tomchick
1689
Ooh, ooh, I hope it’s Spanish Prisoner. He looks the right age.
-Tom
I’ll go Roger Dodger, which was also an early role for Jesse Eisenberg.
Yes, Roger Dodger (2002) it is. And, also yep, Jesse Eisenberg’s first movie role, in which he plays the callow youth looking for an education in becoming a pick-up artist from his uncle, Cameron Scott’s unpleasantly cynical but smooth-talking advertising executive.
It’s a pretty interesting and well-made movie for a directorial debut…weird that the director, Dylan Kidd, really hasn’t made much after this.
Your turn, @Woolen_Horde!
tomchick
1693
That’s the 20:20 from Sports: The Movie.
-Tom
aeneas
1696
Given that that is kids playing almost certainly rugby lets try Invicitus.
As they say in Afrikaans, “Nee”
Matt_W
1699
Wild guess: In the Cut?
Edit: Nope, post-guess search reveals totally wrong haircut.
Ding, ding, ding. Yes, Proof of Life, the sorta infamous 2000 thriller that got famous for all the stuff that went on behind the scenes. Russell Crowe is coming off of Gladiator, Best Actor Oscar in hand and is the biggest star on the planet. He starts making a movie with America’s Sweetheart™, and she ends up leaving Dennis Quaid for Crowe, launching a billion tabloid stories.
But it’s still a cool action movie about exfiltration, and the surprise is that David Caruso is absolutely off the hook and steals the second half of the movie with his gung-ho mercenary.
Plus, cool little footnote to the 20:20. The scene of Russell Crowe’s son playing Rugby, one of the young actors in the scene approached Crowe for acting tips. And they kept in touch through the years. The kid’s name: Henry Cavill.
60:60 David Morse spends the whole movie looking (and probably feeling) this miserable
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Skipper
1702
So you’re saying … this was Proof of Superman?
It means that Jor-El and Kal-El have been planning this for decades. CONSPIRACY, SHEEPLE.
I don’t know if that’s right, but it’s an excellent guess.
Yes, it’s The Vast of Night, a master class in taking an old story, a small budget and making it engrossing for a modern audience. Sci-fi with the special effects coming only at the very end and they’re not really needed.
40:40 The story is mostly moved forward by broken bits of conversation over the small town radio station and switchboard.
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