Movies And Shows You Just Can't Quite Remember The Name Of -

[Pokemonquistador2]

A cry in the wild?

I remember a film like this back in the 80s. A boy loses his parents in an accident in the middle of the wilderness. Then the boy befriends this old mountain man codger who tries to teach him how to be tough by forcing him to climb a cliff while a bunch of wolves are trying to chase him. Then the codger dies at some point, leaving the boy on his own. I thought this film might be My Side of the Mountain but no, it's a completely different film. I guess kids being lost in the wilderness was a popular movie genre at some point because I can remember watching quite a few of those, like Cold River. Maybe my parents were planning on dumping me out in the forest and were trying to toughen me up first...

 

[Max Doof]

There's this one with James Marsden and some blonde guy. Apparently they are (were?) lovers or something but I remember that Marsden essentially spends most of the film bound and gagged.

Ask and you'll receive...

Also starred Sofia Vergara interestingly enough, her third flick.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Ask and you'll receive...

Also starred Sofia Vergara interestingly enough, her third flick.

Holy crap lol. I just read the plot summary since its been like.....14 years since I've seen it and....lmao what a stupid film. This is why plays should never be adapted to film unless you can change elements of it. Also where did Scott Speedman go?

Interesting to note that Noah Wyle was in the original stage version.

(On the right)

 

[The V]

There's a stop-motion short film that I can't find. I saw it somewhere between 2008-2009.

I remember it started with an old man telling his grandson about the time he worked as a puppeteer. The film cuts to the past.the grandfather had 3 puppets; an African king, a woman (I think she might be a dancer), and the last puppet was either a clown or a jester (I remember his name was pronounced something like Fah-toosh-ka).
The performance the grandfather did was a love story, where the jester confessed his love to the woman, but she loved the king instead.
It's revealed that the puppets are actually alive, and the jester believed that the woman actually loved him. He went to confess to her, and the king stabs the jester either right before the next show started, or during the show. The jester bled in front of the audience, and the grandfather can't use the jester anymore.
The film ended with a brief cut to the present day, with the grandson saying something that makes the grandfather say he was being haunted by the jester's ghost. Cut back to that past, and that's exactly what happened.