While You Were Sleeping (1995) ft. Alonso Duralde

[00:00:00] Hi, I'm Bran and I love

[00:00:04] This

[00:00:05] Sandy Bee Christmas movies. It's tough there. What are you gonna do? I'm Dan I I

[00:00:13] despise

[00:00:16] I'm Alonso and Daniel had a teenage crush on Sandy Bee

[00:00:32] We hope you like this jolly podcast

[00:00:36] Well, well, well me and a lot of other people I'm sure I wasn't alone there

[00:00:46] I know but sometimes you just got to dress the elephant in the room before you even

[00:00:51] I will say maybe a lot of people did but how many of them printed out? Oh my god

[00:00:57] In the library of their Christian school. How many of us? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know that number

[00:01:02] I know of at least one. We've not told that story on deck. Oh, is that true? That's true

[00:01:07] Okay, but now it's for everybody so cool

[00:01:09] Hello world, and you want to just go ahead and tell the story

[00:01:11] I was an eighth grade a buddy of mine and I Ryan cook if you're listening

[00:01:15] Oh, he called him out to shout out Ryan cook. We decided to print out a picture above board picture

[00:01:21] I don't like I literally don't know even if there are salacious pictures of Sanjay

[00:01:26] Yeah, sure you don't board picture in

[00:01:29] 1998

[00:01:31] ish of Sandra Bullock

[00:01:33] for our lockers and

[00:01:35] As it was printing in the library

[00:01:38] One of the pastors of the church came over and instead of us having a picture of Sandra Bullock

[00:01:43] We instead got a full talking to about adolescence. So oh boy, there we go. Yeah. Yeah look 98

[00:01:49] That's like circa what forces of nature? I mean

[00:01:53] Bullock

[00:01:55] Sandy BBB's not like how we're talking like hope floats ish forces of nature if by C

[00:02:00] 28 days later like her 28 days is the biggest crime is in 98 that printing took at least 20 minutes

[00:02:11] Yeah, it was dot matrix it was

[00:02:13] Yeah, but here we are in 95 a much. Yeah a much better vintage as per se of

[00:02:20] You know you had the net speed and why you were sleeping that establishes the legend that is oh for sure be right and the breakout

[00:02:28] Yeah, apparently while Alonzo was sleeping this movie came out because he had never seen it before

[00:02:33] It's really good. Thank you. Just really good guys. Well that you've been sitting that all I've sat on it for a whole week

[00:02:39] I wrote it down. No, I actually came up with that right now

[00:02:43] pretty proud of it

[00:02:45] This is uh, this is a I consider it a classic. I've seen it quite a few times. I love this movie

[00:02:51] So I'm excited to dive into it Alonzo's take I'm very excited about it as well

[00:02:56] Because for as many like Hallmark movies as

[00:03:00] And those type of movies that we have this off. Oh, yeah

[00:03:04] Well, I was just gonna say for as many like Homer movies as I've watched with Alonzo and talked about

[00:03:09] We haven't done like a ton of like classic rom-com

[00:03:12] So I'm happy to get to go back and do one of these with you

[00:03:15] We're talking while you were sleeping and originally premiered in the theaters on April 21st

[00:03:22] 1995 that's right Prime Christmas Prime Christmas and I want a little something like this

[00:03:27] Sandy B. Her name's Lucy if you want to call her Lucy, that's fine as Sandy B

[00:03:32] She works at a tray as a train attendant and is a hopeless romantic and always wanted

[00:03:39] the type of love that her and her her dad and her mom had with each other and

[00:03:44] She is in love with this guy that gives her a token every day to ride the train

[00:03:50] Despite the fact that they have never spoken to each other and he's literally never even looked at her in the quick montage that we have

[00:03:57] She has to work on Christmas Day and she sees the hunk walk by this time

[00:04:03] He does look at her and says Merry Christmas

[00:04:05] She then sees him get attacked and robbed by these fellas and he falls down

[00:04:12] Onto the tracks and she runs over to check on him. He is now unconscious

[00:04:17] So she jumps down gets on top of him and does the old roll roll off situation, which is very impressive

[00:04:24] And the she saves his life, but unfortunately Peter still ends up in a coma

[00:04:30] He's at the hospital and through a series of misunderstandings that begin with the nurse overhearing Lucy saying to herself

[00:04:39] I was gonna marry that guy

[00:04:41] Now the nurse believes that they were engaged and so when Peter's family shows up there is now a

[00:04:49] huge confusion about the fact that he

[00:04:52] Not only is in a coma, but he's also engaged to this woman that they had never met before

[00:04:58] And so Lucy is now in a tough spot here because she could tell him the truth or she could

[00:05:06] Just kind of keep it going and she's worried that grandma's gonna have a heart attack

[00:05:09] So she's like maybe I just got a got a roll with this thing

[00:05:13] she goes in and she's talking to Peter one night and

[00:05:18] Grandpa overhears her and now knows the truth and he goes up to her and it's basically just kind of like

[00:05:26] Maybe let's roll with it

[00:05:30] It'll be a fun experiment

[00:05:33] so

[00:05:34] She is now hanging out with this

[00:05:37] family and is

[00:05:40] Obviously having a hard time with the fact that she's lying

[00:05:42] But she's also kind of falling in love with this family says family that she's always wanted and they're so kind and they're so joyful

[00:05:48] And it's something that she has wanted for a very long time

[00:05:51] Jack is Peter's brother and he shows up and is quickly quite suspicious of

[00:05:58] Lucy and her story the fact that

[00:06:01] His brother is engaged to this woman that he's never met despite this he can't help but be drawn to her

[00:06:08] For whatever reason maybe it's her sincerity

[00:06:11] Maybe it's her charm

[00:06:13] Maybe it's because she looks like someone that you just want to print out a picture of him put it in your locker

[00:06:18] Whatever the case may be he finds herself. He finds himself to be quite taken by this woman who is

[00:06:25] engaged to be

[00:06:26] With his brother so tough spot here

[00:06:30] The tension is rising though as Lucy is awkwardly navigating being a part of this family and these dinners and holidays

[00:06:38] Celebrations and all this stuff also having this friction with

[00:06:43] with Jack and

[00:06:46] The who's it what's its will they won't they all that good stuff

[00:06:52] so Peter

[00:06:54] Finally does come to and he wakes up and he scans and he sees his family

[00:07:00] He's so happy to see him and then he gets to

[00:07:04] Lucy's face and he's like who were you and the family is like it's your fiancee

[00:07:09] And he's like I'm engaged and as at this point that the family's now like oh great

[00:07:13] He was he's out of the coma, but he clearly has amnesia. He doesn't remember his

[00:07:20] fiance and

[00:07:22] Peter's having a hard time with this because he remembers literally everything else about his life

[00:07:28] He remembers very specific details, but he has no idea who Lucy is and so

[00:07:36] Peter is

[00:07:38] Wants to kind of change his life

[00:07:40] He feels like you'd be given a new new leash on life and a lease or leash

[00:07:46] Yeah, you don't that's the new leash though. It's longer. It's one of those leashes that expands

[00:07:52] I think this is actually a joke in a Muppet movie

[00:07:55] Police

[00:07:58] Animal on a leash over there, I love that

[00:08:02] so

[00:08:03] One day he's lying in the hospital. He's deciding that he's basically just gonna fall

[00:08:09] He's gonna fall in love with Lucy and and be with her it makes the most sense his

[00:08:16] Real

[00:08:17] Fiancee ex-girlfriend whatever she comes in and is like who are you?

[00:08:23] With who yes, I found out that you were engaged what's going on and he's like I'm a new man

[00:08:28] I have a new leash and lease on life

[00:08:32] the film

[00:08:33] Comes to a conclusion with the two of them deciding. I guess we're gonna get married in the hospital

[00:08:39] why put things off and

[00:08:42] so the

[00:08:45] Jack is standing there. He's clearly having a tough time with this because he's clearly into her and

[00:08:52] She walks down the aisle and she finally tells the truth

[00:08:56] Much to Jack's dismay can't believe it and she leaves assuming that she's never gonna see Jack runaway bride

[00:09:03] So she was that she's never gonna see Jack or the rest of the family ever again. That is until one day

[00:09:08] She's at work and instead of a token being put in the little

[00:09:13] Thing a ring is dropped in there. She looks up

[00:09:17] There's Jack the rest of the family is there and he comes into the booth

[00:09:22] Asks her to marry him and then we cut to seeing them on their wedding day

[00:09:28] Heading off into the sunsets on a train and it all happened

[00:09:33] While you were sleeping and now my friends was

[00:09:40] We did it much of the chagrin of producer Aaron Shay as well as I would assume many others out there

[00:09:46] No mention of Joe jr. I didn't mention judge in the entire synopsis. I figured we talked a good bit about Joe jr. Throughout

[00:09:52] Okay, I was just trying to make the cut

[00:09:55] Let's just try to keep it 80% of the movie didn't make I know I was trying to keep it to fair fair

[00:10:00] I'm sorry. He's a he's a B story. Come on story. Yeah, sorry

[00:10:03] Let's say a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk a lot about Joe jr. A little bit about this movie here on

[00:10:08] Our

[00:10:10] Hello, everybody. Welcome back. Happy Monday. Hopefully you're doing well

[00:10:22] We're talking about the Sandy B classic from 1995 while you were sleeping as mentioned Alonzo's never seen this

[00:10:30] And so I'm gonna kick it to him for his hot take his thoughts on this

[00:10:36] revelation of a movie Alonzo

[00:10:39] Well, it's funny you when you mentioned the date that it premiered

[00:10:41] I realized why I never saw it because in late April of 1995 I was I was putting on my first film festival

[00:10:50] as as the guy running the USA Film Festival in Dallas, so I was

[00:10:56] elsewhere

[00:11:00] Well, I mean like by that point we were I was just literally putting on the event and so like I would

[00:11:06] I think that's I think I'm entitled on that one

[00:11:10] Yeah, so for years I've always heard that you know

[00:11:13] This movie's really charming and that you know

[00:11:15] This is the movie that really kind of helped launch

[00:11:17] Sandy B as we know her and all this stuff and and I just had never gotten around to it

[00:11:21] and so I finally sat down and watched this week and

[00:11:25] Apologies to the people in the chat who loved this movie, but I think it kind of had to be there in the mid 90s

[00:11:31] I don't think this movie has aged very well. I

[00:11:35] I

[00:11:36] Was kind of shocked at how sort of the hacky and sitcom II it was and how it wasn't

[00:11:42] it just all feels kind of forced and

[00:11:45] Yeah, sorry. I know look good. Hello at Deck the Hallmark you can

[00:11:58] We gotta get you a deck the Hallmark

[00:12:00] Without paying more money if someone would like to pay us he can take over Brian's

[00:12:07] That's basically a spam folder at this point. So

[00:12:11] Anyway, yeah, sorry. I I went into this really excited to see it and thinking like oh finally

[00:12:16] I'm gonna close this loop and see this movie that I've heard such great things about and I'm sure if I'd seen it in

[00:12:21] 1995 I would have been really charmed by it, but watching it now is just sort of like this

[00:12:26] This doesn't really work

[00:12:28] Unfortunately, but I mean yes absolutely

[00:12:30] You know the I'm realizing now what a Rosetta Stone it is for so many Hallmark movies

[00:12:36] Yeah, there there is no very merry mix-up without

[00:12:39] While you were sleeping

[00:12:41] But yeah didn't didn't love it. Apologies

[00:12:46] So that didn't work was you in 1995 because you didn't see this gem of a movie you didn't see it

[00:12:53] I also didn't see in 1995 because I was three

[00:12:56] I saw much later in life and it worked for me then and it worked for me right now

[00:13:01] This week when we watched it. I love this movie. I think that not only is it

[00:13:07] Charming and the two leads have chemistry like it is clear that they want to kiss each other

[00:13:12] Immediately. I also found this movie to be hilarious and I was offended on a every minute or so

[00:13:20] Whenever a zinger of a line came in to find out that the two screenwriter

[00:13:26] writers of this movie two partners they took a long time to get this movie to finally come out and and

[00:13:33] Be made and then after this they didn't write another movie, and if these two guys can't get jobs

[00:13:40] I've what what is what's the rest of us have we I always thought man

[00:13:46] If we really put our minds to it

[00:13:48] Maybe we could do something if the two guys that wrote while we were sleeping can't get work

[00:13:53] Then there's no hope for us Dan

[00:13:55] So while I love this movie was also disheartening because a very funny movie with very funny screenwriters

[00:14:02] They never worked again, and I'm crushed by that because I found this movie hilarious Dan

[00:14:07] Yeah, I'm realizing it to add to the dis list topic pile is 1990s rom-coms

[00:14:13] I think that a good one because you've got pretty woman in 90 runaway bride in 99

[00:14:19] And I've got sleepless in Seattle. You've got mail this mood like you could make a really quality top 10

[00:14:27] That would be quite an argument for everyone involved and you could extend it either in either direction

[00:14:33] But I think that the rom-com was in such a heyday in the 1990s

[00:14:38] I wasn't when Harry met Sally 89

[00:14:40] I feel yes from when Harry met Sally to runaway bride was just like an era of

[00:14:45] These movies and there was always one or two heavy hitters a year that came out

[00:14:50] And I tell you that Harry when Harry met Sally notwithstanding

[00:14:54] I tell you that to say I probably like this one more than the rest of them

[00:15:00] Has nothing to do with Sandy B. I definitely with the woman in your locker

[00:15:05] Definitely never got to my locker got thrown away

[00:15:09] Yeah waste of paper and printer paper back then you don't even want to talk about it I

[00:15:14] Will say I like it definitely more than the two Tom Hanks Meg Ryan movies of that era

[00:15:19] Definitely. I like this more. This is very low

[00:15:22] I'm not here for this Joe versus the volcano erasure that wasn't in that era the night 89 at 99 wasn't Joe versus volcano before

[00:15:30] Then that's true. You're right. Okay? Yeah, because no you're right. You're right. You're right

[00:15:33] That's their first one. I was talking about in that window the 90s, right?

[00:15:37] I think this movie is better than those two movies, especially like you've got mail

[00:15:41] It always feels really like it just gets way

[00:15:43] It's over two hours long and it just feels like it gets really weighed down by the end you agree with this Alonzo

[00:15:48] What are you saying?

[00:15:50] I'm not the biggest fan of

[00:15:53] You've got mailers

[00:15:56] So yeah, I I have this movie better than those two movies and

[00:16:01] Yeah, say what you want Sandra Bullock is an absolute delight she is so charming in this movie

[00:16:08] She's amazing in this movie everything. She does works completely Bill Pullman and her have amazing chemistry

[00:16:15] but really the

[00:16:17] Extended family cast is it's just an embarrassment of riches who all get to deliver one-liners

[00:16:23] This thing comes in at like close to 90 minutes

[00:16:26] It is ridiculous and it and part of the reason this works

[00:16:31] I said this while we were watching a movie

[00:16:33] But in these movies where this one person is lying and decides to keep the lie going

[00:16:37] I usually end up just pulling against them for whatever reason the reason that I that didn't happen here is not because it's Sandy B

[00:16:43] It's because they do this thing where the grandfather knows it's a lie

[00:16:47] And he encourages her to keep lying which is a way what but also

[00:16:53] It makes it a lot more sincere when you can tell that she's torn and then the grandfather's like

[00:16:59] I've never seen the family this happy. Just keep lying for the love of everything. He's the dad's friend

[00:17:03] Oh, he's the godfather not grandfather the godfather. Excuse me the godfather

[00:17:08] Tells her to keep lying and I love that element of this story. It has launched a

[00:17:14] Thousand ships of bad Hallmark movies and I'm sad about that. But are you kidding me right now?

[00:17:20] Bill Pullman Sandy B this cast

[00:17:23] There's there's some fun pratfalls in this movie. It is it is what a rom-com should be from that era. I'm a big big fan

[00:17:32] It's time for all the feels we were talking about what in the city gave us those feels

[00:17:36] Alonzo

[00:17:37] So yeah, so the movie opens with you know, the the Natalie Cole

[00:17:42] Classic this will be and at first I thought oh

[00:17:45] Are we in that kind of that in that kind of a knee-jerk thing for rom-com and then I looked it up

[00:17:50] This is the first movie to use that Wow, like okay. I mean

[00:17:55] History here points to to while you were sleeping for that one

[00:18:00] As a Catholic I thought the scene where they're in church and they're having a conversation

[00:18:04] But still know when to blurt out the responses was very funny because you know

[00:18:10] It's very structured the Catholic Mass and so like after a few years, you know exactly when you're talking when you're not talking

[00:18:17] expert on Catholic masses

[00:18:27] Severely lapsed believe me, but I I did my time as a child

[00:18:34] Okay, do either of you know

[00:18:38] This is a this was a hugely hugely hugely popular mega hit movie, do you know the movie Love Story?

[00:18:46] Yeah, Taylor Swift song. Yes

[00:18:48] No, okay

[00:18:50] Came out in the early 70s was like was one of producer Robert Evans's big hits before The Godfather came out

[00:18:56] Even Ryan Renneal Ali McGraw very old-fashioned kind of like he's rich. She's poor they fall in love and you know, and then she dies

[00:19:04] But the thing about the movie is and and people started referring to it as Ali McGraw syndrome

[00:19:10] The further into her leukemia she gets the more beautiful she becomes

[00:19:19] Sandy B totally has Ali McGraw syndrome in this movie

[00:19:22] We're like the more into the lie and the more into this fake relationship. She gets the better

[00:19:26] Yeah, look, that's true hair gets nicer the makeup like it was stunning to track the the

[00:19:34] Her aesthetic over the course of this film like she just gets more

[00:19:39] She they try as hard as they can to frump her up at the beginning

[00:19:43] But over the course of the movie

[00:19:44] She just gets like hotter and hotter and then you know

[00:19:47] And then they try and dial it back down again in the moment where it seems like she's ever gonna see the family again

[00:19:52] But I kind of admired that sort of old movie grift of like oh, she's so plain, you know

[00:19:59] Of course she's a

[00:20:01] Because it actually I was gonna bring this up

[00:20:04] oh my feels is actually the frumpiness that is Sandy B towards me in this movie because

[00:20:10] She the the messy hair the big giant of a sweatshirt

[00:20:17] What's happening there that I've seen a thousand homework movies now is everybody in these horror movies is just

[00:20:24] Shooting for Sandy B messiness and they're never gonna be able to achieve it

[00:20:28] Nobody plays the messy look better than Sandy B

[00:20:32] She was caught like it's crazy that she still looks amazing. They do try to frump her up in this movie

[00:20:38] It's a fool's errand

[00:20:40] Ridiculous, and I mean like it's a thing we see it all the time

[00:20:43] I mean they even they did it to Sandy B previously in a movie that nobody saw called love potion number nine

[00:20:48] Oh, yeah

[00:20:49] That's right where she goes to be like nerdy scientists to like, you know ravishing

[00:20:54] They do try to make her a nerdy scientist in that movie, which is hysterical. Yeah, it's it's the old

[00:21:00] Let's put glasses on Rachel Lee cook. That's right, you know

[00:21:05] But everybody's trying it everybody nowadays on a hallmark

[00:21:08] They're trying to be Sandy B and nobody can do it. That's all I'm saying. So I got feels I got feels from that

[00:21:15] It's hard to commit to the bit there and then the the dinner conversation

[00:21:20] Really made me laugh a lot again. You're right deep great deep bench of character actors here

[00:21:25] But when everybody's having these conversations that are sort of like half

[00:21:29] pivoting on what the other so like the

[00:21:31] mom keeps talking about how creamy the mashed potatoes are and they're talking about like Spain and whether

[00:21:38] Exactly like that made me laugh because that is such a

[00:21:42] Dinner table with people over the age of 65

[00:21:45] Where it's just like one non sequitur after another being through a bandied about and maybe they're gonna dovetail

[00:21:51] Maybe they're not and you know

[00:21:52] So like yeah, there were a lot of moments like that along the way that I think that worked

[00:21:55] I just overall was not the family did a great job of making you believe that they were a family

[00:22:01] They were a family a lot of time together. So kudos for that Dana. Do you have any? Yeah

[00:22:07] Well, I think more specifically it's Peter Boyle and Jack Wharton at the dinner table that I found to be like

[00:22:13] Yes, the the occasional piping in of these mashed potatoes are so great is fantastic

[00:22:17] But those two it is like they were oblivious. They may as well be in a vacuum somewhere and it is

[00:22:23] Just fantastic and those two and Gladys Johns is having her own conversation

[00:22:28] But Peter Boyle just getting to be just like just riff and do one-liners and do zingers all movie is fantastic

[00:22:34] Jack Wharton who normally plays kind of a creepy villain kind of guy in these 90s movies, did he not?

[00:22:40] Oh, and then I and then in the 90s

[00:22:42] Maybe my version of Jack Wharton and so him being the kind like the omniscient

[00:22:48] Character in this movie on the family side is a lot of fun

[00:22:50] I enjoyed that a ton and then the aforementioned Sandra Bullock who both of you already said but

[00:22:56] It's this is not the first nor the last time they try to do this with her like love potion number nine

[00:23:02] But also Miss congeniality where they try to be like, yes, look at this barely woman over here

[00:23:08] and you're like

[00:23:10] That right there. That's what we're that's the zero of ten. We're starting

[00:23:15] Stop it get some help like that is that that's and it was her bit for a decade

[00:23:21] I mean, yeah, if she now they're doing it to Anne Hathaway all the time

[00:23:24] Yeah, so it is wild that that that somehow she makes that work, but she does so yeah

[00:23:31] Listen we get it like as two guys people are always trying to make us look

[00:23:35] We turn down. Yes, like we can't we like we wanted to be believable. I wanted to be you know

[00:23:41] Yeah, so for us to be like a ten if you make me look like a zero

[00:23:44] There's nothing I can do I've far out so many times I want to think that we could play the everyman

[00:23:50] Crazy, I mean Brant. We did see you with your beard straightened that yeah

[00:23:54] Yeah, that's maybe that might be the way to go. That's right. You do an eight, but I mean no

[00:23:58] I

[00:24:00] They've also seen me with my shirt off though Alonzo. I mean listen you're right does what's left?

[00:24:05] Yeah, I know a quick break. We'll come back with the wait. What what the hallmark here on take the hallmark

[00:24:21] Welcome back everybody we're talking while you were sleeping

[00:24:24] 1995 it's Monday

[00:24:26] It's Christmas movies that Alonzo's never reviewed in this type of way and so it's gonna be fun

[00:24:34] It's fun. Let's get to the way what us when we talk about what in this movie gonna made us go wait what's Alonzo?

[00:24:40] so the Peter Gallagher character Peter

[00:24:43] You know is is presented as like sort of your classic like awful

[00:24:49] yuppie like you know the the the white carpeted apartment with the with the

[00:24:56] Vases and the you know everything at all sort of sleek and personality free in the high-rise

[00:25:01] the pajamas the pajamas the

[00:25:05] the

[00:25:06] The the camel hair coat and all that stuff and yet he takes public transportation every day

[00:25:17] Every day catching the Chicago Train yeah, yeah, he's in a car. He's got a driver. That's absolutely yeah

[00:25:23] This guy's not strike me as an as an L user

[00:25:25] Um

[00:25:27] There is no way even with the magic that is Sandy B that that cat and that Christmas tree have shared an apartment

[00:25:37] No

[00:25:38] No

[00:25:40] Absolutely not and then also there is no way that Peter Gallagher is related to the rest of that family. That's that's another one

[00:25:48] Like Bill Pullman sure Peter Gallagher

[00:25:52] No somewhere, there's a milkman with intense eyebrows

[00:25:56] There's no way Peter Gallagher looks nothing like the other seven like it's it's crazy that they thought

[00:26:02] Peter Gallagher and Bill Pullman his brothers is crazy. Yeah, yeah, no

[00:26:06] It is a genetic

[00:26:08] Jambalaya that I can't begin to

[00:26:21] I

[00:26:22] only have a couple

[00:26:25] Listen you talked about this movie not aging well, and I don't know what you're talking about aside from junior one specific

[00:26:33] scene

[00:26:35] the mistletoe bit

[00:26:38] Listen we've talked about how we just let's stop doing mistletoe

[00:26:41] Yeah, many times on this show, but if we are gonna do it. Let's not do it this way where a family

[00:26:49] encourages

[00:26:51] Jack and Lucy to kiss because they're under the mistletoe

[00:26:55] mind you

[00:26:57] She is engaged to Peter

[00:27:04] No you don't

[00:27:06] You guys are weird a weird family that is for you to be like kiss you

[00:27:13] Kiss your brother's fiance

[00:27:16] Be awesome it won't be awesome. It's weird. It's great for the movie

[00:27:20] Yeah, great got to see them kiss the young is it the young daughter. Yeah

[00:27:33] And then I got a kick out of we talked about how great her bosses and how he's just kind of like always

[00:27:40] outside

[00:27:42] Runs a train company, and he is always just outside in the freezing cold in Chicago. That's where the hot dogs are

[00:27:51] But I love that the people that work at the train station all

[00:27:57] Get together on New Year's Eve with the train station boss like boy

[00:28:04] Isn't that like a pretty picture so sweet so nice

[00:28:07] There's no way these train station employees are all like let's invite the boss to New Year's

[00:28:13] I'm with us what I wrote down was you know how those union workers

[00:28:16] Taking tokens at the train station all day always have holiday parties with the executives of the train company

[00:28:22] Wait is it the woman who shares the booth with her the daughter of the boss that I know that I?

[00:28:31] Would make it better

[00:28:33] Yeah, I catch that I thought it was their house that she goes to to go to the party, but maybe I miss there

[00:28:38] You know I know it was that it was definitely

[00:28:41] Her that was throwing the party. I thought but hmm you could be right. We'll go with that

[00:28:46] Yeah, and then I got nothing aside from this little you know there's one big when we have to talk about she is

[00:28:53] Sandy B is going through Peter Gallagher's wallet to find information and in his wallet

[00:28:58] We find a series of wallet sized photos of him in different poses

[00:29:04] So you mean to tell me in his like man, how'd I get my wallet?

[00:29:11] This guy in his own wallet has and I'm gonna lowball it half a dozen pictures of just himself in

[00:29:19] various poses like tennis racket or like whatever what what why well either

[00:29:26] Because we didn't have phones yet in 1995 so that was you had to bring your own or they came with the wallet

[00:29:33] Cuz Peter Gallagher is let's face. That's true

[00:29:44] That would be that would be wild if you had a place for pictures

[00:29:48] Which nobody does in their wallet anymore and all of them were just you

[00:29:52] Well, I'd be like it was like scanning through somebody's phone, but you'd get to like after the first six

[00:29:56] You're like okay. Don't look at that other picture. It's all

[00:30:00] That's for other occasions. Yeah

[00:30:02] This new doorman should be fired on

[00:30:07] He should be gone

[00:30:09] He should be reported to whatever doorman agency there is to like he's like hey, I'm new here

[00:30:15] You can't just walk in and he's like don't worry. I'm friends with her and the doorman basically is like, okay

[00:30:21] Like what are you eat? What's your job even if you were that easily convinced and you're in town brand-new

[00:30:29] You you're just not good at your job, I don't know what to tell you also

[00:30:34] Should I put out an album called brand-new? Oh

[00:30:37] Brand-new. I don't really know what to do with it. I just had the thought yeah or a cereal cuz I miss yeah

[00:30:43] That's not good stuff. I'm stuck what you said

[00:30:45] I thought you said brand and then I realized what you said and then I had this stuff. It's all that good

[00:30:49] That's good. I'm glad we had the talk

[00:30:51] Here's the thing the movie doesn't happen without this nurse, but this nurse

[00:30:57] Also should be fired

[00:31:00] This nurse from across the room here's his fiance

[00:31:05] Here's Sandy B say I was I was gonna marry that man doesn't look for a ring

[00:31:11] Doesn't ask for confirmation

[00:31:13] Takes it upon herself to tell everyone that that is her

[00:31:20] His fiance and it is like if you just do your job as a nurse and not get involved in the in the family side

[00:31:28] Of it then the movie is over. We just roll the credits

[00:31:32] This is her fault

[00:31:33] It's her fault

[00:31:34] But it does pay off big when she passes out at the end and he really does

[00:31:37] Propose that was really really funny

[00:31:39] And then lastly I did forget that this whole movie takes place in one week, and that is crazy

[00:31:45] It's it kind of is madcap and fun

[00:31:48] But the fact that this movie basically takes place from Christmas Eve or Christmas Day to New Year's Day is

[00:31:54] wild even by the

[00:31:56] 1990s rom-com standard so yeah, so yeah, that's where homework gets all their crazy timelines from so there's that

[00:32:04] It's time for what the homework is where we wonder what could have been maybe have gives a clarity any questions that we still have

[00:32:08] Alonzo what he's still wondering about

[00:32:11] You know a couple things like I want to know how long

[00:32:16] Peters commitment to turning over a new leaf lasts or if that's like every time he leaves the hospital I get whatever

[00:32:22] I want to know if Joe jr. Really gets to dig into his

[00:32:27] nascent shoe fetish

[00:32:33] Yes, that's true yeah, I gotta get it get in line

[00:32:36] And but my big question now the brand brings it up because I didn't know like why did these guys never write another movie

[00:32:43] That's the ultimate one apparently they were partners for 12 years

[00:32:47] They were working odd jobs trying to get this movie sold

[00:32:50] And they originally had the the girl fall yeah, and be in a coma and right right right pretending

[00:32:56] And then they realized that was creepy

[00:32:59] Now I did is it the kind of thing we're like they never got another screenplay produced

[00:33:03] But they've doctored a lot of

[00:33:07] They left the industry they don't have any credits in any field producer writer nothing

[00:33:12] They are just in the private sector not working on movies. They know wild

[00:33:18] It's crazy

[00:33:21] Yeah, obviously

[00:33:23] Joe jr.. What's he doing? What did he find love? I hope so

[00:33:27] But also I at the end of this movie

[00:33:31] They get on the train, and there's the thing on the back of the train. This is just married and

[00:33:38] Is that something that like you can do can you like rent out a train if you work for the trail a hey?

[00:33:45] She's got an in with the boss she does have an in with the boss

[00:33:48] Yeah, or like were other people on that train, and they're just kind of like

[00:33:53] This is exciting or was it a fully rented out because they already had the thing on the back which makes me think

[00:33:58] This is a rented out train the logistics train

[00:34:01] It seems like train or subways one of those things you can't really goof with you can't be like hey

[00:34:07] Let's wait yeah with it, so I get there. I get like I'm sure that it's just

[00:34:12] Like they would have to time it perfectly if it wasn't an extra train right that's right

[00:34:17] They had to make it an extra trip

[00:34:18] I would think so they had they had to make it an extra drink

[00:34:21] I would think and they're going to O'Hare so they can then go to Florence. I guess that's all their bags on there

[00:34:26] Yes, so there's just it's a actually it's functional

[00:34:30] Functional usage for parking it really is it's really they thought it through they did Dan. Oh um yeah, I'm

[00:34:37] fascinated at the next family get-together after they get back from their like

[00:34:42] Where do you really go like for a week? She lied and then

[00:34:48] Once that week was over she was engaged

[00:34:51] From what I understand that same winter

[00:34:54] And then she they're gonna come back from Italy and the first time everybody gets together as a family

[00:35:00] Is it awkward is it weird? What what are they? They just keep rolling like normal, and that's one and then my other one was I

[00:35:07] My understanding is that I guess the studio did not have a lot of confidence in this movie

[00:35:12] They released it April 21st

[00:35:13] And that seems like not when you would release this movie at all

[00:35:18] And so I want to know what went into that because it used to be it's not really the case anymore

[00:35:22] And Alonzo you can correct me at any point, but you know you would dump a lot of movies

[00:35:27] You didn't have any confidence in in January and February and then like August and September

[00:35:30] And but April I don't I don't even know what like April of 95. Why would this movie?

[00:35:36] That's clearly a holiday movie at the very least why is it coming out in almost May?

[00:35:41] Well yeah, I mean I think at this point in the in the life of cinema

[00:35:46] You know Memorial Day was like the kickoff to summer movies

[00:35:49] And so this is sort of like a spring thing and you know on the one hand I could see where they wouldn't necessarily

[00:35:54] Think of it. This is a Christmas movie because it it's there

[00:35:57] It's in the background, but it's not necessarily like you know they work through it

[00:36:01] It's as much a New Year's movie as a Christmas movie

[00:36:05] Also like Hollywood pictures was this weird division of Disney that didn't quite take off and most of their movies weren't very good

[00:36:12] Like the joke around town was if you see the Sphinx it stinks

[00:36:17] And

[00:36:19] And a couple years earlier. They had released the ref which also stars Glynis John's like yeah in March

[00:36:25] You know so I who a you who even knows

[00:36:29] I actually haven't seen the ref. It's been on my list of Christmas movies

[00:36:33] I have we have to do that for a Monday fun fun stuff. Oh, yeah, sorry. It's in the book, but I mean it's yeah

[00:36:41] Well I'll watch the ref you watch jingle all the way well

[00:36:44] I've seen

[00:36:48] Anyway did all that say I don't know why what they were thinking with April

[00:36:52] But you know obviously it paid off anyway, and I think it goes to show you that

[00:36:57] You know if people like a movie. They'll come see at whatever time of year well

[00:37:02] I just I had the distinct memory of seeing this movie in the theater at a dollar theater while my family was at the beach

[00:37:08] And I was like why would I have been at the beach?

[00:37:12] When this movie came out makes sense and then now

[00:37:16] 21st the dollar theater usually would go there six or seven weeks later. That's exactly beach time

[00:37:21] So now it makes sense all tracks there you go we did everybody congratulations next week

[00:37:26] We're heading back to 2016 for a movie. I've never seen nor heard of called believe

[00:37:32] I

[00:37:40] Can't wait it's gonna be a lot of fun

[00:37:43] We'll be back next Monday with that we'll be back tomorrow with another episode of deck the hallmark until then maybe the first to wish

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