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Nancy Travis

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Apex Mountain

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Nancy Travis, characters named Barney or surnamed Cousins, full-service gas stations, and Seattle receive cases; the other principal actors, director, Infinity bracelet, and coffee do not.

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  • Nancy Travis is placed near an early-1990s peak, though Internal Affairs and So I Married an Axe Murderer compete.
  • Jeff Bridges, Kiefer Sutherland, Sandra Bullock, and director George Sluzer receive no verdicts.
  • The Infinity bracelet is rejected.
  • Barney Cousins ranks at least third among characters named Barney and perhaps higher among characters surnamed Cousins.
  • Coffee is rejected for Apex Mountain.
  • Full-service spacious gas stations receive a plausible apex case.
  • Seattle receives a case based on a run near Singles and Say Anything.
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Recasting Couch

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The panel considers switching Nancy Travis and Sandra Bullock but keeps Bullock as the missing woman and Travis as the partner driven to solve the case.

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  • Switching the two female leads is proposed as the recasting question.
  • Bullock is kept as the vivid person the audience misses.
  • Travis is credited with selling a woman who realizes her partner never escaped his obsession.
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What’s Aged the Best?

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Barney’s setup, the anagram, Jeff’s pathetic obsession, smoking as instant trauma shorthand, the villain name, early Bullock and Sutherland, and odd relationship lines receive praise.

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  • Barney’s craziness is established before the movie shifts into Diane and Jeff’s story.
  • Diane Shaver is identified as an anagram of “she vanished.”
  • Jeff’s attack on Rita for leaving makes his pathetic obsession unusually vivid.
  • Kiefer lighting a cigarette as soon as Diane disappears is praised as compact trauma shorthand.
  • Barney Cousins is called an excellent villain name.
  • The film captures Sandra Bullock immediately before Speed and Kiefer Sutherland before his later action-star identity.
  • Nancy Travis’s line about no secrets “in the heart or on the lips” is preserved as memorably strange.
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1993

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The Vanishing

1993 film

Bill Simmons · Chris Ryan

Aired February 7, 2023

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