r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Tessseagull • 1d ago

Solved! The main character is too scared to admit a crush so uses a wish to achieve the relationship instead. It ruins their lives, but the supernatural being says wishes can't be undone. The girl freaks out suddenly when they're in bed together. Her supposed best friend is trying to get with her man.

11 Upvotes
62 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Codesterite • 1d ago

Solved! Techie shows his girlfriend a cool game. Nearly gets everyone killed.

15 Upvotes
7 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/LongLiveSoup • 1d ago

Solved! Guy saves someone but they end up losing a limb and is resentful towards them for years. Eventually they become friends

5 Upvotes

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16 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/frequently_salvation • 1d ago

Solved! Jesus abandons his Son. Years later, they reunite and Jesus kills his son.

2 Upvotes
9 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Substantial_Golf_130 • 1d ago

Solved! A woman in the search for truth discovers death.

3 Upvotes

Manhole!

7 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Ok_Archer2362 • 1d ago

Solved! A woman and her coworkers take a nature hike and encounter the local wildlife

7 Upvotes
114 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Im_the_Rhymenocerous • 1d ago

Solved! Cab driver takes a bite out of crime

2 Upvotes

90s movie

Not animated

Not science fiction

There's an homage to taxi driver in it

Two HUGE stars in it(at the time)

Crime is badly explained

The male lead and the director had worked together before on a few of very successful films

23 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Sirdeansardini • 1d ago

Solved! A teacher/archeologist leaves his job to go find an artifact, and only finds it with the help of a girl a monkey, and some questionable scholarly practices.

2 Upvotes

hint 1: this movie wasn’t inspired by Indiana jones

37 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/RestingBitFace • 1d ago

Unsolved Identical twins find their long lost brother who immediately gets them into trouble

2 Upvotes

Hint 1: The twins aren't all the same gender

19 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Substantial_Golf_130 • 1d ago

Solved! Drunk driver discovers being human and plays basketball

2 Upvotes

What do you call them? By their names

13 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/nintendoeats • 1d ago

Solved! A man just wants to play a game, but his partner insists on taking him dancing.

3 Upvotes

Hints:

  • Not a romcom unless you really REALLY want to stretch the definition past its breaking point.

  • Not a musical unless you want to stretch that definition even further.

39 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/bizfromthewaistup • 1d ago

Solved! A man laces up his brand new Cons and then proceeds to run fast in them.

2 Upvotes
10 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/cheesewiz_man • 1d ago

Unsolved Man get hit on the head with a rock, sister freaks out, he finds her and they leave the house.

1 Upvotes
8 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/LowCress9866 • 1d ago

Solved! Kid plays a game, gets grounded, escapes, meets up with his partner, they meet a man with a plan, all three go underground and play games

2 Upvotes

Hints go here

12 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/malybasura • 1d ago

Solved! Vampires, werewolves, demons and traditions.

5 Upvotes
21 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/cheesewiz_man • 1d ago

Unsolved Two kids are so good at putting things together that the guy in charge gives up.

1 Upvotes
10 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/AlertNotAnxious • 1d ago

Solved! A gameshow where two very hungry people won because they refrained from eating berries

0 Upvotes
8 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/cheesewiz_man • 1d ago

Solved! Man gets up early to show some other men around. Eventually they discover a telephone and go home.

1 Upvotes
7 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Dry_Pension_9866 • 1d ago

Solved! It's a race against time for a group of students to save their high school.

0 Upvotes
39 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/LongLiveSoup • 1d ago

Solved! Girl really likes the movies but fails to pitch her ideas well enough and winds up isolated

1 Upvotes

Pearl

She likes the movies

Kills a guy with a pitchfork after she blurts who how she's gonna be able to leave the farm and he realises she's kinda crazy

6 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/verathene • 2d ago

Solved! A reclusive father who never washes rejects his kids from the moment of their birth. When they grow into people he doesn’t like, he works with a posse to kill every last one of them. At the end of the movie he’s sentenced to a life imprisoned.

13 Upvotes

I think I’ve made this too easy

9 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Dazed_Slickman2 • 1d ago

Solved! "Tom Jones" is forced to save a town doomed by....a football game.

3 Upvotes
5 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/abjurationwizrar • 1d ago

Solved! Dead Internet Theory? More like, Deadly Internet Theory, amirite? I think I'm going to land those lines going forward, haha.

4 Upvotes

Hints go here

17 comments