Gerunding the Movie Titlings

Imagining the mind of a being in the movie business is rarely straining. Limiting one's scope, relying on stereotypes, repeating what works seems enough. Supporting this thinking was a recent downpouring of movie titles beginning with an "ing" word, properly known as a "gerund".

Sensing a chance for fun, we are compiling a listing of such titles. Missing many titles, and quite a few letters, the following is appearing for your considering:

• Arguing the World (Documentary about 40's leftwing intellectuals)
  Asking for Trouble
• Banning
  Battling for Baby (Courteney Cox)
  Becoming Colette (Klaus Maria Brandauer)
  Being at Home with Claude
  Being Human (Robin Williams way past his prime)
  Being John Malkovich (John Cusack, John Malkovich)
  Being There (Peter Sellers is a simpleton)
  Blowin' Smoke
  Blowing Wild (Gary Cooper)
  Boxing Helena (what til you hear what this is about!)
  Breakin'
  Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
  Breaking All the Rules
  Breaking Away (Bon giorno, papa!)
  Breaking Free (Jeremy London)
  Breaking Glass (Jonathan Pryce)
  Breaking In (Burt Reynolds)
  Breaking Loose
  Breaking the Ice
  Breaking the Silence
  Breaking the Sound Barrier
  Breaking the Rules
  Breaking the Waves (Emily Watson)
  Breaking Through
  Breaking Up (Salma Hayak)
  Breaking Up is Hard to Do
  Breaking with Old Ideas
  Breathing Fire
  Bringing Out the Dead (Nicholas Cage)
  Bringing Up Baby (hold that tiger!)
  Bringing Up Father
  Burning an Illusion
  Bustin' Loose
  Busting (Elliott Gould)
  Buying the Cow
• Calling Bulldog Drummond
  Calling Doctor Death
  Calling Dr Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore)
  Calling Dr Kildare (Lionel Barrymore)
  Calling Homicide
  Calling Northside 777
  Calling Philo Vance
  Changing Lanes (Ben Affleck, Samuel L Jackson)
  Changing Habits (struggling artist infiltrates a convent)
  Chasing Amy (Ben Affleck)
  Chasing Destiny
  Chasing Dreams (Kevin Costner)
  Chasing Rainbows
  Chasing the Deer
  Chasing Yesterday
  Checking Out
  Clockin' Green
  Comin' At Ya!
  Comin' Round the Mountain
  Comin' Thro' the Rye
  Coming Apart
  Coming Home (...in which Jane Fonda makes up for it all...not really)
  Coming Out of the Ice
  Coming Soon
  Coming Through (a scrawny Kevin Branagh plays D H Lawrence)
  Coming to America (back when, if Eddie Murphy was in it, it had to be funny)
  Coming Unglued
  Coming Up Roses
  Conceiving Ada (about Ada Lovelace and the world's first computer, in 1830)
  Courting Courtney
  Cracking Up (Jerry Lewis & Milton Berle)
  Crashing Hollywood
  Crashing Las Vegas
  Creating the Perfect Man
  Crossing Delancey (good pickles!)
  Crossing the Bridge
  Crossing the Line (Hugh Grant)
  Crossing to Freedom
  Cruisin' Down the River
  Cruising (Al Pacino)
  Cutting Class (Roddy McDowall)
• Dancin' Thru the Dark
  Dancing at Lughnasa (Meryl Streep)
  Dancing at the Blue Iguana
  Dancing in September
  Dancing in the Dark (Bjork)
  Dancing on a Dime
  Dancing on the Moon (A girl and her toy dog)
  Dealing: or the Berkeley to Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues Barbara Hershey
  Deconstructing Harry (Woody Allen)
  Defending Your Life (Albert Brooks)
  Digging to China (Kevin Bacon)
  Diving In
  Divorcing Jack (about "the troubles")
  Doin' Time
  Doin' Time on Planet Earth (Adam West)
  Doing Time
  Dreaming of Joseph Lees
  Driving Me Crazy
  Driving Miss Daisy (pious)
  Drowning by Numbers (Peter Greenaway)
  Drowning Mona (Bette Midler, Danny DeVito)
  Drowning on Dry Land
  Dusting Cliff Seven
  Dying to be Perfect
  Dying Young
• Eating
  Eating Raoul (Paul Bartel; gloriously amoral)
  Educating Rita (Michael Caine)
  Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story (Martin Sheen)
  Entertaining Mr Sloane
• Fakin' Da Funk
  Falling Down (Michael Douglas is mad as hell)
  Falling for the Stars
  Falling From Grace (Mariel Hemingway)
  Falling in Love (Meryl Streep)
  Falling in Love Again (Elliott Gould)
  Feeling Minnesota (Keanu Reeves; what the hell? Jacks?)
  Feudin', Fussin' and A-fightin'
  Fighting Back
  Fighting Trouble
  Finding Buck McHenry (Ossie Davis)
  Finding Forrester (Sean Connery)
  Finding Graceland
  Finding Kelly
  Finding North
  Fishing With Gandhi
  Fleeing by Night
  Flipping (not burgers, but witnesses)
  Flirting
  Flirting With Disaster (Ben Stiller, Mary Tyler Moore, a gem)
  Flirting With Fate (Joe E Brown)
  Floating Away (Paul Hogan)
  Flooding
  Floundering (John Cusack)
  Flying Blind
  Flying Down to Rio
  Flying High (Hedda Hopper)
  Flying Wild
  Following (eerie black and white startler)
  Following the Fuehrer
  Foolin' Around (Gary Busey)
  Forsaking All Others (Clark Gable)
• Galloping Thru
  Gambling on the High Seas
  Gleaming the Cube
  Getting Away with Murder (Dan Aykroyd)
  Getting Even (Edward Albert)
  Getting Even With Dad (Macaulay Culkin)
  Getting Gertie's Garter (J Carroll Naish)
  Getting Gotti
  Getting It On
  Getting It Right (Peter Cook)
  Getting Out
  Getting Over
  Getting Over Allison
  Getting Personal (Michael Landes)
  Getting Physical
  Getting Straight (Elliott Gould)
  Getting Up and Going Home (Tom Skerritt)
  Getting Wasted
  Gleaming the Cube (Christian Slater)
  Glorifying the American Girl (Eddie Cantor)
  Going All the Way (Ben Affleck)
  Going Ape (Tony Danza)
  Going Bananas
  Going Berserk (John Candy)
  Going Bye Bye
  Goin' Cocoanuts (Donnie and Marie Osmond)
  Goin' Down the Road
  Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story
  Going Hollywood (Bing Crosby, Marion Davies)
  Goin' Home (Robert Mitchum)
  Going Home (Jason Robards)
  Going in Style (George Burns)
  Going My Way (Bing Crosby)
  Going Nomad
  Going Overboard (Adam Sandler)
  Going Places (Dick Powell)
  Goin' South
  Going Steady (Alan Reed)
  Goin' to Town (Mae West)
  Going Undercover (Viveca Lindfors)
  Guarding Tess (Nicholas Cage)
• Hangin' With the Homeboys (John Leguizamo)
  Hanging Up
  Harnessing Peacocks
  Having a Wild Weekend (The Dave Clark Five)
  Having Babies
  Having It All
  Having Wonderful Crime (Pat O'Brien)
  Having Wonderful Time (Ginger Rogers)
  Headin' for Broadway (Rex Smith)
  Heading for Heaven (Stuart Erwin)
  Heading Home (Gary Oldman)
  Healing by Killing
  Hearing Voices
  Hiding Out (Jon Cryer)
  High-Ballin' (Peter Fonda)
  Hijacking Hollywood (roommates plan to steal dailies from a movie shoot)
  Hittin' the Trail
  Hitting a New High (Lily Pons)
  Housekeeping
• Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
  Inventing the Abbots (Liv Tyler)
• Jilting Joe
  Jumping (animated)
  Jumping at the Boneyard (Tim Roth)
  Jumping for Joy
  Jumping Ship (Joey Lawrence)
• Keeping It Real: The Adventures of Greg Walloch
  Keeping On (Danny Glover)
  Keeping the Faith
  Kicking and Screaming (Eric Stoltz)
  Kicking the Moon Around
  Killing Dad
  Killing 'Em Softly George Segal
  Killing Me Softly (Joseph Fiennes)
  Killing Mr Griffin
  Killing Mrs Tingle (oops, high school shootings, rename it Teaching Mrs Tingle!)
  Killing the Badge
  Killing Zoe Eric Stoltz
  Kissing a Dream
  Kissing a Fool (David Schwimmer)
  Kissing Jessica Stein
  Knocking on Death's Door
• Laughing at Trouble
  Leaving Las Vegas (compulsive self destruction)
  Leaving Lenin
  Leaving Normal (Meg Tilly)
  Livin' Large
  Livin' the Life
  Living a Lie
  Living at Risk
  Living Free
  Living in a Big Way (Gene Kelly)
  Living in Oblivion (making an independent movie)
  Living in Peril (Rob Lowe)
  Living it Up (Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis)
  Living on Tokyo Time
  Living on Velvet (Kay Francis)
  Living Out Loud (Holly Hunter)
  Looking for Alibrandi
  Looking for Danger (Huntz Hall)
  Looking for Lola
  Looking for Love (Connie Francis)
  Looking for Miracles
  Looking for Mr Goodbar (Diane Keaton)
  Looking for Richard (Al Pacino)
  Looking for Trouble
  Looking Forward (Lionel Barrymore)
  Looking on the Bright Side
  Lookin' to Get Out (Jon Voight)
  Losin' It (Tom Cruise)
  Losing Chase (Helen Mirren)
  Losing Control
  Losing Ground Losing Isaiah (Jessica Lange)
  Lovin' Molly (Anthony Perkins, Beau Bridges)
  Loving in the Rain
  Loving Jezebel (Hill Harper)
  Loving You (Elvis Presley)
• Making Contact
  Making It (Joyce Van Patten)
  Making Love (Michael Ontkean, overstuffed and earnest)
  Making Mr Right (John Malkovich)
  Making of a Male Model
  Making the Grade (Judd Nelson)
  Meeting Daddy
  Meeting Venus (Glenn Close)
  Missing in Action
  Mixing Nia
  Moonlighting (Jeremy Irons, illegal Polish workers)
  Moving (Richard Prior)
• Navigating the Heart
• Packin' It In
  Painting the Clouds with Sunshine
  Passing Glory
  Passing Through
  Peddlin' in Society
  Picking Up the Pieces (Sharon Stone)
  Playing By Heart
  Playing for Keeps (Marisa Tomei) Playing for Time (that controversial Vanessa)
  Playing God
  Playing Mona Lisa
  Presenting Lily Mars (Judy Garland)
  Pumping Iron (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
  Putting Pants on Philip (Laurel and Hardy)
  Pushing Tin
• Racing with the Moon (Sean Penn)
  Raining Stones (Julie Brown)
  Raising a Riot (based on a book I remembered fondly)
  Raising Arizona (Nicholas Cage)
  Raising Cain (John Lithgow)
  Raising the Heights
  Raising the Wind
  Raising the Window (Paul Massie)
  Rappin' (Mario Van Peebles)
  Rationing (Wallace Beery)
  Reaching for the Moon (Douglas Fairbanks)
  Reaching for the Sun (Joel McCrea)
  Regarding Henry (Harrison Ford does the simpleton bit)
  Replacing Dad (Tippi Hedren)
  Ridin' Down the Canyon
  Ridin' for Justice
  Riding High (Dorothy Lamour)
  Riding in Cars with Boys (Drew Barrymore)
  Riding on Air (Joe E Brown)
  Riding Shotgun (Randolph Scott)
  Riding Tall
  Riding the Rails
  Riding the Sunset Trail
  Riding the Wind
  Riding West
  Riding with Buffalo Bill
  Rockin' the Blues
  Romancing the Stone (Kathleen Turner)
  Rowing With the Wind (Hugh Grant)
  Running (Michael Douglas)
  Running Brave (Robby Benson)
  Running Delilah (Delilah is a reincarnated spy)
  Running from the Guns
  Running Hot
  Running on Empty (Christine Lahti)
  Running Red
  Running Scared (Gregory Hines)
  Running Wild (Brooke Shields)
• Saving Grace (Tom Conti)
  Saving Private Ryan (Tom Hanks)
  Saving Silverman
  Scattering Dad (Olympia Dukakis
  Searching for Bobby Fischer (Joe Mantegna)
  Seducing Maria
  Serving Sara (Elizabeth Hurley)
  Serving in Silence
  Shaking the Tree (Courtenay Cox)
  Shining Through (Michael Douglas)
  Shooting Elizabeth (Jeff Goldblum & Mimi Rogers)
  Shooting Fish (Kate Beckinsale, great soundtrack, so-so movie)
  Shooting High (Gene Autry)
  Shooting Stars
  Shooting Straight
  Shopping
  Silencing Mary
  Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelly, Debby Reynolds)
  Singing the Blues in Red
  Sitting in Limbo
  Sitting Pretty (Ginger Rogers, Clifton Webb)
  Sleeping Together
  Sleeping with the Enemy (Julia-America's-Little-Sweetheart-Roberts)
  Slipping into Darkness
  Smashing the Crime Syndicate
  Smashing the Money Ring (Ronald Reagan)
  Smashing Time
  Smilin' Through (Jeanette MacDonald)
  Smiling Along
  Spanking the Monkey (a boy and his mom)
  Speaking of Murder (Buster Keaton)
  Splitting Heirs (Eric Idle)
  Stacking
  Stalking Danger
  Stalking Laura
  Stalking the President
  Standing Tall
  Starting Over (Burt Reynolds)
  Stayin' Alive
  Staying Together (Stockard Channing)
  Stealing Beauty (Jeremy Irons)
  Stealing Heaven (Denhold Elliott)
  Stealing Home (Blair Brown)
  Steaming (Vanessa Redgrave)
  Steppin' in Society (Edward Everett Horton)
  Steppin' Out (Liza Minelli)
  Stompin' at the Savoy
  Streetwalkin' (Julie Newmar)
  Striking Poses
  Surfacing
  Surviving
  Surviving Picasso (Anthony Hopkins)
  Surviving the Game (Rutger Hauer, a remake of the story about hunting a man for sport.)
  Swimming to Cambodia (Spalding Gray)
  Swimming with Sharks (Kevin Spacey)
  Swingin' Along (Ray Charles)
  Switching Channels (Kathleen Turner)
  Switching Goals (Mary-Kate and Ashley)
• Taking Care of Business (James Belushi)
  Taking Off (Buck Henry)
  Talkin' Dirty After Dark (Martin Lawrence)
  Taming Sutton's Gal
  Teaching Mrs Tingle (Helen Mirren)
  Telling Lies in America (Kevin Bacon)
  Telling You
  Testing the Limits
  Thinkin' Big
  Thrashin' (Josh Brolin)
  Trading Favors (Rosanna Arquette)
  Trading Hearts (Raul Julia)
  Trading Mom (Sissy Spacek)
  Trading Places (Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy)
  Travelling North (Leo McKern)
  Trippin'
  Trusting Beatrice (Steve Buscemi)
  Turning to Stone
• Understanding Bliss
  Understanding Jane
• Waiting for Guffman (Christoper Guest, Eugene Levy)
  Waiting for the Light (Teri Garr)
  Waiting for the Moon (Linda Hunt)
  Waiting to Exhale (Whitney Houston)
  Waking Life (animated, from film)
  Waking Ned Devine (dead man wins lottery)
  Waking the Dead
  Waking Up Horton
  Waking Up in Las Vegas
  Walking and Talking
  Walking My Baby Back Home (Buddy Hackett)
  Walking Tall (Joe Don Baker)
  Walking to the Waterline
  Whistling in Brooklyn (Red Skelton)
  Whistling in Dixie (Red Skelton)
  Whistling in the Dark (Red Skelton)
  Winning (Paul Newman)
  Winning London (Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen)
  Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
  Wrestling with Alligators