What Movie is This?

[LAX]

Are you thinking of the PBS special Don't Eat the Pictures, where Big Bird gets stuck in the Metropolitan Museum of Art after dark?

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Lax Gibu'u-- Yes this is exactly what I was talking about! Thank you so very much! It is just as I remembered it. Watching that Youtube clip was tear inducing nostalgia in all the right ways. Thank you again

[lefty]

I am looking for a movie title from the 80's. It was shown on HBO a lot.

The film was set during the Vietnam war. An American college student is dating a foreign woman (I think she was French). He and his friends enlist to fight in the war. He is wounded and loses his legs. Instead of telling her, he has her believe he has been killed. She finds him in the hospital. I think his name was Matthew.

I cannot find any information on this movie. Can someone help? Thanks so much.

[forever1267]

For some reason, your post reminded me of this movie, which I remember being on cable a lot in the late 80's. I could be way off.

[magazinewhore]

Does anyone remember some comedy probably from the 80s where there is a scene (like the cat juggling scene in The Jerk) where it's supposed to be an example of a cruel act and a guy takes a huge pie shell and puts 4 or 5 adorable lives kittens in it and places a giant pie covering over them and then pretends to bake it? Again, it's not the Jerk with the cat juggling, but it's like that.

[smockery]

Wasn't that a scene in the kitchen in the movie Legend? I don't think he pretended to bake it, I think he was stopped. I could be wrong though.

[ikmccall]

Jun 10, 2009 13:29:56 GMT -4 magazinewhore said:

Does anyone remember some comedy probably from the 80s where there is a scene (like the cat juggling scene in The Jerk) where it's supposed to be an example of a cruel act and a guy takes a huge pie shell and puts 4 or 5 adorable lives kittens in it and places a giant pie covering over them and then pretends to bake it? Again, it's not the Jerk with the cat juggling, but it's like that.

I think that might be the Yahoo Serious movie.

[lefty]

I am looking for a movie title from the 80's. It was shown on HBO a lot.

The film was set during the Vietnam war. An American college student is dating a foreign woman (I think she was French). He and his friends enlist to fight in the war. He is wounded and loses his legs. Instead of telling her, he has her believe he has been killed. She finds him in the hospital. I think his name was Matthew.

I cannot find any information on this movie. Can someone help? Thanks so much.

I actually got the answer to this! The film is called Yesterday, with Vincent Van Pattan. It's from 1981.

[crankykate]

I have one that's been bugging me for years. Thing is, it may have been a movie...or a tv movie...or an afterschool special...I'm not sure which. It's from the 80s (late 70s at the earliest). It was all about an awkward and unpopular high school girl who took a job as sort of an assistant to the handsome school jock (and I do remember that he was HOT) who had been paralyzed from the waist down in an accident. They became friends, and she fell in love with him. Then -- OH NOES -- his gorgeous girlfriend came to visit! I remember that he introduced the two thusly: "[Girlfriend], meet My Legs. [Helper], meet My Heart." The protagonist was devastated and ran off in a snit, but after a talk with her wise grandfather or father (she may have been motherless?) about the different kinds of love, she embraced her friendship with Paralyzed Jock and Gorgeous Girlfriend (who turned out to be really nice, IIRC). I had the biggest crush on the Jock, but I can't remember who he was or what the movie was called to save my life. Anyone?

[minky]

I can't remember if this is a movie or a TV show. I may have the details quite wrong, but the gist is right.

In any case, there are two people talking, I think they are both women. The first woman is complaining about frivolous crap in her life, about how it's so hard. The second tries to make the first feel really bad, so she says something about their being an accident but how everything is better since she has now made so much progress that she can now hold a ball in her hand.

Now that I think about it, perhaps it was a Laura Kightlinger stand-up joke. Crap.