Max Perlich

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q330762: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986); Beautiful Girls (1996).

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, 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.

48 Hrs. (1982): 1 line

  1. craft (comedic device) · through Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), which they acted in: 48 Hrs. ⇒ Ferris Bueller's Day Off (the host's read). Ferris's impersonation bit is the suburban white guy riff on Eddie Murphy in 48 Hrs.
    “it's the suburban white guy riff on, on, uh, Eddie Murphy in torchies in 48 hours, right?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:37:28 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)

John Hughes: 1 line

  1. people (auteur culmination) · through Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), which they acted in: John Hughes ⇒ Ferris Bueller's Day Off (the host's read). Cameron is the culmination of five years of Hughes teen movies trying to get that character right.
    “the Cameron character is a culmination of 5 years of John Hughes teen movies, him trying to get this character correct, and then I feel like he finally did.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:04:56 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)

The Big Chill (1983): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Beautiful Girls (1996), which they acted in: The Big Chill ⇒ Beautiful Girls (the host's read). 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 · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:04:50 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Easy A (2010): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), which they acted in: Ferris Bueller's Day Off ⇒ Easy A (the maker said so). Director Will Gluck has said Ferris Bueller is his favorite movie, and Olive's Mohawk and guitar bits echo it.
    “I think the director, Will Gluck, has like talked about how Ferris Bueller is, I think, his favorite movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:12:38 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)

Home Alone (1990): 1 line

  1. unmapped (dry run) · through Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), which they acted in: Ferris Bueller's Day Off ⇒ Home Alone (the host's read). Rooney getting beaten up by the house is Hughes's dry run for Home Alone.
    “Hughes has like a dry run for home alone when when Rooney goes to the house.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:19:48 · Chris Ryan (0.70 sure it was them)

Parker Lewis Can't Lose (1990): 1 line

  1. unmapped (derivative) · through Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), which they acted in: Ferris Bueller's Day Off ⇒ Parker Lewis Can't Lose (the host's read). Parker Lewis Can't Lose is essentially Ferris Bueller and preferred over the actual TV adaptation.
    “do you guys prefer the Ferris Bueller TV adaptation or Parker Lewis Can't Lose, which is essentially just Ferris Bueller?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:15:08 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

The Ferris Bueller Show (TV, 1990): 1 line

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), which they acted in: Ferris Bueller's Day Off ⇒ The Ferris Bueller Show (TV, 1990) (the host's read). A 1990 NBC series with Jennifer Aniston as Jeanie, which the hosts call bad.
    “The Ferris Bueller Show, 1990, NBC.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:14:56 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (2) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

people (1)

  1. people (that guy filmography): Max Perlich → Beautiful Girls. Classroom actor Perlich also appears in Beautiful Girls, My Own Private Idaho, and Drugstore Cowboy.
    “Is he in my own private Idaho or drugstore cowboy?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:04:22 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

None.