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In reply to the discussion: Summarize a book or movie in one sentence, then let us guess it [View all]
Initech
(108,812 posts)331. Yeah.....
I'm gonna have to ask you to go ahead and come in on Saturday, Sunday too. We lost some people over the weekend and we need to play catch up. Sp if you could get here around 9:00, that'd be great.
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one of my very favorite movies - superb music, minimal dialog. brilliant moments of comedy
NRaleighLiberal
Oct 2014
#13
A mis-treated adopted, boy, his friends, and his school are terrorized by an evil force
Yavin4
Oct 2014
#24
A huge, soulless corporation seeks to buy a quaint picturesque village for industrial purposes.
Aristus
Oct 2014
#31
A story about 3 generations of a family in Florida from frontier to modern life. nt
ohnoyoudidnt
Oct 2014
#36
Explosion, Hot barely dressed woman, Explosion, Very Big Explosion with Aliens and more
dr.strangelove
Oct 2014
#44
His brother was executed for falsely being acccused of stealing his own cow during the Civil War. nt
ohnoyoudidnt
Oct 2014
#45
a supernatural being descends from the heavens, gathers a band of followers, heals with a touch,
KurtNYC
Oct 2014
#48
A Lithuanian immigrant moves to America and gets a job in the Chicago meat packing industry. nt
ohnoyoudidnt
Oct 2014
#53
Book: Paris gendarme stumped by the murder of two women in a locked sealed room...
Chan790
Oct 2014
#62
Incompetent loser blows up a movie set too early, irate producer invites him over by mistake
DFW
Oct 2014
#72
They seek him here, they seek him there, those Frenchies seek him everywhere...
distantearlywarning
Oct 2014
#90
But it has the funniest nicknames (and I dare you to watch without laughing)
sakabatou
Oct 2014
#269
Movie: Robots get really bored with watching a car travel during the opening scene.
sakabatou
Oct 2014
#95
Book: An orphan returns home, gets rich, starts a new religion, then gets eaten by his friends.
baldguy
Oct 2014
#109
Movie: A federal agent in Chicago hampers the work of an enterprising American job creator
petronius
Oct 2014
#116
Three (actually 4) French guys, brandishing swords, kill a bunch of people.
Art_from_Ark
Oct 2014
#133
Here's a short clip. But it does show the film title. Don't read if Ya still want to guess
Paulie
Oct 2014
#328
man in white suit defends justice even when all around him thinks a kid is a thug.
Paulie
Oct 2014
#149
Movie: Morgan freeman is God. Then he makes someone else God, until that person is overwhelmed.
UrbScotty
Oct 2014
#163
Genetic superman in future Utopia refuses to marry until he finds the meaning of life
First Speaker
Oct 2014
#180
There's two that immediately come to mind...both based off stories by Stephen King.
Chan790
Oct 2014
#211
Short novel: The funeral of a man killed in a car crash as perceived by his young son
Lydia Leftcoast
Oct 2014
#215
Musical comedy film about the struggle for succession to the throne in medieval England
pinboy3niner
Oct 2014
#238
I remembered a movie like this and thought Donald O'Connor, but it was Danny Kaye.
betsuni
Oct 2014
#246
A nobody becomes top dog in an extreme war environment until it all comes crashing down
pinboy3niner
Oct 2014
#248
Movie moral: When drag racing do not wear loose sleeves that might catch on door handle
pinboy3niner
Oct 2014
#252
Humpty Dumpty was murderd after being used for genetic-engineering experiments.
krispos42
Oct 2014
#283
“Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up
SteveG
Oct 2014
#296
A hit man holds a cab driver hostage while killing people in various parts of Los Angeles.
Initech
Oct 2014
#309
James Bond travels to exotic locales in search of a computer disk that could start WWIII.
Initech
Oct 2014
#310
Disgruntled employee burns down building after getting fired and being denied a piece of cake.
Initech
Oct 2014
#312
Top secret government agency assembles six super heros to stop New York City from being destroyed.
Initech
Oct 2014
#313
A group of actors filming a Vietnam war movie get roped into a real Vietnam war.
Initech
Oct 2014
#314
London's top police officer is transferred to a small town where he unlocks a death-filled mystery.
Initech
Oct 2014
#315
A billionaire heir is held hostage in the middle east, comes back and builds a suit of armor.
Initech
Oct 2014
#317
A boxer takes a fall and makes off with the cash, ending up in a pawnshop basement of horrors n/t
Duer 157099
Oct 2014
#319
Two men wanted for murder in Alabama reach out to their sleazy New Jersey based lawyer cousin.
Initech
Oct 2014
#330
A young Indian boy and a man eating tiger are the sole survivors of a deadly ship crash.
Initech
Oct 2014
#332
An astronaut narrowly escapes death 15 times before heading her way back to earth.
Initech
Oct 2014
#333
A reporter and a hacker team up to solve an infamous unsolvable murder/kidnapping case.
Initech
Oct 2014
#337
A baseball manager and his assistant come up with a new formula to win games and it works.
Initech
Oct 2014
#338
A musical playwright and his accountant set out to make the world's worst musical and succeed.
Initech
Oct 2014
#339