Chris Columbus left the directing job after a personality clash with Chase and subsequently made Hughes’s Home Alone; Hughes reportedly felt the series had become a Chase vehicle.
A case is made that Robin Williams is at Apex Mountain: coming off a six-year run with five top-10 movies, maybe never a bigger star than in 1993, with a huge comedy that is not recognizable IP. — Amanda Dobbins
His Good Will Hunting Oscar is probably the last conceivable Apex Mountain, though this may be where he had tremendous success and still had options. — Amanda Dobbins
Only Jurassic Park made more domestically in 1993, ahead of The Fugitive, The Firm, Sleepless in Seattle, The Pelican Brief, Schindler's List, Cliffhanger and Groundhog Day; 1993 is called a great movie year. — Bill Simmons
Pro Last Action Here: it came 20 years too early but is great to watch. — Shea Serrano
Sally Field: no. Pierce Brosnan: no. Addendum: Brosnan's chest hair, yes; Brosnan in a bathing suit, yes.
Tries to recall Brosnan in a bathing suit in the Bond movies and The Thomas Crown Affair, and plans to keep replaying those scenes. — Amanda Dobbins
Chris Columbus: yes, after Home Alone, Home Alone 2 and this film's $441 million; he could make whatever he wanted, then tailed off. — Bill Simmons
Old-school San Francisco houses: yes, on a run with Pacific Heights, Full House and this movie. — Bill Simmons
Divorce comedies: yes, the main reference point in the 90s. — Bill Simmons
Was that really Buzz's girlfriend? The hosts say the photo was actually a man Chris Columbus dressed up to look like a woman because it would be too embarrassing for a real woman.
Did Frank's family ever leave Paris?
How did Marley know the burglars had Kevin in the flooded neighbor's house, and why didn't he intervene earlier?
Did Kevin have post-traumatic stress disorder for life? He is unaffected and even fakes out his mom at the end. — Sean Fennessey
His calm could be the start of a turn to Jigsaw, and the character resembles the kid in The Good Son.
