designer's jokes.
81	* [[spoiler: ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'']]: A grumpy man and a clingy jackass are sent to rescue a woman due to a zoning dispute.
82	** [[spoiler: ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek 2}}'']]: While said man tries to make his in-laws like him, the metro-sexual son of a fast-food addicted EvilMatriarch tries to steal his wife.
83	*** Alternatively: A fairy godmother decides to play matchmaker. She must be stopped.
84	** [[spoiler: ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird'']]: Grumpy man gets afraid of both fatherhood and a future inheritance. Meanwhile, the metro-sexual tries to kill him... with a stage play.
85	** [[spoiler: ''WesternAnimation/ShrekForeverAfter'']]: Grumpy man ruins the lives of himself and all his friends because settling down has made him bored.
86	** ''[[spoiler:Shrek Retold]]'': The same as the first one, except the art style, actors and medium change every few minutes, making it harder to follow the story.
87	* [[spoiler:''Film/ShutterIsland'']]: ConspiracyTheorist wanders around insane asylum during a hurricane; suspects Film/{{Gandhi}} of being the mastermind behind the whole thing all along.
88	** A doctor plays pretend with a veteran suffering from PTSD in order to try and bring the veteran back to reality. Ultimately he just decides it'll be easier just to perform a lobotomy and call it a day.
89	* [[spoiler: ''Film/{{Sideways}}'']]: Two guys go on a week-long bachelor party. One has lots of sex, the other one feels sorry for himself.
90	* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheSiege]]'': An overly {{Anvilicious}} terror drama that shamelessly cashes in on the tragedy of 9/11... [[LifeImitatesArt in 1998]].
91	* [[spoiler: ''Film/{{Signs}}'']]: A disenchanted preacher's faith in God is renewed by a terrifying alien invasion.
92	* ''[[spoiler: Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs]]'': Woman pursues man who wants to be a woman with the help of man who wants to get men [[ImAHumanitarian inside him]].
93	** ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Manhunter}} Film/RedDragon'']]: Video editor develops obsession with William Blake painting, and is pursued by man with liquid personality. Scheming convict ruins the lives of everyone involved.
94	* [[spoiler: ''Film/SimonBirch'']]: A rural boy and Catholic classmates befriend a murderous midget.
95	** Or: Young Creator/JimCarrey's faith is restored after a midget beats his mother to death with a bat.
96	* ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie]]'': [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice job creating an ecological apocalypse, Homer Simpson.]]
97	* ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/{{Sing}}]]'': A struggling property owner must save his theater from closure by hosting a singing competition to raise money, and the mafia gets involved.
98	** ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/Sing2]]'': The property owner goes with his friends to make it big in the industry. [[spoiler: He nearly dies. Twice.]]
99	* ''[[spoiler:Film/SinginInTheRain]]'': A famous actor must reinvent himself after the surprising discovery that he can't actually act. His girlfriend has a co-worker try to take credit for her work.
100	** Alternatively: A dripping man does a one-footed stomp in a gutter while his silly friend runs into a brick wall and the female love interest earns a living by talking.
101	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/{{Sintel}}]]'': When a homeless woman loses her pet, she devotes her entire life to getting him back.
102	** Or: It takes a woman 15 years to notice 15 years have passed.
103	* [[spoiler: ''WesternAnimation/SitaSingsTheBlues'']]: Sita from the Hindu epic The Ramayana singing songs from the jazz singer Annette Hanshaw.
104	** Also: A woman copes with her divorce by reading a story from the country her ex eloped to. Then, she turns both things into an animation. Nearly-PublicDomain jazz ensues.
105	* ''[[spoiler: Film/SixteenCandles]]'': People forget a girl's birthday.
106	* ''[[spoiler: Film/The6thDay]]'': Man with peculiar accent teams up with man with peculiar accent.
107	* [[spoiler: ''Film/TheSixthSense'']]: A therapist's ghost helps a young boy deal with childhood traumas.
108	* [[spoiler: ''Film/SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow'']]: A pilot-for-hire is recruited by his journalist ex-girlfriend to stop a German guy from reenacting Noah's Ark InSpace
109	* [[spoiler: ''Film/{{Sleeper}}'']]: HumanPopsicle Creator/WoodyAllen leads far-future rebellion.
110	* [[spoiler: ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'']]: A bunch of fairies fight over a girl who touched a needle and fell asleep.
111	** [[spoiler: ''Film/{{Maleficent}}'']]: Girl is backstabbed by a former friend, decides to do a RevengeByProxy putting his daughter to sleep.
112	** [[spoiler:''Film/MaleficentMistressOfEvil'']]: The daughter and her fiancee have reasons to believe each [[ObnoxiousInLaws mother in-law]] is the worst.
113	* [[spoiler: ''Film/SleepyHollow1999'']]: Police officer is transferred to small city, is harassed by the locals and a war veteran with a distinctive injury.
114	* [[spoiler: ''Film/{{Sleuth}}'']]: Two men hate each other.
115	* [[spoiler: ''Film/SlingBlade'']]: A retarded man makes friends with a young boy.
116	* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Slither}}]]'': [[Series/{{Firefly}} Mal]] and [[Film/ZackAndMiriMakeAPorno Miri]] Fight Alien Zombies.
117	* [[spoiler: ''Film/SlumdogMillionaire'']]: In India, Game Shows are SeriousBusiness.
118	** Alternatively, ''Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire'' The Movie.
119	* ''[[spoiler:Film/SnakesOnAPlane]]'': Man is [[ExpospeakGag exasperated to breaking point by the annoying presence of numerous reptiles with acted-upon Oedipal complexes on board a flying passenger conveyance with a similarly acted-upon Oedipal complex]].
120	** Or simply: [[spoiler: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Snakes On A Plane]]]].
121	*** ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: THE MOVIE!
122	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Snatch}}]]'': After a caravan purchase goes wrong, boxing managers end up in a convoluted heist plot with tons of people [[AnyoneCanDie dying]]. They include a terrifying pigfarmer, multiple people claiming they can catch bullets (they are half right), and an American tourist dissatisfied with London.
123	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Sneakers}}]]'': A plucky team of professional bank robbers get into hot water thanks to their ringleader's old college buddy, who happens to be in the business of triggering global recessions.
124	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Snowpiercer}}]]'': Global warming makes ''Film/{{Captain America\|The First Avenger}}'' eat babies on a train.
125	* [[spoiler: ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'']]: A girl who must escape her WickedStepmother hides in a house owned by seven midgets who dig for gems.
126	** Or: An animal lover stumbles across a group of short people who sing about prostitutes on drugs as part of their daily work routine. A woman who can't get enough of staring into her mirror all day gives the animal lover spoiled fruit out of spite.
127	* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheSocialNetwork]]'': Slightly misanthropic nerd gets dumped, gets popular, gets rich and gets sued. BasedOnATrueStory.
128	* ''[[spoiler:Film/SomeLikeItHot]]'': Two members of all-girl band are actually fugitives from the mafia. One of them tries to seduce the lead singer.
129	* ''[[spoiler:Something The Lord Made]]'': Creator/AlanRickman and Mos Def cut open babies. Rickman gets all the credit.
130	* ''[[spoiler:Film/SonOfRambow]]'': Two English boys in 1982 remake Creator/SylvesterStallone's ''Film/FirstBlood'' with a VCR Cam-corder.
131	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/SongOfTheSea]]'': A girl and her brother meet a lot of seals and stones.
132	** Alternatively, man is so sad about his wife leaving him that he throws away his daughter's clothes.
133	* [[spoiler:''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'']]: An extremely fast extraterrestrial is forced to leave his home planet and goes to Earth, where he causes a disruption that makes him enlist the help of a police officer to keep the government from capturing him.
134	** Alternatively, a cop is forced to help a lonely, isolated child who has stalked him for the past ten years from a government agent who wants to dissect him. The cop is labeled as a national terrorist as a result, and proceeds to keep his [[ObnoxiousInLaws very obnoxious sister-in-law]] captive in her own house. It's a children's film.
135	** [[spoiler:''Film/SonicTheHedgehog22022'']]: The fast, lonely extraterrestrial is visited by a deformed, lonely extraterrestrial seeking him and an angry, lonely extraterrestrial seeking a big rock.
136	* ''[[spoiler:Animation/SonOfTheWhiteHorse]]'': A horse gives birth to a swole guy whose head is on fire. Said guy proceeds to spank his brothers when they don't provide him food, save some women from their husbands with progressively more heads, and then attempt to murder his brothers because of a misunderstanding.
137	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/{{Soul}}]]'': A jazz musician dies, is born in reverse, and becomes a cat while his corpse is mortally possessed by Creator/TinaFey.
138	** Or, more simply, a jazz musician falls in a sewer and dies.
139	* ''[[spoiler:Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic]]'': Family bonds and resists a dictatorship with the aid of musical numbers.
140	** Or: A love triangle that pits a former nun against a noblewoman over a man that is also the father of the former nun's charges. One of the charges is dating a Nazi soldier. The former nun teaches the man to loosen up and to love, through {{the power of\|Rock}} sickly sweet noise.
141	** Or: A stuffy aristocrat marries a nun ReassignedToAntarctica because she makes his kids dress up in drapes. Later the other nuns wreck a car because they would do anything to get rid of her.
142	* ''[[spoiler:Film/SourceCode]]'': ''Series/QuantumLeap'' as a Video Game. And you're [[GroundhogDayLoop stuck on one frustrating level]].
143	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut]]'': Owing to over-sensitivity about a movie with bad language, an interfering parent starts WorldWarIII. Meanwhile, {{Satan}} has boyfriend difficulties, and a young boy tries to discover what the clitoris is in order to impress his girlfriend.
144	* ''[[spoiler:Film/SoylentGreen]]'': InAWorld destroyed by [[UnfortunateImplications our refusal to commit mass murder on an unprecedented scale]], everyone's a cannibal.
145	* ''[[spoiler:Film/SpaceCowboys]]'': Guy is asked to fix device based on a design of his, and invites three old buddies for the mission.
146	* ''[[spoiler:Film/SpaceJam]]'': An athlete gets sucked through a golf hole in order to help {{Talking Animal}}s play basketball.
147	** ''[[spoiler: Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction]]'': Actor gets fired, and decides to help a failed stuntman find his father.
148	** ''[[spoiler:Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy]]'': Athlete is sucked [[InsideAComputerSystem through a server room]] and roped into recruiting those {{Talking Animal}}s to play basketball with him.
149	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Spaceballs}}]]'': Two guys in a Winnebago rescue a RebelliousPrincess and her maid. After visiting a midget who is trying to make some money with merchandising, they fight [[PlanetLooters air-stealing aliens]] who have a bunch of Assholes working for them.
150	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Spartacus}}]]'': A bunch of rebellious slaves impersonate their leader.
151	* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Species}}]]'': People are sent to kill hot ingenue who wants to get laid.
152	* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Speed}}]]'': Police officer earns enmity of embittered retiree who forces him to use swift-moving public transportation.
153	** Or: Woman ''[[SeriousBusiness has]]'' to drive bus really fast.
154	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Split}}]]'': Zoo worker brings some girls to his home.
155	** Or: A group of housemates argue over what to do with the guests one of them brought home. Sensing the awkward, the guests try to leave, but keep ending up in the wrong rooms. Several of the housemates try reaching out to a friend for help in resolving the situation, but things only escalate until one of them lets the cat out.
156	* ''[[spoiler:Film/SpeedRacer]]'': Large companies manipulate the stock market to maximize their return. The impact this has on sport is investigated.
157	* ''[[spoiler:Film/SpiderMan1]]'': Due to bug bite and money not paid, teenager loses his uncle. This causes him to later fight the father of a friend who dresses very oddly.
158	** ''[[spoiler:Film/SpiderMan2]]'': Crime-fighter [[HowDoIShotWeb forgets abilities]] due to stress. Meanwhile nuclear physicist is possessed by his creation.
159	** ''[[spoiler:Film/SpiderMan3]]'': Alien turns crime-fighter into aggressive man who does [[Film/SaturdayNightFever Tony Manero]] impressions. Meanwhile, criminal tries to help his ill daughter despite contracting a weird skin condition.
160	*** Or: Alien turns hero into aggressive man, then takes control of [[Series/That70sShow Eric Forman]].
161	** ''[[spoiler:Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan]]'': Teenager visits a scientist who worked with his dad, leading him to get a bug bite infection (which turns out to be a good thing) and the scientist to recover from an injury (which turns out to be a bad thing).
162	** ''[[spoiler:Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2]]'': Teenager confronts a former fan who is [[IJustWantToBeSpecial tired of being ignored]], a former classmate who is tired of being ill, and the question of whether maintaining his relationship could cost his girl's life. [[spoiler:([[ILetGwenStacyDie It does]])]]
163	** ''[[spoiler:Film/SpiderManHomecoming]]'': As he tries to handle an internship, teenager ends up interfering in the businesses of the father of his high school crush.
164	*** Billionaire mentor vs. ChronicHeroSyndrome: Place your bets.
165	** ''[[spoiler:Film/SpiderManFarFromHome]]'': Teenager's foreign trip goes wrong as his class keeps stumbling by people shooting a disaster movie.
166	** ''[[spoiler:Film/SpiderManNoWayHome]]'': Teenager's attempt to evade cancel culture instead brings in many of the people listed above.
167	** ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse]]'': Six people dressed like arthropods prevent a rectangle from seeing his family.
168	*** Or: A washed-up loser, a drummer who's supposed to be dead but isn't, an anime character and her expressive mecha, a stand-up comedian, and a Nazi-fighting noir detective try to help an aspiring mixed-race artist cope with tragedy and changes in his life. Meanwhile, a rich fat guy and his superpowered henchmen nearly destroy the world just so the fat guy can [=FaceTime=] his family.
169	*** Or: A [[EpilepticFlashingLights seizure-inducing]] movie that kills a beloved superhero and then mocks his legacy by introducing various knock-offs of him that include a hobo with a mid-life crisis, a girl who is mostly known for [[ILetGwenStacyDie being dead]], a noir detective parody, a [[MechaShow mecha anime]] reference, and a cartoon pig. Eventually, the hero's mantle is taken by a kid who constantly forgets to tie his shoes and has no idea what 'puberty' means.
170	** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse]]'': C-lister loser villain becomes an EldritchAbomination while an alliance of people dressed like arthropods tell a kid that he should let his father die.
171	*** Or: The should-be-dead drummer decides to start her own band.
172	* [[spoiler:''WesternAnimation/SpiritStallionOfTheCimarron'']]: A pretty horsie's musical adventures in the Old West.
173	* ''[[spoiler:Anime/SpiritedAway]]'': A girl rescues her parents from a greedy old woman with an over-sized head by working in a bath house.
174	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Splash}}]]'': Guy hooks up with a childhood crush that comes visiting him.
175	* ''[[spoiler:SSDoomtrooper]]'': [[Series/StargateSG1 Jonas Quinn]] and his RagtagBunchOfMisfits blow up a factory and kill Hitler's radioactive mutant. ...Actually, that sounds pretty cool.
176	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/TheSpongebobSquarepantsMovie]]'': A kitchen utensil and his five-pointed friend travel half the globe for a hat to prove that they're not kids.
177	** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobMovieSpongeOutOfWater]]'': The kitchen utensil, his five pointed friend, three of their friends, and their microscopic nemesis travel to a restaurant for a piece of paper.
178	** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobMovieSpongeOnTheRun]]'': The kitchen utensil and his five pointed friend travel to Atlantis for a snail.
179	* ''[[spoiler:Film/Stalker1979]]'': For almost three hours, a trio of scraggly men try to sneak into an abandoned chemical plant while arguing in Russian about the meaning of life. The most famous scene consists of a little girl knocking an empty glass off a table and not much else.
180	* ''[[spoiler:Film/StanAndOllie]]'': Creator/SteveCoogan and Creator/JohnCReilly are washed-up actors who tour Europe while past their prime. BasedOnATrueStory.
181	* ''[[spoiler:Film/StandAndDeliver]]'': Some minority kids study for a math test.
182	* ''[[spoiler:Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture]]'': [[LeaveTheCameraRunning Over two hours of staring at model spaceships.]] New captain investigates mechanical space probe. He lets it absorb him to get rid of it. Meanwhile much HoYay is had.
183	** ''[[spoiler:Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan]]'': Captain and war criminal have a [[HamToHamCombat scenery-eating contest]]. The budget was cut to TV movie levels, and one of the cast agreed to get killed off because he was convinced the series was hitting a dead end.
184	*** Or: LargeHam [[HamToHamCombat Deathmatch]].
185	** ''[[spoiler:Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock]]'': A big excuse to [[DisneyDeath bring back someone who died]] in the previous installment while he is haunting his [[TheRival rival]]. [[BrokenAesop Aesops are broken]] along the way.
186	** ''[[spoiler:Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome]]'': Seven military officers facing court martial look for whales so they can fly them into the sun. HilarityEnsues.
187	*** Or: ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'' in a star ship with whales.
188	** ''[[spoiler:Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier]]'': Creator/WilliamShatner fights God. [[WriterOnBoard Shatner wins]].
189	** ''[[spoiler:Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry]]'': The UsefulNotes/IronCurtain comes down [[RecycledInSPACE IN SPACE!]]
190	*** Or: Shakespeare in the Sky With Klingons.[[note]]All credit for this particular phrase of awesome goes to the Fandom_wank wiki.[[/note]]
191	** ''[[spoiler: Film/StarTrekGenerations]]'': Creator/WilliamShatner is rescued from Paradise by a Frenchman with a British accent. [[DroppedABridgeOnHim He dies shortly thereafter.]]
192	** ''[[spoiler: Film/StarTrekFirstContact]]'': To prevent [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul parasites]] from screwing up history, military officers help an alcoholic pilot a spaceship.
193	** ''[[spoiler: Film/StarTrekInsurrection]]'': A LargeHam with a nice sofa attempts to quit his plastic surgery addiction. Our heroes must prevent this and save a planet sparsely populated with supermodels. An android starts shooting people because he's having a fit of ethics.
194	** ''[[spoiler: Film/StarTrekNemesis]]'': The Frenchman with a British accent is cloned, but whoever did it forgot to fix the genetic problems that the original had already fixed. A "clone" of the android is also found. The original android jumps between two starships to fix everything for his captain.
195	** ''[[spoiler: Film/StarTrek2009]]'': Lots of LensFlare and a time-traveling miner press the ResetButton on over 40 years of media. They kept the [[LargeHam ham]]. However, some TrueCompanions are simply meant to be.
196	** ''[[spoiler: Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness]]'': While going after a renegade who turns out to be a war criminal, captain finds out his boss has [[WarForFunAndProfit some unusual plans]] regarding space exploration.
197	** ''[[spoiler: Film/StarTrekBeyond]]'': Crew led by [[VictoryIsBoring bored]] captain and his lieutenant who has just found out [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble he's died]] are stranded on a planet ruled by a [[TheSocialDarwinist Social Darwinist]]. Climactic battle involves weaponized use of Music/BeastieBoys.
198	* ''[[spoiler: Franchise/StarWars]]'': This was described in some TV listings which took brevity too far: "A farm-boy seeks his destiny."
199	** Two groups of space wizards can't get along and keep minding everyone else's business. The rest of the galaxy goes to absurd lengths to humor them.
200	** A bunch of stuff already happened and at such a remote distance that it is of zero concern for you or anyone you know.
201	** ''[[spoiler: Episode I: Film/ThePhantomMenace]]'': Two warrior monks and a none-too-bright amphibian defend a 14-year-old Queen from a trade embargo by [[ExpospeakGag a mysterious, shadowy, troublesome entity.]]
202	*** Alternatively: Old man tries to force teenager to sign a piece of paper.
203	** ''[[spoiler: Episode II: Film/AttackOfTheClones]]'': Assassination attempt on politician leads to [[RomanticPlotTumor overwrought]] [[StrangledByTheRedString sexual tension]] between said politician and a warrior monk with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_personality_disorder borderline personality disorder]], and protracted offensive deployment involving replicated individuals.
204	** ''[[spoiler: Episode III: Film/RevengeOfTheSith]]'': The greatest hero of all time betrays his comrades, murders his wife and conquers all known civilizations, despite his [[BigNo protracted denial]]. EvilOverlord gets vindication for past grievances.
205	** ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Solo}}]]'': A space cowboy attempts to reconnect with his ex-girlfriend and inadvertently installs her as the new head of the local crime syndicate in the process.
206	** ''[[spoiler: Episode IV: Film/ANewHope]]'': The galaxy's nascent chance of salvation is a boy who farms water in a desert, has inappropriate sexual attraction to his long lost twin sister, and kills millions through the use of [[NoOSHACompliance faulty safety regulations]] and the voices in his head.
207	*** Alternatively: The story of an orphaned boy who becomes radicalized after a military strike kills his family. He is indoctrinated into an ancient religion, joins a band of rebel insurgents, and carries out a terrorist attack killing 300,000 people.
208	*** ''[[spoiler: Film/RogueOne]]'': Disgruntled contractor adds said safety flaw. Everyone dies to ensure the info will eventually reach the farmboy through said twin sister.
209	** ''[[spoiler: Episode V: Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack]]'': Corrupt government counter-attacks. Boy learns mystical powers from a Muppet with a speech impediment, then gets his hand cut off by his long-lost father.
210	*** Alternatively: A guy with a sword. His father. They don't get along.
211	** ''[[spoiler: Episode VI: Film/ReturnOfTheJedi]]'': Mystical, heroic figures come back after a long absence. The highly advanced villains are [[RockBeatsLaser defeated by an army of teddy bears with spears]].
212	** ''[[spoiler: Episode VII: Film/TheForceAwakens]]'': A man quits his job and meets a woman in the desert. They steal a guy's ship to take a ball back to its owners and see a [[OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions discredited mystical concept]] resurging.
213	** ''[[spoiler: Episode VIII: Film/TheLastJedi]]'': An emergency evacuation goes wrong. Their hope of survival involves the above woman and an old guy who turn to be the final reminders of the mystical, heroic figures.
214	** ''[[spoiler: Episode IX: Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker]]'': The family of the farmboy ascends in order to kill [[HijackedByGanon the same bad guy from before]]. Again.
215	* [[spoiler:''Film/StarWreckInThePirkinning'']]: Feckless [[Franchise/StarTrek spacemen from the future]] get stuck in the present, rebuild their fleet through Russian manpower. They travel to another dimension and party with [[Series/BabylonFive some other spacemen]].
216	* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Stargate}}]]'': Archaeologist shares candy with aliens. Then they rebel against GOD!
217	* ''[[spoiler: Film/StarshipTroopers]]'': Boy joins the army so he can visit new places, see lots of bugs, and kill them.
218	** Or: An AlienInvasion, from the perspective of the invaders.
219	** Or: A High School student gets indoctrinated by his fascist crushes, friends and mentors until he became a fascist at the end. [[Memes/TheSimpsons That's the joke.]]
220	* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Steel}}]]'': Shaquille O'Neal and friends in a junkyard try to stop EvilPlan of [[Film/TheBreakfastClub John Bender]].
221	* ''[[spoiler: Film/TheStepfather]]'': The family life of a [[AxCrazy man]] who likes building little houses unravels around him.
222	** ''[[spoiler: Stepfather II]]'': A man leaves an asylum, settles down with a new family and must deal with nosy neighbors and other such busybodies.
223	** ''[[spoiler: Stepfather III]]'': A man leaves another asylum, has plastic surgery and marries a woman whose handicapped son hates him. Starts screwing around on the side and works in greenhouse using special fertilizer.
224	* ''[[spoiler:Film/SteveJobs]]'': Acquaintances of a ControlFreak use his preparation time to call him out on being a jerk. BasedOnATrueStory.
225	* ''[[spoiler:Film/StillCrazy]]'': Washed-up old rock stars try and pretend they're still big.
226	* ''[[spoiler:Film/StopLoss]]'': Troubled soldier ''really'' doesn't want to go back to work.
227	* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheStuntMan]]'': A Vietnam vet on the run from the cops accidentally kills a man, then agrees to become an actor in a cheesy World War I movie. He falls in love, while Peter O'Toole proceeds to screw with his head ([[MindScrew and the heads of the audience]]).
228	* ''[[spoiler:Film/StrangeDays]]'': Loser who deals in illicit goods has trouble letting go of the past and getting over his ex-girlfriend. An ActionGirl limo driver with a crush on him, two corrupt police officers and a psychotic rapist-murderer help him move on.
229	* ''[[spoiler: Film/StrangerThanFiction]]'': A writer starts messing with an IRS agent's life.
230	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/StrangeWorld]]'': A man travels underground to find his father and discovers why his peas are dying.
231	* ''[[spoiler: Film/StrangersOnATrain]]'' "I'll kill yours if you kill mine."
232	* ''[[spoiler: Film/StrawDogs]]'': Creator/DustinHoffman kills the guys who did his roofing.
233	* ''[[spoiler: Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire]]'': A man with bad table manners screams his wife's name and rapes his crazy sister-in-law. It won a lot of Oscars.
234	* ''[[spoiler: Film/StreetsOfFire]]'': Guy rescues his ex-girlfriend from bikers. Lots of music plays. There's a duel with sledgehammers.
235	* ''[[spoiler:Stroczek]]'': The American dream is ruined by a dancing chicken.
236	* ''[[spoiler: Film/SuckerPunch]]'': Girl plots escape from mental asylum by fighting monsters in her dreams while dancing.
237	* ''[[spoiler: Film/SuicideSquad2016]]'': A government work-release program [[GoneHorriblyWrong goes horribly wrong]].
238	** Alternatively: Bunch of weirdos are sent on covert mission to kill an AttentionWhore.
239	** ''[[spoiler: Film/TheSuicideSquad]]'': The government work-release program goes international.
240	* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Sully}}]]'': Man is targeted by unfair investigation for killing some geese. BasedOnATrueStory.
241	** ''[[spoiler: Film/RichardJewell]]'': Man is targeted by unfair media treatment for finding a backpack. BasedOnATrueStory.
242	* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheSumOfAllFears'']]: Man discovers a few politicians who miss the UsefulNotes/ColdWar in an unhealthy way.
243	* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Sunrise}}]]'': Man attempts to murder his wife so that he can run off with his mistress, but backs out at the last second. [[KarmaHoudini Not only does he suffer no lasting consequences for this]], [[EasilyForgiven his wife instantly forgives him]], and it actually ends up rejuvenates their failing marriage.
244	* ''[[spoiler: Film/SunsetBoulevard]]'': Boy meets girl. Girl wants him to write script for her. Boy writes script with other girl instead. Boy dies.
245	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Sunshine}}]]'': Bomb with eight people on board flies into sun. The people begin to die.
246	** Alternatively: Eight people want to blow up the biggest landmark known to Man. Guy with really bad sunburn tries to stop them.
247	* ''[[spoiler:Film/SunshineCleaning]]'': Sisters try to make quick money cleaning up after dead people.
248	* ''[[spoiler: Film/Super8]]'': Children make a movie, but things get worse. Problems are solved only when a spaceship destroys a water tower.
249	* ''[[spoiler: Film/Supergirl1984]]'': Girl embarks on a mission with a deadline. So she enrolls in school and provides ProductPlacement for Popeye's.
250	* ''[[spoiler: Film/SupermanTheMovie]]'': Young man from Kansas goes on a trek to the Arctic after his adoptive father's death. He then disregards his birth father's advice and saves woman from crashing helicopter. Meanwhile, wig-wearing man attempts to make a killing in real estate.
251	** Alternately: A young immigrant protects the city he loves from a real estate agent.
252	** Or: Man wears underwear outside pants and makes planet Earth spin backwards.
253	** ''[[spoiler: Film/SupermanII]]'': After romantic get-away with his girlfriend, young man discovers that old acquaintances of his father have arrived in town at the worst possible time for him. This results in another Arctic trek, followed by battle in which a removable plastic seal plays a significant role.
254	** ''[[spoiler: Film/SupermanIII]]'': Man hooks up with his old high-school girlfriend and experiences identity crisis after being given a rock partially made from tar.
255	** ''[[spoiler: Film/SupermanIVTheQuestForPeace]]'': Man engages in self-appointed one-man nuclear disarmament program and comes into conflict with another man made from a strand of his hair. A woman demonstrates the ability to breathe in space. For many, exactly as bad as it sounds.
256	** ''[[spoiler: Film/SupermanReturns]]'': Man returns from extended fact-finding mission to learn his ex-girlfriend is in a relationship with someone else and has a kid. This results in him following her and listening in to her conversations a lot. Meanwhile, an ex-convict plans another unscrupulous real-estate deal.
257	** ''[[spoiler: Film/ManOfSteel]]'': Young man from Kansas discovers that he's from somewhere else as old acquaintances of his father arrive trying to build a replica of their hometown.
258	** ''[[spoiler: Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice]]'': CorruptCorporateExecutive decides to make two orphans fight to death for his amusement.
259	* ''[[spoiler:Film/SuperMarioBros1993]]'': A pair of plumbers visit an alternate dimension and save a princess and the world. [[VideoGameMoviesSuck Based on a hit video game series.]] For most, as bad as it sounds.
260	** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie]]'': Basically the same thing, but a lot closer to the source material.
261	*** Alternatively: Two plumbers from Brooklyn end up ruining a turtle dragon guy's plans to get hitched.
262	* ''[[spoiler:Film/SuperSizeMe]]'': Guy constantly eats same type of food. He gains weight.
263	* ''[[spoiler:Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story]]'': The fictionalized story of a famous American musical band, acted out entirely with Barbie dolls.
264	* ''[[spoiler:Sushi Girl]]'': [[Creator/TonyTodd A towering baritone Japanophile,]] a rat-faced coke fiend, [[Creator/MarkHamill a sassy diva with [=BeDazzled=] pliers]] and Music/RobZombie's long-lost twin torture their ex-business partner to death while a woman overhears and does nothing.
265	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess]]'': Prince goes on a hunting trip while trying to sort out his [[BelligerentSexualTension confused attraction]] to a girl who regularly turns into a bird. He almost kills her twice. Afterwards, she enthusiastically marries him.
266	** ''[[spoiler:The Swan Princess 2: Escape from Castle Mountain/Secret of the Castle]]'': Prince is distracted from romantic activities when an old man who [[VillainousHarlequin dresses like a clown]] and rides in a hot air balloon attempts to steal a piece of glass from the prince's castle. His wife turns into a bird again.
267	** ''[[spoiler: The Swan Princess 3: Mystery of the Enchanted Kingdom/Treasure]]'': Prince's advisor develops an attraction to a FunnyForeigner. National security is threatened when she steals a few pieces of paper and interrupts a festival. His wife turns into a bird again.
268	** ''[[spoiler: The Swan Princess Christmas]]'': Prince's holiday celebrations are interrupted by an old enemy. Hanging up wind chimes and singing are the only ways to stop him. The prince's wife turns into a bird ''again.''
269	** ''[[spoiler: The Swan Princess: A Royal Family Tale]]'': Prince adopts a mute girl while squirrels take over the kingdom. His wife finally manages to stop turning into a bird.
270	* ''[[spoiler:Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet]]'': Man makes his landlady win clients while losing his own. Features a LoveDodecahedron where some of the parties involved want to kill each other and lots of singing.
271	** Or: Willy Wonka exacts revenge on Snape, but to do so he has to kill Borat. Meanwhile, Bellatrix Lestrange sticks weird things into her pie(s).
272	* ''[[spoiler:Film/SwimmingWithSharks]]'': Insecure Hollywood studio dogsbody resorts to home invasion and paper cuts in protest of unreasonably specific coffee orders.
273	* ''[[spoiler:Film/SwissArmyMan]]'': A man gets stranded on a DesertedIsland with a [[OurZombiesAreDifferent farting zombie]] as sole companion.
274	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone]]'': A kid befriends an old man who turns him into animals.

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