Greg Kinnear

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q269869: 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: Sabrina (1995); Dear God (1996); As Good as It Gets (1997); You've Got Mail (1998); Loser (2000); Nurse Betty (2000); Auto Focus (2002); Stuck on You (2003); Anita Hill biopic (HBO; title not said); Brigsby Bear; Flash of Genius; Mystery Men; Same Kind of Different as Me; Talk Soup; The Last Song.

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.

The Shop Around the Corner: 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through You've Got Mail (1998), which they acted in: The Shop Around the Corner ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read). 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 with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:36:33 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft) · through You've Got Mail (1998), which they acted in: The Shop Around the Corner ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read). Three scenes appear almost verbatim in all three screen versions, including the friend's line about her coloring.
    “3 scenes that exist almost verbatim in all 3 movie versions, which are the scene with the friend, the Dave Chappelle scene where he takes a look at her.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:57:29 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

Ninotchka: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through You've Got Mail (1998), which they acted in: Ninotchka ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read). 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 with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:38:59 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

She Loves Me (stage musical): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through You've Got Mail (1998), which they acted in: She Loves Me (stage musical) ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read). 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 with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:38:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

When Harry Met Sally (1989): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through You've Got Mail (1998), which they acted in: When Harry Met Sally ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read). 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 with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:30:40 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

Chill Factor (1999): 1 line

  1. people (people) · through As Good as It Gets (1997), which they acted in: As Good as It Gets ⇒ Chill Factor (the host's read). Gooding and Skeet Ulrich supposedly bonded on this set and made Chill Factor together.
    “They clearly just hit it off so hard at the craft service table on as good as it gets that they said, we got to find a vehicle for the 2 of us”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 0:58:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (19) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

career (8)

  1. career (career): Greg Kinnear → Sabrina. Kinnear went from Talk Soup to Sabrina, a disappointing prestige remake.
    “Sidney Pollock, Academy Award winner plucks him to start on a remake of Sabrina”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 0:45:09 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Greg Kinnear → Dear God. A second disappointing Kinnear vehicle that followed Sabrina.
    “Yes, and then there's also Dear God, a Gary Marshall movie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 0:45:38 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Greg Kinnear → You've Got Mail. After the film Kinnear keeps being the obstacle in someone else's romance.
    “He plays the Baxter in that.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 0:46:45 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Greg Kinnear → Nurse Betty. Kinnear is again the unwanted man, here scalped.
    “He gets his head, his scalp cut off.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 0:46:58 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Greg Kinnear → Loser. Cast as a creepy professor sleeping with a student.
    “Loser, he plays creepy college professor.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 0:47:06 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. career (career): Greg Kinnear → Auto Focus. In 2002 he made an Oscar-style movie about a porn-filming Hogan's Heroes actor.
    “he makes autofocus, which everyone's like, oh, here's an Oscar, Oscar movie”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 0:47:27 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  7. career (career): Greg Kinnear → Mystery Men. Kinnear's next year he plays the Baxter of superheroes, continuing the guy-who-gets-dumped type.
    “The next year is mystery men where he's like the Baxter of superheroes.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:31:09 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  8. career (career): Greg Kinnear → As Good as It Gets. Ephron and Delia wanted the actor after his As Good as It Gets notices and he was about to blow up.
    “Uh, it's Delia Nora Efron, go see as good as it gets.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:31:44 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Cuba Gooding Jr. → Greg Kinnear. Gooding is big; Kinnear plays a sensitive shrinking violet.
    “Because Kuneer can, he's so good at playing such like a sensitive shrinking violet.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 1:10:28 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): Greg Kinnear → You've Got Mail. Kinnear agreed to take the part on condition that his character's exit be the softer restaurant scene.
    “Kinnear said, I'll do the movie if this is how my character line ends.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:32:47 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (verdict): As Good as It Gets → Greg Kinnear. Chris asks if the film is Kinnear's career peak.
    “as good as it gets, is it peak Kaneer?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 0:45:55 · Chris Gethard (0.80 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): Greg Kinnear → Breaking Away. A host quips Greg Kinnear (from Indiana) could have been in Breaking Away.
    “Greg Kinnear could have been in that.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 1:49:49 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Greg Kinnear: Kinnear's pitch gave the restaurant breakup scene its soft ending.
    “Kinnear said, I'll do the movie if this is how my character line ends.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:32:47 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)