The Peanut Butter Solution

Aggressively odd Canadian children's film that many adults mistake for a twisted, horrible, haunting fever-induced nightmare they had as a child -- only to discover that it's an actual film that actually exists.

The movie can be viewed in its entirety via Google Video, but we will warn you that more so than "The Matrix" or "Inception" or even "Paprika", this is the one movie that most closely resembles the utterly demented logic of a dream. The kid is suddenly bald! Forget that, he has a dream where he learns how to make the titular hair-growing potion! Forget that, the potion is making his hair grow longer and longer! Forget that the hair is magic and this guy has kidnapped the kid and some other kids to make paintbrushes out of it! And on and on.

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Provides Examples Of:

 * Art Initiates Life: The magic paintbrushes.
 * Kids Are Cruel: The soccer field scene.
 * Locked Into Strangeness: Starting with the protagonist losing his hair in a haunting, and moving on from there...
 * Never Trust a Hair Tonic: The eponymous solution, which works a little too well.