I’ve never seen King Ralph, so I don’t know if this will clarify my #6, but here goes:
6. Monarchy changes hands in a nearly bloodless coup after the return of a member of the original dynastic line who was exiled in his youth.
“Local boy, traveling far, makes good following in his father’s footsteps.” -How about Star Wars?
It’s good to have my location recognized, although it refers less to where I live and more to a movie in which “A fundraiser to save a local orphanage proves successful” to quote iamthewalrus(:3= in our sister thread.
Of course that was The Blues Brothers. #6 is not Prince and the Pauper, though.
I still have a few on the table:
4. Precocious student-athlete fixes problem in school’s plumbing system.
5. British & American hunters push recently discovered species to extinction.
6. Monarchy changes hands in a nearly bloodless coup after the return of a member of the original dynastic line who was exiled in his youth.
7. Ragtag bunch of misfits show spirit and unity under new leadership and prove victorious.
There are about a million answers to #7 (some examples beginning with the letter M include Major Payne, The Mighty Ducks, Major League, and their sequels). That leaves #4-6.
The ‘M’ thing meant that you can stop guessing for #7, since that’s the plot to just about every sports movie ever made, and also many non-sports movies. There are so many examples to give that I decided to limit myself to one letter of the alphabet. If I’d picked ‘B’ instead of ‘M’, I could have said Bull Durham, The Big Green, The Bad News Bears, etc.
#5 isn’t Congo - it’s more recent than that. #4 is a fairly well-known movie.
