Apex Mountain
Joan Allen; key parties
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- Kline is not at Apex; Weaver is also a no, her peak being around Ghostbusters, Aliens, and Working Girl.
- Ang Lee is a no, with Brokeback Mountain cited among his two directing Oscars.
- Joan Allen’s Apex is opened as this film versus her first spy-franchise role. — Chris Ryan
- Counter-alternatives are her Pamela Landy role, Face/Off and Pleasantville, or The Contender, which earned an Oscar nomination.
- Her filmography is recapped, from Manhunter and a chess-prodigy film through The Crucible and The Contender.
- This is declared her Apex for the podcast’s purposes while still admiring her Pamela Landy. — Chris Ryan
- The Upside of Anger is praised, and Allen is called one of the most believable movie moms.
- Maguire and Holmes are no; key parties are an emphatic yes.
- Whether key parties peaked elsewhere is questioned, perhaps with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, at the Playboy Mansion, in John Updike’s fiction, or in Thy Neighbor’s Wife.
- Forrest Gump remains the peak for premature-ejaculation scenes, so this film is not.