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Single White Female The Rewatchables
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Most Rewatchable Scene

The shoe scene in which Hedy kills Sam

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  • The prospective-roommate montage is nominated for its intentionally comic parade of candidates.
  • Hedy catching Allie at a low moment, fixing the water, and earning her place in the apartment is discussed as a separate setup.
  • Hedy walking in on Allie using her earrings and perfume is nominated.
  • The early topless scene is nominated as a signal that the movie has few boundaries.
  • Hedy trying Allie’s earrings and sniffing her neck is nominated as a distinct violation.
  • Hedy bringing home Buddy without asking is nominated and criticized as bad puppy care.
  • The three-character family portrait is nominated as ominous foreshadowing.
  • Hedy’s anger when Allie returns after two days away is nominated.
  • Hedy kicking Buddy is discussed as a disturbing scene and later as something that aged poorly.
  • Allie and Sam’s chair sex is nominated.
  • Hedy’s masturbation followed by the breakfast-and-eggs scene is nominated; the discussion emphasizes her desire to enter Allie and Sam’s relationship.
  • Buddy’s murder is deliberately labeled non-rewatchable but also the moment the film sharply escalates.
  • Devastated Hedy hitting on Sam and Sam thinking about it are nominated, followed by debate about his ex-wife.
  • Allie finding Hedy’s unlocked shoebox of personal evidence is nominated.
  • Allie following Hedy into the Hellfire sex club is nominated despite frustration with Allie’s obvious surveillance.
  • Hedy’s twin history and the question of whether she deliberately killed her sister are discussed around the scene choices.
  • Hedy’s makeover, impersonation of Allie, and seduction of Sam are nominated as the movie’s central identity-theft sequence.
  • Sam realizing the sexual deception is nominated and provocatively called the greatest orgasm of his life.
  • Hedy preparing to kill Allie with a knife is considered part of the long final confrontation.
  • All participants explicitly select the shoe scene as most rewatchable.
Single White Female The Rewatchables
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Mallory Rubin Award: Did This Movie Need a Better Sex Scene?

An uncomfortable bath scene; stronger staging of the chair scene

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  • The participants inventory the existing chair sex, apartment sex, masturbation, sex-club, oral-sex, and coerced-kiss material and question whether more is needed.
  • A bath scene in which Hedy offers to wash Allie is proposed to make the same-sex subtext more explicit.
  • The chair-sex scene is criticized as underlit and overly staged.
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Single White Female

What’s Aged the Worst?

Air-vent eavesdropping, animal mistreatment, a rapist’s redemption, absent roommate searches, kink shaming, Allie’s vague tech career, and overwritten dialogue

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  • Listening through an apartment air vent is called an implausible dated thriller device.
  • Allie’s silver-purple raincoat is rejected as never having made sense.
  • The live-action puppy kick and early-1990s sexual-harasser trope are criticized.
  • The attempted redemption beat for Mitch after his assault is called something a modern edit would remove.
  • The premise is said to collapse today because a new roommate could be searched online.
  • The era’s BDSM kink shaming is criticized.
  • Allie’s ill-defined technology business and implausible coding/payment powers are called dated.
  • The finale is said to need a campy eviction one-liner.
  • Hedy’s identical-twin speech is criticized as overwritten, while the performance is said to have typecast the actor in one viewer’s mind.
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