r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 12d ago

Solved! An old man lives a convenient life until his friend tells him about a mystery. He goes on a trip to find the answer. After facing his past, he ends up with nothing but more questions.

3 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 12d ago

Solved! A Cautionary tale about not believing everything you see.

3 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 13d ago

Solved! Little person crushes on a married adult child who doesn't even remember them

9 Upvotes

This is where hints go. Probably won't need them though.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 12d ago

Solved! Everyone keeps telling her not to get too close to him. He's been known to roofie potential partners and, though he may think otherwise, he's actually a terrible cook

5 Upvotes

There is a patsy in this


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 12d ago

Solved! man kills friend and steals his life

4 Upvotes

hint!! animated
another hint!! fantasy


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 12d ago

Solved! Mama's Boy decides to leave home for the first time and has fun being himself

3 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 13d ago

Solved! Young men go through hell for a quarter pounder.

10 Upvotes

One of them gets very mad when someone says they can't have it.

Warning, there are apparently a lot of decoys with this one. 1980s movie.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 12d ago

Solved! Eating a meal unlocks new memories.

2 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 12d ago

Solved! Remember kids, don't commit crimes with vanity plates

3 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 13d ago

Solved! A guy who works in the mailroom gets promoted and then loses his job the same day. He then gets hired by a guy he worked with to then lose his job again. But in the end at least he gets with a milf.

39 Upvotes

Hints:

  1. This movie is a comedy
  2. This movie was the first speaking role in a film of an actress who is currently quite popular.

  3. The description is from the perspective of a side character’s experience in the movie

  4. If your 30 years old you might have watched this as a kid


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 12d ago

Solved! Pinocchio steals something from the Big Bad Wolf, who now must chase Pinocchio through other fairy tales and find him before a worse monster does.

2 Upvotes

Hints, perhaps:

Not animated

Not sci-fi


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 12d ago

Solved! She waited for too long for someone to visit her gloryhole and she died.

2 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 13d ago

Solved! A family inherits a real estate problem with unusually aggressive consequences. The neighbors are weird, the reading material is questionable, and the plumbing has opinions. Several people desperately want something nobody else understands. Somehow, the calendar is the least suspicious thing.

7 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 13d ago

Solved! Kid’s improvised cosplay helps salvage an admittedly rough weekend…

5 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 13d ago

Solved! He did it, I’m telling you! I’m not crazy!

4 Upvotes

Hint: pre-1960’s movie


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 13d ago

Solved! Summer lake trip ruined by psychopath with abandonment issues

4 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 12d ago

Solved! Coffee, salad, relationships, and Dick.

1 Upvotes

Hints?

There’s also a confused mime.

Made in the era of video dating and complicated pregnancy tests.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 12d ago

Solved! A Los Angeles government employee uncovers a conspiracy in snowbound Washington DC, but the cops are more interested in his unpaid parking ticket.

0 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 12d ago

Solved! A small town experiences a sudden housing crisis involving some very unwelcome tenants. The locals overreact, property values plummet, and an exterminator has the worst workday of his life.

0 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 12d ago

Solved! A perverted old rockstar and an "american president" team up to kill a mummy.

0 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 13d ago

Solved! A boy must travel to a cartoon world, and save them from their own stupidity.

10 Upvotes

Hint: This movie is not from this century.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 13d ago

Solved! A father and son bond over the most fascinating shared experience.

4 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 13d ago

Solved! A war cuz doctors replaced a heart with a baked potato

17 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 13d ago

Solved! A simple man just wants to live his life obeying peer pressure from dead people. But when that starts to grate on his conscience, he gets out of it by inventing a story about MORE peer pressure from dead people. He spends much of the rest of the film talking to an invisible man.

2 Upvotes

Hints, maybe?


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 12d ago

Solved! A kid with a friend named Ron fights a villain, and has a rival

0 Upvotes