Apex Mountain
Campbell Scott; anguished phone messages; Xavier McDaniel era; garage openers; video dating; early-nineties Seattle; red Saab
In the discussion (16)
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- Newsstands are nominated as a possible Apex, with the fuller discussion deferred.
- Crowe is rejected as an Apex here.
- Sedgwick’s later The Closer is preferred.
- Scott receives an affirmative choice based on this film and the Julia Roberts movie.
- Dillon and Pearl Jam are rejected; Kelley’s television work is offered instead.
- Long, anguished nineties phone messages receive an emphatic affirmative choice.
- McDaniel’s Knicks–Bulls playoff and Singles period is accepted as a career-era peak, with his Celtics signing mentioned.
- Garage-door openers receive immediate agreement.
- Video dating in movies is accepted, reinforced by Burton directing the fictional video.
- Tim Burton cameos are proposed as a separate candidate without a clear response.
- The supertrain concept is compared with the 1979 NBC series; its repeated failure leaves no clear winner.
- Apartment buildings as plot devices lose to Melrose Place or Rosemary’s Baby.
- Sub Pop is rejected in favor of roughly two years earlier.
- Early-nineties Seattle is favored, though the exact year is debated through Sleepless in Seattle, the Sonics and Griffey; later civic and musical changes complicate the nostalgia.
- The old red Saab fastback is an affirmative final candidate.
- Douglas Coupland’s Generation X is noted as another major contemporary touchstone; no explicit final ruling is stated.