What the corpus says about Kicking and Screaming (2005)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Kicking and Screaming (2005) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about Kicking and Screaming (2005) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:00:32 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Metropolitan ↔ Kicking and Screaming · lineage · Amanda found Stillman and Baumbach's Kicking and Screaming at the same time as 90s indie movies. · "I think I saw Whistleman and Noah Bombach kicking and screaming"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 1:55:06 · unknown (0.40)] Kicking and Screaming ↔ The Big Chill · theme · Falls into the same category. · "I love kicking and screaming, and this falls into that category team."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 1:28:22 · Chuck Klosterman (0.50)] Reality Bites ↔ Kicking and Screaming · contrast · Kicking and Screaming ends with a futile romantic gesture, which makes it the superior movie. · "kicking and screaming has such like a powerful ending precisely because the great romantic gesture is just ultimately futile."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:02:05 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Chris Eigeman ↔ Kicking and Screaming · career · Eigeman is in Metropolitan and in Kicking and Screaming. · "And so he's obviously in this, kicking and screaming."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 1:06:26 · unknown (0.00)] Parker Posey ↔ Kicking and Screaming · career · Posey was the queen of indie cinema, and a mainstream role was still a novelty. · "This is when she's in this, I feel like she's just fully the queen of indie cinema, right?"
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:00:02 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Amanda Dobbins ↔ Metropolitan · programming · Pick 11 (round 4), category comedy: Drafting with her heart; Stillman formative for her. · "So in comedy, I'm going to take metropolitan."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:03:13 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Reality Bites ↔ Singles · lineage · Simmons builds a four-movie Gen X Mount Rushmore. · "For movies, I would go singles, reality bites before sunrise and kicking and screaming."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 1:48:35 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Grand Canyon ↔ The Big Chill · programming · Chosen as the best double feature with The Big Chill, though two hosts are mixed on it. · "Grand Canyon, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:03:30 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Reality Bites ↔ Before Sunrise · lineage · Part of the same four-film Gen X set. · "Kind of like, if you were going to explain Generation X in 4 movies, I would pick those for, which one would you knock out singles?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:04:50 · unknown (0.40)] The Big Chill ⇒ Beautiful Girls (the host's read) · lineage · Named among the later films that tried and failed to be the Big Chill for a new generation, along with About Alex. · "I remember beautiful girls tried in the mid 90s and there's a movie called About Alex and the mid 2010s."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:03:37 · Chuck Klosterman (0.70)] Slacker ↔ Reality Bites · lineage · Klosterman says Slacker belongs in the Gen X group because its script appears in the Gen X Reader. · "there's a anthology book called the Gen X Reader, and some of the slacker script is in that book."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:05:04 · unknown (0.40)] Return of the Secaucus 7 ⇒ The Big Chill (the host's read) · lineage · Called a precursor to The Big Chill. · "precursor to this movie, Socaucus 7 is like this."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:12:44 · unknown (0.40)] The Big Chill ⇒ Reality Bites (the host's read) · theme · Reality Bites is the young-person reaction to the sold-out generation The Big Chill depicts. · "And then that's why like reality bites hits and you see reality bites and you're like, oh, that's why Troy is like, fuck everything."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:05:20 · unknown (0.40)] The Big Chill ⇒ 10 Years (the host's read) · lineage · Another reunion-with-a-great-cast attempt that did not match The Big Chill. · "I kind of like 10 years."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:05:15 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] Singles ↔ Reality Bites · theme · Without the Seattle music, Singles would not even be connected to Reality Bites. · "Whereas singles, had they used a different soundtrack."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:05:24 · unknown (0.40)] The Big Chill ⇒ The Intervention (the host's read) · lineage · Another indie friends-weekend film in the same vortex. · "There was a movie called The Intervention."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:20:06 · Chuck Klosterman (0.50)] Reality Bites ↔ High Fidelity · theme · Frampton Comes Alive as a signal of mainstream taste echoes a Frampton cover scene in High Fidelity. · "In the book High Fidelity,"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 1:11:06 · unknown (0.30)] The Big Chill ⇒ Hometown (TV series) (the host's read) · lineage · The Big Chill was adapted as a short-lived 16-episode TV series called Hometown in 1986. · "As the short-lived series hometown?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 1:36:21 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Reality Bites ↔ Singles · theme · In the Hawke clip, Singles lacked the central performance and script voice Reality Bites has. · "But singles was trying to cop onto this grunge movement, this thing that was happening in Seattle."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 1:15:33 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ The Big Chill · theme · The pot in the film is called grass; Big Chill and Dazed and Confused are the movies where white people smoke grass. · "You know what movie they smoked grass in?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:08:35 · Chuck Klosterman (0.50)] Dazed and Confused ↔ Reality Bites · craft · Two kinds of generational movie: looking back at a past era (Dazed, Graffiti) versus real time (Reality Bites, Saturday Night Fever). · "And then there are the movies where they actually try to do it in real time, like Saturday Night Fever is like this, and reality bites is like the clearest example."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 1:20:13 · Van Lathan (0.80)] Friday the 13th ↔ The Big Chill · theme · Van's flex: a top five of movies that did not need Black people, with Friday the 13th at number five. · "Number five, Friday the 13th."
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] Chuck Klosterman · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · Obsessed with how the 90s defined selling out, indie rock ethos, and how art and commerce collided; dislikes the English-major Troy type. Loves Kicking and Screaming over Reality Bites. · stances: Selling out was the central 90s tension; Kicking and Screaming is superior; Hawke won the movie
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Kicking and Screaming (2005); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Kicking and Screaming (2005) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.