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April 15, 2024

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (also OJ died?!)

Alllllllrighty then, it's movie 2 in Jim Carrey Month: Ace Ventura. He's a pet detective. Hired to rescue the missing dolphin mascot of the Miami Dolphins. And Dan Marino is there. Support the show

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April 1, 2024

The Mask

We begin Jim Carrey Month here at Movielife Crisis with the surprise hit, The Mask. Other than wild FX and the first appearance on screen from Cameron Diaz, is there anything noteworthy about it? Well, yeah! Richard Jeni! Sup...

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March 18, 2024

Blue Chips

Shaq! Penny Hardaway! Nick Nolte! Or is it Gary Busey? We can never 100% tell. From writer Ron Shelton (White Men Can't Jump and Bull Durham), we've got the classic college basketball recruiting movie. Does it still matter? ...

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March 4, 2024

Philadelphia

Tom Hanks in the performance that won him his first Best Actor Oscar, and the only movie in existence starring both Hanks and Denzel Washington. Directed by Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs), and also featuring Antonio Ba...

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Feb. 19, 2024

Major League 2

Welcome back to Major League baseball (kinda)! In the words of Bob Uecker movielifecrisis is best and so are baseball movies that may or may not be good still. Spoiler alert: it is still good. Charlie Sheen's sleek, 90s apart...

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Feb. 5, 2024

Maverick

The film remake of the late 50s TV show (starring James Garner), Maverick is the comedy western tale of rakish gambler (Mel Gibson) and the cast of weirdos (Alfred Molina, Jodie Foster, James Garner) all racing towards a half...

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Jan. 22, 2024

Pulp Fiction

Quentin Tarantino's magnum opus, Samuel L. Jackson's and Ving Rhames and Uma Thurman's launching point, John Travolta and Bruce Willis' comeback movie: Pulp Fiction. Yes, it's as good as you remember. Support the show

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Jan. 8, 2024

PCU (1994 is upon us!)

Jeremy Piven, David Spade, Jon Favreau, and more in this now-impossible-to-find classic that was everywhere back in the day; PCU. And if you can manage to find it kicking around the internet and/or the $5.50 bin, it is a deli...

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Jan. 1, 2024

1993 Nathans Awards (Year in Review)

What were our best performances of the year? Favorite quotes? Biggest ratings disagreement? Biggest mistakes we made? What are we really excited for in the 1994 season starting next week? That and more is here for your holida...

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Dec. 25, 2023

Grumpy Old Men (final movie of '93!)

Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon, back at it again but for the first time on our podcast. There's something wonderful about the crotchety, cantankerous old coots slinging really dated insults at each other. Also Kevin Pollak, D...

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Dec. 18, 2023

Wayne's World 2

Wayne and Garth in their first movie since the last movie. Get ready to cross all your Ts and dot all your....lower case Js. Support the show

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Dec. 4, 2023

Mrs. Doubtfire

Hello! DUDE LOOKS LIKE A LADY! Yes, it's the 2nd biggest movie of 1993, Robin Williams cross-dresses to take care of his own kids after being divorced by Sally Fields (based on a true story [🧢]). Support the show

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Nov. 20, 2023

Rudy

The timeless underdog story of Rudy Ruettiger, and the 90 minute infomercial for Notre Dame, is finally upon. But seriously, the movie and the score are fantastic, and with 25 years of Catholic school between Jeff and JT we g...

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Nov. 6, 2023

Dave

Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver star in this Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters) comedy, which despite not being anywhere streaming was a big hit in 1993. Kevin Kline is a presidential impersonator who's pressed into service as the ...

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Oct. 23, 2023

Demolition Man

Be well, John Spartan! Info assimilated, now have a joy joy day. This absolute smash action flick is one of our all-time favorites. Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, and in her first leading role: Sandra Bullock! Also Denis ...

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Oct. 9, 2023

Cool Runnings

Feel the rhythm! Feel the rhyme! Get on up, it's bobsled time! Indeed it is, here for the 30th anniversary of Cool Runnings, the "based on a true story" account of the jamaican bobsled team. John Candy, Leon, with director …

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Sept. 25, 2023

Cliffhanger

Our first entree into the catalogue of Sylvester Stallone, here with John Lithgow, Michael Rooker, and a pretty deep ensemble cast. One of the top 10 box office movies of 1993, Stallone rock climbs in fingerless weightlifting...

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Sept. 11, 2023

For Love Or Money

One of the two underrated Michael J. Fox movies that came out in '93, we wound up on this one over Life With Mikey just on pure chance. Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black, Raising Arizona), and co-starring Gabriel …

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Aug. 28, 2023

The Fugitive

Tommy Lee Jones, in an Academy-award winning role. Harrison Ford, with a beard. Joe Pantoliano, aka Joey Pants, stealing scenes. Julianne Moore, mostly on the cutting room floor. The third biggest movie of 1993, it's the Fugi...

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Aug. 14, 2023

Tombstone

Not only one of the finest frozen pizzas of our childhood, this classic western is both fairly historically accurate about the last chapter of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the OK Corral, and also a tour de force from Val …

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July 31, 2023

The Program

The deep cut gritty college football flick from David S. Ward (Sleepless in Seattle, Major League), starring James Caan, Kristy Swanson, Craig Sheffer, Omar Epps, Halle Berry, Duane Davis, and Andrew Bryniarski is coming at y...

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July 17, 2023

Rookie Of The Year

Rosenbagger! This classic kids/sports comedy from Daniel Stern (director, brilliant comic sidekick) and starring Thomas Ian Nichols (American Pie) is an absolute blast. Especially if you're ages 5-13. Or if you were that age ...

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July 3, 2023

Last Action Hero

This bizarrely entertaining action-genre satire is one of the most fun movies we've ever done on the pod. Arnold Schwartzenegger stars, with cameos from Danny DeVito to Sharon Stone to Little Richard. Directed by John McTiern...

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June 19, 2023

Jurassic Park

Jaws on land coming in hot as the biggest movie ever when it was released. From Spielberg and Michael Crichton, with help from ILM, John Williams, and Jeff Goldblum, this monstrosity of a monster movie made nearly a billion d...

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