The Peanut Butter Mother F-cking Solution
Well, I recently got back to Iowa, and had a bunch of eventful things happen to me and everything, but I don't really feel like typing all that out at the moment. I'm too worked up, because I just found out the name of a movie I've been wondering about for about 20 years.
I saw this movie when I was about six, about a kid who wishes something (or something) and loses all his hair. Then he takes this peanut butter potion deal, which causes his hair to grow like 4 feet long. Then the kid gets kidnapped by an artist who is using human hair for his paint brushes. I have gone along for the past two decades not knowing the name of the movie, but, needless to say, it left an impression. At the time I had long hair, so this movie scared the bloody bejesus out of me. As I got older, this sense of fear turned to curiosity. What was the name of this movie? Had anyone else seen it?
Each time I asked someone I knew whether they'd seen a film like this, however, they returned a blank stare, as if to say: "Lavin, you are a nut."
But I'm not a nut.
(Not about this, anyway.)
I recently stumbled upon the name of the flick. "The Peanut Butter Solution." Then I found it on IMDB. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089789/ (It's also on wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peanut_Butter_Solution, and there's a trailer on youtube) I immediately felt a combination of relief and self-righteous anger toward anyonewho ever doubted the existence of this movie.
Probably the funniest part of the experience was reading the the primary user review:
"I've been working in videos stores for 5yrs now and every time someone new comes and works in the video store I always ask have you ever seen a movie where this kid loses his hair and uses this stuff with peanut butter in it to make his hair grow. And everyone always looks at me strangely and say no. I had seen this movie in school a few times when i was 6 or 7 and it also scared the crap out of me and made a lasting impression but didn't know the name of the movie. So finally I did a random search and typed in peanut butter in a movie search engine and got the title Peanut Butter Solution."
You can't make this crap up. Anyone seen it?
I saw this movie when I was about six, about a kid who wishes something (or something) and loses all his hair. Then he takes this peanut butter potion deal, which causes his hair to grow like 4 feet long. Then the kid gets kidnapped by an artist who is using human hair for his paint brushes. I have gone along for the past two decades not knowing the name of the movie, but, needless to say, it left an impression. At the time I had long hair, so this movie scared the bloody bejesus out of me. As I got older, this sense of fear turned to curiosity. What was the name of this movie? Had anyone else seen it?
Each time I asked someone I knew whether they'd seen a film like this, however, they returned a blank stare, as if to say: "Lavin, you are a nut."
But I'm not a nut.
(Not about this, anyway.)
I recently stumbled upon the name of the flick. "The Peanut Butter Solution." Then I found it on IMDB. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089789/ (It's also on wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peanut_Butter_Solution, and there's a trailer on youtube) I immediately felt a combination of relief and self-righteous anger toward anyonewho ever doubted the existence of this movie.
Probably the funniest part of the experience was reading the the primary user review:
"I've been working in videos stores for 5yrs now and every time someone new comes and works in the video store I always ask have you ever seen a movie where this kid loses his hair and uses this stuff with peanut butter in it to make his hair grow. And everyone always looks at me strangely and say no. I had seen this movie in school a few times when i was 6 or 7 and it also scared the crap out of me and made a lasting impression but didn't know the name of the movie. So finally I did a random search and typed in peanut butter in a movie search engine and got the title Peanut Butter Solution."
You can't make this crap up. Anyone seen it?
posted by Matt Lavin
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10:28 PM
5 Comments:
You should find this movie called, "The Stuff". It's from the 80's. It's awesome, and right up your alley. Magical dessert that bubbles out of the ground mysteriously, but people love it and eat it by the gallon. Then, surprisingly enough, they turn into zombies. It doesn't get any better than that! -Ryan
i definitely remember seeing this movie. like you it left a strange feeling in me. perhaps that is why i also could not think of the title of the movie. i do, however, still enjoy eating peanut butter.
I remember this movie too! You are the greatest at helping me remember things I didn't even know I'd forgotten.
Judith
I saw the damn film. and when you asked me about it I said "yeah it's called 'the peanut butter...something."
loverus.
I too had been looking for this movie for 20 years. No one knew what I was talking about. I googled "movie artist human hair" and found your blog. Than you for solving this mystery for me. Now I am off to find a copy of this movie.
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