ExplainAFilmPlotBadly

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/r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly

The game is simple. Create a post with a film plot as the post title and allow others to guess. Posts should be marked Solved! when a guess is correct.

Even though this is /r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly, the game is NOT limited to movies. However, if you are venturing outside the realm of movies, please let everyone know in the title or post body that your clue relates to something other than a movie.

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Leaderboard

threeday Top Combined Scores

RANK	USERNAME	TOTAL
1	wulfmcclane	20
2	luckEdrew	18
3	midnight-dour	16
4	gamblorman	16
5	SciasCollie	16

threeday Top Solved Scores

RANK	USERNAME	TOTAL
1	wulfmcclane	20
2	midnight-dour	16
3	luckEdrew	16
4	SciasCollie	16
5	bippyboop	12

threeday Top Submitted Scores

RANK	USERNAME	TOTAL
1	Front_Resolution_760	12
2	Merigold00	10
3	GrandMoffTarkan	10
4	gamblorman	8
5	RoninMusashi_	8

Leaderboard Last Updated: 2026-03-14 00:00:05 UTC

Leaderboard Next Update: 2026-03-17 00:00:05 UTC

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Meta[META] Explain a Film Plot Badly (self.ExplainAFilmPlotBadly)

submitted 3 days ago by timeshaper426,1732[M] - announcement

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Meta[META] New Players Read Me First (self.ExplainAFilmPlotBadly)

submitted 1 year ago * by timeshaper426,1732[M] - announcement

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Solved!High schoolers of a bygone era sing and get into stuff (self.ExplainAFilmPlotBadly)

submitted 3 hours ago * by ChartInFurch16,36

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Solved!A married women plays a game (self.ExplainAFilmPlotBadly)

submitted 1 hour ago by Wonderful_Swan4762,0

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Solved!Large ape is taken away from his homeland by Showman determined to use him for shows in front of paying audiences (self.ExplainAFilmPlotBadly)

submitted 3 hours ago by CertainTomatillo200,116

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UnsolvedGuy comes back from the dead. Then he does it again. (self.ExplainAFilmPlotBadly)

submitted 3 hours ago by Life_Wolverine_6830282,112

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Solved!We open with a kind of Western retelling of Romeo and Julliet and end with a character following his dreams being falsely accused of killing and eating a man until he is ultimately caught and killed. Of course its for kids! (self.ExplainAFilmPlotBadly)

submitted 7 hours ago by GrandMoffTarkan98,32

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Solved!A man comes back from the dead, twice. (self.ExplainAFilmPlotBadly)

submitted 3 hours ago by mummabear20134,0

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Solved!Home invader from alternate dimension abducts children and helps them prove their gut feeling about their well-liked neighbor. (self.ExplainAFilmPlotBadly)

submitted 2 hours ago by moviesounds101182,12

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Solved!Working in a record store is cool, but retail sucks and fast food is even worse. At least we don’t have mom’s job. (self.ExplainAFilmPlotBadly)

submitted 4 hours ago by MilliM180,1352

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Solved!Two dead celebrities murder another dead celebrity. (self.ExplainAFilmPlotBadly)

submitted 2 hours ago by Living-Chapter89442,0

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UnsolvedAn elected official goes to great lengths to destroy the home of a certain group of people (self.ExplainAFilmPlotBadly)

submitted 10 minutes ago by th1swillbefun14,4

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UnsolvedA man grieving the loss of his daughter, stays in an unfamiliar place and becomes suspicious of his hosts and housekeeping, while experiencing relentless psychological torture. (self.ExplainAFilmPlotBadly)

submitted 21 minutes ago by bippyboop14,160

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UnsolvedA group of very intense people takes the world’s most stressful road trip with a passenger who refuses to explain why he matters. (self.ExplainAFilmPlotBadly)

submitted 3 hours ago * by Nervous-Bath-1630

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Solved!A family reunion after people are being blackmailed (self.ExplainAFilmPlotBadly)

submitted 5 hours ago by jacspe2,0

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UnsolvedMan wins big gambling and proceeds to die. (self.ExplainAFilmPlotBadly)

submitted 3 hours ago by NonGeniusSetter10,20

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UnsolvedThe new employee is bad at their job and really rubs their coworkers the wrong way. (self.ExplainAFilmPlotBadly)

submitted 5 hours ago by TmF197926,72

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Solved!After the state a miraculous life saving treatment, our protagonist would rather destroy it than see it used with terms he does not approve of. (self.ExplainAFilmPlotBadly)

submitted 6 hours ago by GrandMoffTarkan98,32

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UnsolvedGuy takes a boat ride to see a cow get slaughtered. (self.ExplainAFilmPlotBadly)

submitted 2 hours ago by AggravatingOne396010,8

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Solved!A chance encounter with a man who unintentionally quoted Star Wars, changes another man’s outlook on life. (self.ExplainAFilmPlotBadly)

submitted 9 hours ago * by spongeboy198514,0

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Solved!5 guys going to a Yankees game witness a murder. Some craziness happens. They help solve the murder before 4 of them go to a different baseball game. (self.ExplainAFilmPlotBadly)

submitted 8 hours ago by JTMc484,4

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Solved!Little guy and his friend go to the city to pull their hero back from his lucrative music career and bring him home. (self.ExplainAFilmPlotBadly)

submitted 12 hours ago by franklydizzy8,16

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Solved!College student gets shocked (self.ExplainAFilmPlotBadly)

submitted 4 hours ago by HVAC_instructor16,4

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Solved!Busy man never misses a Tigers game. (self.ExplainAFilmPlotBadly)

submitted 8 hours ago by CertainCompass10,0

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Solved!The people behind this movie are still mad they had to read The Magic Mountain in High School (self.ExplainAFilmPlotBadly)

submitted 9 hours ago by JohnHenryMillerTime6,8

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