# What is the name of this 'Sherlock Holmes themed' movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 17, 2018, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-sherlock-holmes-themed-movie/810742 "2018-03-17T19:05:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![softie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19adc/32.png) [@softie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/softie)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-sherlock-holmes-themed-movie/810742/1 "2018-03-17T19:05:07Z")
I’m looking for the name of modern ‘Sherlock Holmes’ movie , seen within the last 20 years. The movie opens in a clinical setting, the staff watching a group of mentally challenged teenagers getting their candy treats. A staffer notices that one boy always gets the M&M candies. Further review shows that he asks for M&M’s but is speaking in a mentally challenged voice. The staff suspects misdiagnosis. IIRC the hero solves some crimes and his nurse is Dr Watson. Thanks softie ---
**Author:** ![Stinky\_Pete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Stinky\_Pete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stinky_Pete)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-sherlock-holmes-themed-movie/810742/2 "2018-03-17T19:18:18Z")
Could it be, They Might Be Giants? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-sherlock-holmes-themed-movie/810742/3 "2018-03-17T19:32:25Z")
Since this is about a movie, let’s move it to Cafe Society. Colibri General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-sherlock-holmes-themed-movie/810742/4 "2018-03-17T19:33:05Z")
_They Might Be Giants_ came out in 1971, 47 years ago. It starred George C. Scott as the psychiatric patient who believe he was Sherlock Holmes. Scott was in his 40’s, not a child. It’s true that the psychiatrist was a woman named Watson. Are you confusing two movies that you saw long ago? Is there a movie about a boy always choosing the M&M’s? ---
**Author:** ![softie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19adc/32.png) [@softie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/softie)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-sherlock-holmes-themed-movie/810742/5 "2018-03-17T22:00:14Z")
I watched the youtube trailer. That is certainly the way my movie ended, but not as dark ---
**Author:** ![softie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19adc/32.png) [@softie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/softie)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-sherlock-holmes-themed-movie/810742/6 "2018-03-17T22:11:36Z")
George Scott is too physically mature for the movie hero I’m remembering. Maybe I am confusing 2 (or more) movies. There are movies with M & M’s, but nothing fits my overall memory . Maybe the Mars company would know if their product was used in a movie. Thanks for the help. softie ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-sherlock-holmes-themed-movie/810742/7 "2018-03-17T22:22:03Z")
_They Might Be Giants_ has nothing similar to “The movie opens in a clinical setting, the staff watching a group of mentally challenged teenagers getting their candy treats. A staffer notices that one boy always gets the M&M candies” in it (as far as I can tell). That has to come from another movie (or from your imagination). ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2018, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-sherlock-holmes-themed-movie/810742/8 "2018-03-18T01:46:53Z")
The [Baker Street wiki](http://bakerstreet.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Sherlock_Holmes_Adaptations:_Films) lists these modern Holmes-themed films: [ul] [li]A Study in Terror (1965)[/li][li] The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)[/li][li] The Seven Per-Cent Solution (1976)[/li][li] The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It (1977)[/li][li] Murder by Decree (1979)[/li][li] The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1981)[/li][li] Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)[/li][li] The Great Mouse Detective (1986)[/li][li] Without a Clue (1987)[/li][li] O Xangô de Baker Street (2001)[/li][li] Sherlock Holmes (2010)[/li][li] Sherlock Holmes Baffled (2010)[/li][li] Holmes & Watson: Madrid Days (2013)[/li][li] Mr Holmes (2015)[/li][li] Thupparivalan (2017)[/li][li] Holmes and Watson (2018)[/li][/ul]