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I'm looking for a movie that was made in the last couple of years or so. This couple already had two kids and wanted another, so they adopted this Russian(I think) orphan, that was really this 30-something year old woman with a growth hormone problem and she's trying to kill off the family and seduce the dad.
One scene I remember is that the mom had knocked down the orphan by accident in a middle of an argument. The orphan then gets out this device, puts her arm in it, and tightens the device so much that it breaks her arm.
Thanks to anyone that can help! :)
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There was a film I saw once about giant ants (It was not "Them!", I'm pretty sure). The giant ants were done in stop-motion animation, so I'm guessing it was made in the 80's or 70's. The scene I recall most was where the queen ant was using her pheromones on humans as a form of mind control to make them work for the ants, letting them feed on giant piles of sugar from a mill. There was one scene where the queen was sitting in a giant glass cage with a little booth in front of her. Human policemen would grab other people and stuff them into the booth, where the queen would spray them with mind-control pheromones.
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At least I'm pretty sure it was a film... This guy finds a letter in his side table drawer in his living room. The letter is dated sometime in the past during WWI or something. I'm fuzzy on why, but he writes a letter back. The letters from the past are written by this blond girl who puts them in her piano. The two begin talking back and forth using these letters. Sounds sorta like The Lake House, but the time span is greater, the two characters never meet, and I saw it back... between 1997 and 2003. The movie could be older and I just saw it on tv, but it was definitely before 2003.
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All right, someone else posted this on the forum and now I have to know what it is:
“A movie I saw when I was younger where a girl travelled to an alternate dimension through her mirror, where ducks/people in duck costumes turned humans into tea and drank them.
I stopped watching there. It terrified me. Still don't know what it's called.”
All I know is that it’s not The Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors
and it doesn’t sound like an Alices Adventures Through The Looking Glass interpretation.
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A movie i saw in my science class in high school. There was a man and his crew who had to save the world. They went underground in some machine and there were about 5-6 people on the crew. The black guy was one of the first to die by being burned by lava, then some Russian family man dies via Heroic Sacrifice and this Jerkass with a British accent dies a Karmic Death. The main hero guy and his girlfriend survive, though. There was probably one other guy who died in it, I can't remember. Live action movie.
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I remember seeing the trailer to it, probably in about the last decade. It involved a romance writer who was using Expies of his friends in the story. Unable to resolve a plotline, he invents a character to sweep the heroine off of her feet and lo and behold, a few days later, the man appears at the door. I cannot remember much more of this and it could be this was a case where the trailer lies. I want to say that this was contemporaneous with Adaptation, but I cannot swear to it, particularly because I thought the name of it was Adaptation until I actually watched the film in question.
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This was a movie that featured a wedding - I thought it was Steel Magnolias, but I've been informed that it's not. A scene that has nothing to do with the plot has three teenage boys (including, possibly a young Neil Patrick Harris) suck helium out of balloons and sing "Annie's Song" ("You fill up my senses...") in 3-part harmony in chimpmunk voices.
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This movie is about a reclusive musician with burn scars over half of his face. I think i remember that he dresses in an old-fashioned way, vaguely French maybe. I definitely remember tat one of his eyebrows is missing. Anyway, for some reason the hermit ends up befriending neighborhood kids who gradually help to "bring him out of his shell" and learn valuable lessons about music or prejudice or somehting. The movie ends with a chase—maybe the musician is thrown out of town by angry parents?—and he disappears. It is not "Man Without a Face". I sort of relate it to Phantom of the Opera, but I don't know if there is an actual connection. Any idea?
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A kid finds a talking frog who claims to be a prince. I think at one point the frog is somehow caught and brought into the kid's science class to be dissected, leading him to start an E.T.-style Free the Frogs riot. When the frog does finally become human, he turns out to be a No Celebrities Were Harmed version of... Prince. This was most likely either film or live action tv - it was all live action, and if it was live action tv it seems like it would have been a one-off short, not part of a series. It's entirely possible that I'm actually confusing the Free the Frogs part with E.T. and it didn't happen in this work, but I'm certain about the frog prince \ Prince joke.
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This commercial they play a lot on TV. What's the movie in it? There's a cartoon bunny and a tiger and this live action guy is talking with them and he says "I'm not gonna cry, am I?" and the bunny responds with "Only if you don't believe in the power of friendship!" Does anyone know if that movie with the bunny and tiger exists and what is it called?
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This was a series of short stories/movies, but they taught a lesson. The characters were animals. They were aimed towards a younger audience. One had to do with a rumour going around about a grudge, but it turned out that he was carrying fudge not a grudge. One line from that one was "Oh, grudge rhymes with luggage(luggage drawn out)" Another one had to do with an opera singing snake. Another with a character that got too full of himself and had to be brought down a notch. Any ideas?
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'Kay, guys, this is where TV Tropes proves its mettle to me. I seem to remember this weird-ass animated sci-fi film, probably from the '80s, about androgynous blue aliens having their society turned upside-down by... something, possibly an Earthman? I seem to remember the boxart having someone tied down, a la Gullivers Travels. I remember Jennifer Lopez watching it in The Cell for some reason. Please help. I think it had "Planet" in the title, but it sure as hell wasn't Forbidden Planet. It was pervasively creepy to me as a child.
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Film probably made in the mid 90's about a cyborg who's been sent back in time to prevent a shuttle from exploding on the launchpad. Turns out it had been sabotaged by some generic bad guys. I also remember him being shot at, and healing quickly and him withdrawing money from a bank, which wasn't bad because the bank was to go bust in a few days anyway. At the end he throws the bomb away from the rocket and his friend makes some kind of baseball reference.
Not Terminator 2.

There was this show I believe on Comedy Central.... It was "dumb comedy" basically a show about the life of three morons, but it was hilarious... the characters names were mike michael and (forgot third guys name). It must have been around 2007-2008