HeyJaredWords and Movies
Sean Gallagher and Claude Call find two seemingly different movies and find the common thread between them.
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Reel 96b: Miniseries Part 1 (Fanny and Alexander, continued) (opens the original)
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This is the first of five episodes we'll be covering which deal with miniseries, rather than theatrical films. The idea here is that when television decides they're going to do "events" and create these limited series ("limited" in the sense that there's a fixed number of episodes and no more are on the table), budgets tend to go up and the caliber of actor you get improves as well. But for all that, we're going to start with a miniseries that was also a theatrical film. Fanny and Alexander (198
Reel 96a: Mini-Series, Part 1 (Fanny and Alexander) (opens the original)
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This is the first of five episodes we'll be covering which deal with miniseries, rather than theatrical films. The idea here is that when television decides they're going to do "events" and create these limited series ("limited" in the sense that there's a fixed number of episodes and no more are on the table), budgets tend to go up and the caliber of actor you get improves as well. But for all that, we're going to start with a miniseries that was also a theatrical film. Fanny and Alexander (198
Reel 95b: Careers Cut Short, Part 4 (River Phoenix) (opens the original)
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Running on Empty is an interesting film by Sidney Lumet that, in our opinion, doesn't get enough love. Judd Hirsch and Christine Lahti play a married couple forced to go underground when their activist ways take an unfortunate turn and someone is accidentally killed. Now, that event took place nearly twenty years earlier, so it's mostly relevant as the setup to the film. In the present day, they have two boys: one is a tween and the other (Phoenix) is nearing the end of his high school career. B
Reel 95a: Careers Cut Short, Pt.3 (River Phoenix) (opens the original)
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In our last episode we looked at Grace Kelly, whose career was cut short by her own choice. She was given the option to be treated like a princess, or to go out and actually be an honest-to-god Princess. She chose both love and duty, since you can't really Princess and be a movie star at the same time. Fair. In today's episode, we look at a career that was cut short because the actor, who was otherwise very bright and talented, couldn't reel in his demons. River Phoenix died at the age of 23, of
Reel 94b: Careers Cut Short, Pt.2 (Grace Kelly) (opens the original)
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In 1955, Kelly paired up with Alfred Hitchcock again, to make To Catch a Thief, co-starring Cary Grant. Grant plays a retired cat burglar who is suspected of committing a new series of robberies, so he sets up a big job as a kind of sting operation to nab the person who's making him look like he's returned to a life of crime. Grace Kelly plays one of his potential victims in this scheme, and there are all kinds of interesting twists that, when viewed through a modern lens, you may see coming, bu
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