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Hi, I'm looking for the name of a film I watched a few years ago - it's probably early 2000's. Guy (might be a detective I think?) is looking for a missing kid and this very strange woman seems to be covering it up somehow, or saying stuff like "oh you just missed him" but it's always like she may or may not be lying/dillusional. It involves the guy receiving letters from the kid too I think. There's a creepy bit with a kid's bedroom that she says belongs to the kid, but it's really old-fashioned looking. At the end, it's left very ambiguous as to whether the kid is still alive or not, and the woman seems to move on to the next victim. Sorry to be so vague - hope you guys can help!
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I don't know if this was a film or an episode of a TV show. My brother told me about it quite some time ago, but I think it was made some tie before 1982.
The plot: this guy who is a whino somehow finds himself in a wine-tasting competition against some world-renowned tasters. In the end, he loses the competition, not because he gets anything wrong, but because of his form. Rather than sipping the wine, he kind of swills it down.
I doubt anyone will recognize this based on my vague description, but it's worth a shot.
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I don't know if this was a film or an episode of a TV show. My brother told me about it quite some time ago, but I think it was made some tie before 1982.
The plot: this guy who is a whino somehow finds himself in a wine-tasting competition against some world-renowned tasters. In the end, he loses the competition, not because he gets anything wrong, but because of his form. Rather than sipping the wine, he kind of swills it down.
I doubt anyone will recognize this based on my vague description, but it's worth a shot.
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There was an animated short I saw once that came with the DVD for "Robots" by Blue Sky Studios. I can't find it anywhere online because I can't remember the title of it. It was about a robot actress and a robot director who get into a heated argument over the actress's performance for a particular take. I remember the robot director looked like Jack Hammer (the little round mechanic robot from Robots) but with spotlights and other filming tools jutting from his head.
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Can someone please tell me from which film (at least I think it's a film) comes this song heard from the start?
And if it's not asking too much, do you know the song's name? Thanks in advance!
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This one was a black-and-white Sci-Fi movies rom the 50s, made in the US. It was about a creature from space that would run around and kill people. The creature was pretty small, only about two feet long, and was shaped kind of like a lobster's body with a centipede's legs. It had a couple of pincers on it's head. Despite being so small, it killed a lot of people and it was hard to capture/kill. There was one scene where it was loose in a theater and everyone in the audience was yelling and screaming. I think this must have been a fairly popular movie because, at one point, we had a boot puller at home that was made to resemble the creature. Any help is appreciated.
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This was from a movie from the 1970s. I can't remember if it was for adults or kids, but there were people in the movie who could walk through closed doors, but only if the doors weren't locked. This seemed like a kind of useless ability to me. I can't remember if they were never vampires or just had telekinetic powers. One possibility that keeps popping in my head is "Escape from Witch Mountain." Does this sound familiar.
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Ok, so I'm asking this for a friend of mine since they don't have a tv tropes account:
"Okay so I don't remember a lot, but I think the premise of the film was about a schizophrenic dude and he lived in a dark city and I remember a scene where he was in a bar and the bartender was a curvaaaay woman. That's all I remember but I also remember it was cool af and it is destroying me."
She says it's a short film and there was a whole lot of it being reblogged on Tumblr a year or two ago, but she can't look it up on her blog because she's remade hers since then.
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It was a movie we watched in English class in Grade 6 (2000-2001 for me)... it may have been adapted from a book, I don't quite remember.
I'm vague on the details, but I remember the basic premise was a modern-day teenage girl is somehow transported back to an earlier time, though I can't remember if she went back decades or centuries, it may have been as early as when the pioneers were crossing the country, or it could have been as recent as the Depression.
There's two scenes that stick out in my mind because of how amusing they were: the first of which is when the girl was being taught how to milk a cow, and she's really weirded out by the idea to the point that all she really does is carelessly tug on the cow's teets without even really trying to milk it, which apparently bothers the cow. The other scene has her walking the hallways of school in her normal attire, but since this is an earlier time, everybody sees what she's wearing as inappropriate (they think she's walking around in underwear), and her teacher escorts her to the principal's office, accusing her of being a hussy.
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I remember seeing a late 80s or early 90s action sci-fi film on the Sci-Fi channel. It had something to do with a corrupt corporate executive who's company had created food replication, and he wanted to move onto cloning animals right away, but the animals cloned this way were aggressive/evil and died after a short period of time. And then the main character got cloned... somehow... and had to fight his clone. And the stinger at the end was that the clone had cloned himself. That's all I remember. For some reason I want to say that the word "replicate" was somewhere in the title, but I'm not positive. Also, searching for that just brings up Van Damme's movie "Replicant" which is not what I'm looking for, it's far too new and the plot is all wrong.
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A movie where the characters distract an AI by asking it meaning of life...
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Workless example from For Inconvenience, Press "1":
"One Serial Killer movie whose title escapes me had a Title Sequence during which an unseen burglar tries to report a murdered woman in a house he'd broken into. After a comic sequence of him trying to get past this trope, he gives up and calls the operator, offering to pay for his call with some stolen credit cards. The indignant operator decides to connect him to the detective protagonist instead."
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OK, this one's been bugging me for decades.
It's a live-action film, probably American. I don't know whether it was released in cinemas or made for TV. I'm not even sure whether it was in colour or black and white, but I think it was in colour. I saw it on British TV in the mid to late 70s.
I remember a bit near the beginning where the main character, a young woman, was messing around with her friends in the back of an 1920-30s era open top car. She and her friends were in the clothes of that era - this portion of the film would have been set around that time.
I think the main plot was a proposition the heroine is given to go into suspended animation to be the bride of a child heir when he grows up. I think she may have been offered a large sum of money to do this which would get her family out of serious financial dire straits (this may have been something to do with the The Great Depression). I can't remember whether she actually goes through with it. I've checked the Human Popsicle page and nothing matches.
I have a feeling that the film was a romantic comedy and actually quite light-hearted in tone. Perhaps something like the 60s-70s live-action Disney comedies or a Doris Day romantic comedy (though I've checked both of these and not come up with anything). It's the kind of thing that may have been shown as a BBC 2 afternoon matinee. I was very young at the time and my parents were quite strict about my viewing, so it wouldn't have been anything not considered suitable for family viewing at the time (any 70s era Values Dissonance aside).
Of course this was a very long time ago, so my memories are vague and there may be things I've misremembered.
This has been at the back of my mind for years. Anyone who can solve this will have my eternal gratitude.
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Anybody know a movie which involves a character named Vivian (I think...) who falls in love with a rich widow who has several daughters? I thought at first it was an Olsen twins film but I couldn't find anything about it. There's a lady who wants to marry the dad or something like that. And there's also a stolen camera involved.
The song "Pretty Woman" plays at one point in the movie, but it's not that "Pretty Woman" film...
Can't remember the year, although I'd like to guess early 2000's.
Rings a bell, by any chance?
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All I remember about the movie (or maybe it was a made-for-TV movie?) was this: there was a really rich family. The son was a slacker and the parents were worried that their son wouldn't ever have any direction because they had money. So the dad, without telling anyone, gave away all their money and had them move to a one-bedroom apartment so their son would have to work. It ends with the son coming up with the idea to film the scenery during a bike ride so that people riding exercise bikes can feel like they're actually biking.
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An old movie I watched as a kid, maybe from the 80's or early 90's. I don't remember much about it except for oddly specific scenes, like the beginning when the main boy character is hiding in a tree from his mom and telling his dog not to tell her where he is. He's hiding because he and his sister are going somewhere (a farm?) for a while and he doesn't want to go. Then there is another scene where they're riding on a boat through a giant white space (inside a palace?) and there are lots of people on rocks looking down at them as they pass. Then there's some sort of animal later who almost gets hit by a car because he thinks the headlights are his food source. Also, there may or may not be magic dust of some kind.

It was a movie, that I remember somewhat well, but I always forget the name. It was about some guys who could go into others dreams and get info that is stored in the subconscious. Also they could change their surroundings, but that makes the people in the dreams try to kill them and it makes them wake up. They had to go into like a dream of a dream of a dream, and the thing that puts them under was so strong that if they died in one of the dreams they get stuck in limbo.