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What Would Tony Romo’s Director’s Commentary for This Movie Sound Like?

Tony Romo; Cris Collinsworth

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  • Collinsworth is imagined interpreting Dave’s Italian persona as sexual strategy and escape from blue-collar Indiana; Romo reacts to Rod leaving the inside open.
  • Romo calling the race and reacting to Dave being taped onto the bike would be entertaining.
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Half-Assed Internet Research

Little 500; quarry access; Tesich’s cycling inspiration; locations; slap takes; race extras

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  • The Little 500 still takes place annually at Indiana University.
  • Access to the quarry is reportedly heavily restricted because of its danger; exaggerated traps are a joke.
  • Tesich was reportedly an alternate on the 1962 Phi Kappa Psi team; a teammate who rode 139 of 200 laps and won inspired the main character.
  • The used-car lot is gone and the pizza location is reported to have become Opie Taylor’s.
  • Katherine’s slap reportedly required six takes.
  • The race sought 20,000 extras but attracted 3,000, requiring compressed crowd staging.
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Apex Mountain

Dennis Christopher; cycling movies; irritable Italians; Masi Gran Criterium; scarce Blu-rays; villains named Rod

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  • Dennis Christopher is unequivocally at Apex despite a later career that did not match the initial stardom expectations.
  • Dennis Quaid is rejected; Robyn Douglass is a probable yes, qualified by praise for The Lonely Guy.
  • Jackie Earle Haley is rejected in favor of Kelly Leak, with Little Children and Watchmen also mentioned.
  • Cycling movies receive agreement, ahead of American Flyers; Quicksilver and other films are considered while discussing a possible cycling month.
  • Used cars and Daniel Stern are rejected, with Stern’s Home Alone, City Slickers and The Wonder Years period preferred.
  • Irritable Italians and the 1978 Masi Gran Criterium bicycle receive affirmative selections.
  • Peter Yates is initially rejected for Bullitt, then reconsidered because of this film’s Oscar success and unknown cast; no settled final answer emerges.
  • Hart Bochner is rejected in favor of Die Hard, with his directing of PCU also praised.
  • Indiana movies divide opinion between this and Hoosiers, with a tentative preference for Hoosiers.
  • Hard-to-find Blu-rays receive an affirmative nomination, illustrated by the expensive out-of-print Twilight Time release.
  • Villains named Rod receive an affirmative late Apex nomination.
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Sequel, Prequel, Limited Series, or All-Black Remake

Untouchable; an all-Black Gary-to-Bloomington version considered

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  • Untouchable is the initial answer, but an all-Black version involving a Gary team visiting Bloomington is entertained; cycling itself might change.
  • A 1979 cast discussion considers Richard Pryor, early Denzel Washington, Eddie Murphy and Morgan Freeman, with age and cycling-fitness objections.
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Probably Unanswerable Questions

Tolerance for the Italian act; Mike’s football ability and eligibility; Little 500 reward and tuition

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  • How long would a parent tolerate the Italian act? About five days is suggested, while friends might let it continue because the romance works.
  • Could Mike later become an older college quarterback, and was he genuinely good at football? A Necessary Roughness-style sequel is imagined, with confidence loss offered as the obstacle.
  • Is the Little 500 reward only a trophy, and might Dave receive tuition assistance? The effort seems to merit money.
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The Andy and Red – Zihuatanejo Award for What Happens the Next Day?

Mike becomes a cop; Moocher has children; Dave graduates and prospers

The panel is imagining how this might look in the future.

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  • Mike is expected to become a cop like his brother; Moocher’s possible move to Chicago is raised, with four children predicted.
  • Dave is expected to get a degree, become an engineer and do well; his much younger sibling’s future prompts discussion of parents mellowing with age.
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