Single White Female (1992)
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Wikidata Q1542371, film, IMDb tt0105414, TMDB 9605: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only film by that title; 1 more episode agrees.
What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.
The Rewatchables' awards
Picked in other episodes
- Apex Mountain (pick) for Die Hard 2 (1990): Icicle eye stabbing is a yes, but the heel in the eye in Single White Female is still the best eye stabbing. unknown · 1:05:31
Who talked about it
Blank Check — Patreon
- Unattributed: 1 line, the speaker unknown or under 0.5 sure.
The Rewatchables
- Bill Simmons: 1 line in ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey
- Unattributed: 2 lines, 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
Die Hard 2: 1 line unmapped ×1
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unmapped (eye stabbing):
Die Hard 2 → Single White Female.
Icicle eye stab is good but Single White Female's heel is the number one eye stabbing.
“single white female, the heel and the high is the number one eye stabbing that I can remember.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:05:31 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
Domestic Disturbance: 1 line theme ×1
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theme (theme):
Domestic Disturbance → Single White Female.
The cycle can be read as 80s-90s anxiety (AIDS, a foreign presence coming in) and class/yuppie fear.
“there's like the AIDS crisis and movies like single white female and this idea of like some foreign presence coming in and changing your life”
The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:06:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
Internal Affairs: 1 line lineage ×1
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lineage (lineage):
Internal Affairs → Single White Female.
The dark, weird-sex run of movies carries on into Single White Female in 92.
“Even through like single white female.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:27:18 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
Jennifer Jason Lee: 1 line career ×1
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career (career):
Jennifer Jason Lee → Single White Female.
Single White Female was the closest Lee came to a movie-star moment.
“That was the closest maybe she ever came to like having a movie star thing.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 1:04:26 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
Where it came up
- compared in The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey, first at 0:02:41, 4 times
- compared in The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan, first at 0:27:18, 6 times
- compared in The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey, first at 1:05:31, 1 time
- passing in The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey, first at 0:41:54, 1 time
- passing in Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free), first at 1:04:13, 1 time
What was said about it, by kind
career (1)
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career (career):
Jennifer Jason Lee → Single White Female.
Single White Female was the closest Lee came to a movie-star moment.
“That was the closest maybe she ever came to like having a movie star thing.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 1:04:26 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
lineage (1)
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lineage (lineage):
Internal Affairs → Single White Female.
The dark, weird-sex run of movies carries on into Single White Female in 92.
“Even through like single white female.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:27:18 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (1)
-
theme (theme):
Domestic Disturbance → Single White Female.
The cycle can be read as 80s-90s anxiety (AIDS, a foreign presence coming in) and class/yuppie fear.
“there's like the AIDS crisis and movies like single white female and this idea of like some foreign presence coming in and changing your life”
The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:06:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (1)
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unmapped (eye stabbing):
Die Hard 2 → Single White Female.
Icicle eye stab is good but Single White Female's heel is the number one eye stabbing.
“single white female, the heel and the high is the number one eye stabbing that I can remember.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:05:31 · Bill Simmons (0.60 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.
- Jennifer Jason Leigh: actor (The Rewatchables, ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
- Barbet Schroeder: director (The Rewatchables, ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
- Jennifer Jason Lee: actor (Blank Check — Patreon, In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free))
- Bridget Fonda: actor (The Rewatchables, ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan)
- Peter Friedman: actor (The Rewatchables, ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan)