The Good Son (1993)
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Wikidata Q589713, film, IMDb tt0107034, TMDB 9272: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Macaulay Culkin as actor (‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan); 1 more episode agrees.
What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.
Who talked about it
Blank Check with Griffin & David
The Rewatchables
- Bill Simmons: 2 lines in ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan
- Unattributed: 3 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
Domestic Disturbance: 2 lines what-if ×1 programming ×1
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programming (programming):
Domestic Disturbance → The Good Son.
The Good Son (another from-hell movie, already done) is the following week's episode.
“Well, we did this out of sequence, but good, uh, the good sun, which we've already done is coming next week”
The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:33:41 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
Brightburn: 1 line unmapped ×1
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unmapped (evil-kid horror):
The Good Son → Brightburn.
Evil-kid horror lineage: The Good Son, The Omen, Orphan, and Brightburn (Superman-as-alien child).
“He made a movie called Brightburn. Oh, Brightburn's great.”
The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:17:05 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
Macaulay Culkin: 1 line unmapped ×1
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unmapped (dubbing):
The Good Son → Macaulay Culkin.
Culkin's swearing was overdubbed to protect his image.
“They had to overdub him swearing because they didn't want it to if they wanted to be able to say he's still like he is not sullied by the swear words.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 2:50:02 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
Roger Ebert: 1 line verdict ×1
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verdict (verdict):
Roger Ebert → The Good Son.
Ebert's Domestic Disturbance rating is compared with his half-star for The Good Son.
“Last week, Good Son was a half star when we recorded that.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:36:44 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
What About Bob?: 1 line theme ×1
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theme (house comparison):
What About Bob? → The Good Son.
Bill says the lake house is one thing, but the house in The Good Son was probably made up; leads to Culkin evil-kid horror.
“Here's here's where this game ends when you see the house from the good house from the good son.”
The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:16:00 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
Where it came up
- passing in Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons, first at 2:49:59, 2 times
- compared in The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey, first at 0:05:00, 7 times
- anecdote in The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan, first at 1:16:00, 2 times
- passing in Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free), first at 2:33:15, 1 time
What was said about it, by kind
programming (1)
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programming (programming):
Domestic Disturbance → The Good Son.
The Good Son (another from-hell movie, already done) is the following week's episode.
“Well, we did this out of sequence, but good, uh, the good sun, which we've already done is coming next week”
The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:33:41 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (1)
-
theme (house comparison):
What About Bob? → The Good Son.
Bill says the lake house is one thing, but the house in The Good Son was probably made up; leads to Culkin evil-kid horror.
“Here's here's where this game ends when you see the house from the good house from the good son.”
The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:16:00 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
unmapped (2)
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unmapped (dubbing):
The Good Son → Macaulay Culkin.
Culkin's swearing was overdubbed to protect his image.
“They had to overdub him swearing because they didn't want it to if they wanted to be able to say he's still like he is not sullied by the swear words.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 2:50:02 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them) -
unmapped (evil-kid horror):
The Good Son → Brightburn.
Evil-kid horror lineage: The Good Son, The Omen, Orphan, and Brightburn (Superman-as-alien child).
“He made a movie called Brightburn. Oh, Brightburn's great.”
The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:17:05 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
verdict (1)
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verdict (verdict):
Roger Ebert → The Good Son.
Ebert's Domestic Disturbance rating is compared with his half-star for The Good Son.
“Last week, Good Son was a half star when we recorded that.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:36:44 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (1)
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what-if (what-if):
The Good Son → Domestic Disturbance.
A crossover where Culkin's Good Son killer meets this movie's villain.
“It would be kind of amazing if Culkin was doing good sun in this movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:31:02 · 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.
- Roger Ebert: critic (The Rewatchables, ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
- Macaulay Culkin: actor (The Rewatchables, ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan)
- Macaulay Culkin: actor (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Fearless with Timothy Simons)
- Macaulay Culkin: actor (Blank Check — Patreon, The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free))
- Macaulay Culkin: actor (The Rewatchables, ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
- Elijah Wood: child actor of the era (The Rewatchables, ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan)