Lost Movie

[wolf]

I have a place that I go when I lose title to the plot of a book, but I don't have a similar source for movies ... over the weekend I ended up with a remembered film image, and I can't place it ...

What I remember is this:

A shark kite.

Yeah, that's it. There may have been a mean, fat kid flying it, terrorizing other nicer, average-weight children by cutting their kites loose.

[lookout123]

dolphin

on a more serious note, what site do you use to locate forgotten book titles?

[glatt]

You remembered this while soaking your feet in rusty water and flipping through a kite catalog. Didn't you?

[Happy Monkey]

I remember that scene too, but I can't remember where it's from, either.

[Sundae]

All I can suggest is The Kite Runner.
I don't even know if a film was made of it, it's just all I can come up with.

Much luck - my search for a half-remembered children's book came to nothing and it haunts me still.

[infinite monkey]

There was a film of The Kite Runner, but I haven't seen it. I don't remember a shark kite in the book. I googled around the words kite runner and shark...came up with nada.

[Happy Monkey]

I think in this movie the kid's dad helped him make the kite, so it was extra-poignant when the antagonist kid destroyed it.

But I'm not sure.

[infinite monkey]

Mary Poppins? (grasping at straws, here)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Poppins_(film)

The Banks' latest nanny, Katie Nanna (Elsa Lanchester), quits out of exasperation after the Banks children, Jane (Karen Dotrice) and Michael (Matthew Garber) run off in pursuit of a wayward kite. Mr. Banks returns home from his job at the Dawes Tomes Mousley Grubbs Fidelity Fiduciary Bank, and Mrs. Banks reveals the children are missing. A policeman (Arthur Treacher), arrives with the children, who ask their father to help repair their damaged kite, but he dismisses them and advertises for an authoritarian nanny-replacement. Jane and Michael draft their own advertisement asking for a fun, kind-hearted and caring person, but Mr. Banks tears up the paper and throws it in the fireplace. Unnoticed, the remains of the note float up the chimney.

The next morning, the wind has changed direction, and so Mary must depart. Meanwhile, the Banks adults cannot find Mr. Banks, and fear that he might have become suicidal. However, Mr. Banks, now loving and joyful, reappears with the now-mended kite and cheerfully summons his children. The greatly relieved Mrs. Banks supplies a tail for the kite, using one of her suffragette ribbons. They all leave the house without a backward glance as Mary Poppins watches from a window. In the park with other kite-flyers, Mr. Banks meets Mr. Dawes Jr., who says that his father literally died laughing. Instead of being upset, the son is delighted his father died happy, and re-employs Mr. Banks to fill the opening as partner. Her work done, Mary Poppins takes to the air with a fond farewell from Bert, telling her not to stay away too long.

[wolf]

Definitely not The Kite Runner ... too recent, and I hated the book and have no interest in seeing the movie.

And definitely not Mary Poppins. Dancing Penguins abound, but no shark kites.

For some reason in my head the missing movie is of the same era as "Better Off Dead," but of course, I could be off 10-15 years. It's that kind of a wacky comedy though, but probably not Savage Steve Holland. I have a sneaking suspicion that it's a Meatballs or Mad Magazine's Up the Academy sort of flick. Or maybe a Police Academy sequel? Wasn't Steve Gutenberg working beach patrol at one point? But I think the shark kite was more of a plot point than that ...

Oh, and my book finding site is a Group on Goodreads.com called "What's the Name of that Book?"

You have to register for goodreads and then for the group to be able to post. They're pretty good.

I think of goodreads as asocial networking. It's for people that read a lot, and like to post about what they read.

[Spexxvet]

One crazy summer?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091680/

[wolf]

I think I saw that once because my sister liked it, but I really don't know.

[lookout123]

Great movie but don't remember the shark kite in it.

[wolf]

Originally Posted by glatt

You remembered this while soaking your feet in rusty water and flipping through a kite catalog. Didn't you?

Yep. You must be physic.

I love the kites from Into the Wind.

I first had one of their catalogs in the early 1980s, but I've never ordered from them.

[Undertoad]

One Crazy Summer is on Dwellar's viewing list because it contains a shark described as a "giant dolphin with rabies".

[lookout123]

It is one of my mostest favoritest movies ever. I just watched it a couple weeks ago for the umpteenth time.