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Sneakers The Rewatchables October 14, 2025

In the discussion (1)

Approx. transcript time · 01:47:37Read transcript

The score wins the single Oscar; Mary McDonnell jokingly receives consideration for pretending not to be attracted to Redford.

Sneakers The Rewatchables October 14, 2025

Scrabble tiles and evading motion sensors qualify; the major actors mostly do not.

In the discussion (13)

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Redford is rejected for Apex Mountain here.
River Phoenix is probably rejected; Stand by Me, My Own Private Idaho, and Running on Empty are alternatives.
Poitier is rejected, with 1967 identified as his stronger period.
Aykroyd is rejected, and Species is preferred for strange Kingsley performances.
The slow walk to evade security sensors is accepted.
Scrabble tiles are accepted.
Seinfeld wins for the name Cosmo.
Geese sounding like a cocktail party is discussed, but its use in another unidentified film prevents a clean claim of originality.
Sneakers is preferred to Blue Chips for a Mary McDonnell character being pursued by an old flame.
Dances with Wolves is preferred for McDonnell herself.
Braille Playboy is suggested as an Apex candidate.
Helium-voice humor is enjoyed but not given its Apex here.
A later tangent awards ceiling-vent crawling to John McClane after considering Jurassic Park.

Sneakers The Rewatchables October 14, 2025

Redford’s clothes, computer dating, answering machines, car phones, and the film’s Bay Area setting evoke 1992.

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Redford’s light-wash straight-leg jeans are nominated.
His baseball jacket is nominated and compared with The Natural; the claim that it is the exact same jacket is disputed.
Mary McDonnell’s feathered hair is nominated.
The team affording an Oakland theater and finding easy street parking feel specific to the earlier Bay Area.
Hacker graphics and manipulating a computer-dating service are nominated.
The assumption that computer dating could not produce a bad match is challenged.
An answering machine hiding place and a car-phone plot point are nominated.
Siskel billing Timothy Busfield ahead of other stars is selected as a striking sign of thirtysomething’s contemporary prominence.
The ending’s choice of charities for the redistributed money feels characteristic of 1992.