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= October 5 =

I'm trying to remember the name of this Canadian cowboy movie from 1990
I saw this movie in 1999 but it was released in 1990. It was a movie shot in Alberta about a rodeo clown who was an alcoholic and in the film he had a teenage son who he abused and the two of them lived on a ranch or farm. The ending was very sad. I watched this in my English class in grade eight and I would sure love to watch this movie again. Please in anyone has any idea of the title please let me know. Thank you. Venustar84 (talk) 06:35, 5 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Cowboys Don't Cry sounds similar but it came out in 1988. Is that it?  Dismas |(talk) 08:24, 5 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Yes thank you! 174.7.167.7 (talk) 16:04, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

Finding this movie
The film is about people controlling inmates in a video game, in a way that they can move but only the inmate decides when to shoot, does anyone know what is this film called? That film have its own article in wikipedia139.193.181.61 (talk) 15:00, 5 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Probably Gamer. ---Sluzzelin talk  15:02, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

Yes it is139.193.181.61 (talk) 15:05, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

StuRat (talk) 15:54, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

An intelligent movie
Hi there, I'm looking for a movie which is similar to The Hundred-Foot Journey (film), but need to be more popular, since I would like to find it in a "virtual blockbuster". Thank you. 19:46, 5 October 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Exx8 (talk • contribs)


 * If you are looking for films about cooking in a cross cultural situation What's Cooking? fits the bill. MarnetteD&#124;Talk 19:52, 5 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Try Chocolat with Johnny Depp. Popular, award winning, multicultural (French), and nominally about food. StuRat (talk) 20:19, 5 October 2014 (UTC)


 * The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover might also fit the bill. StuRat (talk) 20:23, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Stu - You know that film is only for people with the strongest of constitutions :-) MarnetteD&#124;Talk 20:47, 5 October 2014 (UTC)


 * If the cooking aspect is what you're interested in, you could check out List of films about cooking, and/or Category:Cooking films —71.20.250.51 (talk) 20:59, 5 October 2014 (UTC)


 * The Oscar-winning Babette's Feast is my favourite (and also the pope's, apparently).--Shantavira|feed me 07:24, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

A Game Of Thrones
I'm trying to avoid spoilers. Could someone tell me, or show me on a page that won't spoil anything, how the books and TV show line up? I'm reading the first book now and am curious how far, for example, the first season of the show goes or how much it covers. Thanks. Dismas |(talk) 21:58, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
 * The first season covers the 1st novel (A Game of Thrones) of the series of novels, A Song of Ice and Fire. A broad overview of the series vs. novels can be found in this table; but, that doesn't relate to individual episodes of the TV series. This table: (season 1) Episodes includes brief plot summaries, which may or may not be considered "spoilers".  — 71.20.250.51 (talk) 22:56, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
 * (see there is already better info then I have but I will post this anyway) I am only going from memory so others will have more accurate info. You can read the first three books without problems. They don't match up exactly with the first three TV seasons. Also there are many plot lines and characters that are left out due to the nature of distilling down thousands of pages of the novels into a few hours of TV. After that it gets dodgy. Book 4 only tells the story of some of the characters. Then the first (two-thirds?) of book 5 goes back and tells the story of those not in book 4 and then the last third continues on with everyone roughly synced up timeline-wise. I think you can read about halfway through book 4. One thought is don't read them too quickly and let season 5 of the TV show play out before finishing book 4. As I say there is guesswork here, Other editors may even be able to direct you to websites that can tell you how far to go. MarnetteD&#124;Talk 22:58, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Chapter 1 of A Feast for Crows is a rather huge spoiler. Not recommended for people who want to see it first on TV. Reading half the chapters would be OK, but not halfway through, cover-to-cover. I'd avoid the chapters not named after characters. InedibleHulk (talk) 23:30, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for the responses. That table is exactly what I was looking for. I don't mind reading the books through before seeing them on the screen. (I read all the Potter books before the movies that went with them.) I will probably try to finish the books before their material is on the screen. Thanks again! Dismas |(talk) 23:02, 5 October 2014 (UTC)