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* '' {{spoiler|[[Salt]]}}'': Woman loses her job and her husband after getting in touch with her original contractors.

* '' {{spoiler|[[Santa Claus Conquers the Martians]]}}'': Extraterrestrials learn the true meaning of giving after one of their kind gets pummeled with toys for attempting to kill a spirit associated with the winter solstice.

* ''{{spoiler|[[Saving Private Ryan]]}}'': Pennsylvania teacher leads rescue team.

* ''{{spoiler|[[Saw]]}}'': Fending off depression, a terminally ill craftsman and his puppet mascot pose puzzles to strangers.

* ''{{spoiler|Schizopolis}}'': A man writing a speech that no one will give has an affair with his wife but breaks it off when he falls in love with the same woman. Also, the guy who impersonates Dr. Galazkiewicz in the Bud Light commercials has a fat fetish and an incoherent man with offensive genitalia has lots of sex.

* ''{{spoiler|[[School of Rock]]}}'': An unemployed middle-aged man steals the identity of a substitute elementary school teacher, and gives the children an unusual curriculum.

* ''{{spoiler|[[Scream (film)|Scream]]}}'': A survival guide about slasher movies.

** '' {{spoiler|Scream 2}}'': A survival guide about slasher movie sequels.

* ''{{spoiler|Shooter}}'': Evil industrial-military cabal uses robot gun to frame world's most awesome special forces sniper for the President's murder. In a turn of events that no-one could have predicted (and driven on by the knowledge that the cabal also killed his dog) the sniper uses his awesome abilities to [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|take them all out one by one]] - illustrating along the way the inherent danger in various forms of domestic cooking gas supply.

* ''{{spoiler|[[Short Circuit]]}}'': A computer geek and his perpetually horny Indian friend try to rescue a peacenik Weapon of Mass Destruction from technophobic security guard for dissection. [[Friend to All Living Things|Friend To All Animals]] tries to protect said [[Weapon of Mass Destruction|WoMD]] from both of them.

* {{spoiler|''[[Shrek]]''}}: A grumpy man and a clingy jackass are sent to fight a dragon due to a zoning dispute.

** {{spoiler|''[[Shrek]] 2''}}: While said man tries to make his in-laws like him, the metro-sexual son of a fast-food addicted [[Evil Matriarch]] tries to steal his wife.

** Or: A love triangle that pits a former nun against a noblewoman over a man that is also the father of the former nun's charges. One of the charges is dating a Nazi soldier. The former nun teaches the man to loosen up and to love, through the [[Power of Rock|power of]] sickly sweet noise.

** Or: A stuffy aristocrat marries a nun [[Reassigned to Antarctica]] because she makes his kids dress up in drapes. Later the other nuns wreck a car because they would do anything to get rid of her.

* ''{{spoiler|[[Soylent Green]]}}'': [[In a World]] destroyed by [[Unfortunate Implications|our refusal to commit mass murder on an unprecedented scale]], everyone's a cannibal.

* ''{{spoiler|[[Space Cowboys]]}}'': Guy is asked to fix device based on a design of his, and invites three old buddies for the mission.

* ''{{spoiler|[[Spartacus]]}}'': A bunch of rebellious slaves impersonate their leader.

* '' {{spoiler|[[Speed]]}}'': Police officer earns enmity of embittered retiree who forces him to use swift-moving public transportation.

* '' {{spoiler|[[Speed Racer (film)|Speed Racer]]}}'': Large companies manipulate the stock market to maximize their return. The impact this has on sport is investigated.

* ''{{spoiler|[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man]]}}'': Due to bug bite and money not paid, teenager loses his uncle. This causes him to later fight the father of a friend who dresses very oddly.

** ''{{spoiler|Spider-Man 2}}'': Crime-fighter [[How Do I Shot Web?|forgets abilities]] due to stress. Meanwhile nuclear physicist is possessed by his creation.

** ''{{spoiler|Spider-Man 3}}'': Alien turns crime-fighter into aggressive man who does [[Saturday Night Fever|Tony Manero]] impressions.

* ''{{spoiler|[[Spirited Away]]}}'': A girl rescues her parents from a greedy old woman with an over-sized head by working in a bath house.

* ''{{spoiler|[[SS Doomtrooper]]}}'': [[Stargate SG-1|Jonas Quinn]] and his [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]] blow up a factory and kill Hitler's radioactive mutant. ...Actually, that sounds pretty cool.

* ''{{spoiler|[[Stand and Deliver]]}}'': Some minority kids study for a math test.

** ''{{spoiler|[[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan|Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan]]}}'': Captain and war criminal have a [[Ham-to-Ham Combat|scenery-eating contest]]. The budget was cut to TV movie levels, and one of the cast agreed to get killed off because he was convinced the series was hitting a dead end.

** ''{{spoiler|[[Star Trek III: The Search For Spock|Star Trek III the Search For Spock]]}}'': A big excuse to [[Disney Death|bring back someone who died]] in the previous installment. It had to be done--that someone's spirit was driving his [[The Rival|rival]] crazy. [[Broken Aesop|Aesops are broken]] along the way.

*** Or: Shakespeare in the Sky With Klingons.<ref>All credit for this particular phrase of awesome goes to the Fandom_wank wiki.</ref>

** '' {{spoiler|[[Star Trek Generations]]}}'': [[William Shatner]] is rescued from Paradise by a Frenchman with a British accent. [[Dropped a Bridge on Him|He dies shortly thereafter.]]

** '' {{spoiler|[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]}}'': Lots of [[Lens Flare]] and a time-traveling miner press the [[Reset Button]] on over 40 years of media. They kept the [[Large Ham|ham]]. However, some [[Nakama|Nakamas]] are simply meant to be.

* '' {{spoiler|[[Star Wars]]}}'': This was described in some TV listings which took brevity too far: "A farm-boy seeks his destiny."

* '' {{spoiler|[[Starship Troopers (film)|Starship Troopers]]}}'': Boy joins the army so he can visit new places, see lots of bugs, and kill them.

** Or: An [[Alien Invasion]], from the perspective of the invaders.

* '' {{spoiler|The Stepfather}}'': The family life of a [[Ax Crazy|man]] who likes building little houses unravels around him.

** '' {{spoiler|Stepfather II}}'': A man leaves an asylum, settles down with a new family and must deal with nosy neighbors and other such busybodies.

* ''{{spoiler|Stroczek}}'': The American dream is ruined by a dancing chicken.

* '' {{spoiler|[[Sucker Punch]]}}'': Girl plots escape from mental asylum by fighting monsters in her dreams while dancing.

* '' {{spoiler|[[Sunrise (film)|Sunrise]]}}'': Man attempts to murder his wife so that he can run off with his mistress, but backs out at the last second. [[Karma Houdini|Not only does he suffer no lasting consequences for this]], [[Easily Forgiven|his wife instantly forgives him]], and it actually ends up rejuvenates their failing marriage.

* '' {{spoiler|[[Sunset Boulevard]]}}'': Boy meets girl. Girl wants him to write script for her. Boy writes script with other girl instead. Boy dies.

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