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The Good Son

Half-Assed Internet Research

Fake cigarettes, the Minnesota cliff shoot, Culkin’s 30-foot fall and BB-gun request, the novelization, the child actors’ friendship, and the edited UK release

In the discussion (6)
Approx. transcript time · 01:26:18Read transcript
  • The child actors reportedly smoked tubes filled with dried parsley and lettuce.
  • The cliff was filmed at Palisade Head, Minnesota, with tugboats roughening the water and cranes securing performers.
  • Culkin reportedly agreed to a 30-foot cable fall in exchange for a BB gun.
  • The novelization expands Henry’s inability to feel.
  • Culkin and Wood are described as remaining close friends.
  • The 1995 UK video release reportedly removed the visible Mr. Highway incident after copycat concerns.
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Picking Nits

The absent father, adults stopping their pursuit, the cliff-death explanation, weak investigations, cousins who never met, geography, dinner without a sitter, unsafe ice, ignored weapons, absent hospital parents, and unseen witnesses

In the discussion (12)
Approx. transcript time · 01:38:59Read transcript
  • Mark’s father leaving for Japan immediately after the mother’s death is the largest premise problem.
  • Davenport and Wallace stop pursuing Mark after he escapes toward the cliff.
  • Susan would need to explain dropping Henry to police and Wallace.
  • Richard’s bathtub death and the Mr. Highway crash should have triggered investigations.
  • The cousins apparently never met despite the fathers being brothers.
  • The stated eleven-state drive from Arizona to Maine appears wrong.
  • The grieving parents go to dinner without a sitter while serving soup beforehand.
  • The public skating pond is dangerously managed and the rescue route makes little sense.
  • Susan sees a crossbow in the shed but focuses only on Richard’s duck.
  • Neither parent stays with hospitalized Connie.
  • The hospital provides immediate reassurance after prolonged submersion.
  • Many witnesses could have seen Henry push Connie toward unsafe ice.
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The Andy and Red – Zihuatanejo Award for What Happens the Next Day?

Mark returns to Arizona while Susan, Wallace, and injured Connie remain in a devastated household.

In the discussion (3)
Approx. transcript time · 01:47:57Read transcript
  • Susan must tell Wallace she dropped Henry.
  • Mark leaving the family behind after exposing Henry is treated as darkly funny.
  • Connie is imagined with scrambled brains, repeating fourth grade, and eating through a straw.
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Probably Unanswerable Questions

Whether Susan faces criminal exposure, whether the Tokyo deal closed, how the brothers’ relationship changes, whether Henry is evil or sociopathic, and whether Mark saved the family

In the discussion (6)
Approx. transcript time · 01:48:40Read transcript
  • Susan’s possible manslaughter exposure is questioned.
  • The panel asks whether Mark’s father completed the Tokyo deal.
  • The fathers’ relationship after the disastrous visit is questioned.
  • The film’s missing early scene would need to show Susan suspecting Henry killed Richard.
  • Mark’s identification of Susan with his dead mother shapes his conflict with Henry.
  • Mark may have saved Connie and Susan, though his arrival may also have accelerated Henry.
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The most "year the movie came out" thing

Game Boy, missed landline calls, an old Apple computer, and the absence of highway cameras are the principal 1993 answers.

In the discussion (4)
Approx. transcript time · 00:50:30Read transcript
  • Mark plays Game Boy instead of enjoying Monument Valley.
  • Missing a landline call can prevent Mark from speaking to his father in Tokyo for days.
  • The father’s old Apple computer is remembered as a large early-1990s contraption.
  • The lack of cameras on cars and highways lets the Mr. Highway crash go unexplained.
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