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Anyone else prefer the musical and Laura Bell Bundy to Reese and the movie?

A bright but lonely adolescent stuck in a small town working incredibly hard to get to a good college?

Nicolas Cage: good or bad?

I can see you've played spooney-meltdown before!

Check please!

Rover died on the way back to his home planet…

Trevor, do you like movies about gladiators?

Actually Tammy won in a landslide, but the school refused to count those votes.

So anyone else rewatch Election as an adult and discover a newfound sympathy for Tracy Flick?

So, who's your VP pick?

Jay Sherman: So, how was prison?
Jay's No.1 Fan: Well, the treated me pretty bad at first, but… then they found out I tried to kill a film critic. You know, in Texas, it's not even a crime.
Jay Sherman: I'm well aware. At the Houston Film Festival, only half of us got out alive!
[laughs]

"It's true." - Rob Lowe

The libertarian debate at the convention was nuts. The audience was so strident they booed notions like "The US was right to get involved in WW2" and "Heroin should not be legal to sell to 5 year olds".

My understanding is Intolerable Cruelty was a project the Coen Bros. agreed to save from development hell. So, it's not quite a Coen Bros. movie in the same way as Fargo, Big Lewbowski, ect.

Does anyone remember actually seeing Tenenbaums in the theater? Rushmore's great, but it still feels like a "regular" movie (barely).

Excluding Canadia from the world of comedy is egregious.

Just bear in mind only the cream of the English comedy crop makes it to America.

Why not say 11 then make our beeswax to be here at 11. We'll all be in our late 20's by then. I just don't see any reason why we can't be places on time.

Lego Movie: "It could be worse."

Fun fact: Stalin's guards suspected something was wrong the night Stalin died, but they were so terrified of him they dared not break the routine of checking on him until the appointed time in the morning.