Why no movies featuring xxxxx as a character?

Cafe Society
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[QUOTE=Cartooniverse]
Thanks for narrowing that right down.

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Cronenberg or Lynch? I’m guessing Cronenberg but IMDB isn’t being very helpful since I don’t know what to plug in.
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Cronenberg. Dead Ringers.

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Is pharmacist still standing? There was some talk of it re: One Hour Photo, but I don’t think anyone crossed it off yet.

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[QUOTE=OneCentStamp]
How about an entomologist. You know, a bug doctor?
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Michael Caine as Dr. Brad Crane in the 1978 Irwin Allen crapfest The Swarm.

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[QUOTE=Beware of Doug]
Men’s clothing salesman. If you do see one, he’s probably a minor character and some kind of shlub.
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Ryan O’Neal in “So Fine” played a definitely non-shlubby men’s clothing salesmen. Admittedly he started out shlubby but he metamorphosed into a hottie (selling assless jeans).

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Notary public?

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[QUOTE=Bayard]
Is pharmacist still standing? There was some talk of it re: One Hour Photo, but I don’t think anyone crossed it off yet.
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Does Billy Crystal in *The Princess Bride * count?

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[QUOTE=Freddy the Pig]
We actuaries used to feel slighted, until About Schmidt.
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I remember that we even got a flyer from the Institute of Actuaries of Australia suggesting that members might like to see it. I didn’t bother.

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Wasn’t Michael J. Fox’s character in Bright Lights, Big City a copy editor?

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[QUOTE=Beware of Doug]
Men’s clothing salesman. If you do see one, he’s probably a minor character and some kind of shlub.
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Ben Affleck in Mallrats sold Men’s clothing.

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[QUOTE=jharvey963]
What about Chasing Amy? Wasn’t the lead character a comic book animator? Or do I have that mixed up?

J.
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That would be an illustrator. An animator is like cartoons and animated movies.

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[QUOTE=garygnu]
Steve Martin played a dentist again in Novocaine, and there’s the obvious The Secret Lives of Dentists.

I don’t think I’ve seen a movie with an animator as a character. Hell, game testers just got a movie, where’s mine?
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Allegro non Troppo, an Italian . . . homage to Fantasia features Maurizio Nichetti as The Animator who – reluctantly – draws animation for classical pieces. His performance is mute, though.

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See how many damn movies I have to add to my NetFlix queue? Damn it.

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[QUOTE=garygnu]
See how many damn movies I have to add to my NetFlix queue? Damn it.
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No, no, no. Nobody’s actually recommending that you watch most of these films! :eek: :wink:

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[QUOTE=Little Nemo]
Wasn’t Michael J. Fox’s character in Bright Lights, Big City a copy editor?
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I read the book…I think he was a fact checker. So if the movie kept that the same, we’d have at least one fact checker character.

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[QUOTE=How about a historian?[/QUOTE]

Nicolas Cage and others in National Treasure.

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OK, how about a movie starring any of the following:

  • Janitor
  • Electrician
  • Plumber
  • Garbage man (I could see great potential here)
  • Bellhop
  • Bus driver
  • Shoemaker
  • Glassblower
  • Health inspector
  • Airport baggage handler

Some of these must have been done, but I can see several not getting any starring role…

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[QUOTE=E-Sabbath]
Mechanic: Second banana in the Herbie movies was the mechanic/navigator.

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Also, the Oscar-winning female lead in MY COUSIN VINNIE.

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[QUOTE=Windwalker]
OK, how about a movie starring any of the following:
…

  • Plumber

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I already mentioned Kenny, in which the title role is a very specialised kind of plumber.

[QUOTE=OneCentStamp]
No, no, no. Nobody’s actually recommending that you watch most of these films! :eek: :wink:
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And Kenny is one that I do recommend watching, if you can find it. It’s a very funny mockumentary.

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[QUOTE=Windwalker]
OK, how about a movie starring any of the following:

  • Janitor
  • Electrician
  • Plumber
  • Garbage man (I could see great potential here)
  • Bellhop
  • Bus driver
  • Shoemaker
  • Glassblower
  • Health inspector
  • Airport baggage handler

Some of these must have been done, but I can see several not getting any starring role…
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Janitor – Nightmare on Elm Street.
Plumber – there was a Mario Bros movie. I think Captain Lou Albano was in it.
Electrician – Cable Guy is sort of close.
Garbage Men – There was a movie about garbage men with Charlie Sheen, right?
Bellhop – Dunstan Checks In or something.
Bus Driver – Speed.
Shoemaker – Kinky Boots
Glass Blower – Heart of Glass, the Werner Herzog movie was kind of about glass blowers.
Health Inspector – Larry the Cable Guy, Health Inspector!

Turns out there’s a WC Fields movie called The Pharmacist.

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Dupe.