Syfy really screwed up a movie description

Cafe Society
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:smiley:

I’m watching a movie on Syfy right now - Michael:
The film stars John Travolta as the Archangel Michael, who is sent to Earth to do various tasks, including mending some wounded hearts.

Somehow however, in the description in the preview they have managed to conflate it with Michael:
The film’s title character is an insurance broker who lives a quiet, unassuming existence — and who secretly keeps a 10-year-old boy called Wolfgang in his soundproof basement. He sexually abuses the boy, but they otherwise have somewhat of a father–son relationship.

Talk about a switcheroo!

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They should get the master who writes the on-demand description for, say, Sons of Anarchy: “Jax has to make a deal with a rival gang while trying to keep the club from tearing itself apart.”

Yes, description, singular.

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Seen that happen before, but not with quite so huge a difference in the tone and content of the works.

Though The Kid (2001) being given the description of The Kid (2000) begins to approach it (and since it’s the more potentially offensive film given the family friendly film’s description, gets bonus ‘oops’ points).

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Lionheart (1990) given the description of Lionheart (1987).

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Not a description mixup, but I know someone who was looking for the Oscar-nominated Crash from 2004 (about racial tensions) and accidentally showed the group the Crash from 1996, directed by Cronenberg, about people who are sexually aroused by car accidents.

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I think it was IFC (might have been Sundance) that recently aired Wonderland, a 1999 British film directed by Michael Winterbottom.

The description on the channel guide was for Wonderland, the 2003 film about the infamous Wonderland murders in Los Angeles starring Val Kilmer.

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Moved MPSIMS --> Cafe Society.

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A similar thing happened (for a while, though they seem to have quashed the bug since) over on Netflix.

If you’re into Twitter, you can see it at the Summary bug account there. For instance:

[QUOTE=SummaryBug]
In Frank Capra’s classic, junior senator Jefferson Smith remains idealistic despite widespread corruption among his cynical soccer team.
[/quote]

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I’ve seen the 80’s Jami Gertz version of Jersey Girl mixed up with the later J-Lo version in listings. Not that I’d watch either of those pieces of garbage (I mean the movies are garbage, not the people. well, not one of the people).

edit: apparently the 80’s one is actually from the 90’s. my bad