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Imagine if Eric Idle's character became a ghost!
How films--in the pre-digital age--were distributed
I'm bloody well looking forward to this!!
This actually looks interesting
How would Sonny have handled Fredo's betrayel?
What if Daniel Stern played Billy Batts?
Him and Joe Mantegna and Joey Pants
Looks a bit like Ron Silver in his profile picture
The Hard Goodbye story = Home Alone
Highly looking forward to this!
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Here here.
He made one or two movies between Cape Fear and This Boy's Life.
Also,
"The coppers blamed me for everything that went on out here, and I mean every little fuckin' thing. If a fuckin' guy tripped over a fuckin' banana peel, they'd question me about it!"
"God forbid they should make a mistake or forget to steal!"
It wouldn't have been the same because one of the themes of the Riggs/Murtaugh partnership dynamic is that Murtaugh is older and wiser than Riggs.
Having Riggs be closer to Murtaugh's age or older would have made it a different movie.
Aammmmoooooonnnnnnnnn............
...............Did you execute another Jew today?
Right?!
Drooch, I completely agree with your feelings about this film 100%.
It's actually one of the few movies that I would NOT mind seeing a remake of, because I strongly feel that it could have, and should have, been done better.
To your point about Levinson seemingly trying to emulate Scorsese's style on Goodfellas, Sleepers was shot by cinematographer Michael Ballhaus and the assistant director was Joe Reidy, both of whom worked on Goodfellas.
I can't help but wonder if Levinson hired them for that reason specifically and said "I want you guys to do what you did on Goodfellas in terms of the style."
Can you imagine Alan running into Sheldon?!
They bought the house because it was for sale.
Did you miss the scene with Alice wearing a blonde wig and doing a Southern accent saying "my boys are going to love it here"?
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