asthma inhalers in movies

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there are TWO good things in signs:
i. the tinfoil hats
ii. the kid has a little blue salbutamol inhaler

this was the first movie i ever saw with an asthma inhaler in it BUT WAS IT? and what are the others

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:08 (eighteen years ago) link

haha maybe this can be the second ilx thread i turn into a book for the bfi

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:10 (eighteen years ago) link

An asthma inhaler is used as a weapon in 'It'.

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Also, Goonies.

― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, Sean Astin in the Goonies is the first one I thought of.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:13 (eighteen years ago) link

others others others!

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:14 (eighteen years ago) link

OK OK! An inhaler is responsible for the only really good scene in "The Man Who Wasn't There" (wielded by a character named "Wheezy Joe").

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:15 (eighteen years ago) link

richard attenborough murders some of his victims with a fake inhaler dealy in 120 rillington place -- this is goin to be the best book ever!

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:16 (eighteen years ago) link

"Intolerable Cruelty," no, Tracer?

― phil d. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Woops yes, sorry!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:16 (eighteen years ago) link

whatsisfattey's character in Hitch has an inhaler, he tosses it right before he gets the girl.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Kevin James

― Dan (Argh Why Do I Know Things Like That) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:17 (eighteen years ago) link

haha that would be the sequel i guess: 10 rillington place

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:17 (eighteen years ago) link

there's a bunch of inhaleration in the most recent sopranos episode

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:18 (eighteen years ago) link

denis h in blue velvet: asthma is what he tells his doctor anyway

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:18 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah, that's what i thought this was gonna be about, s1ocki.

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:19 (eighteen years ago) link

oh they're all over brit TV, i don't count that

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:19 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383195/

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:21 (eighteen years ago) link

In Alien v. Predator, the mogul/financier played by Lance Henrickson has one that looks like a restaurant grade bottle of whipped cream.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:21 (eighteen years ago) link

"'Set to the trash pop of the Jauntics" !!

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:22 (eighteen years ago) link

In new thriller FIREWALL, there is a key scene in which Paul Bettany and Harrison Ford's son are sitting together watching TV. Bettany offers a cookie; the son asks if there are any nuts, as he is allergic to them. Bettany says no, and the son takes a cookie. In truth, there are nuts, and he begins to have an allergic reaction. Bettany has his asthma inhaler but he hands it over to Harrison Ford only on condition that he helps with the robbery he is planning.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:26 (eighteen years ago) link

How can Lance Henrickson be in Alien vs. Predator? Wouldn't everybody be like "WTF Bishop, you're not fooling us this time."

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:30 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm sorry, the jauntics have become the dealbreaker

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:30 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't think asthma inhalers help with anaphylactic reactions

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:30 (eighteen years ago) link

In Clooney-Zeta-Jones vehicle INTOLERABLE CRUELTY there is a violent sequence centered on a contract killer's confusion about which of his hands is holding an asthma inhaler, and which one has the loaded pistol.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:31 (eighteen years ago) link

how did he fool them the first time? or is that the aliens saying it?

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:31 (eighteen years ago) link

alba do you like ben domenech?

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:32 (eighteen years ago) link

in avp henriksen plays the guy who founded the company that will several hundred years later make bishop!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:32 (eighteen years ago) link

It just seems like the kind of thing you'd say to a laconic robot posing as a mogul/financier.

xpost: aha and he time-travels too, the sneaky bastard! Oh I see.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:34 (eighteen years ago) link

OK, possibly the thing in Firewall is not an asthma inhaler.

I don't think I like Ben Domenech.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, I was not reading the early parts of the thread. Bad me, sorry.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:36 (eighteen years ago) link

In Aliens, I guess Henrickson fooled everyone into thinking he was unreliable and heartless.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:37 (eighteen years ago) link

ok we need a quick canon pitstop:
it (1966) [is this the one?]
10 rillington place (1971)
goonies (1985)
blue velvet (1986)
signs (1997)
asthma f.the jauntics (1998)
intolerable cruelty (2003)
alien v. predator (2004)
hitch (2005)
firewall (2006)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:42 (eighteen years ago) link

New tough guy movie RUNNING SCARED opens with a gunshot, and we see Paul Walker walk out of a building. In his arms are Cameron Bright and a silver snub-nosed .38 pistol. Bright has blood on his shirt, and Walker puts him in his car and speeds off. Walker is frantic and keeps reassuring Bright that they are going to make it. They speed through a red light while Bright puffs on his asthma inhaler.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:42 (eighteen years ago) link

here's what you're looking for:

http://www.imdb.com/keyword/asthma/

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:44 (eighteen years ago) link

i don't think they help with gunshot wounds much either

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:44 (eighteen years ago) link

that's list's no good slicki they missed out signs!!

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:45 (eighteen years ago) link

No they didn't, it's at number 18.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:47 (eighteen years ago) link

till i did learn the NINE MOST BORING FACTS EVER WRITTEN DOWN

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:48 (eighteen years ago) link

it (1966) [is this the one?]

No, this one:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099864/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnx0dD0xfGZiPXV8cG49MHxrdz0xfHE9aXR8ZnQ9MXxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8Y289MXxodG1sPTF8bm09MQ__;fc=1;ft=6;fm=1

Made for TV apparently, don't know if that makes it not count.

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:49 (eighteen years ago) link

in the remake of [I HAVE FORGOTTEN THE NAME OF THIS FILM] w/ nic cage & david caruso, the nic cage character has asthma, and a bunch of other allergies. kind of cool idea having a tough guy character have a lot of health issues, not a good movie tho.

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:50 (eighteen years ago) link

being roughly the same age as the goonie kids at the time of its release and apparently rather impressionable, i thought mikey's inhaling was "cool" and i wanted one. i can't be the only one.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:51 (eighteen years ago) link

kiss of death??

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:52 (eighteen years ago) link

um, xpost.

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:52 (eighteen years ago) link

stephen king always counts

the shining wd have been better with an asthma inhaler (possibly in the nicholson role)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:52 (eighteen years ago) link

[I HAVE FORGOTTEN THE NAME OF THIS FILM]

Kiss of Death. (xxpost)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Hold the canon! In seminal boxing feelgood movie ROCKY, when Gazzo (Joe Spinell) yells at Rocky for not breaking a deadbeat's thumb, his asthma began to play up and he has to pull out his inhaler.

[Trivia fans take note - this event was unscripted: Spinell really did have an asthma attack during the filming of the scene but kept in character so the director left it in]

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:56 (eighteen years ago) link

who has asthma in dog day afternoon? (and is there an inhaler?)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:57 (eighteen years ago) link

A search for "inhaler" found the following results:
Keywords (Approx Matches) (Displaying 20 Results)
1. vlad the impaler (7 titles - Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula (2000) (TV), ...)
2. invader (5 titles - King Arthur (2004), ...)
3. whaler (4 titles - Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), ...)
4. inheritance (500 titles - The Aviator (2004), ...)
5. intolerance (145 titles - Crash (2004), ...)
6. religious intolerance (34 titles - Gandhi (1982), ...)
7. helium inhalation (8 titles - Parenthood (1989), ...)
8. inheritance challenge (7 titles - Brewster's Millions (1985), ...)
9. space invaders (5 titles - Teenagers from Outer Space (1959), ...)
10. inheritence (3 titles - Laughing Gravy (1931), ...)
11. smoke inhalation (3 titles - Earthquake (1974), ...)
12. inheritor (3 titles - Snow Dogs (2002), ...)
13. inherit (2 titles - Familien på Borgan (1939), ...)
14. inhalant drugs (1 title - Thirteen (2003))
15. norwegians in america (1 title - Til Vesterheimen (1939))
16. swindler (123 titles - Karakter (1997), ...)
17. latin america (89 titles - Predator (1987), ...)
18. captain america (25 titles - Captain America (1991), ...)
19. series finale (13 titles - Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), ...)
20. criminal rehabilitation (10 titles - Within These Walls (2001) (TV), ...)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:03 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm disappointed that Alba didn't say "fact fans."

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:03 (eighteen years ago) link

i feel i have touched the brass ring of all culture

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Poorly received romcom HITCH features a strong supporting performance from Kevin James as the shy everyman who is transformed under Will Smith's tutelage from an asthma-afflicted loser into the emboldened date who tosses his inhaler aside and makes his move on the girl.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link

More Will Smith. His take on Asimov's I, ROBOT features a scene in which he pursues a robot he believes has made off with a handbag. He catches up with the robot, tackles and aims his gun at it, but it turns out to be a good robot rushing an asthma inhaler to its owner. A terrible misunderstanding!

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:12 (eighteen years ago) link

I also seem to remember a particular gag in something from sometime where a kid tries to use his asthma inhaler in a "sexy" way (i.e., breath-freshener style).

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:15 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm glad you clarified what a "sexy" way was.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:16 (eighteen years ago) link

(though I'm not sure how halitosis treatment is sexy)

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:17 (eighteen years ago) link

So basically Alba likes to ignore me and TOMBOT just so he can show off.

(xpost: Haha petulant bitchfit is now over because that shit's funny)

― Dan (Our Useless Hitch Knowledge Is Unappreciated By Scottish Bastards) Perry (D, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:19 (eighteen years ago) link

The first scene between Nicole and Billy takes place in front of a large window that was overexposed. The filmmaker inserted CGI trees into the window and motion tracked them with camera movement in order to camouflage the problem and give the illusion of perfect exposure.
wtf why didnt they just re shoot the scene, wouldnt that have been easier?

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Wait, someone cared enough about Firewall to sum up key scenes? Honestly?

― My Psychic Friends Are Strangely Silent (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:25 (eighteen years ago) link

nabisco i think someone is injecting retro-cgi into yr memories! slicki's list includes NO SUCH TEEN ROM-COMS!

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link

One of my favorite movies ever:

Experiment In Terror: early 60s Blake Edwards Hitchcock rip features a villain with asthma.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:34 (eighteen years ago) link

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, linked to a key plot point too if I remember right

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link

I feel like every mid-80s film I ever saw on daytime HBO wherein a geeky high-school loser aspired to win the love of the popular-but-sweet jock-dating head cheerleader at some point featured an asthma inhaler -- wasn't this kind of right up there with Joan Cusack's headgear in Sixteen Candles (and/or "my glasses, I lost my glasses") as a teen-com standard?
I also seem to remember a particular gag in something from sometime where a kid tries to use his asthma inhaler in a "sexy" way (i.e., breath-freshener style).

-- nabisco (--...), March 29th, 2006.

Anthony Michael Hall in something...Breakfast Club? I don't remember, but I'm pretty sure it was him.

Why do these things survive in my otherwise perfectly useful brain?

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:45 (eighteen years ago) link

does the villain w.asthma have an inhaler steve: 60s inhalers were awesome! (at least my dad's was: it was made of brown blown glass w.a green rubber bulb)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Anthony Michael Hall had an inhaler in Sixteen Candles.

― Zwan (miccio), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link

I apologise for my behaviour on this thread.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 22:05 (eighteen years ago) link

NB. I am not Scottish.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 22:08 (eighteen years ago) link

B-b-but you live in Glasgow!

― Dan (Impeccable American Logic) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 22:13 (eighteen years ago) link

And he dodges soap.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.dundee.ac.uk/lifesciences/microscopy/chips/EMImages/chipslogo.gif

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link

The bank manager in Dog Day Afternoon has an asthma attack, I can't remember if there's an inhaler though.

― sandy, Thursday, 30 March 2006 03:40 (eighteen years ago) link

did Piggy from Lord of the Flies have one, or is that too early?

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 30 March 2006 03:46 (eighteen years ago) link

I think he tried to use the conch as an inhaler and it was a miserable failure.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 30 March 2006 11:57 (eighteen years ago) link

"Wouldn't everybody be like "WTF Bishop, you're not fooling us this time.""

that's nothing to Johnny Cash'd dad being a T1000

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 30 March 2006 12:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Did the girl from Adventures in Babysitting have one? The girl who they have to rescue?

― emil.y (emil.y), Thursday, 30 March 2006 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link

in thrillers/action flicks, taking sides inhalers v insulin.

Panic Room = asthma plot point i'm sure.

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 30 March 2006 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link

(though having "Panic" in the movie title gives it some licence i spose)

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 30 March 2006 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Playing God starring David Duchovny, Timothy Hutton, and Angelina Jolie. The crooked FBI agent investigating Hutton uses an asthma inhaler at the beach house Jolie and Duchovny retreat to after forming their alliance against Hutton.
What a piece of shit movie, did 12 year olds write the dialogue?

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Thursday, 30 March 2006 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link

panic room = diabetes

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 30 March 2006 15:43 (eighteen years ago) link

lance henrikson was in aliens vs predator?!

― +++, Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

The Hand That Rocks The Cradle

― Delta, Sunday, 30 April 2006 06:59 (seventeen years ago) link

the teddy boy uncle in Dead Alive

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 30 April 2006 07:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I've seen at least one kung fu movie(Bruce Le's Deadly Strike) where the evil big boss's only 'weak spot' is an asthma inhaler(or at any rate some littel doodad he has to breathe from periodically to live, the film being set hundreds of years ago) the heroes have to steal to be able to kill him. I'm sure there are others.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Sunday, 30 April 2006 10:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Also Darth Vader!

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 30 April 2006 10:59 (seventeen years ago) link

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