Drug Addicted Slackers. I heard they’re awesome live.
::runs away::
Third Man: A writer meets an old friend at off-beat Vienna locations.
Princess Mononoke: Young man tries to remove scar from his arm.
Lawrence of Arabia: Eccentric Englishman travels around the Middle-East with his Arab friends.
Hamlet: College kid comes to terms with father’s death, mother’s remarriage.
King Lear: Old man’s retirement plan causes no end of headaches for his daughters.
Richard III: Deformed, embittered man takes it out on others.
Another TV Guide gem.
Star Trek (TOS) episode “Amok Time”: Spock gets the mating urge and attacks Captain Kirk
A Christmas Carol: Insomniac business owner buys X-mas gifts
2001: Apes fight, astronauts go to space with talking computer
Titanic: Elderly woman recalls maiden voyage, shows breasts
Dr. Strangelove: Air Force general campaigns for clean water.
LA Confidential: The lives of three policemen intersect.
Raiders of the Lost Ark: An archeologist searches for an ancient relic.
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan: Kirk meets an old girlfriend.
Planet of the Apes: An astronaut discovers a planet where the humans can’t talk.
These actually appeared in a local paper’s TV listings:
The Stepford Wives: two women wonder why the other housewives are behaving like robots.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo shows everyone his giant submarine.
“Deliverance”- Four Atlanta men go on a canoe trip, meet interesting backwoods people, play some music, and learn something about themselves in the process.
This is a real one, too:
The Flintstones (1994): Fred, Barney, Wilma and Betty live in Bedrock.
And even though it’s two sentences, you’ve always got to love this well-known (and most likely apocryphal) movie description:
The Wizard of Oz (1939): A young girl enters a strange land and kills the first person she meets. She then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.
The Manchurian Candidate: A soldier has bad dreams and helps a friend play solitaire.
The African Queen: Bogart and Hepburn take a cruise downriver.
The Bridge on the River Kwai: British soldiers encounter difficulties building a bridge.
Dude, Where’s my car?: Two young gentelmen misplace their vehicle.
Apocalypse Now: Sheen takes a trip upriver to visit Brando.
It was Sheen that played the main character, right? It’s been a long time since I saw the movie.
Brave New World: Lost son of government official is rescued and returned to civilization.
1984: Profoundly alienated individual is given therapy and becomes well adjusted to society.
- The Story of O*: Young woman dumps lover for older man who gives her jewelry.
Clerks: A young man goes to work, although he was not scheduled to work that day.
Snatch: Two young men attemt to get a fair deal on a mobile home. One of them likes dogs.
A young woman pretends she knows how to spell “attempt”
This one is absolutely true, from a local newspaper’s TV listings many years ago. I’ve always remembered it.
EQUUS (Movie: Richard Burton, Peter Firth) A stablehand’s infatuation with horses interferes with his sex life.
Being John Malkovitch: An actor receives some unwanted visitors.
The Shining: A man seeks solitude in which to write the Great American Novel.
Dog Day Afternoon: A man goes to the bank to make a withdrawal.
Fatal Attraction: A man has an extramarital affair.
Three Men and a Baby: See Title.
Vampire in Brooklyn: See Title.
Gremlins: A man buys his son an unusual Christmas present.
A Nightmare on Elm Street: Several teenagers have bad dreams.
Hellraiser: A puzzle box is opened.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Some people get lost while driving through Texas.
Willard: A man raises rats as pets.
Halloween: A young man returns to his childhood home.
Scream: The story of two young men who take movies way too seriously.
The Ring: A woman watches a videotape.
The Bad Seed: A young girl is very naughty.
Natural Born Killers: Two young lovers go on a cross-country road trip.
Resevoir Dogs: Unforseen complications mar a trip to the jewelry store.
Existenz : man and video game inventor avoid people who dislike the game.
Playing God: former doctor offered new clients.
The Money Pit: couple invest in a fixer-upper.
Shindler’s List: man operates factory during WWII.
Session 9: men remodel former mental hospital.