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Joe Neumaier, WOR Movie Minute host Interview · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: It's time now for Joe Neumeier, film journalist, WOR movie
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  Speaker 1: minute host. By the way, as I've mentioned a couple
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  Speaker 1: of times, and I know Joe, you're upset about this.
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  Speaker 1: Curtis Lewa is off today. He's had an event that
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  Speaker 1: he had to go to last night. Hey, listen, we've
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  Speaker 1: talked about this before, that this time of year is
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  Speaker 1: not usually a good time of year for movies because
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  Speaker 1: people don't have any more vacation time left. Kids are
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  Speaker 1: back in school. And so they know they're not going
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  Speaker 1: to make so much money. But every once in a while,
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  Speaker 1: a good movie sneaks through. Every once in a while.
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  Speaker 1: So is that going to happen this weekend?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's not. However, we'll take this later. So let's
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  Speaker 2: get that right out of the way right off the bat. But...
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  Speaker 2: This weekend is actually proving to be a really interesting
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  Speaker 2: one at the box office. And I'll explain that. Because
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  Speaker 2: what you're having is a movie that a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people are calling the worst film of the year so far.
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  Speaker 2: And then you have another film that a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people are calling the worst film of the year. And
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  Speaker 2: I don't think either one of them are that bad.
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  Speaker 2: They both try different things. So maybe that sort of
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  Speaker 2: speaks to what we're talking about. Yeah, it's that time
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  Speaker 2: of year. And here come the two worst films of
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  Speaker 2: the year. Come marching in hand in hand. But let's...
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  Speaker 2: Let's start off with the one that I think is better,
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  Speaker 2: which is Verity. And a lot of people have been
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  Speaker 2: giving this movie a lot of guff. They've been saying, oh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's really it's trashy and it's and it's,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's trying to be this 80s thriller thing.
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  Speaker 2: And to which I sort of say, like, yeah, OK,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that might be kind of fun. And it
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  Speaker 2: actually is. It's with Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson. And
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  Speaker 2: it's based on these books, one of the books by
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  Speaker 2: this author named Colleen Hoover. And a couple of movies,
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  Speaker 2: three movies have been made from her books before. She's
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  Speaker 2: very popular. It's like an airport novelist kind of thing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you find her books in airports. But this
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  Speaker 2: one sort of reminds me a little of like the
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  Speaker 2: movies of the 80s, like Body Double or Dressed to
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  Speaker 2: Kill or Single White Female, things like that. Even a
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  Speaker 2: little like Jagged Edge. Dakota Johnson is a young author
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  Speaker 2: who's hired to finish the novel of a very popular
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  Speaker 2: novelist who's paralyzed from an accident. She's played by Anne Hathaway. And,
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  Speaker 2: of course, she moves into their house, and something starts
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  Speaker 2: to happen with the husband, who's played by Josh Hartnett.
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  Speaker 2: And there's sort of all these mysterious things going on.
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  Speaker 2: There's lots of mixture of fact or fiction, what's real,
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  Speaker 2: what's not. Is Anne Hathaway really paralyzed? It's totally over
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  Speaker 2: the top, but really, I thought it was kind of fun,
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  Speaker 2: and I think a lot of critics are taking it
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  Speaker 2: like it's supposed to be a Hitchcock film. It's not.
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  Speaker 2: It's supposed to be sort of like a trashy 80s film,
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  Speaker 2: which it is. So I think Verity is a lot
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  Speaker 2: of fun. I'd give it four stars. Just don't go
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  Speaker 2: in expecting high art, because a lot of people are
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  Speaker 2: calling it trash, and it's sort of like it's just
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  Speaker 2: trashy fun. So that's the one movie. Four stars! Four stars!
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  Speaker 2: Four stars. I'm giving it four stars. I gave Spider-Man three.
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  Speaker 2: I know. I wasn't going to say it. Curtis would say,
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  Speaker 2: and what did you give Spider-Man, Joe Neumeier?
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  Speaker 3: That is going to be his line for the rest.
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  Speaker 3: Everything is going to compare to the three of Spider-Man.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be on my tombstone. It's going to
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  Speaker 2: be on my tombstone. Yes, I gave Spider-Man three stars.
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  Speaker 2: How much money has that made so far?
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  Speaker 1: Spider-Man.
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  Speaker 2: Spider-Man made more money than they actually have on the world.
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  Speaker 2: So it makes too much money. Let's just leave it
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  Speaker 2: at that. So what's the other movie? The other movie
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  Speaker 2: is called Digger. And it's the new movie with Tom Cruise,
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  Speaker 2: which is pretty much how anybody sort of knows it.
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  Speaker 2: It's the Tom Cruise movie. And it's Tom Cruise like
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  Speaker 2: under some makeup. and he plays like an older guy
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  Speaker 2: in his 60s or early 70s. He's an oil baron,
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  Speaker 2: and there's been an accident at one of his rigs.
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  Speaker 2: And so this rich guy, this guy who's named Digger,
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  Speaker 2: played by Cruise, and it sets off an environmental disaster.
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  Speaker 2: And he kind of gets the president, who's played by
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  Speaker 2: John Goodman. It's a comedy. It's kind of like Doctor Strange,
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  Speaker 2: where he gets the president and his cabinet to kind
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  Speaker 2: of rally around, and they try and figure out, what
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  Speaker 2: to do, and all their decisions are based upon greed
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  Speaker 2: or deflecting blame or not even addressing the problem. It's
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  Speaker 2: about the climate. But here's the thing. It's not good.
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  Speaker 2: It's trying to be Dr. Strangelove, and it goes way
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  Speaker 2: over the top, and it's crazy. But there is a
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  Speaker 2: twist in the movie, and it takes a really big swing.
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  Speaker 2: And it takes a big chance. And for that, I
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  Speaker 2: applaud it. Because, you know, sometimes those movies that take
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  Speaker 2: really crazy chances can be kind of interesting or fun,
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  Speaker 2: or at the very least, they're not boring, right? So
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  Speaker 2: movies like Vanilla Sky or The Eternal Sunshine of the
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  Speaker 2: Spotless Mind, you know, things like that, they may not
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  Speaker 2: be necessarily always successful or what everybody wants to see,
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  Speaker 2: but they're interesting. And I give that to this Tom
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  Speaker 2: Cruise movie. It's interesting. I'm not saying people should go
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  Speaker 2: see it because it's really not. After 45 minutes, you
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  Speaker 2: go like everyone's shouting. I don't really want to sit
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  Speaker 2: in this anymore. But if you do stick through it,
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  Speaker 2: it's okay. It has an idea. It does. It's sort
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  Speaker 2: of a science fiction thing.
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  Speaker 3: I got to say, that name is a terrible name.
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  Speaker 2: Terrible name. Terrible name. A terrible name. Digger. Digger.
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  Speaker 3: And to tell you the truth, I was watching a
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  Speaker 3: movie last night that Crazy Stupid Love with Steve Carell.
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  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 3: I actually think.
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  Speaker 2: It's a funny movie.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's a good movie.
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  Speaker 2: It is a funny movie. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I have heard, though, and it didn't do well in
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  Speaker 3: the box office, and Steve Carell at one point said
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  Speaker 3: it's because the name was terrible. It was a terrible
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  Speaker 3: name for the movie because it doesn't really give you
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  Speaker 3: any sense of what that movie is about.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, tells you nothing. Are they crazy? Are they stupid?
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  Speaker 2: Are they in love? Who knows? And Digger reminds me
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  Speaker 2: of the name from Boogie Nights, Dirk Diggler, which was
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  Speaker 2: the Mark Wahlberg character. I was going to say, Steve.
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  Speaker 1: Carell, I think he's way underrated as an actor. I
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  Speaker 1: think he's tremendous.
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  Speaker 2: Would you agree? Totally agree. I absolutely agree. I've done
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  Speaker 2: a couple of Q & As with him. He's really good.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's also one of those actors. And like
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  Speaker 2: Steve Martin is sort of another one. Robin Williams was
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  Speaker 2: another one who started in comedy and like, but actually
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  Speaker 2: has all these great layers of drama to him. And
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  Speaker 2: I think that Carell is one of them. He's really great.
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  Speaker 2: in so many things, even, even like small things that
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  Speaker 2: people maybe don't know about, seek him out if he's
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  Speaker 2: in it. And, and Rory's Oscar nominated for Little Miss Sunshine.
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  Speaker 2: He's really great in so many things. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He was, you know, but I think he's just terrific. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I agree.
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  Speaker 3: And that movie, it's so good. Ryan Gosling is in
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  Speaker 3: it and Julianne Moore is in it. It's a great cast.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: And I just think it's one of those underrated movies.
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  Speaker 2: I just really enjoy it.
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  Speaker 1: You know what's really funny? I wanted to ask you
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  Speaker 1: about this, and I think we should probably do this
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  Speaker 1: every week because I think a lot of people out
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  Speaker 1: there don't want to go to the movies or there's
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  Speaker 1: nothing good out like Digger. And so they sit at
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  Speaker 1: home and they're looking for something to watch. And so
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  Speaker 1: I've done this at home. You're going through and you're
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  Speaker 1: clicking through all the different channels and you're clicking through
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  Speaker 1: all the different shows online. So maybe we can give
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  Speaker 1: people something that they should watch every weekend at home.
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  Speaker 2: That's a great idea. And maybe we can even sort
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  Speaker 2: of relate it a little bit to movies like some
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  Speaker 2: of the movies that are out, but maybe better. So
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  Speaker 2: we listed a couple of them just now, but there's
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  Speaker 2: a couple of them on Amazon right now or on
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  Speaker 2: Netflix that are a few good ones. Single White Female
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  Speaker 2: is one of the ones that Verity reminds me of.
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  Speaker 2: I'd recommend that to people. It's a great New York
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  Speaker 2: movie from the early 90s also. It's a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 2: And Jagged Edge, which people always forget, but it's Jeff
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  Speaker 2: Bridges and Glenn Close playing It's a terrific sort of
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  Speaker 2: courtroom thriller. It reminds me a lot. There's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of things like it on TV now. So Jagged Edge
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  Speaker 2: is one of those that I would say, seek it out.
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  Speaker 2: It's right there on Amazon. It's a really great movie.
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  Speaker 2: It's a lot of fun and thrilling too. Exciting.
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  Speaker 1: Joe Neumeier, film journalist, WR, Movie Minute host. Thanks so much.
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  Speaker 1: Talk to you next week.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, Larry.