There may be some movie you saw at such a young age, or else are unable to remember its name, but you really liked and would like to know its title. Just try to give as much info on it as you can and maybe we can figure out what it must have been. Or at least make some decent guesses.
When did it come out?
Who was in it?
What plot if any do you remember?
What was special to you about it?
Oh good! I’ve done this one before, but I can’t recall the answer. Since it’s already been answered, uh, somewhere, I felt too guilty to start a new thread to ask again. But since you left this here door wide open:
We watched it more than once in Junior High and High School, which puts it’s existence in the late 80’s, early 90’s. But it felt “old” at the time. It was in color. There was sound, but not a lot of dialogue. Based on a short story or novella by, I think, maybe, Heinlein?
The setting was Venus (and someone already hit Reply, I’m sure, but I’ll continue for those not so quick on the buzzer) and the planet was always rainy, day in and day out. The story involved a group of schoolchildren. The children wore eye covers and stood in front of bright lamps to simulate sunlight - a visual I found very creepy at the time, and that has stuck with me. One of them was not from Venus, but from some planet where it didn’t rain all the time (Earth, probably) and he was the only one who had ever seen the sun, and he missed it terribly. There’s some break in the sun predicted - something that only happens once every X years, with X being a number longer than an average lifespan. The day it comes, however, the other kids lock the (Earth?) kid up in an interior room or closet, so he misses the break in the rain with a view of his beloved sun. And that’s it. It rains again and they let him out. No one, that I recall, suffers any sort of punishment for their cruelty or learns any sort of lesson about it.
It was depressing as hell, and to this day I’m not sure why they made us watch it. It’s literature, I suppose, but what I took away from it was mostly that kids are dicks, which I admit only reinforced my Junior High reality.
When did it come out? Don’t know.
Who was in it? Don’t know.
What plot if any do you remember? A plane crashed into an island with a family on it and they converted it into a boat to get off the island.
What was special to you about it? I don’t know.
Any other clues you can think of? I believe it was a TV movie.
Sounds like All Summer In A Day by Bradbury, which Wiki sez PBS adapted for TV.
For my part, I remember one with – let’s say A Little Person, who’s a hunter or something from another planet or dimension or whatever, in maybe a spacesuit and gunning for the extraterrestrial creature menacing us puny earthlings (where, again, the idea is that we tower over our would-be savior).
Whynot, I’ve never seen the Movie (I didn’t even know it was one) but I remember reading the story in class. 6th grade I believe which would put it around 1990.
That sounds correct. I remember seeing this on TV. If I remember correctly, one or two of the kids are locked up during the time the sun briefly shines and only see a sliver of it.
I had a movie that I’d been trying to figure out for years, finally came up with the answer this morning.
Saw it in school in the early 90’s, but it was older then that. Girl jumps off a pier, breaks her neck and ends up paralyzed. Other then that, the two things I remember are a mean nurse at the beginning who would flip her bed really fast (so she wouldn’t get bed sores) and the bed would make this awful ratcheting sound and a (nice) doctor later on that chiseled away part of her hip bone that was bothering her without anesthetics since she had no feeling there.
I figured out it was Joni, in the trailer, you can see the bed I was talking about
As for why I watched it in school, it must have been in religion class since, from what I can tell from one of the reviews of the movie and skipping around in an interview with the IRL Joni she went through a loss of faith and then came back around to God. So the movie must have been more about that then the accident and subsequent rehab.
That sounds a little like Family Flight, which was an ABC Movie of the Week, made in 1972. The only difference is that in FF, the plane crashes in the Mexican desert, not an island.
Wikipedia has a list of ABC Movies of the Week. Maybe something there might sound familiar.
I only saw the beginning of this scary movie on TV in the mid-1980s. At the beginning, a woman is looking out her apartment window and is horrified to see a tall, balding man leaning out another window across the courtyard, aiming a rifle at someone down below. A few scenes later she gets stalked or something by the killer in the apartment building’s laundry room in the basement.
I remember *All Summer In A Day *being on television a lot in the early/mid 80s. My mother and I watched it together more than once.
I have one: I saw it on television in the mid 1980s. It was color and live action. It was about a little boy alone in the rainforest. In one scene, he toboggans downhill on a banana leaf. I don’t remember any dialogue at all, just watching the little boy alone in the jungle. Because Disney’s The Jungle Book had been in theaters recently (1984), I was really into it.
The twist is that the time I saw part of it on TV, I had to go to bed before it was over. The next time my parents and I went to a video rental store I insisted that I was going to find that movie. My parents told me I probably wouldn’t… but by golly, I did. I got to see the WHOLE leaf tobogganing scene!
A tiny bit of research makes me think that the movie was The Emerald Forest. In my memory the little boy was indigenous and wearing a red breechcloth, but that’s * The Jungle Book *influencing me.
I watched that a lot growing up (I was born in '80). I remember it being a pretty good movie. Howie Mandel was the “main” monster and IIRC it was our introduction to Fred Savages brother Ben who was also in the movie.
When did it come out? Don’t know, probably 70s. It was in color. Who was in it? Don’t know. What plot if any do you remember? A family being terrorized by a man. In one scene the man is eating corn chips out of a bag and the father punches him. The man gets up, laughing and walks off still laughing.
Another scene has the father fighting with the old man near water. The father holds the man under the water, strangling him until he stops breathing. The father looks away, then back towards the man and he is gone.
Another scene I believe from the same movie the mother receives an arm with a ring from their sons college. The father is able to convince the mother that it can’t be the sons’s for some reason.
What was special to you about it? For some reason, this movie just stands out in my mind and it seems like it would be fun to see again.
**Any other clues you can think of? ** It may have been a TV movie, but I can’t be sure.
I think I’ve very possibly mixed up a couple of the details by now, but mine is a western that I remember seeing at a drive in. I think it was 1962 or so.
The memory that sticks out is the young boy in the movie. He was a pretty central character, but that’s all I recall. I developed a huge crush on him. He was dark haired and probably had olive toned skin. I was about six years old and thought he was beautiful.
I keep thinking he played the part of Hadji in the jonny quest show, but can’t find anything that isn’t animated, so I have no idea what the movie actually was.
I’ve seen this film! It made me afraid of active propellers ever since. Poor Rod Taylor.
Here are two comedies that came out that had tiny flying saucers. Batteries Not Included, and Spaced Invaders. I don’t know if either of them had deaths, though.
How about a TV show? It would have been on in the 80’s. It featured a (homemade?) robot that, IIRC, had a good deal of AI. I specifically remember that it had a VHS tape for a head (or at least part of it’s head).
For the record, I’m not thinking of Short Circuit. Though the TV show was out at about the same time so I wouldn’t be surprised if they did that on purpose. Also, this was a kids show, probably aimed at 8-10 year olds or so.
Most of it took place in the lead character’s basement. I don’t recall if the mom knew about the robot or if he kept it hidden.
