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Heaven Can Wait The Rewatchables
Heaven Can Wait

What’s Aged the Best?

Dyan Cannon; Grodin–Cannon comedy; Vincent Gardenia; Dave Grusin’s score; overtime Super Bowl; Rams–Steelers matchup; backup-quarterback popularity; California wellness; environmental concerns; Farnsworth’s rich-man pretense

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  • Joe’s prescribed death is given as10:17am March20,2016; speakers momentarily confuse whether he would still be alive, then joke about an elderly football survivor.
  • A six-pack of Cannon includes wanting a drink, outfits, eye acting, screaming, reported partners and Lakers attendance. Her indifference during the shooting and the Grodin affair/pajamas/curtain comedy are added; Who’s Harry Crumb is called great as a comparison.
  • Gardenia’s police sergeant and the Grusin score are praised. A Gardenia month is an unrealized alternative, and Shawshank is a comparison for pleasurable musical company.
  • An overtime Super Bowl and a Rams/Steelers matchup are said to anticipate later real events. Filming is reported as September1,1977 at a Chargers/Rams preseason game; actual Rams/Steelers later played at the Rose Bowl, not the Coliseum.
  • Backup-quarterback popularity and constant switching are discussed alongside the era’s violence and interceptions. — Bill Simmons
  • California wellness and the liver/whey drink are an early cultural memory for one speaker; another places the disgusting drink in aged worst, and others say raw-organ diets persist now. These are cultural opinions, not health advice.
  • Environmental displacement concerns feel early and durable. Farnsworth’s rich impostor behavior, sailor/polo outfits and hollow status are praised as newly relevant.
The Firm The Rewatchables
The Firm

Who Won the Movie?

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  • Candidates are Dave Grusin, Cruise, Brimley, Hackman, Grisham and Pollack, for whom this was the first good film in a long time, since Out of Africa, with Havana a dud; the score is declared the winner as the best part of the film and what makes it stand out twenty-five years later, and the others agree.
  • A Brimley aside asks how the briefcase survives being swung thirty times and jokes that the gymnastics exist so Mitch can hang from the ceiling.
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The Firm The Rewatchables
The Firm

What’s Aged the Best?

Dave Grusin's piano score; the name Mitch McDeere; the Cayman Islands as a locale; nineties Cruise; the cast as a whole; the Memphis setting; the foresight in casting future character actors

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  • The soundtrack, controversial at the time, has aged the best: Dave Grusin's piano is a character in itself, adding humor, melancholy, romance and suspense, recurring in themes such as the guitar on Beale Street and the drive by the river, and it puts Grusin on the Who Won the Movie list; it is called one of the best scores of the last twenty-five years and was Oscar-nominated, though polarizing when released.
  • Mitch McDeere is a great name; the Cayman Islands have always aged well as a mysterious locale; nineties Cruise is a peak era, and the hosts miss having an actor you buy season tickets for, floating Emma Stone, Miles Teller, Damon and Leo.
  • The totality of the cast and the Memphis setting, an emptied, fading southern metropolis, have aged well; on rewatch Mitch and Abby are themselves idiosyncratic, a self-made striver and a more moneyed wife, which reads as a Clinton-era, sell-out-or-not story that David Rabe and Robert Towne were obsessed with.
  • The character-actor foresight has aged well: Dean Norris and Tobin Bell as the two assassins before Breaking Bad and Saw, Terry Kinney before Oz and Billions, and Margo Martindale as the secretary, classic Pollack casting where the eighteenth most important person is a great actor.
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