I.Q.

The Rom Com Rewrite

Meg Ryan, Tim Robbins, Walter Mathau… this film is cute and fun with a great cast. But it needs more work.

I.Q. Year: 1994 Written by: Andy Breckman and Michael Leeson Based on a story by: Andy Breckman Directed by: Fred Schepisi Stars: Tim Robbins, Meg Ryan, Walter Mathau, Lou Jacobi, Gene Saks, Joseph Maher, Stephen Fry

Show notes:

This month, Lisa and Charles Adrian go deep into this apparently light and breezy romantic comedy about the life and loves of Albert Einstein’s putative niece.

If you would like to skip the plot summary for this month’s film you can spool forward a little over 12 minutes into the episode.

In this episode we mention the films:

French Kiss (1995) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113117/) Room With A View (1985) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091867/) Always Be My Maybe* (2019) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7374948/)

*This film has previously been featured on the podcast.

You can read more about the novel Room With A View (1908) by E. M. Forster on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Room_with_a_View.

The article about having many wealthy babies that Lisa mentions is this one: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/25/american-pronatalists-malcolm-and-simone-collins

Next month we are going to watch French Kiss.

If you would like to suggest films for future episodes, you can tweet Lisa: @LisaStowaway.

We record these episodes over the internet. Sometimes the audio is not perfect. We apologise for that.

Music in this episode is by Martin Zaltz Austwick (martinzalzaustwick.com). Artwork is by Lisa Findley.

Thank you for listening!