What show had a similar beginning as "Kyle XY", from the 2000s, with a man found lying naked in the woods? It was made before "Kyle XY."
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Does anyone remember a sitcom episode in which the mom was trying to organize a "no-dinner dinner" for a charity or something at her job? She called people from home and asked for donations, but had to keep explaining that there was no actual event for them to attend in person.
Does anyone recognize this? 80s or 90s horror movie in which one character is a "nerdy" teenage boy. Despite being bullied by a group of stereotypical "mean popular kids," he ends up lying down or throwing himself on top of an explosive device in order to save them. I think they were standing some distance away, so they don't even see him deciding to make the sacrifice.
Answer: There is a scene like that in Child's Play 3.
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Answer: Massacre at Central High. 1976. After being bullied and nearly crippled by the "cool" kids, a nerdy guy gets revenge on them. At the end, he sets a bomb to blow up the prom in the school gym. When the girl he loves discovers this and refuses to leave, he grabs the bomb and runs with it. When he reaches the outside, it explodes. Everyone ignores it.
I will be surprised if someone can tell me the title of this movie, I remember one minor scene and it's driving me nuts. The scene involves a military transport jeep with the antagonist and a few characters. The characters get out of the truck and are with a female military person. He gives her a chance to run before he shoots her, and she runs for the trees. However he pulls out his gun and shoots her from afar, and she collapses in the distance once he shoots her. The setting is maybe a forest, I just remember trees and plants/bushes.
Answer: There is a scene like that in the movie, Vigilante Force. A corrupt sheriff, Kris Kristofferson, is shooting a running Victoria Principal.
I'm trying to find the name of a movie I saw in the 90's, about this drifter who's a musician and goes to a bar where a fight ensues. The musician starts playing guitar and he stops the fight as everybody is having a good time, and ends up working for the bar owner. He starts having an affair with the owner's wife, eventually plotting with her to kill the owner. They become the bar's owners, but the woman starts plotting against the musician.
Answer: It could be cool blue. Woody Harrelson plays a sax player who has an affair with Ely Pouget. I haven't seen it in years.
I'm trying to find the title of a western movie where the sheriff of the town has a rebellious son who is now part of a youth gang causing problems and comes to cause problems in the sheriff's town. One of the gang members wears a Confederate uniform and waves around a sword. When a gang of bad guys comes to the town to kill the sheriff, the kid gang helps the sheriff fight them off. I remember the Confederate kid gets killed with a bullet to his throat. Anybody know the name of the movie?
Answer: No, the movie I saw did not have John Wayne in it. I do remember another scene where the sheriff is hiding in the bed of a buckboard wagon and the bad guy slowly peeks his head over the edge of the wagon. When he does that, the sheriff fires his pistol into the bad guy's face and blood from the bad guy's face splatters everywhere.
Answer: I don't know about the Confederate uniform, but what you described is a lot like a John Wayne movie, Cahill, US Marshal. Two of his rebellious sons help a gang with a bank heist.
There's an animated movie I used to watch as a kid, but I can't remember what it was called or exactly what it's about. I think I used to have it on VHS. The only thing I really remember about it is there was a frog who was a James Bond-like secret agent, and they called him FR07 instead of 007. And he was French. I've been racking my brain trying to remember what the movie was called, and I don't know how old it is. I just know I watched it as a kid. Anybody know?
Answer: It was the 1992 film "Freddie as F.R.O.7."
This is a fantasy movie that I think was made recently, in the 2020s. A young woman marries a prince from a much wealthier family. It turns out that his family always sacrifices their sons' first brides to a dragon or some other monster. This prince seems to actually like the young woman and is glad when she escapes the monster.
Answer: The film is 2024's "Damsel," starring Millie Bobby Brown.
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Does anyone remember what sitcom episode this was? A man and woman are "making out." I think the woman was his co-worker or supervisor. She suddenly decides that they shouldn't be doing this, and she says, "No one can know about this!" Then she walks away, but there are hand-shaped prints on her pants/shorts. I think it was paint or some type of ink on the guy's hands.
Answer: Sorry, I forgot to add that I saw this at least 15 years ago now.
It may have been "Frasier" season 3, episode 7. I believe Frasier and his manager, Kate, make out in a freight elevator, and his dirty hand prints end up on her skirt.
Thank you for the suggestion, but I've watched "Frasier" several times and this was not it. I think both of the people in the scene were younger than Frasier and Kate.
Didn't that happen on NCIS between Agent DiNozzo and Jenny, who happened to be the Director of the agency?
I have a question. I know actors like Clint Eastwood and Sylvester Stallone would direct films that they starred in. How would their pay structure be? Would they get two salaries? One big salary for both? Or be paid for one thing but not the other? What sort of SAG union rules or regulations were they allowed to have and/or not allowed to have? What sort of changes, if any, happened between, let's say, 1985 to today in 2025 to make it more proficient?
Answer: To partially answer your question, movie directors belong to the Directors Guild of America (DGA) union while actors are members of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG). An actor who is directing the film they are starring in would also be a Directors' Guild union member. Their pay as a director would be negotiated and accounted for separately.
There was a movie that had Christopher Reeve and Michael Caine. The only scene I remember is that Christopher was choking a person to death.
Answer: It was Deathtrap. Noises Off was a comedy about the behind-the-scenes of a play. Deathtrap was about Caine and Reeves scaring Dyan Cannon to death, collecting her life insurance. Like all conspiracies, the two men have a falling out and try to kill each other.
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Answer: Reeve and Caine only made two movies together, Deathtrap (1982) and Noises Off (1992). It's most likely Deathtrap.
Looking for a black-and-white movie in which a young woman doesn't want to believe that her uncle is a criminal. I am pretty sure that his name ended in a "y" or "ie" sound, like Billy. I only saw part of it at a family member's house. Thanks.
Answer: Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943)?
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I remember a movie scene in which a teenager/early-twenties woman is in a car with a "bad boy" type of guy. She reaches for her purse and he asks what she is doing, in a "no sudden moves" tone (that a kidnapper would use). She says "I was going to offer you some gum." I saw this in the early 2000s, so it's at least that old. I thought it was "Freeway" (1997, with Reese Witherspoon), but I just watched that and it's not. Thank you for any guesses.
Answer: The Chase.
Does anyone remember this after-school special type show from the early 80s? Some popular high school students convince a nerdy kid that an uppity popular girl likes him, causing him to humiliate himself in public. Shortly after, all three of the popular kids start receiving messages from an alien being on their TV. The kids freak out and tell the world they're communicating with a spaceman, only for the alien to actually be the nerdy kid who hacked the TV broadcast as revenge.
Answer: Found the answer elsewhere, 'Revenge of the Nerd' (not 'Revenge of the Nerds').
I can't remember the name of this '70s, '80s horror movie that has twin brothers. When they are nine or ten years old, one of them murders someone and is sent to an institution. Years later, he escapes and wants revenge. It turns out that his twin actually murdered the first person.
Answer: Thank you for both of the suggestions. I ended up finding the movie. It's "Blood Rage," 1987.
Answer: Another similar film is The Other. Twin boys are "bad seeds"; later, it's revealed that one has died. The surviving twin goes insane and hallucinates, talking with his dead brother.
Answer: The Creature with the Blue Hand. 1967. An innocent man, Klaus Kinski, is sent to an insane asylum. He later escapes. Returning home, he pretends to be his own twin brother in order to hide from the police, all the while searching for the identity of the murderer with the blue hand.
I have been remembering 2 movies I saw as a child but cannot remember the names. I believe they are from the 70s or 80s but not certain. The first is about a guy who unknowingly has a supernatural or magical power. The movie has tons of "people" with powers. From witches the half angels to half demons. Anyways the place he stays at is like a home for people like that. It is a comedy that has lots of funny scenes in it. The second movie is a space movie about a ranger becoming an assassin. He seeks revenge for his people being killed. I believe he is Altarian. Along the way he finds the princess and rescues her. The 2 biggest things I recall are a bathroom scene where he is running from some guys and jumps into a window and land in her bathtub with her in it, and lots of singing in the movie. Please help if anyone remembers either of these movies.
Answer: The first film could be a 1972 TV movie, "The People." A teacher, Kim Darby, is asked to come to a secluded community of mysterious town folk. She discovers they are aliens who came to Earth in the 1880s. They were accused of being witches and demons. Benny E.
This movie aired on either Showcase or BRAVO. It was a period movie where two women went into the city wearing masks essentially looking for sex. The next scene showed one of the women with a man against a wall. Later in the movie, she sees this same man injured and I think she is helping him or tending to him somehow. I think this was made sometime in the 90s since I recall it looking like a fairly recent movie around 1998 or 1999.
Answer: There's a movie "Henry and June." Set in the 1920s, it's about a man and woman who wear masks and roam the streets during a festival. He watches her have sex with another man against the wall. She does have an affair with two women.
What was the name of this screwball movie (not TV show) about competing funeral homes from the late 80s or early 90s? I only saw the commercial. In one scene, two funeral directors have arrived at the scene of a bad car crash. "There's enough bodies for both of us!" "But we got here first!" In another, there's a dead woman at a fast food drive-in. "She didn't even finish her fries." The tagline was 'Kiss your ash goodbye.'
Answer: Mortuary Academy (1988).
Does anyone remember a commercial for a waterproof cell phone that had the phone coming out of the water while The Cars' "Moving In Stereo" was playing in the same manner Phoebe Cates comes out of the water in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High"? Which phone was it for, and any idea where to find a clip of the commercial?
Answer: ChatGPT is telling me it was for the Sony Xperia Z smartphone, introduced around 2013. I asked GROK and looked for over an hour. I can't find it anywhere.
How come in many animated TV series, during the end credits, the individual voice actors aren't credited with the character (s) they voiced? Movies do, even if one person voices multiple characters. For example, Dan Castellaneta is credited in "The Simpsons", but not as "Homer." But in "The Simpsons Movie" they show all the characters he voiced. And how did viewers know who voiced whom before sites like IMDb were around? Or how did people creating and editing IMDb find the information?
Answer: Because most voice actors voice a very wide variety of characters, Hank Azaria voices 18 recurring characters and Harry Shearer 15. This is in addition to whatever minor or one-shot characters they may be voicing. It would make the credits either too long or too cluttered on the screen.
Answer: John Doe. A TV series in the early 2000s. A man wakes up naked in the woods on a small island in Seattle. He knows everything in the world: complete knowledge of science, medicine, politics, astronomy, astrology, law enforcement, and agriculture. There isn't one question he can't answer, except for one: his own identity.
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