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Circus: Red Letter Ay

edited April 2021 in Limbo
The game: List a movie or book title but remove one letter ONLY from one word ONLY. Then give a brief one-sentence synopsis of the movie or book that reflects the change.

Example: One With the Wind: The life of a petulant Southern belle takes a tragic turn when she is afflicted with uncontrollable flatulence.

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  • Aws

    Intrepid cat lovers are overwhelmed by too many pictures of lovable felines on the internet: "we're gonna need a bigger :heart: emoticon."
  • 2001: A Pace Odyssey

    Intrepid astronaut Dave Bowman repurposes Hal as a FitBit as he runs round the inside of Discovery One.
  • EnochEnoch Shipmate
    Tar Wars.

    Intrepid astronauts pelt each other with bitumen in an inter-galactic trade war for the contract to build the hyperspace bypass at the beginning of the Hitchhikers' Guide..
  • The Copse Bride

    A man accidentally marries a small group of trees.
  • It's as goo as it gets

    OCD is solved by large helpings of molasses.
  • EutychusEutychus Shipmate
    edited February 2019
    The Ion King

    After a Chernobyl-style disaster has devastated the landscape, the son of an atomic engineer is plucked from his carefree teenage existence to re-establish order and harmony.
  • EnochEnoch Shipmate
    My Fir Lady

    A Skandi-Noir film in which Professor Henrik Hygge and his gay lover are on a hiking tour of the remote pine forests of northern Sweden when they come upon a wild girl, who offers them some flowers and a bottle of some strange brew made from berries. His friend bets the Professor that he cannot turn the wild girl into a good Social Democrat Scandinavian whose greatest aspiration in life is to own a nice house kitted out entirely from IKEA.

    At the end of the story, she is married and has a job at IKEA, but the Professor and his lover are living in naked and drunken squalor in a hut in the forest.

    There is no music. In stead, the film is full of long, strange, haunting silences, in which people stare at each other.
  • The Holy Bile -- God-inspired advice on eating and digesting fat.
  • The Lath of Heaven

    A new arrival manages to chip the eternal plaster and see what is underneath
  • Finding Nem

    A heartwarming tale of the long quest through the supermarket to grab the last remaining item in the 'Asian Products' aisle.
  • Three Days of the Condo

    Robert Redford stars in this gripping thriller about an interminable HOA meeting.
  • Solent Green

    Environmental activists stage a protest by pouring huge quantities of harmless food colouring into the waters round the Isle of Wight, just in time to spoil the look of Cowes Week.
  • U!

    A bitter, childless old man finally attains upper-class status after buying a Nancy Mitford book from a persevering boy scout.
  • EnochEnoch Shipmate
    T

    A very mundane young man tries to get some school children to repair his bicycle so that he can get home.

    If successful, there may be a prequel, E. It will be a bit Art House and consist entirely of abandoned cuts from T.
  • EnochEnoch Shipmate
    The Holy Bile -- God-inspired advice on eating and digesting fat.

    Some people might criticise parts of the Torah for being just that!
  • Enoch wrote: »
    T

    A very mundane young man tries to get some school children to repair his bicycle so that he can get home.

    If successful, there may be a prequel, E. It will be a bit Art House and consist entirely of abandoned cuts from T.

    :smiley: I'm glad someone else is playing!
  • The Lion Kin

    Simba's distant and evil cousin spoils everything.
  • DafydDafyd Hell Host
    The Go father. A young man is sucked back into his family's obsession with competitive board games.
  • The Goo, the Bad and the Ugly -- Three gunslingers become bogged down in the sticky mess left behind by Civil War skirmishes.
  • la vie en rougela vie en rouge Purgatory Host, Circus Host
    The Jungle Boo

    Mowgli jumps out from behind a tree and frightens the wildlife.
  • How Green was my Alley

    A documentary about the growth of moss in the lanes of a Welsh town.
  • DafydDafyd Hell Host
    edited February 2019
    Toy Tory
    You are not a Victorian gentleman! You are a toy!

    You cannot fly or strike better independent trade deals.
  • Can we do TV shows?
    And do they have to be spelt properly?

    No? That's a pity, because Tax (sitcom in an HMRC/IRS/whatever office) seems like quite a good idea, and I was really quite proud of Fraser (elderly Scottish undertaker moves to Seattle from Warmington-on-Sea to look after his lovable father and dole out advice on his radio show) but the spelling doesn't quite work.
  • The Ark Crystal

    A rip-off of the best and worst Indiana Jones films, but featuring slightly weird puppets that will give you nightmares for several years.
  • la vie en rougela vie en rouge Purgatory Host, Circus Host
    Little Omen.

    The absence of Christmas presents presages terrible things to come for Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy.
  • The Roma Missal -- Vatican-authorized liturgy for the celebration of mass by gypsies.
  • Bing And Nothingness

    Existentialist analysis of Going My Way.
  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host
    Braveheat - A very cold man from Scotland, (so cold his face is half blue), moves to Florida in August. Every time he goes outdoors, he struggles to maintain a calm demeanor as the sun tries to kill him.
  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host
    The Lord of the Rigs- Mr. B, the truck driver, and his adventures as he tries to deliver a load of One ™ nose rings for cattle. Mr. B drives through a forest of walking trees, avoids the arrows of people who seemed to have had unfortunate incidents with rice picking machines, and driving over the mountains while trying to avoid a creepy billboard with a single glowing eye.
  • The Lion, the Itch, and the Wardrobe

    Many fur coats are mangled inside a fine old wooden armoire as the trapped king of beasts scratches himself desperately.
  • The Jungle Boo

    Exactly like its counterpart with one letter more, except that when the little girl emerges at the end to lure Mowgli away from his new friends, the entire cinema audience protests loudly.

    (based on a true-life experience)
  • Forrest Gum a tale of the lonely existence of a solitary rubber-tapper, driven by sheer ennui to run - away from the boredom, away from the trees and into a new life.
  • Pollo 13 - bio-pic of the most famous Italian chicken in space.
  • mousethiefmousethief Shipmate
    edited February 2019
    The Roe

    A Roman soldier eats fish eggs at the foot of the Cross
  • The Impotence of Being Earnest

    A farce that orbits around the idea of family when one cannot have children of one's own.

  • edited February 2019
    Carface -- Story of the rise and fall of a Cuban automobile industry worker.
  • Happy Fee

    Dancing penguins have no qualms about paying for the privilege
  • Hymns Old and Ew -- anthology of the most disgusting church music ever written.
  • Sorry @la vie en rouge , missed your earlier Jungle Boo!
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Kind Hearts and Cornets

    A disgruntled rank-and-file player in a village brass band kills off the rest of the players in ingenious ways so that he can be the Solo Cornet.
  • Ocean's Elven

    For his latest heist, the incorrigible bandit is joined by a bunch of renegade Fair Folk from the darker corners of Mirkwood.
  • The Return of the Ing

    A heroic saga of how ordinary folk achieve their quest to restore the gerund to its rightful place in the language.
  • Which naturally leads me to

    Down with Skol!

    An of-age Molesworth trashes foreign lager chiz.
  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    Liver Twist

    This cookbook offers a fascinating collection of offal recipes.
  • EnochEnoch Shipmate
    Firenze wrote: »
    Liver Twist

    This cookbook offers a fascinating collection of offal recipes.
    Presumably just the thing for feeding to the poor. Recipes which will ensure nobody wants any more than they have to.

    Babette's Fast
    On a remote Danish island, a psychotic anorexic forces simple country people to diet against their wishes.
  • EnochEnoch Shipmate
    And more on the food theme.

    Jan de Florette

    Janet will not even stop at murder to win the village's annual competition to produce the biggest cauliflower.
  • Power Ealing

    John Wimber's latest plan to supply Holy Spirit Electricity to a West London suburb.
  • The Empire Strikes Ack

    Robust communication not required.
  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    Mansfield Par

    Will young but talented golfer Fanny Price succeed in her struggle to win the Ladies Trophy at the snobbish country club? Her rival Mary Crawford has taken four at the last hole. If Fanny can just get down in regulation...
  • Continuing the Dickens theme . . .

    The Old Curiosity Sop -- A shopkeeper's granddaughter tries to cheer up her lonely existence by eating bread soaked in gravy.
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