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The 20 Most Recycled Movie Plots

May 4, 2019 By John Blumenthal

An ex-CIA assassin goes on one last mission. 

It’s Britain, 1845, and the comely young daughter of an Earl falls in love with a man below her station. 

A dysfunctional  family gathers for a reunion.

Newlyweds buy an old, decrepit house. 

Two drifters find an abandoned suitcase full of cash on the side of road

A retired detective re-opens an old unsolved murder case.

Four young women go on a wild trip to Las Vegas.

After a retired pilot singlehandedly repels an alien invasion, he is separated from his family and must find them. 

Two guys who don’t like each other go on a road trip.

A retired gunslinger reluctantly straps his guns back on when a rich landowner and his gang of hired killers threaten his family and his town. 

A teenager is unpopular in high school until he gets a touchdown in the state play-offs.

A deadly virus threatens to destroy life on Earth. 

A mediocre boxer gets badly beaten up in the ring but wins the fight because he is stubborn and courageous. 

It’s 2045, the Earth has been destroyed by climate change and a man and a woman must fight a nasty band of futuristic bikers to survive. 

Astronauts are stranded on a strange, forbidding planet.

A bookish ten year old walks into a closet and suddenly finds himself in a fantasy land. 

Sinister things happen to two campers in the woods by a lake. 

Accused of a murder he didn’t commit, a man is convicted and sent to jail, but his crusty lawyer doesn’t give up and uncovers the identity of the actual murderer. 

A cantankerous older cop is partnered with a young arrogant rookie. 

Three old friends in desperate need of money rob a bank


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