Apex Mountain
Winona Ryder and Lisa Loeb
In the discussion (10)
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- Winona Ryder receives a positive verdict, with Heathers raised as the strongest competing film.
- A pro-Reality Bites argument points to the shot from this film used in an eventual Oscar memorial montage.
- Ethan Hawke is rejected here because Training Day brought an Oscar nomination and broader career choice.
- A competing suggestion places Hawke’s apex in the present and speculates that The Purge may have given him unusual financial leverage, while explicitly admitting that claim is not known as fact. — Chris Ryan
- A Brooklyn pasta-shop anecdote about Hawke debating whether a character was Nick Cave or Jeff Tweedy is jokingly proposed as his apex.
- Janeane Garofalo is rejected in favor of her Larry Sanders period. — Chris Ryan
- Steve Zahn is rejected. — Chris Ryan
- After the transcript form “You too,” the response calls another title the movie about them and thanks Ben Stiller, but gives no clear yes or no. — Chris Ryan
- Lisa Loeb receives an unqualified positive verdict.
- The Super Big Gulp is rejected as too forced a script device.