Different movies and TV programs with the same names

Nitpick: there’s ample room for confusion arising from a difference of one r without introducing two more. The Aristocrats v. The Aristocats.

There’s a whole slew of movies called The Kid…

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. :stuck_out_tongue:

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).

The General – a Buster Keaton comedy
The General – the story of a Dublin crime boss.
The title was also used on some obscure films.

The Inspector General – a Danny Kaye Comedy
The Inspector General – US Title of a couple of movies based on the Nicholai Gogol play.

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.

1966 brought Jack Palance and Lee Marvin to the big screen in The Professionals.

Meanwhile, 1977 brought big hair and tight trousers to British TVs in The Professionals.

No similarity other than George Clooney being on both shows. :stuck_out_tongue:

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.

Employee of the Month - a 2004 workplace comedy that starred Matt Dillon, Steve Zahn, and Christina Applegate.

Employee of the Month - a 2006 workplace comedy that starred Dane Cook, Jessica Simpson, and Dax Shepard.

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.

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.

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.

Ahem. Post #2.