[Q]: Build a movie plot around this: How many children do Preston and his wife have? Two
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[A]: The story presents three vignettes that are all tied together with a "wrap-around" story concerning a witch, Betty, who has kidnapped a young boy, Timmy, and holds him prisoner. Betty plans to roast him in her oven and serve him at a dinner party for more of her witch friends. To pass the time in his cell, Betty had given Timmy an old, thick book called "Tales From the Darkside". When she reveals her plans for him, Timmy begins to stall her by reading her some of the stories.The first story is called "Lot 249". At a prestigious university, a nerdy student, Bellingham, is bullied by two rich students, Susan and Lee, who are quite contemptuous of him because he's a work-study student. Susan's brother, Andy, helps Bellingham one night with a new specimen that has arrived in the archeology department: an ancient mummy. Speaking about how the ancient Egyptians would draw the corpse's brains out through it's nose with a hook and stuff vegetables into it's abdomen, Bellingham finds the incision in the mummy's abdomen where his preparers had stuffed him with herbs and onions. Bellingham also finds an ancient scroll and remarks that it's fairly worthless. Andy leaves and Bellingham reads the scroll, finding a spell that will bring the mummy to life to be his servant. Bellingham been cheated out of a teaching assistant's position in his department, an incident that somehow involved both Susan and Lee.Bellingham brings the mummy to life and sends it after Lee. It stalks Lee through his apartment, finally cornering him and forcing a hooked wire hanger up his nose, killing him. Susan returns home to find Lee's brain on a table in the front hall and Lee himself partially wrapped in cloth bandages. The mummy attacks her, chasing her through the house, where she becomes lodged in the broken window of the front door. The mummy uses a large pair of scissors and slashes her back open, stuffing the wound with flowers from a vase.Andy goes to Lee and Susan's place and finds them both dead. Suspicious of Bellingham, he goes to...

[Q]: Build a movie plot around this: Where does Justice find Rita? in Max's coffin
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[A]: A ship of dead men steers into Brooklyn harbor. It keeps going untilit runs aground. A large wolf jumps from the ship. The wolf is the vampireMaximilian [Eddie Murphy], the sole survivor of the massacre of a tribe of vampiresliving on an island in the Bermuda Triangle. Max has come to Brooklyn tofind Rita Veder [Angela Bassett], the half-vampire daughter born to a human and a vampirefrom his tribe.Meanwhile, Julius Jones [Kadeem Hardison] isn't having a good night. First, there wasthat ship that ran aground and plowed right through the building where heand Silas Green [John Witherspoon] were working. Then his woman kicked him out of the housefor snoring while otherwise engaged. Now, two thugs are after him for hismoney or his blood. Then, just as Julius is about to meet his maker, thevampire Maximilian shows up, neatly kills off the two thugs, and informsJulius that he is to become his renfield and that the first thing he mustdo is retrieve Max's coffin from the ship.Ship and dock are crawling with the law, one of whom is DetectiveRita Veder. Rita and her partner Justice [Allen Payne] have been sent to investigate theaccident in the harbor and the 18 bodies aboard that were found drained ofblood. While checking out the ship, Rita falls through a rotten floorboardand lands in the cargohold where she finds a coffin and gets a glimpse ofMax, who recognizes her immediately. Rita chases him, but he disappears.When she returns to the cargohold, the coffin is gone, a human earremaining in its place. Max and Julius take the coffin to Julius's house,an apartment he rents from Silas.The ship's log is retrieved, but it is written in some obscurelanguage that no one at the university can decipher, so it is sent to DrZeko for translation. Zeko's turns out to be a nightclub, but Zeko [Zakes Mokae] is ableto tell that the log speaks about a nosferatu on board. As Rita sits at atable, waiting for Justice to return from a phone call, she doesn't noticethat a cobra in a nearby terrarium has escaped and...

[Q]: Build a movie plot around this: Where does Goofy decide to take Max? Lake Destiny, Idaho
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[A]: Goofy (Bill Farmer) is a devoted single parent, but remains a source of constant frustration to his teenage son Max (Jason Marsden), who he continually embarrasses with his doting fatherly behavior and obliviously dorky antics. On the last day of school before summer vacation, Max is hopeful about his future and dreams about his crush, Roxanne (Kellie Martin). With the help of his best friends P.J. (Rob Paulsen) and Bobby (Pauly Shore), he makes one last dramatic stab at popularity by crashing the stage at the end-of-school assembly and re-creating a music video of the popular singer 'Powerline.' The live performance is cut short by Principal Mazur (Wallace Shawn) who takes all three boys to the office to await punishment.While Mazur interrogates Bobby and P.J., Max is approached by Roxanne, who was impressed with his performance. Roxanne's friend Stacy (Jenna von Oy) is hosting a party to watch the upcoming Powerline concert on TV, and Max nervously invites Roxanne to accompany him as his date. Roxanne happily accepts and Max is overjoyed.Goofy excels at his job as a children's photographer at a local department store, but worries about his strained relationship with his own son. Principal Mazur calls Goofy at work and tells him about Max's prank, exaggerating the facts to make Goofy believe that his son is falling in with the wrong crowd, and that Goofy should keep an eye on Max "before he ends up in the electric chair." Goofy's gruff co-worker Pete (Jim Cummings), who is also P.J.'s father, advises Goofy to take Max on a fishing trip to "strengthen the bond between father and son." Goofy excitedly plans a road trip to Lake Destiny, a boyhood tradition he had shared with his own father.Max comes home in a fantastic mood, having won the attention of Roxanne and the respect of his classmates. He is confronted by his father, who gleefully tells him of the planned fishing trip, which will take up most of the summer. Max is horrified, as it will cause him to miss the party and his date with Roxanne. He tries to...

[Q]: Build a movie plot around this: What do the scientists do to Gang-du to silence him? Knocks him down
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In 2000, an American military pathologist is commanding a reluctant Korean assistant to violate protocol by dumping over 200 bottles of formaldehyde down the drain, leading into the Han River. Over the next few years, there are sightings of a strange amphibious creature in the water ways.Six years later, in Seoul, Park Gang-du (Song Kang-ho) is a seemingly slow-witted man who runs a small snack-bar with his father, Hee-bong (Byeon Hee-bong). Also with him is his brother and sister; national medalist archer, Nam-joo (Bae Doona), and alcoholic former-activist Nam-il (Park Hae-il), as well as his daughter, Hyun-seo (Go Ah-sung).While Gang-du is delivering food to some customers, he sees a crowd along the Han River. They witness a huge creature hanging from the Wonhyo Bridge, which then jumps into the water. At first, it seems as though the creature has swam away, encouraging the public to bait it back with food. Moments later, the creature rises out of the river and runs amok. After the creature causes chaos and kills a number of people, Gang-du and an American man attempt to kill the creature with a metal pole, but in the process the American is seriously injured and they only succeed to anger it and starts pursuing Gang-du. Gang-du grabs a girl's hand which he believes to be Hyun-seo and starts to flee. When he realizes he isn't holding Hyun-seo, he turns to see the creature running towards her. The creature then snatches Hyun-seo and dives back into the river.During a mass funeral for the victims of the creature (including Hyun-seo, believed dead by her family) Government representatives arrive and forcefully quarantine all those who have been in direct contact with the creature, including Gang-du and his family. The South Korean government announces that the creature is not only a direct danger, but also the host of a deadly, unknown virus (which is the formaldehyde from the drain) as the American (who lost an arm to the creature) is discovered to be infected with it.While in quarantine inside a hospital,...