TMR 041 – The Sandlot

Total Movie Recall

This week on Total Movie Recall, we take a big shit on Boomers and their cheap nostalgia for a “better time.” A time when a bunch of baseball-loving kids’ black friend would have had to walk home to his segregated neighborhood. A time of nuclear anxiety because our megalomaniacal leaders were determined to blow up the world. A time when women were openly sexually harassed with no consequences. But hey, wasn’t baseball fun? Don’t think about all that other stuff. The Sandlot (1993) d. David Mickey Evans Starring Tom Guiry - Scotty Smalls Denis Leary - Bill (stepdad) Karen Allen - mom Mike Vitar - Ben Patrick Renna - Ham Chauncey Leopardi - Squints Marty York - Yeah-Yeah Brandon Quintin Adams - Kenny DeNunez Grant Gelt - Bertram Grover Weeks Shane Obedzinski - Repeat Victor DiMattia - Timmy Timmons James Earl Jones - Mr. Mertle Art LaFleur - Babe Ruth (The Babe)

When Scottie Smalls moves to a new neighborhood, he manages to make friends with a group of kids who play baseball at the sandlot. Together they go on a series of funny and touching adventures. The boys run into trouble when Smalls borrows a ball from his stepdad that gets hit over a fence.

Things discussed in the show: Inception (Christopher Nolan, Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page) Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen, Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann) The Neverending Story (Wolfgang Petersen, Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Tami Stronach) Enemy Mine (Wolfgang Petersen, Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr., Brion James) Starman (John Carpenter, Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith) Junior (Ivan Reitman, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Emma Thompson) Air Force One (Wolfgang Petersen, Andrew W. Marlowe, Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close) Cabaret (Bob Fosse, Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem) Soviet Era Movie Posters Deadly Prey Gallery movie posters Brutalist, modern & gothic architecture Papers, Please video game Sophie's Choice (Alan J. Pakula, Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol) Zdzisław Beksiński (Polish painter) Vice (Adam McKay, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carell) The Big Short (Adam McKay, Charles Randolph, Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling) Cursed (Frank Miller, Tom Wheeler, Katherine Langford, Devon Terrell, Gustaf Skarsgård) Dungeons & Dragons Game of Thrones (David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Emilia Clarke, Peter Dinklage, Kit Harington, Lena Headey, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Iain Glen, Gwendoline Christie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Knights Templar and kissing buttholes to awaking kundalini and your third eye. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Shia LaBeouf) W. (Skull & Bones jerking off in a coffin, Oliver Stone, Stanley Weiser, Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Banks, Ioan Gruffudd) A Christmas Story (Bob Clark, Peter Billingsley, Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin) Stand By Me (Rob Reiner, Stephen King, Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman) The Wonder Years (Carol Black, Neal Marlens, Fred Savage, Dan Lauria, Daniel Stern) Bryan Adams - "The Summer of 69" Puppet Master Next Week: Killer Klowns From Outer Space