# ID the incest movie (take 2006)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-incest-movie-take-2006/352567
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [April 13, 2006, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-incest-movie-take-2006/352567 "2006-04-13T20:33:44Z")
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### Author:  [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-incest-movie-take-2006/352567/1 "2006-04-13T20:33:44Z")
A while back I asked if anyone could ID a movie for me.
No one could, but it’s been a while now and we have new dopers so I’ll try again.
The movie is about a young woman who falls in love with her long lost brother.
Supposedly based on a real story; ended with them being prosecuted but exhonerated when they agreed to not have children.
It was a British movie circa late 80’s, possibly early 90’s.
It may have been a made-for-TV movie.
It was not “Close My Eyes”.
So…?
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-incest-movie-take-2006/352567/2 "2006-04-13T20:42:31Z")
[The Reincarnation of Peter Proud?](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073615/plotsummary)
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### Author:  [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-incest-movie-take-2006/352567/3 "2006-04-13T20:44:38Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#):
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> [The Reincarnation of Peter Proud?](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073615/plotsummary)
A British movie.
Peter Proud is about reincarnation, not the real bro/sis deal.
You’re not going to find this via Google or any other research.
I’ve tried countless times.
Someone out there has to have seen it in order to know the title.
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-incest-movie-take-2006/352567/4 "2006-04-13T20:50:51Z")
[Angels & Insects](http://imdb.com/title/tt0112365/) ? (I know the title said incest, but the title of the movie is a pun.)
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### Author:  [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-incest-movie-take-2006/352567/5 "2006-04-13T20:53:31Z")
No, the movie I’m seeking was set in modern times (80’s).
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### Author:  [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-incest-movie-take-2006/352567/6 "2006-04-13T21:25:25Z")
[http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0106535/](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0106535/) - The Cement Garden, maybe? Playing around with advanced search on IMDB…
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### Author:  [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-incest-movie-take-2006/352567/7 "2006-04-13T21:59:49Z")
No, not the Cement Garden.
Please, please heed my advice, you will not find it via Google or using IMDB.
I have tried this time and time again.
I wasn’t going to give my full synopsis, but now I will since it may help “researchers”.
A guy comes home for his father’s funeral after being away for 20 odd years, with no family contact.
He discovers that his mother was actually pregnant when he left home and had a daughter - a younger sister he never knew existed.
They seem to have a mutual attraction.
They start “seeing” each other, and one rainy night they give into their passions.
They fall in love.
They move in together, but neighbors seem to find out that they’re related.
Graffiti is sprayed on their door saying something like “Perverts live here”.
They are finally arrested and put on trial for incest. They get a sympathetic judge who decides that:
1). although they are brother and sister, they were not raised as such
2). the “original” taboo against incest was more or less to prevent “monstrocities” from being born
3). the two in question vow to not have children.
It had the feel of one of those A&E artsy films. Indeed, I think I saw it on that channel or Bravo, back when they showed “daring” material.
All the actors were British; this was for us an “import”.
The channel that aired it must have been on a titillation jag, because the following week they showed a movie dealing with young lesbians.
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-incest-movie-take-2006/352567/8 "2006-04-13T23:38:55Z")
> [@BwanaBob](#):
>
> A guy comes home for his father’s funeral after being away for 20 odd years, with no family contact.
> He discovers that his mother was actually pregnant when he left home and had a daughter - a younger sister he never knew existed.
>
> They seem to have a mutual attraction.
>
> They start “seeing” each other, and one rainy night they give into their passions.
> They fall in love.
>
> They move in together, but neighbors seem to find out that they’re related.
> Graffiti is sprayed on their door saying something like “Perverts live here”.
>
> They are finally arrested and put on trial for incest. They get a sympathetic judge who decides that:
>
> 1). although they are brother and sister, they were not raised as such
> 2). the “original” taboo against incest was more or less to prevent “monstrocities” from being born
> 3). the two in question vow to not have children.
That sounds a lot like _Police Academy: Moscow_.
Is the movie set in modern times (for when it was filmed) or is it a period piece?
Is it
[Close My Eyes](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101595/)
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### Author:  [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-incest-movie-take-2006/352567/9 "2006-04-13T23:59:05Z")
> [@Sampiro](#):
>
> Is it
> [Close My Eyes](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101595/)
Dude.
Just…
Dude.
:smack: :dubious:
-FrL-
(Reread the OP… it’ll come to you… 😉 )
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### Author:  [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2006, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-incest-movie-take-2006/352567/10 "2006-04-14T00:31:10Z")
> [@Sampiro](#):
>
> That sounds a lot like _Police Academy: Moscow_.
>
> Is the movie set in modern times (for when it was filmed) or is it a period piece?
>
> Is it
> [Close My Eyes](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101595/)
You gotta be jerkin’ my chain right?
How could you possibly think this plot sounds like a Police Academy comedy?
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2006, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-incest-movie-take-2006/352567/11 "2006-04-14T00:39:32Z")
I seriously doubt this is any help, but I recall reading about the real-life incident in Esquire magazine years ago.
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### Author:  [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2006, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-incest-movie-take-2006/352567/12 "2006-04-14T00:50:21Z")
It’s not _Close My Eyes_. The plot is all wrong.
But it wasn’t a total loss. I discovered that there have been 47 characters who are unnamed, but identified as a “Scotsman.” The first was in 1912, when the “Adventurous Scotsman” was played by John Bunny in _Pseudo Sultan._ The last was by John DiMaggio as “The Scotsman” in _Samurai Jack: The Shadow of Aku_. Joseph Brady is the only actor to play two different “Scotsman” characters, in 1962s TV series _Z-Cars_ and in the 1980 movie _Cry Wolf._
I was also unable to find the correct movie, as BwanaBob predicted I would be.
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### Author:  [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2006, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-incest-movie-take-2006/352567/13 "2006-04-14T01:27:47Z")
There was a movie about a man who discovers that his wife is cheating on him- with her brother. No idea what the title is.
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### Author:  [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2006, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-incest-movie-take-2006/352567/14 "2006-04-14T02:50:07Z")
Hmm, Genetic Sexual Attraction. This [article](http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,956454,00.html) mentions several cases but I don’t think it would be of any help to find the movie though.
Absolutely fascinating though, and news to me. My mother was adopted, thank goodness she never showed any tendancies like that when she met her brothers.
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### Author:  [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2006, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-incest-movie-take-2006/352567/15 "2006-04-14T02:55:24Z")
> [@Revtim](#):
>
> I seriously doubt this is any help, but I recall reading about the real-life incident in Esquire magazine years ago.
I remember that article. That was quite a story! They did have some kids though.
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### Author:  [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2006, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-incest-movie-take-2006/352567/16 "2006-04-14T03:17:49Z")
> [@astro](#):
>
> I remember that article. That was quite a story! They did have some kids though.
Here’s the story - about 1/4 of the way down
[Has the Supreme Court announced a right to incest?](http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:tPz9D2byQmMJ:rightrainbow.com/archives/constitutional_law/+Wisconsin+incest+esquire&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=4)
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2006, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-incest-movie-take-2006/352567/17 "2006-04-14T08:50:25Z")
I think the fact that you can’t find it easily by Google or IMDb, and that you say it’s like a ‘movie of the week’ plot, suggests it’s an episode of a TV series.
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### Author:  [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2006, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-incest-movie-take-2006/352567/18 "2006-04-14T18:52:18Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#):
>
> I think the fact that you can’t find it easily by Google or IMDb, and that you say it’s like a ‘movie of the week’ plot, suggests it’s an episode of a TV series.
It was a 2hr movie (so maybe it was 90 minutes minus commercials).
It had normal movie type credits.
There were no peripheral characters; there’s no way this was a series. The story was completely self-contained.
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### Author:  [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2006, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-incest-movie-take-2006/352567/19 "2006-04-14T18:58:05Z")
> [@astro](#):
>
> Here’s the story - about 1/4 of the way down
> [Has the Supreme Court announced a right to incest?](http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:tPz9D2byQmMJ:rightrainbow.com/archives/constitutional_law/+Wisconsin+incest+esquire&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=4)
Interesting story but definitely not the basis of the movie.
The people in question were British. Some of our UK dopers may be my only hope.
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### Author:  [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2006, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-incest-movie-take-2006/352567/20 "2006-04-14T20:09:35Z")
> [@BwanaBob](#):
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> …UK dopers may be my only hope.
In Cafe Society, you’re odds would be alot higher were it ObiWan.
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