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Episode 45 - The Suburbans (1999)

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A comedy from 1999 starring Will Ferrell, Ben and Jerry Stiller and produced by JJ Abrams. What could go wrong?

Apparently everything. Even with this talent, they put together a movie that only has a couple laughs and can't figure out the tone or message. Kris puts it best as "a fever dream written by Kevin Smith as a parody of That Thing You Do".

Synopsis: A 1980s one-hit wonder band named "The Suburbans" reform for a special performance at one of the ex-member's wedding. At the wedding, a young record company talent scout happens to be in the audience and decides to give the now forty-ish performers a comeback push. The film attempts to take a satirical look at the music business of the 1990s, and compare it to the simpler 1980s scene.

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A comedy from 1999 starring Will Ferrell, Ben and Jerry Stiller and produced by JJ Abrams. What could go wrong?

Apparently everything. Even with this talent, they put together a movie that only has a couple laughs and can't figure out the tone or message. Kris puts it best as "a fever dream written by Kevin Smith as a parody of That Thing You Do".

Synopsis: A 1980s one-hit wonder band named "The Suburbans" reform for a special performance at one of the ex-member's wedding. At the wedding, a young record company talent scout happens to be in the audience and decides to give the now forty-ish performers a comeback push. The film attempts to take a satirical look at the music business of the 1990s, and compare it to the simpler 1980s scene.

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