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Longest movie title ever?

I just looked up this movie on imdb.com, and this is what they say for the tit
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The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
aka "The Mysterious Yearning Secretive Sad Lonely Troubled Confused Loving Musical Gifted Intelligent Beautiful Tender Sensitive Haunted Passionate Talented Mr. Ripley" - USA (complete title)
  

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com, and this is what they say for the *** le: The Talented ... Sad Lonely Troubled Confused Loving Musical Gifted Intelligent Beautiful Tender Sensitive Haunted Passionate Talented Mr. com/title/tt0230575 / Life Continues, Despite Evidence to the Contrary Steven

  • com, and this is what they say for the *** le: The Talented ...
  • Sad Lonely Troubled Confused Loving Musical Gifted Intelligent Beautiful Tender Sensitive Haunted Passionate Talented Mr.
  • com/title/tt0230575 / Life Continues, Despite Evidence to the Contrary Steven
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[nq:1]I just looked up this movie on imdb.com, and this is what they say for the *** le: The Talented ... Sad Lonely Troubled Confused Loving Musical Gifted Intelligent Beautiful Tender Sensitive Haunted Passionate Talented Mr. Ripley" - USA (complete title)[/nq]
I always thought it was "Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Atta
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Longest title used in the actual theatrical release of a movie?

Probably:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057181/
The novel the Ripley movie is based on is THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY, so all else is probably BS or what it said on a teaser poster.

- Bill
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I think this one runs it close, and in any case what it lacks in ultimate length it makes up for in inventiveness:
Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?

(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064123/)
Bert
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[nq:1]Longest title used in the actual theatrical release of a movie? Probably: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057181/ The novel the Ripley movie is based on is THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY, so all else is probably BS or what it said on a teaser poster. - Bill[/nq]
Let's not forget
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...and then there's the almost poetical:
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad

(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062067/)
Bert
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[nq:1]"Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064123/[/nq]
Starring Joan Collins as "Polyester Poontang" by the way.

A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can hav
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"The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds" (1972)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068528/
Paul Newman directs his wife and daughter in the film of the play.

Martin B
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"wcmartell"
[nq:1]Longest title used in the actual theatrical release of a movie? Probably: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057181/[/nq]
For those not bothered to look it up:
"The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?"
(1964) Awa
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Here's a recent one...
"The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"

(2007) Never saw it. Heard it was boring.

Martin B

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