Nice to see such a response. I'd forgotten most of Stage Fright so i'll be sure to watch it again. And Total Recall does have other examples (Philip Dick's novels are about almost nothing but the unreliability of narrators). Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge also even though it does have a few tip-offs that it's not real (such as gates swinging open with no visible source). I also remember an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where nearly the entire first half took place on the holodeck without the people involved realizing it. And i guess for novelty value you might add the notorious dreamed season of Dallas or the finale of the Bob Newhart show where he'd dreamed the entire series but those really aren't good examples. Maybe Bunuel might be the most common source of such unreliable events in movies. Some people have suggested that parts of Belle de Jour are also fantasies but they can't pinpoint exactly which parts. And the Unnamed Recent Movie has events along a continuum from certain to impossible and half the fun is trying to sort out which is what. That's pretty much what i'm getting at, not hallucinations or imaginings or whatever that are clearly unreal (or soon revealed as such) but situations where there's no reason to doubt the reality as part of the story until some later event. What's interesting is that when something is *seen* in a movie, it's assumed to be real unless marked otherwise (dreams, hallucinations, etc). I'm not sure this can be considered a convention of filmic storytelling so much as an aspect of the medium so strong that it's rarely questioned. Even if we could come up with two or three dozen examples, i'd still stand by my claim that the unreliable narrator concept is quite rare in film in contrast to literature and not just because actual narrators are uncommon in film. Lang Thompson ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]