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Unintentional Comedy Award
The repeated houseboats and swaggering book-mogul family
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- The movie's deliberate humor initially leaves the panel unable to identify unintentional comedy, even in Greg Kinnear's performance. — Juliet Litman
- The father's wife leaving him for the nanny is praised as an intentional joke and explicitly excluded from the award. — Juliet Litman
- The inexplicable recurrence of houseboats in a Tom Hanks–Nora Ephron movie becomes the clearest unintentional-comedy choice. — Amanda Dobbins
- Three book executives behaving like supervillain moguls with matching boats are also treated as ridiculous. — Amanda Dobbins
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- Dave Chappelle is the first supporting-role candidate. — Juliet Litman
- Parker Posey is presented as a supporting-role candidate. — Amanda Dobbins
- Greg Kinnear is presented as a supporting-role candidate. — Amanda Dobbins
- Heather Burns is presented as a supporting-role candidate. — Juliet Litman
- Steve Zon is presented as a supporting-role candidate. — Juliet Litman
- Dabney Coleman is praised as a supporting-role candidate. — Juliet Litman
- Jean Stapleton is presented as a supporting-role candidate. — Juliet Litman
- Heather Burns is praised in her first film role as an early version of the durable rom-com best-friend performer. — Juliet Litman
- Jean Stapleton's cybersex busy-signal joke is identified as an improvised line. — Juliet Litman
- Parker Posey receives one final pick for making a large impact in limited time and embodying the glamorous 1990s book-editor fantasy. — Juliet Litman
- Posey's sleeping-pill advice at the publishing party is singled out as a perfectly timed supporting moment. — Amanda Dobbins
- Steve Zon receives the other final pick for his sad, unlucky-in-love bookstore employee and the contrast with his role in That Thing You Do. — Amanda Dobbins
- The panel speculates that Hanks and Ephron's working relationship may have helped connect Steve Zon to the earlier Hanks-directed film, but does not establish the casting chain as fact. — Juliet Litman
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