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An animated film, about a young elephant who waits for an adventure to come to him in the mailbox, but finally decides to go out and find one for himself. Then he meets a scarecrow and a pig with wings. They come to this forest that says "no singing" "no whistling" "no dancing." The elephant does all of that and ends up sucked into some underground dungeon. There's also a whale that's a submarine. And pirate, I think. This film was Better Than It Sounds.
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80's movie that featured a group of humanoid alien refugees (that looked like glam rockers) hiding in a house that belonged to a woman and her teenage daughter. I believe they were hiding from a bounty hunter, and there might have been an interspecies romance between the girl and one of the aliens. Not sure if it was a TV movie or not.
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I remember seeing this movie on TV a few times when I was younger (in Australia, but i don't think it was made here), and it had this thing going on about tupperware (obviously it wasn't actually called tupperware in the movie) and it kept food fresh forever, and then the ladies that sell it never got older, and it was because they slept in giant tupperware containers. I'm almost certain this was a movie, but there's a slight chance it was just a segment in a show like goosebumps.
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Hey... I remember a live-action children's movie, don't remember what it was called (pretty sure "Legend of [something]"), don't remember much of the plot, but there are a few things I remember vividly:
- Set in Alaska, or maybe Canada.
- A little boy who plays too many video games (Pac-Man Fever, but I think era-appropriate, although got jarring before I outgrew the movie), the mother saying "he's going to grow up with that thing glued to his hand."
- In one scene, his mother turns it off and he protests that he "almost made it to level ten!" Followed by this exchange, or one just a few words off:
"What about equal rights for kids?""What about equal rights for mothers?""And grandfathers!""Grandfathers can get away with murder.""Well, I certainly hope so."
- Watching Fargo as an adult, the mother, boy, and grandfather seemed very similar...
- A Magical Native American named Ray who constantly uses You Are the Translated Foreign Word.
- The bad guys frame the Magical Native American for poaching, and the boy pawns a Gameboy for $50 and several games to make the $100 bail. (I very clearly remember the phrases "got any games?" and "we're here to bail Ray out.")
- Something about a magic drum that broke once it had served its purpose; pretty sure Ray presented it with a "You Will Know What to Do," possibly in his people's language.
- Gets kind of trippy at the end, although having seen it through a child's eyes, I'm not sure if it was meant as a metaphor, Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane, or if the villains were actually wizards in plain sight. I vaguely recall a cave.
Might have been a TV movie, but if it was, we taped it.
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I've got three that cross my mind from time to time, pretty sure they are all movies:
1. A movie about ants that build these pillars or towers; possibly Phase IV; I'll check that out when I get a chance.
2. A movie about an evil kid who manages to fool almost everyone, but the one person he can't fool he kills in the end by burning a building (a barn?) down on him. No, not "The Good Son"; this was definitely earlier than that, it had a "filmed in the 70s" feel.
3. A horror movie about a family in the countryside that gets infected (possibly by something in the water?). The kids manage to stay uninfected, but some visitors show up and get eaten. I specifically remember one scene where the man from a couple manages to escape to the shed, lights a match to look around, it burns down to his fingers, he lights another one and an infected woman is standing behind him.
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So, my friend told me about this movie she watched once: some guy and a teenager capture a feral falcon and attempt to tame it. The teenager drowns in a bathtub, and the guy refuses to let the falcon go until he's tamed it. Oh, and apparently the ending is sad and confusing.
Ringing any bells?
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This one's driving me crazy, thought sure I've got it on DVD somewhere here ... Basic story involves an previously uninvolved housewife who became involved in the black civil rights movement by offering rides to her black maid (and then others) who were participating in the boycott of Birmingham Ala. city buses during the early desegregation days. Please and thanks. (edit) I'm fairly certain the title included something along the lines of "long walk", if that helps any.
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One disjointed plot, but probably two separate movies. Full colour, probably mid to late 90s era.
A woman moves into a new apartment in a relatively up market area of a city. As a housewarming gift, she's given a telescope which she uses to spy on people from her window. The landlord of the place spies on his tenants using cameras. The woman's in a lift one day with the landlord and a young girl and her mother. The young girl mentions that her father beats her but her mother tells her to ignore her. The landlord mentions that it's true and reveals his video setup behind a secret door. The woman locks him out, and then I forget how it ends.
Where it gets disjointed though is, I can't remember if she had a boyfriend or not at the start. In this possible second film/ending to the first, she has a boyfriend who's killed by the landlord while she's out jogging. She thinks he's left her and looks around for him, and enters a duct/attic by removing the screws on a worn brass plate. She enters an abandoned side of the building where a deformed person who attacks her. Can't remember how that ended either....
Sketchy details, I know. Any help would be much appreciated.
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All I remember is that there is some information given to the male-protagonist that if immigrants were to make it onto dry land from the ocean, or at least a certain part of their leg/feet be above water, they would be able to seek asylum, but if they were caught out on sea, they were sent back home, I'm guessing Cuba, since my googling only gave me Cuban-themed films/shows. At one particular scene, not sure if the end, the protagonist is held back by armed officers and has to watch as various immigrants try to make it to shore but are arrested with their legs still in the water, not on land, indicating that they would be deported back home.
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I remembered watching an adaptation of Goldilocks and the Three Bears when I was a kid. There's this one scene that freaked me out, where a man dressed in army type of suit and Goldilocks drops a beehive onto his head and he was running all over the place with his head in it.
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1) A live action comedy about cavemen that looked to be from the 60's or 70's. I'm pretty sure it's not Caveman (which made me remember the other film when I watched some of it), because it looked older than that and actually had the cavemen speaking in proper (if badly dubbed) English - come to think of it, it could have even been a Gag Dub. The only scene I remember is one where a pair of cavemen are fighting, a third one accidentally gets hit in the process, and he joins in while scolding the other two because "Violence only begets more violence!"
2) No one will find it from this one detail alone, but it's worth a shot anyway: It's live action film, it's set in a desert (or at least the relevant scene is), and a middle-eastern accented man cheerfully responds to a question with "That would be the goat's blood!". "That would be the goat's blood" became a minor in-joke among my friends for a while, even though we originally heard the line said while flipping through channels and had no idea what the context was.
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Okay, so this is super, SUPER obscure and vague, but I'm gonna see if you can help me find this.
I never saw the movie. Heck, I only remember seeing the cover of the movie, kinda.
But I remember it being a westernish medieval fantasy in a fictional setting(I.E. Not Europe) with a bar across the center of the cover with an image of a knight looking whistfully, with the name of the film above it, similar to the cover of Carl Sagan's Cosmos.
I saw this in a Hollywood Video... in Fall 2003.
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Back when the first Harry Potter movie came out, my Mom told me that it seemed to be a remake of something older.
She says that she watched the movie quite some time ago on TV, and that the protagonist was also a wizard, also had a weird scar, but was in his late teens/early twenties. There was also a Wise Mentor Figure resembling Dumbledore, and there was also an Evil Wizard trying to kill the protagonist like Voldemort was.
Her memory of this has faded away with time, and she's been unable to tell me when exactly she watched it, but when she first told me about this she was very sure about having seen it.
Anyone's heard of such a film? It's been bugging me for years.
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I'm looking for a movie (I think—might have been a tv show, I guess. Definitely live-action.), probably from the early to mid 1990s. For some reason, in my head I always thought it was part of Child's Play, but now I know it's a different film. It might have been out around the same time, though. I remember a man waking up in the hospital, covered up in bandages like a mummy, but his eyes and mouth were exposed. I think he reached for a picture of his family on the desk next to the bed and started screaming when he realized he was injured. I remember him running and I think he was swinging on a rope or something, towards the camera, as the building/hospital blew up behind him. I'm pretty sure it is not the film Darkman (Sam Raimi and Liam Neeson). Definitely not any of the Batman films either.
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There is this movie where a girl adopts a Sweet Polly Oliver act so she could pretend to be her brother at a college so she could be a soccer player and he could play an instrument.
I think it is a comedy, and the movie is PG-13.
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This query may be a little odd, but it's something that has been bugging me for quite a while as I was fairly young when I saw it, probably too young as a matter of fact. To begin, I'm pretty sure it is a period piece of some kind, Victorian or Edwardian Era, possibly English. I only remember two scenes and they are both a tad risque, and from what I can remember not entirely crucial to the plot.
- A woman is sent to a doctor by her husband because she is being difficult. After getting situated on the doctor's exam table, Doc starts to get...ahem... busy a bit south of the border. She attains hysterical paroxysm, and is although embarrassed and not entirely sure what happened, reschedules for another appointment.
- The woman's husband is boating out in a park, possibly with a friend, after hearing rumors that this doctor is banging his wife. He witnesses this...uh...coupling in the park hidden in some trees. There is another man and woman similarly engaged close by, a friend of the woman and the doctor's assistant.
Any help would be much obliged. Just so I can get these stupid images out of my head. I really hope I'm not crazy.