Who won the movie
Richard Gere.
Just one Oscar
Richard Gere.
Dion Waiters Award
Lolly and Mrs. Arrocas.
The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award · 1:07:27
Internal affairs is more worthwhile work than films admit; police-centered storytelling makes accountability officers look like obstructive snitches and encourages sympathy for Peck.
Tova may be the true villain, engineering the deaths of her husband's parents and then her husband.
The Coach Finstock Award for Best Life Lesson · 1:35:22
Bill Simmons: Do not discuss wives; the cynical alternative is that one's wife wants something new.
Selected cast credits · Film reference
In the order the hosts got to it. Open a row for the discussion.
Van Stretch’s name; wives seeking novelty; murder-for-hire prices; the burger stand; Kathleen’s underwear.
The first Dennis–Raymond encounter; the jealousy sequence through the elevator fight.
Richard Gere at the taco stand.
Evidence planting; menswear and haircuts; Los Angeles; Figgis; Metcalf; marriage tension; co-parenting; revised ending; mall security; cuckolding.
Music during drunk Raymond’s sequence; the pimp-watching-the-arrest cue.
Styrofoam-cup coffee and large Pepsis.
The nightclub and the Arrocas Malibu house.
Van’s death with the approaching ambulance; the under-table touch; Penny’s phone-call reveal.
Raymond as an investigator; Kathleen as an art dealer and spouse.
Raymond’s domestic violence followed by romantic reconciliation.
Domestic violence, Amy’s lost authority, old computers, missing boxing and nightclub scenes, and lost Raiders tickets.
Swap Sciorra and Travis; Reeve, Johnson, Ford, Denzel or modern-day Gosling as Peck.
Byron Mayo; Ramon Raymond proposed as a future option.
The Rat Squad; Cuck Cops; Too Fucking Macho.
Peck’s estimated 11 deaths to five sexual partners: 2.2, with uncertainty.
Internal affairs deserves more credit; Tova may be the true villain.
No.
Nick Nolte declined Peck; the extensive other-candidate list is treated skeptically.
Raymond and Kathleen’s shouting match.
John Kapelos; Marco Rodriguez and the cousin at the bar are alternatives.
Lolly and Mrs. Arrocas.
Tony Romo.
Deleted bar scene, cars, Daryl Gates’s condemnation and Faye Grant’s later marriage history.
Richard Gere and Andy Garcia in 1990; cops sleeping with partners’ wives; slapping.
Van Stretch.
Unsupervised Raymond, Arrocas’s wealth, the phone call, Peck’s children and criminals’ instant knowledge.
A revisionist pro-Peck documentary; a sequel about his grown children.
A quick divorce, or Raymond becomes Dennis to sustain the marriage.
The car; polo shirts; a giant Pepsi; Penny’s telephone.
Do not talk about wives; the cynical alternative is that wives seek novelty.
