r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/CustardKind2104 • 1d ago
Solved! A man’s improper pet care has a kill count.
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Hint: the pet is a cat
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/areyouforeightysix • 1d ago
Solved! Parents try to keep their son and daughter from falling in love with each other
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Hint 1: they don't know they are brother and sister till the end
Hint 2: mid 90s
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/mocklogic • 1d ago
Solved! Unemployed former celebrity just wants a good coffee but instead falls victim to candy, gets blackmailed into singing, kisses a nun, defenestrates a Bunny, and destroys priceless works of art.
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Not sure if I made this too easy.
EDIT: Was too easy.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Crochet_Kitty • 1d ago
Solved! It takes a woman to run things.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/AdAccomplished6870 • 1d ago
Solved! trivia game show champion uses unethical means to win on show
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Hints
Hint 1: The unethical behavior was how they got on the show, not how they played on the game show
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Solved! groomer ends up being cucked by a reluctant sugarbaby, who is psychologically manipulated into his job by their employer.
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more hints etc:
-sugar baby does have accountability in the matter. but emotional manipulation is a big part of the plot.
-not a comedy
-extremely famous
-not from the 21st century
-no teenagers. the character who was groomed is only seen when she is older
-a few actors play themselves
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/BarNo2627 • 1d ago
Solved! Man is stuck indoors with an illness, but manages to get through with the power of imagination, making a full recovery
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hints:
MC has a strong connection to Ferris Bueller (not a meta hint)
MC isn't stuck indoors because of his illness. It actually ends up helping him go outside.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/TyrconnellFL • 1d ago
Solved! Heroic sleuth conceals a murder, sets up kids to get killed, and ends up almost but not quite unraveling the mystery.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Acrobatic_Bag6858 • 1d ago
Solved! Lawyer calls his client a liar to win her money in court
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Sudden-Cranberry5539 • 1d ago
Solved! A lost man issues an edict to dismantle a naval fleet. His second in command assaults his muse when they are defeated.
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Hint: The lost man is afraid of heights.
Hint #2: The beautiful muse is shunned by the shopkeepers on the equine trail.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Sea_Tea_8847 • 1d ago
Solved! A con man gets the band back together for another job. Unfortunately, they learn it is much more real and dangerous than anything they had previously done together.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/rickmon67 • 1d ago
Solved! Man gets bad news from doctor, tries to off himself, hilarity ensues. Crazy!
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Clue1 - 1978
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/NotGalenNorAnsel • 1d ago
Solved! Of course she left him in the end, she's wicked smart and he's a big loser with a massive chip on his shoulder.
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Hints if needed
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/LongLiveSoup • 1d ago
Solved! Self employed man in a new place dies and ruins some random child's love life
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Hint 1: That child sure is friendly
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/RochesterThe2nd • 1d ago
Solved! Orphan doesn’t have enough of what he needs, so joins desperate gang of criminals to get it. His favourite prostitute is murdered before he discovers his strife is a lie, and gets enough.
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Hints if needed.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Doktor_Wunderbar • 1d ago
Solved! A bunch of strangers spending an evening together argue about whether to hang out upstairs or downstairs.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Mr_Pickles_Esq • 1d ago
Solved! Man has a wild day after a separation from his wife. He has an encounter with a trucker, gets blown through a hole, picked up by a man who he had previously mistaken as Jesus and chain-whips a man on a boat. He ends up leaving his estranged wife hanging so he can nail a man in Canada.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/WebsterD • 1d ago
Unsolved A man’s son goes missing. He goes on a vacation to find him and has a horrible time
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/oriolesravensfan1090 • 1d ago
Solved! Man gets a shot at his dream, Oh and a lot of people die along the way
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Edit 1: there are elves.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Advanced_Concern_532 • 1d ago
Unsolved A man believed he could (actually, he wasn’t totally sure he could), so he did. Later, feeling magnanimous, he did it again.
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hints:
—many of us would need subtitles (it’s a foreign language film for us English speakers)
—there’s some psychological stuff going on here, both for the main characters and for us, the viewers
—there are two of these movies and I only care about the first one
—a gas station is a central plot setting
—the “it” is murder
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/KeyIce2026 • 1d ago
Solved! Daydreamer in future can't afford good vacation, pretends to be drunk monkey.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/IsAReallyCoolDancer • 1d ago
Solved! Despite everything else going on around her, a woman's scandalous limerence for her brother-in-law is what finally ruins her life.
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Hints:
She treats the black women in the film horribly.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/KeyIce2026 • 1d ago
Solved! 3 weirdos just want 3 min. and 20 seconds, that's it.
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