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openSome Court Movie Film
It’s about a (maybe politician) woman (who looks like Meg Ryan or at least have the same short hair) was been brought in this council group to defend herself; don’t know from what. One of the head of the chair is known to be a fair and just man but he seems to throw that out the window with her since he’s been trying to make her look bad by insinuating she supports child killing/abortions and hired someone to photoshop her in the newspaper having fun with some guys in a frat party in her Varsity days. Around the end when talking to her friend (who maybe looks like Bill Pullman) she confessed that, while a little tipsy, has been dragged in one of the bedrooms and grabbed hold of the guys genitalia when he pulled his pants down expecting her on her knees making her say, what to me was a memorable quote, “I don’t smoke”. Her friend (I think he’s the president or someone in that high status?) askes why not answer during hearing to prove her innocence and she answers, with another memorable quote that sadly I can’t remember the exact words but it goes.., “If I had answered any of those questions then that would have given them the right to ask them”. Another scene I remember is the respectable head chair guy was being accused from the wife that she suspected he had something to do with the photoshop news picture and disappointed in him for losing his way, since that was the biggest reason she stood by his side regardless of not being able to give her the big family she’s always wanted.
I’ve only saw a big chunk of this movie once a couple of years back but today I couldn’t find it regardless of all I remember, hell, I don’t even know what it’s really about which, quite frankly, is even more reason to find it.
Edited by UpTopopenMurder Mystery Film
Hi, I can’t remember anything too descriptive but I remember the description of the show was about a man who was helping the police solve murders around the time of Jack the Ripper. The preview picture looked like a man in a bowler hat.
openSOCCER SCENE Film
I think this featured Jay Baruchel, late 10s teen movie. I remember a doctor aided the boy Jay played or some other actor on a soccer field. He asked if he could feel his man parts, but they were numb, done in a poor comedic way of course. Sorry for the grossness, but this is all I can remember about the movie, please help, thanks.
openMock court sentences man to death for real after his car breaks down and knocks on door. TV 80s Film
UK TV early 80s or maybe late 70s.
A man's car has broken down and he knocks on the door of a large house to use the phone. Inside are about half a dozen men roleplaying a courtroom parlour game. They persuade the man to take part in their game as the defendant on a murder charge. In due course they find him guilty and sentence him to death. Once he is led upstairs and locked in a room, he realises that they are going to hang him for real. I can't remember how it ends.
This little play or drama had the vibe of a Tales of the Unexpected or Alfred Hitchcock Presents, although I've looked at all these titles and can't find it.
Thanks for any info!
Edited by bx2open3 witch cartoon VHS (canadian) Film
I had a VHS of this cartoon, featuring three witches. It was most likely a Canadian film. Probably from the 90's or earlier. I can't remember much else about it, but I'm sure it isn't Witch's Night Out.
That being said, it's probably in a similar style, and it's about a half an hour long.
resolved Disney's dog movie Film
I think it was Disney...is about a kid and his military older brother. They end with the dog of the school principal and try to exhort him to take it back and later force him to do various humilating things.
openWeird Alaskan thing I've asked about before. Film
Okay, I've asked this here a thousand times before, but I remember seeing a weird urban fantasy about a video-game-obsessed boy in Alaska with a Magical Native American friend (named "Ray," I think), who pawns his Game Boy to bail him out for trumped-up poaching charges. I distinctly remember it being by first introduction to the concept of bail, and that the system was $50, with a few games getting him to the $100 he needed. I vaguely remember a drum he used against the villains that ended up getting broken, in what I think was a Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane finale, clearly magical in the boy's mind.
Edited by TwinBirdopenKnight Rider-based comedy/parody that I saw on TV between 2000-2010 Film
I think it was a movie rather than a series episode. There was a male protagonist, and he had a talking car. I think the car had a female voice, but I'm not sure. There was a scene in which the protagonist (or maybe it was someone else) walks into a girl's house, which from the outside looks like a small, cheap wooden house, or maybe even an old caravan/trailer, I don't remember exactly. When he goes in, it turns out that the house is actually way bigger on the inside, and it is an impressive mansion.
I remember seeing it (or fragments of it) twice in the 2000s. Maybe it actually was a Knight Rider episode or movie, but I don't think Knight Rider would have such weird moments as the aforementioned house situation, and I don't have the time to watch all of Knight Rider right now to check it. Maybe it was just my dream, and such a movie doesn't actually exist, but I think that it is worth asking here, maybe someone knows what it was. Also, I don't know if it's important or not, but I live in Poland, and I watched it on Polish TV, but I'm certain that it was not a Polish movie.
openmovie Film
Okay, this is a long shot, because my memories of it are pretty vague. It was a ghost story involving a little girl who wore a blue gingham dress and a silver locket. There's something in there about a lantern with a treasure map inside, and a secret passage behind a fireplace. Outlaws had taken over the house and the girl had been killed in a gunfight.
The movie was set around a century later, and they found the little girl's body in the secret passage. It could have been Disney, because we rented it in the 80s on VHS several times, and they were making quite a few similar creepy kids' movies at the time. And no, It's NOT Child of Glass, though the plot is kinda similar... My brother remembers it, too, so I'm not crazy— anybody know what this is?
openTeens at school movie where they compliment each other Film
A few semesters ago, someone compared a concept in logic to "the scene in The Breakfast Club where they are sitting at their desks giving compliments to each other". When I asked others about this, they told me the scene doesn't exist in that film, so the person who said this may have been confusing it with another film being that there are many "teens in school" movies. Does anyone know if there's a similar movie to this that actually has such a scene?
Edited by mimitchi33openTrying to guess the next musical hell episode Film
As the caption says, I’m trying to figure out what the next episode of musical hell will be (so I’m impatient; sue me). Here’s what I know: it’s a movie musical that could generally be considered bad, and that contains “probably the only time a pair of black cops planted evidence on a white man resulting in an absurdly severe sentence for drug possession” (Diva’s words). Anybody wanna take a guess?
open"Daddy's Little Girl?" (still unsolved) Film
Family film, live action, circa I don’t even know, late 1990s? (A lot of my rediscovered forgotten media is from 97 specifically so maybe then, but no guarantees.) Possibly/probably relatively obscure, so if this rings any bells to anybody let me just say you're awesome. Anyway, the movie is about, or at least features, a girl, 12ish years old, whose father is a comic book artist.
There’s a scene at a birthday(?) party, at a backyard (possibly with a pool?); there’s a live 60s-esque rock band who’ve been hired to perform, singing lyrics along the following lines: “ooh, she’s daddy’s little girl” (trying to search these lyrics only turns up an unrelated song.)
- It might be a cover of "You're a Big Girl Now" by The Stylistics but if it is the songwriter is uncredited on imdb so.???
The other kids there are teasing the girl because of something in the latest issue of her father’s comic book. It’s a vaguely TMNT-esque publication, with similar art style and anthropomorphic animals as the characters, and the Master Splinter-type character has his adopted-daughter-type figure start wearing a training bra now that she’s growing up; all the girl’s friends recognize this as being a thinly veiled stand-in for the girl’s own blossoming into womanhood, the father writing his own relationship with his daughter into the comic.
That's about all I've got. Thanks.
Edited by PretzelsopenBritish Comedy Film
It's a British comedy featuring a middle-aged couple. Probably from the 70's or 80's. I remember a scene in which they are driving home with their car full of plants after the woman said that they had to buy them because someone famous in magazine had done so or somesuch. Any ideas???
Edited by MrWemmickopenComedy about witches in Salem Film
Okay so I had watched this movie years ago, around 2002-2004. It could have also been made around that time, or possibly as early as the mid to late 90's. I believe it was a comedy, I say this because of this particularly odd scene that just sticks in my mind where a witch casts a spell to make all the bread in this bakery take the shape of penises with adjacent testicles. This, of course, scandalizes everyone. This was all set in the 1600's, think the Salem Witch Trials. At one point there are witches being burnt at the stake.
openTv series Film
Ok so I used to watch this tv show in Italy years ago but I can't seem to find the right title. It was about a girl who was kind of a medium. She worked with the police to find missing people or help people in danger. She would have visions by touching stuff or entering rooms and she had an afroamerican woman as a partner. She used to wear a ponytail most of the time and her hair was kinda brownish-orange. I recall one specific episode where she risked her own life by taking a bullet to her bulletproof vest to save her partner and at the end of the episode she told the black woman "don t worry I'm fine I'm sure you would have done the same thing" and her partner responding with "I'm not sure I would have" with a sad and almost terrified tone. I keep searching on Google but the only tv series that comes up about a medium is Medium with Patricia Arquette but that's not it
Edited by Martina_Visentin989openOld wolf cartoon Film
I'm trying to track down an old animated movie starring a cast of wolves. I know it was out sometime before 2001-2003. I'm almost certain it was *not* CGI, but I was under 5, so my memory is pretty hazy. I *think* it was done with an animation style that was either anime or Lion King in appearance. I seem to recall it having a Pride Rock-esque structure in a scene, but my memory of that could be corrupted by Lion King. I know for absolute certain it had a VHS release (And my VCR tried to eat it), but aside from that, I've got nothing.
openTV show about a kid who relives everyday Film
Im trying to find this show I watched on Netflix which I don't know if it's still on there or not, but it's about this boy about in high school who relives everyday once and gets to change whatever mistakes he made or bad things that might've happened. Also everyone's British. Pretty sure he has two best friends, a male and a female. There was one episode where the girl ended up having a crush on him and gave him a birthday card or something with a giraffe on it, then he's like "ew who likes giraffes" and then it cuts to her grabbing her giraffe pencil bag thing. On the last episode (I think it was) everyone set him up a birthday party and they put his face on the shirts everyone was wearing at a water park inside a tent and his crush came too. There was also another episode where there was a big test, and on the first time (before the relive) I think he stole the answer sheets and studied it and such and then on the relive he knew all the answers and passed the test i'm sure. If anyone knows this TV show that would be great
openClock open heart surgery Film
Hiya! I'm looking for a traditionally animated movie I saw on TV about fifteen years ago but can't find.
The movie featured animated clocks as the main characters, alongside some humans. The only bit I remember and which has been driving me mad is a scene set at a circus where a clock trapeze artist does a performance but falls to the ground and smashes herself. The clock main character alongside an elderly "watchmaker" type opens her up to try and fix her by putting her back together. One of the main components she has is her "heart cog", a pulsing heart-shaped gear that is swapped out for another.
Unfortunately, searching for it is quite difficult because Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart is dominating the search. Even removing Jack using Boolean isn't helping me find it.
Any aid in finding this movie would be really appreciated.

I know that it was a film, (that may or may not have been animated) where the main character has to find his grandfather, (I don't remember the details clearly) and so he somehow shrinks down using some items and ends up in some land, that may or may not have been life as a microscopic organism underground, finds his grandfather, and turns back into a human, just in time to....I think it was save his grandparents farm from being taken...by the bank? I don't know exactly, I think his escape required a toy car, (I'm probably mistaken about this.)