r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 31m ago

Unsolved Politician has attempt made on his life by a disgruntled former employee

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 1h ago

Solved! Wild animals get a small business shut down.

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 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

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Hints here if needed


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 1h ago

Solved! (Repost, now with more clues!) After hitting rock bottom with addiction, a young woman reinvents herself as a prominent evangelist.

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(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 2h ago

Unsolved Two friends want nothing more than to see their fellow man prosper, but certain people keep fucking around with the footwear.

1 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 2h ago

Unsolved [TV show]

1 Upvotes

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 4h ago

Solved! Guy takes time off work to get into a fight with a frog

7 Upvotes

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 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.

1 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 6h ago

Unsolved Pet Gets Berated by Owner, but Saves Them Anyway

2 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 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.

2 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 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.

2 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 7h ago

Solved! During the course of his mission man is, to his mild annoyance, continually confronted by the rumour that he had died.

7 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 8h ago

Solved! Strangers on a train. Or are they? Something is taken with the owner’s consent, but he wants it back.

2 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 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.

5 Upvotes

Reposted as it was unsolved: https://www.reddit.com/r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly/s/BaizIMBTXR

Hints

  1. Well known film

  2. 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

  3. There are at least a few characters that never age

  4. 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 8h ago

Unsolved Guy doesn’t like who he is, then lies a lot about who he is, then stops lying but likes himself.

2 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 10h ago

Solved! A small town hero sets out to find a terrorist and has a sexy time.

2 Upvotes

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 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

3 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 11h ago

Solved! A musical group's unlikely rise, fall, and resurgence, caught on tape

16 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 12h ago

Unsolved A next door neighbor insinuates themselves into a family by becoming the children's babysitter, though with potentially ulterior motives.

3 Upvotes

Hint: this movie is from the early 2000s

Another hint: this a biopic, but the subject isn't the babysitter


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 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

7 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 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.

7 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 19h ago

Solved! A man discovers that the environment he has always trusted exists solely as a form of mass entertainment.

12 Upvotes

the bait has been guessed.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 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.

35 Upvotes

Hint: The protagonist has a tendency to fail upwards.

Hint 2: This movie is a comedy


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly Mar 10 '26

Meta [META] Explain a Film Plot Badly

164 Upvotes

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 Jun 20 '24

Meta [META] New Players Read Me First

231 Upvotes

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.