Surefire Studio Greenlight
Mad-Libs style: "Hi, [name of movie producer in room], I have a killer idea for a film. It's called [gerund] [proper noun] and it can't fail! Now let's go snort this line of [type of powder] off of this hooker's back."
It's worked before; these are just the ones that come to mind right off the top of my head. Please add more as you think of them:
Update: I just remembered Eating Raoul, which, being released in '82, diplaces Educating Rita ('83) as the oldest one I remember. The Blanking Blank glut didn't really hit until the mid-'90s, though.
Update 2: I don't know how I forgot Finding Nemo, or how I remembered Stealing Harvard.
Update 3: Many thanks to Barb the Evil Genius for her contributions, and enjoy the new alphabetized list, which reveals Finding and Raising tied for first, closely followed by Being and Saving. And let us not ignore the ripple effect on television, including "Breaking Bonaduce," "Shooting Sizemore," and "Saving Jessica Lynch."
It's worked before; these are just the ones that come to mind right off the top of my head. Please add more as you think of them:
- Americanizing Shelley
- Becoming Jane
- Being John Malkovich
- Being Julia
- Boxing Helena
- Capturing the Friedmans
- Chasing Amy
- Chasing Holden
- Copying Beethoven
- Deconstructing Harry
- Driving Miss Daisy
- Drowning Mona
- Eating Raoul
- Educating Rita
- Feeling Minnesota
- Finding Forrester
- Finding Nemo
- Finding Neverland
- Forgiving Dr. Mengele
- Forgiving the Franklins
- Introducing the Dwights
- Killing Zoe
- Kissing Jessica Stein
- Leaving Las Vegas
- Raising Arizona
- Raising Flagg
- Raising Helen
- Raising Victor Vargas
- Regarding Henry
- Saving Grace
- Saving Private Ryan
- Saving Silverman
- Seducing Dr. Lewis
- Serving Sara
- Stealing Harvard
- Surviving Christmas
- Teaching Mrs. Tingle
- Undertaking Betty
- Waking Ned Devine
- Winning London
Update: I just remembered Eating Raoul, which, being released in '82, diplaces Educating Rita ('83) as the oldest one I remember. The Blanking Blank glut didn't really hit until the mid-'90s, though.
Update 2: I don't know how I forgot Finding Nemo, or how I remembered Stealing Harvard.
Update 3: Many thanks to Barb the Evil Genius for her contributions, and enjoy the new alphabetized list, which reveals Finding and Raising tied for first, closely followed by Being and Saving. And let us not ignore the ripple effect on television, including "Breaking Bonaduce," "Shooting Sizemore," and "Saving Jessica Lynch."
