Roger Ebert
Dion Waiters Award
Gregory Peck
The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award · 1:04:32
Chris Ryan: Cady ironically succeeded where Dr. Hackett failed by bringing the married couple together.
Sean Fennessey: Opposing take: Sam and Lee should separate, Sam would be happier with Lori; shared trauma and refusing to discuss it do not repair the marriage.
The Coach Finstock Award for Best Life Lesson · 1:32:58
Do not conceal evidence while representing client; leave town in vehicle Cady cannot cling to; scripture advice joke.
Selected cast credits · Film reference
In the order the hosts got to it. Open a row for the discussion.
Spielberg initially attached; reported Schindler’s List / Cape Fear project trade praised as right choice for both directors.
Prison exit, leaving already-read books and walking into the camera praised; Max stealing Sam’s keys also liked.
Juliette Lewis opposite Robert De Niro in the playhouse
De Niro hair and movie-theater laughter at Problem Child.
Kid Cudi Pursuit of Happiness award goes to score accompanying Cady’s Fourth of July silhouette; shot recalls Blow Out.
Joe Don Baker mixing Pepto-Bismol into Jim Beam bourbon
The houseboat, with limited enthusiasm
Prison exit walk into camera chosen.
Douglas’s character refusing to testify and the police response, not her acting
Joe Don Baker’s private investigator Claude Kersak chosen for poor results ending in his death.
Douglas assault scene remains horrible to watch; preceding bar scene and her performance praised.
After Cady and Douglas leave the bar, before the assault
No
The circle-of-hell halo line or the warning about holding onto the past
Cady ironically succeeded where Dr. Hackett failed by bringing the married couple together.
Lange / Lee Bowden as an addition to the award name
Joe Don Baker for Craig’s generation
2023 parents Gosling and Emma Stone with Bernthal as Cady proposed; Stone perhaps too young, Amy Adams alternative.
Dan Spivey’s 1995 WWF Waylon Mercy reportedly inspired by Cady; Bray Wyatt also borrowed.
Robert De Niro as a box-office star (reconsidered); the 1991 Oscar-nominated face-biting role (joking); Fred Thompson’s film run; Cape Fear as a location
Cape Fear fallback replaced by Hospital Job, accepted.
Why flee after double murder instead of inviting police to the house? Correction that they call from road does not resolve fugitive framing.
Foxx and Vivica Fox as the couple; Rhames as Cady
Wayne Jenkins as graphic-design boss joked; J.T. Walsh belongs in unspecified part.
De Niro chosen with agreement.
Lee’s apparent attraction on the boat is disputed
Daughter imagined escaping to West Coast college or Seattle grunge; Cal, San Diego State and study-abroad / summer work possibilities.
De Niro bikini lighter, Mustang and Sam’s seersucker suit
Do not conceal evidence while representing client; leave town in vehicle Cady cannot cling to; scripture advice joke.
De Niro (agreement; voter count unresolved)
Fantastic and very rewatchable except the difficult Lewis scene; an overqualified genre director is like The Menu’s cheeseburger
Recorded movie reference
The Rewatchables · aired June 2, 2022
Ten De Niro pantheon performances
