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I watched The Golden Child the other night.
Remember how the kid eats leaves off that little stem to sustain himself?

Well, when I watched that scene, it reminded me of a scene in another movie where a guy keeps eating flower petals.
He just keeps eating them and eating them.  One right after the other.

It would have been an 80's or 90's film.

Anyone know what movie that is?

The only two that I can think of with flower eating are "Barbarella" and the original "Little Shop of Horrors."  Both are too far back for your 80's or 90's time period.

There was a remake of "The Little Shop of Horrors in '86. That was in color, unlike the original.

Could the movie have featured Rick Morranis, Steve Martin or Bill Murray?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091419/

I can't remember what the movie was about and I can't think of who acted in it.
I just remember that one scene of a guy eating flower petals.

For some reason, I keep thinking it's a guy pulling petals off a flower saying, "She loves me."  She loves me not." and eating each one.

Not 100% on that though.

I don't remember a flower-eating character from that one, was there?  It might be time for me to watch the remake again.

There's no possible way you could be thinking of the end of Batman and Robin, is there? A scene with Ivy locked up in Arkham, eating flower petals and saying "He loves me, he loves me not..." meaning Mr. Freeze. I know you said it was a guy, but you might be confusing two or more films.

Nope, its not the musical remake of "Little Shop of Horrors." No petal-eating in that one.

Fando y Lis (dir. by Jodorowsky,play by Arrabal) starts with a scene like that, but is a girl with short blonde hair just eating flower petals...and it´s from the 60´s or 70´s in black and white.

So,i don´t think it might be the one, but just in case.

It is not from the 70's or 80's but there is a character in Monsoon Wedding that is constantly eating flower petals.

Sorry, 80's or 90's.

VEEEEERY long shot, but in "Bird" Charlie Parker eats a flower that was tossed to him after a performance.

This is a little older than you specified, but I think its worth checking out:

The Gardener (A.K.A. Seeds of Evil), 1975?

I haven't seen this movie in a *long* time, but this could be Cemetary Man. It's an artsy, foreign film with a handsome undertaker who is making every effort to bury the dead, but they keep springing back up again. There's a character who is "uncle fester" like, and I think he's doing the "she loves me/loves me not" bit.

-- Netrista

So far, none of your suggestions ring a bell.   :question:

Could it be a colorized version of the original Little Shop of Horrors?

Definately sounds like Little Shop Original to me.

Ash, I can also tell you that this happens in "Super Fuzz."  For some reason the main character, Officer Dave Speed, eats all of the flower petals from a bouquet some gangsters were going to give to a film star - he does this as he puts them through silly tests to see if they are OK to drive.

Hmmm...

That sounds like it might be right.
I've seen Super Fuzz but was probably 8 or 9 years old when I last saw it. (around '83 or '84)

I'd love to see a video of that scene but there isn't any on Youtube that I could find.

This is bringing back memories to me too. Hmmmmm.

Thanks to Andrew for posting that scene from Super Fuzz for me.
That is the scene!   :smile:  :thumbup:

Seeing The Golden Child triggered the memory. Sometimes I often wondered if I'd imagined the flower eating scene.
Finally....we can move this to the Solved board.   :cheers:
Thanks again Andrew!

Could you be referring to Brain Smasher?

The movie in which you are referring to is Popeye(1980)Starring Robin Williams and Shelly Duvall.However the scene you are remembering is where Bluto(Paul Smith)is sitting at a table picking off flower petals saying She Loves me,She Loves me not(talking about Olive Oil)who is played by Duvall.