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Peanut Butter Solution [VHS]

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For years, I have been trying to figure out the name of the creepy movie i saw when i was 9, where a boy lost his hair, put something on his head that made it grow, it grew too fast, blah blah kidnapping, magic paintbrushes, etc. etc. Now I know, and it feels good...like a warm snuggly blanket.
There should be a society called The Peanut Butter Solution Viewers Anonymous... for all the innocents who saw this movie in their youth, only to be haunted by it and be told by their friends and loved ones that they are liars and this movie doesn't exist (but Mommy, it is real).
To add insult to injury, I recently found the trailer online and (certain that victory was mine) played it for my so-called friends (who dared to call me a liar...i hope they burn). ONLY to find that the trailer is the most ridiculously sugary bit 'o film accompanied by an organ grinder's stupid muzak (and not the creepy film experience we all know it to be). So now I'm not a liar... I'm just a huge silly chicken. That's okay, though, I'm still in my happy place. B/c this movie is real.

In 1987 when i was 5 years old, i saw this movie for the first and only time with my older sister who was 7. after we saw the movie, we had dreams about it for years. after we got older and stopped having the dreams, the movie was a vague memory. i just remembered very little while my sister remembered much more. but the one thing that we both couldnt remember was the title. we tried to explain our memories to others to see if they knew, but everyone thought we were crazy. today, april 10th 2002, i decided to go with my memories and try and find the title on the internet. after about 30 minutes of searching, i finally found the title, "The Peanut Butter Solution." i was so thrilled! i called my sister up and told her the great news. what i told her gave her goosebumps and she almost cried from relief. my sister is currently ordering the movie from amazon so we can continue to enjoy the movie for years to come. and maybe even stir up those old dreams again.

This movie must be seen! I have this neighbor who i was trying to describe the movie to, and i just came off sounding insane...My description was vague since i was sooo young when i saw it... "there was this bald kid who had no hair, so he mixed like 15 dead flies into some peanut butter, and put it on his head in the shower. Then, his hair grew so fast that they made paint brushes from it. Then a bunch of kids found a huge scary picture, and actually walked into it!" My buddy was like "what kind of wierdo movies did u watch as a kid...no wonder you are the way you are today!" That is all i remembered since i was just a little girl, and i was terrified of it (I too had reoccuring dreams personified paintings). My buddy actually thought it was so weird that he looked it up on amazon and ordered it for me!! What a sweet guy...someone who thinks you're weird...and supports it too. Anyway, i haven't seen it in like 10 years, and im watching it tonight with "MY BUDDY". Thank You! Oh..and for the record i am pretty normal...Thank You

I can't believe that almost everyone who has seen this movie thought they were either crazy or they had fabricated it in a dream. I was of the second camp. Until I mentioned it one day to my best friend and he remembered it as well. That made me feel better. It's strange how this movie seemed to just disappear off the face of the earth. If it wasn't for the internet, most of us would still be wondering if we had made this up. The one thing I don't understand about the other reviews is why people were so scared of this. I don't remember it being scary at all. I must have been around 8 when I saw it. My sister was 5 and I don't remember her being scared either. So there was no scaring, or scarring, due to this movie. People who say otherwise really are crazy and should be locked up in a mental institution playing checkers with a big man named Hector who thinks he is a petite female version of Abraham Lincoln. There, I said it.

I am one of those people who also thought I had made this movie up. Everytime I talked about it to friends they looked at me like I was crazy. Fortunatly I found someone who knew what I was talking about and also knew the title. This movie was great as a kid. I remember him running through the yards being chased by dogs and his hair getting caught on bushes. I just hope when I rewatch it...it's as good as it was back then.

I was ten when I first saw this movie and have always wanted to see it again. Maybe we should start a petition to have it released on DVD. I was starting myself to wonder if I had just made it up. It is a magical movie with a great plot and story line. One of those films you'll remember for a long time as we all have.

There seems to be a running theme here and on imdb.com's listing of this movie where people who have seen this movie as children thought the movie was a dream.

Myself, I thought the plot of the movie was a nightmare i had. I actually thought my 'nightmare' had been a movie that i had recalled, but recounting my nightmare to people they said there was no way that was a kids movie.

Then, I have a friend tell me about this movie, and like many evidentally, It freaked me out to realize it WAS a film, and I hadn't just made it up.

This movie from what i remember is bizarre, to say the least but has made an impression on almost every kid who saw it. Not your normal kids movie.

Oddly enough directed by the guy who made the landmark documentary Waiting for Fidel.

Someone release this!

Discussing movies over dinner with my brother recently, he tells me he's been looking for this movie called "The Peanut Butter Solution" that he had seen as a kid. The weird thing is, I had been looking for it too! As I'm trying to hunt down a copy for him for Christmas, I come here and find that all the reviews written are by people expressing the same awe that I felt about this movie...trippy movie from childhood...stuck in my head...paintbrushes made from hair...etc.

This movie is a typical bizarre, spooky, borderline scary, 70's/80's movie. I don't know what the obsession was of making acid trippy kids movies was back in those days, but this definitely falls in that category. The entrancing plot might be a little frightening or intense for kids UNDER the age of ten. I was right around ten when it came out and I found it creepy yet intriguing, not scary. To kind of gauge it, it's comparable to the darker Harry Potter movies, or the trippy 70's Krofft shows, or as someone else mentioned, Return to Oz (which was considerably darker than the original). I do highly recommend The Peanut Butter Solution, as movies with plots that really stick with you over the years like this one are rarely made these days.

My sister and I watched this movie on tv once (or twice) when we were very young. Every once in a while, we would try to describe it to someone else, and for many years, we thought we were quite possibly the only two people on the planet who had every seen this film. Then, tonight, we decided to look it up on Amazon, and I can't believe what I'm seeing! Not only can we order the movie with ease, but here are several other people who went through the exact same thing we have! I can't wait to get it and see if it's as creepy/fascinating as we remember. I have never written an online review of anything before - only something this incredible could prompt me to do so now. If you're reading these reviews to see if you should order this video, I absolutely recommend it. It's about a kid who loses his hair (I can't remember why) and somehow finds his way to a "peanut butter solution". The charm works, but his hair keeps growing and growing and growing... It's a great kids movie, and obviously very memorable...

I watched this movie over and over so many times when I was younger I had it memorized. The part that creeped me out the most was the scene with the live paintings. I felt sorry for the boy who couldn't grow hair, and the peanutbutter solution making your hair grow reminded me a little of Frecklejuice giving you freckles. I was surprised when it actually worked on him..

It is not your ordinary film, has a very twisted yet fascinating plot. If you liked this you will probably also like Return to Oz and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen--two other fantastic films. I could not find the right version Return to Oz on here. It has that girl who played Nancy in The Craft as Dorothy, so you know it's an old film.