Easter movies: Ten unforgettable egg scenes on screen


Sure, Airplane! raises more questions than it answers, but it's still egg-cellent. Photo: Paramount Pictures
Easter isnât quite the same this year, for obvious reasons.
Sweet tooth-feeding artisans are feeling the pinch as the demand for chocolate Easter eggs slumps while weâre all stuck indoors.
So weâve curated a movie Easter egg hunt you can enjoy without leaving the safety and comfort of your sofa.
And weâre not talking about the movie term âEaster eggsâ, which means secret treats hidden by the director for eagle-eyed audiences.
Nope. Weâre talking the real deal.
Here are 10 movies with unforgettable egg sequences.
Call Me By Your Name
If these trying times call for dreamy romance, then swoon along to Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet falling for each other during a long, hot 1980s Italian summer.
Luca Guadagninoâs luscious movie is the stuff of dreams, scoring revered screenwriter James Ivory an Oscar for his adaptation of the AndrĂ© Aciman novel.
While most folks remember the pivotal peach sequence, we also love the breakfast scene where Armieâs Oliver loves his eggs just a little bit too much.
 The Shape of Water
Speaking of finding love in all the wrong places, weâre still not sure about Sally Hawkins hooking up with the fish dude in Guillermo del Toroâs Best Picture Oscar winner.
But this introductory sequence where they bond over her mute cleanerâs egg lunch is pretty adorable.
The director talks you through why itâs crucial to the story in this clip posted by The New York Times.
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Ghostbusters
Supernatural forces stalk the Manhattan apartment of Sigourney Weaverâs Dana in Ivan Reitmanâs beloved 1984 comic horror also starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis and Ernie Hudson.
They say demons announce themselves with the eggy smell of sulphur.
Here they just internally fry them so they pop explosively from the pack.
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Alien/Aliens
More Sigourney in this classic sci-fi double bill.
The go-to clip in Ridley Scottâs original is the late John Hurt as Kane, his chest erupting on board the Nostromo.
But his initial encounter with a throat-choking facehugger is just as memorable. Hint: do not take a close look at a xenomorph egg.
Crewmate Ripley (Sigourney) takes belated revenge when she torches at least a 12-pack of Alien queen eggs in James Cameronâs action-packed sequel.
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Jurassic Park
While weâre on the subject of big scary monsters, Steven Spielbergâs staging of the T-Rex attack in his Oscar-winning 1993 original still looks way better than anything the increasingly guff sequels have come up with.
The hook-clawed raptors are pretty terrifying too, especially considering they start off adorably cute in this early egg-hatching lab sequence before everything goes fan-meet-poop.
Notably, the clip also includes Jeff Goldblumâs much-mimicked line, âLife, uh, finds a way.â
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Airplane!
Classic deadpan comedy gold here from the late, great Leslie Nielsen in this Golden Globe-nominated, high-flying spoof of aeroplane disaster movies.
He plays a doctor pressed into service when the crew and passengers fall sick, rapid-firing bad dad jokes like: âSurely you canât be serious.â âI am serious. And donât call me Shirley.â
A hoot, quite how this patient ended up with three eggs (including one that hatches) stuck in her throat is anyoneâs guess.
 Rocky
Sylvester Stallone winds up with a no fewer than five eggs in his gullet in John G. Avildsenâs triple Oscar-winning boxing drama.
In service of prize-winning fighter Rocky Balboaâs punishing training regime, kicking off at a bleary 4am, he slugs the worlds grimmest brekkie shake raw.
Followed with a big belch while stray yolk dribbles down his sweater, this breakfast of champions sure ainât pretty, tiger.
Cool Hand Luke
If you think sinking five raw eggs is rough, wait to you see what Paul Newman has to put up with in director Stuart Rosenbergâs 1967 classic.
Banged up in prison for two years after a wild night on the sauce, the eponymous Luke takes on a bet to tackle 10 times that in soft-boiled form.
Luckily for Newman, a bucket just out of shot meant he didnât have to swallow.
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Tampopo
Last but certainly not least, weâre back to WTF romance with a sexually charged scene that pushes the egg-velope as far as it will go in this 1985 food-lovers fave from Japanese director JĂ»zĂŽ Itami.
KĂŽji Yakusho plays a yakuza mobster who gets frisky mid-feast with his beautiful lover (Fukumi Kuroda).
Somehow they wind up sharing a weirdly hot raw egg yolk kiss thatâs about as far from Luke and Rockyâs unwelcome trials as possible.
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