# Movies where reality is in doubt **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 9, 2012, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-reality-is-in-doubt/612275 "2012-02-09T04:51:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-reality-is-in-doubt/612275/41 "2012-02-10T18:52:20Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Yup - especially _Brazil_ - as it’s possible that we don’t all have the same experience of the story (two different versions have been released, with different endings) Could be. The version I saw ended with him on the table being tortured by Michael Palin. Then my head exploded when I tried to figure out when his torture induced hallucinations had started. ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-reality-is-in-doubt/612275/42 "2012-02-10T19:12:55Z")
**Snowboarder Bo** beat me to it, but I \*loved \* Identity. Went out and bought the DVD after I watched it on one of the premium cable channels. It’s still one of my favorite popcorn movies and was a big hit at our theater group’s Movie Night getogethers. ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-reality-is-in-doubt/612275/43 "2012-02-10T22:26:46Z")
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off He’s a figment of Cameron’s imagination. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2012, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-reality-is-in-doubt/612275/44 "2012-02-11T00:06:12Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > And, by extension, [a significant fraction of everything ever on television](http://home.vicnet.net.au/~kwgow/crossovers%28full%29.jpg). Yeah, the Tommy Westphall Universe stuff is pretty interesting. ---
**Author:** ![dchrisd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8dc957/32.png) [@dchrisd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dchrisd)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2012, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-reality-is-in-doubt/612275/45 "2012-02-11T03:20:52Z")
Toy Story (just because its apparently fun to list titles without explanation) ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2012, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-reality-is-in-doubt/612275/46 "2012-02-11T03:55:32Z")
_Life On Mars_ - UK television series (and later remade in the US) where the main character awakes to find he has apparently traveled back in time to the 1970s… Or _has_ he? ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2012, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-reality-is-in-doubt/612275/47 "2012-02-11T04:00:46Z")
> [@dchrisd](#): > > Toy Story (just because its apparently fun to list titles without explanation) Hmmm, do the toys really come to life or…? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2012, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-reality-is-in-doubt/612275/48 "2012-02-11T13:24:34Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > It was about 115 minutes. … too long. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2012, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-reality-is-in-doubt/612275/49 "2012-02-11T13:58:06Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > _Life On Mars_ - UK television series (and later remade in the US) where the main character awakes to find he has apparently traveled back in time to the 1970s… Or _has_ he? Similarly, there’s a early-1990s TV series called _The Odyssey_ in which the main character, a teenage boy, suffers a head trauma and slips into a persistent coma. Scenes alternate between “downworld”, the fantasy realm his mind creates, and “upworld”, where his mother cares for him. Doubts about reality aren’t presented as such to the audience, though there is enough “overlap” that it affects the boy. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2012, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-reality-is-in-doubt/612275/50 "2012-02-11T23:51:43Z")
There’s the upcoming series called (I think) Awake, where the main character has a car accident with his wife and son. His wife survives but his son is killed, until he goes to sleep and finds himself in a different reality where his son survives but wife is killed. As the show hasn’t even started airing yet, I could be wrong on a few details, but the main part, waking up in a different universe when he goes to sleep in the other, that’s certainly going to put reality in doubt. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2012, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-reality-is-in-doubt/612275/51 "2012-02-11T23:56:15Z")
> [@dchrisd](#): > > Toy Story (just because its apparently fun to list titles without explanation) To be fair they may want to avoid spoilers, the subject matter lends itself to plot twists. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-reality-is-in-doubt/612275/52 "2012-02-12T07:29:29Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Not a movie, but the _Buffy_ episode “Normal Again” threw everything in the series into doubt. If you want to go off of movies, then take [Garfield](http://garfieldisdead.ytmnd.com/). Sorry it’s a video link, but that’s the way I experience the creepiness, and so shall you. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-reality-is-in-doubt/612275/53 "2012-02-12T09:32:59Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Yup - especially _Brazil_ - as it’s possible that we don’t all have the same experience of the story (two different versions have been released, with different endings) I have to wonder, how many people have seen only the _Love Conquers All_ version of _Brazil_? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-reality-is-in-doubt/612275.md?page=2)