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Working Girl

Most Rewatchable Scene

Working Girl The Rewatchables

End elevators; bar meet-cute; opening; wedding.

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Approx. transcript time · 00:51:14Read transcript
  • The opening credits, ferry, Statue of Liberty, and New York skyline are proposed.
  • The Spacey limo encounter and Tess’s typed insult are proposed.
  • Tess’s early office exchange with Katharine is proposed.
  • The bar meet-cute is a final choice. — Joanna Robinson
  • The fight after the party is proposed.
  • The luau wedding, bathroom scene, cameos, and Trask dance are proposed.
  • Jack changing his shirt in the office is proposed.
  • The postcoital conversation is proposed.
  • Jack visiting Katharine while Tess hides is proposed.
  • The boardroom and elevator showdowns are proposed.
  • Tess meeting her new assistant is proposed.
  • Jack caring for an unconscious Tess is proposed for its physical comedy despite later objections.
  • The boss-secretary impersonation farce is proposed.
  • The elevator ending is a final choice.
  • The wedding is initially selected and then withdrawn for the elevator.
  • The bar is another final choice.
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Death Wish

Casting What-Ifs

Death Wish The Rewatchables

Jack Lemmon and Henry Fonda headline a large set of alternate casting possibilities.

In the discussion (3)
Approx. transcript time · 00:56:54Read transcript
  • A Sidney Lumet version pairing Jack Lemmon as Kersey and Henry Fonda as Ochoa is the favored alternate production.
  • Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Burt Lancaster, George C. Scott, Frank Sinatra, Lee Marvin, and Elvis Presley are reported as other possibilities.
  • Elvis Presley and George C. Scott prompt the strongest discussion among the additional lead possibilities.
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The Silence of the Lambs

Casting What-Ifs

The Silence of the Lambs The Rewatchables

The panel preserves a wide, sometimes uncertain list: Hackman and Connery for Lecter/Crawford, Pfeiffer and others for Clarice, Ed Harris for Crawford, and numerous alleged Lecter auditions.

In the discussion (7)
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  • Gene Hackman reportedly partnered to adapt the novel and considered directing and playing Lecter or Crawford before withdrawing.
  • Paul Verhoeven reportedly turned the film down and later expressed regret.
  • Jonathan Demme reportedly wanted Sean Connery for Lecter, but Connery declined.
  • Michelle Pfeiffer declined Clarice; the panel prefers Foster because Pfeiffer’s overt glamour would shift the character’s closed, professional center.
  • Meg Ryan reportedly rejected the material as too gruesome, and Molly Ringwald auditioned but was considered too young.
  • Ed Harris reportedly declined Jack Crawford because the role was not interesting enough.
  • Reported Lecter possibilities include Daniel Day-Lewis, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Derek Jacobi, and Forest Whitaker; the panel openly doubts some unsourced casting lists while noting Whitaker publicly discussed auditioning.
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The Silence of the Lambs

The Butch’s Girlfriend Award for the Weakest Link in the Film

The Silence of the Lambs The Rewatchables

Jack Crawford wins unanimously; one participant also criticizes the anagram-and-puzzle structure as comparatively clunky.

In the discussion (2)
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  • The anagram puzzle chain is criticized as either too prominent or insufficiently developed, though another participant enjoys the layered clues.
  • Jack Crawford is selected for sending an inexperienced trainee to Lecter, offering a transparent fake deal, missing the first-victim relationship, raiding the wrong house, and leaving Clarice poorly supported.
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Night Shift

Apex Mountain

Night Shift The Rewatchables

No clear individual apex

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  • Michael Keaton is rejected as at apex but his debut is treated as an extraordinary leap and his funniest film performance.
  • Henry Winkler, Shelley Long, Ron Howard, and Barney Rubble are rejected as apex cases.
  • Idea men and early-1980s entrepreneurial New York are considered plausible period apexes.
  • Sex-worker comedies are assigned Risky Business rather than Night Shift.
  • Morticians are assigned Six Feet Under; Jumpin’ Jack Flash is rejected.
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Scent of a Woman

What’s Aged the Best?

Scent of a Woman The Rewatchables

The score, class dynamics, supporting performances, Oscar debate, career-changing roles, New York locations, and the hero’s heightened senses lead the discussion.

In the discussion (11)
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  • Thomas Newman's score is praised as an active character in the movie.
  • The prep-school conflict between inherited power and the scholarship student remains a sharp depiction of class and old-boy protection.
  • The running joke in which the colonel calls Jack Daniel's 'John Daniels' is explicitly offered as something that aged well.
  • James Rebhorn is praised as an elite supporting actor at playing polished men with sleazy interiors.
  • The boarding-school setting belongs to a strong run that also includes Dead Poets Society and School Ties.
  • Pacino's advice that a young actor should never marry an actress is recalled as a colorful set anecdote.
  • The movie sits at an early point when public arguments over Oscar winners became part of mainstream movie culture.
  • The performance helped establish the cynical idea that an actor could win awards by playing a disability or other conspicuous obstacle.
  • The coveted Charlie role is used as an example of the career-changing parts that many young actors once competed to win.
  • The Waldorf and Oak Room footage preserves an appealing pre-reservation-app vision of New York access and luxury.
  • The colonel's heightened smell and hearing are treated as entertaining superhuman powers attached to a disability.
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The Town

The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie

The Town The Rewatchables

“There goes college soccer” wins over Jack Clark, townie Christmas, and several intimidation lines.

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  • The Jack Clark line is nominated.
  • “There goes college soccer” is selected.
  • “Oxy, guns—it’s like townie Christmas” is nominated.
  • The surveillance-photo barbecue line is nominated.
  • Doug’s critique of the guard who thinks he is special forces is nominated.
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The Longest Yard

1974 film

Bill Simmons · Chris Ryan · Van Lathan

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