Harold Becker

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q942796: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Sea of Love, which Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri credits them on.

Counted as director, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: Taps (1981); Vision Quest (1985); Sea of Love (1989); Malice (1993); City Hall (1996); Mercury Rising (1998); Domestic Disturbance (2001); Big Town; Black Marble; The Boost; The Onion Field.

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.

Fatal Attraction (1987): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Domestic Disturbance (2001), which they directed: Fatal Attraction ⇒ Domestic Disturbance (the host's read). Domestic Disturbance is the late, bad entry in the 'from hell' thriller cycle that began with Fatal Attraction.
    “We had this really good run that starts with fatal fatal attraction into the 80s.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:04:54 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Ransom (1996): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Domestic Disturbance (2001), which they directed: Ransom ⇒ Domestic Disturbance (the host's read). Travolta tries to get mean like Mel Gibson in Ransom but lacks that gear.
    “he's trying to do like Mel Gibson and Ransom, but he just does not have that gear at all.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:54:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Stepfather: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Domestic Disturbance (2001), which they directed: The Stepfather ⇒ Domestic Disturbance (the host's read). Domestic Disturbance is a stepfather-from-hell movie, a premise already done by The Stepfather.
    “Which, by the way, we'd already done with the stepfather with Terry Quinn.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:07:10 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Directing (14) everyone in directing

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career): Harold Becker → Vision Quest. Becker's filmography is recited: Taps, Vision Quest, Big Town, The Boost, Sea of Love, Malice.
    “He does Taps and Vision Quest.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:30:20 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Harold Becker → The Onion Field. Becker made genuinely good movies, such as The Onion Field and Black Marble.
    “His movies, you know, Onion Field is a legitimately great movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:49:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Harold Becker → Michael Hogarth. On his commentary Becker praises the film's credits and their maker, Michael Hogarth, as relayed by the host.
    “I really like these, these, these credits that we made for this film, you know, great credit maker. His name's Michael Hogarth. He's a wonderful guy.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:48:14 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (programming): Harold Becker → Stanley Kubrick. Becker now has as many movies on The Rewatchables as Stanley Kubrick.
    “Harold Becker now has the same number of movies on the rewatchables is Stanley Kubrick.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:30:40 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

None.