Four examples…
The most famous, 1921’s Charlie Chaplin movie (featuring Jackie ‘Uncle Fester’ Coogan as the title kid).
A 1997 made in Canada movie about a boxer.
A 2000 Bruce Willis crapfest.
A very vulgar 2001 animated flick with an all-star cast and created by Gahan Wilson. (Advertised by TMN as the Willis movie a few times… I wonder how many people got a nasty surprise…)
Waking the Dead, a 2000 US movie starring Billy Crudup and Jennifer Connelly, about a guy haunted by visions of his past love. Or something: I’ve never seen it.
Waking the Dead, a 2000-2008+ UK crime drama on TV starring Trevor Eve and Sue Johnston, focusing on a cold case police squad. I have seen this one (and think it’s great).
Hero – Dustin Hoffman, Geena Davis, and Andy Garcia in a film about a man who becomes a media hero after a plane crash. Hero – A Jet Li martial arts film.
The IMDB lists several others with that name.
Bon Voyage! – a Fred McMurray comedy. Bon Voyage – A thriller about a scientist trying to escape Vichy France before the Nazis find him and his knowledge of heavy water. Bon Voyage – a TV miniseries thriller. Bon Voyage – a wartime semi-propaganda short film by Alfred Hitchcock. Bon Voyage – a TV adaptation of a Noel Coward play.
Additional films listed in the IMDB.
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Also in the early '80s, there was a television program called ER starring Elliot Gould. It was a comedy not unlike Night Court taking place in an Emergency Room. Other than the name and taking place in an emergency room, there was no similarity.
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No similarity other than George Clooney being on both shows.
Chocolat (1988), a rich, dark, bittersweet confection directed by Claire Denis and based on her childhood in colonial French Cameroon, a few years prior to independence.
Chocolat (2000), a sweet (but at times cloyingly so) treat with a by-the-numbers plot, starring Juliette Binoche and with Johnny Depp in a small but heavily-advertised role.
Ironically, before there was a popular reality show called Survivor (from the same producer who made The Amazing Race), there was a science fiction series called Survivors.
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Before today’s Lost, there was a short-lived reality series of the same name. Premiered just before 9/11, and The Amazing Race ate its lunch.
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Which is too bad, because from what little I know of both, Lost seemed better. The Amazing Race seems more geared towards “gimmicky challenges”, whereas Lost seemed more like a “you are dropped off in the middle of nowhere, have fun getting back” type of scenario.
Wikipedia seems to back me up:
Seriously, how fucking cool would that be? You have no idea where the fuck you are, other than “a desert,” and you have to find your way back to the US/UK.
Also in the early '80s, there was a television program called ER starring Elliot Gould. It was a comedy not unlike Night Court taking place in an Emergency Room. Other than the name and taking place in an emergency room, there was no similarity.
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Technically, it was called E/R. At least that’s how it was shown on the title screen (I was watching some episodes a month or so ago). Not only was George Clooney in both E/R and ER, but I also found it an amusing coincidence that Jason Alexander was a major supporting character in E/R, whose lead character was named Sheinfeld.
edit: I see I’ve been beaten to my first point by Annie X-Mas.