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“Do you remember that sinbad movie?” they wrote. “Wasnt there a movie in the early 90s where sinbad the entertainer / comedian played a genie? … help its driving me nuts!”Īt the time, nobody remembered the film, and it took another two years for somebody else to ask about it again online. An anonymous individual took to the question-and-answer website Yahoo! Answers to pose its users a simple question. How did this Reddit community grow? It all began in 2009. Have you noticed no one my age has seen this so called Sinbad Genie movie, only you people who were kids in the 90’s. Sinbad himself has even taken to Twitter to deny that he ever played such a role. Together they have scoured the internet to find evidence that the movie existed but each has repeatedly come up empty-handed. Meredith, Don, and Carl are three of hundreds of Redditors who have used the popular social news site to discuss their memories of Shazaam. Don says he remembers the film so vividly because customers would bring the video back to his rental store claiming it didn’t work, and he watched it multiple times to try and find the “problem with the tape”. Although he is not certain that the movie was called Shazaam, he has detailed scene-by-scene recollections of the film, which include the children wishing for a new wife for their father, the little girl wishing for her broken doll to be fixed, and the movie finale taking place at a pool party. I remember two children accidentally summoning a genie… and they try and wish for their dad to fall in love again after their mother’s passing, and Sinbad can’t. “I remember the name of the film as Shazaam. “Whenever I would see Sinbad anywhere in the media I would recall him playing a genie,” she says. Meredith Upton, a 25-year-old videographer from Nashville, Tennessee, also remembers the same film. I want to be able to make it known that the movie is indeed real,” says Carl. “I’ve taken to Craigslist and have posted a bounty of $1,000 for anyone that can turn up a copy of this movie, whether it was ‘accidentally’ kept from Blockbuster or if someone made their own bootleg VHS copy.