One Letter Off: Movies

One Letter Off: Movies

"Little Miss Punshine?"
Contest ended 3 years ago 8/18/2008 12:00:00 AM EDT

Contest Info

  • Cost: 2 credits
  • Jackpot: 50 credits

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First Place
# 1
By Mehphisto (Score: 6.981)
2

The latest installment from the animators at Pixar, "Cards" follows the story of world famous Diamond McQueen. On her way to a high-stakes poker tournament, McQueen finds herself sidetracked in a lowly game of Go-Fish. In her struggle to depart from the game she realizes that life isn’t just about the numbers on the card, but rather finding that perfect match.

Word count: 61
 
2
By burden (Score: 6.705)
1

Dr. Rick Timothy, a naive British patent lawyer, stumbles upon a ludicrous patent application for a time machine. When the machine turns out to work, Dr. Timothy finds himself in the middle of the most complicated case of intellectual propriety law he has ever encountered as several thousand companies travel through time to copyright the technology.

Word count: 56
 
Second Place
# 3
By jfeg116 (Score: 6.626)
4

Reservoir Dots

When five ellipses committing an asterisk heist get ambushed by the grammar police they begin to wonder who is the undercover umlaut among them.

Word count: 26
 
Third Place
# 4
By thredder (Score: 6.366)
3

Singin' in the Ruin

Tombraider's Lara Croft is back again, this time in an all singing, all dancing musical adventure that takes our tap-dancing, silken-voiced hero on her most outrageous quest ever.

Word count: 32
 
5
By Selorian (Score: 6.351)
2

When a ticked Captain Hook, outfitted with clock parts and geared for revenge, crawls from the belly of the crocodile Tick-Tock, Peter enlists the help of Tinkerbell and the Lost Boys in building a suit of iron powered by fairy dust so he can save Neverland and get rid of the Hook for good.

Word count: 54
Please do not critique my entry.
 
6
By thredder (Score: 6.231)
2

... Allen

In space no one can hear you laugh.

A spaceship visits a deserted planet and finds a marooned Jewish-American playwright who then terrorises the ship, destroying the crew one by one with his comedic psychoanalysis, before finally being pushed out the airlock.

Word count: 43
 
7
By kyricom (Score: 6.129)
2

A young girl and her little dog are swept to the magical land of Oz by a tornado. After many songs and adventures with extraordinary new friends, the small band finally makes it to the great Lizard of Oz - where the girl wants to beg for a means home. The magnificent and terrible lizard ponders her request, and then eats her dog.

Word count: 62
 
8
By Sumax1 (Score: 6.057)
1

A group of beer hunters get ‘draughted’ into the great bar brawl of the late 1960s … where they are forced to down single shots by their foes. The hero ends up drinking a beer without a head.

Word count: 37
 
9
By didgeridoodle (Score: 5.991)
2

An unlikely hero emerges from the local IT department as he overcomes incredible odds to prevent disruptive packet loss.

Word count: 19
Please do not critique my entry.
 
10
By Sheshrrg (Score: 5.931)
1

The chicken coop is a hive of hedonism, wickedness and viscious gossip, ruled over by a chauvinist cockrel who sees hens as mere egg factories. Into this coop is shoved a young bantam named Prudence, who pledges to turn these squabling fowl into gentle-hen.

Word count: 44
 

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