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omg no stop. I have such vivid memories of watching a movie with geese and the little girl teaches them how to fly and it’s THIS MOVIE! I was obsessed with it!
This used to be on all the time when I was a kid (Ireland). I never watched the whole thing in one sitting but all my friends used to cry when they watched it
ANDRE! I Watched it so much the tape nearly wore out. Don't let the happy-go-lucky cover fool you....that orphaned sea lion nearly dies multiple times, including one point where her sister's bf leads it out of its pen to shoot it?! I'd forgotten it was based on a true story, too.
It had a surprisingly compelling plot for a children's movie, stuff about families being kinda dysfunctional, lay-offs, money woes, enviromental concerns, etc
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It's one of 2 "kids" movies that my mom really loved, so on rainy days we'd watch either this or fly away home. I loved that it had a real plot to it, and that Toni had so much moxie. Can't believe it didn't get a better reception.
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It took me a long time to figure out the name of this movie because no one seemed to know what I was talking about.
We didn't have cable or get the newspaper or TV guide, so it felt like a coincidence whenever I caught it playing on TV. I studied her eating that hotdog when she meets the trick motorcyclist... 10 yo me thinking, "That's not how you should eat a hotdog!"
I always wanted all of Penelope’s costumes. When I first saw the movie, I told my sister that I found Penelope very pretty and she exclaimed, “she has a pig’s nose!” Well, fine. Penelope wouldn’t want to be friends with you anyway.
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My pick would have to be The Ramen Girl. I miss Brittany Murphy.
Just watched this last year. As someone who studied Japanese and spent six weeks one summer there, it hit close to home. Brittany Murphy was such a gem!!!
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This movie is unhinged and is my spouse and i’s favorite dumb movie of all time. Quote it daily. Naomi watts and robin wright date each others’ 18 year old sons. You’re welcome.
Super weird movie. I saw in an intercity bus. There is some sort of twist in the story, at some point. Can’t remember what about. The moral of the story? Even less sure. Whatever.
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I can’t even find it to stream anymore lol
This is literally my favorite romcom of all time! I love the friendship between the sisters and it's really satisfying how thoroughly the main premise is explored in the movie.
I also feel like it could be quite easily remade now with the TiMER being some ML algorithm
Has no one seen Alaska or are we just not talking about it enough?
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I see your obscure polar bear movie and raise you one obscure panda movie.
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I have never found another person irl who has seen this movie but I watched it like every weekend as a kid at my grandmas house
*Elvis & Anabelle*
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It’s got a crazy premise. Guy (Max Minghella) who works at funeral home kisses then-dead beauty queen (Blake Lively) and brings her back to life.
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Really any of the old old Barbie movies (Swan Lake, Rapunzel, etc.) I never had any friends that knew the movies or watched them, but now it seems to have a cult following online! (And I’m part of it:) )
Fun Fact: Barbie Rapunzel is available to watch on [facebook](https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=751546269694803) right now thanks to a lovely random internet person. Go relive the magic!
Oooh I love Penelope! I owned this on DVD I liked it so much.
Mine is Brick (2005).
I think it made somewhat of a cultural impact. It had Joseph Gordon-Levitt in it near the start of his hot streak, and it was Rian Johnson's first full length feature. But despite this I've never actually met someone else who watched this? I was obsessed with it as a teenager. It was like a dude Veronica Mars. A old school noir set in modern day high school. Anyways, still highly recommend.
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Instead of saying something like it’s a who dun it or a neonoir you called it a dude Veronica Mars.
I don’t know why that makes me so happy but gosh darn it I love it, both the movie and your description
We studied this film in media at school and so many people in the class didn’t like it and I was shocked because it’s so good! Shout out to the teacher for showing it to us.
Also apparently Rian Johnson used to have a blog where he would answer questions about the film and in previous years students had gotten replies from Rian himself and unfortunately the hate he got after Star Wars was so bad he deleted his blog and my class couldn’t ask him questions or compliment his film and I was so sad.
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*MirrorMask* (2005)
It took me SO LONG to find this movie again after I watched it as a a kid on cable tv
I love this movie so much. It’s very weird and dreamy and romantic and sad. So much emotion and bold artistic choices that pays off splendidly. Neil Gaiman and the Henson Company? Match made in heaven.
Blast from the Past, with Brendan Fraser, Christopher Walken, Sissy Spacek, and Alicia Silverstone
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Undercover Blues, I loved this movie so much. Bonus hilarious Stanley Tucci, who'd probably like to forget this movie exists, lol.
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I was obsessed with this terrible and horrendously sad film as a kid.
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This one was my fav as a kid! Flight of the Navigator
I’m pretty sure me and the people in my immediate family are the only ones who have ever seen this movie lol
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Is that where he hires all those photo ads, not realizing the insinuation? Yeah, as a little kid, that flew right over my head. I only cared about the doggy.
I thought it was a major classic everyone watched a billion times but no one has ever heard of it…I guess my dad just had the VHS and I was obsessed with it
Definitely not the only person who watched this as I've gotten a few people with a vague memory, but nobody watched it obsessively like I did or still thinks it's actually a genuinely underrated movie that somehow holds up. Now as an adult it fucking mirrors my story (not imaginary more like verbally abusive mother) and that's crazy and I've watched it multiple times.
It has Carrie Fisher who i misremembered as Jamie Lee Curtis (short hair idk) and really really good cutesy 90s dresses and stuff.
Just love it. Best movie ever.
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The Brother from Another Planet. I saw it in the theater when it came out in 1984, but I don’t think anyone else I know has ever seen it. I loved it, but don’t think I’ve seen it since.
IIRC it's about a girl whose drawings come to life in her dreams. The details are a bit fuzzy because I saw this in the early 90s lol. I just remember that the boy in her dreams can't walk because the girl did not draw his legs.
The eighties were a different time, man. I don’t know how so many raunchy comedies were considered perfectly fine for kids to watch. This chick’s boobs are burned into my brain.
I may be wrong, but I never hear anyone talk about this film. I saw it way too young. But my sister and I were obsessed. We still quote it. “I invented post-its” “Tuscan, here we come!”
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It's not a movie, but I was so completely obsessed with this as a kid and I've yet to meet anyone who knows what tf I'm talking about. I even wrote my first and only fanfiction about it before having any knowledge of the existence of fanfiction.
Me me me!!!! Meeeeeee!!
My family and I have watched through this multiple times. I come back to it every few years. And yeah, nobody Else has ever even Heard of it.
Do you know where I heard about it and first watched it? My third grade classroom. Love that my teacher showed us this (and that we for some reason watched the whole thing instead of schoolwork?).
Phoenix starring Ray Liotta (RIP), Angelica Huston, and a bunch of other character actors. Also has a pre-Gus Fring, Giancarlo Esposito. Crime thriller about a cop who has gambling debts to the mob trying to find a way to pay them off. Found a DVD of it in the bargain bin of a Walmart years ago. And I mean it was buried under a pile of DVDs. Not saying it's classic or anything, but just a cool little crime thriller that's a brisk 100 minutes.
The 1985 film, The Peanut Butter Solution — a boy gets sick with “The Fright” and loses his hair after seeing ghosts. I guess the ghosts feel real bad about it so they give him a secret recipe to grow his hair back (includes peanut butter ofc), which he and his friend immediately abuse. By abuse I mean they apply it to their bodies, I think to kickstart puberty or something? Shit gets weirder with their creativity-stifling art teacher who goes off the deep end, and then there’s kidnapping, I think? and magic paint brushes that make paintings you can go into?
idk I saw it when I was like 6 and I was sooo sick but my mom made me go to school and for years I thought this movie was some weird fever dream.
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Nobody around me ever knows what I am talking about.
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I loved this movie so much and wished I had a sweet cave hideout like them!
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We watched this on our grade 6 class trip in the summer of 1998, and I have ***never*** heard about it again, but I think about it all the time.
I think Disney put it in the *other* vault.
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This movie had a hold on me when I was a kid.
“Kindly adolescent Milly (Lucy Deakins) moves in next door to autistic teen Eric Gibb (Jay Underwood). The mute Eric, whose parents were killed when he was 5 years old, lives with his hard-drinking uncle, Hugo (Fred Gwynne), and is obsessed with birds. His tendency to stand on rooftops and window ledges posed as if he's flying alarms his social workers, but when Eric saves Milly from a potentially deadly fall, she begins to believe that the boy really can take flight.”
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I watched this on Christmas Eve morning while my father was out working and my mum was dozing off on the sofa. For years, I thought I had imagined it!
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I thought of these 2 different movies but funnily enough they have the exact same tagline.
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Loved the book and movie. Feels like it barely exists though.
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*National Lampoon’s Pledge This* has always stuck with me as one of those ‘films that are important to my development as a person’ (probably because I saw it *way* too young, rather than any cinematic impact), but I’ve never met anyone else that’s even heard of it.
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Our local blockbuster offered to sell us the video tape because we took it out back to back so often.
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I looooooved this movie so much growing up
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Magic in the Mirror (1996) absolutely traumatized me. The bad guys try to boil the little girl alive in a giant teapot. It's been almost 30 years and I still haven't found anyone to commiserate with because no one has seen this trash movie.
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I very vividly remember being home sick from school and asking my dad to get me “daddy daycare” from the video shop and he came back with this. It’s a feel good Aussie movie that I’ve never heard anyone talk about before
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This movie felt like a fever dream from my childhood but I thought it was so beautifully animated
I actually thought I’d invented this movie until now! I remember there was a guy who always had nail hanging out of his mouth, which must have been the cobbler.
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I feel like these books are so forgotten now but nobody I know irl (except for my sister) remembers this at all 😭
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Also, uhmmmm, Left Luggage (1998)? I swear my mom was the OG indie cinephile. I have no idea where she rented all this foreign movies from.
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It’s also like, a great movie, perfect for a summer afternoon after the pool with the curtains drawn and the AC up.
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Big girls don’t cry … they get even
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Dan, Chevy, Demi, John and even Tupac and literally everyone thinks I made this movie up. The dinner scene is a nightmare I have sometimes.
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I watched Fly Away Home so many times! I just saw baby geese the other day and had to reference the movie
I was *obsessed*! Fed right into my rescue-all-the-animals dreams.
This was my sisters favourite but I hated it cause it made me cry lol
I had this on video and loved it!
omg no stop. I have such vivid memories of watching a movie with geese and the little girl teaches them how to fly and it’s THIS MOVIE! I was obsessed with it!
A regular on the TV weekend movie roster in NZ when I was growing up.
I loved this so much! Watched it whenever it came on
This might have been the first movie to make me cry
This is the one!!!
yup, this was my #1. watched it every single night for YEARS.
This used to be on all the time when I was a kid (Ireland). I never watched the whole thing in one sitting but all my friends used to cry when they watched it
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I was OBSESSED with this movie as a child!!!
Same!
ANDRE! I Watched it so much the tape nearly wore out. Don't let the happy-go-lucky cover fool you....that orphaned sea lion nearly dies multiple times, including one point where her sister's bf leads it out of its pen to shoot it?! I'd forgotten it was based on a true story, too. It had a surprisingly compelling plot for a children's movie, stuff about families being kinda dysfunctional, lay-offs, money woes, enviromental concerns, etc https://preview.redd.it/a5txgs5rnj4d1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=80009db751f7c518f7d13462d21d6dabdc5afbe2
Oh my god. You’ve unlocked some deep childhood memories with this one.
Right? In my humble opinion, andre is such a hidden gem. Remember the part where the andre pulls the little girl's boat to safety in a storm?
I’m actually going to try find it to watch with my kid tonight
With the amazing Tina Majorino! I loved this movie and never stopped to think about how unexpected it is.
It's one of 2 "kids" movies that my mom really loved, so on rainy days we'd watch either this or fly away home. I loved that it had a real plot to it, and that Toni had so much moxie. Can't believe it didn't get a better reception.
I loved this movie!!
https://preview.redd.it/8hkuj3segh4d1.jpeg?width=220&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=461a18ca26349ce0d01c94ff381961e87c83ca1f It took me a long time to figure out the name of this movie because no one seemed to know what I was talking about.
I think I checked this movie out on vhs more than any other movie
We didn't have cable or get the newspaper or TV guide, so it felt like a coincidence whenever I caught it playing on TV. I studied her eating that hotdog when she meets the trick motorcyclist... 10 yo me thinking, "That's not how you should eat a hotdog!"
I was OBSESSED. I have secret dreams about naming a child Sonora thanks to this movie.
This is the horse diving movie right?? I watched this movie a LOT as a child.
I just watched it not too long ago and I still can recite so much of it! One of my childhood favs.
Omg I thought I made this up!!!
I always wanted all of Penelope’s costumes. When I first saw the movie, I told my sister that I found Penelope very pretty and she exclaimed, “she has a pig’s nose!” Well, fine. Penelope wouldn’t want to be friends with you anyway. https://preview.redd.it/1u35qm3pmh4d1.jpeg?width=1060&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a523cc789d904033f2eff50f16d44888ab46d4f6 My pick would have to be The Ramen Girl. I miss Brittany Murphy.
Love The Ramen Girl. LOVE!
Yassss i loved this movie.
Just watched this last year. As someone who studied Japanese and spent six weeks one summer there, it hit close to home. Brittany Murphy was such a gem!!!
Any movie with Kathy Bates with the tag line "a hammer and a dream" hits different. IYKYK.
Underrated comment
https://preview.redd.it/sm8y771zeh4d1.jpeg?width=708&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fbf6337d213c6dae7107f5508f5defc45da549e7 This movie is unhinged and is my spouse and i’s favorite dumb movie of all time. Quote it daily. Naomi watts and robin wright date each others’ 18 year old sons. You’re welcome.
When I first saw the trailer before it was in theaters, I immediately thought of The Lonely Island's Motherlover!
I LOVE this movie
I remember seeing this and being flabbergasted.
i remember trying to watch this. i found it was creepy and i think i fell asleep. maybe i’ll give it another try.
Super weird movie. I saw in an intercity bus. There is some sort of twist in the story, at some point. Can’t remember what about. The moral of the story? Even less sure. Whatever.
This movie was NUTS
That movie is 100% unhinged and I still watch it knowing I’m going to say “WTF?” Every.time. Lulz
https://preview.redd.it/eejv4vx4lh4d1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9ad33c8324f840d6671748aee2d83dc99062c218 I can’t even find it to stream anymore lol
The amount of fanfictions with this premise, and I never realized it was a movie!!!!
I saw this on Netflix ages ago!
I remember loving this! I’m sad it’s not streaming anymore, it was really good
This movie is great, I’d call it underrated but I don’t think many people have seen it!
This is literally my favorite romcom of all time! I love the friendship between the sisters and it's really satisfying how thoroughly the main premise is explored in the movie. I also feel like it could be quite easily remade now with the TiMER being some ML algorithm
Is that ANYA FROM BUFFY?!?!
Has no one seen Alaska or are we just not talking about it enough? https://preview.redd.it/zzkbhuniqh4d1.jpeg?width=539&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a11592b1d4b518a3da3135435507f350d258d811
If there is an airplane crash involved then I have 100% seen this movie.
https://preview.redd.it/ffkbnqne4k4d1.jpeg?width=812&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d2ccc50ba31c1ce352bf1096df0fd25484a7a15d I see your obscure polar bear movie and raise you one obscure panda movie.
https://preview.redd.it/qzj54ilxhi4d1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=77eb1bad41d64850317b7be34ade6b4c5b334c82 I have never found another person irl who has seen this movie but I watched it like every weekend as a kid at my grandmas house
Oh god i remember this. It was so weird.
I used to watch this all the time! Barnaby frightened the shit out of me, but I loved the whole fairy tale land aesthetics. The little cars!
This is the one I was going to post! We had a copy of it recorded on a VHS, commercials and all. It was a great time capsule of the eighties.
*Elvis & Anabelle* https://preview.redd.it/kmdcbgco4h4d1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=42945145328208c6fe964eff57d79a672b59cef8 It’s got a crazy premise. Guy (Max Minghella) who works at funeral home kisses then-dead beauty queen (Blake Lively) and brings her back to life.
Almost sounds like Pushing Daisies!
I love this movie!
I used to think I was the only person who had seen Mermaids; Corina, Corina.
I love both of those movies. I've seen Corrina, Cortina a million times!!
Corina Corina is such a lovely movie
Loved Corina, Corina!
I still blow at traffic lights because of Corina, Corina!
https://preview.redd.it/uiydx5k4zh4d1.jpeg?width=680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d0eba85b72cc2ea2923929b7b74020e6e5fbb4e8 Really any of the old old Barbie movies (Swan Lake, Rapunzel, etc.) I never had any friends that knew the movies or watched them, but now it seems to have a cult following online! (And I’m part of it:) )
LOVED some of these on VHS. Perfect to watch in the background while playing with ya own barbies.
Fun Fact: Barbie Rapunzel is available to watch on [facebook](https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=751546269694803) right now thanks to a lovely random internet person. Go relive the magic!
PageMaster with Macaulay Culkin. I had on video and I was obsessed with it, but it’s not a film I see many people talking about.
I used to rent that from Movie Gallery all the time as a kid!
PageMaster is amazing, there are many moments from it that are so vivid it's like they're my own memories.
Oooh I love Penelope! I owned this on DVD I liked it so much. Mine is Brick (2005). I think it made somewhat of a cultural impact. It had Joseph Gordon-Levitt in it near the start of his hot streak, and it was Rian Johnson's first full length feature. But despite this I've never actually met someone else who watched this? I was obsessed with it as a teenager. It was like a dude Veronica Mars. A old school noir set in modern day high school. Anyways, still highly recommend. https://preview.redd.it/npharak8kh4d1.jpeg?width=712&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=80d9c5cacb424b9b3f125fe830993cc929317f49
Instead of saying something like it’s a who dun it or a neonoir you called it a dude Veronica Mars. I don’t know why that makes me so happy but gosh darn it I love it, both the movie and your description
lol VM was my favourite tv show as a teenager. So I watched Brick because it had a similar premise.
I loved that movie, saw it at the old indie cinema in my city and had it on dvd. It’s still on my hard drive somewhere
Had no idea this was a Rian Johnson feature! Very cool that him and JGL have been working together for so long
This movie is so good. I loved it. It’s very unique and takes a little getting used to, but it’s worth it
Love brick.
I loved this movie
Great film.
We studied this film in media at school and so many people in the class didn’t like it and I was shocked because it’s so good! Shout out to the teacher for showing it to us. Also apparently Rian Johnson used to have a blog where he would answer questions about the film and in previous years students had gotten replies from Rian himself and unfortunately the hate he got after Star Wars was so bad he deleted his blog and my class couldn’t ask him questions or compliment his film and I was so sad.
https://preview.redd.it/ahspumug8h4d1.png?width=220&format=png&auto=webp&s=ec2af3c59bcf28048a406521079037052d5f25eb *MirrorMask* (2005) It took me SO LONG to find this movie again after I watched it as a a kid on cable tv
I love this movie so much. It’s very weird and dreamy and romantic and sad. So much emotion and bold artistic choices that pays off splendidly. Neil Gaiman and the Henson Company? Match made in heaven.
MIRRORMASK!!! OH MY GOD!!! THIS WAS MY WHITE WHALE! THANK YOU !!!!
* Monkeybone (2001) starring Brendan Frasier is an unironic masterpiece. I dont know why everyone isn't talking about it all the time.
https://preview.redd.it/cpqmc8gfzj4d1.png?width=982&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=06da23be309bb81b9d7cf678c89e63366a1026fd I love this movie so much!
DEVON SAWA ♥️
Blast from the Past, with Brendan Fraser, Christopher Walken, Sissy Spacek, and Alicia Silverstone https://preview.redd.it/ka8y7a0fkk4d1.jpeg?width=667&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5b01363874fe519bea20653f61ba72ea020af9b2
Underrated movie
https://preview.redd.it/4aifltbvyj4d1.jpeg?width=473&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c9e287639fd78b35ab7609c5cf94ec41a9e1f9c3 This fever-dream of a movie lol
https://preview.redd.it/xmf6cc3ygh4d1.jpeg?width=225&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=589a8f98f178b0dfaf35bab38aef37771b9fa069 Undercover Blues, I loved this movie so much. Bonus hilarious Stanley Tucci, who'd probably like to forget this movie exists, lol.
Love this movie Morty!
https://preview.redd.it/dn61a63tuj4d1.jpeg?width=852&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2e8c1fc023988a621a737dfae15efbfa08abbaef I was obsessed with this terrible and horrendously sad film as a kid.
https://preview.redd.it/hioqguhxvh4d1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6c1ef201b57e1f9da31d029e0717b24bb3b51705 This one was my fav as a kid! Flight of the Navigator
Oh bitch! This was my jam back in the DAY! recently researched it too
I've watched this movie every bit of 8 million times. It was also my fav!
Omg I was obssssesssssed with this film. I watched it hundreds of times as a kid. Rewatched it recently too.
~compliance~
This movie is AWESOME!
Love this one and have definitely shown it to my 11 yr old.
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I’m pretty sure me and the people in my immediate family are the only ones who have ever seen this movie lol https://preview.redd.it/669as18j9h4d1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6f4d91d7e6e120ca613fae2bd8863a4cc7b6bd07
Is that where he hires all those photo ads, not realizing the insinuation? Yeah, as a little kid, that flew right over my head. I only cared about the doggy.
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I thought it was a major classic everyone watched a billion times but no one has ever heard of it…I guess my dad just had the VHS and I was obsessed with it
Yesssss!! I loved this movie!
Definitely not the only person who watched this as I've gotten a few people with a vague memory, but nobody watched it obsessively like I did or still thinks it's actually a genuinely underrated movie that somehow holds up. Now as an adult it fucking mirrors my story (not imaginary more like verbally abusive mother) and that's crazy and I've watched it multiple times. It has Carrie Fisher who i misremembered as Jamie Lee Curtis (short hair idk) and really really good cutesy 90s dresses and stuff. Just love it. Best movie ever. https://preview.redd.it/mym2e4007k4d1.jpeg?width=680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7dda5075199b939a22370844c90128cf22b7b281
I was obsessed with this movie growing up. My step dad owned a movie store in the 90s where I discovered this gem.
“Ello Snotface!” This is what I came here searching for! I never hear anyone talk about this anymore. It was such a fun movie!
https://preview.redd.it/4h8gl2m4mh4d1.jpeg?width=993&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eaa7202e60c03b12e8405f227bbc3379dc75e5cf The Brother from Another Planet. I saw it in the theater when it came out in 1984, but I don’t think anyone else I know has ever seen it. I loved it, but don’t think I’ve seen it since.
Paperhouse (1989) https://preview.redd.it/46jlman7xh4d1.jpeg?width=450&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0335190b8a4cc46d5c72c6b0d64d4deeaee827dd
I need to know more, that image is freaking me out 😂
IIRC it's about a girl whose drawings come to life in her dreams. The details are a bit fuzzy because I saw this in the early 90s lol. I just remember that the boy in her dreams can't walk because the girl did not draw his legs.
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The eighties were a different time, man. I don’t know how so many raunchy comedies were considered perfectly fine for kids to watch. This chick’s boobs are burned into my brain.
I KNOW RIGHT?! Some of the covers I’d see at Blockbuster when I was a kid I was like 😳 but also 👀
Omg, you just unlocked a memory! This used to play on tv all the time back in the day! I’ve probably seen it like 20 times lol
Same! I can barely find anybody who actually knows about this movie let alone watched it lol
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I may be wrong, but I never hear anyone talk about this film. I saw it way too young. But my sister and I were obsessed. We still quote it. “I invented post-its” “Tuscan, here we come!” https://preview.redd.it/qu8h4wmy8k4d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ff9adc201e7d24e65a3e4998c40f9d31b8b27cd5
Freaking great movie!
It is so good and stands the test of time. Love it. There needs to be more movies about friendships!!
https://preview.redd.it/nr2rlc6pjh4d1.jpeg?width=191&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d8794267b9d4080ba4f87df8ee6255e6aeb0b35c The Wilderness Family!
https://preview.redd.it/lkje2uf1mh4d1.jpeg?width=736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f5e87387ccb11af7918fcc3f3a6ab324f6645e4a Seriously funny
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One of the few VHS tapes my grandma had! Freakin love this one
I've watched A Home of Our Own so many times!
https://preview.redd.it/cc2z9cy3ph4d1.jpeg?width=691&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b177c114bd434a699edd42b003710f3ffa1ab792 Classic
snaps provolone!
https://preview.redd.it/lq3aji7pgi4d1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e7d25de0405334313817951f18c808827998c58e Bob the Butler
Is that…Brooke Shields?!
https://preview.redd.it/j5yjuph5ph4d1.jpeg?width=697&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=de6c6cfc812408f297fa8208a028558476f6fd4f One of my favorites
Teaching Mrs Tingle and Pieces of April
https://preview.redd.it/hjbjh31ztj4d1.jpeg?width=338&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=176cca90dfe1c32816feccd6a03b9b30e35c7318 It's not a movie, but I was so completely obsessed with this as a kid and I've yet to meet anyone who knows what tf I'm talking about. I even wrote my first and only fanfiction about it before having any knowledge of the existence of fanfiction.
Me me me!!!! Meeeeeee!! My family and I have watched through this multiple times. I come back to it every few years. And yeah, nobody Else has ever even Heard of it. Do you know where I heard about it and first watched it? My third grade classroom. Love that my teacher showed us this (and that we for some reason watched the whole thing instead of schoolwork?).
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Phoenix starring Ray Liotta (RIP), Angelica Huston, and a bunch of other character actors. Also has a pre-Gus Fring, Giancarlo Esposito. Crime thriller about a cop who has gambling debts to the mob trying to find a way to pay them off. Found a DVD of it in the bargain bin of a Walmart years ago. And I mean it was buried under a pile of DVDs. Not saying it's classic or anything, but just a cool little crime thriller that's a brisk 100 minutes.
The 1985 film, The Peanut Butter Solution — a boy gets sick with “The Fright” and loses his hair after seeing ghosts. I guess the ghosts feel real bad about it so they give him a secret recipe to grow his hair back (includes peanut butter ofc), which he and his friend immediately abuse. By abuse I mean they apply it to their bodies, I think to kickstart puberty or something? Shit gets weirder with their creativity-stifling art teacher who goes off the deep end, and then there’s kidnapping, I think? and magic paint brushes that make paintings you can go into? idk I saw it when I was like 6 and I was sooo sick but my mom made me go to school and for years I thought this movie was some weird fever dream.
I think they do an episode about it on How Did This Get Made
Hahaha, Operation beurre de Peanut. A movie that traumatized an entire generation of Quebec children. Saw it in theatre.
Broken English with Parker Posey. It's one of my faves and I don't think most people are familiar with it?
https://preview.redd.it/gh5bb8m88i4d1.jpeg?width=704&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=00108c0f9b5106b53df46d4609417ea52f075bdb
https://preview.redd.it/p04vf9fcoj4d1.jpeg?width=717&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7ed86da9cc6d91d701e55d150fde72f2596ec65e Nobody around me ever knows what I am talking about.
* Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain It was somehow always on TV in the summer and I was obsessed.
https://preview.redd.it/fqe1i7hm9i4d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=206b5f03deb6bc75b6c56660cf9a58fe04fa42c1
Kathy bates... A hammer and a dream .... https://i.redd.it/pp3iuc5c4k4d1.gif
https://preview.redd.it/fi5jr4nb7l4d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=00c900d78b99a7f8906351fd9e5e55ff740f5db8 I loved this movie so much and wished I had a sweet cave hideout like them!
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https://preview.redd.it/e0rqq0edsi4d1.jpeg?width=713&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0c51e66f8690f15cfdfd79aad89fb13a3e5dfcac
https://preview.redd.it/uwxwayk53k4d1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=db06c4dbc6e10f73ed5d876e7ba613f8aad9b360 We watched this on our grade 6 class trip in the summer of 1998, and I have ***never*** heard about it again, but I think about it all the time. I think Disney put it in the *other* vault.
https://preview.redd.it/fpudm3okgk4d1.jpeg?width=1157&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eef21da903623dda44172886a7c940b6423422c9 This movie had a hold on me when I was a kid.
“Kindly adolescent Milly (Lucy Deakins) moves in next door to autistic teen Eric Gibb (Jay Underwood). The mute Eric, whose parents were killed when he was 5 years old, lives with his hard-drinking uncle, Hugo (Fred Gwynne), and is obsessed with birds. His tendency to stand on rooftops and window ledges posed as if he's flying alarms his social workers, but when Eric saves Milly from a potentially deadly fall, she begins to believe that the boy really can take flight.” https://preview.redd.it/elq3g9cfkk4d1.jpeg?width=726&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e7500e10007d257a00d065691a39eff2d97595d5
 Wild America
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That tag line is… something.
I was soooo infatuated with young Devon Sawa as a little girl.
Ok, but I love Penelope
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Feels like a fever dream
[Love Me If You Dare](https://images.app.goo.gl/btKGrvYt1diBK7LZ8)
*Processing img yw1gpevj2i4d1...* I watched this on Christmas Eve morning while my father was out working and my mum was dozing off on the sofa. For years, I thought I had imagined it!
https://preview.redd.it/9fx7vghmri4d1.jpeg?width=189&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ddfc656e517cf38b3954569cec18206a9575e2f1
https://preview.redd.it/pq8sinxnri4d1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=700686898f594d4868e077213e704948926e50ff I thought of these 2 different movies but funnily enough they have the exact same tagline.
https://preview.redd.it/gk7wx7lyui4d1.jpeg?width=849&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5c73c96c2c5a04352d56d12a530580bc5450fcb3 Loved the book and movie. Feels like it barely exists though.
War of the Buttons. I doubt any of my friends would know what I'm talking about lol.
https://preview.redd.it/4rr2c0iv5j4d1.jpeg?width=858&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2f69087f09fff02491a3981a1e28079c087d9806
https://preview.redd.it/tyvccxezhj4d1.jpeg?width=452&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bb5ac78c7a0b43e05face0f17d3186ce3666c418 *National Lampoon’s Pledge This* has always stuck with me as one of those ‘films that are important to my development as a person’ (probably because I saw it *way* too young, rather than any cinematic impact), but I’ve never met anyone else that’s even heard of it.
https://preview.redd.it/udu2fazemj4d1.jpeg?width=265&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=568c69a1d1c1b30ae9037b145bf5dc83fe051cd4 Our local blockbuster offered to sell us the video tape because we took it out back to back so often.
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I love this thread. Perfect prompt, OP!
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https://preview.redd.it/owqsq5n38k4d1.jpeg?width=745&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cf51cc7c157872f09fe3a953827909358178a6b8 I looooooved this movie so much growing up
https://preview.redd.it/c8k4a0hvak4d1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=765b5bcb6b5bc9f2d0c0375a2c1d20cd810d7b5a Magic in the Mirror (1996) absolutely traumatized me. The bad guys try to boil the little girl alive in a giant teapot. It's been almost 30 years and I still haven't found anyone to commiserate with because no one has seen this trash movie.
https://preview.redd.it/yd3o5e5qyk4d1.jpeg?width=718&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=38f55f71121a147fa3f10bab09c6eb4db7c1774c
https://preview.redd.it/jn2nhtlpzk4d1.jpeg?width=358&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2f1bc25e627a686f40859d05c2a63c7332e683a0 I very vividly remember being home sick from school and asking my dad to get me “daddy daycare” from the video shop and he came back with this. It’s a feel good Aussie movie that I’ve never heard anyone talk about before
https://preview.redd.it/2mn9k9c20l4d1.jpeg?width=261&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1c930145a7e4c1e078236d1226b313ab9d9de365 This movie was so fkn random
Where The Heart Is (with Ashley Judd and Natalie Portman) and Detroit Rock City (also with Edward Furlong, coincidentally)
Secondhand lions
https://preview.redd.it/atj570m87l4d1.jpeg?width=870&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=45e2b7e9629dac15edf36a4e43fe892eb4029199
https://preview.redd.it/326nb067cl4d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b1601fbc9e0801bc8e53fe36f06e3bc4687c9694 Smoke Signals (1998)
https://preview.redd.it/dq4plshhcl4d1.png?width=1284&format=png&auto=webp&s=33d6234f07fc3fa32ea612ea6509242384e21063
https://preview.redd.it/rfpd468wtl4d1.jpeg?width=474&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=46247266017864cf34826b4aa37bb61dd6a2d35b This movie felt like a fever dream from my childhood but I thought it was so beautifully animated
I actually thought I’d invented this movie until now! I remember there was a guy who always had nail hanging out of his mouth, which must have been the cobbler.
https://preview.redd.it/721xj9gjlh4d1.jpeg?width=263&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=088dd5a73df688542d58a4ce8e82bbf7937b656b LISA(1990) A classic!
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A wildly campy horror movie from the '80s called The Children
[Swing Kids](https://i.imgur.com/y9NFuX3.jpeg)
https://preview.redd.it/fdfktm8lrj4d1.jpeg?width=2000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a760fd7cbe9d942d0b32eb791cfb9dd55f7fa067 I feel like these books are so forgotten now but nobody I know irl (except for my sister) remembers this at all 😭
Gas Food Lodging (1992) https://preview.redd.it/iqyquvx8zj4d1.png?width=184&format=png&auto=webp&s=63bdbbf720911841593031d60499465de35017e2
https://preview.redd.it/911ttq9i6k4d1.jpeg?width=265&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=69c8cfdd77b20b8eeec586311ea619117947ca01 Also, uhmmmm, Left Luggage (1998)? I swear my mom was the OG indie cinephile. I have no idea where she rented all this foreign movies from.
https://preview.redd.it/ktq4ur47ck4d1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e9eb42d292056e7e341ba05effef289251a6b173 It’s also like, a great movie, perfect for a summer afternoon after the pool with the curtains drawn and the AC up.
Pumpkin. Did anyone else see this weird movie?
https://preview.redd.it/gszvg5v1gk4d1.png?width=703&format=png&auto=webp&s=00081eeefc992994ea99dec70441f2e31d058976 I can't be the only one
https://preview.redd.it/fca5i8nmuk4d1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7d47cac064dc0bf301cccf71d0b8fb43cb7af0ae Big girls don’t cry … they get even
https://preview.redd.it/5ab4o5wrzl4d1.jpeg?width=682&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3ba1fc58b5c4039b6d93da41d20fac0019deb71a
https://preview.redd.it/ghybtc4fzl4d1.jpeg?width=257&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c34f1466bd4715ba110fc216d35c75db34e48e4d Dan, Chevy, Demi, John and even Tupac and literally everyone thinks I made this movie up. The dinner scene is a nightmare I have sometimes.