asthma inhalers in movies

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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.

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 (eighteen 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 (eighteen 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 (eighteen years ago) link

Also Darth Vader!

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

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