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Your nominees for misleadingly or absurdly mistitled movies?

Asked by Jeruba (55837points) February 27th, 2012

As a spinoff of this question, I’m wondering what movies you can think of whose titles were way off base—either failing to capture anything about the movie or downright misrepresenting it.

How about including a brief synopsis and/or an IMDb link to remind us what the movie was really about?

In addition to The Straight Story (in the linked question), here are a few others that I’ve found notable:

Hideous Kinky – A free-spirited mother with her two young daughters in tow travels to Morocco in search of whatever seems to be missing in her life. The girls’ word game that supposedly accounts for the title is a minor theme that seems irrelevant to the story. It’s just a meaningless grabber.

Sexy Beast – A “one last heist for the old gang” bank robbery storyline, with a main character whose violent nature made him beastly, but who certainly didn’t seem sexy. Another meaningless grabber.

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? is all about eating, all right, but the title sounds like a joke, right down to the alliterative food name of the main character, instead of the sensitive and touching story of a young man who is trying to have a life while looking after his strange family, including a morbidly obese mother who is eating herself to death.

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