# Your movie ideas **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [January 1, 2026, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235 "2026-01-01T11:02:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235/4 "2026-01-01T14:21:25Z")
Every time I tell the story of my mother’s parents, of how her Russian father escaped after the October 1918 revolution when he was jailed in a Siberian prison, huffed it on foot west across Russia, into Manchuria and China, to catch a boat in Shanghai that stopped in the Philippines where he eventually met my mothers Filipina mother [for brevity I’m skipping details usually included] — every time I tell that story the listener invariably says that I should write a screenplay for it. I’ve shared that story here on the Dope before. I found it, here ➜ [Trivia Dominoes III — Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia - #1125 by Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/1125) ■ . So yeah, that’s my movie idea. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-movie-ideas/1026235)._