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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "Hidden Depths", a has been celebrity who used to host a TV quiz show is shown at home watching a video of a command performance where he got to meet Princess Diana. He constantly rewinding and re-watching the part where Diana shakes his hand.

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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "Hidden Depths", "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS8E6 Hidden Depths]]", a has been celebrity who used to host a TV quiz show is shown at home watching a video of a command performance where he got to meet Princess Diana. He constantly rewinding and re-watching the part where Diana shakes his hand.
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* In ''Film/{{Super 8}}'' Joe watches a home movie of himself as a baby with his mother.

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* In ''Film/{{Super 8}}'' Joe watches a home movie of himself as a baby with his mother.mother, who died in an industrial accident shortly before the start of the film.
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* ''Film/INotStupidToo'' ends with one of these, depicting the protagonist Tom Yeo's childhood, when he was 4 and his parents weren't the [[ParentalNeglect workaholic, neglectful]], and borderline unlikable jerkasses they are in the present. It ends with Tom's mother waving a chocolate bar to the then-toddler Tom, before unexpectedly segueing into the same mother waving a cane to beat him up.
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* In the ''VideoGame/OuterWilds: Echoes of the Eye'' DLC, you can find a slide reel showing the alien inhabitants of [[RingWorldPlanet the Stranger]] succumbing to this out of homesickness after arriving in your solar system, [[spoiler:not helped by the fact that they [[YouCantGoHomeAgain reduced their homeworld]] to a PollutedWasteland in the process of building their ringworld.]] This drove them to develop a [[LotusEaterMachine virtual reality]] that recreated their homeworld even better than their ringworld's habitat. Unfortunately, it didn't work - if you enter the simulation, you can see one of the aliens ''still'' watching nostalgic slide reels of life on their homeworld.
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* ''Film/{{Basquiat}}'': After Creator/{{Andy| Warhol}} dies Jean-Michel watches home movies Andy made of the two of them. In an unusual touch director Julian Schnabel uses stock footage of the actual Warhol and Basquiat.
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* In the ''Series/ColdCase'' episode "The Road", the victim's fiance is seen watching a video that's a montage of their greatest moments that was played at their engagement party.

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* In the ''Series/ColdCase'' episode "The Road", the victim's fiance fiancé is seen watching a video that's a montage of their greatest moments that was played at their engagement party.party. [[spoiler:Fortunately, she turns out to be alive.]]

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->'''Britta:''' What are you doing?
->'''Annie:''' You know in movies where the hero's wife or girlfriend is dead or missing and so he sits in the dark and he watches her in a home movie? We're making footage of that for me in case I get kidnapped or murdered!
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->'''Britta:''' What are you doing?
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You know in movies where the hero's wife or girlfriend is dead or missing and so he sits in the dark and he watches her in a home movie? We're making footage of that for me in case I get kidnapped or murdered!
-->-- ''Series/{{Community}}'', "Wedding Videography"
"[[Recap/CommunityS6E12WeddingVideography Wedding Videography]]"



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This doesn't '''''have''''' to be !!As this is ''sometimes'' a death trope, {{Death Trope|s}} but it is often a beginning or ending trope, so it may involve spoilers.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'', after Marge and the kids leave Homer to go save Springfield, Homer watches the video Marge left him that explained why they had gone. She had recorded the video over their wedding video, and Homer watches the rest of the wedding video as it finally hits him how much he's screwed up.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'', after Marge and the kids leave Homer to go save Springfield, Homer watches the video Marge left him that explained why they had gone. [[TapedOverTurmoil She had recorded the video over their wedding video, video]], and Homer watches the rest of the wedding video [[JerkassRealization as it finally hits him how much he's screwed up.up]].



--> '''Old!Hibbert''': She WAS stealing sponges! I ''knew'' it!

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* ''Film/{{Kidnap}}'' opens with a montage of videos showing Frankie growing up before cutting to the present, when he's six years old.

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* ''Film/{{Kidnap}}'' opens with a montage of videos showing Frankie Dyson growing up before cutting to the present, when he's six years old.
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* ''Film/{{Kidnap}}'' opens with a montage of videos showing Frankie growing up before cutting to the present, when he's seven years old.

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* ''Film/{{Kidnap}}'' opens with a montage of videos showing Frankie growing up before cutting to the present, when he's seven six years old.

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* ''Film/{{Kidnap}}'' opens with a montage of videos showing Frankie growing up before cutting to the present, when he's seven years old.



* ''Film/{{Taken}}'' starts off with Bryan Mills watching video footage of his daughter Kim's (who just reached the age of 17 in the present) fifth birthday.

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* ''Film/{{Taken}}'' starts off with video footage of Kim's fifth birthday.

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* At the end of ''Film/TheFalconAndTheSnowman'', the scenes of Boyce and Lee in prison for espionage are cut back and forth to home video scenes of them as recent high school graduates, altar boys at church, and birthday parties with friends and family.
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* ''Film/{{Taken}}'' start off with video footage of the daughter's fifth birthday.

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* In ''Simpatico'', Vinnie (played by Creator/NickNolte) spends his days drinking and watching home movies of his younger days, when he was care-free, cocky, making lots of money with a horse-racing scam, and in a relationship with the very attractive Rosie. In the present, Vinnie is an unemployed drunk who stumbles around town claiming to be a private investigator (he isn't) while living off charity from his friend Lyle (Creator/Jeff Bridges).

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* In ''Simpatico'', Vinnie(played by Creator/NickNolte) spends his days drinking and watching home movies of his younger days, when he was care-free, making lots of money with a horse-racing scam, and in a relationship with the very attractive Rosie. In the present, Vinnie is an unemployed drunk who stumbles around town claiming to be a private investigator (he isn't) while living off charity from his friend Lyle (Creator/Jeff Bridges).

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* In ''Simpatico'', Vinnie(played Vinnie (played by Creator/NickNolte) spends his days drinking and watching home movies of his younger days, when he was care-free, cocky, making lots of money with a horse-racing scam, and in a relationship with the very attractive Rosie. In the present, Vinnie is an unemployed drunk who stumbles around town claiming to be a private investigator (he isn't) while living off charity from his friend Lyle (Creator/Jeff Bridges).
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* Vinnie (played by Creator/NickNolte) spends his days drinking and watching home movies of his younger days, when he was care-free, making lots of money with a horse-racing scam, and in a relationship with the very attractive Rosie. In the present, Vinnie is an unemployed drunk who stumbles around town claiming to be a private investigator (he isn't) while living off charity from his friend Lyle (Creator/Jeff Bridges).

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* Vinnie (played In ''Simpatico'', Vinnie(played by Creator/NickNolte) spends his days drinking and watching home movies of his younger days, when he was care-free, making lots of money with a horse-racing scam, and in a relationship with the very attractive Rosie. In the present, Vinnie is an unemployed drunk who stumbles around town claiming to be a private investigator (he isn't) while living off charity from his friend Lyle (Creator/Jeff Bridges).
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* Vinnie (played by Creator/NickNolte) spends his days drinking and watching home movies of his younger days, when he was care-free, making lots of money with a horse-racing scam, and in a relationship with the very attractive Rosie. In the present, Vinnie is an unemployed drunk who stumbles around town claiming to be a private investigator (he isn't) while living off charity from his friend Lyle (Creator/Jeff Bridges).
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* Most of TheOutsideWorld shown in ''Film/FriendOfTheWorld'' is through an older home video from a happier time.

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