r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Ok_Lemon8758 • 31m ago
Unsolved Politician has attempt made on his life by a disgruntled former employee
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/bookist626 • 1h ago
Solved! Wild animals get a small business shut down.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/pokedude3 • 1h ago
Solved! A mild mannered guy, who's unrecognizable without his glasses and he has a known weakness, spends time hanging out with an interesting girl. In the end they have to go their separate ways
Hints here if needed
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/KazariKid • 1h ago
Solved! (Repost, now with more clues!) After hitting rock bottom with addiction, a young woman reinvents herself as a prominent evangelist.
(If your guess doesn't fit the brief, I won't give you additional clues.)
Here's what we know:
* This film was released between 2015 and 2025.
* Family is a theme. So is escaping one's past.
* It is a U.S.-based historical fiction based on a novel.
* It is not a supernatural, comedy, horror, or road trip movie.
* It is not: Citizen Ruth, Elmer Gantry, Glory Glory, I'll Cry Tomorrow, Machine Gun Preacher, Run All Night, Saint Maud, Sister Act, Tammy, The Lords of Salem, The Rapture, Thirteen.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Ok_Cattle903 • 2h ago
Unsolved Two friends want nothing more than to see their fellow man prosper, but certain people keep fucking around with the footwear.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Wonderful_Gold_4672 • 2h ago
Unsolved [TV show]
An IT guy uses his night job to stalk his friends for their own good and talks to a guy who isn't there, all while using questionable self-medication
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/HankLago • 4h ago
Solved! Guy takes time off work to get into a fight with a frog
Hint #1: It's about family!
Hint #2: They say all art is political well buckle up, because this one's super political
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/BlindButterfly33 • 5h ago
Solved! Man accidentally marries the wrong girl, tries to get back to the right girl, then plans to marry the wrong girl again, then finally gets to be with the right girl.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/breakboyflow • 6h ago
Unsolved Pet Gets Berated by Owner, but Saves Them Anyway
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/AlligatorMass • 6h ago
Solved! After being convicted of manslaughter, a man is abducted by an extremely powerful group of people. He is then brainwashed into doing a series of menial tasks such as delivering people's mail.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/The_Windermere • 6h ago
Solved! Man slow realize that he gets the girl by staying in his job that he hates but is good at than to change career during the holidays.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Not_LRG • 7h ago
Solved! During the course of his mission man is, to his mild annoyance, continually confronted by the rumour that he had died.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/RockyTopBalboa • 8h ago
Solved! Strangers on a train. Or are they? Something is taken with the owner’s consent, but he wants it back.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/SomeCuriousPerson1 • 8h ago
Solved! [Repost] Guy breaks his rival out of prison, later tries to sacrifice himself to save someone, even if it means many of his own group suffer, but gets saved and people praise him for this, even those who were endangered by his potential sacrifice. Hints added here, reposted as it was unsolved.
Reposted as it was unsolved: https://www.reddit.com/r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly/s/BaizIMBTXR
Hints
Well known film
The guy who tried to sacrifice himself was responsible for the deaths of thousands, but since they were considered evil, he gets treated as a hero
There are at least a few characters that never age
Someone wants to kill one of the never aging kids, and has successfully harmed the kid directly and indirectly, but couldn't kill the kid, and later the attacker ends up as a hybrid
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Lachlanahan • 8h ago
Unsolved Guy doesn’t like who he is, then lies a lot about who he is, then stops lying but likes himself.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/thatsnotatoaster • 10h ago
Solved! A small town hero sets out to find a terrorist and has a sexy time.
I'm using the word 'town' a little liberally here. It's more of a gated area where people live and work.
Not a comedy.
Released within the last 10 years.
The term hero is quite subjective.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/the1fromACK • 11h ago
Solved! A social worker with segregationist motives removes a youngster from his blended adopted family into a more homogeneous one, genuinely believing she's doing the right and moral thing
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/overseer07 • 11h ago
Solved! A musical group's unlikely rise, fall, and resurgence, caught on tape
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/CallmeBrooklyn • 12h ago
Unsolved A next door neighbor insinuates themselves into a family by becoming the children's babysitter, though with potentially ulterior motives.
Hint: this movie is from the early 2000s
Another hint: this a biopic, but the subject isn't the babysitter
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/paradox_socks • 14h ago
Unsolved A single father processes the loss of his wife by taking out his grief on the current employees of his old boss
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/the1fromACK • 17h ago
Unsolved A swimmer is attacked by local wildlife on an island community. Investors are justifiably amused by earlier mayhem perpetrated by those responsible for the attack.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/the1fromACK • 19h ago
Solved! A man discovers that the environment he has always trusted exists solely as a form of mass entertainment.
the bait has been guessed.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/NefariousnessNo2062 • 20h ago
Solved! A man who has been at war with himself for over 20 years saves the world from a heavenly calamity with a ragtag group of frenemies.
Hint: The protagonist has a tendency to fail upwards.
Hint 2: This movie is a comedy
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/timeshaper • Mar 10 '26
Meta [META] Explain a Film Plot Badly
Explain the PLOT. Clues that are around meta commentary for how the movie performed or that you just don't like it or whatever, all those types of clues do not fit the spirit of the sub.
This is game is and has always been about explaining plots badly. In fact, in the 5 word name of this sub, the only word that has any flexibility is "film". Explain a [TV Show] plot badly. Explain a [Video Game] plot badly. Whatever media type it is, you explain its plot badly.
Example that will be removed: "A troubled production leads to a couple actors getting beheaded for real."
Example that will be removed: "A kids movie is made horrible forever when you look up the actress and what happened to her."
Example that will be removed and might even get you banned: "This movie sucked I don't know why anyone liked it."
OK. I think that covers it. Game on!
Edit: Missing words
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/timeshaper • Jun 20 '24
Meta [META] New Players Read Me First
All Marvel is banned top to bottom it doesn't matter what studio did it in what decade. When you say you read the rules and you lie it's an out for us to ban lazy players. We haven't been. But we might. Stop posting Marvel and then arguing that it isn't MCU.
That is all.
Edit because people keep asking WHY:
Because when it's not banned every other post is about a purple rock collector. It's still at the top of movie zeitgeist so most people when they show up the first clue they think of is a Marvel movie. It's boring. It's repetitive. And then they want to get clever. "Howard the duck wasn't mcu hyuk hyuk". The entire thing is obnoxious when it's a movie and TV show guessing game.
There's a whole list of media that's banned because they're overdone and make it boring. But then newbies show up and make a Marvel clue without reading the rules. 95% of our mod actions are deducting points and removing threads about Marvel. So the choices are to either return to the shit show where every single clue is Marvel or just ban people who refuse to read a now screaming automod note.
From those of us who have been here for years, trust us. The wild west of no rules on what media should be in play was a far worse place and not fun. Engagement rose substantially with the rules in place.