While trolling on Prime for a movie to watch, I came across this one, “Words and Pictures,” with Amy Poehler and Jack Black. The premise sounded interesting, and with those two it could be anything from low-brow comedy to dramedy.
I went to IMDb and found that the movie really stars Juliette Binoche and Clive Owen. I watched the trailer, and neither Amy nor Jack appeared anywhere in it, but this version looked good too. I got an hour into it, and Mr. Owen’s character just got too tiresome, so I hit the exit door. Maybe it would have been better with Poehler & Black…
Anyway, why the wrong names? My theory is that there is a department in the Amazon Prime Video HQ that is in charge of these little drop-down synopses, and a couple of wiseasses have a competition to see how long one of their intentional miss edits stays live on the site.