What movie is this?
November 15, 2009 2:35 PM Subscribe
Help me find the name of this fantasy or scifi movie I saw as a child.
It was a color film made before 1975 (probably well before then), and involved a teenage boy wandering around in a meadow. I remember only one scene from it, in which the boy is desperately repeating "I won't eat the flowers!" and then succumbs to a dreamlike state. I was born in 1967 and I'm pretty sure I was no older than eight when I saw this film. At the time I lived in the Detroit area. The boy in the movie was probably about 12 or 13 and had an American (maybe Canadian) accent.
It was a color film made before 1975 (probably well before then), and involved a teenage boy wandering around in a meadow. I remember only one scene from it, in which the boy is desperately repeating "I won't eat the flowers!" and then succumbs to a dreamlike state. I was born in 1967 and I'm pretty sure I was no older than eight when I saw this film. At the time I lived in the Detroit area. The boy in the movie was probably about 12 or 13 and had an American (maybe Canadian) accent.
All Summer in a Day was broadcast in 1982 which doesn't fit the OP's timeline...
posted by dfriedman at 3:10 PM on November 15, 2009
posted by dfriedman at 3:10 PM on November 15, 2009
Definitely not All Summer in a Day based on the storyline either. Protagonist there was a girl.
posted by Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o'Dell at 3:26 PM on November 15, 2009
posted by Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o'Dell at 3:26 PM on November 15, 2009
Hey, it looks like the short story version of A Boy and His Dog is something I read as a teenager and wished I could remember the name of. (For a while I had it confused with The Postman.) Thanks veedubya!
posted by serathen at 4:48 PM on November 15, 2009
posted by serathen at 4:48 PM on November 15, 2009
The boy was Don Johnson!
posted by Jinx of the 2nd Law at 8:40 PM on November 15, 2009
posted by Jinx of the 2nd Law at 8:40 PM on November 15, 2009
If it is indeed a Boy and His Dog, that movie is in the public domain now and is watchable online here.
posted by crazyray at 11:46 PM on November 15, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by crazyray at 11:46 PM on November 15, 2009 [1 favorite]
Just watched the movie at the link crazyray gave; doesn't include the scene the OP remembered, unfortunately.
posted by serathen at 5:45 AM on November 16, 2009
posted by serathen at 5:45 AM on November 16, 2009
The flowers must've been poppies. This too sounds familiar.
posted by I-baLL at 9:42 AM on November 16, 2009
posted by I-baLL at 9:42 AM on November 16, 2009
Response by poster: I think I-baLL is right that they were poppies. But I have seen the other two mentioned and it's not either of them.
posted by xenophile at 7:10 AM on November 18, 2009
posted by xenophile at 7:10 AM on November 18, 2009
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posted by xenophile at 3:02 PM on November 15, 2009