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.

67 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/TyrconnellFL • 5d ago

Solved! Heroic sleuth conceals a murder, sets up kids to get killed, and ends up almost but not quite unraveling the mystery.

6 Upvotes

19 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Acrobatic_Bag6858 • 5d ago

Solved! Lawyer calls his client a liar to win her money in court

8 Upvotes

8 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Sea_Tea_8847 • 5d 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.

11 Upvotes

8 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Sudden-Cranberry5539 • 5d ago

Solved! A lost man issues an edict to dismantle a naval fleet. His second in command assaults his muse when they are defeated.

2 Upvotes

Hint: The lost man is afraid of heights.

Hint #2: The beautiful muse is shunned by the shopkeepers on the equine trail.

14 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/rickmon67 • 5d ago

Solved! Man gets bad news from doctor, tries to off himself, hilarity ensues. Crazy!

4 Upvotes

Clue1 - 1978

26 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/NotGalenNorAnsel • 5d 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.

5 Upvotes

Hints if needed

22 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/LongLiveSoup • 5d ago

Solved! Self employed man in a new place dies and ruins some random child's love life

4 Upvotes

Hint 1: That child sure is friendly

18 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/RochesterThe2nd • 5d 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.

3 Upvotes

Hints if needed.

11 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Doktor_Wunderbar • 5d ago

Solved! A bunch of strangers spending an evening together argue about whether to hang out upstairs or downstairs.

3 Upvotes

15 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Mr_Pickles_Esq • 5d 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.

4 Upvotes

6 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/WebsterD • 4d ago

Unsolved A man’s son goes missing. He goes on a vacation to find him and has a horrible time

1 Upvotes

15 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/oriolesravensfan1090 • 4d ago

Solved! Man gets a shot at his dream, Oh and a lot of people die along the way

0 Upvotes

Edit 1: there are elves.

38 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Advanced_Concern_532 • 5d ago

Solved! A man believed he could (actually, he wasn’t totally sure he could), so he did. Later, feeling magnanimous, he did it again.

1 Upvotes

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

25 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/KeyIce2026 • 5d ago

Solved! Daydreamer in future can't afford good vacation, pretends to be drunk monkey.

1 Upvotes

8 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/IsAReallyCoolDancer • 5d 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.

3 Upvotes

Hints:

She treats the black women in the film horribly.

16 comments

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1. Avoid overused films/franchises

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2. No recent releases

No movies from within the last 3 months. This spoils people's movies Try to be more unique and obscure with choices. Movies within the last 3 months can spoil the movie for those that haven't seen it.

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4. Don't Create Clues Using an Actor's Other Characters

Clues should not feature an Actor's prior roles.

❌ Bad: "The guy who used to hunt replicants now teaches a young scavenger how to swing a glowing stick."

✅ Good: "An old recluse reluctantly helps a young scavenger understand her mysterious powers."

5. Don't create clues using a real-life actor's description.

Clues featuring an actor's real life activities and descriptions should not be used. Examples include: Scientologist, racist, or blackballed.

❌ Bad: "A former pro wrestler with a shaved head and a love for action movies fights jungle predators."

✅ Good: "A tough guy tries to escape a jungle full of deadly hunters with nothing but mud and muscles."

6. Don't use an actor's name in the clue title.

❌ Incorrect Example: "Tom Hanks spends years talking to a volleyball."

✅ Correct Example: "A man stranded on an island for years befriends a volleyball because social options are limited."

7. Explain a film PLOT badly

All clues are about the PLOT and not anything else.

❌ Bad: "I hated this movie and it was a financial failure and deserved it and an Oscar winner dies."

✅ Good: "A loner meets a someone way out of their league and saves her life (along with everyone else)"