Verbing Nouny

Title formula: Take the present participle of a transitive verb, and give it an object, usually (but not always) the name of a character. Not to be confused with verbing the noun.

Also known as "Gerund ProperNoun", as coined by Kevin Murphy.


 * Becoming Jane
 * Being John Malkovich
 * Boxing Helena
 * "Calling America"
 * "Calling Dr. Love"
 * Chasing Amy
 * Chasing Liberty
 * Consulting Mister Puppet
 * Crossing Delancey
 * Deconstructing Harry
 * Desperately Seeking Susan
 * Disregarding Joy—the title suggested by Tina Fey in a recent piece for the New Yorker as the kind of "respectable indie dramedysemble" she could get a "strategically chosen small part" in if she decided to take full advantage of her remaining years of employability as an actress.
 * Downloading Nancy
 * Driving Miss Daisy may have been the catalyst for this trope, which reached peak popularity in 1990's Hollywood feature films.
 * Drowning Mona
 * Eating Raoul
 * Educating Rita
 * Feeling Minnesota
 * Finding Forrester
 * House: "Finding Judas"
 * Finding Nemo
 * Finding Neverland
 * Flogging Molly
 * Forgetting Sarah Marshall
 * Getting Gotti
 * Guarding Tess
 * Hating Alison Ashley
 * Judging Amy
 * Keeping Mum (a Double Meaning Title)
 * Killing Mr. Griffin
 * Killing Zoe
 * Kissing Jessica Stein
 * Knowing Me, Knowing You... with Alan Partridge
 * Leaving Las Vegas
 * Loving Annabelle
 * Loving Jezebel
 * Making Money (but not Going Postal, Moving Pictures or Interesting Times, thankfully)
 * Owning Mahowny
 * Presenting Lily Mars
 * Raising Arizona
 * Raising Cain
 * Raising Hope
 * Reading Lolita in Tehran
 * Regarding Henry
 * Romancing the Stone
 * Saving Francesca
 * Saving Grace
 * Saving Private Ryan
 * Saving Silverman
 * Saving Zoe
 * Serving Sara
 * Stealing Harvard
 * Teaching Mrs. Tingle
 * Waking Ned Devine
 * Droppin' Plates