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Rewatchables episodes featuring Donald Sutherland’s films

The Italian Job

2003 film

Bill Simmons · Chris Ryan · Van Lathan

Aired August 11, 2026

Animal House

1978 film

Bill Simmons · Chris Ryan

Aired May 26, 2026

Disclosure

1994 film

Bill Simmons · Van Lathan · Wosny Lambre

Aired December 10, 2024

A Time to Kill

1996 film

Bill Simmons · Wesley Morris

Aired July 11, 2023

Ordinary People

1980 film

Bill Simmons · Sean Fennessey · Mallory Rubin

Aired February 1, 2022

JFK

1991 film

Bill Simmons · Chris Ryan · Sean Fennessey · Brian Koppelman

Aired December 2, 2021

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Misery

Casting What-Ifs

Many actors declined Annie Wilkes and Paul Sheldon; several alternative Paul Sheldons are debated

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  • This is among the five or six hardest winner calls, on the 221st movie the show has done. — Bill Simmons
  • Redford is predicted as one participant's usual, predictable pick and argued for: he directed it, won Best Director and Picture, and was the biggest star on the planet.
  • A shared Hirsch and Hutton case is raised but called a cheat; Sutherland wins the actual movie while Redford wins everything that came from it.
  • A joke subtitles the episode 'Goldman's Revenge.'
  • Sutherland wins the movie: the host went in thinking Hutton and left thinking Sutherland had the key performance; Mary Tyler Moore had a chance until the packing seizure. — Bill Simmons
  • Mary Tyler Moore is a TV actor in a bracing against-type role, while Sutherland is a skilled film actor in a different class. — Sean Fennessey
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The Last Boy Scout

What’s Aged the Best?

Friday Night Football montage; Joe Hallenbeck's beatings; the title on the football card; the disgraced-hero backstory; bad guys saying a full name derisively; Wayans's hat; the witty exchanges; Halle Berry's brief role; the conspiracy explanation scene

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  • The Friday Night Football montage, with a question about who Bill Medlay is. — Bill Simmons
  • Joe Hallenbeck is hit in the face seven times, three times in the back of the head, tasered and stabbed; he is compared with Marvin in Midnight Run for most abuse. — Bill Simmons
  • Nobody is better at getting beaten up in movies than Willis, who lacked the ego seen in the Pacino speech in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. — Chris Ryan
  • The football card signed to the daughter works the title into the movie about as well as it gets; research traced it to the early-90s Pro Set. — Bill Simmons
  • The trope of a hero who did the right thing about something terrible, then falls into a much worse job, often a former Secret Service agent, with In the Line of Fire and The Sentinel cited. — Bill Simmons
  • Private detectives in movies are always drinking alcoholics sitting in cars. — Chris Ryan
  • Bad guys saying someone's full name derisively, as Taylor Negron does, is a great way to mark a villain. — Bill Simmons
  • Wayans's fez-style hat with the tassel is cool, also worn by Hallie Berry in Boomerang, and should come back. — Bill Simmons
  • The exchanges are witty in script form and Willis somehow pulls them off; the movie is tired, drunk, sarcastic and dead inside. — Chris Ryan
  • Hally Berry brings so much to a small part in only four or five minutes, which makes Boomerang's premise ludicrous. — Chris Ryan
  • The owner Shelley explaining the conspiracy recalls Donald Sutherland in JFK, and the gambling-and-blackmail conspiracy could still work today. — Chris Ryan
JFK The Rewatchables
In the discussion (5)
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  • Called one of the most important awards handed out, with three nominees: John Candy, Kevin Bacon and Donald Sutherland. — Bill Simmons
  • Oldman is in the movie too much to be eligible; Brian Doyle-Murray is proposed and rejected. — Bill Simmons
  • Bacon and Candy annihilate brief roles, but Sutherland is first called the winner for the 16-minute monologue, then his screen time is said to be about third most. — Bill Simmons
  • The pick moves to Candy because he did something he never did before or after, while Bacon found a tough swagger and kept doing it, as in A Few Good Men. — Brian Koppelman
  • Candy as Dusty Rhodes in a biopic is imagined on the spot; Candy wins. — Brian Koppelman
Mrs. Doubtfire

Greatest San Francisco Movie/TV House of All Time

Party of Five house; Alcatraz from The Rock

In the discussion (6)
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  • Six nominees: the Mrs. Doubtfire house, Full House, the Pacific Heights house (three stories on a hill), the Party of Five house, That's So Raven (offered for Shea), and the 1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers house of Donald Sutherland. — Bill Simmons
  • The Party of Five house is declared a pick. — Bill Simmons
  • 40 Days and 40 Nights is floated as possibly set in San Francisco. — Shea Serrano
  • The house from David Fincher's The Game is added, with a top-five movie kitchen, and Full House is echoed for teaching about San Francisco. — Bill Simmons
  • Research found the Mrs. Doubtfire house on every famous-houses list; it became a tourist attraction where flowers were left after Williams died, and Williams also owned an iconic San Francisco house on landmark lists. — Bill Simmons
  • A pick claimed to beat both others: Alcatraz from The Rock, to own and live in; it is called a great choice. — Bill Simmons
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