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Posted: 2018-01-13T17:49:35Z | Updated: 2018-01-13T17:49:35Z The 20 Most Recycled Movie Plots | HuffPost

The 20 Most Recycled Movie Plots

The 20 Most Recycled Movie Plots
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An ex-CIA assassin goes on one last mission.

Its Britain, 1845, and the comely young daughter of an Earl falls in love with a man below her station.

A screwed-up family gathers for a reunion.

Two drifters find an abandoned suitcase full of cash on the side of road.

A retired detective re-opens an old unsolved murder case.

Newlyweds buy an old, decrepit house.

Four young women go on a wild trip to Las Vegas.

After a retired pilot singlehandedly repels an alien invasion, he is separated from his family and must find them.

Two guys who dont like each other go on a road trip.

A retired gunslinger reluctantly straps his guns back on when a rich landowner and his gang of hired killers threaten his family and his town.

A teenager is unpopular in high school until he gets a touchdown in the state play-offs.

A deadly virus threatens to destroy life on Earth.

A mediocre boxer gets badly beaten up in the ring but wins the fight because he is stubborn and courageous.

Its 2045, the Earth has been destroyed by climate change and a man and a woman must fight a nasty band of futuristic bikers to survive.

Astronauts land on a strange, forbidding planet.

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A bookish ten year old walks into a closet and suddenly finds himself in a fantasy land.

Sinister things happen to two campers in the woods by a lake.

Accused of a murder he didnt commit, a man is convicted and sent to jail, but his crusty lawyer doesnt give up and uncovers the identity of the actual murderer.

A cantankerous older cop is partnered with a young arrogant rookie.

Three old friends in desperate need of money rob a bank

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