"do I look gubernatorial?" "you look like a goober" Film

This could have actually been live action TV, but I seem to remember it being part of a comedic movie. A character is running for governor, and as part of the campaign he's riding a tank in a parade with a helmet on. Before he gets into the tank, he turns to wife and his 12-13 year old kid and asks "do I look gubernatorial?", to which the kid snarks "you look like a goober, if that's what you mean...". I feel like this was either from or set in the late 80's, since I now realize the setup to the joke was a reference to the Michael Dukakis tank photograph. Jokes about "gubernatorial" sounding similar to "goober" have apparently been made a lot, but looking that up didn't seem to bring me anything like I'm describing.

Evil swimming pool? Film

My parents were watching an older movie which I’m guessing was based in the 70s or around that time. All I remember was there was a strange hotel swimming pool that bubbled and made smoke and if you jumped into it there was a bolt of lighting and you didn’t come back up. The movie ended with the main characters jumping in and then their faces show up in the sky and they talk and then the credits roll. There may have been some sort of money plot?? Like with big bags of money? I’m clueless

Maybe twin girls separated at birth, dreaming of each other or something more mysterious Film

I am looking for a movie or maybe a tv episode from the Twilight Zone / Outer Limits etc. series, not really sure. It's quite old - I watched 20-30 years ago. I remember a girl and her mother being in the kitchen - the girl was painting a picture of herself with another family. Then she went to bed, and as she woke up, she was with the other family, and this time drawing picture of the first family.

Not sure if it was the same girl being transported somehow to a different location / parallel world, or simply twins, who were separated and having a mental connection. Anyone?

Colour VHS Film

This was some kind of kid's guide to color on VHS. The front cover was yellow with a wizard waving his wand and different colors appearing. The content itself featured a live-action male presenter in a pre-primary classroom I think introducing two children, a boy and a girl, who are drawing squiggles. "What color are they drawing?" he asks. "Black." They also sing oranges and lemons. Bizarre and a fun memory I'd love to track down.

Surreal movie about suburban family inside a human body Film

Well the "inside the human body" is a fan theory.

This is a weird surreal movie mase most likely in the 90s, late 80s the most. Is in a Suburban place with a red sky, people comminicate with vines aa phones and the houses look organic.

The movie recieved terrible critics but it has a cult following. I really dont remember the name.

Movie desert, baby in car, mother tried getting him out (solved!) Film

I cannot remember much of the movie, but I recall a woman probably in her 30s to 40s, probably with blondish hair, who had her son (probably an infant), for some reason I think his name was Adam locked in a car. Her car was one of those more advanced cars. She tried all she could to get him out, but no luck. She was frantic, obviously. I cannot remember how she got him out at the end, but I think a man helped her. She was in a desert if I remember correctly. That is all the information I can provide, because I cannot recall anything else, but if anyone has any ideas. That will truly be appreciated, thank you. The movie was in the 00s or probably more modern.

-Solved- Film

All I remember is that they had to steal te US Independence Declaration because in it there was a clue to the place where the treasure was hidden, and they had to find it before the rival group... Or something along those lines.

SOLVED: Movie from the 80s about a girl being raped and saved by a group of boys Film

First, apologies. The 'subject' of my question is not really a nice one. So sorry for that.

I can remember I saw this movie in the mid to late 80s or early 1990s. I saw this film on TV so the movie was probably at least 3 or more years older already then.

The movie is set during (or just before or after) Helloween. One girl is being raped by a group of 'jocks' (in the US sense of the word).

Her brother (stepbrother?) sees this but cannot help here. He is approached by a black (Afro-American) boy that tells him: I know people who can help here.

Both went to a house where a much older friend (or family member?) of that black boy is living. They disturb this older guy when playing saxophone. First he gets angry. But when he is told what is going on he alarms his friend (gang?) and they 'save' the girl.

EDIT: Added that I saw movie on TV (so not in cinema).

Movie from seventies: in the very last scene the girl is ice skating and being asked out Film

This movie is probably for the seventies or the very early eighties.

As far as I can remember it is basically about a 'good girl' getting 'wrong friends' and haning with the bad guys.

I can remember two scenes:

(1) I guess somewhere halfway the movie (or a littlebit later in the film):

The girl is in a car with here 'bad guys friends'. Maybe there were two or three cars. It is during night. They meet/pursue/confront their 'enemies'. The guys get out of their car. They tell the girl: you stay here. There is a small fight between these two gangs...

(2) The very END of the movie:

The girl has broken with their bad boys friends. She returns to here sports: figure skating. At the end a 'nice guy' is asking here out and she says yes.

(I am not sure she stopped ice skating alltogether because of here 'new friends' but I am pretty sure).

Again: probably 1970s / very early 1980s.

ththth10 really hopes you can help him out :)

Young man with extraordinary powers searches for his mother Film

Hi, I’m looking for an old mystery series. I watched it maybe 20-30 years ago, but missed the ending and I still do not know what was the backstory of the main hero. I would be grateful if anyone who remembers the series shares its title.

Here’s what I remember:

- It was probably a US mini series. - It takes place in the 80s-90s. - The main character is a young man with supernatural abilities. I don’t remember if he could heal other people or if his power was connected to electricity somehow (maybe both). - He was looking for his mother (who disappeared long time ago), and wanted to find out more about his powers. - He was helping many people during the series. - There’s a scene I remember - he was on a roof and repairing an antenna and then some lightnings appeared.

I was little and I probably don’t remember everything correctly, but it was very interesting for me at that time and I still cannot get over missing the ending. So please HELP! (it’s not The Visitor, or the Pretender)

Family rents house in fairy forest [SOLVED] Film

i've been trying to find this film on and off for around ten years and just today i thought to try on tvtropes. sorry if the description is too vague, but i thought it would be worth a try.

i must have seen this movie sometime between 2008 and 2010, but it could have been earlier. i was skipping through channels on a family friend's TV, so i only caught one scene of it. this is what i remember: a family, which as far as i can recall is made up of mom, dad, and at least two kids whose gender i can't remember, drives in a minivan through a forest and across a stone bridge. if i'm remembering it right, the dad has a line of dialogue about how the bridge is called something like "the fairy bridge". the family gets to a house they're renting for the holiday which is kind of a cottage style, and the dad says, kind of jokingly, that the family should say hello to the fairies, or else they might get back at them. the kids and the mom say "hello fairies". that shot is framed through some tree branches, but what is in focus is the house. after the family says that line, the focus changes to the tree branches and it's revealed that a fairy is spying on the family, and then the fairy turns and faces the camera. the fairy's body is grey and it has some darker markings along the legs and arms, and its hair is dark red, and cut in a kind of bob style. if'm recalling correctly its eyes have yellow irises,but they could have also been dark eyes.

i was a kid when i saw this, so the details of it might be a little iffy, but from the set-up of the scene i'm more on the side of this being a movie rather than an episode of a TV show. i do remember that it was live-action, and that the family is white. i'm from latin america, so the scene that i saw was dubbed, but the original language is probably english. the cgi used for the fairy looked kind of convincing to me as a kid, but not as much as some stuff i'd seen in movies, so i'm betting this was either a tv movie or made with a lower budget. it didn't look super dated, and my guess is that it's more or less contemporary to the time that i watched it- made between the mid to late 2000's.

anyway, thanks so much to anyone who's willing to help, hope i didn't hallucinate it. <3

Looking for the origin of this edit Film

The dad (?) : You don’t speak to an adult like that when an adult is speaking you politely listen to them until they’re done, you got that son? Kid : don’t call me son you mother-

The edit : https://youtu.be/7dIwX4rlyu4

80s romance film about an Egyptian (?) princess mummy girl Film

I remember watching this 80s romance film on HBO Family a long time back about a guy who falls in love with a resurrected Egyptian (?) princess. I remember one scene focused on the guy's previous jobs, and one of them was a birthday party organizer (?). One scene had him blowing up balloons a child was holding, causing said child to fly away. Oh, and it had an animated opening sequence set to some pop song. Anybody remember the name?

Sci-fi TV show Film

I think it was about 15 years ago that I saw a movie that might have been a part of a tv show. The episodes were about 1-2 hours long(not sure), in color, they were all about sci-fi themes and had a twilight zone kind of vibe to them (might have actually been twilight zone but which episodes?). I'm almost sure the language was English, at most french (I saw it dubbed). The episodes were not related between them and were meant to be independent stories. I only saw 2 and here is what I remember.

First episode plot: 2-3 students investigate a man(possibly scientist) who is either missing or is a campus urban legend. I remember very clearly a scene when one of them sees a poster of a hummingbird in flight and has an epiphany when he sees that the bird's wings become invisible because they are moving very fast. They figure out that the man they are looking for has somehow(possibly through the use of a potion/serum) entered a plane of reality where everything exists so fast that it becomes invisible. In another scene they are able to briefly experience this effect themselves, I remember how they are walking and everything around them is stopped in time. One of them picks up a ball and throws it and it just froze in the air. By the end they are able to find and see the man they were looking for, he is old with long white hair, the accelerated existence made him live his entire life in a few days and he is near death.

Second Episode: I only saw a bit, it was about a middle aged woman who somehow came into possession of a strange stone, about the size of an ostrich egg, it was suggested that there is something paranormal about this stone. I remember a scene when an acquaintance of this woman (a doctor/chemist/scientist), while visiting her, notices the stone and asks if he can scrape a bit off to take to his lab and investigate it under a microscope.

That's it. Please help me find the name of the show and specifically these episodes or at least the first one.

Basketball Movie Film

Where a guy picks up a basketball and it suddenly grows a face and sneers at him, causing the man to drop the ball in fear.

[SOLVED] Film

An animated children's movie I saw in the 90's. It was about these spiders who wore clothes and went to school and played in a band. The smallest spider was the underdog/hero of the movie and played a piccolo. The others wouldn't let him join the band. The spiders go inside a human home, are spotted, and are captured in a glass jar, except for the smallest. He has to get the others out before they run out of air. Unfortunately, he ends up outside, and has to get back inside the house first. He tries climbing a waterspout, but it's raining and he's washed away. When the rain stops, he tries again and gets to a window, then goes in through a gap in the window. The jar with the other spiders is on that windowsill, along with a bunch of other stuff. Small-spider finds a way to break the jar, by pushing a baseball, which topples a ruler, which hits the windup mechanism on a Godzilla toy, which walks forward and pushes the jar to the edge of the sill, where it's easily toppled. After everyone has gone back to school, they all play a cover of "Itsy Bitsy Spider".

Edit from 9 years later: Solved! It was "The Real Story of Itsy Bitsy Spider" (aka "Spider Junior High"), part of "The Real Story of..." series.

90s Dance VHS for Kids Film

I’m thinking of a VHS tape that was around by the mid-1990s. It taught young children how to dance simple ballet and tap steps. Part of the movie took place on a farm-themed set and part was on a pond or lake set. Thanks!

"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.

Old Animated Easter Movie Film

When I was younger I watched a 2D animated Easter movie about I think a rabbit stuffed animal traveling out of his nursery to find a huge magical egg so he could make an Easter wish to heal the sick kid who owned him. I remember they go to a pet store where they look for eggs and the pet store animals sing about the giant egg going “It’s the humungo jumbo, I say wumbo jumbo, the humungo jumbo egg” and then the egg hatches so they can’t use it. Afterwards they find the egg in the woods and they heal the kid

No Title Film

Hi everyone...I was wondering if anyone knows how these movies are called, I watched them around 2002-2003. The only thing I remember of both films are the following:

1. A film about a children's team of some indoor sport (basketball, hockey, etc.) who were going to play the championship on a large arena. However, the team's captain was jealous because his mother was going to have a new baby. In the day of the championship, the team convinces him to play, while his mother is watching the game from the hospital..she even cheers her son while giving birth at the same time. In a bit of a cliché, the baby is born exactly at the point the game ends and the boy's team wins the championship.

2. This was a drama/mystery movie I think, which I only watched a bit of it while channel surfing, this is what I remember: A thug had kidnapped a pregnant woman and put her in his van, the thug drives to a forest, and then takes out the woman (who has gone into labor) apparently to abandon her in the forest, but then the hero of the story appears and fights with the thug until he is knocked out under a bridge (I think). The hero then goes to the woman and assists her with the birth of a baby girl. I think a later scene showed that the hero and the woman had married and were raising the baby together.

That two scenes have been stuck in my mind since then, I'll really appreciate if anyone knows about these movies, thanks.

Movie I saw on television once about a man sending letters back in time. Film

A really long time ago I saw part of a film on TV about a man in the present day who discovers a secret compartment in an antique desk with a message from a woman in the past. He writes a letter back to her and sends it through the post office and somehow the letter goes back in time to her and the two of them become pen pals sending letters to each other through time. I do not remember if the film explained how this works or why it is happening. One scene I remember in the film is that at some point the post office catches on fire and he goes into the burning building to mail a letter because somehow the letter needs to go through the post office in order to go back in time in order to send her an important message that somebody she knows is going to die soon if she doesn't stop them from doing some thing. I don't think I finished watching the film so I don't remember how it ended.

Movie about giving up the rat race Film

I posted this a while back, but there were no suggestions, so I thought I'd try again. Can anyone remember this?

There was this comedy-drama movie I saw years ago, made in the seventies or eighties I think, about a yuppie who decided to take his family out to a house in the Pacific Northwest and live a survivalist lifestyle there.

I remember there was an teen daughter who got grossed out by Gorp as survival food. That they got strapped for cash and decided to live off the gorp, but they caught one of their more extreme survivalist neighbors trying to steal their gorp. That there was a huge rainstorm and that neighbor's house washed away down the river.

I have no idea what the movie's title was though. Does anyone recognise it?

A show called "the mandoran ape" Film

Okay not an ape in Star Wars armor, the movie was about the titual ape being sought by a team who go to Africa to capture it.

Only It Can Think and said ape makes monkeys out of the heroes.

I don't know if I spelled "the mandoran ape" correctly but is was a movie that aired on ABC back in The '80s - when ABC aired cheezy movies and made for TV movies back then.

Possible Nemo bootleg Film

It wasn't me but a friend who watched it when she was a child.

The only scene she remembers it's where there's a fish that needs a dental work so he goes with his father to an ocean dentist and a bunch of little fishes enter his mouth to clean it. I think it's an animated movie and it's not Shark Tale or Nemo. She thinks it might be a bootleg

Homeless man gets suitcase full of money, and also a slow motion bullet Film

My mum keeps talking in the vaguest details about a film she barely remembers seeing. There are only ever two details she mentions:

1. A homeless man (presumably the protagonist) who by accident gets his hands on a suitcase full of money and spends the film trying to get away with it.

2. A pivotal scene involving a bullet being fired in slow motion. Now, this could be any number of films with bullet time, but my mum puts a lot of emphasis on that scene, like it's the centerpiece of the film or something. Apparently, depending on who that bullet hits, the film would have a very different outcome.

I know these aren't much to go on, but the "bullet film" has become a massive running gag in our family, and we all - including my mum - would love to finally figure out what in the world that film is.