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In the 1998 movie

Very Bad Things

Christian Slater turns up with a corkscrew

again. This time he stabs a guy in the heart with it. Also starring Cameron Diaz,

Daniel Stern, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Jon Favreau, Jeremy Piven, and Leland Orser.

Halloween H2O

(1998) stars Jamie Lee Curtis. A kid drops a corkscrew down a

garbage disposal. The camera goes inside the garbage disposal to watch while he

fishes around for it. Next we see the camera cut to the electric switch on the wall

making us wonder if someone will turn it on.

In the 1940 movie

My Little Chickadee

W. C. Fields, playing the role of Cuthbert H.

Twillie, says

―

Once ... in the wilds of Afghanistan, I lost my corkscrew, and we

were forced to live on nothing but food and water for days.

‖

In

Stepmom

(1998), Julia Roberts uses a corkscrew to open two bottles of an Italian

red wine.

In the 1989 Disney animated production of

The Little Mermaid,

there is an

underwater solo by the little mermaid. During the song she sings

―

Treasures, I

‘

ve

Got Twenty

‖

while she is opening a wooden box displaying twenty corkscrews.

These were all treasures she rescued from shipwrecks for her collection.

Just Between Friends

stars Mary Tyler Moore and Ted Danson. In this 1986 film,

Ted rifles through a kitchen drawer while Mary cooks. Frustrated in his search,

he asks

―

Where

‘

s the damn corkscrew.

‖

Mary points out that it is on the counter

in front of him. He then takes the T-handle corkscrew and works hard to screw

in the worm. When he tries to extract the cork, it breaks leaving half of it in the

bottle. He then takes an ice pick in hand to work at the cork. He plunges the cork

into the bottle and gets sprayed with wine. This is one of the longest wine

opening scenes I have seen.

In

The Year of the Comet

(1984), the star takes a corkscrew with a tusk handle and

bangs on the top of an old bottle of wine with the silver end cap to loosen old

dirt. Ach! Damage?! Then he proceeds to do a very unprofessional job of

removing the cork.

Albert Finney uncorks a bottle of wine

The Green Man

(1991).

Brief Encounter

(1946) stars Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson, and a Rotary

Eclipse bar mount. The Eclipse can be seen in the foreground of all of the scenes

in the Railway Station Buffet Bar although it is never put to use.