Describe the plot of a movie

[abefroman329]

Husband and wife sell house and buy RV, intending to travel all over the US, but don't make it any further than Las Vegas, NV.

[Max Rockatansky]

A violent troubled youth volunteers for an experimental treatment to relieve his impulses.  The treatment relieves him of his violent tendencies but also causes him anguish when he hears music. 

[Max Rockatansky]

The United States National Council of Astronautics plans a manned mission to Jupiter.  The mission proves to be difficult, but a success.  Major unexpected are made.

[Max Rockatansky]

A man attends a corporate Christmas Party in an attempt to reconcile with his estranged wife, it goes unexpectedly.

[kphoger]

A Christmas Story:

Some kid in Indiana really wants a BB gun for Christmas.  He thinks we won't get one, then he does.  That's the whole plot.  Nothing else of importance happens in the movie.

[Max Rockatansky]

A Christmas Story:

Some kid in Indiana really wants a BB gun for Christmas.  He thinks we won't get one, then he does.  That's the whole plot.  Nothing else of importance happens in the movie.

Overlay some Doom Eternal music over Christmas Story and becomes something else entirely:

[NWI_Irish96]

The world's most versatile superhero thwarts Middle Eastern terrorists, sings the national anthem, umpires a baseball game, and prevents a royal assassination.

[jeffandnicole]

A Christmas Story:

Some kid in Indiana really wants a BB gun for Christmas.  He thinks we won't get one, then he does.  That's the whole plot.  Nothing else of importance happens in the movie.

I would've preferred a prequel to discuss the dad's bowling career.

[formulanone]

The world's most versatile superhero thwarts Middle Eastern terrorists, sings the national anthem, umpires a baseball game, and prevents a royal assassination.

Don't forget his ability to make sure nobody noticed the exploding fireworks warehouse.

[kurumi]

A barge owner and his employee fish a woman's body out of a canal.  The employee has sex with the barge owner's wife.  The police discover the dead woman was pregnant and arrest her boyfriend, a plumber.  In actuality she died as the result of an accident after sex with the employee, who was her former boyfriend.  He says nothing until the plumber's trial, when he sends the police a letter that they ignore.  The plumber is convicted and sentenced to death.  Then the employee has sex with the barge owner's wife's sister, quits, and sets out for parts unknown.

...what movie is this?

Super Mario Brothers

[kphoger]

Related:  Dean Rhodes, father of a member of The Babylon Bee staff, was ravaged by MS and could eventually move only one finger.  He then set about reading 168 classic novels, plus all the Shakespeare plays.  Always a man of humor, he wrote down a one-line summary of each book he read during that time.  Here are my favorites...

Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky) – Russian decay among peasants, rags, alcohol, and ax murdering
The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky) – Drunks, death, and decay – typical Russian novel fare
Don Quixote (Cervantes) – Employer-employee relationship tested by adventures
Wuthering Heights (Brontë) – Love thy Neighbor not taught at church; just hate or marry thy neighbor
The Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas) – Count's accounting for revenge aCounts for Countless Countenances
The Three Musketeers (Dumas) – Musketeer crew comprises boozer, gold-digging womanizer, religion-seeking swordster, lovesick hothead
Pride and Prejudice (Austen) – Too bad no glass ceilings for Elizabeth to break
Dracula (Stoker) – Vampire advantage – immortality;  disadvantage – limited liquid diet
Animal Farm (Orwell) – Eat bacon at your own risk
King Henry V (Shakespeare) – Great motivational speaker, but should cut down on the massacres

Full list:  https://ericalynnrhodes.medium.com/deans-list-5a336b5fff38

[abefroman329]

Related:  Dean Rhodes, father of a member of The Babylon Bee staff, was ravaged by MS and could eventually move only one finger.  He then set about reading 168 classic novels, plus all the Shakespeare plays.  Always a man of humor, he wrote down a one-line summary of each book he read during that time.  Here are my favorites...

Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky) – Russian decay among peasants, rags, alcohol, and ax murdering
The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky) – Drunks, death, and decay – typical Russian novel fare
Don Quixote (Cervantes) – Employer-employee relationship tested by adventures
Wuthering Heights (Brontë) – Love thy Neighbor not taught at church; just hate or marry thy neighbor
The Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas) – Count's accounting for revenge aCounts for Countless Countenances
The Three Musketeers (Dumas) – Musketeer crew comprises boozer, gold-digging womanizer, religion-seeking swordster, lovesick hothead
Pride and Prejudice (Austen) – Too bad no glass ceilings for Elizabeth to break
Dracula (Stoker) – Vampire advantage – immortality;  disadvantage – limited liquid diet
Animal Farm (Orwell) – Eat bacon at your own risk
King Henry V (Shakespeare) – Great motivational speaker, but should cut down on the massacres

Full list:  https://ericalynnrhodes.medium.com/deans-list-5a336b5fff38

How tragic that he...fathered a member of the Babylon Bee staff.

[abefroman329]

A Christmas Story:

Some kid in Indiana really wants a BB gun for Christmas.  He thinks we won't get one, then he does.  That's the whole plot.  Nothing else of importance happens in the movie.

I mean, it's clear to me that the Red Ryder BB gun was the friends he made along the way.

[vdeane]

A man seeks revenge on an Admiral over the death of his wife.

A Kansas woman visits a faraway land and kills the first person she meets.

Teaming up with a robot, a lion, and a scarecrow, she tracks down her victim's sister and kills her too.

Two women willing to kill each other over a pair of shoes.

I had never previously noticed that the Wizard of Oz obviously takes place on Black Friday.

[J N Winkler]

A barge owner and his employee fish a woman's body out of a canal.  The employee has sex with the barge owner's wife.  The police discover the dead woman was pregnant and arrest her boyfriend, a plumber.  In actuality she died as the result of an accident after sex with the employee, who was her former boyfriend.  He says nothing until the plumber's trial, when he sends the police a letter that they ignore.  The plumber is convicted and sentenced to death.  Then the employee has sex with the barge owner's wife's sister, quits, and sets out for parts unknown.

...what movie is this?

The straight answer (Kurumi has already supplied the joke answer):  Young Adam.

[formulanone]

A barge owner and his employee fish a woman's body out of a canal.  The employee has sex with the barge owner's wife.  The police discover the dead woman was pregnant and arrest her boyfriend, a plumber.  In actuality she died as the result of an accident after sex with the employee, who was her former boyfriend.  He says nothing until the plumber's trial, when he sends the police a letter that they ignore.  The plumber is convicted and sentenced to death.  Then the employee has sex with the barge owner's wife's sister, quits, and sets out for parts unknown.

...what movie is this?

The straight answer (Kurumi has already supplied the joke answer):  Young Adam.

I figured that I mis-rememberd Splash after 35 years or got a redeux.

[abefroman329]

A barge owner and his employee fish a woman's body out of a canal.  The employee has sex with the barge owner's wife.  The police discover the dead woman was pregnant and arrest her boyfriend, a plumber.  In actuality she died as the result of an accident after sex with the employee, who was her former boyfriend.  He says nothing until the plumber's trial, when he sends the police a letter that they ignore.  The plumber is convicted and sentenced to death.  Then the employee has sex with the barge owner's wife's sister, quits, and sets out for parts unknown.

...what movie is this?

The straight answer (Kurumi has already supplied the joke answer):  Young Adam.

I figured that I mis-rememberd Splash after 35 years or got a redeux.

My WAG was Basic Instinct, which I've never seen.

[jlam]

A widower teams up with a woman with Alzheimer's and travels thousands of miles to find his disabled son.

[J N Winkler]

My WAG was Basic Instinct, which I've never seen.

I have.  It's a very simple plot:  attractive blonde tempts a world-weary homicide detective into gross misconduct, involving an interrogation scene that is commonly parodied with a housecat or beaver in the hot seat.

[Henry]

A 12-year-old breaks his arm during recess, but gains the ability to throw 100 MPH fastballs and, as a result, gets a spot on the Cubs' roster. The team almost immediately turns its fortunes around, then wins the division title against its hated rival on the last day of the season. Finally, even though the kid retires after that crucial clinching game, the Cubs go on to win the World Series.

[triplemultiplex]

Tomb robbing foreigner escapes prosecution for stealing sacred artifact despite elaborate security measures and the valiant efforts of ordinary citizens.

-the opening scene of Raiders.

[Max Rockatansky]

A 12-year-old breaks his arm during recess, but gains the ability to throw 100 MPH fastballs and, as a result, gets a spot on the Cubs' roster. The team almost immediately turns its fortunes around, then wins the division title against its hated rival on the last day of the season. Finally, even though the kid retires after that crucial clinching game, the Cubs go on to win the World Series.

Protagonist child prays for the California Angels to win the AL Pennant which he believes will reunite him with his dead beat father.  Through divine intervention the Angels do win the Pennant but the protagonist child is not reunited with his father.  The protagonist child receives a parental upgrade when he is adopted by the Manager of the California Angels. 

[kphoger]

The main character's parents are disappointed in their son because of the way he looks, so he changes his appearance in order to fit in, then runs away from home.  When he later returns, those who had scoffed at him are apologetic.  An influential old man finds him useful at a critical juncture in his business, which immediately prompts everyone else to hail him as a hero instead of a freak.

Moral of the story:  your self-worth depends on the opinions of others and how able you are to be used by them.

[GaryV]

Successful young woman leaves the big city to visit her parents' small town at Christmas for the first time in years. (Only one parent, the other has died. Or maybe she's an orphan and is visiting an aunt/uncle.) Despite it being a long-distance drive, she takes the back roads not the freeway. While there she meets a newly single man with a lowly job; their first introduction is awkward but they warm up to each other as they partake in traditional town Christmas events. Then the ex re-appears and creates tension. All is resolved and the young woman gives up her job in the big city to settle down with the guy.

[90% of all Hallmark movies. In the other 10%, the young woman falls in love with a prince (not knowing he's a prince) of some obscure Germanic kingdom where they all speak with English accents.]

[formulanone]

Immigrant crash-lands in Kansas without documents, works for out-of-date media, ignores FAA airspace restrictions, alters time clock, and is hailed as hero.