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A lovely trip down memory lane. I saw this film when I was a child of seven, again when I was ten and snippets of this film have followed me ever since. I just finished watching the film again moments ago, the first time as an adult. Now, this film was somewhat frightening when I was seven, it does have some spooky elements, I don't recommend it for young children. I do feel however that this movie does deserve a second look by adults. The acting isn't award winning, and the special effects certainly wouldn't stand up to today's standards, however this film does have a unique premise and the dialog rarely comes off as childish, this isn't really a childs movie and I feel it was mis-marketted as one. One notable point about this film for most Canadians in their twenties and thirties will recognize several faces from other Canadian films and television from the early 1980's. This film was produced in english, the first film released by La Fete that I am aware of, to be produced in english not just dubbed over. If you enjoyed this film I also recommend watching The Dog that Stopped the War (1984) a great film put out by La Fete immediately before the Peanut Butter Solution. The Dog who Stopped the War can also be found by its original french title Guerre des tuques, La (1984).

I totally agree that the movie is not a comedy and not for children. I can't think of a darker film.

I saw this as a child and have vividly horrible memories of the scene where he gets his wig yanked off in the soccer game. All the imagery taps into a child's deepest fears. Even the gooey quality of the peanut butter itself and spreading it all over your head. And the orphanage / sweatshop where they starve the children. I had nightmares of being trapped in there.It's just so wrong.

It would probably seem campy to watch now, but the original impact my psyche is irreversible. It's so funny that literally everyone in the forums had the same experience. I've never seen such unanimity in on IMDb.

I just was cleaning out our basement and came across our old betamax movie collection.

Aahh memories....

Anyways one of the movies was Peanut Butter Solution...it immediately brought back forgotten memories, but sadly, since we no longer own a beta machine, I cant watch it.

Now, I haven't seen this movie since I was a (young) kid, but one thing I do remember about this movie was that it FREAKED ME THE HELL OUT! (Along with another movie we has on Beta, ET, but thats another story)

I'm reading here its a comedy? I don't remember the complete story, except for the fact that the peanut butter stuff grew hair (sounds funny) but I don't remember laughing at all, I remember my sister loving this movie but I hated it cause it scared the hell out of me, and creeped me out big time, I really am looking forward to finding this somewhere and watching it now that I'm older....And although ET still freaks me out to the point of not being able to watch it, maybe this will be different.

Watched this several times as a kid. My babysitter had it on VHS. I was fascinated by it and it really got into my psyche. It's dreamlike, weaving seemingly unrelated elements into a story with almost free-association. There's peanut butter mixed with flies and other gross stuff, super fast-growing hair, paintings that come to life, a sugar trail being washed away, and other random images. I wonder if this movie was actually inspired by a dream, or by someone picking random words out of a dictionary maybe?

Anyway, I loved it and longed to be able to paint a picture that I could walk into. The plot is unique and imaginative. I was too young when I watched this to pay attention to dialogue or acting - they're probably not great. The imagery is amazing, though. I don't remember the story being especially scary, but it was disturbing. I believe the boy who is the victim of all this was in a coma and also kidnapped. I just wonder if I watched this movie now whether it would still seem as magical to me, or would I be disappointed?

I can't vouch for how scary this film might seem to a child - this is one of the few IMDb reviews written by someone who didn't see the movie when young - but I can confirm that it has a very weird tone that could be disturbing to kids: the way the story is told is just a little off-kilter, making the whole thing feel like a bad dream.

The bizarre plot concerns 11-year-old Michael (Mathew Mackay), who investigates a burnt-out spooky mansion where something frightens him so much that all of his hair falls out. Bullied at school for being bald, Michael is delighted when he is visited by two ghosts who give him a recipe to solve his problem, the crucial ingredient being peanut butter. Painting the concoction on his head before bedtime, he wakes the next day to discover that the mixture has worked - but having put too much peanut butter into the solution, his hair growth is rapid and unstoppable.

Matters get even more strange when Michael is abducted and used by mad painter Sergio (Michel Maillot) as the source of hair for his magic paintbrushes, which are assembled by other kidnapped children. It is up to Michael's sister Suzie (Alison Darcy) and best friend Connie (Siluck Saysanasy) to come to the rescue.

Given a bigger budget and a better cast, I could imagine this film receiving the same level of love and admiration reserved for family favourites like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Labyrinth and Coraline - it certainly has a lot of imagination - but as it stands, it's merely a curiosity remembered fondly by those who saw it at an impressionable age. I can imagine most adults struggling with the cheap production values, poor performances and awkward storytelling - factors that help to make it a surreal experience but which discerning grown-ups might not find that appealing.

Who wrote this film? Asking because they had to have been high. This has got to be one of the strangest movies ever made. The acting was just as bad, it would have been funny if not so sad.

Some of the story was sort of interesting, but this film isn't for kids. The peanut butter concoction was pretty disgusting. But the worst part of the film is that it normalizes kidnapping, child slavery and pedophilia.

I can easily see why the film is not readily available on DVD and is out of print. It's for good reason!

It took me ages to find the name of this movie, a movie I had watched as a child and had really really frightened me! I've been searching for this movie for YEARS! and i could only remember some parts of the film, when asking others if they remember the movie, they would look at me as if I'm crazy!!.. seems like a common thing reading all the other users comments, anyway.. This film is full of imagination, suspence, and is over all Fun and Scary for little kids.. it might even be scary for Adults too.. come on, a guy goes bold from being frightened? .. I was frightened all the time as a kid, perhapse i thought i was going to go bold! .. anyway if you havent seen this movie you should! its one of my favourites from childhood, up with the goonies!

i watched the peanut butter solution a looong time ago, and like most others, it scared the crap out of me. the movie came out before i was born, but as a small child, the idea that there could be something so scary it could make your hair fall out terrified me. i only remember bits and pieces, but the part where he goes into the painting was my favorite part... i don't remember the acting or dialogue, only that the movie was amazing and i loved it, even if it did scare me... The peanut butter solution was made of some nasty things too, i remember him cracking a raw egg over his head? maybe im making that up... anyway, the kidnapping scared me and the fact that there were so many young children unaware that they were being used for magical paintbrushes... i also remember that the guy who was making the paintbrushes was incredibly creepy... what was his name again? 1985 was probably not a great year for cinema, but this one was a good one

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I ve been working in videos stores for 5yrs now and every time someone new comes and works in the video store I always ask have you ever seen a movie where this kid loses his hair and uses this stuff with peanut butter in it to make his hair grow. And everyone always looks at me strangely and say no. I had seen this movie in school a few times when i was 6 or 7 and it also scared the crap out of me and made a lasting impression but didn't know the name of the movie. So finally I did a random search and typed in peanut butter in a movie search engine and got the title Peanut Butter Solution. I bought a VHS copy from Amazon and just watched it with my 6yr old son but I don't think it scared him as much as it did to the kids in the 80s. It was everything I remembered but I had forgotten all about the ending with the magic paintings which now looks like the moving pictures you can buy in the mall. But yes this movie is classic for someone in their 20s who have seen this movie and I think its too bad it didn't stick around.

Much to my surprise, this was an amusing movie, even though it's clearly aimed at kids. In fact, in terms of "laugh out loud" funny lines, this film is better than ninety-nine percent of Hollywood's blockbuster comedies. On the downside, the story is only competent at best, and the final twenty minutes simply don't fit well with the tone of the rest of the movie. But even though the poor ending left me somewhat disappointed, it's still an enjoyable movie overall, thanks to a high number of silly scenes. Worth a look.

This was most likely the worst movie I have ever watched. Everything from the acting to the story to the editing was bad. I told my daughter I was sorry that she will never get the time she spent back watching this. Sooooo bad 🤢

It seems almost all the posts people have on this movie are memories of watching it as a child, and then having vague memories of bits and pieces as an adult...

I must say, I'm not much different in this matter either. All I could remember was bits and pieces of the plot line. I do remember getting nightmares from it (like most people), not that this is particularly a scary movie by today's standards, but to a child it definitely puts a psychological fear that stays with you. So I looked it up, trying every search word I could think of, (i.e. hair loss, regrowth, solution, paintbrushes) Ehh... after browsing through tons of rogain ads, I finally came across it. I managed to find a copy and watched it again.

It's actually a truly unique movie. A novel idea about a kid who loses his hair, and gets more than he wishes when he applies a magical hair-growth solution. I think perhaps it wasn't marketed correctly back in the 80's because while it seems like a childs movie, I wouldn't recommend it to young children. Maybe not just the marketing either, but the movie itself would've probably been able to stand on its own without being characterized as a child's movie. I would bet that there are probably even people today who have been scarred from watching this as a very young child...

So, if you come across it, it's worth checking out. But sensor before letting your kids see this one!

11 year old Michael Baskin is playing in an abandoned house when something scares him unconscious. When he wakes up, all his hair falls out. Two ghosts visit his dream and give him the recipe for a magical hair growth formula consisting of peanut butter. The ghosts are homeless people who died soon after Michael had help them.

This is a lower budget Canadian indie children's film. I like the premise. It does have a darker edge with the Dickensian story. It has a surreal weirdness, but the production value is not quite there. The filmmaking is rudimentary. The kids are fine for kid actors for the most part. This has a weird indie charm about it.

"The Peanut Btter Solution" was a weird, strange movie that I saw on telly when I was quite young. For the life of me, I could NEVER find it anywhere. It is one of those movies that stays with you forever, and going to my medical appointment and happened to walk past a little shop that had really obscure DVDs, and lo and behold, "The Peanut Butter Solution" was there!!!! Absolutely awesome movie, will never part with it.

As a child, i watched (and was traumatized) by this movie. Like Tolkien and Lewis Carrol, it's based on a story the director used to tell his little girl before bedtime.

This is a story about:

• being so scared by something, u go bald
• ghosts telling a young boy to rub a peanut butter & dead fly mixture on his head
• hair that won't stop growing, going beyond 80's heavy metal.

• hair that also has the power to turn paintings into real life windows u can walk through

i get Are You Afraid of the Dark vibes w/ terrible (but appealing to children) acting, and a surreal world where adults don't seem to care or know about missing kids in their neighborhood. It's a brilliantly bizarre & imaginative, despite the cringy acting. The best no budget Canadian kid movies can afford. Celine Dion provided the soundtrack before anyone knew who she was. Trust me when I say, there is NO other movie out there like it.

As a 90-minute watch, it's pretty much the perfect amount of time for a kid's movie or so weird/bad it's good movie nights. I recommend giving it ur full attention, so u don't miss anything. Even if u end up hating it, I dare u to ever forget what u saw. I had nightmares about waking up bald bc of this movie, which is probably why it stuck in my head for decades. It took Tubi to finally convince me to watch it again. Face your fears kids. U might learn the power of imagination can create the scariest & most beautifully insane scenarios.

I don't recommend it for children under 5 unless u want to constantly assure them, they won't go bald overnight, get visited by creepy old ghosts or get kidnapped and used for slave labor. Sure, a lot of the movie doesn't make sense and the ending is a brady bunch car crash w no answers, but that's ok. It's a blast to revisit or watch w/ open minded friends who enjoy so-bad-they're-good movies. The Blue Ray DVD of this movie was given loving treatment and is worth tracking down,

If u remember this from childhood & it scared u, face ur fears. Rewatch it. It's hilarious in its ridiculousness. Fair warning though, i forced my s/o to watch it with me. He thought it was awful but couldn't look away bc he's never seen anything like it. If u didn't watch it as a kid over and over on the Disney Channel in the late 80's, u might hate it too... But it's worth the watch for its weirdness alone. Though the movie is really a 4 or a 5, through the lens of nostalgia and sheer bonkers creativity, i gave it bonus points. 7/10 *******

I never watched this as a child...as a matter of fact, I had never heard of it until seeing it listed on a cable movie channel. I can understand how a young child could freak after watching this and never want another haircut.

The most bizarre part of the plot is the little Asian boy finding out about the secret potion and putting it on 'down there' to develop hair. The scene where the pubes creep out of his shorts is extremely weird and you wonder what the point was.

Bottom line...not a movie for kids, or adults. Everyone else can enjoy it!

The peanut butter solution is a good story for young and old alike. I was watching it on showtime and my mom came in from work and started watching it too. The movie was so cute that she giggled all the way through it. That was good because I love to hear my mother laugh. So I guess you could say that this film is good to watch if you want to relax your nerves, and relieve stress. It's so healthy and comical because of the little things that make up the whole story. But then again, to me, it wasn't the best movie I have ever seen in my entire life. If you want to find out what that is you'll have to track my comments down. It was a little slow at the start of the movie but it got better as the film went on. The main character was the funniest because his hair looked so crazy. And I also learned that peanut butter sticks to bald heads......