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Recasting Couch

Swap Sciorra and Travis; Reeve, Johnson, Ford, Denzel or modern-day Gosling as Peck.

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  • Swap Annabella Sciorra and Nancy Travis: Sciorra's passion and contrast with Peck would strengthen Raymond's marriage story.
  • Christopher Reeve is an intriguing against-type option; Don Johnson has the right appeal, though his acting range is questioned. Harrison Ford is another preferred alternative.
  • Denzel Washington could play Peck, but the racial dynamics would make a substantially different movie.
  • Ryan Gosling is the modern Peck choice, with Murder by Numbers recalled as evidence he can play a villain.
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The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award

Internal affairs deserves more credit; Tova may be the true villain.

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  • Internal affairs is more worthwhile work than films admit; police-centered storytelling makes accountability officers look like obstructive snitches and encourages sympathy for Peck.
  • Tova may be the true villain, engineering the deaths of her husband's parents and then her husband.
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Casting What-Ifs

Nick Nolte declined Peck; the extensive other-candidate list is treated skeptically.

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Half-Assed Internet Research

Deleted bar scene, cars, Daryl Gates’s condemnation and Faye Grant’s later marriage history.

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Approx. transcript time · 01:16:03Read transcript
  • A deleted bar scene has Raymond and Peck discussing the desire to be bad while an informant strips; the hosts would like it restored if placed appropriately.
  • Peck drives a 1963 Chevrolet Sting Ray and Amy a Volkswagen convertible.
  • LAPD chief Daryl Gates condemned the film.
  • Faye Grant's marriage to Stephen Collins and their divorce following child-sexual-abuse allegations are discussed as an unhappy later-life association.
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Apex Mountain

Richard Gere and Andy Garcia in 1990; cops sleeping with partners’ wives; slapping.

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Approx. transcript time · 01:17:32Read transcript
  • Gere is affirmed for the 1990 combination with Pretty Woman, and Garcia for the same year's Godfather Part III combination.
  • Billy Baldwin is rejected in favor of Backdraft or the film described as Thief of Hearts in the transcript.
  • The Valley receives a suggested case for looking cool and wild, contrasted with Boogie Nights and Magnolia.
  • Dirty Los Angeles cops is debated against Colors, The Onion Field and L.A. Confidential. Internal affairs and cops moonlighting as hitmen are floated without a clear final declaration.
  • Nancy Travis loses to So I Married an Axe Murderer; Metcalf and Sciorra are rejected; Faye Grant gets only a probable yes.
  • Imagining one's wife with another man loses to Indecent Proposal after comparisons with The Best Man, The Big Picture and Unfaithful.
  • Cops sleeping with partners' wives and slapping in movies receive affirmative answers.
  • Gere is tentatively proposed as the apex of an attractive villain, without a firm conclusion.
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