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Here’s your link for the movie! It’s from a Strange Site, but most internet security experts consider it pretty safe (when it comes to collecting your data, IMDb is worse). It has no commercials, so no sync
issues! Sync issues are a pain on Movie Nights! Start the show at 7:30!
I know nothing about this movie (it was not given a wide release), but I like the leads a lot. John C. McGinley was in the TV series Scrubs, where he played a real jerk of a hospital doctor.
What I loved about his character in that show was, he played a total d**k. Most medical TV shows present hospital doctors as these caring, sensitive, impossible dreamboats.
Many such people do exist (the guy who surgeried up my broken arm a few years back is both a sweetie and a hottie, for you eligible singles out there), but there’s also an awful lot of hospital doctors who are, really, just arrogant pricks. And that’s what McGinley played in the TV show, and he was hilarious at it. If you’re in a hospital, and your main physician is one of these guys… for Pete’s sakes, just say “OK” when he’s in the room. And then talk to a hospital nurse, instead, about your real concerns. Hospital nurses are far better.
Garrett Dillahunt played not one, but two, psychotic murderers on my favorite TV show of all time, Deadwood. And then when HBO did a two-hour episode, many years later, to wrap up the loose ends after Deadwood was canceled too soon, they brought Dillahunt back in a cameo role. (You couldn’t have him in a major role, he’d already died twice.) Everybody from the show simply loved having Dillahunt around, so they brought him back for a day or so.
I’m not going to suggest Deadwood to anybody here. It’s grim and violent and confusing. Don’t watch it and get angry at me for suggesting it, because I’m not suggesting it. Yet Dillahunt is excellent in it.
If you want me to suggest a watch, I’ll suggest The Big Sick, a 2017 movie you’ve probably never seen, and I think you’d all love it! It’s really sweet! And it has a really nice hospital doctor in a short scene, in a really believable way! But go watch it on yer own time! We’re doing baseball tonight!
I also know nothing about this movie’s directors, except that they’ve done some country music videos. The writer, Richard Dresser, has written a stage musical about The Curse of the Bambino, and this movie was based on his successful stage play called Rounding Third. Dresser’s apparently working on a documentary about the brave anti-war activists Daniel & Philip Berrigan. That seems different! But, Dresser is from the Boston area, so that means a high likelihood of being raised Catholic, and the Berrigans were Catholics, so there’s that.
Here’s your link again for the movie! Click your clicks at 7:30!
Here’s the upcoming schedule:
February 6: The Rookie (2002)
Not-yet-weird Dennis Quaid is a small-town schoolteacher who’s always dreamed of playing baseball. Maybe, just maybe, he might have a chance. Free on the Strange Site.
February 13: Moneyball (2011)
Brad Pitt plays Billy Beane, and I’m sure Billy Beane wishes he looked like Brad Pitt. Philip Seymour Hoffman is great as always. The Twins beat the A’s! Free on the Strange Site.
February 20: Back to the Future III (1990)
By request, and because I haven’t seen it since 1990 (when I enjoyed it a lot). Why haven’t I seen it since then? Well, there’s an embarrassing tale… Free on the Strange Site.
February 27: White Men Can’t Jump (1992)
Not baseball, but from Bull Durham writer/director Ron Shelton, and for no real reason I’ve never seen it. So why not watch it with TT friends? Free on the Strange Site.
I’ve got some ideas for future ones if we do this more, and all movie suggestions are absolutely welcome & wanted!
