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What Happens When You Misuse The Peanut Butter Solution?

Bald is beautiful...unless you are a young boy who suffers a bad fright and has all of his hair suddenly fall out. That is the story in The Peanut Butter Solution, a rare movie from 1985, which is currently only available on VHS videotape and not on DVD.

What follows the loss of his hair is both touching and humourous. It really is a serious problem when he loses his hair but he does not quite follow the recipe that he receives for curing baldness and adds too much peanut butter...bald might have been bad but once that hair started to grow...look out! What follows is a hairy mess and, as the cover says, "a hair-raising family adventure" that will make you laugh out loud.

On this page, find more information and reviews of The Peanut Butter Solution as well as sources for buying your own copy of the movie. And, just in case you want to try it out, you will also find a printable Peanut Butter Solution recipe, just in case you ever find yourself in the same regrettable circumstance.

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The Peanut Butter Solution
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"Great balls of fire!
There's not a whisker left."

The Peanut Butter Solution Video Trailer

The Peanut Butter Solution Storyline

From Amazon.

"Michael is an 11-year old who investigates a supposedly haunted house that has recently burned down. What he sees scares him so badly that he faints, and on top of that, two days later all of his hair falls out. A couple of ghosts give him a magic recipe to make his hair grow back, but Michael puts too much of one of the ingredients - peanut butter - in the concoction and astonishing results occur!"

Fast Facts About The Peanut Butter Solution

ACTORS: Mathew Mackay, Siluck Saysanasy, Alison Darcy, Michael Hogan, Michel Maillot
DIRECTOR: Michael Rubbo
WRITERS: Michael Rubbo, Andrée Pelletier, Louise Pelletier, Vojtech Jasný
PRODUCERS: Jim Kaufman, Nicole Robert, Rock Demers
RATED: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
STUDIO: Anchor Bay
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: 1985
VHS RELEASE DATE: July 28, 1994
RUN TIME: 94 minutes
MUSIC: Celine Dion performs two songs in English in this movie. They represent her first English recordings.

YES! The Peanut Butter Solution Is Really a Movie!

Was The Peanut Butter Solution a figment of your imagination?

"I can't believe this was actually a real movie!" ~ A. L. Sewell

"I thought this movie was just a dream..." ~ Cortny Riblett

"Wow. It was actually real." ~ Molly Rosen

"I never thought I was crazy..." ~ Shredd

"I'm not crazy!" ~ Val

Have YOU Seen The Peanut Butter Solution?

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Amazon Customer Review

"For years, I have been trying to figure out the name of the creepy movie I saw when I was 9, where a boy lost his hair, put something on his head that made it grow and it grew too fast...Now I know and it feels good...like a warm snuggly blanket. There should be a society called The Peanut Butter Solution Viewers Anonymous... for all the innocents who saw this movie in their youth, only to be haunted by it and be told by their friends and loved ones that this movie doesn't exist." ~ A Very Happy Girl

Reviews of The Peanut Butter Solution

Review of The Peanut Butter Solution From Canuxploitation: "The Peanut Butter Solution has proven it has just enough of an eccentric Dr. Seuss touch to permanently wedge itself in the memories of young viewers. Watching it again today, the film holds up generally well, despite some dated special effects. Likewise, the message of the film (Imagination is wonderful) might illicit a groan from anyone over the age of 12, but corny messages are a staple of Tales for All."
Review of The Peanut Butter Solution from Jon's Guilty Pleasure: "The Peanut Butter Solution is a crazy kids movie that makes little to no sense, has some pretty bad acting, cheap effects, and would probably scare the hell out of the uber PC children we have today. Still, it's enjoyable to watch for being as weird as it is, and for being as creative as it is...I still hold this movie in high esteem and when a woman is unfortunate enough to bear my children, I'm definitely showing them this. The Signor must live on as the scariest children's movie villain EVER."

The Peanut Butter Solution Recipe

An easy, printable recipe for growing hair.

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Ingredients

1 really ripe banana
5 dead flies
1 rotten egg
3 licorice leaves
A fistful of kitty litter
3 Connie Crisps
3 Crosbie Crackers
9 spoons of soil
Glass of pepper's fizz
Spoonful of peanut butter

Instructions

Combine all ingredients in a blender and then put them on your head, being particularly careful not to add too much peanut butter. Also be cautious of getting the mixture on the rest of your body as hair will grow wherever it lands.

Printable Version

Skippy Peanut Butter
paid for product placement in
The Peanut Butter Solution.

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Skippy Peanut Butter
from Amazon.

Is The Peanut Butter Solution Suitable For Children?

The Peanut Butter Solution is rated PG.

Despite being billed as a family movie when it was released, this movie SCARED the viewers who watched it as children. With comments like 'disturbing and scary' and 'this movie scared the BEEP out of me as a child' you should exercise caution before showing it to your children. Many of the children who watched it in the 1980s remember this movie as a very scary movie and had nightmares because of it. I would think that today's children would also scared by The Peanut Butter Solution but that it might be okay for some tweens, particularly those looking to watch a scary movie. It is definitely a movie that I suggest you PREVIEW before showing to your children.

If you are looking for guidance in picking movies for your children or for more scary movies that are appropriate for tweens, I recommend these three pages:

Listen To The Magic Man Video by Celine Dion

One of two English songs that Celine Dion performed for The Peanut Butter Solution.

There is no Peanut Butter Solution movie soundtrack available. The movie did, however, feature two songs by Celine Dion called Listen to the Magic Man and Michael's Song. They were her first English language recordings. Once I discovered the fact that Celine Dion was the singer, I had to go back and listen to the songs again. I did not realize that I would be able to watch the Listen to the Magic Man video online.

Order Your Copy of The Peanut Butter Solution

From Amazon

Since there is no DVD available for The Peanut Butter Solution, you will find the price for a brand-new VHS video of The Peanut Butter Solution quite high. However, a used copy is more affordable.

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The Peanut Butter Solution
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Is there a Peanut Butter Solution remake on the way? There ARE totally unsubstantiated rumours involving Tim Burton. Only time will tell...

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Have YOU seen The Peanut Butter Solution?

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beverly Jan 8, 2011 @ 12:37 am | delete

my sister and I watched it 20+ years ago and WE loved it!

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awelldressedbullet Jan 3, 2011 @ 7:21 pm | delete

I really have to get out more, I have never heard of it! LOL

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Treasures-By-Brenda Jan 4, 2011 @ 8:22 am | delete

Kathy, you would have had to get out in the 1980s, LOL. How old were YOU then?

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LauraFincannon Jan 3, 2011 @ 7:10 pm | delete

Lens rolled on my Bad Movie Night lens. Thanks for the inspiration.

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LauraFincannon Jan 3, 2011 @ 6:57 pm | delete

Not sure how I could have missed this...it sounds like a good candidate for my bad movie night lens.
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