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Young Frankenstein  is a 1974 American  comedy horror  film directed by  Mel Brooks  and starring  Gene Wilder  as the title character, a descendant of the infamous Dr.  Victor Frankenstein , and  Peter Boyle  as the monster. The supporting cast includes  Teri Garr ,  Cloris Leachman ,  Marty Feldman ,  Madeline Kahn ,  Kenneth Mars ,  Richard Haydn , and  Gene Hackman . The  screenplay  was writt...

Alien  is a 1979  science-fiction   horror film  directed by  Ridley Scott  and written by  Dan O'Bannon . Based on a story by O'Bannon and  Ronald Shusett , it follows the crew of the commercial space tug  Nostromo , who encounter the eponymous  Alien , a deadly and aggressive extraterrestrial set loose on the ship. The film stars  Tom Skerritt ,  Sigourney Weaver ,  Veronica Cartwright ,  Harry...

A highly skilled jewel thief, Frank (James Caan) longs to leave his dangerous trade and settle down with his girlfriend, Jessie (Tuesday Weld). Eager to make one last big score in order to begin living a legitimate life, Frank reluctantly associates with Leo (Robert Prosky), a powerful gangster. Unf ortunately for Frank, Leo wants to keep him in his employ, resulting in a tense showdown when he fi...

Harold and Maude  is a 1971 American  coming-of-age   black   comedy-drama  film directed by  Hal Ashby  and released by  Paramount Pictures . It incorporates elements of dark humor and  existentialist  drama. The plot revolves around the exploits of a young man named Harold Chasen ( Bud Cort ) who is intrigued with death. Harold drifts away from the life that his detached mother ( Vivian Pickles...

The  Star Wars Holiday Special [a]  is a 1978 American  television special  set in the universe of the  Star Wars  science-fiction media franchise. Directed by  Steve Binder , it was the first  Star Wars  spin-off film, set between the events of the original film and  The Empire Strikes Back  (1980). It stars the main cast of the original  Star Wars  and introduces the character of  Boba Fett , wh...

Seven  (stylized as  SE7EN ) is a 1995 American  crime thriller film  was directed by  David Fincher  and written by  Andrew Kevin Walker . It stars  Brad Pitt ,  Morgan Freeman ,  Gwyneth Paltrow ,  Kevin Spacey  and  John C. McGinley . The film tells the story of David Mills, a detective who partners with the retiring William Somerset to track down a  serial killer  who uses the  seven deadly si...

Rocky  is a 1976 American  sports   drama film  directed by  John G. Avildsen , written by and starring  Sylvester Stallone . [3]  It tells the  rags to riches   American Dream  story of  Rocky Balboa , an uneducated, but kind-hearted  working class   Italian-American  boxer, working as a debt collector for a  loan shark  in the slums of  Philadelphia . Rocky, a small-time  club fighter , gets a s...

In a Manhattan cafe, word processor Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) meets and talks literature with Marcy (Rosanna Arquette). Later that night, Paul takes a cab to Marcy's downtown apartment. His $20 bill flying out the window during the ride portends the unexpected night he has. He cannot pay for the  ride and finds himself in a series of awkward, surreal and life-threatening situations with a color...

Planes, Trains and Automobiles  is a 1987 American  buddy film  written, produced, and directed by  John Hughes . The film stars  Steve Martin  as Neal Page, a high-strung marketing executive, and  John Candy  as Del Griffith, a goodhearted but annoying shower  curtain ring  salesman. They share a three-day odyssey of misadventures trying to get Neal home to Chicago in time for  Thanksgiving  with...

High Noon  is a 1952 American  Western film  produced by  Stanley Kramer  from a screenplay by  Carl Foreman , directed by  Fred Zinnemann , and starring  Gary Cooper . The plot, depicted in  real time , centers on a town  marshal  who is torn between his sense of duty and his love for his new bride and who must face a gang of killers alone. Though mired in controversy with political overtones at...

9 to 5  (listed in the opening credits as  Nine to Five ) is a 1980 American comedy film produced by Bruce Gilbert, story by Patricia Resnick , screenplay by Resnick and Colin Higgins , and directed by Higgins. It stars Jane Fonda , Lily Tomlin , and Dolly Parton as three working women who live out their fantasies of getting even with, and their overthrow of, the company's autocratic, "sexist, ego...

Scott Frank's adaptation of Elmore Leonard's classic crime novel, an arbitrary set of circumstances and not-so-arbitrary bad career moves on behalf of Soderbergh led to the creation of one of the great 90's films and one of the best adaptations of Leonard's work ever put on screen.  One of our hosts is a big fan. The other...well...there's hope for him yet. PODCAST NOTES for Episode 57: 'Out Of Si...

Skeptical graduate student Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) befriends Anne-Marie McCoy (Vanessa Williams) while researching superstitions in a housing project on Chicago's Near North Side. From Anne-Marie, Helen learns about the Candyman (Tony Todd), a knife-wielding figure of urban legend that some of  her neighbors believe to be responsible for a recent murder. After a mysterious man matching the Ca...

Alan J. Pakula's 1976 masterpiece 'All The President's Men' brilliantly tracks The Washington Post's Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on the hunt of the story of the Watergate break-in and it's serpentine connections to Nixon's White House.  Featuring still-vital filmmaking and cinematography, use of split diopter lenses and incredible dolly shots as well as iconic performances from Robert Redford,...

We started out planning to do Brian De Palma's 'The Fury' starring Kirk Douglas and Amy Irving, but...in the end...it was just not weird and Brian De Palma enough for us so we switched to 'Phantom Of The Paradise' and got everything we asked for and more. Chris sells his soul for podcasting (00:00), Brian De Palma's The Fury trailer (2:30), Amy Irving and Andrew Stevens in 'The Fury' (4:30), 'Phan...

"Hyper-specific, pointedly particular, rarified to the point of being incomprehensible"...these words from co-host Chris define our dear friend and two-time guest Paul Kaup's love of a very narrow band of films. For years, co-host Jason has tried to get Paul to explain exactly what they are and aren't. They're not movies you would go to the movies to see, they're not movies you'd even rent back in...

A prettily-wrapped early Christmas present for movie fans, Quentin Tarantino's epic yet human-scale 'Once Upon A Time In Hollywood' both rewards and upends your expectations from "a Quentin Tarantino movie". Chris' signature intro (00:00), NO SPOILERS in this episode & Chris' favorite Tarantino movies (2:00), Jason loves 'Jackie Brown' (4:00), broad plot strokes of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood &...

Chris' signature thematic intro (00:00), the intricate plot of Hal Needham's Smokey and the Bandit (04:30), Coors Beer in the New York Times (06:00), Sally Field's memoir is fantastic (10:00), Bandit & The Bride meet cute scene (12:30), Sally & Burt's relationship (14:00), Burt & Dom DeLuise on The Match Game (17:30), CB Culture in pop culture (18:00), Jonathan Demme, Paul LeMat and Bruce McGill i...

Steven Spielberg's 1977 masterpiece "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" stands out as a deeply weird major-studio picture and, for many movie fans and directors like J.J. Abrams and Denis Villenueve, their favorite Spielberg movie of them all. Podcast Notes: Chris intro (00:01), putting Close Encounters Of The Third Kind in movie context (2:15), Being a Star Wars kid vs. a Star Wars kid (3:00), A...

In this rollicking and laugh-filled episode, Jason and Chris have an unreasonable amount of fun talking about 'Highlander', one of the strangest movies of the 1980's and one of the least likely franchise-spawning movies ever, still going strong 30 years later with innumerable sequels, prequels and spinoffs.   Chris' intro of 'Highlander' and its many accents (1986) @ 00:00   Co-Hosts Intro (@ 1:45...

Middle-aged, simple-minded Chance lives in the townhouse of a wealthy old man in  Washington, D.C. . He has spent his whole life tending the garden and has never left the property. Other than gardening, his knowledge is derived entirely from what he sees on television. When his benefactor dies, Chance naively tells the lawyers that he has no claim against the estate and is ordered to move out. Cha...

Chris and Jason are joined by inflatable co-pilot Young Nick Blake, who shares his love for 1980's iconic, seminal Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker movie 'Airplane'.  The intrepid trio covers: Chris' inventive comedic introduction to the episode (00:01) The number of jokes in the entirety of "Airplane" (9:00) Airplane origin story (10:00) Bizarro scenes from 'Zero Hour', the film the ZAZ guys based Airplane...

Norman Jewison's film of John Patrick Shanley's FIRST EVER screenplay was a little movie that nobody, even the studio and the actors and filmmakers, ever thought would enter the culture like a couple of well-delivered slaps to that face, that FACE!  In this episode, Chris and Jason jump into 'Moonstruck' like a big apizza pie: Read Nic Cage's amazing  NY Times INTV cited in the pod (2:00). Cher is...

In this special episode of the Full Cast And Crew Podcast, we interview Lee Wilkof, an actor and director whose career on stage and screen has spanned more than 42 years.  He graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1972 and has more than 101 IMDB credits as an (and counting) and has garnered Obie and Drama Desk Awards and a Tony nomination on Broadway.  Lee is a charming and self-effacing g...

This week on the Full Cast And Crew Podcast we cruise the rain-slicked early 90's NYC streets and track down Paul Schrader's (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, American Gigolo) 1992 film 'Light Sleeper'. Fittingly, we're releasing this one at 2:43am on a Thursday morning, with our ears still ringing from the sound system at Area and our noses numbed with bad decisions. A Manhattan drug dealer with a wealt...