Phenomenon (1996)
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Wikidata Q464716, film, IMDb tt0117333, TMDB 9294: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits John Travolta as star (Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis); 1 more episode agrees.
What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.
Who talked about it
Blank Check with Griffin & David
- Unattributed: 2 lines, the speaker unknown or under 0.5 sure.
The Rewatchables
- Unattributed: 1 line, the speaker unknown or under 0.5 sure.
Came from
What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.
No line says it drew on another film or person.
Led to
What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.
No line says another film or person drew on it.
Connected to
Flowers for Algernon: 1 line unmapped ×1
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unmapped (resemblance):
Phenomenon → Flowers for Algernon.
Phenomenon, with its lightning-struck genius dying of brain illness, is compared to Flowers for Algernon.
“Phenomenon is like flowers for Algebron.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:58:39 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
Get Shorty: 1 line verdict ×1
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verdict (verdict):
Phenomenon → Get Shorty.
Phenomenon and Michael lack cultural shelf life; Pulp Fiction and Get Shorty have it.
“those movies don't really have like a cultural shelf life, but pulp and get Shorty, um, for sure do.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:28:14 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
Michael: 1 line unmapped ×1
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unmapped (tonal twin):
Michael → Phenomenon.
Michael is the comedy version; Phenomenon is the serious, saccharine one.
“Michael's a comedy version. Phenomenon is like flowers for Algebron.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:58:36 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
Where it came up
- passing in Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fargo with Zach Cregger, first at 2:41:37, 1 time
- dismissed in Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis, first at 0:58:28, 6 times
- compared in The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey, first at 0:23:00, 4 times
What was said about it, by kind
unmapped (2)
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unmapped (tonal twin):
Michael → Phenomenon.
Michael is the comedy version; Phenomenon is the serious, saccharine one.
“Michael's a comedy version. Phenomenon is like flowers for Algebron.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:58:36 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
unmapped (resemblance):
Phenomenon → Flowers for Algernon.
Phenomenon, with its lightning-struck genius dying of brain illness, is compared to Flowers for Algernon.
“Phenomenon is like flowers for Algebron.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:58:39 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
verdict (1)
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verdict (verdict):
Phenomenon → Get Shorty.
Phenomenon and Michael lack cultural shelf life; Pulp Fiction and Get Shorty have it.
“those movies don't really have like a cultural shelf life, but pulp and get Shorty, um, for sure do.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:28:14 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
Fun items about it
None.
Who the speakers said made it
As said on the shows, not checked against the real credits.
- John Travolta: star (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis)
- John Travolta: actor (The Rewatchables, ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
- Nora Ephron: director/writer (The Rewatchables, ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
- Nora Ephron: director/writer (writing half) (The Rewatchables, ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
- Kyra Sedgwick: actor (The Rewatchables, ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)