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Faye Grant
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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.
- Imagining one's wife with another man loses to Indecent Proposal after comparisons with The Best Man, The Big Picture and Unfaithful.
- 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.
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.
- Peck drives a 1963 Chevrolet Sting Ray and Amy a Volkswagen convertible.
- LAPD chief Daryl Gates condemned the film.
- Faye Grant's marriage to Stephen Collins and their divorce following child-sexual-abuse allegations are discussed as an unhappy later-life association.
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.
- Off-duty menswear, including Gere's polo and sunglasses, remains contemporary.
- Figgis contributing music and appearing as Nancy Travis's dinner companion.
- Los Angeles as a vibrant crime-film setting, and Gere and Garcia's early-1990s haircuts.
- Laurie Metcalf excels despite a limited role and has strong chemistry with Garcia.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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