Roger Ebert
Just one Oscar
Macaulay Culkin
Overacting Award
Quinn Culkin for underacting
The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award · 1:14:53
Bill Simmons: Culkin’s Henry is argued to be a harder and greater performance than Kevin McCallister.
Culkin is hypothetically awarded for My Girl over Jack Palance, and Wood for Radio Flyer over Gene Hackman.
The Coach Finstock Award for Best Life Lesson · 1:51:55
Bill Simmons: Henry’s freedom maxim is presented with limited truth.
Selected cast credits · Film reference
In the order the hosts got to it. Open a row for the discussion.
An abandoned 1988 version would have cast Michael Kleeseck as Henry, Jesse Bradford as Mark, Mary Steenburgen as Susan, and Michael Lehmann as director.
Michelle Pfeiffer is favored as Susan, with Sam Shepard as Wallace and Tom Hanks as Mark’s father.
Fake cigarettes, the Minnesota cliff shoot, Culkin’s 30-foot fall and BB-gun request, the novelization, the child actors’ friendship, and the edited UK release
The absent father, adults stopping their pursuit, the cliff-death explanation, weak investigations, cousins who never met, geography, dinner without a sitter, unsafe ice, ignored weapons, absent hospital parents, and unseen witnesses
Whether Susan faces criminal exposure, whether the Tokyo deal closed, how the brothers’ relationship changes, whether Henry is evil or sociopathic, and whether Mark saved the family
Recorded movie reference
The Rewatchables · aired June 26, 2026
1. The Exorcist; 2. The Shining; 3. Orphan; 4. We Need to Talk About Kevin; 5. The Omen; 6. The Bad Seed; 7. The Good Son; 8. Brightburn; 9. Late Night with the Devil; 10. Village of the Damned
