proper names gratuitously used as titles
- Michael
- Laura
- Patrick
- Madeline
- Willard
- Matilda
- Michael Collins - r
- Rebecca *
- Forrest Gump - a
- Bulworth - a
- Simon Birch - a
- Erin Brockovich - r
- Sybil - r
- Norma Rae - r
This list's point is the exposure of a most irksome practice: the naming of movies after a fictitious character's name. From seeing the name "Michael" I know nothing except that the film probably has a male character. Perhaps they hope everyone named Michael will identify. Lame!
I attempt to order the titles in descending order of egregiousness.
- r indicates the film and title are based on a real person, but the film still belongs in the list because the name is not necessarily broadly known.
- a indicates the name is purely fictitious and baiting, though the writer(s) sought a catchy name with connotations accompanying its sound.
* indicates some other mitigating factor: perhaps the film is based on a famous book of the same name (still, what was the novelist thinking?).
Bowfinger - a
I don't know if you're looking for a particular kind of movie with a proper name as a title, but Charly (with the "y" written backwards or some such nonsense) is an old movie based on the book "Flowers for Algernon".
Carrie/Marnie/Jeffrey/