Guess the movie from the plot outline

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OK, we’ve had: guess the movie from…

  • Opening line
  • Closing line
  • Line in the middle
  • Scene description

How about guessing the movie from the plot outline? Kind of like condensing the entire movie into one sentence.

For example:

“White guy and a black guy wrongly jailed for bank robbery, escape using an elaborate plan involving a rodeo, only to be proven innocent.”

Answer: Stir Crazy.

I start with:

S1: “Cop flies to Los Angeles, spends a lot of time barefoot, wishes a German guy Happy Trails.”

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Die Hard

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“Three guys start small business, advertise on TV, hire some help.”

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Oooh! Oooh! I got one…

Boy meets girl, boy gets girl briefly, boy loses girl because boy is “deep” and “complicated”, boy overcomes some type of personal obstacle and/or saves day, boy gets girl back, and all live happily ever after!

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SmackFu: GhostBusters!

Felon instigates mass treasure hunt.

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Ghostbusters

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It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

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It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World. Im not sure of the amount of mads.

A kid dreams of being brilliant, befriends a tycoon, dances at opening night of a play.

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A man tries to encourage his parents to have sex by a plan to stage his own attempted rape of his mother.

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We did this already a while back. Anyway I’ll post the same clue I did back then:

A man dresses as a clown and amuses his lover’s husband.

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Billy Elliot

Mine:

A high school boy with mental problems narrowly escapes death while sleepwalking and talking to a giant psycho bunny, and later discovers time travel.

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With the help of a gourmet cook, a woman looks for a clothing manufacturer.

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A woman commits suicide following an unwanted pregnancy.

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Impending natural disaster demolishes expensive-looking sets, is averted just in time.

Heh heh heh…

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giant psycho bunny
Donnie Darko

An elderly aristocrat becomes obsessed with the fiancee of the real estate agent negotiating his house purchase.

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robert: Dante’s Peak?

S2: “Cop is assigned to protect a witness, witness gets shot, cop tracks down bad guys, fireball at gas station, cop solves case.”

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NOPE. Guess again.

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  1. Two soda jerks plan to write a radio script, and wind up nabbing a man who murdered the radio network chief.
  2. A middle-aged real-estate man resolves to get the Washington Senators to win the pennant even if he has to sell his soul to the Devil to do it.
  3. A band of ridiculous musicians, working at a fire station, hires a goofy inventor whose product actually works.
  4. Three disreputable theatrical people, aided by a playwright, hoodwink a hotel executive so they can put their play on.
  5. An unsuspecting family buys a house without knowledge of the bizarre entities that lurk in it. (extra hint: a William Castle movie.)
  6. One stubborn juror in a murder case carefully endeavors to persuade his colleagues to switch over to his position.
  7. Prisoners of war locate a traitor among them by tripping him up in his knowledge–or rather lack of it–about time-zone differences.
  8. A young London landowner makes a bet with a “gentleman” who is really a high-toned con artist. The young man travels with a domineering butler, a bumbling cook, and a usually-clueless chauffeur in order to win–and finds romance on the way.
  9. A hard-boiled police sergeant and his partner get the goods on a local syndicate member who had a subordinate, who wasn’t reporting his collections, killed with a shotgun.
  10. A peanut vendor working for a baseball team that almost never wins games, secretly manages the team to success with his little boy as the ostensible “manager.”
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Rushmore – ?

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dougie_monty’s posts (some of them).

  1. One stubborn juror in a murder case carefully endeavors to persuade his colleagues to switch over to his position.
    Twelve Angry Men

  2. Prisoners of war locate a traitor among them by tripping him up in his knowledge–or rather lack of it–about time-zone differences.
    Stalag 17

  3. A young London landowner makes a bet with a “gentleman” who is really a high-toned con artist. The young man travels with a domineering butler, a bumbling cook, and a usually-clueless chauffeur in order to win–and finds romance on the way.
    Around the World in Eighty Days – ?