Identify Movies, get in my column

[WrestlingDeacon 0]

Once again, any help you guys can give would be great and will be credited to you. Thanks again.

 

1) "Hey man, your account of the trailer for The preacher's Wife reminded me of an awesome trailer I saw in the theaters a few years back. I can't remember what the movie was, but the trailer featured a man and a woman going to see this movie. When they leave they talk about the movie and walk around the town (maybe NYC). Soon it's 7 am and they are both late for work. This really caught my attention and made me want to see the movie, if for no other reason than the trailer being so original to me. Any help with which movie? Magnolia, maybe?"

 

 

2) "Next I was hoping that you could help me identify this film:

 

Late 70's, maybe even up to 1982 it ran on TV on something similar to the ABC Afterschool Specials. Plot line is a teenage boy hassles a younger girl (about 10) in the schoolyard. She ends up dead (maybe just hurt badly because of the timeslot). His mother seals up a room in the house and hides him behind the fake wall so the cops can't find him.

 

I recall food being passed through a false air vent in the wall."

 

 

3) "I saw a movie when I was about 13 on TV (It was probably made in the mid nineties) Set in the near future, where the U.S was modelled on 1950's life,

people were expected to be average, and wore neural blockers which reduced

their intelligence... A teenage boy couldn't be controlled and was drafted into the underground organisation that actually regulated everyday life.....What is this movie??? I really enjoyed it."

 

4) "I've been trying to figure out a movie from my childhood for quite some time now. If i remeber correctly it came out during the 80's some time. I remember

some the begining and the ending. i know it starts off in the real world and

this boy somehow get transported to another world and i think it has something

to do with an apple but I could be wrong. I tihnk a black horse is involved

too. by the end of the movie he faces this king and defeats him

somehow.....the king turns into stone and crumbles. There is also something about how his heart was stone too."

[LaParkaYourCar 0]

Is #3 Pleasantville?

[Anakin Flair 0]

Is #3 Pleasantville?

No, not Pleasantville.

 

Could it be 1984?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087803/

 

This sounds awfully familiar, and I think I remember seeing it. But for the life of me, I can't remember for sure.

[WrestlingDeacon 0]

I know it's not Pleasantville and don't think it's 1984. That and the fantasy one with the king sound vaguely like a hundred different movies and that's what's giving me so much trouble trying to nail them down. Thanks for the help and suggestions so far.

[razazteca 0]

The fantasy one is Never Ending Story?

[LaParkaYourCar 0]

I don't think so, but it sounds like a Never Ending Story rip off.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

I think - and this could be off - that the first one was the trailer for The Minus Man. I never saw the movie, but I remember seeing a trailer very much like what you describe when I saw The Blair Witch Project. The trailer was just a few characters in New York talking about the movie, and nothing from the actual film appeared in the trailer.

 

 

Hey, I was right. This page summarizes the whole thing.

[NoCalMike 0]

I want to know the name of that movie where a group of punks kidnap a teacher and her students, and take them to this cave and hold them hostage, but they end up escaping and I think possibly killing one or all of the bad guys, and it ends with the cops questioning the teach about the incident I think and then it goes to a shot of the kids and they all have sinister looks on their faces, like they are saying how this ordeal fucked with their minds, and now they are gonna be ruthless if someone tries to mess with them from now on.

[Guest Crazy Dan]

Man I do know what movie you are talking about No-Cal.. it was on HBO... and the cast was Austrailian... but I don't recall the name of the flick.

[WrestlingDeacon 0]

I don't know yours No Cal off the top of my head. I can maybe look some stuff up later.

 

A big thanks to Edwin on figuring out the trailer. My friend Shawn figured out the third one too.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

The last one sort of sounds like Time Bandits. Were there midgets?