Name that movie!

I thought you were starting a new game. You know, like quote a few lines of dialogue and see who can guess the movie.

Your plot sounds vaguely like one of the Home Alone series.

 

That was my first though too... until he said one of the guys was killed. Definitely not in the Home Alone series.

 

Useless trivia:

In Mexico, "Home Alone" is dubbed into Spanish and the title is "Mi Pobre Angelito" which means "my poor little angel." Later Macaulay Culkin, the child star of that movie, played the evil kid in the movie "The Good Son." That movie was shown in Mexico under the title "El Angel Malvado" which means "the evil angel" in a play on the Spanish version of the title of the earlier movie.

They do this with movie titles all the time. The Jim Carrey movie "When Nature Calls" was shown in Mexico as "Un Loco en Africa" which means "a crazy man in Africa."

It makes it almost impossible to find a movie back home that you've seen overseas.

 

Try using IMDB. It shows foreign titles at times as matches Or try www.cdcovers.cc

 

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried IMDB for the one movie I'd really like to find, but it didn't show up. CDcovers seems to deal in CDs, not movies.

The movie I saw in Mexico was called in Spanish "Reyes o Reinas?" and was a subtitled version of a U.S. movie. It was about several transvestites who set out on a car trip across the U.S., and their car breaks down in a small town in middle America. In the several days it takes to have their car fixed, they transform the town from a conservative homophobic place into an open and welcoming place. There's a line toward the end: One of the transvestites is looking out over main street from a balcony, admiring the changes to the town, and says "Sometimes, it just takes a fairy." I was the only one in the theater who laughed, because the Spanish subtitle missed the pun. There is no word in Spanish that means both the fairy of myth and an effeminate or homosexual man.

I suppose the English title appeared on the screen, but I don't remember it.

 

True at CD covers but just enter the name of the movie you're looking for and see what comes up. It does movies and music and more

Was it "to wong foo" ? With Patrick Swayze?

 

"To Wong Foo, thanks for everything, Julie Newmar"

I love that movie

 

THAT'S IT!!! Thank you! I never would have guessed that was it if I'd seen the title. (The title in Spanish made more sense.)

 

A really great movie.

Patrick Swayze, who died today of cancer, was the lead. He played the part with dignity and grace. John Leguizamo, who played the young hispanic, also played the short, fat demented clown in Spawn - an incredible actor of great range.

 

Rest In Peace-
Patrick Swayze

 

Have you tried posting in a chat board dedicated to movies? There's a lot of smart folks here, but maybe you need a crowd that really knows all the obscure old flicks.

 

Set up a disposable email account just for that. Two minutes. Sign up for the forum. Two minutes. Post your question and bookmark the thread. Five minutes. Check it once a day or once a week. Thirty seconds. Once you get your answer, cancel your registration and the email you used to set it up. Two minutes. It'll be worth it if the question is really bugging you.

 

Good steps until the end... why bother canceling? I have a hotmail account i've used since hotmail first came on the scene back in the mid-late 90's. None of my friends, family, or coworkers know about it, but all the spam-bots do (and i do mean ALL). I use it to sign up for sites like you mentioned, as a throw-away address i don't care about - and i only log into it to get the activation information for those sites (which means a few times a year, at most). Thousands of junk e-mails hit that box every day... i don't really care