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Internal Affairs

1990 film

Bill Simmons · Chris Ryan · Van Lathan

Aired March 19, 2024

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Internal Affairs

Apex Mountain

Richard Gere and Andy Garcia in 1990; cops sleeping with partners’ wives; slapping.

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Approx. transcript time · 01:17:32Read transcript
  • Gere is affirmed for the 1990 combination with Pretty Woman, and Garcia for the same year's Godfather Part III combination.
  • Billy Baldwin is rejected in favor of Backdraft or the film described as Thief of Hearts in the transcript.
  • The Valley receives a suggested case for looking cool and wild, contrasted with Boogie Nights and Magnolia.
  • Dirty Los Angeles cops is debated against Colors, The Onion Field and L.A. Confidential. Internal affairs and cops moonlighting as hitmen are floated without a clear final declaration.
  • Nancy Travis loses to So I Married an Axe Murderer; Metcalf and Sciorra are rejected; Faye Grant gets only a probable yes. — Bill Simmons
  • Imagining one's wife with another man loses to Indecent Proposal after comparisons with The Best Man, The Big Picture and Unfaithful. — Van Lathan
  • Cops sleeping with partners' wives and slapping in movies receive affirmative answers.
  • Gere is tentatively proposed as the apex of an attractive villain, without a firm conclusion.
Internal Affairs

Half-Assed Internet Research

Deleted bar scene, cars, Daryl Gates’s condemnation and Faye Grant’s later marriage history.

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Approx. transcript time · 01:16:03Read transcript
  • A deleted bar scene has Raymond and Peck discussing the desire to be bad while an informant strips; the hosts would like it restored if placed appropriately. — Bill Simmons
  • Peck drives a 1963 Chevrolet Sting Ray and Amy a Volkswagen convertible. — Bill Simmons
  • LAPD chief Daryl Gates condemned the film. — Bill Simmons
  • Faye Grant's marriage to Stephen Collins and their divorce following child-sexual-abuse allegations are discussed as an unhappy later-life association. — Bill Simmons
Internal Affairs

What’s Aged the Best?

Evidence planting; menswear and haircuts; Los Angeles; Figgis; Metcalf; marriage tension; co-parenting; revised ending; mall security; cuckolding.

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Approx. transcript time · 00:45:11Read transcript
  • Evidence planting remains an effective fictional device, especially before ubiquitous cameras and phones.
  • The good investigator beginning to resemble the corrupt man he pursues. — Bill Simmons
  • Off-duty menswear, including Gere's polo and sunglasses, remains contemporary. — Chris Ryan
  • Figgis contributing music and appearing as Nancy Travis's dinner companion. — Chris Ryan
  • Los Angeles as a vibrant crime-film setting, and Gere and Garcia's early-1990s haircuts. — Bill Simmons
  • Laurie Metcalf excels despite a limited role and has strong chemistry with Garcia. — Bill Simmons
  • The unusual sexual slang root, made ironic by Peck's affair with Van's wife.
  • Unfinished suburban developments as crime-film locations and suspiciously expensive houses revealing corruption.
  • Faye Grant's performance and the tense Garcia–Travis marriage, with her sexual frustration and his fixation on work. — Bill Simmons
  • Peck's unconventional co-parenting and the dirty-cop excuse that a woman is his informant.
  • Replacing the convoluted original ending, with a threatened assault, shooting, window fall and apparent drowning, after hostile test reactions. — Bill Simmons
  • Xander Berkeley as Rudy and cops forced to work second jobs as mall security.
  • The cuckolding theme is much more widely recognized in contemporary culture.
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