About a week ago, I had a lot of fun playing around with a question posed on AskReddit: What's one of your favorite movie plots that sound awesome backward?
I immediately started reversing movie plots in my head, and these were the results. Can you identify all of them? And leave your own suggestions below!
After a man tries to kill his next door neighbor, the neighbor begins spying on him, becoming more and more convinced that he's a pretty good guy after all.
A magical nanny arrives to take care of two children whose doting father loves them and plays with them. She spends time with the children until their father becomes cold and distant, then she leaves.
12 jurors convince each other that a boy on trial for murder is guilty before the trial even happens.
An ogre and a princess fall in love, so he imprisons her in a tower and goes to live in a swamp, where he invites fairy tale creatures to live with him.
A father fish encourages his son to go be free but immediately panics about him being gone. He starts looking for him, and when he finds him, he refuses to let him go anywhere again.
A mentally unstable ballerina comes back to life just in time to do a spectacular performance of Swan Lake and ultimately regains her health and her sanity as she becomes less obsessed with her work.
A man is freed from prison and tries to manipulate his wife into thinking that she's not crazy.
Several young adults escape from the Blair Witch and bond as they happily find their way out of the forest.
A woman forces an alien to get into her spaceship then chases it around until it revives everyone on the ship.
A computer is challenged to playing tic-tac-toe, which convinces it to start a global thermonuclear war. A teenager accidentally hacks into the computer and stops the impending doom.
A group of men feel confident when they put on a strip show for their whole town, but as soon as it's over they feel ashamed, everyone makes fun of them, and they completely lose their senses of self-worth.
A man feels very fortunate with his life, but then an angel shows him vignettes from an alternate version of his life that make him more and more depressed. His uncle finds some money, and this returns him to his regular cheerful self.
A group of dinosaur children leave their parents and grandparents to venture out into the wilderness and live where there is no food.
Two Broadway producers are let out of jail. They panic, fire everyone working on their new successful play, and return to unfulfilling jobs.
Two dogs and a cat leave their owners and trek for miles across the country to get away from them, but eventually the owners find them and take them back.
A boy leaves his village home to live with the animals in the jungle until he is abandoned by wolves.
A man's wife and child come to meet him at his hotel workplace. He yells at them for awhile and they are alarmed but everyone calms down eventually. The weather gets nicer and eventually they leave.
A choir of nuns get worse and worse under their director's supervision, until she stops being a nun and decides to be a night club singer instead.
A writer locks himself up in a fan's house with a broken leg. Once it heals, she kicks him out.
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