I have no idea.  The only way I could tell is if the film had that burning beans scene.  It's pretty much the only thing I remember.

My research continues.  Thanks for the tip!

Edit: Looks like this movie's on YouTube...

Probably not enough information but...

I've been trying to figure out this one forever. I can barely remember a thing. I'm thinking its from the late 80s early 90s. It has a fantasy setting (more Arthurian than a Dungeons & Dragons type fantasy). I believe there was a boy transported to some fantasy world through the TV or something. I think he was trying to grab a sword or something in the TV. Also there may have been a red gem as part of the story but that could be entirely false I'm not sure. I also seem to remember someone turning into a statue or maybe turning back into human form from being a statue. Anything???

Not "Deadly Friend

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090917/

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I'm gonna repost this one from a thread I had on the Agony Booth:
I swear to God this was a real movie and not a fever dream.

Was it Codename Icarus (1981)? I've never seen it, and only know about it via its amazingly pathetic VHS cover:

Sometime in the late 70's, I remember my mother taking me to the drive-in to see some movie I don't remember.  It's not the movie I'm trying to remember but a trailer for a movie that played in front of whatever we were seeing.  The only thing I remember is the lyrics to the jungle that played at the end of the trailer:

"Don't ever put your mother in a home...by United Artists...rated R".

And for some reason, I keep thinking George Segal was in it.  I looked at both Segal's and United Artist's movies around that time and none of them seem to fit the bill.

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Sometime in the late 70's, I remember my mother taking me to the drive-in to see some movie I don't remember.  It's not the movie I'm trying to remember but a trailer for a movie that played in front of whatever we were seeing.  The only thing I remember is the lyrics to the jungle that played at the end of the trailer:

 

"Don't ever put your mother in a home...by United Artists...rated R".

 

And for some reason, I keep thinking George Segal was in it.  I looked at both Segal's and United Artist's movies around that time and none of them seem to fit the bill.

Look up Christopher George.  He looks a lot like George Segal AND made a ton of cheesy horror movies in that time period.

Thanks but it doesn't look like it's Christopher George.  He DOES look like Segal but nothing on his filmography seemed to be it.  Also, I seem to remember it was a comedy based on the happy sounding jingle.

I am searching for a film i know almost nothing about except its very generic plot and general atmosphere:

It is an american film i saw on german television not later than 1995. Probably a few years earlier. I assume it is from between 1987 and 1990.

Plot:

A guy gets hooked on drugs(probly cocaine) because he is impressed by the lifestyle of a guy that sells the stuff. The Protagonist is first drawn into the lifestyle of his new "friend", the money and parties w. cool people. Then he takes drugs too, and begins to sell the stuff for his friend. Then he loses money that belongs to the other guy who then isn't his friend anymore. I remember at least one scene where he searches something (the money?) in his own apartment, is in panic because he is in big trouble, he explains this to his grilfriend and is still panicked. This serious "shit i am so dead"-atmosphere (opposed to the cool attitude of the film heroes i knew before) is the main thing i never forgot about this film (probably nothing special when i would see it today. but i think i was about 16 when i saw it.)

The other thing i remember is the bleak look. Not through the camerawork, but mainly because everyone wore black (suits, sweaters/ shirts) and the protagonist had black hair. Not goth or emo style, more like a blatant dye job. He was a bit pale though. The set design was a bit stylized. White lofty apartment, with a few steps in the main room. Think the neighbours and the interior of their house in "Christmas Vacation" for the general look. No warm lights.

I remember it looked very "clear", like films from 1992 on began to look "better" on TV... i hope you guys know what i mean. it was a slight shift in looks, that happened at that time w. more modern films. (maybe just on PAL systems...?)

Somehow it made a lasting impression on me, almost like seeing my first "sex-scene" when i saw "Less Than Zero" on dutch TV, a film with a similar atmosphere as the one im searching. But this one is bleaker and does not have the saturated/ colourful look of "Less Than Zero"

Edit:

IMDb doesn't give me anything in the title search with parameters like these:

Earliest United States-PG/United States-PG-13/United States-R/United States-NC-17 Color "Drug Addiction" Feature Films/TV Movies Released 1987 to 1996 With Country of Origin United States

Which is impossible, so maybe it's just not working for me right now...

A movie from the 90s about junkies? That's called "looking for a needle in a needlestack".

Probably more from the 80s. But you're still right.

Makes it more baffling that imdb has nothing.
 

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Originally Posted by Pelican Pants 

Sometime in the late 70's, I remember my mother taking me to the drive-in to see some movie I don't remember.  It's not the movie I'm trying to remember but a trailer for a movie that played in front of whatever we were seeing.  The only thing I remember is the lyrics to the jungle that played at the end of the trailer:

 

"Don't ever put your mother in a home...by United Artists...rated R".

 

And for some reason, I keep thinking George Segal was in it.  I looked at both Segal's and United Artist's movies around that time and none of them seem to fit the bill.

Where's Poppa? (1970)

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Where's Poppa? (1970)

 

That'd be it.  Thanks Jexxon.

I obviously thought it was a newer movie than 1970 (maybe 1976 or 1977) which is why I couldn't find it under Segal's IMDB.  What's odd is I remember seeing the trailer at the drive-in but I wasn't even born until 1972.  I know the Midwest is usually a bit behind the times but did they really show trailers 6 years after the movie came out?

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Originally Posted by Pelican Pants 

 

I obviously thought it was a newer movie than 1970 (maybe 1976 or 1977) which is why I couldn't find it under Segal's IMDB.  What's odd is I remember seeing the trailer at the drive-in but I wasn't even born until 1972.  I know the Midwest is usually a bit behind the times but did they really show trailers 6 years after the movie came out?

I'll bet you it was running on a reissue with Harold and Maude. Or maybe the projectionist liked that trailer.

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Probably more from the 80s. But you're still right.

Makes it more baffling that imdb has nothing.
 

Sounds a lot like Less Than Zero.

ETA except you mentioned that one. The Boost?

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Originally Posted by Mr Pretzel 

I am searching for a film i know almost nothing about except its very generic plot and general atmosphere:

 

It is an american film i saw on german television not later than 1995. Probably a few years earlier. I assume it is from between 1987 and 1990.

 

Plot:

A guy gets hooked on drugs(probly cocaine) because he is impressed by the lifestyle of a guy that sells the stuff. The Protagonist is first drawn into the lifestyle of his new "friend", the money and parties w. cool people. Then he takes drugs too, and begins to sell the stuff for his friend. Then he loses money that belongs to the other guy who then isn't his friend anymore. I remember at least one scene where he searches something (the money?) in his own apartment, is in panic because he is in big trouble, he explains this to his grilfriend and is still panicked. This serious "shit i am so dead"-atmosphere (opposed to the cool attitude of the film heroes i knew before) is the main thing i never forgot about this film (probably nothing special when i would see it today. but i think i was about 16 when i saw it.)

 

The other thing i remember is the bleak look. Not through the camerawork, but mainly because everyone wore black (suits, sweaters/ shirts) and the protagonist had black hair. Not goth or emo style, more like a blatant dye job. He was a bit pale though. The set design was a bit stylized. White lofty apartment, with a few steps in the main room. Think the neighbours and the interior of their house in "Christmas Vacation" for the general look. No warm lights.

 

I remember it looked very "clear", like films from 1992 on began to look "better" on TV... i hope you guys know what i mean. it was a slight shift in looks, that happened at that time w. more modern films. (maybe just on PAL systems...?)

 

Somehow it made a lasting impression on me, almost like seeing my first "sex-scene" when i saw "Less Than Zero" on dutch TV, a film with a similar atmosphere as the one im searching. But this one is bleaker and does not have the saturated/ colourful look of "Less Than Zero"

 

Edit:

IMDb doesn't give me anything in the title search with parameters like these:

Earliest United States-PG/United States-PG-13/United States-R/United States-NC-17 Color "Drug Addiction" Feature Films/TV Movies Released 1987 to 1996 With Country of Origin United States

Which is impossible, so maybe it's just not working for me right now...

I can only think of 3 movies like that, The aformentioned Less Than Zero and The Boost, and maybe Mike's Murder?

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2) Short? Cable TV in late 80's, possible anthology series.  Family takes newborn to priest to be blessed.  Priest is standing in an industrial structure, looks like a parking garage, behind a copy-machine looking thing.  Priest gives the blessing, hot metal credit card pops out of the machine, priest brands the baby with the card.

 

3) Another possible cable short, incredibly depressing.  Young girl and boy live horrible, depressing, lives in trailer park.  Boy puts bugs on golf balls and tries to whack them into space.  Girl tries to shine shoes to raise money, is taken advantage of of quirky rich couple who want her to shine all their shoes for a quarter.  Last scene is girl and boy drifting through space on giant golf balls, possibly implying murder-suicide.

Bumping for these last two.  Again, I swear I didn't dream them.

Number 2 sure sounds familiar...

Not The Boost. I would remember James Woods. The people were younger, early twenties.

Is The Boost any good?
 

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I can only think of 3 movies like that, The aformentioned Less Than Zero and The Boost, and maybe Mike's Murder?

Mike's Murder seems to have the same bleak atmosphere, but it seems to be told from the girl's perspective. The film i am searching was from his.

Did the US have many made for TV films in that time period? If it was one of them we can search a long time...

A Man and two women wake up in a strange house the phone and the tv dont work and they cant leave. Turns out they all died but one can come back in the others vote for them.

The guy was hit by a car and would be a paralyze. One of the women would wake up in the morgue, The other was dying from brain cancer and if she came back she would be dead anyway. This was a mid 90's staple on USA up all night

This is probably way obvious and I'll be kicking myself when someone tells me but is there a scene in a movie where someone goes to a black guy in a wood shed or something and has him beat him up to make it look like the protagonist did it? 

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Originally Posted by nagboy92 

This is probably way obvious and I'll be kicking myself when someone tells me but is there a scene in a movie where someone goes to a black guy in a wood shed or something and has him beat him up to make it look like the protagonist did it? 

Dirty Harry, with the incomperable Andrew Robinson.....

That's it, I knew it was something I should know, I guess I haven't seen Dirty Harry in a few years so that scene sort of divorced itself from the rest of the film for me. 

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Okay here's one:

70's film, might have been made-for-TV. Two couples, cross-country road trip, shadowed by these really awesome looking RVs that are all black and angular and evil looking. Couples are scared to death it's some secret government thing or utter loonies. Turns out the RVs are for some oddball summer camp.

Kind of like Race With The Devil, except no real Satanists were harmed in the production of this picture.

Slither with James Caan, Peter Boyle and Sally Kellerman.

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I can only remember a few things about the movie I'm trying to remember. It was a biker flick, and at the end of the picture, there is this huge drug party. At one point, the guys are so messed up that they take their recently deceased buddy out of his coffin, and lay him on the sofa. I believe they also put a cigarette in his hand to give off the appearance that he's still alive, I don't know.

Am I being too vague?

That's Roger Corman's 1966 classic The Wild Angels with Peter Fonda and Bruce Dern. They wanna be free to do what they wanna do, and they wanna get loaded.

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Originally Posted by Mr Pretzel 

 

Mike's Murder seems to have the same bleak atmosphere, but it seems to be told from the girl's perspective. The film i am searching was from his.

Did the US have many made for TV films in that time period? If it was one of them we can search a long time...

I know it's too old probably but maybe Cocaine:One Man's Seduction with Dennis Weaver? 

There's this movie that has haunted me for years so I really hope some one can help me out. It's propably from late 70's or early 80's. I saw it as a kid in mid 80's.

My memories are pretty vague but here goes: It propably takes place in New York, There's a group of gay characters that are out partying or something and are suddenly being chased by a gang of gay bashing psychos. They hole up in some apartment building and try to fight them off. thinking about it now, it's propably a rip off of Assault On Precinct 13.

The thing I remember best is the ending.

BIG SPOILER COMING:

It is morning and the assault is over. In the last scene of the movie we realise that the psychos were actually cops. The end.

I thought the movie might be called "Siege", but IMDB shows nothing for that title.

Does this sound familiar to any one?
 

Sounds like a scene from William Friedkin's Cruising but that's probably not what you're looking for.

No, not Cruising. That is one crazy movie though. Was Al Pacino the killer in that one, by the way? I always kind of thought that.
 

There is some weird gay stuff in The Choir Boys, an Animal House style cop comedy. But I haven't seen it in a while and dont know if there is a scene like that.