Thanks to IMDB, if you remember the identity of a single actor in a vaguely-familiar movie, you’re probably going to be able to track it down, but there are lots of exceptions floating hazily through the ether. We all had so much fun tracking down each other’s old books, why not give the visual arts a try? (Television episodes are also fair game, little ones.)
Was that a movie, or a fever dream?
For the longest time, I thought I had hallucinated a movie about a bird and a weird-looking king and a robot, but it turned out to be a real French movie called Le roi et l’oiseau, which must have played on the Quebec channels, or something.
It also explained why my father used to randomly say “GOOD-FOR-NOTHING LITTLE CHIMNEYSWEEP” to us. Not, like, as an insult. He was a homemaker and he talked to himself a lot, occasionally in our direction. My mom said she never noticed it, being at work all day, but she was laid up for a while after she had her gallbladder removed (wow, this is such a great and interesting story) and kept saying “BILL, who are you talking to?” because he would just wander around the house narrating things and interjecting into the air.
Okay, tell us about your movie and TV memories, and here is a badly-dubbed English-language version of the bizarre and beautiful French film of my dreams.
Tags: childhood, memories, misty rose-coloured memories, movies, the undiscovered country
Jeremy Brett!!! *swoons*
I’m going to spend a good 5 minutes just staring at that photo before I can move on and actually READ the post.
Ok if someone knows what this is, it would amaze me. I think I’ve mis-remembered so much of it by now BUT: I saw this movie in probably the mid/late 90s and there was a teacher, I think high school, this beard-y guy who wore a lot of flannel. He was getting his students to build a cabin AND/OR save a forest. There was a lot of controversy over his unusual teaching and his cabin-building and the parents tried to push him out. The kids loved him. Maybe I dreamed this but I really think I SAW IT on tv when I was younger.
I have really fond hazy memories of a movie called Samson & Sally which was an animated movie of a young sperm whale who somehow gets orphaned from his mom? I don’t actually remember what happens in it, except that Samson is a white sperm whale and so probably Moby Dick, also there is a part where he learns to eat squid and it was MY FAVORITE.
I also specifically remember that we rented the movie from a tiny non-chain movie rental place where you had to take the little plastic tab with the movie number on it up to the counter to get your plain black VHS box. Oh, those days.
It’s a Danish movie, based on a children’s book by Bent Haller (The Song of the Whales). The book is pretty good, though very different from the movie. It doesn’t appear to be available in English anywhere, but it’s available in Danish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWO8hZboZSo&l…
Enjoy!
although the whole movie is not available because most of it was removed from youtube.
YES I remember that too!! I used to love it when I was tiny!
I had a bunch of sketchy old Disney cartoons on vhs when I was little, and I spent YEARS trying to convince a skeptical hater-friend I used to watch Donald Duck WWII propaganda. years!
thank goddess for the internet: http://www.openculture.com/2012/12/donald_ducks_b…
Ohh!! There was a movie I remember watching when I was 5 or 6 over a summer vacation with my family and fun uncle. The whole trip has kind of blurred together with the movie, but in my defense my family rented a cabin in some place called Fantasia and we played some board game with snakes…
Anyway, the movie had an Indiana Jones feel to it, but was definitely not IJ. There were snakes and a big green emerald? or jewel? And I feel like Michael Douglas or Bill Pullman was in it?
Romancing the Stone?
My whole family went to see that movie one night, and while we were out our house was robbed. Ruined the movie for me forever!
Yep, Romancing the Stone! Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, crocodiles, a giant emerald called El Corazon?
I am the worst and forgot I posted this. Thank you all!
Ooo thanks for doing this! I have one that my dad and I have been trying to find for years. We only remember one scene of a movie we think is an old Western.
Rough Outline of Scene:
[Dudes in shitty jail cell, new one comes in]
Dude 1: What’d you do?
New dude: They say I killed someone, but all I had was thees leetle knife! [pulls out tiny pocket knife]
Dudes: Some general mumbling about how the sheriff is a dick.
*Everyone suddenly notices tarantula on the wall across the cell, New Dude does some crazy spinning knife throw and just NAILS the spider right in its center, it’s pinned to the wall, dead as a doornail.*
*Other dudes look at New Dude in wide-eyed silence*
Something about it makes me want to say “Touch of Evil” or something with Humphrey Bogart, and the “leetle knife” guy could be Peter Lorre. ?
Ooo! You’re great! I just IMDB’d this, and I am like 90 percent sure that was it! Gonna rent this baby and confirm. THANKS! : )
I can’t believe it!! I had only the vaguest impression that I could be right! Glad I could help. <3
Eh? Touch of Evil is not a Western (though it does feature a corrupt police chief in Texas), and neither Lorre nor Bogart was in it.
I saw a movie on television once about a bunch of kids together at camp, except it wasn’t normal camp. It was camp for kids with behavior problems and they all fought and became friends and grew and became better people by the end of the movie and their parents liked them again. Could it have been called “Bad Attitudes?”
Is this it?
http://thewildboys.flickzone1.info/viewtopic.php?…
This is one that I’m not sure if I dreamed. It was an episode of TV and I think it was on one of the shows in the TGIF block. I’m fairly certain it was for Halloween and the premise of the show was basically Hotel California. They go into a hotel and are told they can never leave but I don’t remember how it ended.
There’s an episode of Star Trek: TNG like that. Turns out the hotel is a holographic simulation created by aliens based on a bad detective novel owned by one of the astronauts who crash landed on the planet. (They thought they were doing him a favor but he HATED it.)
That reminds me in turn of a chapter of Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles.
Anyone remember a cartoon with a girl and a horse and the name has SOMETHING to do with fire? I have a vague memory of seeing a girl on a horse riding through fire in the woods. This would probably be from the late 80’s but who knows if it was an old cartoon or what.
Wildfire, maybe?
Am I weird for thinking that show’s premise is ripe for a re-make?
Not a show, but The Last Unicorn?
The internet solved this for me, actually, but it’s awesome anyway. I thought I had made up or at least significantly altered a story about a kid in a coma who was having fantastical adventures inside his mind, with a parallel story about his mom who was both freaking out over her child and missing her husband who was gone for some reason. And I was sure the title involved the word “odyssey” somehow, but googling that didn’t turn anything up for a really long time.
The show’s actual title? The Odyssey. WELL THEN.
I had a bunch of these vague memories of creepy miniseries that played on Nickelodeon waaaaay back in the early 80’s. Plagued me for years.
I finally figured out that they were all part of a series called The Third Eye, which might have been British? There was a time-travel one with crystals, one about stonehenge, one about hauntings, and one about slimy aliens under a mountain, which may have been set in New Zealand.
I remember them being creepy as all heck, but I also remember old Doctor Who episodes being creepy, so.
NOPE, for sure creepy as heck.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJTXC9-4lN0
The one about slimy aliens under a mountain in New Zealand is, surprisingly, called Under the Mountain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Mountain_…
I have one that scared the crap out of me as a kid that I haven’t been able to track down. I just saw one scene because I snuck downstairs when I was supposed to be in bed and hid while my dad watched it. This would definitely have been before 1990, and I think it was in black and white. There was a courtroom scene and they were arguing about whether or not it was possible to strangle someone with a sock. The judge basically said to prove it, and the defendant took a sock and straight up murdered another prisoner with it while everybody just watched.
Just to give you an idea of how far off I may be, the other really scary scene I vaguely remembered seeing as a child was someone strapping a woman to a table and threatening to cut off her nose, which turned out to be the undoing your plastic surgery joke from Spaceballs.
I thought I made up a movie about a cat with no tail who goes on a trippy vision quest for YEARS until IMDB came out. Turns out it was a Danish movie dubbed into English. I still have NO IDEA how I first saw it. Peter No-Tail in America.
oh my gosh i’ve never known anyone outside my family who saw Peter No Tail! we still sing his little song “peter, peter, peter NO TAIL” randomly. I didn’t discover it again until I was an adult and realized how badly dubbed it is haha.
!!! I’ve never known anyone else who saw it either! It is pretty awful. I just know I had very vivid memories of him going out in the desert with the Native American cat and getting a giant golden tail.
There are two more movies and a whole series of books about Peter No-Tail (written by Gösta Knutsson) that are all really great. So many cat adventures! (and this is not really important, since you’re watching the movie in English anyway, but the movies and books are actually Swedish, not Danish. Credit where it’s due 🙂 )
Oooh I remember coming downstairs late at night as a child and my dad was watching a scary movie and I just saw a few minutes of it. I remember someone walking up a flight of stairs, and as they did, an arm came out from underneath and stabbed the leg with a pair of scissors.
Could that have been Pet Sematary? Someone gets stabbed in the ankle with scissors from under a bed in that one.
This film was about castaways. A beautiful boy and girl, who I think were brother and sister and may or may not have been lovers. I dont know. They looked intimate. There was a large old man with them. The reall disturbing bit was when they find the old man dead and a bug crawled out of his mouth. Ive been trying to repress it ever since.
The Blue Lagoon?
This could be it!
And now to wonder why I was watching this when I was 5 or 6 …
I also saw it for the first time when I was way too young. Who knows??
I have one iv’e been tracking down for years. It is similar to that. So basically there is a girl and a boy who are siblings and they have a dog also. They are going to go see their father that has a job far from their home. Then, i think their plane crashes or something and then the siblings and dog have to go and find a way to get home.They have a few nights without food or maybe a bit to eat and drink. I have been looking for it for ages i don’t know what it;s called anybody know?
Wow I have a lot of these because of my dad’s HBO obsession as a child I have three I guess.
1. Father and son in 1969 go on a road trip to The Spires of the Moon and try to get there at the moment Apollo 11 land, the mom follows for some reason. There may be a racist stereotype Native American mystic type?
2. Another father and son movie, the son has battles with tops at school with the school bully, the tops get lost in the sewer. The mom throws a gravy boat at a crooked salesman and gets arrested. The father is battling with their hillbilly leaders.
3.A woman gets caught in some drama involving a machine that takes one back in time to a certain point. Set in the desert. Screws up people’s (a family in a red mini van?) lives. There may be a sketchy truck driver. Starts with a car crash/broken down car.
None of these are kids movies but I watched them as a kid.
I can’t help you, unfortunately. I just had to say that #2 sounds amazing. Top battles, assault by gravy boat, hillbilly mayors… I really hope someone knows what it is because I am dying to see it.
They gravy boat thing had a great backstory too something about a celebrity faces dinnerware of the month club but they kept getting gravy boats every month and she ended up starting a riot among the angry house wives it was amazing.
Also hillbilly neighbors not leaders I have no idea how that even happened
Oh my gosh, I think #2 is It Runs in the Family (aka My Summer Story)! It is a sequel of sorts to The Christmas Story. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110168/
(I Googled “movie celebrity gravy boat” to find this. Ha!)
ETA #1 is Pontiac Moon! And it stars Mary Steenburgen, who also stars in It Runs in the Family! You had some serious (but forgettable) Steenburgen action going on at home.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac_Moon
Ohmigod thank you! The Mary Steenberg coincidence is super weird but it’s very possible both memories are from the same day and there was a marathon of her movies for some reason. Now that I know it’s a sequel to The Christmas Story I really want to find it and rewatch it. I was beginning to think I dreamed these cus they were both kinda weird. Thank you!
The one I always struggle to remember is Land of the Blind, a crazy political satire that apparently no one on Earth has seen but me.
I also have an old Disney short memory that I’ve been trying to identify for SO LONG. I think it was a Donald Duck short, and it involved him visiting a fortune teller, I think? What I remember is a part where the room is smoky, and some sort of Egyptian figure coming up out of the darkness to speak creepy things in a low voice. I think it was a sarcophagus.
I have googled like crazy for this short, and I cannot find it anywhere. Driving me crazy!
Oof, I have been waiting for this thread since you said in the book thread, NO MOVIES HERE WAIT FOR THE MOVIE THREAD.
This was a movie on TV, late 80s/early 90s. It was animated with anthro animals, like cats, foxes, and maybe oversized mice? It had something to do with David Copperfield, BOTH the Dickens story AND there was like, magical shit going on? I think it might be this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106547/?ref_=fn_al_t…
because the timeframe is right, plus the Dickens storyline, plus anthro charas, but the synopisis doesn’t mention any magic.
What I remember is that people who pissed off the factory owner(?) or couldn’t pay their debts or something got sent to the sewers below the factory where they were turned into “Moldies” by either magic or some sort of horrible sewer plague. They looked like melty blobs and you could hear them moaning and it was TERRIFYING. It maybe was a cheese factory and the Moldy Plague was like, from cheese gone bad or something? None of the reviews mention this seemingly large tangent into horror movie territory so I’m left thinking I must have imagined it.
Does anyone remember this movie and can you confirm or deny the Moldies horror subplot? This has been driving me crazy for years.
I HAVE TOTALLY WATCHED THIS MOVIE!!!
It was a cheese factory, there were mice(I think??), and I guess they got covered in goop and “infected” each other? Only I’m pretty sure at the end when the protagonists win all the goopy mice recover and are totally fine.
Here’s the wikipedia page I just found! It talks about the Moldies, so you’re definitely not crazy! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Copperfield_(1…
What a weird collection of voice actors.
WOW that was so much more convoluted than I remember. The Moldies were not even a large plot point, ha. Thank you for finding it!
ALL Sherlock, ALL the time.
I love reading these because it’s like hearing someone’s dreams, except there’s a chance that you could solve a mystery by the end of it.
Yes! I agree entirely. This is taking my entire Friday and I LOVE IT!
French film, possibly from the 90s. The protagonist is a woman whose friends despair of her because she has no job and is malcoordinated. She gets a temp job teaching a cooking class as she pretends she can cook and leads the class in making an omelette – she has no idea how to make omelettes. She puts sugar in and makes the entire thing up and at the end, the sugary egg thing tastes delicious and everyone is impressed.
I think it was a TV movie? And it took place in maybe Australia? These kids are on a school bus that is hijacked by kidnappers (or terrorists?). There’s a female teacher, and she helps the kids escape, and part of it is that they have to swim underground in a cave to get somewhere safe. But I think that’s still in the middle of nowhere, and maybe they then hunt down the kidnappers/terrorists?
Ohh, I think I know that one! It was based on a true story.
Is this it: They’ve Taken Our Children: The Chowchilla Kidnapping?
Ah I know this one!! FORTRESS
That’s called Fortress, starring Rachel Ward. Very good movie & based on a true story.
I can’t find this on Youtube, so I’m starting to wonder if I made it up: I remember a short from Nickelodeon’s Pinwheel in which a girl finds a snail that has been kicked or something? So she goes and buys a box of Band-Aids, puts a bandage on the snail’s shell, and sets it free in a meadow. Does anyone else remember this?
Yes! I thought this was from Sesame Street, but I definitely remember thinking that she could have done a better job securing the band-aid.
I have been googling this short film… I want to see it again!
Did she put the snail in the front pocket of her denim overalls? And did she ride a 3-wheeled bike? These 2 images have been in my head for a while and I can’t remember if they are the from same short film or 2 separate ones, but I’m pretty sure they’re from Pinwheel either way.
I know that I’ll never be able to describe the two I’m thinking of properly, so I will not even try, but I will share this anecdote: once my dad and I went to the Blockbuster near the house where I grew up to see if they had this movie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwNJfs9O8RI), and the best I could give the clerk was “…It was a cartoon? And there was this…evil shadow.” I think I said “evil shadow” fourteen times. (They did not find it.)
My sister made a Christmas List one year that included a “white stretch headband.” My mom thought that was the name of a band, so she went to every music store she could think of to find a CD by White Stretch Headband. We still joke about starting a family band with that name and traveling the country, Partridge Family-style.
Aired as a late-late movie in the early 1980s, was probably made in the 1960s? Involved a group of people trapped on an island because the sea around them had turned to acid. Lots of churning acid eating away body parts. Scenes with a lighthouse and I think some addled scientists.
I saw it on my first-ever sleep-over party, and it haunted me for years. Every bath I took, I would wonder whether the bathwater had perhaps turned to acid; I was then forced to decide what body part to sacrifice as a test. I never told anyone about this.
The only thing I can find is The Day the Fish Came Out, but it doesn’t sound exactly right. Take a look just in case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Fish_Cam…
OMFG. I’m not sure if that’s the right one, but I hope it is! It’s got the groups of useless people running about on an island, and the water being deadly, and Sam Wanamaker seems about right for the leader…
I’ll have to try and find a copy, because the rest of that film’s description is great. Candace Bergen as the nymphomaniac tourist! Good on ya, Fluffernutter!
It does sound pretty epic! I will have to see if I can view it somehow…
This apparently isn’t it, but one segment of Doctor Who: The Keys of Marinus (i think) is set on an island in an acid sea.
Here’s one that has been bugging me forever. I rented this movie from the library when I was younger, and it probably came out in the 80s or early 90s. Two sisters are in the car with their dad, and they’re maybe on some sort of road trip. But then at some point, the girls jump out of the car and run away, and they’re wandering around in the woods for a while. I remember a scene of them just spinning in circles a bunch. The movie was suuuuuper slow and I remember getting really bored, so we didn’t finish. But somehow it stuck with me forever, and I can never think of anything specific enough to track it down on google. I feel like the title was maybe the names of the two girls, but I can’t be sure. Anyway, I would be super impressed if someone was able to identify this one for me.
Huh. This feels like a LOT of Mary Kate and Ashley movies. I don’t remember a jumping out of car scene specifically, but maybe How the West was Fun?
I can’t remember what it is called, but I borrowered it at our old library a few years ago. It does exist!
Omg, yes! I’ve been trying to find this movie too and no matter what I google, I can’t seem to find it. I remember the two girls jumping out of the car too and it seems like they hid in a drain thing under the road and had some sort of magic marble or rock or something and they were “imagining” the whole movie and there is hardly any dialogue but I think one of the girls meets a boy and the other one gets jealous and shoots him with a gun? And that’s all I remember but it’s going to bug me until I find out what it is…
I am looking for this movie also!!! It has been bothering the heck out of me. I remember the girls name being either milo or otis..like the dog and cat movie. I definitelt remember them jumping out of the car and agree it was a very slow movie. I have to know what it is! Have you made any progress?
OMG yes FINALLY, if any of you know this movie it will end a years-long quest. It’s a cartoon movie, and there’s a beautiful girl who lives with her grandma (who is maybe a witch?) and her cat, and the cat has the same NAME as the girl. So the guy who loves the girl thinks that the girl can turn into a cat because they have the same name, and he goes on some kind of quest with the cat, who he thinks is his girlfriend in cat form. At the end he asks if he can marry the cat and the grandma says “that would make my granddaughter very disappointed.” Anybody?
I don’t know, but that guy sounds real dumb and not like boyfriend material.
Even if he thought they were the same, why would he specifically ask to marry the cat and not the girl???
He says something like “I would be honored if I could have (girl’s name)’s hand in marriage” and gestures to the cat. It is then that the hilarious misunderstanding is revealed.
I saw this! I can’t remember the name, either, though. 🙁
Thank you for confirming that it exists!!!
Szaffi. A Hungarian cartoon.
There was a movie I saw in the late 80s/early 90s called The Peanut Butter Solution that I was sure, basically until the advent of IMDB, I had hallucinated or invented, both because no one I knew had ever seen it and because my vague memories (a haunted house that turns a kid’s hair white, the eponymous peanut butter solution that makes hair grow at a terrifying rate, an evil paintbrush factory owner(?) who kidnaps kids and paints their heads with the potion so he can harvest their hair to make paintbrushes) were so disjointed and outlandish. Turns out the whole thing’s available on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQEJImGIy-Y), and one day when I am home sick from work I will watch it and be horrified/appalled/fascinated/bored, I’m not sure which.
I watched that movie again as an adult and it is still WHACKED OUT. I think you’ll have more success reminiscing about it with Canadian people, I think it was originally a made-for-TV movie on Canadian TV.
I’m right there with you, including thinking is a terrifying hallucination. I honestly thought it was a terrible nightmare I had. I’m still nervous to rewatch it!
Oh. My. God.
I remember this movie from elementary school. They showed it to us in I guess grade two or three? I remember it being super messed up and not wanting to watch the whole thing. And there was one part where the kid’s hair is growing at a visible rate, and his friend is sitting behind him in class snipping bits of it off to try and manage it (for some reason in secret) and I could only think, “Just cut it right at his head you idiot! Cutting off an inch section at a time isn’t doing anything!!!”
That was also the year they made us read/watch The Snowball Fight (I think that’s the name?) and that was super depressing because the poor dog dies at the end. D:
Dang French Canadian kids books, what’s your problem?
Arrrg I have another one! There was a man who had a freaky “son” who actually wasn’t his actually belonged to a woman who may or may not have (it was kinda unclear) been an alien he and his friends murdered when the kid was young because the they were burn by a weird necklace thing & thought it was the woman but it turned out to be the kid but they guy didn’t want to kill a kid so he took him in and the kid has all these repressed memories. One is of his mom saying his dad is in space or something and will come to get them. Meanwhile there a monster eating the faces of people who were mean to the kid with a gross slurping sound (this scarred me for ages) that the kid thinks is his dad but was actually I think a manifestation of the kid’s imagination. There’s a kindly social worker/counselor/teacher who is the catalyst for the memories. The movie ends with him sleeping in the back of her car and they’re fleeing the town. I can’t believe my dad let me watch that I was like six.
Horror film (possibly made for TV movie), no later than 1982. Mother and 6-8 year old son on the first floor of a building in a city, perhaps Manhattan. Otherworldly storm at night. Son runs outside and shouts into the storm. Mother chases after son and puts crucifix on him, which burns his skin.
Is this The Omen? I’ve only seen snippets of The Omen but the cross/skin/desperate mother made me think of it immediately.
1. I remember watching a movie called Savannah Smiles years and years ago and LOVING it, and I’ve been looking for it to watch it again, but I can’t find it! It’s about a little girl who runs away from home and hides in the back of a station wagon that belongs to two crooks. It was very sweet, and I can remember the scene of her crawling into their car and a scene where the two men are both holding her hands and their walking and they swing her way high into the air.
2. A very weird memory that I share with my sisters but no one else I’ve spoken to have ever heard of it. It’s a cartoon with a …time traveling mammoth who can inflate his trunk?
3. Vague hazy memories, sorry. I’m pretty sure it was a made for tv movie in the 80s. A woman is kidnapped by a guy (maybe 2 guys?) who lives in the woods. I think he takes her shoes so she has a hard time running? I vaguely remember something about a cliff or a waterfall. At the end, she gets away, and she’s wearing a tanktop and her underpants. It wasn’t played sexy, either, she was just in her underpants. Either the guy or one of the guys follows her, but she glares and walks away and he just watches her leave.
Although the dvd is out of print, Savannah Smiles was out on briefly, so you might be able to find it somewhere used online. Both netflix and amazon prime have it to rent. Or you might be able to find it through an interlibrary loan.
Omg, thank you!
This mammoth, is it small like a pony? Wasn’t there a Saturday cartoon series with cavemen and a tiny mammoth? I never saw it (I didn’t have a tv through most of the Eighties) but the image somehow got into my mind.
Smaller, I think. And I think you’re thinking of Captain Caveman, which isn’t it.
2. Cro?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfgp3yNH70k
Nope, but that one looks fun! The mammoth was the main character. He was small and purple and when he inflated his trunk, he could fly/float. I think there were two modern day kids in it as well. Thanks for trying!
That time-traveling cartoon you’ve mentioned has been bugging me for many years, precisely because *no one* seems to have any recollection of it! Add to that the increasingly obvious fact that it is proving impossible to track down online, and I think I may have come to the conclusion that it must have been a dream rather than an actual television program! Had my sister not recalled it, as well… And had you not posted this…
I think they took Bunji [if I’m recalling it correctly] back in time to find the only other female of his species and they had to rescue her from a castle (which I think is when he inflated his nose/trunk to float up to get her). Could be way off on some of that, but it seems to be pretty clear, considering… If anyone does know the name of the program, it would give me more peace of mind than I would like to admit! LOL
It was a 2-part episode of the ABC Weekend Specials called “The Bunjee Venture”. You can find the first episode sectioned into three parts on YouTube, but the uploader says that he can’t locate any VHS tape with the second episode…
This one has been bugging me for years. It’s an animated movie, and the only thing I really remember is that there is a crocodile living with a family (maybe in the basement?) and the crocodile and the child in the family are best friends. And they have a party at some point, and there is a dance scene, where everything is dark except for them and there are colours twirling around them. And there’s a parade, that they watch out the window. I think the crocodile has to move out in the end and it’s very sad.
I remember it as being drawn in kind of the same style as the old Madeline cartoons, which made me believe it was French, because children are logical like that.
Oh, and it’s not the Schnappi cartoon, I’m sure of that.
It’s not a movie, but is it Christopher Crocodile?
http://youtu.be/hUhdu5wQNZc?t=1m
Ooh, great suggestion! But I don’t think that’s it. I remember the crocodile being a bit more, um, elegant…? I really don’t know how to describe it. Hazy memories of dancing crocodiles will haunt me forever.
I’m absurdly late to the game, but this sounds like Lyle Lyle Crocodile, which is a children’s book that was made into a tv movie in the… ’80s? I didn’t see the movie, but the art for the book has a similar charm as Madeline.
I think this might be a snippet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmNs_0u-2wk
And here’s a link to watch it on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/HBO-Storybook-Musicals-Seas…
The description: What’s that green thing in the bathtub? When the Primm family moves into their new house, they discover Lyle, a friendly crocodile left behind by his former owner. Lyle and his new family have a splendid time–until his rightful owner comes to claim him
Not a question, just wanted to brag. My roommate was talking about a Halloween movie she wanted to see, and she described it to me as, “this weird movie, with a bunch of witches, and they’re cursed to have really terrible relationships with men? It might be called ‘Perfect Magic’?” and I googled one thing and found it for her.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120791/plotsummary?r…
Judging by the cast list, this probably looks like a movie I should have heard of before, but I am young, and I live under a rock, so I hadn’t.
This…is not something anyone is going to be able to identify for me, and I’m not sure I’d WANT you to, but sharing: when I was about 5 or 6 I was staying with my parents at the house of some friends of theirs for the weekend. I was supposed to be in bed, but I was thirsty or something, or maybe just wanted attention; anyway I was sneaking down the stairs and peered into the living room, and my parents and their friends (another couple) were watching something on TV, a movie or TV show. There was a depressed guy who kept crying, and then I don’t know if he was hallucinating or if this was really happening, but this WOLF FACE grew out of the living room wall and talked to him. I don’t remember what it said or what was happening beyond that, I just remember that the visual of a wolf-face emerging from the wallpaper TERRIFIED me, and for years afterwards I was filled with abject fear whenever I had to be in a dark room with wallpaper.
That sounds like Nightmare on Elm Street to me.
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This is more of an animated short than a movie, but I remember seeing it on the DVD/video extras of some movie a babysitter brought over when I was about 7-ish. It starts off with an old dude reading his newspaper or doing other old dude things one night. Its also implied that he just lost his wife. Then a moth flies into his house and runs into his lightbulbs/lamps/etc. He shuts it in the oven but then he starts feeling bad so he opens the oven and crawls in and somehow the oven has turned into a secret tunnel (??) and then there’s a light at the end and then the old dude turns into a moth too and flies away with the annoying moth which is symbolically the soul of his wife.
Please tell me this is a real thing. I’ve been trying to find it for years but haven’t had any luck. I’m certain its not a dream because my dreams have never made any sense whatsoever…
I know this is kind of a late reply, but this sounds like “Bunny” by Blue Sky Studios:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzv6WAlpENA
I always thought that the main character was the wife, not the husband, but it’s hard to tell when he/she is a very old rabbit. Either way, it’s a beautiful short.
Doing this was one of my favorite parts of working for Netflix. It was really satisfying to find an answer for people and most of my callers were older people who were not particularly gifted with Google skills. I remember a set of kids who were looking for a movie with “Emily Osment’s brother” that turned out to be Pay It Forward.
I’ve got no idea what it’s called, but I have hazy, hazy memories of a film (or possibly a mini-series) that I think was about orphaned British kids who got sent to Australia. (it was a historical thing, and that actually happened so I’m not totally imagining this)
anyway, I have no memory of the plot or characters except for this: there was this one kid whose name was Wilson, and he was deaf, and he died halfway through and I know this because the one scene I can remember clearly is a bunch of the other kids sitting around looking sad and one of them asks about the deaf kid and one of the others points at a… a hole in the ground that’s full of water and says that the deaf kid is dead and he drowned in the waterhole after mistaking it for a swimming pool. that is literally all I remember, please tell me I didn’t imagine this movie.
I have a feeling that this might be The Leaving of Liverpool, an Australian/British miniseries from the early 90s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leaving_of_Liver… It’s one of those things that stuck in my mind in much the same hazy way because so much of it is ENORMOUSLY traumatic.
This movie was made in the eighties or early nineties, it’s set in the future, but everything looks like it’s from the fifties, it’s basically some sort of dystopian society where everyone has to be average, any great skills or abilities are punished. The main character is a teenage boy who starts to question why, he finds out the people in charge think differences are what start wars and strife so want everyone to be the same and not think for themselves. I saw the film on tv in the nineties and never knew the name, occasionally I think of it and get frustrated trying to remember so I hope someone can help me out! I think the kid in it went on to be well known, but can’t remember who he was. Two scenes I remember are; Characters watching guy dancing on tv and some technology he’s wearing to inhibit his dancing ability falls off so he starts dancing beautifully, this fascinates main kid, makes him question why. Also remember the end where kid makes snuff video on live tv to try and jolt people out of stupor, I was young and pretty disturbed by this!
Harrison Bergeron perhaps? It’s a Kurt Vonnegurt story that I think they adapted?
Yes! I’m so glad you figured this out, thank you! It’s been bugging me on and off for years! They have the whole thing on youtube so going to go revisit it. Vonnegut is one of my favourite authors as well, but have never read that story so it’s nice to have a new thing of his to read! This was a great result all round! Thanks again Lou.
I have a feeling that this might be The Leaving of Liverpool, an Australian/British miniseries from the early 90s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leaving_of_Liver… It's one of those things that stuck in my mind in much the same hazy way because so much of it is ENORMOUSLY traumatic.
Ok, this thread is three weeks old but I can’t give up hope that SOMEONE will know what this movie/tv show was. I saw this in Singapore in the early 90s on a television show that broadcast artsy animation that my parents didn’t realize was not really little kid appropriate. (Thank goodness or I would never have encountered Jiri Trnka at such a young age.) Anyway, this short — I remember that the animation style seemed current, so probably 80s or 90s, though it could have been 70s I suppose. There were two children and a grandmother/grandfather/someone old in a dystopic underground world, there were human-sized sentient evil rats, there was a machine that recorded dreams out of people’s heads onto videotape, and dreams of a tropical island that the human children wanted to escape to. I don’t remember if they make it there or not, I thought they did. What really sticks in my head was a scene in which one of the kids, a little boy is facing down the rats with a gun, but he doesn’t know how to hold it and is pointing it at himself and the rats are encouraging him to shoot. I think the boy lives somehow. Any help on this would be appreciated.
Had to be ’84 or ’85 when I watched it on VHS, but I specifically remember an ANIMATED fantasy movie where there was a protagonist who was dealing with three witch sisters who shared one eye (as in, popping it into a socket, then a sister would get it out of the socket and place it in her own to use it), and then later in the same movie, a somewhat blue-faced badguy with a large mustache has his nose and mustache swiped back and forth by the protagonist’s baton.. Believe me, I know how utterly vague this is, I’m just hoping someone else remembers the imagery described and what movie it was.
well, in Hercules, there are the fate sisters who share a single eye as you described…
Okay, I have two TV memories that I have been trying to place for years and years now. I was born in 1976 and saw both of these when I was a kid, so they probably both aired I the 1980’s.
1) The first one is a movie, I only remember one scene from. A woman with her child is driving with her child and the car crashes and falls off a bridge or something into a lake or the ocean. As the car (maybe a station wagon, not sure) falls deeper and deeper underwater, the woman frantically tries to roll up the windows. The child I think was a little boy but might have been a little girl. I don’t remember what happened after this scene.
2) The second one was a TV special of some kind, only a half an hour or an hour at the most. A young boy ends up at an isolated cottage house or cabin inhabited by an eccentric old lady who lives by herself. All the neighborhood kids in the town the boy lives in think that the old lady is a witch. But the boy talks to her and they become friends and she convinces him that she is not a witch but just likes keeping to herself and tending to her gardens. By the end of the special, the boy convinces everybody that the old lady is not a witch and is a very kind hearted person. This is not the movie “The Witching of Ben Wagner”. It was a TV special and not a full length movie, and I don’t remember the old lady having any children or grandchildren that lived with her.
can anyone tell me the name of this movie ?? it would’ve been around 80/90’s
a young girl is babysitting her toddler sister when she finds a chest under the stairs it has a picture of a princess in it that looks just like her and a locket. she then wakes up in a field losing her sister she comes across a boy (i think the prince) who has two horses. they go together to find the sister who has been adopted by the evil queen as her own child while the good queen is locked in a tower. the movie ends when the sister places a jewel in the center of the floor then the boy and girl ride a horse drawn carriage that flies while they sing to the moon and stars. the girl then wakes up in her house and the boy is her new neighbor
any help would be useful i’ve been trying to find the name of this movie for so long
Omg this is it! This is my memory! I watched this as a child and only had flashbacks of this movie but I JUST FOUND IT!
It’s called The Princess Castle! 😀
Oh My goodness, thank you thank you thank you, it has taken my years and years to find someone else who knew this film, me and my sister were convinced it existed
I remember a Disney channel movie from the 90s about a girl who I think had extraordinary hearing; she would go out into the ocean and record the whale songs. That’s all I can remember, although I think it might have been set in Hawaii. Anyone happen to know what movie I’m remembering?
I think it could be the disney channel series Ocean Girl! I loved that show!!!! check it out!
Help me remember! This was an obscure non animated non Disney movie on VHS: there was a lot of singing, an old house with a library,a mouse running up a clock, a musician, magic, kids, little people, an accordion, nursery rhymes? 80s or early 90s. Anyone?
Babes in Toyland? Not sure
Haha my sisters and I know this for sure. It’s a Wee Sing Video! The Marvelous Musical Mansion!! 😀
There is a movie that I watched when I was younger that I am unable to find. There was a couple with a deaf boy that move near an old orphanage. The boy can hear the dead children. It has drove me insane for years! Please someone tell me that they have seen this!
I’m not sure because this movie came out in 2007, but it could be called the orphanage http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0464141/
I vaguely remember watching an animated movie in the mid 2000s when I was younger. I remember very little but here is what I got:
1- female protagonist
2-green necklace that she wears
3-strangely something about a stables springs to mind
4- the girl fell in love by the end
That’s all I have to remember about this movie. If anyone could help that would be great
Black Beauty? Do the stables catch fire?
Im trying to remember a movie, i think it was an old animated one, where there were 3(?) witches who maybe kidnapped a baby and set the time in the kingdom faster or something so that when they returned the baby would be grown up… very vague, but something about the witches doing the right thing… it has a Macbeth ring to it…
This is Wyrd Sisters, based on Terry Pratchett’s book.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159931/
I’m looking for the name of a movie that i saw when i was younger. I can’t remember much about it but it bugs me so much that I don’t know the name. So basically there are these kids who find an old house in the woods and they think they have seen a ghost and it turns old that is was this one lady’s house where she lived with her mother and what had happened was her mother was bring her home a necklace when there was a crazy storm and there was a forest fire and a tree fell and killed the mom and now the ghost just wants to give the necklace to the daughter.
Watcher in the Woods? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081738/
I remember watching that movie a few years ago, and I’ve been searching for it for ages trying to find the title. I rember the movie beeing so intriguing, I would love to watch it again.
Okay so in the cartoon I remember there was a little boy in a class room who gets in trouble and has to wear a dunce cap and leave after all the other kids and he somehow finds a dog and takes it
Home for a bath, well he makes a big mess and when his father notices he tells him to go to his room and that he’ll be getting a spanking. The dad falls on some soap or something and hits his head and maybe.. So hard to remember either way he ends up in the woods with gnomes and is put on trial and turns into a baby and when he wakes up the dog is licking him… All along there is singing and if I have to guess this would be the 50’s-60’s… Help me out if you remember it
That sounds like an Ipana commercial short called Boy Meets Dog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDuXHD4i2mE&f…
Your description reminds me of an episode of the TV show Davey and Goliath that I saw. Davey is the boy and Goliath the dog. It was done in Claymation. There was always a moral to these stories.
Okay there’s a movie I’ve been trying to remember for literally 3 years but I can’t no matter how much I search it! There was a girl named Michael, and I’m pretty sure she had previously had a miscarriage and now had problems from it. Anyways, she started investigating the disappearance of a little girl who went missing like 30 years prior. She goes and talks to the little girl’s parents, who are now elderly, and everything. At the end of the movie you get a flashback to a fire with two little girls in it and a statue of St.Michael (I apologize my memory sucks) and you actually find out that Michael is the little girl who was kidnapped as a child. I also remember in the very end she is in a hospital bed with bandages around her head and her real parents, the no elderly ones, come in and meet her. PLEASE help me!
I saw a movie as a 5 year old in early 1961. It was very scary to me. In the end some people were in a cave and had found a fountain made of jewels. They may have been looking for it. They were pulling the jewels out and the fountain had water bursting out of it and it began to fill the cave. There might have been dinosaurs and other scary things on their search for the cave.
A journey to the centre of the earth?
I have a memory of watching a European film where a high school couple accidentally kill a boy in the shower of their school, they bring him to the woods to bury him but they are kidnapped. The girl is kept in a basement and is starved and the boy is forced to have sex with the kidnapper and eat a lot of meat. It is revealed that the boy has been eating the dead boys body all along. Sick but the twist really shocked me
I remember seeing a miniseries about a Native American girl/woman when I was a kid in the 1990’s. Can’t remember much, I think she was taken to one of these schools and when she returned, her tribe’s camp had been burned down. So she was probably the last of her tribe? I also remember a wolf that was featured several times (it was not “Dances With Wolves”). As I said, I was just a kid back then and these fragments have not helped me to locate even the name of the series. Maybe it rings a bell to someone? Much obliged.
Could it be based on the book The Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell? Karana’s tribe leaves the island but she misses the boat. She survives alone for a number of years, and first fears but then befriends a wolf.
She does burn down the vacated village in grief when her little brother dies, leaving her the only human on the island.
My sister remembers the same part of the movir I do, so I know I’m not crazy.
We watched it, probably around ’92 or ’93. It was anime-ish, kinda like “Castle in the Sky”.
All we really remember were a boy and a girl (?) Who possibly rescued a bunch of animals that were being held captive by the villain for some reason. The main thing we remember is that the kids had something like a carton or box of magic multi-colored (?) bouncy eggs or egg shaped/sized beings that helped them(?) in some way, either as transportation through teleportation or to get through obstacles to save the animals. We are for sure about the egg guys and fairly sure about the animals.
I’m guessing it was made anywhere from the mission eighties to the early 90’s.
I remember a movie with some children who go into the woods and there is a witch or witches who have a bunch of vats of dye and they are dying the cats various colours. I have been trying to find the movie for years.
Were the children 2 sisters in early teens?
I’m on this site after googling for a name of an Australian/NZ film that was on SBS/? but late night about 10yrs ago. Was a story of two girls that had to flee home (? reason) and left on foot to stay at their Aunties house (I’m 50% sure the NSW city Albury featured in there). Strange things started to happen and they were unsure what was happening. A scene I remember was that they were talking a short cut through what appeared to be a forest with a tunnel cut out under willow trees.
I’m sure the title was “……………… Creek”
Ok ..please. I remember this movie so well. Only because I still to this day want to be this woman in the movie.
It is about 25-30 years ago.
All she wants to so is sleep. She falls in love with her dreams.
In real life, she is under a doctors care..maybe a coma? But i dont think so.
She or her husband is told that if she doesnt wake up , she will be lost forever.
She just wants to cobtinue her life in her sleep.
Late 70’s, 80’s.
Please.
A made for television romance movie from the early 70’s. Young “good girl” falls in love with “bad-boy” rock musician/teen idol. Of course they eventually break up and the end of the movie is her walking out of one of his concerts while he sings a song he wrote about their relationship. I believe the song lyrics were “We never said forever”. Anyone remember this?
I can barely remember now and don’t even know if it’s just a dream or real but I was in the movie theater and they were showing the previews to this one movie before the actual movie started. Basically what I remember is that this girl goes to this cabin with her grandfather to clean out the cabin and they end up getting stuck there and scary things start to happen at night, I remember it was in another language like Spanish or something. I know it’s not silent house but yea if anyone knows that’d be cool!
I need help, I remeber vaguely of a movie alike alice in wonderland where a little girl follows a rat into the sewers yelling “wait mr.rat wait.” The rat turns into a man saying ” how did you know my name” and thus an adventure ensues.
Hello – I am looking for the original, French, black and white movie version of The Vanishing – not Spoorloos. I saw it a long time ago in a theater and did not know it was ‘the vanishing’ until a saw the version with Kiefer Sutherland. Any ideas? Thanks for your help 🙂
I know this post is old but if anyone can help me, I would be so grateful. I have a memory of a film from my childhood (so 90s?). It’s a fantasy film, I think a made for tv. There’s a princess who turns all of her suitors to stone if they don’t finish this quest. Only she can’t control it and the man she actually loves gets turned to stone when he tries to break the curse. And his younger brother eventually breaks the curse, I think with help from her younger sister? I only remember one scene, where the older prince is walking through a crevice gap in a cliff and then there’s scary music and I think maybe there’s a face in the wall and then he turns to stone and I think the eldest princess is upset? If anyone else even remembers this movie, I’d love to hear, because I’m starting to think I dreamed it.
I don’t have any answers for you, but I can indeed confirm that this sounds familiar! The turns-her-suitors-to-stone thing rang a bell immediately. I feel fairly confident this was a real thing!
The movie I’m looking for is an 80’s movie I believe. We would rent it from the movie store up the street. It’s driving me crazy. I’m not sure if it was a dream or a movie.
Here’s what I remember. There are two main characters who are orphans. A girl who only has a crystal necklace from her birth parents and her friend Adrian. An orphanage takes the orphans on a field trip or they run away. There is a scene where they’re in a park I think and there is a group of men breakdancing and they start to make fun of Adrian because it’s a girls name and not a boys name.
The end of the movie is the crystal necklace lights up and the girls parents aren’t dead they are royalty from another world.
If anyone can solve this mystery for me if be so grateful!!!!
I swear I remember a movie where a 16-20 year old girl is kidnapped by this weird looking hillbilly swamp person. The protagonist of the movie is the girls older brother, who might be a cop. I could swear that he is played by Lorenzo Lamas, but none of his movies seem like it’s it. At some point in the movie, the kidnapper pulls out this ‘wire’ attached to two pieces of ‘cork’ from his cheeks. This was part of a disguise or something.
Theres this movie i watched years ago but i cant remember the title. I only remember a scene from the beginning where a little girl has to run away from some evil women (witches maybe?) and first she hides behind the bed then when they’re not looking she escapes through the window on a broom? There may be a little boy with her? That’s all i remember but i really wanted to see the movie again….. anyone help? 🙂
Can anyone please help me find this movie or short film ?! It was on Disney channel about 10 years ago. It was a group of young kids going on a camping trip and get pulled over by two men that kidnap them. These men were after one particular kid that was named Sarah, who’s dad was the president or something and wanted to use her to get there brother out of jail! They get to a cabin and locked the coach in a closet and take all the kids into the woods. One boy hid under the school bus seats so the kidnappers had no idea he was even on the bus. When the kidnappers guided these kids into the forest, the boy took one kid at a time to saftey! Please tell me the name of this movie!
Sounds like One Small Hero(1999)
Ghosts turning up at road accident fatalities??
This has bugged me for years and I still can’t find the answer..
I’m trying to find a film probably from the late 80s where dead people turn up very quickly to road accidents.. From what I remember, an ambulance driver becomes curious how quickly these people turned up, even in the early hours of the morning and after research realises they have also been killed on the road….
Any ideas would be appreciated, think this may have been a very short movie or tv series episode.
Thanks
I have two? Not entirely sure if I made the first one up but I do do clearly remember my Nan passing me the video to put it on! The second was when I was a kid -about 6/7? And i came home from trick or treating with my parents and it was on the Tv?
1. Itd a cartoon, about a girl who is asked by her mum to babysit her little brother and she loses him after he’s kidnapped by this evil queen type woman and at first she’s really happy he’s gone then she remembers this locket her mum gave her and all about family love and she meets this elf type guy who tells her the evil queen wants to keep her baby brother for her kid and she saves him? Then her mum’s shaking her and she wakes up?
2. There’s a group of kids who find an old creepy house (and thinking about it now it’s pretty freaky cuz it hinted that a lot of the kids died) and their friend gets turned into a ghost so they try to save him but eventually he sacrificed himself and becomes like a part of the house or something?
Thanks!
The first one sounds exactly like Labyrinth (except for Labyrinth not being a cartoon). I can totally imagine that a 6/7 year old might have read David Bowie as an evil queen.
I have this film stuck in my head and I remember watching it YEARS ago when I was only about 8, but for the life of me I can’t remember the name of it!
A nurse lives in the middle of the forest with her daughter and she gets called in to work. At work she’s given a necklace from an old lady patient and is wants to get it to her daughter. She leaves work but there’s a storm and she is killed by a falling tree before returning home and the daughter is left in the house alone.
It goes forward and these kids find the house and think that the forest is haunted and they basically have to reconnect the daughter with the necklace – it’s driving me nuts not being able to think of the name!
Someone else is asking about it, but it’s not called watcher in the woods – it’s an American film! I’m sure it was on Disney or a channel like that!
I’d really appreciate it if someone could tell me the name of this movie:
When I was younger, I had a movie on VHS. It was a cartoon, and I believe it was about two sisters. I think there was something divding them, but I can’t remember if one had a frozen heart or not. I also think there was something about red and white roses. Obviously, all that’s come up when I’ve searched for it is Frozen and Snow White, neither of which are the movie I’m looking for.
i remember a movie and it is driving me absolutely insane trying to remember what its called. There was a bus of kids (a sports team maybe?) then there was this other kid who wasnt supposed to go with them, but snuck on the bus anyway. when they are driving the bus stops working, and this guy offers to help. he had a sidekick who he bullied and called baby. the one kid left over tried to save his friends and tied bits of jersey through the woods. there was a swinging bridge or something, and they end up getting caught and baby shoots the other guy or something. PLEASE HELP!!!! I think it was a disney channel original
I’ve been trying to think of the name of a tv movie I saw in the mid to late 80s, it was about a parent (cannot recall if it was the mom or dad) who kidnapped their own teen daughter & adolescent son, went on the run from city to city, changing names and hair color and styles, at one point the teen girl is calling herself Dana I think and wears all black, dressing like a punk or goth, I think she maybe had put blue streaks in her hair? I remember two scenes pretty vividly, one was where the girl was in the school bathroom & overhears two other girls talking about how weird she was & how they wondered if she was going to pierce her nose with a safety pin or something. The other scene was at the end after the girl takes her little brother with her to report they’ve been on the run & they’re sitting in dark wooden chairs either in the school office or in a police station. Anyone have any ideas?
Perhaps the Nutcracker?
It makes me think of an old Casper cartoon I saw once, where Casper was a dunce who couldn't scare anyone then made friends with a dog who died and became his ghost friend.
OK I got a few:
-A cartoon about urban city fish, early-mid 1990s, early morning, probably CTV. There was an interstitial with a fish posing as the statue of liberty. Im /pretty/ sure it wasn’t Fish Police.
-A movie with a scene where a man in a suit fell through a hole in the floor and you saw his feet dangling below. Later 90s, aired on CBC.
-A cartoon about a family with a baby narrated by a talking dog, 2000/2001, weekend mornings CTV. Im 90% sure it wasn’t Family Guy because this wasn’t a crass show. The dog once said, “shh! I’m naked under my fur”, which my mom thought was hilarious (another reason why it couldn’t have been Family Guy).
-The big one for me; either a movie, a mini series, or a TV show that aired on CTV one summer between 2003 and 2005 on weekend evenings (probably saturday). It was a fantasy film about a group of kids, three I think, including girls and a teenish boy. They were staying at an old manor in England solving magic things. Time travel with some 20something in Tudor times may have been involved. Possibly also Merlin and a talking owl. At some point I think the kids transformed into animals too, or at least the cute teenish boy.
Animated kid’s movie that I saw on VHS in the early nineties, but could have been older. The main character was a preteen white girl with red or brown hair, I think her name was something like Emily? I think she was learning how to fly airplanes? But then she got paralyzed in some kind of accident and there was “will she ever walk again?!” drama, and then her family went to Italy. And I think there were sapient toys involved somehow?