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Rewatchables episodes featuring Meg Tilly’s films
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Picking Nits
Touch-football staging; bedroom count; Running Dog stock and insider tip; bat reaction; recovered eulogy; Chloe staying
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Approx. transcript time · 01:36:04Read transcript
- The two-on-two game is criticized for instant blitzes, no Mississippi count, a cramped yard, and no route tree.
- They suggest asking Letterboxd for better touch-football scenes. A participant remembers realizing he wanted to marry his wife after watching her beat a college roommate in three-on-three football.
- The sleeping arrangements and size of the house and guest house are difficult to reconcile.
- A small running-shoe company having tradable stock and Harold freely disclosing the deal seem implausible. — Bill Simmons
- Nick is judged too calm when a bat flies through his window after cocaine. — Chris Ryan
- Harold collapses during the eulogy but immediately becomes a composed host without anyone addressing it. — Chris Ryan
- The hosts ask whether Meg Tilly’s character should hang around because she seems like a detached and weird outsider.
- Her presence is defended as a younger outsider who exposes the group’s fixation on the past. — Chris Ryan
Apex Mountain
Kasdan; Tilly’s Big Chill–Psycho II year; Mary Kay Place; JoBeth Williams’s Poltergeist–Big Chill period (qualified); the sperm-donor arrangement; “hog is broken” jokingly
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Approx. transcript time · 01:33:27Read transcript
- Glenn Close and Kevin Kline are rejected as being at their apex. — Bill Simmons
- Meg Tilly is debated between this film and Masquerade before the shared Big Chill–Psycho II year is endorsed. — Bill Simmons
- Mary Kay Place is placed at her apex here.
- Berenger is placed at Platoon and Hurt at Broadcast News.
- JoBeth Williams receives a yes qualified as the period spanning Poltergeist and The Big Chill. — Chris Ryan
- The Santini house is placed at its Great Santini peak. — Bill Simmons
- The Porsche remains unresolved for lack of comparative research. — Bill Simmons
- The arrangement of sleeping with one’s wife’s ovulating friend is jokingly endorsed.
- Saying “hog is broken” receives a joking apex nomination.
- Kasdan receives the final apex for writing and directing the movie immediately after his Star Wars work.
- Backyard football is considered against Wedding Crashers without a resolution. — Bill Simmons
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Approx. transcript time · 01:25:41Read transcript
- Nick was reportedly the only role written for a particular actor, William Hurt. — Bill Simmons
- JoBeth Williams and Glenn Close both wanted Meg. — Bill Simmons
- Phoebe Cates auditioned for Chloe and met Kevin Kline, but Meg Tilly’s ethereal quality is preferred. — Bill Simmons
- Kline wanted Goldblum’s funnier role before being pushed to Harold. — Bill Simmons
- Sean Penn as Alex is treated as an unverified and age-inconsistent rumor.
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