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Taste Test: The Apartment (1960) vs. Jerry Maguire (1996)

June 25th, 2009 · 10 Comments

By Joe Valdez

What the *&#! Are They About?
C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) — accountant for Consolidated Life, or more specifically, “Ordinary Policy Department, Premium Accounting Division, Section W, desk number 861” — has made his West 60s apartment available to four executives who treat Baxter’s home as their extramarital playground. His neighbors, a Jewish physician [...]

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Tags: Dreams and visions · Drunk scene · Famous line · Interrogation · Sports

Bull Durham (1988)

October 12th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Synopsis
“I prefer metaphysics to theology,” says the voice of Annie Savoy (Susan Sarandon) as she puts on her lipstick. “See, there’s no guilt in baseball. And, it’s never boring. Which makes it like sex. There’s never been a ballplayer slept with me who didn’t have the best year of his career.” Annie [...]

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Tags: Bathtub scene · Dreams and visions · Famous line · Master and pupil · Midlife crisis · Road trip · Sports · Unconventional romance

The Longest Yard (1974)

October 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Synopsis
“How long do we have to keep watching this crap?” whines a pampered beauty (Anitra Ford) while her boy toy Paul Crewe (Burt Reynolds) lays next to her in bed. Crewe finally has enough of her harangue, throws on the clothes she bought for him and snatches the keys to her Maserati on [...]

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Tags: Cult favorite · Famous line · Interrogation · Man vs. machine · Master and pupil · Sports

A River Runs Through It (1992)

September 22nd, 2008 · 3 Comments

Synopsis
As an old man threads a fishing line on the Big Blackfoot River, a narrator (Robert Redford) begins: “Long ago, when I was a young man, my father said to me, ‘Norman, you like to write stories.’ And I said, ‘Yes, I do.’ Then he said, ‘Some day when you are ready, [...]

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Tags: Based on book · Brother/brother relationship · Coming of age · Father/son relationship · Master and pupil · Small town · Sports · Train