June 6, 2025 • 35 mins
On the show today, since the weather in Australia is starting to get a bit chilly and we’re easing into winter, we’ve recorded a bit of a love letter to the cosiest movies of all time.
From classic rom-coms, to heartwarming comedies, laugh out loud movies and underrated gems that are sure to become your new favourite films, these are the movies that will keep you company on a winter’s day.
So snuggle up on the couch, nestle under a blanket, pour yourself a warm cup of coffee (or a glass of wine) and settle in to watch the movies that will make you feel feel like you’ve been wrapped up in a cosy warm hug.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
So you're listening to Amma Mia podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
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that this podcast is recorded on.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
From mom and Mia. Welcome to the Spill your daily
pop culture Fixed. I'm m Vernon and I'm Laura Brodnick,
and today we have.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
A very special episode because you gotta grab your blankets,
sit on your couch, maybe do a law Laura Brodnick,
light a candle all several have a glass of wine
because we're about to talk about the coziest movies of
all time.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yes, because it is finally starting to get cold in Australia.
Old thank you for that beautiful sound effect, kind of
sound like you're getting rod of a bike car.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Oh sorry, it's okay. I'm trying to calming energy.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
We're calming. Just picture us like in a little wintry
cottage under a blanket. I do think we would solve
the fire alarm and get a pretty large fine. I
don't no I should say that. Yes, well, it's scientist
cold in Sydney where we live. It's obviously not cold
in many parts of Australia. I'm from North Queensland and
I know the fact that there's probably one day a
(01:24):
year that you can potentially wear a jumper, not because
you need to, just because you're like, I might not
die if I put this on, and I want to
wear it. So I know it's not cold everywhere, but
this is as good as it's going to get. And
the thing is, if you're in North Queens and maybe
you crank the air con and you get under a
blanket and you still watch the movie and all your
money just for this, Yeah, exactly, because we're talking about
the coziest movies, the ones that you want to watch
(01:46):
on a winter's day, and we're not doing the movies
that we know everyone will be like, yes, guys, we
get it. So we're not doing the holiday. We're not
doing Little Women any of those versions. No.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I've also had Little Women on my list and I
took it off.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Oh did you hear me yelling at people in the
office when we were talking about crazy movies, being like,
I think people know about Little Women?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
No, but thank god we bought this up now because
that would have been so funny the first movie.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Actually, I only have two recommendations and yes, so we're
just doing the best movies to watch on a Winter's
Day when you want to get cozy, Emily Urnam, do
you want to kick us off?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Okay, my first one.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
I want to get it over and done with because
actually I have to say something because I know the
spillers will be in my DMS going, how dare you
not mention this movie?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Because I know you love this movie and that is Paddington.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Do you know before we came in here, I was
telling some people on my team, on the entertainment team
we were doing this, and Everyone's like, oh, I'm doing
Paddington and I was like, probably.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
God, I'm such an easy read over here. But yes, okay,
I just need to let you know the reason why
Paddington is not on my cozy movie list is because
it actually stresses me out.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
That bear goes through so much.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
It's not a cozy movie. It's quite up crying. I'm
so stressed about his well being.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Oh my god, I'm sorry. Are you saying that the
classic British movie of the little bear in a little
who keeps a sandwich in his heart? I haven't seen it.
This is just what that's true. That's just what I hear.
A marmalade sandwich in this you're telling me that movie
stresses you out. He's not gonna die.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
He always after him and his family, and all.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
He wants is home.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Okay. Do you think there's a scenario where someone comes
out and like lops Paddington Bear's head off, or he
gets Liken over by a car before.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Cole Kidman, she was really hated him and he grants
both of them.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
All right, Well you heard it here first, Paddington Bear
a thriller. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Sorry, I had to get that out of the way. Anyway,
back to ours, back to us. Okay, this movie I
watched on repeat since it came out when I was
quite young, not too young.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
A Dog's Purpose? Have you watched this?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Have I? It's so many dogs.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I don't care for dog movies stars and I have
to whisper this.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Okay, Dennis Quaid, Oh, I.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Know the movie you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Yes, yes, yes, and the dog like this movie.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I love this movie. I think I had this real
fear of dogs dying in movies since I was a child.
No one likes a dead dog.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
You know. There's a website that it's called does the
Dog Die? And tells you every movie where a dog
dies and the scene it's in. I think it's still active.
It's been around for years because so many people share
this common fit.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I hate that.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
It'll tell you which movie is the dog actually dies
and also which scene if you want to skip it.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Oh my god, I love that. Anyway, this movie would
be in that list.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
The dog die, The dog dies multiple times.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
This is not a cozy movie.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
It is a cozy movie. It's not sad Debt.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
It's not sad as the dog because the dog, who's
played by Josh Gaddett's voice, he's not playing a dog,
is a really good act. So the dog Buddy, it's
the idea that every time a dog dies, it just
I was gonna say, gets repurposed, but he doesn't get repurposed.
He incarnates into a new dog. So it's basically, a
(05:11):
dog's purpose is to bring joy to different family as
long as life, so every time it dies, it comes
back as a different dog with.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
A different family. And it's just really beautiful.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
It's so sweet, and every time I watch it, it's one
of those movies that.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
After you watch it, you just feel really good.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
You know, yeah, no, I know, I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
You just feel really good.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
And the reason why I had to bring up Dennis
Quaid is because so this dog Buddy was originally kJ dog.
Oh okay, yeah, I forgot his name who he plays
in the actual movie.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
But anyway, kJ Appa from riverdel from Riverdale. And then
the dog dies very sad, and then the dog has
all these different lives with all these different owners, and
then it's a police dog and then it's like a
little corgy and it becomes all these different breeds. It's
so cute.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
And then it finds its way back to his original owner,
which is now a grown up kJ Appa who's Dennis Quaid.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Oh okay, wow. Plot twist, plot twist.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
And then the dog starts doing like different things where
Dennis Quaid is like buddy, and then the dog barks
and Dennis Quait's like your buddy, and it's like Dennis
Quaid found his childhood dog.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Wow, that's a lot of leap.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
So keyo.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Does the movie take place in winter?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
No?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
But there is a okay, so okay, and this is
a nice movie. This is a common theme with all
my movies when I realized to pick them. Yeah, all
of these movies and the next two I'm about to
talk about all have really intense rain scenes.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Oh okay, And whenever a movie has.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
A rain scene that sticks in your mind, I always
find it a cozy movie because you're always watching it
when you're like under blankets and on your bed with
your laptop on my lap and your laptops or anything
that's warming you up.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Radiation Probably not that great. Probably should keep it off
my oats, but that's fine.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Cozy.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
It's cozy and nice.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
And when I watched this movie for the first time,
that was the situation I was watching it in. So no,
every time I rewatch it, I have to be like
in bed with like lights off in my pajamas watching it.
It's just about a dog, and everyone loves dogs, and
everyone loves dog movies. Okay, so cute cut, Okay, what's yours?
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Okay. I had to dive deep, deep, deep into the
classics because so many of my comfort cozy movies are
the ones that we mentioned the top, you know, the Holiday,
Little Women, all those kind of cozy movies. And also
we've done so many deep dives in this podcast of
like comfort movies, Christmas movies, movies to fall in love to.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
They all cross over a little bit.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
All crossover, so I had to really dive deep to
find some options for this one. But this is a
very very cozy movie that I always watch in winter,
and it's again really good for like a Sunday afternoon
when it's getting gets dark at like five o'clock, and yes,
you light all your candles, you can have a glass
of wine, but also like a little hot chocolate. It's
just so cute. And it's called While You Were Sleeping.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
We've seen it, no, but I've heard of it.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Yeah, Well it's one of the most class sick rom comms.
It's actually Sandra Bullock's first leading role in a movie,
so this is what defined her as an actress. So
Sandra Bullock plays a woman called Lucy who she's never
been overseas before. She dreams of going to Florence in Italy,
but she's stuck in this really dead end job. It's
Chicago's the movie sent in Chicago in winter, like the
(08:29):
depths of winter around Christmas times, A snowy yes, like
so a Chicago winter is very intense, like freezing, freezing temperatures,
snow everywhere, sleep everywhere, gloomy, everyone's walking around all rugged up,
and Lucy works in like a train station platform. She
sells the tickets because this is obviously it's nineteen ninety five,
so you have to go up and buy your ticket
to get on the train.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
I'm so glad you explained that to me.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yes, well, I was barely alive for this movie came out,
so I don't even know if you were. And she
is in love with this businessman that comes and buys
his ticket from her every day. Sounds like me, and yeah,
this is actually you and Lucy in common. She doesn't
really have any interaction with this man. He comes to
the platform ever.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Speaking my language, no interaction.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Fantasizing about marrying him, in love with him in the
life they would have together. And basically Lucy lives every
day just to see this man when he buys a
ticket from her. And this man is played by Peter
Gallagher Sandy Cohen from The OC so like a young
I mean, he's hot at every age.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
But oh sexy, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
And then what happens And then around Christmas he says
to her one morning, Merry Christmas, and she nearly dies.
And then these muggers come onto the train station platform
and try and steal his briefcase, and they knock him
onto the train and Lucy jumps into the train and
pulls his body off and saves him. And then she
(09:54):
goes with him to the hospital because he's unconscious. And
as she's in the waiting room, she says to herself,
I was going to marry that man. And a nurse
overhears her. So she's never met this man. His name's Peter.
And when his family come in, the nurse says, this
is his fear, say thinking because she heard her say
(10:14):
this man.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
And then my dream.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Lucy is so overcome she doesn't want to say so
wild and he has memory loss. No, he's in a coma.
So he's in a coma. And this whole time, his family,
who was one of those classic American loving families.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
They get introduced to her.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
So it's like his mom and dad, his little sister,
one of their neighbors, like it's all the yeah yeah,
and they're all this lovely family. And in the family
is his brother Jack aka Bill Pullman, like a really
hot young Bill Pullman.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
And does she get with the brother.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Well, because they kind of take her into their like
cozy life. It's around Christmas, Mistress, she goes to their
home and they bake her part of this.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
She's just going along with it.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
They're like when you marry Peter. And at the same
time she starts to kind of fall in love with
his brother and then Peter wakes up and I won't
tell you what happens the whole thing. You will love
this movie. It's one of those movies that could only
be made in the nineties because now everyone will be
like that woman's a serial killer. Yeah, but back then,
and it's Sandra Bullock and she's so young and beautiful
(11:21):
and she's like so classic, like her personality. Her chemistry
on screen with Bill Pullman is so good. And it's
just them walking through Chicago in their coats and them
talking about the places they dream of going and them
and like his family home for Christmas. And then it's
just a really beautiful rom com.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I love it. And it's really comforting because it's like
a small family drama. It's also a beautiful romance. I
love when you see people fall in love on screen,
like you like, I just don't believe in the end
of the story because I know how rom com ends.
I believe in the story because I can see you
falling in love on screen. Well they're all rugged up
in their winter coats in Chicago and winter.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
That's so freaking it's really crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I'm so excited for you to watch this movie.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Keep really good.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yeah, your face when I was telling you this story
in my seat, I know. But what would you do
if they're like, so you're marrying our son and he's done.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
You'd be like, yes, I wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
And she doesn't people please, I'd be like, yeah, sure,
she doesn't have a family of her home.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
She Oh, okay, that's that's.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
The whole thing.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
So while you were sleeping, she steals one from.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I mean, I didn't say how it ended. We don't
know what happens.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
So it's on multiple streaming pot you can literally find
it anywhere. It's a very very iconic movie and perfect
for a cozy winter day.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Okay, are you're taking off on a different journey now.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
A bit of a different journey.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Okay, So my next movie I want to talk about
is Wild Child.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Okay, literally, I mean is it just because some of
it takes place in London, I mean England, rural England,
r England.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Yeah, and there it rains there a lot, which is
another reason. So the first little bit is not too cozy.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
No, well that's what I was thinking of that scene
where she jumps off the cliffs and I first said
it and I was like.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
That's a clear movie, but it like transitions into cozy.
So it stars Emma Roberts who plays Poppy and she
is like a teenager and Malibu and she acts out
a bit right because.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Her mom's dead.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Yeah, so her dad has to like kind of parent
her and a dad's like, I don't want to do this.
I'm sending you to boarding school in England, which is
the same boarding school her mum went to and it's
in rural England. And it also starts where I forgot
stars in this and Natasha Richard.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Said, oh, she's so good in this as the principal.
Oh my god. You know, I nearly said the Parent
Trap is a comfort movie. Even I was like, oh not,
it's mostly California.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Do you usually think any movie when Natasha Richards is't in, Yeah,
because she's it's a cozy movie.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
She's so cozy everything about.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Her and she's so mum and so like beautiful that.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
When her kids miss her because she very tragically passed away.
They always watched The parent Trap because they said that's
the role of hers, that's most like her. So it's
like she's back with them.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Oh that's really fucking sad.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
But she's great in this too. She's good and everything.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
She's great in this And the reason why I find
it's so cozy is because Poppy then goes to boarding
school and then she has like there's a group of
friends she boards with, and even then, like room that
they're boarding in is so cute, like they have like
these little single beds and it's wooden floorboards, and they
wear like these big uniforms and it's always raining and
(14:20):
cold there. And the scene that I love the most
is when they go to prom oh yeah, and they
have formal, which is what they call it and what
we call it here.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Calls it.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
And then she's like, let's go hit Oxford Street and.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
They're like like, okay, if you want to live like travel,
They're so far away from London, so they go to
like the quaint little town and then they go find
like these secondhand dresses and they go to the hairdresser
and get their head done and.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Going to their hair dresser is such a great It's
so cute. It's the classic thing of a young girl
in like these kind of coming of age movies where
she goes back to brunette and everyone's like.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Yeah, she's a child again.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
And it's just like the essence of it is so cozy,
Like they're walking around in their raincoats and umbrellas and
like clumping on like cobblestones that are wet, and then
they play like field hockey in the rain.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
It's just pedophis in it. So yeah, none of my business.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I don't know why so many problematic men are and
my cozy movies.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Like Emily's movies cozy movies.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
With a side of men with man who're a bit questionable.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
But it's just one of those movies that I like
just loved watching when I was a kid. And it's
just also so bloody funny. Yeah, like it's so funny
you're giggling. And it's also one of those movies that
I watch with everyone in my life, like when my
cousins come over, when my sister comes over, we just
like know every line to the movie and it's just
so cute.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
I love it such.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
A good movie Wild Child, Wild Child, underrated.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Gym okay your next one? Oh no, you're gonna hate
my last one.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I really think I am okay. I had a real
internal struggle about whether to say this movie because I'm like,
I just feel like people will scream at their phones
or their whatever they listen to this podcast on while
they're driving and be like, yeah, Laura, we get it.
Like you might as well tell us to watch like
Game of Phrones or something like have you ever heard
of that show? But it has come to my attention
(16:12):
in recent years that people don't know about this movie.
And the reason I know that is because one of
my favorite podcasts, Sentimental Garbage I think every Australian woman
listens to recently did well in the last year did
a deep dive on Runaway Bride. I went into my
several group chats that I mean and like talked people
at work and I was like, Runaway Bride. What a
classic movie? And literally so many people said to me,
(16:35):
I've never seen it, or what is that movie?
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Yeah, and so have you seen it?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Really?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
No? Oh my god? Okay, Well, I mean, actually that
makes me feel slightly better because I thought you're going
to be like, yeah, Laurie, of course, that's just a
movie that everyone's seen. Oh okay, well, I feel like
this is my duty.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I can't wait if it's anything like the other one.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
While you were asleep. Okay, Emily's gonna need to read
the show notes more than anyone else. Okay. So Runaway
Bride came out in nineteen ninety nine and it stars
Julia Roberts, Oh, the queen of cozy movies, yes, and
Richard Gear Oh sexy. And actually this is what modern
filmmakers should be taking note off.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Wait did he not Pretty Women?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
No? No, no, because this is what the movie industry
needs to got on board with what I'm always saying.
Because Julia Roberts and Richard Gear starred together in Pretty Women,
flawless movie. I've watched it so many times as a child,
didn't know what a prostitute was. I've now picked up
that story.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
I've watched it as a child.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Yeah. He was like, that's fine, he's just paying for
a friend for the week.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Yeah. I was like, oh, it's just a sexy lady.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah. And like sometimes you just meet a really nice
man and he buys you nice clothes and you just
are friends and then you form mod I'm.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Pretty sure I said to my nana, I want to
be a prostitute.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Yeah, hey, that movie made it look great. It did.
So that movie comes out. It's a huge, huge, huge success.
People love the movie. They love all the scenes from it,
but most of all, they love Julia Roberts and Richard
gear together, and they love the filmmakers and the side characters.
And today they would just go make five more of those,
or remake it or anything like that. But instead they
(18:02):
did the correct thing, which is to say, there's no
more story here. They did try and make a Pretty
Woman's sequel, but it just didn't work out. Which, yeah,
they said, there's not a story here. Instead, let's take
Julia and Richard and the same filmmaker and a lot
of the same supporting cast and make a whole new
movie with them, which is what Runaway Bride is. So.
Runaway Bride tells the story of Richard Gere's character. His
(18:25):
name is Ike. He's a newspaper columnist back in the
day when in like and he lives in New.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
York And I can picture him like with his shirt
with his sleeves rolled up to his elbows, like muscles.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Yeah, he's real, well, not quite smuch that he's like,
you know, very kind of smart, assy, like very intellectual glasses. Yeah,
he wears glasses when he writes on his computer. And
he's got this column that people are so obsessive, like
when the newspapers get thrown onto the street corners. There's
a great scene where all the newspapers and like all
the bodegas are opening up and people are like running
to grab his column. And it's the movie starts where
(18:58):
he's so out of ideas, he's got a file Harry Bradshaw. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
So the movie starts he's got a file his column
in an hour. He's got no ideas, he's out of ideas,
but he's okay because he's a cool cucumber. So he's
at a local dive bar just shooting darts and like
trying to get an idea.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
And it's been nice channels and feels very different to
what it is. Now.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
We're about we need to record the spill in an hour,
but we don't have any ideas, so let's just hit
the bars.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
And start throwing dark in annie office. There are some
dingy bars around here, I know, i'd be fire, and
I'll go ask the drunk man at the counter, which
is what he does sitting at the bar for like
asking about his life story. And the man tells him
about this woman he knows who almost like tricks men
into proposing to her and then leaves them publicly at
the altar. And she does this over and over and
(19:45):
over and over again. Well like a fetish Yeah. Well
he kind of frames it like that, like she's doing
it to like take down men, and like's like, that's amazing.
He writes this big column about it, and then the
movie switches to this tiny little American town like way
outside of New York to Julia Roberts character Maggie, who
is the runaway bride, reading the column. She gets super upset.
She calls the newspaper and the editors a woman and
(20:07):
was like, this is defamation, and you take this, I'm
going to sue you. Ike gets fired. His friend then
says to him, the only way to get your job
back is to prove that you are right. So I
goes to little town and basically start stalking Maggie. It
is true what people say that in another timeline. This
is a thriller.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
We changed the music in the background. It's a thriller.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
As I'm saying it out loud, I realize that questionable.
But in this sense, it's Julia Roberts Literrichard Gear. Their
chemistry is incredible, and she's engaged. He doesn't kill anyone,
at least on this version of the movie, and she's
engaged to get married.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Oh no, did you read the column?
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Yeah? Yeah, but he's like, no, no, we focus it's
alock In. It's Kristen Maloney from Special Victims s for
you expect. I don't know that the guy she's marrying.
Way you're I cannot believe you haven't seen this movie.
(21:13):
This is like, this is a cultural part of cinema.
I love Thrilla's. Usually it's not the Marilla. It's a
wrong com So then he starts trailing Maggie through towns
in a romantic way as she's playing this wedding and
it's set in this tire little town. It's a little
bit cold, so everyone's wearing jackets and everyone's like in
their beautiful you know, they're all kind of and it's
(21:36):
cozy because it's set in like winter autumn. Everyone's all
rugged up against the elements, and you have all these
like really beautiful moments, and Richard Gear's character I goes
and like interviews all of her ex fiances and has
this like story thowed through. But also Ike and Maggie
spending a lot of time together, a lot of chemistry
is abounding. What could happen, Emily, not what you think
(21:58):
is what I'll say, at least in the first time.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
I know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
What's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
They're going to get married, and at the wedding she's
gonna run away.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
I can't say, And she's like, you'll never get.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Your job back. Rich Lie in charge.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
But then if she proves if she runs, He's like,
if she runs again, oh yeah, that's right, then she
proves him right. That's why the whole way through. But
the chemistry between Julia Roberts and Richard Gea is so incredible.
Them going through this little town in like this beautiful
spot in America that you can actually go to the
town because they filmed in a real little town and
you can go there. Okay, I'm going to go there
(22:33):
one day. I've got a list of like.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
A scary town. I don't think I.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Want you to go to the cast of characters so
amazing because every single person in the town is like
involved in in some way futre generation like lucky fourth wedding.
She's going to do it this time, and her dad
makes all of these jokes and stuff. But then also
I clearly stands up for her as the movie goes on,
and John Cusac's in it, Johnt Cusac in it like
(23:00):
big cast. Yeah, and it's just really cute and lovable
and really romantic. You will be dying just suspend disbelief
of like this man came to stalk her and her family.
But also yeah, he's really charismatic, okay, okay, and it's
really cozy and it's you'll just want to like hang
out in like a tiny town. Form love with her.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
I do love all Julia Roberts, yeah, but someone who
I think she has better chemistry where George Cloney.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Oh really no, they give us friend, brother and sister.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
I love them together.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Her and Richard Gear have the most intense like not
like obviously Pretty Woman has sex scenes which I didn't
see the child if my mum take them off the VHS,
But as an adult, I realized they have sexes moves
by your mum, but the way they kiss and the
moments they have, You're just like, yeah, okay, all right,
I'll give you that a way bright again on every
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streaming platform, and up until this moment, I just assumed
every human being alive had seen it.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Okayn, upset me. Yeah, well, so I'm just going to
set it up and then see how I go. Okay, okay,
so this movie, okay, you have to picture it. Okay,
you're under your blanket. Mmm, it's cold outside, but you're warm,
you're safe, You're ready for whatever's going to have on.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Those little fake fireplaces.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Yeah, yeah, of course, of course. Okay, let's not put
the laptop on our ovar, eas this time.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Have a TV on.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Okay, so you have in fact checked that don't take
medical advice.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
There's a TV in front of you, and you're watching
like this beautiful like scene of like rolling hills and
you're in the nature and it's like raining, and you're
just watching all the trees like swaying, and then you
might see a little Tyronosaurus rex.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Emily, No, that is not the point of this podcast.
I know what you're gonna say, and you're gonna take
that one off your list.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Is a cozy movie?
Speaker 2 (24:59):
You were doing so well up into this moment to
stick in the theen And again, I know I told
you you could choose whatever you wanted in this.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
It has a love story in its Sam Neil and
Laura Den.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
No, it doesn't get together until like they try and
shoehorn that story and so much later.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
They love each other and then they obviously off camera
separate and then they come back together in Jurassic World.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
No, you can't three.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
It's not a cozy movie. It has it's a great movie,
like it's and it's.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Nice and cozy. No, it's not, because it's like raining
the whole time.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Okay, you and you're just like you're like under your blankets,
and then like all the dinosaurs are like there and
you get to like see the try and so remember
the one that she like gives birth that was so beautiful,
and the brachiosaurus with the long necks nothing, and they're
like dipping down to say hi. And then those two
little children who get lost for a little while and
then they come back. And then Jeff Goldbloom without his
(25:52):
shirt on on a car.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Yeah, after he's been knowing mauled today and they're all
doctor This movie doesn't take place.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Richard Adam Presidett, who's David Aberg's brother.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yes, and he's great. But this movie doesn't fit any
of the criteria. It doesn't make you feel safe, it
doesn't make you feel.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Your blankets, it doesn't make you feel happy.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Doesn't maybe towards the end when like people stop being
brutally wall today.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
No, if you understand, it's a happy movie. If you
understand culture of t rexes Okay, okay, because they're in
the t rex habitat, it's not the other way around.
So obviously the t rex is going to be like, hey,
what are you guys doing here?
Speaker 2 (26:27):
No?
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I know, but like so that it's bad on all
friends with dinosaurs.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
They don't make friends with dinosaurss infamously famously kill them
only the bad people. No, but it's trying to kill
the children.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I don't think so. I think it's trying to play
with it.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
But when the raptors break into the visitors center and
they stalk.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
The are different, Okay, they're they're a bit different.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
But the little dinosaur with the thrill that shoots the
acid in his face and then kills him.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Yeah, if I'm boy and Dinosaur, I think it's quite
good and it makes you feel really fun and safe
and happy.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
I don't think it's just put that. You put that
in there just to make me upset. All movies you
could have put in I can't believe you can watch that,
but you can't. But Paddington's stresses you.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Paddington's don't even get me started on Paddington That that's
are just goes through.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
So he's so stressful.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
You don't know what. At least the dinosaurs know where
they belong.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
No, they don't. They've been reincarnated, which we shouldn't have done,
and that people are trying to do now, which really yeah,
I'm fine.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Are you excited?
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Correct path?
Speaker 1 (27:33):
But at least now we know what to do.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
So if you watch Jurassic Park, you'll understand what to
do when we end up cloning, because we're going to
be doing I reckon in the next years.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Yeah, yeah, I don't accept that. On the COVID Crazy
Movies list, one day we'll do a feelers.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Do you accept it?
Speaker 2 (27:50):
They're not, they're not explaining it. Everyone just turned the
podcast off, which means they're going to miss my last
recommendation one day. One day, we'll do best action movies
of the nineties or something. Oh that won't make my
lest We'll do or we'll do movies that traumatize us
as kids.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Could we do movies that have the best dinosaurs? Sure?
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Oh my god, Okay, I'm gonna salvage this at the end.
Don't worry, Guti.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
I didn't even really go through the plot, but I guess.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
We know you know you said it all. Jeff Goldbloom,
Dinosaurs Raptors, Children in Peril, the cozy movie for a
Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
So good.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Okay, yeah, watch it with your grandma. Okay, this is
another movie I was also don't usually recommend because I'm like,
everyone's watched this movie. It's one of the most iconic
movies of all time. But again I've realized that not everyone.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Has watched it. I probably wouldn't have.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
You've seen this one, Oh, I actually think you have.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Oh imagine if I happened, because if you.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Haven't, I feel like you won't understand a pillar of
pop culture. Scared When Harry met Sally.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
I've watched When Harry Met Sally Thank God.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Saves the girl who hasn't seen Runaway Bride. Yeah, no,
all while you were sleeping. These are all kind of
held up. There's like the iconic like pillars of rom
coms and and that sort of like side of culture.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Harry Sally is not creepy though like the other two ones.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Or is it or is it? An uncertain situation and shit.
So when came out in nineteen eighty nine, you weren't alive.
I was barely alive, but I definitely wasn't rolling out
of my pram to take myself to the movies. And
it stars Meg Ran. Oh we've come full circle. Meg
(29:28):
Ryan Dennis Quaid formally married.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Oh my god, Oh my god. Yes, and then they
had that kid who's in Jack Quaid. Yeah, who's boy.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
See everything happens for a reason.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
So it stars Meg Ryan, who is kind of still
is now but one of the ultimate rom com girls
of the nineties. In particular, she hasn't been in anything lately.
She stepped away from acting for a bit. She did
like bits and pieces here and there over the years,
but the woman's made like fifty movies and then.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
She made Jack Wade.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Yeah, she's given the world enough.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
We still owe her.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
We're still paying our debt to Meg Ryan at the stage.
So it stars Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal, and it
opens with them. They just finished university. They don't really
know each other, but they're both moving to New York
and they get set up by like a mutual friend
while the girl that Billy Crystal's character is I'm just
gonna call him Billy and Meg through the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
That's just what people do.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
And Meg Ryan's friend. So you get in this car
and they road trip to New York to start their
new lives post college, and in the car you can
really tell that they are complete opposites. He's a really
happy it's very stereotypical, which we're in love, but it
was the nineties. He's very kind of, you know, bit
of a lothario, happy, go lucky, goes with it. She's
very prim and proper. Actually I really relate to her.
(30:42):
And because she carries a big can of hairspray a
brush and like fixes her hair. She sits down and
she's very specific about what she wants, like her salad
won't touch this, she wants it on the side. All
this sort of stuff I also feel like if she
was alive now, she'd be like me and put hand
sanitizer on all the time. So I feel, really, I
feel like that is exactly you. Yeah, yeah, oh my god,
yeah me. Meg Ryan and Harry metzeally the ultimate couple.
(31:03):
So they move to New York. They part ways, and
many many years go past and they don't see each other,
and they have a chance beating been a few years past,
they have another chance meeting, and then all of a
sudden they start to become friends. And why this movie
is so cozy is that it is a kind of
like watching their love story unfold, watching their friends love
story unfold. And I think this movie is really famous
(31:26):
for that. It's kind of the movie that first pose
the question can men and women just be free? Can
they be platonic friends? Spoiler alert, No they cannot. Can
you know the first draft that they were meant to
be just friends?
Speaker 1 (31:39):
I would have actually liked that.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
I would have liked it too.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
But the thing is this is it would have been
very progressive for that time.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
This is where test audiences ruin everything, because test audiences
hated it and they wanted to see Meg and Billy
kiss and I get that because their chemistry is incredible.
So maybe someday someone will remake this and they'll just
be friends. It's also really famous for the deli scene.
Do you know the one I'm talking about? Yes, you do.
It's it's the most famous orgasm scene in cinema, but
(32:04):
no one's having sex and closer on.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Why can't I remember this?
Speaker 2 (32:08):
So Billy and Meg again real names are Kat's Delli,
very famous deli in New York. And they're talking about
people like faking orgasms, and Billy Crystal's like, that's never
happened to me. It makes like yes it has, and
he was like I would know, and she's like would you?
And then she it acts and she gets so into
it by the time, she's like screaming on the table
(32:31):
and she's like yes, yes, and then she finishes. She
goes and just starts eating a sandwich, and Billy Crystal's
face like just he's like looks so shocked, like he's
white in the face. He's so upset because he's like,
oh my god, so many women I've been with her
faked orgasms. And then there's a really iconic line where
the camera pants to another woman sitting in the restaurant
and she goes, I'll have what she's having fun. Fact,
(32:53):
that's the director's mother. Oh. So people tell stories of
going to see that in the cinema for the first
time when it came out in the nineties, and they
said it was the first time they felt this huge
cultural shift in a cinema between men and women because
that scene came out and it was so specific about
women faking orgasms in a way that had never I've
been talked about before. And they said, when you went
to the cinema and watched it with a full crowd,
(33:14):
the women were screaming, laughing and clapping their hands because
they were all like, yes, I've done that. Oh my god,
I can't believe this is happening. And the men all
dead silent. It's so because it's the first time they
realized that that had happened, that they're in that moment
they are all Billy Crystal.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
And that's like the catalyst of every conversation card ever.
It's like, have you ever affect an orgasm? Yes, because
it's like now it's just become so common to talk
about it all the time.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
It was like, are we really putting this out into
the world. This happens.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
I also specifically remember exactly what you said, like Billy
Crystal's face like as she was making the noises, and
I'd like to think, and this is me liking the
thing that that was the first time she did that scene,
like the one day, and that was this genuine reaction.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
So I actually do think that there's a story around that,
because I love making of this movie. I found it
so fascinating that there was something around that of like,
no one knew she was going to go that hard,
that she was going to do it.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Because his faces literally like feels like he's kind of
like looking to the side and he's like looking to
someone who's actually in the room.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Yeah, and she starts like slowly touching herself and then
he's just like and then he's looking around like it's
so good. So there's that really famous scene. But also
so much of the movie is just them in New York,
and it's one of those movies where New York's like
a character in it, and there's them walking through Central
Park or rugged up in the autumn winter in this movie,
and then going into all these cozy little bookstores and
then going out to dinners and then and there's a
(34:34):
scene where they call each other from their beds and
they like watch a movie together on the phone or
rugged up under their blankets. That's when they really start
to fall in love.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
The craziest situationship.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
And then I know again it's one of those situationships
that gives women false hope everything. Yeah, Like you know
that guy friend that you hang out with all the
time and then you accidentally sleep with once and then
he kind of like ignores you. He's going to fall
in love with you. He's going to come running into it.
He's going to come running into a New Eve party
just before the clock strikes midnight so he can kiss
you on Year's Eve. It Happened to Sally, Happened to
(35:04):
Sally and Harry, So when Harry met Sally. An iconic movie.
It's all some of those movies. I think people might
have watched clips or they've heard of it, but like
you have to sit down and watch the actual movie
and just watch them fall in love in New York
in winter, so lovely, so good forget on every streaming
service so you'll find it.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
From mom and Mia. Welcome to the Spill your daily
pop culture Fixed. I'm m Vernon and I'm Laura Brodnick,
and today we have.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
A very special episode because you gotta grab your blankets,
sit on your couch, maybe do a law Laura Brodnick,
light a candle all several have a glass of wine
because we're about to talk about the coziest movies of
all time.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yes, because it is finally starting to get cold in Australia.
Old thank you for that beautiful sound effect, kind of
sound like you're getting rod of a bike car.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Oh sorry, it's okay. I'm trying to calming energy.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
We're calming. Just picture us like in a little wintry
cottage under a blanket. I do think we would solve
the fire alarm and get a pretty large fine. I
don't no I should say that. Yes, well, it's scientist
cold in Sydney where we live. It's obviously not cold
in many parts of Australia. I'm from North Queensland and
I know the fact that there's probably one day a
(01:24):
year that you can potentially wear a jumper, not because
you need to, just because you're like, I might not
die if I put this on, and I want to
wear it. So I know it's not cold everywhere, but
this is as good as it's going to get. And
the thing is, if you're in North Queens and maybe
you crank the air con and you get under a
blanket and you still watch the movie and all your
money just for this, Yeah, exactly, because we're talking about
the coziest movies, the ones that you want to watch
(01:46):
on a winter's day, and we're not doing the movies
that we know everyone will be like, yes, guys, we
get it. So we're not doing the holiday. We're not
doing Little Women any of those versions. No.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I've also had Little Women on my list and I
took it off.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Oh did you hear me yelling at people in the
office when we were talking about crazy movies, being like,
I think people know about Little Women?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
No, but thank god we bought this up now because
that would have been so funny the first movie.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Actually, I only have two recommendations and yes, so we're
just doing the best movies to watch on a Winter's
Day when you want to get cozy, Emily Urnam, do
you want to kick us off?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Okay, my first one.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
I want to get it over and done with because
actually I have to say something because I know the
spillers will be in my DMS going, how dare you
not mention this movie?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Because I know you love this movie and that is Paddington.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Do you know before we came in here, I was
telling some people on my team, on the entertainment team
we were doing this, and Everyone's like, oh, I'm doing
Paddington and I was like, probably.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
God, I'm such an easy read over here. But yes, okay,
I just need to let you know the reason why
Paddington is not on my cozy movie list is because
it actually stresses me out.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
That bear goes through so much.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
It's not a cozy movie. It's quite up crying. I'm
so stressed about his well being.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Oh my god, I'm sorry. Are you saying that the
classic British movie of the little bear in a little
who keeps a sandwich in his heart? I haven't seen it.
This is just what that's true. That's just what I hear.
A marmalade sandwich in this you're telling me that movie
stresses you out. He's not gonna die.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
He always after him and his family, and all.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
He wants is home.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Okay. Do you think there's a scenario where someone comes
out and like lops Paddington Bear's head off, or he
gets Liken over by a car before.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Cole Kidman, she was really hated him and he grants
both of them.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
All right, Well you heard it here first, Paddington Bear
a thriller. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Sorry, I had to get that out of the way. Anyway,
back to ours, back to us. Okay, this movie I
watched on repeat since it came out when I was
quite young, not too young.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
A Dog's Purpose? Have you watched this?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Have I? It's so many dogs.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I don't care for dog movies stars and I have
to whisper this.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Okay, Dennis Quaid, Oh, I.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Know the movie you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Yes, yes, yes, and the dog like this movie.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I love this movie. I think I had this real
fear of dogs dying in movies since I was a child.
No one likes a dead dog.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
You know. There's a website that it's called does the
Dog Die? And tells you every movie where a dog
dies and the scene it's in. I think it's still active.
It's been around for years because so many people share
this common fit.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I hate that.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
It'll tell you which movie is the dog actually dies
and also which scene if you want to skip it.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Oh my god, I love that. Anyway, this movie would
be in that list.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
The dog die, The dog dies multiple times.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
This is not a cozy movie.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
It is a cozy movie. It's not sad Debt.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
It's not sad as the dog because the dog, who's
played by Josh Gaddett's voice, he's not playing a dog,
is a really good act. So the dog Buddy, it's
the idea that every time a dog dies, it just
I was gonna say, gets repurposed, but he doesn't get repurposed.
He incarnates into a new dog. So it's basically, a
(05:11):
dog's purpose is to bring joy to different family as
long as life, so every time it dies, it comes
back as a different dog with.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
A different family. And it's just really beautiful.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
It's so sweet, and every time I watch it, it's one
of those movies that.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
After you watch it, you just feel really good.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
You know, yeah, no, I know, I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
You just feel really good.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
And the reason why I had to bring up Dennis
Quaid is because so this dog Buddy was originally kJ dog.
Oh okay, yeah, I forgot his name who he plays
in the actual movie.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
But anyway, kJ Appa from riverdel from Riverdale. And then
the dog dies very sad, and then the dog has
all these different lives with all these different owners, and
then it's a police dog and then it's like a
little corgy and it becomes all these different breeds. It's
so cute.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
And then it finds its way back to his original owner,
which is now a grown up kJ Appa who's Dennis Quaid.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Oh okay, wow. Plot twist, plot twist.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
And then the dog starts doing like different things where
Dennis Quaid is like buddy, and then the dog barks
and Dennis Quait's like your buddy, and it's like Dennis
Quaid found his childhood dog.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Wow, that's a lot of leap.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
So keyo.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Does the movie take place in winter?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
No?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
But there is a okay, so okay, and this is
a nice movie. This is a common theme with all
my movies when I realized to pick them. Yeah, all
of these movies and the next two I'm about to
talk about all have really intense rain scenes.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Oh okay, And whenever a movie has.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
A rain scene that sticks in your mind, I always
find it a cozy movie because you're always watching it
when you're like under blankets and on your bed with
your laptop on my lap and your laptops or anything
that's warming you up.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Radiation Probably not that great. Probably should keep it off
my oats, but that's fine.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Cozy.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
It's cozy and nice.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
And when I watched this movie for the first time,
that was the situation I was watching it in. So no,
every time I rewatch it, I have to be like
in bed with like lights off in my pajamas watching it.
It's just about a dog, and everyone loves dogs, and
everyone loves dog movies. Okay, so cute cut, Okay, what's yours?
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Okay. I had to dive deep, deep, deep into the
classics because so many of my comfort cozy movies are
the ones that we mentioned the top, you know, the Holiday,
Little Women, all those kind of cozy movies. And also
we've done so many deep dives in this podcast of
like comfort movies, Christmas movies, movies to fall in love to.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
They all cross over a little bit.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
All crossover, so I had to really dive deep to
find some options for this one. But this is a
very very cozy movie that I always watch in winter,
and it's again really good for like a Sunday afternoon
when it's getting gets dark at like five o'clock, and yes,
you light all your candles, you can have a glass
of wine, but also like a little hot chocolate. It's
just so cute. And it's called While You Were Sleeping.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
We've seen it, no, but I've heard of it.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Yeah, Well it's one of the most class sick rom comms.
It's actually Sandra Bullock's first leading role in a movie,
so this is what defined her as an actress. So
Sandra Bullock plays a woman called Lucy who she's never
been overseas before. She dreams of going to Florence in Italy,
but she's stuck in this really dead end job. It's
Chicago's the movie sent in Chicago in winter, like the
(08:29):
depths of winter around Christmas times, A snowy yes, like
so a Chicago winter is very intense, like freezing, freezing temperatures,
snow everywhere, sleep everywhere, gloomy, everyone's walking around all rugged up,
and Lucy works in like a train station platform. She
sells the tickets because this is obviously it's nineteen ninety five,
so you have to go up and buy your ticket
to get on the train.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
I'm so glad you explained that to me.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yes, well, I was barely alive for this movie came out,
so I don't even know if you were. And she
is in love with this businessman that comes and buys
his ticket from her every day. Sounds like me, and yeah,
this is actually you and Lucy in common. She doesn't
really have any interaction with this man. He comes to
the platform ever.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Speaking my language, no interaction.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Fantasizing about marrying him, in love with him in the
life they would have together. And basically Lucy lives every
day just to see this man when he buys a
ticket from her. And this man is played by Peter
Gallagher Sandy Cohen from The OC so like a young
I mean, he's hot at every age.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
But oh sexy, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
And then what happens And then around Christmas he says
to her one morning, Merry Christmas, and she nearly dies.
And then these muggers come onto the train station platform
and try and steal his briefcase, and they knock him
onto the train and Lucy jumps into the train and
pulls his body off and saves him. And then she
(09:54):
goes with him to the hospital because he's unconscious. And
as she's in the waiting room, she says to herself,
I was going to marry that man. And a nurse
overhears her. So she's never met this man. His name's Peter.
And when his family come in, the nurse says, this
is his fear, say thinking because she heard her say
(10:14):
this man.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
And then my dream.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Lucy is so overcome she doesn't want to say so
wild and he has memory loss. No, he's in a coma.
So he's in a coma. And this whole time, his family,
who was one of those classic American loving families.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
They get introduced to her.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
So it's like his mom and dad, his little sister,
one of their neighbors, like it's all the yeah yeah,
and they're all this lovely family. And in the family
is his brother Jack aka Bill Pullman, like a really
hot young Bill Pullman.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
And does she get with the brother.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Well, because they kind of take her into their like
cozy life. It's around Christmas, Mistress, she goes to their
home and they bake her part of this.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
She's just going along with it.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
They're like when you marry Peter. And at the same
time she starts to kind of fall in love with
his brother and then Peter wakes up and I won't
tell you what happens the whole thing. You will love
this movie. It's one of those movies that could only
be made in the nineties because now everyone will be
like that woman's a serial killer. Yeah, but back then,
and it's Sandra Bullock and she's so young and beautiful
(11:21):
and she's like so classic, like her personality. Her chemistry
on screen with Bill Pullman is so good. And it's
just them walking through Chicago in their coats and them
talking about the places they dream of going and them
and like his family home for Christmas. And then it's
just a really beautiful rom com.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I love it. And it's really comforting because it's like
a small family drama. It's also a beautiful romance. I
love when you see people fall in love on screen,
like you like, I just don't believe in the end
of the story because I know how rom com ends.
I believe in the story because I can see you
falling in love on screen. Well they're all rugged up
in their winter coats in Chicago and winter.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
That's so freaking it's really crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I'm so excited for you to watch this movie.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Keep really good.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yeah, your face when I was telling you this story
in my seat, I know. But what would you do
if they're like, so you're marrying our son and he's done.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
You'd be like, yes, I wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
And she doesn't people please, I'd be like, yeah, sure,
she doesn't have a family of her home.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
She Oh, okay, that's that's.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
The whole thing.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
So while you were sleeping, she steals one from.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I mean, I didn't say how it ended. We don't
know what happens.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
So it's on multiple streaming pot you can literally find
it anywhere. It's a very very iconic movie and perfect
for a cozy winter day.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Okay, are you're taking off on a different journey now.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
A bit of a different journey.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Okay, So my next movie I want to talk about
is Wild Child.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Okay, literally, I mean is it just because some of
it takes place in London, I mean England, rural England,
r England.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Yeah, and there it rains there a lot, which is
another reason. So the first little bit is not too cozy.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
No, well that's what I was thinking of that scene
where she jumps off the cliffs and I first said
it and I was like.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
That's a clear movie, but it like transitions into cozy.
So it stars Emma Roberts who plays Poppy and she
is like a teenager and Malibu and she acts out
a bit right because.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Her mom's dead.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Yeah, so her dad has to like kind of parent
her and a dad's like, I don't want to do this.
I'm sending you to boarding school in England, which is
the same boarding school her mum went to and it's
in rural England. And it also starts where I forgot
stars in this and Natasha Richard.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Said, oh, she's so good in this as the principal.
Oh my god. You know, I nearly said the Parent
Trap is a comfort movie. Even I was like, oh not,
it's mostly California.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Do you usually think any movie when Natasha Richards is't in, Yeah,
because she's it's a cozy movie.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
She's so cozy everything about.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Her and she's so mum and so like beautiful that.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
When her kids miss her because she very tragically passed away.
They always watched The parent Trap because they said that's
the role of hers, that's most like her. So it's
like she's back with them.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Oh that's really fucking sad.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
But she's great in this too. She's good and everything.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
She's great in this And the reason why I find
it's so cozy is because Poppy then goes to boarding
school and then she has like there's a group of
friends she boards with, and even then, like room that
they're boarding in is so cute, like they have like
these little single beds and it's wooden floorboards, and they
wear like these big uniforms and it's always raining and
(14:20):
cold there. And the scene that I love the most
is when they go to prom oh yeah, and they
have formal, which is what they call it and what
we call it here.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Calls it.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
And then she's like, let's go hit Oxford Street and.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
They're like like, okay, if you want to live like travel,
They're so far away from London, so they go to
like the quaint little town and then they go find
like these secondhand dresses and they go to the hairdresser
and get their head done and.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Going to their hair dresser is such a great It's
so cute. It's the classic thing of a young girl
in like these kind of coming of age movies where
she goes back to brunette and everyone's like.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Yeah, she's a child again.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
And it's just like the essence of it is so cozy,
Like they're walking around in their raincoats and umbrellas and
like clumping on like cobblestones that are wet, and then
they play like field hockey in the rain.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
It's just pedophis in it. So yeah, none of my business.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I don't know why so many problematic men are and
my cozy movies.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Like Emily's movies cozy movies.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
With a side of men with man who're a bit questionable.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
But it's just one of those movies that I like
just loved watching when I was a kid. And it's
just also so bloody funny. Yeah, like it's so funny
you're giggling. And it's also one of those movies that
I watch with everyone in my life, like when my
cousins come over, when my sister comes over, we just
like know every line to the movie and it's just
so cute.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
I love it such.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
A good movie Wild Child, Wild Child, underrated.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Gym okay your next one? Oh no, you're gonna hate
my last one.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I really think I am okay. I had a real
internal struggle about whether to say this movie because I'm like,
I just feel like people will scream at their phones
or their whatever they listen to this podcast on while
they're driving and be like, yeah, Laura, we get it.
Like you might as well tell us to watch like
Game of Phrones or something like have you ever heard
of that show? But it has come to my attention
(16:12):
in recent years that people don't know about this movie.
And the reason I know that is because one of
my favorite podcasts, Sentimental Garbage I think every Australian woman
listens to recently did well in the last year did
a deep dive on Runaway Bride. I went into my
several group chats that I mean and like talked people
at work and I was like, Runaway Bride. What a
classic movie? And literally so many people said to me,
(16:35):
I've never seen it, or what is that movie?
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Yeah, and so have you seen it?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Really?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
No? Oh my god? Okay, Well, I mean, actually that
makes me feel slightly better because I thought you're going
to be like, yeah, Laurie, of course, that's just a
movie that everyone's seen. Oh okay, well, I feel like
this is my duty.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I can't wait if it's anything like the other one.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
While you were asleep. Okay, Emily's gonna need to read
the show notes more than anyone else. Okay. So Runaway
Bride came out in nineteen ninety nine and it stars
Julia Roberts, Oh, the queen of cozy movies, yes, and
Richard Gear Oh sexy. And actually this is what modern
filmmakers should be taking note off.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Wait did he not Pretty Women?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
No? No, no, because this is what the movie industry
needs to got on board with what I'm always saying.
Because Julia Roberts and Richard Gear starred together in Pretty Women,
flawless movie. I've watched it so many times as a child,
didn't know what a prostitute was. I've now picked up
that story.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
I've watched it as a child.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Yeah. He was like, that's fine, he's just paying for
a friend for the week.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Yeah. I was like, oh, it's just a sexy lady.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah. And like sometimes you just meet a really nice
man and he buys you nice clothes and you just
are friends and then you form mod I'm.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Pretty sure I said to my nana, I want to
be a prostitute.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Yeah, hey, that movie made it look great. It did.
So that movie comes out. It's a huge, huge, huge success.
People love the movie. They love all the scenes from it,
but most of all, they love Julia Roberts and Richard
gear together, and they love the filmmakers and the side characters.
And today they would just go make five more of those,
or remake it or anything like that. But instead they
(18:02):
did the correct thing, which is to say, there's no
more story here. They did try and make a Pretty
Woman's sequel, but it just didn't work out. Which, yeah,
they said, there's not a story here. Instead, let's take
Julia and Richard and the same filmmaker and a lot
of the same supporting cast and make a whole new
movie with them, which is what Runaway Bride is. So.
Runaway Bride tells the story of Richard Gere's character. His
(18:25):
name is Ike. He's a newspaper columnist back in the
day when in like and he lives in New.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
York And I can picture him like with his shirt
with his sleeves rolled up to his elbows, like muscles.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Yeah, he's real, well, not quite smuch that he's like,
you know, very kind of smart, assy, like very intellectual glasses. Yeah,
he wears glasses when he writes on his computer. And
he's got this column that people are so obsessive, like
when the newspapers get thrown onto the street corners. There's
a great scene where all the newspapers and like all
the bodegas are opening up and people are like running
to grab his column. And it's the movie starts where
(18:58):
he's so out of ideas, he's got a file Harry Bradshaw. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
So the movie starts he's got a file his column
in an hour. He's got no ideas, he's out of ideas,
but he's okay because he's a cool cucumber. So he's
at a local dive bar just shooting darts and like
trying to get an idea.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
And it's been nice channels and feels very different to
what it is. Now.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
We're about we need to record the spill in an hour,
but we don't have any ideas, so let's just hit
the bars.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
And start throwing dark in annie office. There are some
dingy bars around here, I know, i'd be fire, and
I'll go ask the drunk man at the counter, which
is what he does sitting at the bar for like
asking about his life story. And the man tells him
about this woman he knows who almost like tricks men
into proposing to her and then leaves them publicly at
the altar. And she does this over and over and
(19:45):
over and over again. Well like a fetish Yeah. Well
he kind of frames it like that, like she's doing
it to like take down men, and like's like, that's amazing.
He writes this big column about it, and then the
movie switches to this tiny little American town like way
outside of New York to Julia Roberts character Maggie, who
is the runaway bride, reading the column. She gets super upset.
She calls the newspaper and the editors a woman and
(20:07):
was like, this is defamation, and you take this, I'm
going to sue you. Ike gets fired. His friend then
says to him, the only way to get your job
back is to prove that you are right. So I
goes to little town and basically start stalking Maggie. It
is true what people say that in another timeline. This
is a thriller.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
We changed the music in the background. It's a thriller.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
As I'm saying it out loud, I realize that questionable.
But in this sense, it's Julia Roberts Literrichard Gear. Their
chemistry is incredible, and she's engaged. He doesn't kill anyone,
at least on this version of the movie, and she's
engaged to get married.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Oh no, did you read the column?
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Yeah? Yeah, but he's like, no, no, we focus it's
alock In. It's Kristen Maloney from Special Victims s for
you expect. I don't know that the guy she's marrying.
Way you're I cannot believe you haven't seen this movie.
(21:13):
This is like, this is a cultural part of cinema.
I love Thrilla's. Usually it's not the Marilla. It's a
wrong com So then he starts trailing Maggie through towns
in a romantic way as she's playing this wedding and
it's set in this tire little town. It's a little
bit cold, so everyone's wearing jackets and everyone's like in
their beautiful you know, they're all kind of and it's
(21:36):
cozy because it's set in like winter autumn. Everyone's all
rugged up against the elements, and you have all these
like really beautiful moments, and Richard Gear's character I goes
and like interviews all of her ex fiances and has
this like story thowed through. But also Ike and Maggie
spending a lot of time together, a lot of chemistry
is abounding. What could happen, Emily, not what you think
(21:58):
is what I'll say, at least in the first time.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
I know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
What's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
They're going to get married, and at the wedding she's
gonna run away.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
I can't say, And she's like, you'll never get.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Your job back. Rich Lie in charge.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
But then if she proves if she runs, He's like,
if she runs again, oh yeah, that's right, then she
proves him right. That's why the whole way through. But
the chemistry between Julia Roberts and Richard Gea is so incredible.
Them going through this little town in like this beautiful
spot in America that you can actually go to the
town because they filmed in a real little town and
you can go there. Okay, I'm going to go there
(22:33):
one day. I've got a list of like.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
A scary town. I don't think I.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Want you to go to the cast of characters so
amazing because every single person in the town is like
involved in in some way futre generation like lucky fourth wedding.
She's going to do it this time, and her dad
makes all of these jokes and stuff. But then also
I clearly stands up for her as the movie goes on,
and John Cusac's in it, Johnt Cusac in it like
(23:00):
big cast. Yeah, and it's just really cute and lovable
and really romantic. You will be dying just suspend disbelief
of like this man came to stalk her and her family.
But also yeah, he's really charismatic, okay, okay, and it's
really cozy and it's you'll just want to like hang
out in like a tiny town. Form love with her.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
I do love all Julia Roberts, yeah, but someone who
I think she has better chemistry where George Cloney.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Oh really no, they give us friend, brother and sister.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
I love them together.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Her and Richard Gear have the most intense like not
like obviously Pretty Woman has sex scenes which I didn't
see the child if my mum take them off the VHS,
But as an adult, I realized they have sexes moves
by your mum, but the way they kiss and the
moments they have, You're just like, yeah, okay, all right,
I'll give you that a way bright again on every
(23:52):
streaming platform, and up until this moment, I just assumed
every human being alive had seen it.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Okayn, upset me. Yeah, well, so I'm just going to
set it up and then see how I go. Okay, okay,
so this movie, okay, you have to picture it. Okay,
you're under your blanket. Mmm, it's cold outside, but you're warm,
you're safe, You're ready for whatever's going to have on.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Those little fake fireplaces.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Yeah, yeah, of course, of course. Okay, let's not put
the laptop on our ovar, eas this time.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Have a TV on.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Okay, so you have in fact checked that don't take
medical advice.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
There's a TV in front of you, and you're watching
like this beautiful like scene of like rolling hills and
you're in the nature and it's like raining, and you're
just watching all the trees like swaying, and then you
might see a little Tyronosaurus rex.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Emily, No, that is not the point of this podcast.
I know what you're gonna say, and you're gonna take
that one off your list.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Is a cozy movie?
Speaker 2 (24:59):
You were doing so well up into this moment to
stick in the theen And again, I know I told
you you could choose whatever you wanted in this.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
It has a love story in its Sam Neil and
Laura Den.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
No, it doesn't get together until like they try and
shoehorn that story and so much later.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
They love each other and then they obviously off camera
separate and then they come back together in Jurassic World.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
No, you can't three.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
It's not a cozy movie. It has it's a great movie,
like it's and it's.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Nice and cozy. No, it's not, because it's like raining
the whole time.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Okay, you and you're just like you're like under your blankets,
and then like all the dinosaurs are like there and
you get to like see the try and so remember
the one that she like gives birth that was so beautiful,
and the brachiosaurus with the long necks nothing, and they're
like dipping down to say hi. And then those two
little children who get lost for a little while and
then they come back. And then Jeff Goldbloom without his
(25:52):
shirt on on a car.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Yeah, after he's been knowing mauled today and they're all
doctor This movie doesn't take place.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Richard Adam Presidett, who's David Aberg's brother.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yes, and he's great. But this movie doesn't fit any
of the criteria. It doesn't make you feel safe, it
doesn't make you feel.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Your blankets, it doesn't make you feel happy.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Doesn't maybe towards the end when like people stop being
brutally wall today.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
No, if you understand, it's a happy movie. If you
understand culture of t rexes Okay, okay, because they're in
the t rex habitat, it's not the other way around.
So obviously the t rex is going to be like, hey,
what are you guys doing here?
Speaker 2 (26:27):
No?
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I know, but like so that it's bad on all
friends with dinosaurs.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
They don't make friends with dinosaurss infamously famously kill them
only the bad people. No, but it's trying to kill
the children.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I don't think so. I think it's trying to play
with it.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
But when the raptors break into the visitors center and
they stalk.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
The are different, Okay, they're they're a bit different.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
But the little dinosaur with the thrill that shoots the
acid in his face and then kills him.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Yeah, if I'm boy and Dinosaur, I think it's quite
good and it makes you feel really fun and safe
and happy.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
I don't think it's just put that. You put that
in there just to make me upset. All movies you
could have put in I can't believe you can watch that,
but you can't. But Paddington's stresses you.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Paddington's don't even get me started on Paddington That that's
are just goes through.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
So he's so stressful.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
You don't know what. At least the dinosaurs know where
they belong.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
No, they don't. They've been reincarnated, which we shouldn't have done,
and that people are trying to do now, which really yeah,
I'm fine.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Are you excited?
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Correct path?
Speaker 1 (27:33):
But at least now we know what to do.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
So if you watch Jurassic Park, you'll understand what to
do when we end up cloning, because we're going to
be doing I reckon in the next years.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Yeah, yeah, I don't accept that. On the COVID Crazy
Movies list, one day we'll do a feelers.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Do you accept it?
Speaker 2 (27:50):
They're not, they're not explaining it. Everyone just turned the
podcast off, which means they're going to miss my last
recommendation one day. One day, we'll do best action movies
of the nineties or something. Oh that won't make my
lest We'll do or we'll do movies that traumatize us
as kids.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Could we do movies that have the best dinosaurs? Sure?
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Oh my god, Okay, I'm gonna salvage this at the end.
Don't worry, Guti.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
I didn't even really go through the plot, but I guess.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
We know you know you said it all. Jeff Goldbloom,
Dinosaurs Raptors, Children in Peril, the cozy movie for a
Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
So good.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Okay, yeah, watch it with your grandma. Okay, this is
another movie I was also don't usually recommend because I'm like,
everyone's watched this movie. It's one of the most iconic
movies of all time. But again I've realized that not everyone.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Has watched it. I probably wouldn't have.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
You've seen this one, Oh, I actually think you have.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Oh imagine if I happened, because if you.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Haven't, I feel like you won't understand a pillar of
pop culture. Scared When Harry met Sally.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
I've watched When Harry Met Sally Thank God.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Saves the girl who hasn't seen Runaway Bride. Yeah, no,
all while you were sleeping. These are all kind of
held up. There's like the iconic like pillars of rom
coms and and that sort of like side of culture.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Harry Sally is not creepy though like the other two ones.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Or is it or is it? An uncertain situation and shit.
So when came out in nineteen eighty nine, you weren't alive.
I was barely alive, but I definitely wasn't rolling out
of my pram to take myself to the movies. And
it stars Meg Ran. Oh we've come full circle. Meg
(29:28):
Ryan Dennis Quaid formally married.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Oh my god, Oh my god. Yes, and then they
had that kid who's in Jack Quaid. Yeah, who's boy.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
See everything happens for a reason.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
So it stars Meg Ryan, who is kind of still
is now but one of the ultimate rom com girls
of the nineties. In particular, she hasn't been in anything lately.
She stepped away from acting for a bit. She did
like bits and pieces here and there over the years,
but the woman's made like fifty movies and then.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
She made Jack Wade.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Yeah, she's given the world enough.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
We still owe her.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
We're still paying our debt to Meg Ryan at the stage.
So it stars Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal, and it
opens with them. They just finished university. They don't really
know each other, but they're both moving to New York
and they get set up by like a mutual friend
while the girl that Billy Crystal's character is I'm just
gonna call him Billy and Meg through the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
That's just what people do.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
And Meg Ryan's friend. So you get in this car
and they road trip to New York to start their
new lives post college, and in the car you can
really tell that they are complete opposites. He's a really
happy it's very stereotypical, which we're in love, but it
was the nineties. He's very kind of, you know, bit
of a lothario, happy, go lucky, goes with it. She's
very prim and proper. Actually I really relate to her.
(30:42):
And because she carries a big can of hairspray a
brush and like fixes her hair. She sits down and
she's very specific about what she wants, like her salad
won't touch this, she wants it on the side. All
this sort of stuff I also feel like if she
was alive now, she'd be like me and put hand
sanitizer on all the time. So I feel, really, I
feel like that is exactly you. Yeah, yeah, oh my god,
yeah me. Meg Ryan and Harry metzeally the ultimate couple.
(31:03):
So they move to New York. They part ways, and
many many years go past and they don't see each other,
and they have a chance beating been a few years past,
they have another chance meeting, and then all of a
sudden they start to become friends. And why this movie
is so cozy is that it is a kind of
like watching their love story unfold, watching their friends love
story unfold. And I think this movie is really famous
(31:26):
for that. It's kind of the movie that first pose
the question can men and women just be free? Can
they be platonic friends? Spoiler alert, No they cannot. Can
you know the first draft that they were meant to
be just friends?
Speaker 1 (31:39):
I would have actually liked that.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
I would have liked it too.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
But the thing is this is it would have been
very progressive for that time.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
This is where test audiences ruin everything, because test audiences
hated it and they wanted to see Meg and Billy
kiss and I get that because their chemistry is incredible.
So maybe someday someone will remake this and they'll just
be friends. It's also really famous for the deli scene.
Do you know the one I'm talking about? Yes, you do.
It's it's the most famous orgasm scene in cinema, but
(32:04):
no one's having sex and closer on.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Why can't I remember this?
Speaker 2 (32:08):
So Billy and Meg again real names are Kat's Delli,
very famous deli in New York. And they're talking about
people like faking orgasms, and Billy Crystal's like, that's never
happened to me. It makes like yes it has, and
he was like I would know, and she's like would you?
And then she it acts and she gets so into
it by the time, she's like screaming on the table
(32:31):
and she's like yes, yes, and then she finishes. She
goes and just starts eating a sandwich, and Billy Crystal's
face like just he's like looks so shocked, like he's
white in the face. He's so upset because he's like,
oh my god, so many women I've been with her
faked orgasms. And then there's a really iconic line where
the camera pants to another woman sitting in the restaurant
and she goes, I'll have what she's having fun. Fact,
(32:53):
that's the director's mother. Oh. So people tell stories of
going to see that in the cinema for the first
time when it came out in the nineties, and they
said it was the first time they felt this huge
cultural shift in a cinema between men and women because
that scene came out and it was so specific about
women faking orgasms in a way that had never I've
been talked about before. And they said, when you went
to the cinema and watched it with a full crowd,
(33:14):
the women were screaming, laughing and clapping their hands because
they were all like, yes, I've done that. Oh my god,
I can't believe this is happening. And the men all
dead silent. It's so because it's the first time they
realized that that had happened, that they're in that moment
they are all Billy Crystal.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
And that's like the catalyst of every conversation card ever.
It's like, have you ever affect an orgasm? Yes, because
it's like now it's just become so common to talk
about it all the time.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
It was like, are we really putting this out into
the world. This happens.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
I also specifically remember exactly what you said, like Billy
Crystal's face like as she was making the noises, and
I'd like to think, and this is me liking the
thing that that was the first time she did that scene,
like the one day, and that was this genuine reaction.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
So I actually do think that there's a story around that,
because I love making of this movie. I found it
so fascinating that there was something around that of like,
no one knew she was going to go that hard,
that she was going to do it.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Because his faces literally like feels like he's kind of
like looking to the side and he's like looking to
someone who's actually in the room.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Yeah, and she starts like slowly touching herself and then
he's just like and then he's looking around like it's
so good. So there's that really famous scene. But also
so much of the movie is just them in New York,
and it's one of those movies where New York's like
a character in it, and there's them walking through Central
Park or rugged up in the autumn winter in this movie,
and then going into all these cozy little bookstores and
then going out to dinners and then and there's a
(34:34):
scene where they call each other from their beds and
they like watch a movie together on the phone or
rugged up under their blankets. That's when they really start
to fall in love.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
The craziest situationship.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
And then I know again it's one of those situationships
that gives women false hope everything. Yeah, Like you know
that guy friend that you hang out with all the
time and then you accidentally sleep with once and then
he kind of like ignores you. He's going to fall
in love with you. He's going to come running into it.
He's going to come running into a New Eve party
just before the clock strikes midnight so he can kiss
you on Year's Eve. It Happened to Sally, Happened to
(35:04):
Sally and Harry, So when Harry met Sally. An iconic movie.
It's all some of those movies. I think people might
have watched clips or they've heard of it, but like
you have to sit down and watch the actual movie
and just watch them fall in love in New York
in winter, so lovely, so good forget on every streaming
service so you'll find it.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Thank you so much for listening to the Spill today.
Do not forget to follow us on.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
TikTok at the Spill podcast. The Spill is produced by
Manicia Swirreen with sound production by Scott Stronik. Mama Mia
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You can visit Fentonanfentin dot com dot au and we'll
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on Monday.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
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