Category Archives: Music

Decoding Annie Parker

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Title: Decoding Annie Parker
Year: 2013
Director: Steven Bernstein
Actors: Helen Hunt, Samantha Morton, Aaron Paul, Rashida Jones, Richard Schiff, Alice Eve, Bradley Whitford, Maggie Grace, Marley Shelton
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Why in Database: At the beginning of the movie, song She’d Rather Be With Me by the Turtles plays during the opening credits. Later, the song Happy Together by this same band appears in the film several times. Moreover, on the sink of the protagonist you can see a turtle figurine, it is visible in two different scenes.

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A Guide for the Married Man

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Title: A Guide for the Married Man
Year: 1967
Director: Gene Kelly
Actors: Walter Matthau, Inger Stevens, Sue Ane Langdon, Jackie Russell, Robert Morse, Aline Towne, Claire Kelly, Eve Brent, Marvin Brody, Majel Barrett, Marian Mason, Tommy Farrell
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

Why in Database: Musical reference only – the band The Turtles recorded the song A Guide for the Married Man specially for this film. It appears many times during the film, sometimes only as a melody.

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The Boat That Rocked

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Title: The Boat That Rocked (Also known as Pirate Radio)
Year: 2009
Director: Richard Curtis
Actors: Michael Hadley, Charlie Rowe, Lucy Fleming, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tom Sturridge, Ian Mercer, Bill Nighy, Will Adamsdale, Tom Brooke, Rhys Darby, Nick Frost, Katherine Parkinson, Chris O’Dowd, Ike Hamilton, Stephen Moore
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK, Germany, France

Why in Database: Turtles only in the form of songs by the band the Turtles – first Rather be with me appears, later, during the wedding, the song Eleonore is used..

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Heart Like a Wheel

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Title: Heart Like a Wheel
Year: 1983
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Actors: Bonnie Bedelia, Beau Bridges, Bruce Barlow, Leo Rossi, Anthony Edwards, Hoyt Axton, Paul Bartel, Missy Basile, Creed Bratton
Genre: Biographical, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA

Why in Database: In this movie, the track “Happy Together” by The Turtles was used as the soundtrack in the first half.

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45 Years

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Title: 45 Years
Year: 2015
Director: Andrew Haigh
Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine James, Dolly Wells, David Sibley, Sam Alexander, Richard Cunningham, Hannah Chalmers, Camille Ucan, Rufus Wright
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Why in Database: In this movie, the turtles only appear in dialogue once, when the main female character orders music over the phone for an anniversary party, she selects “Happy Together”, also mentioning the band’s name, “The Turtles”. This piece also appears in musical form, at the end of the aforementioned anniversary event.

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Adaptation

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Title: Adaptation
Year: 2002
Director: Spike Jonze
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Tilda Swinton, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Jay Tavare, Litefoot, Roger Willie, Jim Beaver, Cara Seymour, Doug Jones, Stephen Tobolowsky, Gary Farmer, Peter Jason, Gregory Itzin, Curtis Hanson
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Why in Database: Turtles appear in this movie in two dialogues. First time when a reporter asks one of the main characters about the turtles he collects (which he has not collected for a long time), the second time when one of the orchids (which the whole movie is about) is described as looking like a turtle (the similarity to a shell can be see in the screenshot). In addition, the song “Happy Together” appears in three fragments, twice sung by the character in the film and once, at the very end, as part of the soundtrack.

“- So how many turtles did you end up collecting?
– I lost interest right after that. I dropped turtles when I fell in love with Ice Age fossils. Collected the shit out of them. Fossils were the only thing that made sense to me in this fucked-up world. I ditched fossils for resilvering old mirrors. My mom and I had the largest collection of 19th-century Dutch mirrors on the planet. Perhaps you read about us. Mirror World, October ’88? I got a copy here somewhere.
– I guess I’d just like to know how you can detach from something that you’ve invested so much of your soul in. I mean, didn’t you ever miss turtles? The only thing that made your 10-year-old life worth living?”
“One looks like a turtle.”

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Beer for My Horses

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Title: Beer for My Horses
Year: 2008
Director: Michael Salomon
Actors: Toby Keith, Rodney Carrington, Claire Forlani, Ted Nugent, Barry Corbin, Greg Serano, Tom Skerritt, Gina Gershon, Willie Nelson, Chris Browning, Myk Watford, Carlos Sanz, Chad Brummett, David Allan Coe
Genre: Action, Comedy, Criminal
Country: USA

Why in Database: Turtle only appears in a fishing anecdote told by one of the characters: “And then Junior farted, and I knew something big was gonna happen. Then, about that time, the tip of the Zebco just went straight down in the water. And I just set the hook. And I fought that son of a bitch for about 20 minutes. It was a snapping turtle.”

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The Simpsons Movie

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Title: The Simpsons Movie
Year: 2007
Director: David Silverman
English dubbing: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Albert Brooks, Karl Wiedergott, Marcia Wallace, Russi Taylor, Maggie Roswell, Philip Rosenthal, Billie Joe Armstrong
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA

Why in Database: In one scene, when the main character, Homer, imagines spending time with a certain… pig, the song “Happy Together” by The Turtles is used as the soundtrack.

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Suzy Q

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Title: Suzy Q
Year: 1999
Director: Martin Koolhoven
Actors: Carice van Houten, Roeland Fernhout, Linda van Dyck, Jack Wouterse, Michiel Huisman, Ricky Koole, Kim la Croix, Cees Geel, Andrew Richard, Miranda Raison, Hugo Koolschijn
Genre: Biographical, Drama
Country: Holandia

Why in Database:The main character has a turtle, which you can see in a few scenes… and then he is killed (the scene is not very cool, but you can see that it is fake-movie-death, either way we do not show the screenshots) and eaten (by unaware eaters). Additionally, “Happy Together” by The Turtles was used as music at the end of the film.

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Scared Shrekless

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Title: Scared Shrekless
Year: 2010
Director: Gary Trousdale, Raman Hui
Angielski Dubbing: Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas, Kristen Schaal, Dean Edwards, Cody Cameron, Christopher Knights, Conrad Vernon
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror.
Country: USA

Why in Database: When Gingerbread Man tells a “scary story” about his fiancée, the song “Happy Together” by The Turtles is used in the initial stage, when they are both happy.

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