Meg Ryan

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q167498: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Addicted to Love, which After Hours with Alison Sivitz credits them on.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Top Gun (1986); When Harry Met Sally (1989); Joe Versus the Volcano (1990); Prelude to a Kiss (1992); Sleepless in Seattle (1993); French Kiss (1995); Addicted to Love (1997); City of Angels (1998); You've Got Mail (1998); Hanging Up (2000); Proof of Life (2000); Kate & Leopold (2001); In the Cut (2003); Against the Ropes (2004); Courage Under Fire; IQ; Innerspace; The Women; When a Man Loves a Woman.

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)

About Last Night (2014): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through When Harry Met Sally (1989), which they acted in: About Last Night ⇒ When Harry Met Sally (the host's read). About Last Night paved the way for When Harry Met Sally and other R-rated rom-coms.
    “which I don't think it's enough credit for 80s kind of paving the way for when Harry Met Sally and some of these other ones.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 2:14:05 · unknown (0.40 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)

Susanna Moore: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through In the Cut (2003), which they acted in: Susanna Moore ⇒ In the Cut (the host's read). Campion had been developing the film since the mid-90s, when she read Moore's novel.
    “Campion had been working on this movie since the mid 90s when she read Susanna Moore's novel, which came out in 95.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:24:44 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)

When Harry Met Sally (1989): 1 line, within their own work

  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)

Woody Allen: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through When Harry Met Sally (1989), which they acted in: Woody Allen ⇒ When Harry Met Sally (the host's read). A speaker says Harry Met Sally uses New York as a character, which was the Woody Allen trick.
    “Well, and it uses New York too as like a real character, which was the Woody Allen trick.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:06:52 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

Days of Thunder (1990): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Top Gun (1986), which they acted in: Top Gun ⇒ Days of Thunder (the host's read). Days of Thunder is essentially Top Gun with cars.
    “it's essentially just Top Gun with cars”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:49:49 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (retread) · through Top Gun (1986), which they acted in: Top Gun ⇒ Days of Thunder (the host's read). Days of Thunder is tapping the same vein as Top Gun in its afterburner.
    “we're still like in the vapor trail, the afterburner of Top Gun here”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:00:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Knocked Up (2007): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through When Harry Met Sally (1989), which they acted in: When Harry Met Sally ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read). Bill dates the rom-com boom as starting with When Harry Met Sally and running to the mid 2000s, with Knocked Up on the other side of the shift.
    “It starts with when Harry Met Sally.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:03:12 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)

Top Gun: Maverick (2022): 1 line

  1. lineage (sequel verdict) · through Top Gun (1986), which they acted in: Top Gun ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read). Chris says the sequel delivered and is better than the first, and Amanda agrees.
    “It's better than the 1st one”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:26:26 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)

You've Got Mail (1998): 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (lineage) · through When Harry Met Sally (1989), 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)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (38) everyone in acting

Other (2) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (11)

  1. career (career move): Prelude to a Kiss → Meg Ryan. Prelude was Baldwin trying to get a hit as Meg Ryan's career was exploding.
    “I think prelude to a kiss was him trying to get a bona fide hit because everything that she was in at that point was going so huge.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ With Bill Simmons and Van Lathan · 0:20:59 · Van Lathan (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Meg Ryan → When Harry Met Sally. When Harry Met Sally is named as Ryan's breakthrough into the beloved-star persona.
    “But then, like, obviously, when Harry Man Sally is like the breakthrough, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:16:28 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Meg Ryan → Courage Under Fire. Whenever Ryan tried to break out of her signature role, as in Courage Under Fire or Addicted to Love, audiences stayed away.
    “just think of like courage under fire or addicted to love or whatever, any movie where she's kind of trying to like break out of the role she's best known for, audiences are not interested”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:16:55 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Meg Ryan → Proof of Life. Proof of Life is called step one of Ryan trying to work in the Courage Under Fire genre; it flopped.
    “So proof of life is like step one of like, can I try to work in sort of the courage under fire genre, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:22:31 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Meg Ryan → Kate & Leopold. Kate & Leopold, with a younger co-star, is framed as her last Meg Ryan movie.
    “And she's doing it with a younger man and it's sort of like her being like, I maybe got one of these left in me.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:22:55 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
  6. career (career): Meg Ryan → Against the Ropes. The year after, Ryan did Against the Ropes and people were baffled.
    “Against the ropes, the Charles S. Dutton boxing trainer movie, where people are like, what the fuck is this?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:33:22 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
  7. career (career): Meg Ryan → Addicted to Love. Ryan can play dark and unhinged, as in Addicted to Love; Hanks cannot.
    “Meg Ryan has more character actor versatility than Hanks does in terms of how she can play with the persona.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:22:16 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  8. career (career): Meg Ryan → City of Angels. The same year Ryan also made City of Angels, dismissed as a chick flick.
    “This year she has, you've got Mail, and she has City of Angels, which, despite being a remake of a German masterpiece, is roundly just dismisses like, eh, Chick Flick, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:23:37 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  9. career (career): Meg Ryan → Kate & Leopold. After the scandal she makes Kate and Leopold, her last decent hit.
    “Kate and Leopold, which I love is, you know, decent hit and is a great movie, and that's more her just being like, I'll do a rom-com.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:25:45 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  10. career (career): Meg Ryan → Russell Crowe. The scandal around Russell Crowe is blamed for wrecking Ryan's career, a sexist outcome.
    “The Russell Crowe thing totally ruins her.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:26:00 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  11. career (career): Meg Ryan → Proof of Life. Hanging Up marks the start of the end of Meg Ryan's run, the same year as Proof of Life.
    “this certainly is sort of the beginning of the end because this is the year of proof of life.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:07:18 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

contrast (2)

  1. contrast (contrast): Nicole Kidman → Meg Ryan. Too beautiful in her 20s to be cast as the Meg Ryan rom-com lead, she took girlfriend parts instead.
    “But she's almost like too beautiful in her 20s to be cast as Meg Ryan.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:40:59 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Meg Ryan → Isabelle Huppert. A European actress like Huppert could do this role in her sleep with no outcry; Ryan was punished.
    “Isabel Hupere could do this in her fucking sleep, man.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:55:05 · Jourdain Searles (0.50 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (people): Tom Hanks → Meg Ryan. A romantic pair who made three movies together is the closest modern analog to Douglas and Turner, counting Joe Versus the Volcano.
    “No, they did 3 because Joe and the volcano, right?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:37:17 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Jack Quaid → Meg Ryan. Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid's son has no ego and chooses good projects.
    “He is also one of those dudes who, for being the son of 2 massive movie stars, has no fucking ego, no entitlement whatsoever.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:27:39 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (programming): Meg Ryan → Hanging Up. 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 · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:25:17 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

theme (2)

  1. theme (theme): In the Cut → Meg Ryan. The silent-film flashbacks are Ryan's romcom fantasy, an impossible ideal.
    “This is like a fucking fantasy that they grew up on that I think Meg Ryan has spent her life hoping she could replicate in her life that she could experience a Meg Ryan movie plot, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 1:32:44 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme): Debra Winger → Meg Ryan. Winger's Radio return after years away is a counterweight to Ryan's struggle for parts at 40.
    “counter counterweight to uh, all this stuff we're talking about with fucking Meg Ryan's career and where she was at crossing 40”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 1:46:43 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): Meg Ryan → Working Girl. Ryan might not have managed the accent, the baggage, or the sex appeal.
    “I don't know if she could have pulled off the accent and the baggage part.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 1:32:40 · Joanna Robinson (0.60 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Meg Ryan: The film has Meg Ryan hit by cars repeatedly; her family notes it is the third time this year.
    “And then later, her husband and kid are like, what's that, like, the 3rd time this year?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:29:54 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)