20 Most Horribly Misleading Movie Titles

by Gem Seddon

1. Swimming With Sharks

What It Sounds Like: A Nat Geo hour-long special on a bunch of people gagging to go paddling with a great white.

What It Actually Is: Swimming With Sharks uses the brutal characteristics of one of the world€™s most savage beasts to represent people. Well, one person, movie executive Buddy Ackerman. That€™s right.

It€™s a cutting thriller from 1994, about the ruthless nature of the movie industry. Ackerman is played by Kevin Spacey like a younger version of his House Of Cards€™ antihero, Frank Underwood. He€™s THE horrible boss. A bully who€™ll do whatever it takes to make his latest assistant, Guy (Frank Whaley) grow a pair and start behaving like he has ambition.

What It Should Have Been Called: Best Buddy

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Gem is a freelance writer, musician and librarian. Her hobbies include: recreating movie death scenes from LEGO, concocting new types of bird suet cakes, walking on fresh snow and playing the glockenspiel - all at the same time.