‘The Hand That Rocks the Cradle’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Joanna Robinson
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The episode explores the enduring appeal of "From Hell" movies—films that center on the fear of strangers infiltrating private lives and damaging family bonds. *Hand That Rocks the Cradle* is presented as a standout example, with its sharp construction, subtle red flags, and deeply rooted anxieties about trust and safety. The film’s strengths include its efficient storytelling, the powerful performance of Rebecca De Mornay, and its ability to evoke shared, primal fears such as being betrayed by a trusted caregiver or partner. These fears are particularly resonant with women, who see reflections of their own insecurities about parenting, loyalty, and domestic security. The discussion also highlights how the genre, rooted in 1990s home cinema and VHS culture, remains relevant today as a mirror of modern anxieties—like social media scams or unexplained threats—now wrapped in familiar tropes. The film’s minimal backstory, reliance on visual cues, and strong character dynamics make it a compelling and efficient narrative. It’s praised not just for its suspense but for its emotional authenticity, with moments like the breastfeeding scene, asthma attack, and greenhouse collapse becoming iconic rewatchable scenes. The episode also touches on broader cultural trends, such as the shift from standalone films to serialized storytelling, and notes how early 1990s details—like smoking, microfiche, or lack of references—add authentic texture. Ultimately, the film stands as a masterclass in genre storytelling, blending psychological tension with everyday life rituals, proving that even in a world of digital connectivity, the fear of the unknown remains timeless.
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and that rocks the cradle
we have a nice home here
hey
we have a nice home here
somebody bad
is coming to our house
this is a foundation
this movie lays
of 35 years
and counting
of people just
recreating this movie
what is it
what is it about that theme
that we've invited
someone into our home
and they're
who has bad intentions
it's everyone's
primal fear right
yeah
you've created
your safety bubble
and something has come here
to stand in a nightgown
in the rain
and seduce your husband
you know
also
beyond even like
the inviting somebody
into their house
it's the
what if I'm not a good parent
what if I'm
an inadequate partner
to my spouse
what if
what if
what if
the stuff that
keeps people up at night
and from hell movies
dramatize that
what if I
what if I
get to bring something
to FedEx
what do you like
the most about
from hell movies
I think it's just that
everybody
it's like a shared
understanding
in the audience
these are all
these were great
theater movies
but even now
when you're watching it
like I was watching this
with my wife
like when you're watching it
you can feel
like how relatable
the tension is
because even if
nothing like this
has ever happened to you
you have feared it
you have
everybody has
these shared fears
often baked into
like
a middle class existence
of like
I think everything is okay
right
I think everything's
gonna be fine
and then it could just be
one thing
topples it all over
and my favorite
is like
Roommate from Hell
like Single White Female
and Pacific Heights
but having the nanny
from hell
is
gets it like
some really really
deep dark stuff
what about you
yeah I think
also this is just so huge
on cable and VHS
when we were younger
this played all the time
and I think that
I completely
like even when we were
too young to know
what it was like
to be an inadequate parent
or an inadequate partner
you're just sort of like
what if there's a stranger
who's come to your home
to rip your family apart
and all of their schemes
are very
good
and well executed
and what can you do
you know
someone's wearing
a button down
a white button down
and a smile
and they're here
to tear it all down
it's
right around here
was when
like they started
doing the TV movies
that would always have
people from like
90210
and Melrose Place
and Party of Five
Lifetime's kicking off
yeah yeah
Lifetime was kicking off too
but it was all
all of this happened
at the same time
and it was always like
you shouldn't have fallen
for this person
you're being stalked
by your boyfriend
or ex-boyfriend
or ex-husband
yeah
you have a nanny
that came in your house
but she has the wrong intentions
there's a neighbor next door
you gotta stay
and it just became
this cottage industry
and I gotta say
I love it
it's great
even when it's bad
it's good
but I think what's interesting
about this movie
is it's really well done
yeah
it has a really good director
it's acted well
Rebecca De Mornay
is amazing in this
but
I was thinking
this says
the three staples
or three of the staples
from a From Hell movie
the seemingly
smart character
who's actually
an idiot
and misses
20 glaring red flags
you have to have this
you have to have
the person
where you're watching along
and you're just like
how can you not see this
so in this one
it's the mom obviously
the red dress
gets ruined
the baby suddenly
won't breastfeed
the FedEx envelope
disappears
Solomon
the beloved
special needs
gardener guy
accused of pedophilia
yeah he's now
Jeffrey Epstein
daughter now hates him
Marlene the best friend
might be having an affair
with the husband
and then she dies
in the greenhouse
and then all of her inhalers
get emptied out
and she's like
huh
there's a lot of red flags here
and she finally figures it out
but we're like
an hour 30
into the movie
do you feel like
would it have worked better
for you if this plan
had taken longer
to roll out
if Peyton had been there
for a long time
like a TV series
yeah yeah yeah
she seemed like
she was on a schedule
I don't think she'd like
being in the basement
that much
yeah she was like
it's husband
or bust
she was like
this guy
she's like
I want that beard
kind of side-eyed me
when I was picking up
the ice cubes that time
so that's one
the second one
that they usually
put in there
is there's an
unexplained murder
usually around
the two-thirds mark
somebody dies
and in the Lifetime movies
you know right away
because it's always
like somebody's friend
or somebody's boss
or co-worker
and they just start
getting a little nosy
and you're like
oh boy
this person's
ended up in a whatever
so in this case
it was Marlene
and then
the third one
which is really unique
to this movie
and I think
one of the reasons
my wife loves it so much
is it has a bunch
of these moments
where you're just watching
going oh no
like
when
like Dr. Mott's
doing the
examination
and he puts the glove on
and then he takes it out
it's like oh no
yes
the breastfeeding scene
the first time
and she's like
oh no
Solomon catching her
breastfeeding
Solomon catching her
her being mean to Solomon
yeah
that's another one
the asthma attack
and then the surprise party
Claire
there's people in here
I think that's
that's part of the script
like when we were joking
on the text thread
about sort of
you know
fear of not fighting
your inhaler
fear of a greenhouse
shattering
like fear of you
having a horrible fight
with your husband
when everyone you know
is in the next room
there are all these things
where it's just sort of like
yeah I am afraid of that
I've never had asthma
but I am always worried
about where people's
inhalers are
and I have not
I told you
I've not been in a greenhouse
and I've never had
since I saw this movie
oh my god
I'm terrified
you have to think about it
if you ruin greenhouses
why are houses made of glass
why would you ever go in there
there's also like
this is a screenplay
by Amanda Silver
that was like
her thesis project
I think from film school
right
and
I think now
Joe and I both
we're both about to start
talking about Cape Fear
at some point
like coming out on Apple TV
another really good example
of a kind of
from hell movie
oh definitely
and
is
incredibly rewarding
because of how
tight
it is
and how much
is
left off screen
like you know
what we don't have to
sit through
this movie
partially works
because
we don't have to
spend an episode
getting into
Marlene and Claire's
friendship
it's like
it's gestured at
it's understood
yeah you know their buddies
I was actually like
incredibly grateful
this wasn't a TV show
because there
you know
a friend of mine
came to me asking
for a TV recommendation
the other day
and she started rattling off
what she's been watching
I was like
why are you watching
all of these mommy
murder shows
which are just such
a thing right now
but I don't need to watch
eight episodes
or ten episodes
of every bend of the plot
or every backstory
for every character
like I don't need
Peyton's entire backstory
to understand
why she's here
and I'm so grateful
that this is a movie
like this would be
I think
I mean they remade the movie
we can talk about the remake
if we want to
but like
the temptation to make this
into a limited series
must be
you know
unbearable
yeah
yeah Marlene
I don't need her backstory
she comes in three times
like
like a fucking hurricane
it's great every time
she's an absolute bitch
I love her
her lipstick is the wrong color
for her shade of hair
and she's perfect
she's got the third car phone
in Seattle
you know what's also awesome
about this movie
but these
this subgenre
that you're celebrating
this month
is
they're really
still the most
relevant
period pieces
that we have
where
so much of this movie
could be brushed aside
with like
a Google search
or whatever
yeah
but
the things
that people are nervous about
and the things
that people fear
and the anxiety
that people have
is still prevalent
it's just
translated through
different things
you know what I mean
like
it's
it's stuff like
my social media account
got hacked
or like
I think I got scammed
or my
my mother signed up
for some weird thing
and now she's a recurring
donor to something
that you don't understand
she's a donor
yeah exactly
but like
this stuff is like
just the anxieties
of modern life
are so persistent that it doesn't really matter.
that it's car phones and chain smoking
or if it's your iPhone and other stuff.
That being said,
like even before cell phones on the internet,
we did ask for references.
Sure, we did maybe check that letter.
We did occasionally ask for references, you know?
I was one of the other nannies at the playground.
Said you might be in somebody.
Debbie, you know Debbie?
I was with your daughter at the playground
is how she introduces herself.
Meanwhile, she doesn't have a nanny.
So it's like, wait, how are you with my daughter
at the playground?
Craig, you grew up with the From Hell movie.
Did I?
I don't know.
It's your generation.
This is early 90s though.
What's like the staple From Hell 2000s movie?
You know, it started petering out
because it drifted more into TV
because I felt like they really tried to do this
for 10 years culminating in domestic disturbance,
which is I think one of the great
unintentional comedy movies of the 2000s.
But that was when it started to kind of die
and then it really drifted into,
into the lifetime.
There was a lot of like black movies
that would have like the all black cast
that would basically do the same premises
and that, that's still going.
And I think a lot of it's just moved to true crime,
like true crime docs and stuff.
It's true crime and it's also like,
I think some of the feeling of it
can be found in Ozark.
But yeah, to Joe's point,
like they made Presumed Innocent
into a limited series
rather than remaking Presumed Innocent now.
Yeah, because it's,
you just get more episodes.
So now we would have the backstory episode with,
we would have the backstory episode with Dr. Mott.
Yeah.
Well, isn't that what all,
let's go backwards four years with Dr. Mott.
Like all her fault,
the Sarah Snook show that people like loved on Peacock.
Isn't that essentially like,
to a certain degree.
That show was horrible and I devoured it.
And they also,
but don't they also do like each character's
backstories played out?
But that's, that's the problem.
And again, like the, the 2025 remake,
I didn't watch it,
but I was reading sort of what they changed.
And it's just,
this compulsion to give you a reason
why people are from hell.
And I, sometimes I just don't want that.
Bitches can be crazy.
Yeah.
I like the fact that,
that Peyton seems mean
before everything else goes wrong anyway.
You know?
Yeah.
Like she, like.
I mean, this movie has so many subtle,
great moments that establish
that she's cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.
But when, when Solomon meets her
and gets the paint on her,
she's like, oh, I'm sorry.
And she fucking devil stares at her.
For a split second.
And it's like, oh no.
That was my first rewind.
I was just like, I gotta watch it again.
You know, her, like,
Rebecca DuMornay is so good in this movie.
Let's talk about her.
Cause I had written down.
It's her and Glenn Close
in Fatal Attraction in the finals
for best from hell performance.
Yeah.
She's out of control in this movie.
Sharon Stone's out.
She's doing so many different things.
Is Sharon, you consider that
a from hell basic instinct?
I don't know.
It's, it's a, it's a middle ground.
What about like.
To me, like the, it's.
What about Gone Girl?
Rosamund Pike.
Semifinals.
Jennifer Jason Leigh, single life female.
Yeah, maybe semifinals.
Maybe that's your final four.
What about the jailbait division
of like Alicia Silverstone.
Poison Ivy.
Drew Barrymore.
Yeah.
Poison Ivy's dark.
Yeah.
Poison Ivy, Drew Barrymore is 16.
Has a passion affair with Tom Skerritt
who's like 40.
Okay.
And like, they have like a sex scene.
I don't think that would be flying now.
What year is this?
This is early 90s.
Like 91 or something like that.
Yeah.
Zoe was home for a month
and she loves these movies
and we watched The Crush
because it was on Tubi.
And 20 minutes in, she's like,
Dad, how did they make this?
I know.
The Crush and The Babysitter.
Is this girl like 16?
I was like, I don't know.
Different times.
That's a, that's a cursed double feature.
Fear is another one from that era
where you're like, holy shit.
Well, yeah.
Fear is very much in like
the Lifetime movie.
Yeah.
Every boyfriend is bad.
That's another one that has
really good actors.
Like, William,
William Peterson's in that.
Wahlberg, Reese Witherspoon.
Alyssa Milano.
A roller coaster.
De Mornay, though.
So, we did Risky Business
a while ago.
Uh-huh.
And she's Lana,
the prostitute.
And is with Tom Cruise
and is lights out.
And every guy my age
is in love with her
from that point on.
I think that train,
that sex scene on that train
is one of the best sex scenes
in all of cinema, honestly.
Tangerine Dream?
Tangerine Dream.
I know CR's down with it.
Yeah, I am down.
More for the music,
though.
And it just never happened
for in the 80s.
Slugger's Wife, I remember,
was a big one
with Danny from Caddyshack.
It was a baseball movie, Craig.
He played a home run hitter
in the Atlanta Braves.
And she was the titular
Slugger's Wife?
It was horrible.
Well, that title's horrible.
It's like a really terrible,
terrible. He just. He looked like he was swinging
like a big salami.
It just wasn't. Like, it just didn't seem
like he had a bat.
It was like he was. Runaway Train?
Okay.
Eric Roberts?
John Lloyd?
Probably the best one she did.
She made this movie called
And God Created Woman
that was supposed to be. Is that like a Blake Edwards movie?
It was Roger Vadim,
whatever his name was.
Yeah, yeah.
And then she made this movie,
Feds,
and it just never happened.
I remember Feds.
She apparently was trying
to get Tinkerbell and Hook,
lost it to Julia Roberts,
and was like,
fuck it, I'm going darker.
And did this.
She was in a much better
Tinkerbell.
Well, and then she had
a couple 90s movies,
but it's just like,
even when she was
when she did Prestige for HBO,
it was John and Cincinnati.
Mm-hmm.
Like, she just had bad luck
with parts and movies,
and I always thought
there was more there, Joe.
I thought she was
a really good actress.
I thought she was smoking hot,
and I thought she could be evil
or nice depending on the situation.
Her trilogy for me is
Risky Business,
Hand the Rock's Cradle,
and then The Three Musketeers,
the 90s Three Musketeers.
Oh, yeah.
That was another good one.
She's fantastic in that movie.
Yeah.
She's just always incredible,
and yeah,
just didn't pick
the right projects, I think.
Yeah.
There's probably
half a dozen 80s
and early 90s movies
that you could go through
and be like,
oh, I wonder if she could've,
like, could she have just done
Kelly McGillis in Top Gun,
or could she have done
any number of movies?
That's what she's missing.
She's missing the one big-ass,
like,
Yeah.
$100 million
where she's just
the love interest.
Yeah.
Banging it out.
I always thought, like,
I wrote that in my notes,
elevated Heather Locklear.
I like that.
Like, Heather Locklear
goes on Melrose Place
and is always
awesome, right?
She's like the bitch,
but it's like a campy,
not great show.
She was a much better actress
than that,
but she could,
there was a campiness to her
in a good way
that I just felt like
they never figured out.
Yeah, like,
what's another one
that she could've done
that, like,
Well, could she have been
Basic Instinct?
Could she have been
Sharon Stone?
I feel like she could've.
Yeah, but even to not do
another sex pot role,
like, what if she did
the Meryl Streep part
in The River Wild?
Right, of course,
Hanson has loyalty to her.
Yeah, sure.
She's in our favorite
backdraft.
She's great in backdrafts.
She's really good in it.
But it was always weird
to see her just as, like,
somebody's girlfriend
in a movie.
It always felt like
there was more of a danger.
Like, what, are you gonna
kill this guy?
Yeah.
But it might be
the Risky Business thing.
It might have been
because that was
the first time we knew her.
Right.
Can I ask you,
is there a more interesting
biographical detail
than left Harry Dean Stanton
for Tom Cruise?
No.
And then Harry Dean Stanton
showing up on set
to be like,
where's Tom Cruise?
Yeah, like they must have
had, like, a love triangle fight.
Yeah.
It's a great one.
Harry Dean Stanton,
Rebecca De Mornay,
and Tom Cruise.
Incredible.
Yeah, I don't,
she's two movies short,
but she made,
she worked the whole time.
It just never really happened.
But she's doing a lot
in this movie.
Like, that scene
when she goes to visit
the husband about,
hey, I want to plan
a surprise party.
And they're just,
their blue eyes
are just battling
for two minutes.
And then she sachets away
with the stroller.
Mm-hmm.
And it's just like,
this is just good stuff, man.
She's owning the room.
She is this movie.
Like, I think this movie
is well-written
and obviously, you know,
an incredible director,
well-shot.
But De Mornay's, like,
her ability to change
her facial expression
on a dime
and look absolutely terrifying
and then honey-sweet
the next second,
that's this movie.
Yeah, my wife said,
my wife thinks she's great
in this movie.
She's like,
she's really good at
being an actress,
playing a bad person
who has to pretend
to be an actress.
Yes.
Pretend to be a good person.
The second-layer actress
where she's like,
oh, no.
Yeah.
The baby almost ate the earring
but you know she's full of shit
when she's not.
Claire, we were so worried
about you.
We're so glad you're home.
Her eyeballing the red dress
when she's trying on
the black dress.
You told me you could
borrow this.
There's like a million.
Yeah.
So why does this movie
resonate with women
the way it does?
Why do women love this movie?
I was watching it
and asking myself that question
and I think part of it
has to do with, like,
how inconsequential
the husband is.
Yeah.
Like, he's barely in this movie
and it really is just about,
like, these two women
and Julianne Moore
and that's, like,
those are the,
like, primary drivers
of the story
and so then it just becomes,
like, very much
about women's fears
of other women
and all,
and I, like,
this idea of, like,
the from hell
or bitches be crazy
genre or whatever
the case may be,
there are plenty of reasons
for women to not like it
and this is a movie
that really gets
to the core of something
that's true about women
somehow.
Maybe because it has
a female screenwriter.
I don't know.
Well, it also starts with,
like, the moment
when she sees her
on the bus.
She's like,
are you the Martells?
And they're walking up
and I'm watching with my wife
and my wife's like,
I would have been out.
Too hot.
You're not living in my house.
You're just not.
Sorry, honey.
I mean, that's what
Julianne Moore says.
She says it right away.
Why'd you bring this person
into your house?
We often talked about
the, you know,
the latchkey kid phenomenon
and when we watch movies
from the 80s
being like,
nobody was watching us.
We were just, you know,
from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
It was up to us
to stay alive.
This is like the adult version of that though
Like, yeah, you know what?
I just saw you almost get hit by a school bus.
Why don't you come on over?
This is fine.
You can stay for dinner.
I'm sure your letter of recommendation
is totally watertight.
It's such bullshit.
Hey, you're going to walk around
your nightgown at night?
Yeah.
Dropping ice cubes in the kitchen?
That sounds awesome.
Annabelle Shura.
Yeah.
I think she's great in this movie.
The character's dumb as shit,
but I think she's great in it.
It's so funny that it all comes full circle
in The Sopranos.
When she plays, basically,
the from hell part as Tony's mistress.
You're talking to two people
who have famously not watched The Sopranos?
Not in order.
What?
Not in order?
Like, I've seen, like, runs of episodes.
Did I just. No, I've said this before, yeah.
I'll tell you guys what happens.
Tell us.
It's a little later in the run.
The grimoire from hell, right?
She's a car salesman.
Uh-huh.
Like a high-end car salesman
that Tony becomes infatuated with.
And it becomes a pretty deranged affair.
And she's basically flips parts.
Yeah.
Which makes me wonder, like,
could you have flipped parts
with these two in this movie?
Would have been interesting.
I don't think it's as good.
Yeah, she auditioned.
Yeah.
She auditioned for the other part.
Yeah.
But I think she could have done it.
I just don't think. I think De Mornay is so good as. Oh, no.
But, like, her coming off of Jungle Fever
and being like,
I'm going to do another. Yeah.
Yeah, so she does. She's in Internal Affairs,
which we've done.
Reversal of Fortune.
Jungle Fever.
Hand in the Rock's Cradle.
And then she's in a movie called
The Night We Never Met
that I might be the only one
who's ever seen that movie.
I've seen that movie.
It's in Matthew Broderick.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh.
They're all time-sharing an apartment.
It's great.
That's right.
I've seen that.
It's a good movie.
It's a great movie.
It's gone.
I don't know if it exists.
It's not a real movie,
but it's a great movie.
And she kind of falls. She falls for Matthew Broderick.
They fall for each other
without having met each other.
Never met.
Just sort of, like,
by their presence in the apartment.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's really an interesting movie.
It's just, I haven't seen it since.
And then she was in Copland.
Yeah, she's great in Copland.
And then had The Sopranos run.
And it was always a question of. And Romeo's Bleeding.
Yeah.
Well, it's sad,
but it was always a question of,
man, she was great.
Why wasn't she more stuff?
And it turned out
she was one of the biggest
Harvey Weinstein victims
of all of them.
Like, he actually, like,
sabotaged her career.
But I always thought
she was really good.
I always liked her and everything.
She's. It's really interesting
to think about them
doing the opposite role
because. In a traditional, maybe, way,
you would be like,
De Mornay is better known
than Annabelle Shior,
so she plays the hero
in this out.
But you would always be like,
how could you not tell
that this one
is trying to take down
Rebecca De Mornay?
Like, it throws you off
to be, like, weirdly, like. I know. I have more of an investment
in Rebecca De Mornay
as a performer
than I do in Annabelle Shior.
So I'm, like,
kind of almost expecting
this to work out for her.
Also, I do think
that there is some
blonde brunette,
like, Ginger Mary,
and kind of thing
going on here.
Yeah.
Like, where you're
inverting that somewhat.
I can see it.
Yeah.
But, and also this,
like, the very, like,
the preppy,
prep from hell
sort of vibe
that she's giving here.
Rebecca De Mornay,
the, like, button-down
pencil skirt,
flat shoes,
blonde hair,
bangs,
like, all of that.
Annabelle Shior,
it would be
a different energy altogether.
She can't quite do that.
Yeah.
Yeah, one of my
wife's biggest issues
with the movie
is that the nanny
is, like,
too,
she said she's, like,
too lived.
Like, her clothes are nice.
She's put together.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
And it's like,
what's the backstory
with this lady?
Right, again, if she-
Your husband died
and your son died
days apart
and you have some story
about how they never
caught the guy,
but she's like,
I just would've had
20 more questions.
Well, yeah.
Like, what happened?
You would've checked
a single reference.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You didn't have
an appointment.
Yeah.
You're walking off the street
because you heard about
this job at the park.
You're, like, mid-30s?
You have a letter
of reference.
Right.
But, like, yeah,
there's nothing else.
Like, what about,
does she give her
her social security number
to pay her
or is it cash
under the table?
Yeah, how are they
paying her?
Yeah.
Seattle in the 90s.
Picking nets
is gonna be incredible.
We're not ripping
through all the nitpicks
because I have 20 more.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then we have
our guy Ernie Hudson.
Big, big 2026
for Ernie
on the rewatchables.
He's this character
and he's in Ghostbusters
and he's in Oz
all in a 12-year span.
I think Ernie Hudson
is awesome in this movie.
Now, if this came out now,
the what's age the worst
with Ernie Hudson
is they would just not have
a non-special needs actor
playing a special needs person.
With that said,
I think he's doing a lot
in this movie
and it's, like,
Solomon is really important
as, like, the proxy
of the audience
to, come on,
you're the,
he's the only one who knows.
His, quote-unquote,
innocent eyes
see the true evil
in the house.
Yeah.
The shot of his bike
by the trash can
when, like,
in the final sequence,
and you're, like,
oh, Solomon's on the property
somewhere.
He'll save the day.
This is,
this is,
I love this movie.
This character is
impossible.
It's, like, ridiculous.
Also, like,
you don't like the savior,
the savior gardener
who's already been sent packing
but is somehow
monitoring the house anyway?
Sent packing for having
a child's underwear
in his toolbox,
but they're, like,
but he's working again.
He can still have, like,
outdoor privileges.
Yeah.
They tell the little kid,
hey, so Solomon's
got another job.
It's, like, he did?
They didn't put her,
the child in therapy?
Like, what are we doing?
Like, what's happening?
A lot of unanswered questions.
Directed by Curtis Hanson,
who's in a run of
Bad Influence,
Hand that Rocks the Cradle,
Riverwild,
L.A. Confidential,
and, uh,
and Wonder Boys.
I love Wonder Boys.
He, so he says that
L.A. Confidential
wouldn't have happened
without this movie.
The success of this movie.
Yeah, this movie's
such a huge success,
and Riverwild is such
a huge success,
and then he got a blank check
to make L.A. Confidential
one of our greatest movies.
Would you have,
would you have bought that?
The same director
from L.A. Confidential
did this movie?
Yeah, I feel like
directors used to just
really bounce around
more than they do now
in terms of genre.
Now it's like, oh,
Denis Villeneuve,
like, I know what
that's gonna look like.
Yeah, he's like,
80s and 90s,
it feels like they were
just picking stories
they liked,
and it could be anything.
The best safe pair of hands
in Hollywood for a while,
where it was just like,
he can make pretty much
any genre movie you want.
There's not really
an intrusive sense of style,
but you're never like,
this is a dumb shot,
or this is a weirdly
paced moment.
It's all,
it's all very well done.
It's very competent.
Yeah.
It's funny,
this was on the
cutting room floor
of From Hell Month.
I'm a big fan.
It's not too late.
What?
Not too late?
You like that movie?
To bring it back.
Tubi classic.
Yeah.
Tubi's just cranking
bad influences,
just flashes it.
Yeah, Spader.
Yeah, I do like that movie.
Rob Lowe is
the bad boy.
That's right.
He becomes friends
with Spader,
and Spader's name
is like Michael,
and he starts calling him Mick.
It's like,
they go out for the night.
Come on.
Come on, Mick.
We're going out.
And just like,
absolutely torments him.
It's a good one.
He loves
Yuppies from Hell.
He loves,
and then,
I can see the connective tissue
between River Wild
and this movie.
For sure.
Absolutely.
Like, definitely.
That's the river from hell.
Yeah.
So where do we stand
on River Wild?
Because that was another.
It's dope.
I love that movie.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's like a,
I don't know,
hiking guide from hell.
What do we call that one?
It's also not a bad remake.
The Netflix version of it.
Oh, I haven't seen
the Netflix version.
Adam Brody plays the
kind of Kevin Bacon part.
Oh, fun.
I love,
I love when Brody goes bad.
This film's title
is taken from the 1865 poem
by William Ross Wallace.
I know you have
his collected works.
They really lay that on
kind of thick.
Yeah.
They lay it on that.
They're like,
what's that phrase?
What's that crazy poem
I'm thinking of?
What is that?
We always quote that poem.
That and the Pirates of Penzance
just cranking.
Oh, and Pinafore.
Yeah.
This is a real
Gilbert and Sullivan joint here.
That's all they listen to
in this house.
$11.9 million budget
made $140 million
in 1992.
So this is the same year
as Single Wife Female.
This is the year
From Hell really blossoms
because we have
Basic Instinct,
which is not,
I don't consider that
a From Hell movie,
but that's 92.
This movie
and then Single Wife Female
and then Hollywood's like,
all right,
let's keep banking this.
And then concurrently.
Women are crazy.
Well, concurrently,
Skinamax is like,
let's.
Whatever you guys don't make,
we'll make.
Shannon Tweed, yeah.
Are there any rejected scripts
for you guys?
Let's rip those
out.
Roger Ebert, three stars.
Yeah.
The film worked.
Glowing praise from Raj.
Touches on a fear
and that's why it appeals
to us, says Raj.
He praised
Rebecca Desmornay.
Desmornay or Desmornay?
Desmornay.
Why did I say Desmornay?
Desmornay.
Desmornay.
A very good job,
a very sound job
of being the villainous
in this film
and I think it's
an effective performance.
Villainous,
not a word we use enough.
Let's bring it back.
It's a good one.
Still time.
Do you think that
Desmornay would be
a good left wing option
for Mbop?
Mbop?
Mbop?
Mbop?
I don't know why
you were like,
there's not 13 M's here.
I just struggled.
You just spun out on it.
Sarah, it's hard to host.
I know, man.
Look, it's like
everybody's cocky
until it's time
for the World Cup
and it's like,
shit, this guy's name.
Mbop?
Yeah.
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Most rewatchable scene. Look, this isn't 100% rewatchable, but it's really good. Dr.
Dr. Mock gets creepy. Wow. Jesus Christ. Wow. I just, we have to talk about it. I wouldn't put
this as a finalist. I thought we were skipping the first 20 minutes, honestly. Yeah. No, this scene
is like, we are off. The gloves are off. Yeah. Everything about this guy. When he sends me
the nurse out, why don't you give him the news? I got this. Yeah. And the way she's
playing the scene too, where she's like, huh. And then you realize she's slowly realizing
this guy's a psycho. This is so realistic to be, you know, you have to like, you have
to go get breast exams. You have to go get gynecological exams. And it's just sort of
like, is this how this is usually done? Is there something going on here? And it's often
like right on, right on the border there when, in these cases. This is one of the many reasons
why.
I think, I know my wife loves this movie, but it's a lot of like everyday things that
happen where it's like your worst nightmare of this moment.
And you were right. It was wrong. Yeah. That nanny was trying to fuck your husband.
Right. Yeah. You know? That's right. You're not paranoid of something he's really trying
to get you. Yeah. Dr. Mott's perfectly creepy. I wanted to nominate him for Dion Waiters,
but I don't want him to win. Well, cause he, there's, there is a, should we rename this
for this person? Dion Waiters performance in this movie, but like he's, he's up there.
When he starts to-
When he starts massaging her, her stomach.
Yeah.
And he's just like, like almost like he's playing the piano and she's like-
Yeah.
It's really terrifying.
The closest thing I've ever come to this is when I got a colonoscopy and right before
I passed out, the guy was like, love the pod, by the way.
Oh no!
And then your, your sphincter was like-
No, cause I think the, whatever they give you, the propo, propo ball or whatever.
Yeah.
I was just like, absolutely natural!
That didn't really happen.
Yeah.
Love the pod.
Love the pod, by the way.
Save that for, what if you'd done it after?
Would that have been-
That would have been fine, but I would have felt a little tender afterwards.
Yeah.
This, I was like, I'm high.
You can tell me whatever.
I would just say, don't, keep it to yourself.
Or say after.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Wow.
Love the pod.
Next rewatch, well, Peyton meets Claire and Solomon.
Yeah.
A scene just loaded with nitpicks.
Just walking up.
Looking for the house.
Where'd you park?
What nanny at the park?
Who is it?
You stepped in front of a school bus?
Yeah.
What?
So, wait.
You, you lost your job, but you're not gonna, but you weren't.
I, I just, and Claire's just in.
Say, yeah, come on in.
Oh, I'll leave you alone with our, with my baby as I talk to Solomon.
Yeah, me and my baby.
Michael's like, she's great.
Let's snatch her up.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He's a little horny.
No second interview.
Let's go.
Yeah, let's go.
She's like, you know-
You know, nannies talk.
Good.
No reference.
Toss it, toss it aside.
I lost my husband and baby within a few days.
No follow-up questions for me.
Sounds right.
Tough break.
Yeah.
Um, so she hires a hot nanny with no references, um, within six months.
That nanny's in the baby room.
You guys have seen the, obviously, as Sidney Sweeney devotees, The Housemaid.
Oh, yeah.
I have not seen The Housemaid.
I watched it this morning because I was like, is this like a, I, I didn't know.
I didn't know exactly the plot of The Housemaid.
And I was like, is it, is it?
Very different than this.
No, it is.
But the opening is almost exactly the same.
The Housemaid is terrible.
Like, terrible.
And it made like 300 million dollars.
It made so much money.
But proving it again, people love this genre.
Yeah.
It's just, it's the perfect date movie.
It's the perfect-
No, I mean, there are reasons inside of the plot of that movie that there's like, we're
not bothering with references and here's your weird little Garrett room and all, like, it's
all the same.
I think she's the next convict.
Yeah.
And she looks like Sidney Sweeney.
Next rewatchable.
This won't win, but it has to be mentioned.
The 3 a.m. breastfeeding sets the alarm.
Oh, that's nice.
First night.
She's going to get up with the baby.
Oh.
Oh, no.
Gas from the audience.
Oh, no.
The double date with Julia Moore.
The cravings?
Can't wait to talk to her later.
Incredible.
Never let an attractive woman in a power position in your home.
That's a life lesson.
Yeah.
Remember that one, Craig.
We get multiple smoking.
Yeah.
And also Michael being like, can I have a cigarette?
Which is a real.
Let me have one of those.
Yeah.
What about the no, no hands smoking while driving?
Oh, it's iconic.
Yeah.
Just like the cigarette dangling.
The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.
Yeah.
Bonus points.
Said the title.
My favorite.
That's the name of the show.
When I'm dead, that'll be the world.
The Bill Simmons Award for saying.
The title in the script.
When that happens, does it make more sense to you that Amanda Silver went from writing
this later to being behind all the Apes movies and also the Avatar sequels?
Yeah.
Is that true?
Yeah.
She does very well for herself.
Yeah.
She's made a ton of money on Apes movies and the Avatar sequels.
Honestly, I'm not surprised because this movie is super smart.
It's very well constructed.
Yeah.
So it makes sense that she figured out Apes.
The lady at the park telling Peyton.
She has her baby's eyes.
And our girl, Becky.
Becky DeMornay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Does the.
Really?
She's like, oh, man.
Here we go.
Is this also when Peyton checks Roth, the little kid?
Right in there.
I'm limping those two together.
Peyton fucking with the little kid.
Peyton at the park is a good scene.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I like when she has a good angry walk across the park where it's like, oh, no.
And then she pulls the kid.
It's like definitely, you know.
She like twists his arm behind his back.
It's real child abuse going on.
But it feels like benevolent child abuse.
But also, did that kid have it coming?
His arm's going to be fine.
And he had it coming.
And all of his friends are like, that was so cool.
Maybe she scared him straight.
Maybe he's going to be great now.
Yeah.
The FedEx envelope disappears.
Don't wait till the last day, Michael.
If you're an asthmatic, do you live in Seattle?
There's a lot of hills.
I just have questions about that.
A lot of rain?
Is rain bad for asthma?
Yeah.
It brings up shit.
Does it?
Yeah.
Doesn't it?
I don't think so.
I think rain usually gets rid.
It clears out the air.
I think that's what people think.
But it's the opposite.
Doesn't rain kick up stuff?
You should have done that in an RFK voice.
Actually, the rain is the worst.
Actually, the rain.
I've got root asthma vaccines.
I think the first rain kicks up stuff.
Yeah, that's what I thought.
I guess if it rains every day, nothing gets kicked up.
Yeah, it's constantly clean in Seattle.
Yeah.
Bring the FedEx envelope to FedEx yourself.
Don't give that one to the wife.
Such a dickhead move.
It's a once every three months thing.
You really are going to entrust that to somebody else?
Drive it yourself.
I mean, I do think you can give your wife an important document to mail.
It would be like I wouldn't have given my wife…
But also, I would have a copy of it.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Hey, Carrie, will you take this rewatchables rundown?
I have no other copies.
Here.
Chris needs it.
Yeah.
I thought that was ridiculous.
Wait, so that's in rewatchable?
We're just into ridiculous?
I'm just going through all the scenes.
I like when she steals the envelope and dumb Claire doesn't realize it and has an asthma attack.
I like when she goes nuts in the bathroom stall.
Oh, just ripping it up.
Yeah.
And then she starts banging shit with the plunger.
Oh, the plunger.
Yeah.
I'm like, that's evidence.
Why would you leave all that evidence behind in a bathroom stall?
I feel like people could have totally heard that.
Yeah.
Claire's outside the door.
She's like, yeah, the bathroom's right there.
And she's like, good, because I have to destroy it.
She has two good freakout scenes.
The second one near the end when she's trying to break open the door.
And DeMorne is just like. Oh, yeah.
Her shining audition.
Yeah.
She's really going nuts.
The poker.
She's great with a shovel.
She learned all that in The Slugger's Wife.
Yeah, yeah.
This is in the running for most rewatchable Good Slugger's Wife reference.
Peyton, be mean to Solomon.
That's mine.
Are you a retard?
Are you a retard?
He's like, no.
And then the slap.
Did you like looking at me?
That scene is insane.
My version of the story will be better.
1992.
It's really great.
I love Solomon.
It's really hurtful when she's that mean to him.
It's so fucked up.
Yeah.
It really ties in.
Just that line as an opener.
And you're just like, what movie am I watching?
Yeah.
She's also like, that's more evidence of like, you were fucked up before.
Yeah.
You were sexually abusive.
Husband died.
You know, like.
Right.
From this moment on, the movie is off the rails.
Yeah.
I feel like I could tell by the amount of pipe railing that they had at their house
that she was mentally unwell before this all started.
The smoking date to plan the party.
I put this in just for CR.
Julianne Moore and Matt McCoy.
It's on.
Yeah.
It is on between Marlene and Michael.
Yeah, I think there might have been a…
She might have blown him in the car before he went home.
I will say, I have never done that with another woman.
Yeah.
Like, chain smoking at a bar late at night to plan my wife's birthday.
Especially when your wife knows you only smoke with her.
Yes.
And then he doesn't even, like, swish with some scope or something like that.
He gives her a double kiss.
Yeah, double kiss when he's got a cigarette mouth.
I've come home and I'm super excited.
Like, I'm all fired up from the bar.
From the blowjob in the car?
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, he's also has a beard.
Like, you gotta, like, if you're hiding the smoking evidence after,
you gotta go to the bathroom before you leave the bar.
Yeah, you gotta do the soap.
You gotta do the silkwood shower.
Yeah, I need…
You gotta put stuff…
You have to.
You can't live there.
Thank you so much.
I make that reference all the time and people look at me blankly.
He comes in, he's chewing gum, like, what's going on?
Like, but no, he just comes right in, double kiss.
My wife likes to remind me of how, like, my whole thing would be, like,
I'm gonna have this one cigarette before I go into, like, Easter dinner
or anything important.
It's just like, so that I don't have to go out afterwards
or, like, in the middle of dinner.
And she's like, then you would, like, triple inhale, like, an entire Camel Light
and come in and just smell, like, Mickey Rourke.
And everybody would be like, Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ.
This guy just rolled out of…
And you're like, the party's here.
Well, Claire's somehow not threatened at all by Marlene or the nanny.
Because Marlene's a girl's girl, honestly.
Claire really only cares about plant life.
I don't know, but she's…
She clearly has issues with that Marlene was the husband's first love, right?
Only because De Mornay's, like, stirring it up.
No, but even before that, I…
Come on.
That's a whiff weird.
They're…
They're…
They're…
They're…
They're…
They seem like they used to be tight, and now it's once every, like, two months
they see each other.
Definitely they have…
Life gets in the way.
Life does get in the way.
I do find that, like, the way that Julianne Moore comes in hot and she's like,
this chick?
Are you kidding me?
Get her out of here?
Yeah.
You know?
And then in terms of, like, investigative journalism, Julianne Moore's on the case.
So I kind of feel like she's…
She's kind of a girl's girl.
She's, like, basically, like, the slightly nicer version of Peyton.
So she's, like, game recognizes game.
I know a crazy one when I see her.
I love her.
I love her.
To jump…
To jump on those two points, Marlene's basically probably broke up with the husband, right?
Oh, for sure.
So it's, like, they're buddies, but deep down she knows, like, that could have been
my husband.
Yeah.
Yeah, I just didn't want it.
I'm in the power suit.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I didn't want a scientist.
Claire yell…
Oh, smoking date to plan the party into Peyton hitting on Michael at the…
Yeah.
Claire yells at Michael with the surprise party happening in the next room.
Unbelievable.
Really tough.
Unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
Everybody's here.
Everybody's here.
Thing turns into curb for a second.
Yeah.
Greenhouse murder.
I love the apple eating.
Yeah.
A green apple.
Tomorrow's just, like…
That's how I eat a green apple.
Is it?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I love green apples, and that's how I eat them because…
Really?
That's how my grandpa ate them, and that's how he taught me.
You, like, whittle it like a piece of…
Yeah, you carve it.
Yeah.
Wow.
Do you empty inhalers with the same orgasmic look on your face?
Absolutely.
I stopped to look at myself in the mirror, and I'd go,
yeah, I'm doing it about to murder someone.
Emptying nine asthma inhalers.
Yeah.
Claire punches Peyton.
Great.
Pretty good right hook.
Right into the dining room table.
Dr. Mott's wife.
And then the big fight scene.
It's my family.
A lot of good attic fight scenes over the years.
Sure.
I don't know what your favorite one is, CR.
You know, it's hard.
Anytime we go in the attic, shit's going down.
That's a niche genre.
Yeah.
Attic fight scene pyramid.
Let's do it.
There's been some good ones.
Sometimes somebody will just fall through the attic.
They never really fight in the attic of Home Alone, do they?
I'm trying to think.
Is there a fight in the attic in Money Pit?
Oh, yeah.
What's your most rewatchable scene?
I think I'm going with Marlene's death.
It's really, like, the way that she designs the greenhouse to collapse
so that when the door opens, and it's just awful.
Like, getting showered with plate glass would be really,
really bad way to go.
You think that would kill you?
It depends.
Like, I was looking for a shard in, like, the jugular
or something like that.
Do you know what I mean?
I had this later in picking this.
I don't think you'd die from that.
I think if she hunches down, like, if you give the ceiling your back,
you can survive.
But if, like, your neck's here and a shard hits you in the neck?
I don't know.
Like, you remember in Nice Guys where he punches the glass
and, like, his wrist is just exploding with blood?
Like, imagine that times 40.
I just don't know if the ceiling, the roof is high enough
to create that much velocity to impale you like that.
Oh.
I had it.
That is my number one pick in it.
I don't think you'd die.
Well, it doesn't really matter because it's not like
Peyton was going to let her live.
Yeah.
I think if she was just dazed, she would have taken a shard
and just, like, stabbed it in her neck anyway.
But I think what Joe said is the right point.
It should have been one of the shards, like, just like this.
One of the shards right in the neck or, like…
She should have had a piece of glass sticking out of her neck.
Yeah.
Otherwise, you're just getting showered with blood.
I said it's just like a genteel trickle of blood, like, out of her nose.
Yeah.
You can duck and cover.
It could cut your, like, what's that?
Leg artery that just, like…
Femoral.
Femoral.
That could have been the other one.
That's not my favorite scene.
Mine is when she's mean to Solomon.
Yeah.
That scene's amazing.
I just can't believe…
There's just no way in 2026 they would have a scene like that.
And I think it's so effective and so good.
The Solomon character does not exist in 2026.
Did you, like, look at me?
Yeah.
And he's so, like, terrified.
And she just slaps him.
It's so good.
What's the most 1992 thing about this movie, Joanna?
That a scientist could live in that house.
So, this is 808 North Yakima Street in Seattle.
It's an actual place.
And I looked it up on Zillow.
Right now, it's $1.8 million.
And this guy's a scientist who does work with the EPA.
Like, he's not living in that house.
Yeah.
And he's still got a FedEx's own applications for stuff.
So, he's not on retainer anywhere.
I'd probably say…
In real life, they're living in an apartment and Claire is still working at the coffee house down…
Right.
Claire doesn't have a job.
They're hiring live-in work, you know.
And, like, I don't know what they're paying Solomon or if that's just, like, through the organization.
I think that was, like, a charity thing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But I'm just, like…
And they're hoping for more kids along the way.
I'm just, like, this is unreasonable on a science tip.
If he was in tech, maybe.
Yeah.
And it's…
Claire's big project being, like, I'm going to do some gardening is not really, like, the number one, like,
well, I'm getting pulled away from my two kids here, you know.
So, we got to get some childcare.
Yeah, we got to get a living home.
Like, I think you could garden and keep an eye on the kids personally, but, you know.
What do you have for your 92?
Chain smoking at work.
Yeah.
A little late for chain smoking at work, I think.
But it is Marlene puffing away while she's, like, what do you want to tip?
She's so great.
I have six, seven things.
Julianne Moore not playing the lead female role.
Yeah.
That could only have happened before, like, 1995.
Matt McCoy's hair-beard combo.
Elite.
Just specific to the early 90s.
Yeah.
Also, same in the 90s.
The other one is the sleeping with the enemy guy that she falls for.
Not that, not.
Laura!
Not that guy, but the other guy.
The theater teacher.
Yeah, theater teacher.
Yeah.
It was this weird two-year stretch where longer hair, little mullet, and then, like, a big bushy beard.
And kind of, like, a vague, like, I'm in the sciences.
Yeah.
Very Dr. Queen of Medicine woman.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Suitcases without wheels.
She shows up carrying the suitcase.
No references or no Googling of a nanny.
I just think in 2026.
No way.
There's a Sony baby call at one point.
I don't think they make those anymore, but I do think that was her own nanny.
Sony's moved on to bigger and better things.
There's a lack of crest white strips in this movie that's really apparent.
I'm just going to go there.
It's kind of mean.
Julianne Moore, especially.
Yeah, Julianne Moore.
Everybody in the movie.
She got her teeth bleached after this movie, for sure.
This was an early 90s thing.
Just in time for Jurassic Park 3 or whatever she was in, yeah.
And then going to the library.
The lost world.
Put some respect.
Going to the library to research news events.
Yeah, microfiche.
Microfiche is on my list, too.
This was. I love microfiche.
I remember senior in college and then grad school, going to the library a lot for shit
like that.
And two years later, you just didn't have to anymore.
It was over.
There's also something to be said for how nice the FedEx looks that they go to.
Yeah.
It's like a pretty nice looking storefront kind of counter that they've got there.
But yeah, this has got some great. Microfiche and Enhance, Enhance, Enhance on the microfiche.
Very good.
That was. Like, if you look through those long enough, you just started to go cross-eyed.
I love a microfiche moment in a movie.
Like, in Pelican Brief, I think they're in a microfiche.
Like, that's always a great move.
It's a big movie, that is.
Yeah.
92 Sonics, we want it.
Not. That wasn't mentioned.
Okay.
When you see 1992 movies, does it look like a better or worse time to live?
Better.
Which I think is kind of like all the rage now is to say that, but I do think that there's
like a. That's where the backroom started.
That's right.
The 89 earthquake.
I think the feeling of the, like, just right before the tech boom in the 90s felt really
nice.
Simple times.
Yeah.
The Floyd Gondoli, butter on my ass and lollipops on my mouth award for something I just enjoy.
I can't speak.
What do you have?
Julianne Moore being an unapologetic bitch in this movie.
I just really loved it.
She's in character the entire movie and not wavering one second.
Julianne Moore could have stolen my husband with one arm tied behind her back, but doesn't.
Yeah.
What do you have?
That's it.
Like, Julianne Moore.
I have one.
It's really for CR.
People hiding their smoking habits in a movie.
It's just so relatable.
I just fucking love it.
When she pulls the cigarettes out at dinner
and he's had two drinks
and he's like,
can I have one of those?
She's like, oh yeah.
But when she's like,
he only smokes around you.
I'm like, that's a fucking problem.
That's tough.
That's tough.
That's why you're the fucking best.
You bring it out of him.
You know that they had
such a long fight about that going home.
So when she smokes, it's okay.
And then watching after,
we talked about that scene
when he kisses her
and it's clear she's been smoking.
Just all the machinations you have to do
if you had smoked
but you don't want her to find out
and you're just watching it going,
dude, just do this, this, and this.
This is where we have to give Peyton credit.
She's a great improviser
and she knows exactly,
she lifted the lighter,
of all things, the lighter
to put in his coat pocket.
Well, this leads us to a bonus smoking category.
The Sean Penn, I brought my own pack award.
Excellence in. On-screen smoking
combined with the Edie Falco and Copland award
for the character that got three times hotter
by smoking.
Julianne Moore, come on down.
You did great.
Really felt like she was probably
banging out two packs a day
in this stage of her life.
She got called up to the majors on this one.
There's like a lot of ash
on the one that she's smoking in the car.
Also, again, her incorrect. The no hands in the car is out of control.
Do you know what that character 100% has?
A full car ashtray.
Oh, yeah.
It fucking. Right next to her car phone.
No, what's. What else she has is
the glove compartment has three extra packs.
Yes.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Like, she bought like six at the gas station.
Plus her super bright lipstick
just like on all the filters, too.
Lipstick on a cigarette filter.
Her disappointment of only having matches is great.
Like, she's. We've always talked about
when you own a lighter,
it's like the next. It's like moving in with your girlfriend,
basically, for smoking.
You've committed.
What about the cigarette case?
Matches is like they sleep over,
but they just. Cigarette case is next level.
Yes.
Oh, cigarette cases.
If you have a cigarette case and lighter,
like, you're just gonna be dead
But if you have a lighter you like
and somebody's like,
can I bum a light?
You're like, I am watching you light it.
Right.
And I'm like putting my hand out
to be like,
we're not walking off with this one, you know?
What was the most expensive lighter you ever had?
I got a lighter for my birthday
from like anthropology
that was World War I like trench style.
So it had like a wind blocker.
It was like a Zippo,
but it was like really good for lighting in the wind.
Yeah.
I had an Art Deco one
that sort of like slid back
and the light came up out of the top.
Former smoker?
Cloves only.
Oh, interesting.
And I did have a cigarette case.
I got an engraved lighter in the 90s
from somebody once.
Hey, that's nice.
Lost it.
Did you ever have any like novelty
like naked lady lighters?
No.
No, I realized pretty early.
I did not.
I realized pretty early.
How many?
Like gas station ones
where like her bikini would fall off
as the lighter.
The fluid went down?
Yeah.
I was always a matches guy.
How old were you when you had that?
22.
Hell yeah.
We always drew that face.
I just was always matches.
What's aged the best?
Could you do snap match?
Could you like. I was never like at that level.
All right.
Evil nannies?
Yeah.
Yes.
Sure.
Evil nannies.
True crime has helped the evil nanny.
Here's what I think.
Genre.
I think now,
especially having watched The Housemaid
and other of this genre,
we're really,
really afraid to let women
just be evil.
And I think we should just
let women be evil.
Yeah.
It's fine.
I think it's perfectly feminist
to let women be evil.
I am in the camp of
all types of people
should get to be evil in movies
without us having like
think pieces about it.
Yeah.
Like let's just get weird again.
We've gone so far
in the other direction
that with like the house,
spoilers for The Housemaid
or Sirens,
the Julianne Moore Netflix show
that was horrible.
Horrible.
We've like swung into
you think she's crazy,
but actually
it's the husband.
This other world is crazier.
The husband is,
the problem,
you know,
and it's just like
women can be evil.
Women can do anything
including being evil.
What stage is the best?
Asthma wheezing?
It's a good central
like Achilles heel
for a character.
Yeah.
Asthma, yeah.
When do you want to do
your asthma monologue,
Craig, later or now?
I can use it for my flex.
Okay.
Okay.
It's good because
it's like weakness.
You feel like,
you know,
it's like the kryptonite
of the character.
She can't take stress.
Like, but I'm like,
I'm the iron lady.
Like these kids can't
stress me out.
Like again,
in the improvisation front,
I've killed,
okay,
I had to waste
my greenhouse trap
on Julianne Moore.
Oh, well.
Okay, I can set this up now
as a domino effect
to still kill her anyway
because I've emptied
all of her inhalers.
Yeah.
It's just like,
what can't this woman do?
How,
what was the threshold
for an asthma attack for her?
Like if they were arguing
about what movie to go to
and she's like,
the FedEx thing
is like a real like,
FedEx plus a steep hill.
Does this,
does this freak you out?
Like what,
like does life just make you
have an asthma attack?
Like sometimes FedEx,
you won't bring the envelope
by accident.
I have a couple more.
What do you have?
Just early 90s Seattle
as a location,
both in terms of
its cultural relevance
that wound up aging the best,
but it just looks great.
It's got great architecture,
great topography
for like you were saying.
It feels like that one hill
that the FedEx hill.
Yeah.
I feel like that hill
has been in like 40 movies.
It's right.
It's like,
is that the hill
in The Vanishing
where Jeff Bridges kills?
Oh, maybe.
At the bottom of that hill,
I believe,
is where Pike's Place is.
So it's just like right,
like that downtown.
It's like maybe the best hill
of all the hills
to show that you're in Seattle.
But I feel like there's been
a bunch of stuff there.
I was thinking about
putting this in Apex Mountain
because Singles is also 92
and Sleepless in Seattle is 93.
Yeah.
So like Seattle's just like
having its time.
And then music is going.
Yeah.
Xavier McDaniel is going.
Music's going.
What's happening, CR?
Anything?
Why do you think
they did Gilbert and Sullivan
instead of Grunge
in this movie?
That's the thing.
It's like,
you know that Michael is like,
I think I might go see
Soundgarden play.
He's wearing flannel.
He's ready.
At the music box.
Yeah.
I have,
for what's aged the best,
the horny husband friend
that comes over
and sees the nanny
for the first time.
I have him.
He's a fucking staple
of this movie.
He's like,
boy-o-yoing.
Differently.
Category for this guy.
Yeah.
He's just in heat.
But they always have to do that
in a movie where like
somebody leave the room
and the one guy
will be the other guy.
Whoa.
So I had him
in Butch's Girlfriend.
Do you think that it's realistic
that Marlene would have
such a simp as a husband?
Or do you think
it's like this is the guy
that she is like
kind of running?
Oh, I think that guy
was super fun.
I just think his scenes
got cut out.
I think that guy
was a fun hang.
We just didn't,
we just didn't get
enough minutes with him.
Mr. Craven?
Yeah.
I think that guy.
Invite him over.
Because the thing is.
To ogle your nanny.
He's cool
with Marlene
and his boyfriend
and his buddy.
Which means he's cool.
Like he just,
he's amused by everything.
So I think he was a good hang.
He seems like
happy hour starts
at 3.45.
100%.
Yeah.
But yeah,
absolutely she's running him.
And absolutely she makes
all the money
in that relationship.
That guy had six
Sonics tickets.
He's there on the ground floor
of Ken Griffey Jr.
Yeah, that guy
that's making shit
happen in Seattle.
He knew the Griffey's.
Yeah.
I also have
a really good
little girl performance.
Yeah.
Madeline Zima's good
in this movie.
She's great.
And they give her a character.
Like she actually gets to have
like influence on the plot.
Yeah.
Any other
would say it's the best for you?
No.
Okay.
Great shot Gorda Award.
I don't know, CR.
What do you got?
I like Mrs. Mott
stepping out from the bus.
Like when they
sees the bus stop
and then she kind of
just emerges from
the side.
It's such,
so ominous.
It's like who would stop
a school bus like that?
But then she has like
a little bit of the sugar going
where she's like,
thanks for stopping for me.
But it's like,
this is the devil
just walked out.
I had a,
when Claire finally
passes out
from the bus.
Oh, and she's like
flopping fish
on the porch.
Yeah.
It looks like she's dead.
I have,
I mean,
I like the glass shattering
maybe because it
made me fear
greenhouses forever.
But the glass shattering
down from the greenhouse.
But more importantly,
when the dumb husband,
Matt McCoy,
goes downstairs
and he's like,
oh, it's just the alarm clock.
Like no need to worry.
And he comes up the stairs.
And she just like
in a red cardigan,
like pops out
from around the corner
with the shovel
and you get a little
horror movie cue
when she does it.
And then she just smacks him.
It's great.
I literally jumped.
He somehow breaks
both his legs
falling seven feet.
And Claire's kind of like,
I'll deal with you later.
Yeah.
And later she's like,
should we go see daddy
when everything's fine?
She's like,
let's go see daddy
who's crippled
in the basement.
It's fine.
Big Kahuna Burger Award
best use of food and drink
has to be the green apple.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Chess Rockwell
Brocklanders Award
for best character name.
Marlene Craven.
I had,
I had Peyton Flanders.
Peyton Flanders.
Preppy from hell.
Yeah.
Peyton.
Marlene Craven.
Peyton Flanders.
You want me to spell it for you?
The number of times
people in this movie go,
Peyton.
I just think it's a great,
it's a great name to shout out.
Peyton is a good name.
Peyton.
Kid Cudi Pursuit of Happiness.
It's really just
Pirates of the Penzance
coming from the basement.
I think would be the only thing.
Penzance and Pinafore.
Well,
what do you have for Flexier?
For the Billy Batts
Jack Waltz Award
for most biting
and scalable insult.
When your husband
makes love to you,
it's my face he sees.
I got that same exact thing.
You know what?
This is basically
what Sam Presti says
to Sixers fans right now.
Because McCain
is in the three guard rotation.
When your baby's hungry,
it's my breast that feeds him.
Really some cutting insults.
Incredibly good.
But,
Which is girlfriend word, weak link of the film.
So. I have Marty Craven.
I don't know if this is a nitpick instead of a weak link.
It court-sides for the Sonics that you're in, though.
He's hanging out with Bezos and Gates.
I think we have a huge vision for this.
I have to co-sign this.
Marty Craven.
Get him out of here.
It just could have been so much better.
Yeah.
Like, even if they had had Mel from 90210 switch roles with Marty.
Yeah.
And he's Marty Craven, right?
Because he's in the beginning, the first scene with the…
That's the twin brother.
Yeah.
That's not Eddie and the Cruisers.
That's his twin brother.
Oh, yeah.
So, this is part of the Eddie and the Cruisers IP, then, you think?
Eddie and the Cruisers guy, his twin brother is in this movie.
Wait, really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I have stuff coming on later for it.
Wow.
Is he fucking with you?
No.
He has a twin brother.
Not the same guy.
Which guy is…
We're talking about some guys from Jersey.
Not the same guy.
Which one's in 90210?
No.
Eddie and the Cruisers.
Okay.
All right.
I have for Butch's girlfriend, I did go in the male actor category, but not Marty Craven,
who I actually enjoyed.
Matt McCoy.
Oh.
They hired a TV actor for a movie.
Wait a second.
Matt McCoy took over for Gutenberg in Police Academy.
He is a cinematic actor.
He is the cornerstone of IP.
Important IP.
I think he's in Citizens on Patrol.
Yeah.
They're like…
The Moscow-based one?
We're filming an elevated Lifetime movie, and he's just in a Lifetime movie.
I just feel like…
But that character just is nothing.
It's a nothing character.
Throw Alec Baldwin in there.
Are we doing better?
There's only one woman for me.
Is it…
But he should be…
I don't know what he is.
Is he a little hornier than he should be?
A little less horny than he should be?
Is he…
Do you think he should be more tempted by…
I think he should be a little more tempted.
A see-through nightgown by a woman towel-patting him dry?
A little more tempted.
A little more…
A little more aware of the circumstances, and I just think he's, like, dorky in this movie.
So, who would you put in…
You would put Baldwin in.
I was thinking, like, Bill Pullman's probably the better version of this guy.
Well, Bill Pullman would be less horny.
Right.
But I'm saying, if you're going to go this direction, I would go Bill Pullman.
You want Lone Star.
But I want, like, the husband that might get sucked into this.
So, that's Baldwin.
That's Baldwin.
Yeah.
I think it's, like, Malice Baldwin.
Can I introduce you in a Billy Baldwin?
You could.
You could introduce me in any Baldwin.
Yeah.
All the Baldwins.
Daniel?
Daniel.
Yeah.
Steven?
I'll take any Baldwin.
Steven's way too young.
I just thought Matt McCoy.
I just…
He didn't do it for me.
Hilaria Baldwin?
Hilaria…
Maybe cut it off there.
Vincent Chase Award for…
Are we sure this character was actually good at his or her job?
I have Claire.
You've won jobs.
Protect the house.
Let this psycho in.
She's growing a lot of plants.
You let this psycho in who kills your best friend and does 20 things.
Before you realize what's going on.
Like, come on, lady.
I gotta zag and say it's Michael as a husband and a father.
First of all…
Love it.
His reaction when she's like,
my OBGYN sexually abused me is,
I think we better report this.
We better call it in.
That guy's running that fucking guy over with his car.
And then he'll be like,
let's see if there's, like…
That's why we needed Alec Baldwin.
He's been fucking pissed.
He is fucking losing it the first second.
And then second of all,
he just basically is like,
sounds like you guys got the…
the house situation all taken care of.
I'm going to the lab for the rest of my life.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Can I zag again?
Yeah.
And say…
Double zag.
Did Solomon really build a great fence
if it broke to shit as soon as Rebecca DuMornay fell on it?
Oh, interesting.
Well, like…
Is that a sturdy fence?
That's another Michael demerit.
It's like, pay for good construction.
Like, you're trying to get, like,
free labor out of, like,
the Better Days Foundation.
I would rather…
He's a charitable guy.
I mean, she definitely…
He definitely needs to wind up impaled.
But impaled on a still intact fence.
That's…
That would be my request
from Solomon's construction.
Well, it's aged to worse.
We mentioned Ernie Hudson
playing a special needs character.
I would say Solomon as a character.
Would not be flying in 2026.
So, this movie's set in Seattle
and it never rains.
It rains all the time.
In this movie, it's like twice.
It's sunny and happy,
like, over and over again.
No, everyone's in, like, rain, like…
Yeah, Seattle's depressing.
That's why I didn't want to live there.
It's not.
It fucking rains here
270 days a year.
Don't yell at me.
It should be raining in this movie
all the time.
Rain's expensive for movies.
It is raining.
Like, it's pouring
when she's in the hospital.
Bunch of park scenes.
Yeah.
You don't think they go to the park
in Seattle?
I think they go to parks.
We looked into moving to Seattle
in the 07 range
in the rain statistics.
Every time I've been there,
it's been quite sunny and nice.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Michael not being madder
at his wife
for losing the FedEx plans.
You think he should have taken a plunger
and sort of beat it against the wall
in his frustration?
He's like,
no, no, it's fine.
I'll get to it next quarter.
It's fine.
I'd like to do some work now.
I just feel like
he'd be a little more upset.
What's…
So, he's applying for a grant
of some kind?
From the EPA, right?
Or it's like a patent application
or something,
but he's waiting until deadline day.
The last minute.
He's got a FedEx
and he has no second copy.
She had her asthma attack
all ready to go
if he got really mad at her.
Yeah, it's just like…
Oh, so you're saying
she's one hand on the inhaler.
She's like laying it on a bit thin.
Oh, do you think he's afraid
to yell at her
lest he trigger an attack?
Yeah, it was…
She's weaponized her asthma.
He's like, you had one job.
You had your fucking…
The FedEx thing's in your bag.
You lost it?
Like, I don't understand.
How'd you lose it?
Go back to the restaurant.
This is my career.
He's just like,
yeah, I'll do it.
I'll get it together
in three months.
And then Morgan Freeman's like…
I don't know.
I think the chilly
passive-aggressive disappointment
is harder to take
than an outburst
of anger.
I didn't like that character.
How do you think
Marty Craven would have reacted?
Yeah.
He would have been like,
it's all right.
I got Sonic's tickets tonight.
You can make it up
to me the old-fashioned way.
Also, Peyton,
there's only one woman for me.
What did that even mean?
I met my wife.
I like the fact that…
Fucking weird thing to say.
She's like, Peyton, I'm married.
I doubt that she actually
takes that literally.
My favorite…
My favorite…
As she's the woman for him.
Peyton tweet-out moment
is,
I'll just get my baby.
I mean my thing.
What else do you have
for what's aged the worst?
Because I have a couple more.
Letters of reference.
Certainly.
Yeah.
Need those.
Seattle real estate prices
no longer are like that.
Correct.
And I couldn't decide
whether to put this
in picking nits,
but I'll put it in
what's aged the worst
because when you watch the movie,
you're like,
this kind of takes me out.
So when Claire
pushes…
Peyton through the window
in the attic,
she is going
full dead sprint
to knock her through the window
and then throws on the brakes
like prime Daryl Rivas.
Yeah.
This is like an asthma patient.
Like she is not that athletic.
Yeah.
But she like
puts her through a wall
and then stops
just to avoid
going through the window
and is like
at a standstill.
It's just really
physically unbelievable.
You have anything?
I really think Solomon
is the crowning achievement
of this movie.
Yeah.
I have no nanny cams.
Now you just have cameras
all over the place
for the psychopath
that she…
Your greenhouse exploded
and then she wanders out
to make sure
Marlene's dead.
You would just have that on film.
Big missed opportunity here.
I didn't know…
I almost put this in weak link.
No pet for Peyton the cow?
There's a dead cat
somewhere in this.
It's a fucking easy four minutes of…
Is it a cat?
Oh, where's Lucky?
No, I think it's a dog.
There's no cat.
You think it's a dog?
You think it's a dog or a dog?
Emma, like, you know,
or maybe
Peyton, like,
stages a fake dog bite
and they're like,
we have to put it down.
We have to put it…
Well, that's Solomon.
Solomon is the puppy
of this movie.
And then Peyton blames Claire
for putting the dog down.
Yeah.
I just think it's an easy cat murder.
Sorry, Joanna.
That's okay.
I just think that's like,
what happened to Lucky?
You can kill all the imaginary…
Look, cats aren't named Lucky.
Dogs are named Lucky.
Well, just…
Cats aren't named Lucky?
Says who?
Everyone.
Okay.
Yeah.
I've never heard of a cat named Lucky.
That's a dog name.
I'm Googling this.
This is what you're Googling?
Yeah, I want to Google this now.
Can cats be named Lucky?
No, they can,
but nobody does.
Is Lucky a good name for a cat?
Yes, absolutely.
Lucky is a very popular,
cheerful,
gender-neutral name for cats.
Are you asking me?
I don't know.
Luckythecat.com
telling you this.
I'm not listening to you guys.
No.
I think what happens is
the cat always jumps on Claire's lap
and Peyton calls the cat over
and the cat doesn't want to come over
and the next scene is just…
It's got to be something where
I think a dog would work
because cats are already distrustful and mean,
but a dog not liking Peyton…
Yeah, barking at Peyton
as soon as she shows up.
Exactly.
Then she's got to silence the dog.
Easy extra five minutes.
Yeah.
A dog named Lucky.
I needed two more Seattle scenes
and then the big one
that we didn't mention is
Emma's a little too competent.
She's like seven.
Oh, when she like hides…
When she does the fake out…
She's faking the baby out.
She's locking doors.
This kid's like seven.
You don't think Zoe and Ben
were doing stuff like that?
I don't.
Did she pull the…
Was the baby monitor gambit
like her idea
or just happenstance?
Oh, I…
That would be above her.
All of a sudden,
she's trying to outwit this lady.
I guess I never thought about that.
That's a good point.
Hans Gruber scale for villain ranking?
Peyton's an 11.
She's outstanding.
She's fantastic.
Not higher than Hans Gruber.
Well, I mean,
Hans Gruber is really just your common thief
dressed up as a terrorist.
seems really psychotic.
How dare you?
I think maybe if she had
an inexplicable accent,
she could be on
Hans Gruber's level,
but she's one tier below.
Ruffalo, Hannah Rubin,
and Partridge
overacting in Word?
I had Marty Craven
for this one.
He's really dialing it up.
What do you got over there?
I gotta say Ernie Hudson,
but it's not his fault.
It's not his fault, okay.
It's not his fault.
That's how the role was written,
but it is a lot.
What do you have
for a flex category?
I'm just going to keep
trying to make fetch happen
and say my category is
a cell phone would ruin this movie.
Yes.
There's a car phone in this movie,
but if Marlene could text Claire
and say,
hey, I've got some
wind chime based clues
for you here.
I'm certain that your nanny's
a killer, then, you know.
Gotta say also,
an answering machine would help.
It would.
You know, it's like a lot of,
like when she finds the note
that Marlene called,
you know, it's like
Marlene being like,
hey, it's Marlene.
Peyton's a killer.
By the way.
Dr. Mutt's widow
is your nanny.
Or like, she does manage
to call 9-1-1.
I mean, 9-1-1 comes
despite her just gasping
into the phone,
but like, you know.
If you're,
I'm really curious
about Asthma Corner.
Like, do you have a
med alert sort of
system for that?
Craig's coming with that.
Yeah.
Right now?
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The CR thinks Luke Wilson
should have been
Harrison Ford Award
for the hottest take.
What do you have?
I want to get back to basics
with this category.
Peyton's a pretty solid
wife material.
You know,
like you have to take
a long hard look at it.
Natural with kids.
Chris.
We'll stick up for them
in the face of bullying.
Great looking.
Chris.
Well put together.
She reads a room really well.
You know,
she sees,
she can just see the landscape
and definitely goes to extremes
to protect her family.
And I bet
probably pretty good in bed.
So,
you know,
like dynamite in the sack.
I love it.
Just saying,
if you're Michael.
You're going to wife her up?
I was wondering
which one of us
we're going to go with.
She was a better wife
than Claire.
I mean,
she would have
your back.
Why was Claire a good wife?
She would hold you down.
Yeah.
Wow.
It is the hottest take.
Was it her fault?
Dr. Ma maybe
didn't turn out
to be the ideal husband
and co-worker?
Yeah.
I like that one,
Sierra.
What do you have?
Okay.
So like,
no matter what you do,
even if you molest
pregnant women,
she'll stand by you.
She'll stand by you,
right?
She'll stand by you
no matter what you do.
True.
Well,
I don't even think
that she ever was able
to publicly weigh in
one way or the other
on Dr. Ma.
She's just more disappointed
that she's lost the house
and that the estate's
being sued
and she loses her baby.
So there,
she's got personal concerns.
I had that in nitpicks too.
Never seen like a. But when she says
someone murdered my husband,
I feel like,
you know. I think she's blaming Claire.
Yeah.
The implication is
these allegations
against my husband.
She's super loyal.
What do you have, Joetta?
Top that.
I will.
Women,
I said it already,
women should be allowed
to be crazy
in movies.
I will say,
maybe we've gotten too woke.
That's what I'll say.
The 2025 remake,
this sucks.
Jo's freaking bad on us.
The 2025 remake,
which of course
I watched everywhere,
episode of was terrible.
Yeah.
And I don't really remember.
Wait, was it a show or a movie?
Hulu show is bad.
Was it really?
Micah Malone.
No, Micah Monroe.
Yeah.
Micah Monroe, yeah.
And Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
I have a really good
hottest take.
Ciara's going to be jealous.
This movie could have owned
Gen X with like one tweak.
Michael, the husband,
instead of being
a genetic engineer,
should have been
the head of Sub Pop.
And we could add
two extra scenes
where they go to like,
yeah, this new band,
Pearl Jams,
I got to go
and I'm going to go
with Marlene
because she's. You think you're beating
Peyton is marriage material
and Woke is bad
from me?
Yeah.
Michael is the head
of Sub Pop.
We now dive into
the Seattle grunge scene
as we're in a
Nanny from Hell movie.
You and me going into
Netflix or Apple TV
and be like,
we have this new vision
for Hand the Rocks
the Cradle remake.
You know,
we've told this story twice
from the perspective of women.
We just feel like
Michael and Marty
really didn't get
their fair share.
So here's Michael
and he's been
to every Pearl Jam show
since they switched
from Wookiee Blaylock
to Pearl Jam.
And then Marty
is one of the great
supporters of
Seattle Professional Sport.
So does the Claire Payton
plot happen in the background?
Yeah, it's just like
our crazy wives.
Those guys were at
the last Mother Love Bone show.
It's really dramatic.
But you have,
instead of delivering
the FedEx of his
genetic material.
It's his tape somewhere.
It's the Pearl Jam tapes
of 10.
It's the first one.
Eddie gave these
to me himself.
There's no other copy of 10.
There's no other copy.
You have to bring this to FedEx.
Payton's like
fucking tearing it up.
And we just have
the music from that era
instead of Pirates of Penzance.
This becomes the best
movie of all time.
That would be amazing.
If they were listening
to like Rearview Mirror.
The Gilbert and Sullivan
is so weird to me
in this movie
because like
I don't understand it at all.
I mean,
I was thinking about
Sleeping with the Enemy
because there is some
like great
like classical music
in that movie.
But,
he also just has
Gilbert and
I presume it's him.
He's the one who's like
singing in the beginning.
He has Gilbert and Sullivan
posters all over his house.
I'm like,
get a second hobby.
He's got one thing
which is
He's singing it
when he's shaving
his daughter.
He's a loser.
I don't like that guy at all.
Does that guy have to
shave his neck every day
to get that line
on the beard?
like Remington
like stubble shavers.
By the way,
he didn't need that much
shaving cream
just to shave
like the bottom of his neck.
Like,
come on, dude.
That guy has like,
you know,
some like nice,
lustrous hair
and he keeps a sharp line
neckline on the beard.
That's an everyday.
What if that's what his
like genetic science stuff is?
It's like
neck beards.
I'm not only the president,
I'm a customer.
He created the Mach 5.
Yeah.
Just blocks
these hair follicles.
Casting what ifs.
We mentioned that
they tested for the opposite parts
before they landed on
Claire and Mrs. Mott.
Sybil Shepard
turned down the role of Peyton.
Yeah.
For her feminist ideals.
Yeah.
This was
end of moonlighting.
Yeah.
She's like,
she should have done this.
She definitely should have.
And I'm glad she didn't.
She really should have done this.
Sybil and Rebecca,
if Rebecca had played Claire
and Sybil was Peyton,
that would have been
blonde on blonde crime.
Can you have two blondes
in one movie?
I don't know.
I think it's illegal.
Illegally blonde.
Allegedly,
Rosanna Arquette
was involved with Peyton.
I don't know if I believe that.
I couldn't find
second source for it.
Similar look.
Instead,
she played that
your wife with the shit
on her face.
Is that that lady
with the shit on her face?
And then they thought about,
they tested
Christopher McDonald
and Kevin Spacey
for Michael.
And thank God
Kevin Spacey's in this movie
because that would have
absolutely ruined
the rewatchability.
I don't know.
We did Working Girl.
We navigated.
No,
I just feel like
him as a genetic scientist
trying to fend off
Rebecca DeWarnay.
He would have been good
as Marty though.
He would have.
Christopher McDonald
would have been good as Marty.
Best that guy award?
John Delancey.
John Delancey.
Cue from Star Trek.
Can I offer you
Matthew Lawrence's
twin brother,
Mitchell,
that you thought
was Matthew Lawrence?
In one scene as the lawyer,
but yeah,
John Delancey.
Is Mitchell Lawrence
like also a TV sports radio host now?
Yeah.
Is he?
Yeah.
Mitchell had the more
interesting stuff
for our purposes,
but I think
Matthew,
or no,
Mitchell was,
Matthew is the one
that was in
Eddie and the Cruisers
then on 2 and 0.
And is now a sports radio host,
right?
Mitchell was his brother.
Okay.
Woo,
just some guys from Jersey.
How do you,
how do like twins,
twin,
twins who act,
like that must be
really contentious.
It's not like the Morris twins
where you can just
Jeremy and Jason London.
There's always a better one,
right?
It works when you're children,
like the Olsen twins.
Sure.
But once you get older,
then what?
Yeah,
they had a lot of,
there's a bunch of babies
playing the little baby.
They didn't really work
for the Olsen twins
because now they're like just.
The Ashmore twins?
Yeah.
They don't smile.
I mean,
how often do you see
the Olsen twins?
Every picture I see them,
I'm like,
that's your Olsen twin?
Have you seen my Rue face?
From Euphoria?
You know what?
That's pretty good.
Yeah,
good job.
It's pretty good.
Can you give the
double married care smirk?
Can you do that?
I can't.
Can you do the
let's go do drugs
smirk that she does?
Dan Waiter's a word.
Go to town,
CR.
I mean,
it's one of the best ones
we've got.
Like this is what,
three scenes.
She basically shows up
at the house,
eyeballs her,
goes to dinner,
goes to the bar with Michael,
And then gets axed out.
But. It's in the. Female Dion Waiters
Hall of Fame.
It's a nothing part
that she imbues
with so much character
just with all of her gestures
and all of her little like
teeth alone.
And Short Cuts
is this year
or the next year?
This is right around
and then she's in Fugitive
and gets cut out.
But this is
Julianne Moore
is starting to happen.
Also I would say
I was going to bring this up
a little bit later
but we can see
the foundation
of Linda Partridge here.
We can see a little
don't call me lady.
I was waiting for that.
Do you want to
hit me with the
don't call me lady?
No, just like
Sierra's better.
Don't call me lady!
A little more wavering
in your voice.
Recasting couch
director
or city?
I think I love that
I love the Seattle-ness
of this movie.
It's really the perfect place.
But I also wouldn't mind
like a sweaty New Orleans
version of this.
Sweaty New Orleans
is great
much more erotic
we'd need
we need Michael and Marty
to really step up there
but just because
we've done
Boogie Basic Instinct
recently
I wouldn't mind
92 San Francisco.
Although
I wonder whether
San Francisco
it would have just been
a little bit more like
you know
this is a bigger city
let's check some references
let's like make sure
this nanny isn't
Oh yeah, there's
two naivens here.
I have
Boston
but specifically
Charlestown.
Hey Claire,
you gotta take care
of that fucking nanny
I keep telling ya.
What does Peyton sound like?
How do you say Peyton
in a Boston accent?
Peyton.
It's just the same.
Yeah.
Well, the best one would be
shut up Marlene.
Stay out of our fans.
The Boston part.
Can you imagine Marlene
smoking parliaments
being like
I'm showing an apartment
over in the fence.
They're at Sully's Pub
trying to figure out
the surprise party.
We can't tell her.
Hey, if you give him
a thousand dollars
Cam Neely will come by
and say hi.
Craig, what do you have
for a flex?
I'm gonna go with
the Marion Cabretti
pizza cutting award
for why didn't anyone
on set stop this.
As somebody who had
seasonal asthma
as a kid
and had an inhaler
the way they depict
Claire using an inhaler
in this movie
is offensive to people
with asthma.
It is
a light spritz of air.
Yeah, and she open-mouthed it.
She didn't even touch
it to her lips
and she's immediately recovered
which is not how it works.
There was no asthma
consultant at all
because she's like
Yeah, you gotta wrap your mouth
She treats it like
it's fucking breath spray.
You gotta create a seal.
You gotta
it's a deep inhale.
She thinks it's binaca.
Yeah, she does think
it's binaca.
It takes a while.
Like it takes five, ten seconds
and you're doing multiple puffs.
That thing is
three inches from her mouth
like it's Listerine.
Would asthma kick in
when you were stressed out
lately?
That's real.
Mine was more just like
because of allergies
like running would be hard
but I think that was a thing.
I had it too.
The hay fever.
Did you have
inhalers like stashed
all around the house?
Yeah, I never really
had a tax like this
but I would just
have an inhaler
I would take regularly
from like March to June
but that is a thing
where stress induces
asthma attacks
but an embarrassing
use of it in this movie.
The asthma spray-ish
scenes.
Yeah, when she's like
some of the dumbest things
that have ever been
captured on film
and I can't
it's not
like only a couple
people have asthma
like a lot of people
use inhalers.
There's nobody involved
in this movie
about asthma.
It's just fucking bizarre
that they chose
to play it that way.
Also, her asthma
just goes away
in the last scene.
Claire.
She's about to die
and then gets up
Oh, she's faking.
She's faking.
Oh, that's a
Yeah.
Yeah, because they
show the little kid
and the little kid's like
Oh, I know.
Because that little kid
is smart at all times.
Yeah.
That's why
it's part of why
the asthma runner is there
so at the end
she can like pretend
to have it
and then just
charge her with it.
If they remade this movie now
the little kid would be
on a device all the time
and it would be
completely useless
when it came time
to being resourceful.
Are you saying
a cell phone
would have ruined this movie?
I agree.
Hey, you gotta take
that kid to the third floor.
Throw your iPad at her.
Half-assed internet research.
You mentioned it was
Amanda Silver's
film school thesis.
Yeah.
Film was shot
in location.
Mostly Seattle, Tacoma.
Really wasn't a lot
of good research
except for
Mrs. Mott
visiting
Michael's workplace
and it was filmed
in Redmond, Washington
at the
Biotechniques Laboratories
which was demolished
two years later
to make room
for the expansion
of Microsoft.
I also really like
in that lab scene
where like
Michael's assistant's like
hey, like really hot
hot woman's
he's like
that's my nanny.
How dare you.
Apex Mountain.
De Mornay,
would you go
this or
Risky Business?
Risky Business
I would say.
It felt like she was
going to be one of the
biggest stars in the world
after Risky Business.
Matt McCoy,
I'm going to say yes.
Sure.
Inhalers?
Inhalers in a movie,
I think yes.
Yeah.
How about
cinematic breastfeeding?
This or Barbarian?
Why don't you
pull out your list?
Season two of
American Horror Story.
If Sean was here,
he'd be like,
tell us more, CR.
Sean would be like,
actually, you're forgetting
Michelangelo and Timmy.
La Notte.
Like,
they do feel
like there's two scenes
where it is like,
how did they do this
with the breastfeeding?
What do you mean?
Because it's a real baby.
We didn't have the CGI
back then.
And it seems like
it's an actual
breastfeeding situation.
But there's no way
like Rebecca De Mornay
was breastfeeding a baby.
Just put a baby
on her nipple.
But probably something
over her.
I think it was a doll.
And the baby next to her.
No, but the baby was moving.
But don't they have
like dolls to like
show women how to do it
in the first place?
Like to be like,
this is maybe.
But that technology,
I don't think was that
advanced in 92.
What about like a Merkin?
Like a boob Merkin?
That's probably what it was.
Yeah.
Ernie Hudson, no.
Evil Navy.
Just flat no.
One of the all-time
conversational topic switches.
Evil Navy movies?
Yeah.
Yes.
Greenhouses in a movie
has to be yes, right?
Yes.
What's a better greenhouse?
You seriously haven't
been in a greenhouse?
I seriously have not been
in a greenhouse.
Would you go to a
botanical garden?
Yeah,
but not,
but then usually
there's like a spot.
Outdoor area.
There's a spot
in the botanical garden
that has a greenhouse
and I will not go in it.
I really want to test this out.
I will not go in it.
Seattle, yes.
92, 93.
This is it.
For sure.
We're in the apex.
Yeah.
Julianne Moore, no.
Asthma taxing movie, maybe.
A crisp,
Curtis Hanson.
White Oxford button
all the way up.
Hmm.
Yeah.
She just owns that look
in this movie.
Cruiser Hanks.
So it should be Hanks, right?
It's Hanks.
But wouldn't it be fun
to have Cruz and De Mornay
back together again?
Wouldn't it be fun if,
what do you mean,
like Cruz playing Dr. Mott?
Cruz as Matt McCoy.
One scene,
Cruz as Dr. Mott.
Yeah.
Taking the glove off.
I'll take care of it.
Why don't you let her know
about her test results?
That's what Cruz needed
in 92.
They're all clear.
Yeah.
92, Cruz is definitely
needing to do this.
Not far and away.
Prepping for Eyes Wide Shut.
Could Cruz have been Solomon?
Oh my God, Bill.
Is there running?
I was trying to think
of how Cruz could run.
What a cursed concept.
Cruz is as the dad.
There's no running though.
He turns this movie down.
It's got to be Hanks.
It is Hanks.
We got rid of Scorsese
or Spielberg
after doing it with Spielberg.
If Marty comes on the pod,
will you bring him back?
We'll bring him back.
Okay.
Re-adding,
was there a better title
for this movie?
A category we used to have
and I have no idea
why we got rid of it.
Yeah.
No, this title rules.
I think this title
is the right title.
Yeah.
Right?
It's very memorable.
It absolutely rules.
Picky Nits.
I have like 10.
I'll just go with
my biggest one,
which is how the fuck
do they not know
what Mott's wife looks like
if an OBGYN
did what he did
to my family.
I would be like,
I'm going to the trial.
Well, first you run him
over with your car.
First run him with the car.
But if that didn't work out,
I would be very engaged
with what this guy was about.
And I think I would know
somehow what his wife looked like.
Also, this would be
the biggest story in Seattle
for like two weeks.
Also, the local news
showing Claire's face.
This is a huge one.
I have that too.
Yeah.
Here's this woman
that called out this creep.
Here's her face
if anybody wants to see it
in the hospital while. It's actually a rule
that you can't do that
without consent.
You can't use their name either.
Yeah.
But they're like,
coming up,
Claire Bartell
accuses a dead doctor.
I'm going to tell you
why Claire Bartell
might be wrong.
It's crazy that they. Here's where she lives.
We mentioned
no background checks.
Also, just. These. See, you're with your nanny a lot.
At no point
is Claire doing the. So, what happened
to your husband?
Dude, what. Why. Like, just. Why does Peyton make it
so complicated?
Peyton could just be like,
yeah, I just got here
from Cleveland.
Divorced.
Well, she wanted to say
my husband was a murderer.
Murdered by you.
You know?
A couple days after my baby,
it's like. What?
Before or after?
Who died first?
Why did the baby die?
She. Yeah.
Husband died first in real life.
Yeah.
And then she's like,
he was murdered.
She miscarried, yeah.
I want. I want my revenge.
Okay.
Well. Revenge on what?
What are you going to do?
I don't know.
I just had a lot of questions
on that.
Um. Peyton beating up
the school, Billy,
I'm guessing
would probably get. reported to the principal
and maybe. Again, it was 1992.
There was no one
supervising us
on the blacktop.
There's like 10 witnesses.
There's people
in different parts
of the playground.
All the kids are like
this crazy blonde
almost yanked
off arm out of its socket.
One kid's like,
fuck yeah.
A sexual fantasy was born.
The kid with hair
under his arms
is like, nice.
This is my wife's
biggest one.
So one of the times
he goes down
when our guy
Matt McCoy
is getting a little horny.
Say more.
And Rebecca DeMornay
is. Picking up ice cubes.
Right.
In her see-through nightie.
Putting them back
in the tray
and then putting the tray
back in the freezer.
Yes.
This is a great call.
What the fuck is going on?
Do you think it's like. Who wants ice cubes
that were just on the floor?
Does he see that
they've been on the floor
that she's put them back away
or is she just like. He's watching it
but he's looking
at the nightgown.
I'd be looking
at the fucking ice cubes.
You'd be like,
don't put those back in there.
Hey, what are you doing?
People walk on that floor,
Peyton.
Do you think
the entire ice gambit
was like. Just making noise?
Executed to lure him
down there.
Yes.
How can she know
that he would come down
and not Annabella Ciara?
I guess she's like,
well, if Claire comes down,
I'll just be like,
my bad, drop something.
Again, this is. In the see-through nightgown
that I always wear.
I'm right here
to consult in these movies.
This is where
he drinks decaf at night
because it keeps him up.
Doesn't want to get kept up
and she switches the coffee
so he'll stay up at night
and come down
and that's when she gets up.
Another nitpick
that we've kind of alluded to
is the last shot
of this movie
is like Claire and Solomon
being like,
we did it.
Good job.
Where the fuck is Michael?
He's like in agony
like Joe Theismann.
Crying in the basement.
Maybe trying to like
crawl up the stairs
in the basement.
What about
this wind chime clue?
Oh my God.
Well,
then she goes
over the top
with the painting
the baby room
the same way.
Well, the turtles
is one thing.
And again. But Julia Moore
spots the baby room
and Julia Moore
via magnifying glass
spots a solitary wind chime
and is like,
I've seen that.
It's your
bog standard wind chime.
That's what all wind chimes
look like.
She's good at her job.
Absolutely not.
I don't know if it's because
I grew up in the Bay Area
where like there's just
a lot of wind chimes going on
but I wouldn't be like,
well, that wind chime
clearly someone else's.
I do love that she's like,
what the fuck is that ugly thing
when she walks in?
Well, how about
Peyton leaves
the breast pumps behind
in the old house?
She's going to leave
some stuff back here
including all my breast pumps?
That makes no. Isn't that how staged
and being chimed?
You know, it's being shown.
Wouldn't they have cleared out
the breast pumps?
Sure.
People sold the house.
I think the idea is like
it's a cool nursery.
Check out how you could use it
as a nursery.
Check out these
funky breast pumps.
Also, for all the guys
in the room,
when that guy's like,
what kind of weird toy is that?
Like, is that not
the dumbest shit
you've ever heard?
We mentioned this earlier
but the dad broke his legs
falling seven feet.
Not even.
It was like five feet.
Both of them?
Both legs?
Like, just shat. And he gets hit in the face
with a shovel
but his face is fine, right?
So, Claire. No, it's a little fucked up.
It's a little damaged?
Yeah, it's a little fucked up.
Claire, my legs are broken.
What?
Both of them.
Both legs.
You got to take
the rest of this movie.
I've been useless
this whole movie
and I'll remain useless
till the very end.
They need one extra scene
where they're just pushing
him around in the wheelchair
and he's got these
two giant glass. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Claire has asthma
from the wheelchair.
I'll be in Peyton's
bed, Claire.
Yeah.
I'll be waiting.
This is the opportunity
where it's like
Marty is pushing him
in the wheelchair.
He's like,
you know what,
you and me,
we can move in together
and we can start.
I got plenty of room
now that Marlene's dead.
There's a couple moments.
A couple moments
when it's clear
it's a doll
and not a baby.
Yeah.
And then,
this is my biggest one.
Well, they're tied together.
We already talked about
whether the greenhouse
would have killed Marlene
or not.
I said,
say no.
Not without,
you know.
Who's the prime suspect
in Claire's death?
Or in Marlene's death?
Isn't it just an accident?
It's an accident.
Is it?
It's a greenhouse accident.
It's poor greenhouse
construction by Claire.
If anything,
she should feel guilty
about it.
Okay.
The police call,
hey,
we're just going to
check out Claire for a second.
GLPD is not acquitting
themselves gloriously.
That guy just wandered
into a crime scene
when that cop opens
the greenhouse door
and just wanders in.
I'm like,
uh-uh.
What's your history
with Claire?
Because we heard
you had a,
a moment at your
surprise party
a month ago
where you were
yelling at your husband.
Oh, you think Claire
should be,
might be playing.
Yeah, Claire should be
a fucking suspect for this.
Well, wouldn't also,
like, if the cops came by,
wouldn't they just want
to see driver's licenses
from everybody?
Does Peyton have
a Peyton Flanders
driver's license?
I think Claire
is a suspect immediately
because there's,
we already had the altercation
with them two weeks before.
So you have that.
Marlene didn't have
a funeral?
It's just a bunch
of people smoking.
She's just dead?
You don't think
she did offscreen?
And Claire's like,
I'm going to go
to Marlene's office.
It's just intact.
Everything's still there.
It was interesting
that her, like,
day planner was just
sitting there.
And how long was Claire
in the hospital?
Was there an asthma attack?
She's in there
for four weeks?
Let's ask Craig.
How long do you
go to the hospital?
It's like she had COVID.
I don't know.
A couple days?
I don't know.
A couple days.
Step back for the funeral
and people are,
is that awkward
with Marlene's family?
Like, so what happened?
Your greenhouse
collapsed on our daughter?
You wanted more time
with her husband.
You wanted to see him
weeping and wailing
at the funeral.
Anyone in Marlene's
wife was like,
wait, the greenhouse
collapsed on Marlene
and killed her?
The Mariner's
at a homestay.
He couldn't make it.
Marty's like,
okay, wait.
Edgar Martinez
is on an incredible
streak right now.
I just had a lot
of questions.
You wanted Marty Craven
to just have his moment
at the funeral.
Yeah.
Maybe he could have
quoted some more poetry.
He could have had
some more poetry in this.
Also, you know what
always works?
A funeral scene.
Be like, Marlene,
there's two things
she loved.
Parliament lights
and condominiums.
And this poem
will apply.
Yeah.
About the hand
that rocks the cradle.
There was no house
she couldn't sell.
No cigarette
she couldn't smoke.
Sequel, prequel,
prestige to be all
black cast or untouchable.
I feel like it's done
all of these.
They didn't do a prequel.
That Hulu one.
The Dr. Mott prequel
is still in development.
The Hulu thing
was October 2025
when they had that.
It doesn't feel
like it exists.
And now CR and I
will have our
Seattle sub pop
built around Marty.
Middle-aged man
version of
hand that rocks the cradle.
Is that
Is this movie better
with Wayne Jenkins,
Fergie the Florist,
Zane Lowe,
Robert Evans,
Dr. Charles Nichols
or somebody else?
I do just have like
Marlene Craven
want me to spell it
don't call me lady.
I like that was the one I have,
but I would love to see
Robert Evans getting into Peyton.
Oh,
she knows how to dress.
She knows how to rear a child.
Her legs go on forever.
This is just your
hottest take again.
It's my hottest take
as read by Patton Oswalt
doing Robert Evans.
It's funny
because I had
Loja as Byron Mayo
for a while.
for this.
Yeah.
Peyton, Claire.
Yeah.
Couldn't help
noticing any
at the
at the Claire surprise party.
Just having Byron Mayo
with no shirt.
Or if Byron Mayo
walked in with the
ice cube situation.
Maybe he was at the funeral.
Tiny white teeth.
Yeah.
Ladies don't fight.
Just one Oscar
who gets it.
That's got to be
De Mornay.
De Mornay.
We have to throw in here
the Catherine Shremel.
Would you throw your life away
for this obvious
stay away award?
Because
Claire's husband
thought about it
twice in the
kitchen there.
For me,
even for as seduced
as I can be
by this type,
for me,
I'm out.
Sharks.
Probably unanswerable
questions.
Baby Joey
with the
double breastfeeding
situation.
What did his
next 10 years
look like?
Well,
here's the question.
So like,
is he like super strong
like LeBron
after going to Germany?
No,
but like he's not
he's not drinking
from her.
But he's still
like he's not drinking
from her.
He's drinking from his mom.
Yeah.
But he's still
I think he's doing both though.
No, he's he like
that's why she's so stressed
because he won't latch
for her.
But he's gaining weight.
And Michael's just like
then what's the problem?
So we don't take this kid
to the hospital?
Yeah.
All of these children
need to go to the doctor.
If you think your
your little girl
has been molested,
she needs to go see
a therapist.
And if you think
your baby is growing
despite not drinking
any milk at all.
The Bartels are just like
that's one problem solved.
Let's move on.
Yeah.
We'll save a fortune
on my baby.
Baby gaining weight
it is.
No problem.
Next one.
On to Cleveland.
Mentioned this earlier
but I do feel like
they could have snuck in
a 92 Sonics game scene.
Yeah.
Maybe the double date.
Maybe the guys
are going there after
just so we get some
Sean Kemp
just to mix it up.
Wait, what category
are we on?
Unanswerable questions.
Why weren't the Sonics
in this movie?
The Sonics are right there.
I have one really good one
though unless
you guys have any.
My biggest
unanswerable question
was what was
Peyton like
before her OBGYN husband?
So you want
the Peyton prequel?
Well, I'm just curious
what she was like.
Peyton's bliss.
Did Peyton have any friends?
Did they all abandon her?
I think she was like
a Seattle socialite, right?
Right.
So wouldn't there be
like a little bit more awareness?
Somebody would know this.
Yeah.
Unanswerable question.
I don't have one.
Is this movie better
if they look out at the end
and Peyton's not there
in the front lawn?
Oh, Michael Myers?
Michael Myers is the ending.
Somehow Peyton
has survived.
Hand that rocks
the cradle too?
It's just like
Still rocking?
It's like we did it guys.
Look out.
She's gone.
What's the sequel?
I just
I don't want her
at the end.
Peyton damaged
but alive
on the road
and where does she
pop up next?
Los Angeles
working for a film producer.
Yeah.
You know, it's like
we could get into it.
Why not?
Maybe a film producer
Why close the door?
The film producer
who made
a lifetime movie
of the week
about her life
and now she's going
to get revenge on him.
Why close the door?
Great character.
Tori Spelling,
how dare you?
Yeah, exactly.
got it
memorabilia you'd want
or not want
from this movie
for me I would not want
the breast pumps
from the leftover ones
from the house
that wouldn't sell
would you want
an inhaler
that has never
seen a pair of
human lips
attached to it
yeah
the sewer
movie used inhaler
we're not allowed
to use the cars
right we could never use
can I get an old
Volvo wagon
I've always wanted
an old Volvo wagon
those were great cars
very safe
they ran for like
300,000 miles
also that beige color
yeah
perfect
oh god yeah
I dated a girl
who had one of those
cars and the thing
had like 200,000 miles
and was just fucking
cranking
those things were tanks
I always wanted
one of those
Coach Finstock
Mr. Miyagi
best worst life lesson
don't hire a hot nanny
or don't build a greenhouse
don't let a hot woman
into a power position
in your household
I believe
yeah that was a good one
check the references
but also don't go
into a greenhouse
not ever not even once
yeah
best double feature choice
I think single white female
but you know I mean
just to be in the spirit
of the pod
sleeping with the enemy
Laura
I love that movie
I have Scorned
with Shannon Tweed
nice
not familiar with that one
I would say
not the housemaid
which is the double feature
that I
Scorned with Shannon Tweed
was this movie
but the Skin and Max
version of it
it was considered
to be the Shannon Tweed
apex for her
they show these movies
all the time
on like
as you know
when I was here
for Just One of the Guys
and I let you know
that I didn't have HBO
so I watched all the movies
that I watched on like
TNT, TBS
so I
the nipples
were not a factor
when we rewatched
Hand that Rocks the Cradle
but they showed this
and Sleeping with the Enemy
like
all the time
safest cable
and my parents were just like
go ahead and watch it
yeah
who won the movie
Rebecca De Mornay
De Mornay
easy
Craig
she won the movie
I mean she like
LeBron
2018 game won
50, 10, and 10
or whatever
he had won the movie
would you have given
the BAM out of bio
83 point game
award for her
well no
because I knew where it came from
because I saw Risky Business
and she kind of
changed my life
yeah
but I have to say
the first like
40, 50 minutes
of this movie
I wasn't in love with it
I thought it was
really kind of slow
and drawn out
there's like a weird
acting style
I agree with you about
was it Michael
yeah
is that the name
of his character
I feel like him and Claire
have a very weird acting style
I don't know if that was
the point of the movie
but they're like
almost mannequin-esque
I feel like I'm watching
an HR instructional video
where it was like
hey would you like
to come over for dinner
that sounds nice
thank you
alright pick you up at 7
7 sounds great
like that was like
the first hour of the movie
yeah
and then
but I really felt like
your pure hatred
for Peyton
really just drives you
to the end of this movie
I think she is one of the
most despicable people
I've seen in a long time
and you are just so
you're like
I need to see this
fucking lady die
she has to die
she can't just get arrested
it's horrible
I would argue
she still wins
like
even though she dies
like okay
Michael broke his legs
Claire now kind of
thinks that Michael
wants to have sex
with Peyton
maybe had sex
with Marlene
I can
I think
I think Claire can
definitively say
Michael is like
not
not a protector
like he is
he is gonna get
distracted too easily
like Marlene's dead
this family does not
get out unscathed
what is Zewan Nao here
like this family's
fucked up
what's the next day like
the baby was breastfeeding
are we moving away
from Seattle
if you wanna make
if this family's
staying together
I think they have to
I think they're leaving Seattle
they should go to
Boston
I think they're out of
the greenhouse business
I think Michael probably
loses his job
because he can't stand up
for nine months
yeah
because he broke
both of his legs
you can do science
while sitting
or he's in like
the Stephen Hawking
wheelchair maybe
I think most scientists
sit most of the time
that seemed like
a very standing lap
they're going to Denver
restarting
yeah
and I think that kid
has really traumatized
the daughter
maybe little Joey too
Joey's doing great
like she
the whole family's a mess
after
even after Peyton's death
Peyton really
ran him off
she got her revenge
yeah
I think a problem
is often the case
when I'm on an episode
where it's the early 90s
it's like so many people
have done it since
that it's hard to see
this trope since
that it's like
yeah
I also love like
so many 90s movies
just have no idea
how to end the fucking movie
like this movie just ends
I thought I was going to
see another scene
and it's like
Solomon come downstairs
they don't even have
like the
okay credits
yeah it's like
credits roll on the front
of the house
the B-roll on the house
it's been brought out
of the basement
everybody's happy
he's still in the basement
I love a shot
of the family together
it's just like
Solomon come on downstairs
you wanted a group hug
with broken legs
Michael
Michael's legs are
broken at the basement
yeah
Solomon's just like
dancing out of the room
with the baby
it's very odd
it's very confusing
I love the early 90s
also Claire's taking
the baby back
she's not like
no no no
it's cool
yeah
you can hold her
you don't really see
credits roll over
usually it cuts to black now
you don't see the credits
roll over footage anymore
well now you don't see
credits anymore
because this movie
just went right to
five seconds
you know five seconds
for the next thing
we're throwing at you
so I couldn't even
I had to like
rewind
you were like stop
because I couldn't remember
what Dr. Mott's name was
but God forbid
you just got to enjoy
credits for 10 seconds
I was legitimately
fired up
when Marlene spots
the wind chime
yeah
and was like
little Xerox printout
she's like cancel my morning
and then she's driving
her like
it's a beamer
fuck off
yeah she's like
fuck off
give me a cigarette
she's in a BMW right
she's like zooming through traffic
I'm going to come back
and remember the Titans
I'm like let's fucking go
CR would you have watched
a Marlene
separate movie
of Marlene
real estate in Seattle
just her smoking
in people's houses
just Gordon Gekko
but Marlene
yeah
selling Seattle
with Marlene
I think she fucks
I think she fucks
whoever she wants
in Seattle
that's why when
she shows up
in Boogie Nights
we had some history
with her
it's like I'm ready
for this lady
to have her moment
and then it finally
happened with Boogie Nights
I think was
when it happened
alright guys
From Hell
Joanne Robinson
thank you
Chris Ryan thank you
thanks Craig
thanks Chris
thanks Eduardo
we're going to be back
next week with another
From Hell movie
I think we're doing
The Good Son next week
I think we are
that's a good one
can't wait for Craig's
reaction to that one
that's next week
thank you
thank you
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Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The episode celebrates "From Hell" movies as culturally relevant, tapping into shared fears about intrusions into personal spaces and toxic relationships.
*Hand That Rocks the Cradle* is highlighted for its strong writing, tight pacing, and effective use of red flags and suspense, with Rebecca De Mornay delivering a standout performance as the menacing nanny.
The film resonates with audiences due to its relatability, especially women, by reflecting deep-seated anxieties about trust, parenting, and the fragility of domestic life.
Summary:
The episode explores the enduring appeal of "From Hell" movies—films that center on the fear of strangers infiltrating private lives and damaging family bonds. *Hand That Rocks the Cradle* is presented as a standout example, with its sharp construction, subtle red flags, and deeply rooted anxieties about trust and safety. The film’s strengths include its efficient storytelling, the powerful performance of Rebecca De Mornay, and its ability to evoke shared, primal fears such as being betrayed by a trusted caregiver or partner.
These fears are particularly resonant with women, who see reflections of their own insecurities about parenting, loyalty, and domestic security. The discussion also highlights how the genre, rooted in 1990s home cinema and VHS culture, remains relevant today as a mirror of modern anxieties—like social media scams or unexplained threats—now wrapped in familiar tropes. The film’s minimal backstory, reliance on visual cues, and strong character dynamics make it a compelling and efficient narrative.
It’s praised not just for its suspense but for its emotional authenticity, with moments like the breastfeeding scene, asthma attack, and greenhouse collapse becoming iconic rewatchable scenes. The episode also touches on broader cultural trends, such as the shift from standalone films to serialized storytelling, and notes how early 1990s details—like smoking, microfiche, or lack of references—add authentic texture. Ultimately, the film stands as a masterclass in genre storytelling, blending psychological tension with everyday life rituals, proving that even in a world of digital connectivity, the fear of the unknown remains timeless.
FAQs
The movie explores primal fears, such as the fear of strangers entering one's home with harmful intentions, and the anxiety of being an inadequate parent or partner. It dramatizes shared societal fears that remain relevant today.
The film centers on female relationships and fears, with minimal focus on the male protagonist. It highlights the tension between women, especially the fear of betrayal or manipulation from another woman, making it deeply relatable.
The three staples are: a seemingly smart character who is actually an idiot and misses obvious red flags; an unexplained murder around the two-thirds mark; and a scene that triggers intense fear, like a breastfeeding incident or an asthma attack.
It is a terrifying and realistic portrayal of a doctor slowly becoming creepy, especially when he massages the character’s abdomen, creating a sense of unease that mirrors real-life medical experiences.
Though set in the 90s, the movie's themes—like trusting strangers, financial insecurity, and family fears—are timeless and still resonate with contemporary anxieties, such as social media scams or personal betrayals.
De Mornay delivers an exceptional performance, showcasing a range from terrifyingly manipulative to unexpectedly sweet, making her one of the most compelling and memorable 'From Hell' actresses in the genre.
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