The Buttercream Gang...and/or movies like it

[K_Gordon_Murray_Jr]

Alright, just signed up here. I've been coming to this site for years; finally decided to get on this forum and feed my addiction to bad movie watching.

Anyway, has anyone hear seen a the movie "The Buttercream Gang"? The first time I saw it was about 20 years ago, in elementary school. It's so wholesome, cheesy and naive that I was laughing for days...I mean this is some seriously absurd stuff. Example: If someone is stealing from you, just GIVE them what they want, that way they're not stealing!   I've been looking to find similar cornball religious-propaganda-disguised-as-wholesome-family-movies type stuff. Any suggestions would be great! Thanks.

[Andrew]

Welcome!

That is a hard question.  Some of the collections of educational films might have match this, especially the ones that cover manners, social etiquette, and responsibility.  Check out the Educational Archive's collections and the Atomic Age Classics series.

There was a film shown at B-Fest one year involving a little boy who did all sorts of bad things.  I wish I could remember the title

[WingedSerpent]

Reminds me of an exerpt from Neal Boortz Somebody's Got to Say it (An intertesting read, but be warned he does get very political in parts.)  In it, he talks about his hatred for the messages being sent in a childrens' story.  The Rainbow Fish

Basic version of the story.
Big Fish has lots of pretty scales.
Smaller fish wants one so he asks for one.
Big fish doesn't want to give away his own property so he doesn't.
Small fish feels sad-and so does Big Fish.
Octopus tells Big fish to give away all his scales so he will feel better. (because then everyone will have one-he will only have one for himself)
Big fish does and everyone's happy.

Neal then goes into the idea of how the small fish just asks for something without earning it.  And the ideas that successful people should give away everything.  I don't think there was any religious subtext to the story.  But your post reminded me of it.