You will never be able to identify this movie (possibly two of 'em)

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But I’ve seen the SDMB come through on vaguer stuff, so here goes.

I was reminded today that as a kid, one of the monsters living under my bed was a security camera. This resulted from the fact that I saw (all or part of) a movie in which, in one scene, a woman (I think) is spotted by a security camera while sneaking (I think) around in an office (I think), and the way the film zoomed in (I think) on the camera made my little-kid mind feel like the camera was really, really scary.

Possibly this movie involved people who lived in a trailer home.

And I also remember a woman being in danger of drowning in foam in a locked room, and in my mind this is linked to the movie I just sort of described, but I am not really confident that’s actually from the same film.

Any ideas? What movie (or movies) might I be remembering?

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Sliver? Not sure of time frame…

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When were you a kid? 1970s? 1980s?

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Sort of sounds like the episode of *The Bionic Woman *with the evil supercomputer ‘Alex’ who almost blows up the world…

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Your summary reminds me of The Incredible Shrinking Woman.

She almost drowns in foam, but the chemicals actually return her to original size.

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If that was it, the episode title was Doomsday is Tomorrow (a two-parter).

Here’s some YouTube shots, including an opening shot of one of the evil computer’s security cameras. Here’s shots of the scene with the ‘foam’.Although it’s clearly just soap bubbles, as I remember it was supposed to be firefighting foam which absorbs oxygen. Was only a kid but it was a pretty good episode for the time (circa 1977)…

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Sorry I should have said! I was born in 1978. So I would guess this movie was from the early eighties.

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Sounds an awful lot like Gone With The Wind.

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I was going to say Citizen Kane.

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The image of the foam was familiar as hell to me and I am betting it was that Bionic Woman episode. Thank you because it was bugging me.

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No, that’s not it …it was …um, uh, what was it called? It’s about this newspaper tycoon and he’s dead, and everybody is telling stories about him, and …

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It’s the video for Rio by Duran Duran.

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The Duran Duran video with foam ain’t “Rio”.

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Well this is definitely Citizen Kane then. You’re talking about* Citizen Kane*.

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Woman drowning in foam could be a scene from Tommy.

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Spoiler Alert:

Rosebud was the sled.

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The security camera does help explain how they knew Mr. Kane’s last word.

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Doesn’t Ann Margaret roll around in some kind of foam, as well as baked beans and chocolate syrup, in Tommy?

Either that or this.

ETA: Whoops, didn’t see #15. Got too excited.

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It was a terrible board in-joke rather than an actual answer, but I’m amused that there really is a Duran Duran video featuring foam.

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Sooooooo… Frylock? Was I right about the Bionic Woman episode?