What the corpus says about Hanging Up (2000)

What was said about it (26)

1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 1:19:54 · David Sims (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ The Whole Nine Yards · programming · The Whole Nine Yards was the comedy for the boys; Hanging Up opened with the same money as the female-led comedy. · "That's like the comedy for the boys and hanging up, which is opening with the exact same amount of money, is more of a female lead comedy."
2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 1:27:08 · David Sims (0.50)] Hanging Up ↔ Pitch Black · programming · Pitch Black opened fourth the same weekend as Hanging Up and has aged far better. · "It's just wild to think that that came out the same weekend as hanging up."
3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:14:03 · David Sims (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ You've Got Mail · lineage · Hanging Up is the phone/cell-phone sibling of the Ephron sisters' earlier email movie. · "isn't it funny that there's a Nora Efron project to, like, in the infancy of email that's like an email movie?"
4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:07:45 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ Mixed Nuts · theme · Like a movie a guest watched alone as a child, Hanging Up is a household movie in the speaker's sibling relationship. · "movies that are like, this is a household movie."
5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:27:31 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Hanging Up ↔ Birds of Prey · theme · Both make you wish the final act, where the characters finally share scenes, had been the whole movie. · "you go, I wish this had been the entire movie."
6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:36:11 · Griffin Newman (0.55)] Hanging Up ↔ Unstrung Heroes · theme · Keaton's earlier film about a boy and his difficult family sounds similar to Hanging Up. · "There are changes, it gets closer to his uncles, sounds similar to hanging up."
7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 1:10:13 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ One Fine Day · theme · Both are dated early cell-phone Hollywood films whose phone problems no longer exist. · "It's the same thing about one fine day, another classic of early cell phone Hollywood filmmaking"
8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 1:35:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ American Beauty · theme · Early 2000 cinema, Hanging Up included, reflected pre-9/11 confidence that would not last. · "And like, you're not going to make a movie like this a few years later."
9. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:38:46 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Hanging Up ↔ Elizabeth · craft · The score comes from the composer of Elizabeth and Shine and is more conventional or weighty than expected. · "the score from this movie is done by the man who did the score, his 2 previous, like, big scores before this, his 2 Oscar nominations were Elizabeth, and Shine."
10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:39:54 · David Sims (0.35)] Hanging Up ↔ Twin Peaks (TV series) · craft · Dream-state moments in Hanging Up read as Lynchian, beyond the Keaton Twin Peaks connection. · "Yes, it felt lynchian to me and not just because of the twin peaks connection."
11. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:57:55 · David Sims (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ The Shining · craft · The film feels like re-edited footage cut into a different genre, like trailer recuts of The Shining. · "The movie almost feels like one of those like trailer re-edits that used to be so popular"
12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:45:00 · David Sims (0.35)] Hanging Up ↔ Tuesdays with Morrie (TV film) · contrast · Matthau's menacing last role is set against Lemmon's sappy farewell. · "in my final role, I play Hollywood's Toxic Masculinity"
13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:58:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Hanging Up ↔ Sleepless in Seattle · contrast · Ephron made chemistry between leads who never share a room in Sleepless; Hanging Up's phone-separated sisters lack it. · "Nora Efron made a fucking movie, Sleepless in Seattle, where your 2 leads have chemistry together, despite not actually speaking until the last 10 minutes of the movie."
14. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:59:12 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Hanging Up ↔ When Harry Met Sally · contrast · When Harry Met Sally is also built on phone conversations yet has chemistry. · "so much of that movie is phone conversations, and it does feel like there's chemistry between those people."
15. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 1:09:10 · David Sims (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan · contrast · Space can be faked cheaply as in Wrath of Khan, but rich LA cannot. · "You can't fake rich LA, right?"
16. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 1:11:13 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ You've Got Mail · contrast · You've Got Mail still holds up because it understood email's psychology; Hanging Up's phone premise has aged out. · "you've got mail and you're like, they understood the psychological and sociological impact of email, even if the technology changed."
17. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:08:35 · Sonia Saraiya (0.55)] Hanging Up ↔ The Fast and the Furious · industry · The house in Hanging Up is the same house used in The Fast and the Furious. · "that's the house that's in the fast and the furious, but in my mind, that's the hanging up house."
18. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 1:08:01 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ Funny People · industry · Rich-person movies cost more because the locations must be rented and filled, as Apatow said of Funny People. · "it costs a lot of money to make a movie about a rich person."
19. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 1:12:09 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Hanging Up ↔ Titanic · industry · The podcast format lets it cover films like Hanging Up alongside Titanic or Star Wars. · "a podcast that could also cover things like Titanic or Star Wars"
20. [Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 1:25:17 · David Sims (0.60)] Meg Ryan ↔ Hanging Up · programming · The Meg Ryan film Hanging Up will get a Patreon bonus episode. · "hanging up, which, Griffin, we're going to discuss on Patreon."
21. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:05:09 · David Sims (0.45)] Hanging Up ↔ Nora Ephron · craft · The Nixon smoking-gun phone joke is the moment that feels most like Ephron comedic balance. · "That is also, that is the thing that feels the most effronny."
22. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:38:01 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Diane Keaton ↔ Hanging Up · craft · Keaton says she leaves actors alone, yet the film's big choices came in the editing room with gauzy crossfades. · "her biggest decisions are being made in the editing room at this movie."
23. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:36:22 · Griffin Newman (0.55)] Diane Keaton ↔ Hanging Up · career · Hanging Up was Keaton's biggest directing project and nearly the end of her directing career. · "And after that, she directs the pilot episode of Mike White's Pasadena for Fox and never directs ever again."
24. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:20:53 · Sonia Saraiya (0.90)] Sonia Saraiya ↔ Hanging Up · verdict · Saraiya did not like it in the theater and found it anticlimactic, yet cried at the last scene. · "I didn't actually like it when I saw it in the theater"
25. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:43:39 · David Sims (0.40)] Walter Matthau ↔ Hanging Up · verdict · Matthau's performance was good enough that a better-liked film might have brought an Oscar nomination. · "if this movie had been 10% more liked, it feels like he would have gotten an Oscar nomination."
26. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:49:28 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Tracee Ellis Ross ↔ Hanging Up · industry · Tracee Ellis Ross in a thankless assistant role is offered as an example of women of color in service roles in 90s rom-coms. · "you see a lot of like women of color showing up in thankless roles either as like service workers or personal assistants"

Films put beside it more than once (1)

1. [pairs] Hanging Up ↔ You've Got Mail · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:02:59 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Hanging Up · fun · IMDb carrot-costume quote: Maddie's demand to fight, answered by "fine" in unison. · "Ever since I was 7 years old for Halloween, I dressed up as a carrot and you 2 snuck off without me."
2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:04:56 · Griffin Newman (0.55)] Hanging Up · fun · The Nixon smoking-gun phone call is the favorite joke and feels most Ephron. · "My favorite joke in the movie is when Meg Ryan picks up the phone and it's Nixon, the smoking gun call"
3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:08:35 · Sonia Saraiya (0.55)] Hanging Up · fun · The house is the one from The Fast and the Furious; for Saraiya it stays the Hanging Up house. · "that's the house that's in the fast and the furious, but in my mind, that's the hanging up house."
4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:15:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Hanging Up · fun · Delia Ephron, overheard in a theater, said Keaton ruined the best thing she would write (told by Bobby on the You've Got Mail episode). · "She ruined the best thing I'll ever write."
5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:31:12 · David Sims (0.40)] Hanging Up · fun · Lisa Kudrow's subplot features a dog the size of a mountain. · "she has this dog, the size of a mountain."
6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:46:14 · Sonia Saraiya (0.50)] Hanging Up · fun · The Halloween birthday party for a five-year-old looks like it cost more than a wedding. · "probably cost more than my wedding."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (10)

1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:11:42 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ You've Got Mail · lineage · You've Got Mail is a remake of an old story, showing remakes can work. · "that's a story that had already been made like 3 other times before it was made for the AOL era."
2. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm · 1:17:11 · unknown (0.40)] The Ice Storm ↔ American Beauty · lineage · The Ice Storm teens read as younger versions of Thora Birch and Wes Bentley in American Beauty. · "these characters are like just the younger versions of Thorpe, Birch, and West Bentley and American beauty."
3. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 1:19:14 · David Sims (0.50)] The Lego Batman Movie ↔ Birds of Prey · craft · The Joker's funhouse set, color palette, bright lights and self-aware humor recall Birds of Prey. · "I even think, like, the color palette and the use of, like, bright lights and shit."
4. [Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:30:40 · unknown (0.00)] When Harry Met Sally ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read) · lineage · The party scene where someone says they read the writer's piece is lifted from When Harry Met Sally. · "Which is also, which is a scene that's ultimately like lifted from when Harry met Sally."
5. [Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:36:33 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] The Shop Around the Corner ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read) · lineage · Warner Brothers inherited the Turner library and the producer picked The Shop Around the Corner to remake. · "Lauren Schuler Donner looks at the library and goes, huh, shop around the corner."
6. [Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:38:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] She Loves Me (stage musical) ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read) · lineage · Griffin lists the earlier versions the story had been through, including the musical. · "She loves me shop around the corner and in the summertime."
7. [Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:38:59 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Ninotchka ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read) · lineage · Ephron borrowed the idea of rivals who are two sides of one coin from a Lubitsch picture. · "I mean she's pulling from like a different Lubich movie, which is here are 2 people who are opposite sides of the coin, don't realize they get along that way."
8. [Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:03:50 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] You've Got Mail ↔ Julie & Julia · theme · Ephron's last film is her overt food movie, though food runs through all her films. · "And obviously her last movie is her like overt food movie."
9. [Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:04:07 · unknown (0.00)] You've Got Mail ↔ Sleepless in Seattle · theme · Another memorable Ephron food moment: the apple in Sleepless in Seattle. · "The Apple and sleepless in Seattle."
10. [Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:04:09 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] You've Got Mail ↔ When Harry Met Sally · theme · Food scenes recur across Ephron's films: Katz's deli, the garnish here, the pie in Heartburn. · "And even obviously, like Cats's deli in... When Harry Met Sally and the Garnish here, like, and the pie in heartburn."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

1. [speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
2. [speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
3. [speaker] Sonia Saraiya · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · Has a personal history with Hanging Up (8th grade math trip, a DVD her sister loved) and reads it through sibling dynamics. Loves the final stuffing scene, Nora Ephron's texture, and the Georgia/Eve relationship; objects to the underwritten mother scene and tone-deaf diversity. Charmed by quaint 2000-era technology. · stances: The Georgia and Eve relationship is the most interesting thing in the film; The last scene made her cry despite finding the film anticlimactic; Meg Ryan's Eve is hard to root for; The film is obsolete technologically

The shows' running bits (1)

1. [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)

The whole prompt

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Hanging Up (2000) 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 Hanging Up (2000) 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.

[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 1:19:54 · David Sims (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ The Whole Nine Yards · programming · The Whole Nine Yards was the comedy for the boys; Hanging Up opened with the same money as the female-led comedy. · "That's like the comedy for the boys and hanging up, which is opening with the exact same amount of money, is more of a female lead comedy."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 1:27:08 · David Sims (0.50)] Hanging Up ↔ Pitch Black · programming · Pitch Black opened fourth the same weekend as Hanging Up and has aged far better. · "It's just wild to think that that came out the same weekend as hanging up."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:14:03 · David Sims (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ You've Got Mail · lineage · Hanging Up is the phone/cell-phone sibling of the Ephron sisters' earlier email movie. · "isn't it funny that there's a Nora Efron project to, like, in the infancy of email that's like an email movie?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:07:45 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ Mixed Nuts · theme · Like a movie a guest watched alone as a child, Hanging Up is a household movie in the speaker's sibling relationship. · "movies that are like, this is a household movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:27:31 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Hanging Up ↔ Birds of Prey · theme · Both make you wish the final act, where the characters finally share scenes, had been the whole movie. · "you go, I wish this had been the entire movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:36:11 · Griffin Newman (0.55)] Hanging Up ↔ Unstrung Heroes · theme · Keaton's earlier film about a boy and his difficult family sounds similar to Hanging Up. · "There are changes, it gets closer to his uncles, sounds similar to hanging up."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 1:10:13 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ One Fine Day · theme · Both are dated early cell-phone Hollywood films whose phone problems no longer exist. · "It's the same thing about one fine day, another classic of early cell phone Hollywood filmmaking"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 1:35:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ American Beauty · theme · Early 2000 cinema, Hanging Up included, reflected pre-9/11 confidence that would not last. · "And like, you're not going to make a movie like this a few years later."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:38:46 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Hanging Up ↔ Elizabeth · craft · The score comes from the composer of Elizabeth and Shine and is more conventional or weighty than expected. · "the score from this movie is done by the man who did the score, his 2 previous, like, big scores before this, his 2 Oscar nominations were Elizabeth, and Shine."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:39:54 · David Sims (0.35)] Hanging Up ↔ Twin Peaks (TV series) · craft · Dream-state moments in Hanging Up read as Lynchian, beyond the Keaton Twin Peaks connection. · "Yes, it felt lynchian to me and not just because of the twin peaks connection."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:57:55 · David Sims (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ The Shining · craft · The film feels like re-edited footage cut into a different genre, like trailer recuts of The Shining. · "The movie almost feels like one of those like trailer re-edits that used to be so popular"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:45:00 · David Sims (0.35)] Hanging Up ↔ Tuesdays with Morrie (TV film) · contrast · Matthau's menacing last role is set against Lemmon's sappy farewell. · "in my final role, I play Hollywood's Toxic Masculinity"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:58:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Hanging Up ↔ Sleepless in Seattle · contrast · Ephron made chemistry between leads who never share a room in Sleepless; Hanging Up's phone-separated sisters lack it. · "Nora Efron made a fucking movie, Sleepless in Seattle, where your 2 leads have chemistry together, despite not actually speaking until the last 10 minutes of the movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:59:12 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Hanging Up ↔ When Harry Met Sally · contrast · When Harry Met Sally is also built on phone conversations yet has chemistry. · "so much of that movie is phone conversations, and it does feel like there's chemistry between those people."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 1:09:10 · David Sims (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan · contrast · Space can be faked cheaply as in Wrath of Khan, but rich LA cannot. · "You can't fake rich LA, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 1:11:13 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ You've Got Mail · contrast · You've Got Mail still holds up because it understood email's psychology; Hanging Up's phone premise has aged out. · "you've got mail and you're like, they understood the psychological and sociological impact of email, even if the technology changed."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:08:35 · Sonia Saraiya (0.55)] Hanging Up ↔ The Fast and the Furious · industry · The house in Hanging Up is the same house used in The Fast and the Furious. · "that's the house that's in the fast and the furious, but in my mind, that's the hanging up house."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 1:08:01 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ Funny People · industry · Rich-person movies cost more because the locations must be rented and filled, as Apatow said of Funny People. · "it costs a lot of money to make a movie about a rich person."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 1:12:09 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Hanging Up ↔ Titanic · industry · The podcast format lets it cover films like Hanging Up alongside Titanic or Star Wars. · "a podcast that could also cover things like Titanic or Star Wars"
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 1:25:17 · David Sims (0.60)] Meg Ryan ↔ Hanging Up · programming · The Meg Ryan film Hanging Up will get a Patreon bonus episode. · "hanging up, which, Griffin, we're going to discuss on Patreon."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:05:09 · David Sims (0.45)] Hanging Up ↔ Nora Ephron · craft · The Nixon smoking-gun phone joke is the moment that feels most like Ephron comedic balance. · "That is also, that is the thing that feels the most effronny."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:38:01 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Diane Keaton ↔ Hanging Up · craft · Keaton says she leaves actors alone, yet the film's big choices came in the editing room with gauzy crossfades. · "her biggest decisions are being made in the editing room at this movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:36:22 · Griffin Newman (0.55)] Diane Keaton ↔ Hanging Up · career · Hanging Up was Keaton's biggest directing project and nearly the end of her directing career. · "And after that, she directs the pilot episode of Mike White's Pasadena for Fox and never directs ever again."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:20:53 · Sonia Saraiya (0.90)] Sonia Saraiya ↔ Hanging Up · verdict · Saraiya did not like it in the theater and found it anticlimactic, yet cried at the last scene. · "I didn't actually like it when I saw it in the theater"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:43:39 · David Sims (0.40)] Walter Matthau ↔ Hanging Up · verdict · Matthau's performance was good enough that a better-liked film might have brought an Oscar nomination. · "if this movie had been 10% more liked, it feels like he would have gotten an Oscar nomination."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:49:28 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Tracee Ellis Ross ↔ Hanging Up · industry · Tracee Ellis Ross in a thankless assistant role is offered as an example of women of color in service roles in 90s rom-coms. · "you see a lot of like women of color showing up in thankless roles either as like service workers or personal assistants"
[pairs] Hanging Up ↔ You've Got Mail · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:02:59 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Hanging Up · fun · IMDb carrot-costume quote: Maddie's demand to fight, answered by "fine" in unison. · "Ever since I was 7 years old for Halloween, I dressed up as a carrot and you 2 snuck off without me."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:04:56 · Griffin Newman (0.55)] Hanging Up · fun · The Nixon smoking-gun phone call is the favorite joke and feels most Ephron. · "My favorite joke in the movie is when Meg Ryan picks up the phone and it's Nixon, the smoking gun call"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:08:35 · Sonia Saraiya (0.55)] Hanging Up · fun · The house is the one from The Fast and the Furious; for Saraiya it stays the Hanging Up house. · "that's the house that's in the fast and the furious, but in my mind, that's the hanging up house."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:15:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Hanging Up · fun · Delia Ephron, overheard in a theater, said Keaton ruined the best thing she would write (told by Bobby on the You've Got Mail episode). · "She ruined the best thing I'll ever write."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:31:12 · David Sims (0.40)] Hanging Up · fun · Lisa Kudrow's subplot features a dog the size of a mountain. · "she has this dog, the size of a mountain."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:46:14 · Sonia Saraiya (0.50)] Hanging Up · fun · The Halloween birthday party for a five-year-old looks like it cost more than a wedding. · "probably cost more than my wedding."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:11:42 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ You've Got Mail · lineage · You've Got Mail is a remake of an old story, showing remakes can work. · "that's a story that had already been made like 3 other times before it was made for the AOL era."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm · 1:17:11 · unknown (0.40)] The Ice Storm ↔ American Beauty · lineage · The Ice Storm teens read as younger versions of Thora Birch and Wes Bentley in American Beauty. · "these characters are like just the younger versions of Thorpe, Birch, and West Bentley and American beauty."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 1:19:14 · David Sims (0.50)] The Lego Batman Movie ↔ Birds of Prey · craft · The Joker's funhouse set, color palette, bright lights and self-aware humor recall Birds of Prey. · "I even think, like, the color palette and the use of, like, bright lights and shit."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:30:40 · unknown (0.00)] When Harry Met Sally ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read) · lineage · The party scene where someone says they read the writer's piece is lifted from When Harry Met Sally. · "Which is also, which is a scene that's ultimately like lifted from when Harry met Sally."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:36:33 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] The Shop Around the Corner ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read) · lineage · Warner Brothers inherited the Turner library and the producer picked The Shop Around the Corner to remake. · "Lauren Schuler Donner looks at the library and goes, huh, shop around the corner."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:38:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] She Loves Me (stage musical) ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read) · lineage · Griffin lists the earlier versions the story had been through, including the musical. · "She loves me shop around the corner and in the summertime."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:38:59 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Ninotchka ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read) · lineage · Ephron borrowed the idea of rivals who are two sides of one coin from a Lubitsch picture. · "I mean she's pulling from like a different Lubich movie, which is here are 2 people who are opposite sides of the coin, don't realize they get along that way."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:03:50 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] You've Got Mail ↔ Julie & Julia · theme · Ephron's last film is her overt food movie, though food runs through all her films. · "And obviously her last movie is her like overt food movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:04:07 · unknown (0.00)] You've Got Mail ↔ Sleepless in Seattle · theme · Another memorable Ephron food moment: the apple in Sleepless in Seattle. · "The Apple and sleepless in Seattle."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:04:09 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] You've Got Mail ↔ When Harry Met Sally · theme · Food scenes recur across Ephron's films: Katz's deli, the garnish here, the pie in Heartburn. · "And even obviously, like Cats's deli in... When Harry Met Sally and the Garnish here, like, and the pie in heartburn."
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[speaker] Sonia Saraiya · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · Has a personal history with Hanging Up (8th grade math trip, a DVD her sister loved) and reads it through sibling dynamics. Loves the final stuffing scene, Nora Ephron's texture, and the Georgia/Eve relationship; objects to the underwritten mother scene and tone-deaf diversity. Charmed by quaint 2000-era technology. · stances: The Georgia and Eve relationship is the most interesting thing in the film; The last scene made her cry despite finding the film anticlimactic; Meg Ryan's Eve is hard to root for; The film is obsolete technologically
[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 Hanging Up (2000); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Hanging Up (2000) 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.