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Anyone else notice this subtle but cool detail?


When Albert Brooks is getting drunk alone in his home, he's listening off and on to the song "Midnight Train to Georgia." As the scene ends, he turns off the TV's sound and turns the music back on. Just before the scene cuts away, we hear the beginnings of the lyric: "I'd rather live in his world than live without him in mine."

That blew me away, because that one line sums up Holly Hunter's entire situation with William Hurt. It's so subtle, like some master stroke in a great painting. Anyone else notice this?

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Good catch because i have seen this film at least 30 times and i never caught that. Albert Brooks getting drunk by himself is so sad that i want to jump through the screen and get drunk with him. Then take advantage of him!

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