Most Rewatchable Scene
Key party
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- Nominations are framed as good scenes rather than truly rewatchable ones.
- The first dinner party, from the spilled wine to the couples sitting beside spouses they seem not to like, sets the tone.
- Ben’s affair reveal with Weaver’s character is nominated, including his golf babbling and her reply that she already has a husband and needs no other.
- Kline left alone in Weaver’s house then discovering Wendy and Mikey with the Nixon mask is nominated and called one of the most unnerving scenes in a non-horror film.
- The film handles Christina Ricci’s character without feeling exploitative; carrying her home because her feet are cold captures a child longing to be older.
- Paul’s homecoming exchange with his sister shows the kids know their parents are odd.
- The car ride to the key party, where Ben and Joan Allen’s character debate what will happen, is where tensions come to a simmer.
- The Elton John needle drop is loved even though the party it scores lacks a payoff; the song is called a top-five Elton John song.
- The key party itself is nominated, returned to in pieces until one key remains and Ben is passed out in the bathroom.
- The electrocution is not fun to rewatch but is called brilliant and horror-like, with impressive ice effects for 1997.
- The final 30 minutes cross-cut three storylines in a novelistic way, making it hard to isolate scenes; the key party spans about 30 minutes.
- Under the Fucked Up Family February “most gripping” framing, the final 15 minutes would win, though a channel-flipper would start at the key party.
- Joan Allen at the book sale meeting the Reverend and seeing Wendy on her bike is nominated by two hosts.
- Ben driving Paul home from the train and discussing self-abuse is held for Aged Best.
- The key party is settled on as the scene.