I Want You Back

The Rom Com Rewrite

You have to put your own oxygen mask on first, folks. That’s just how it is.

I Want You Back

Year: 2022

Written by: Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger

Director: Jason Orley

Stars: Charlie Day, Jenny Slate, Scott Eastwood, Gina Rodriguez, Manny Jacinto, Clark Backo

Show notes:

This six-some reel of a film feels simultaneously up-to-date and out of time. And it might just be (for Charles Adrian, at least) too funny?

In this episode, we reference the musical Little Shop Of Horrors (first published 1982) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Shop_of_Horrors_(musical)) and the films Sleepless In Seattle (1993) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108160/), The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405422/) and When Harry Met Sally (1989) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098635/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) (Sleepless In Seattle is also the subject of our 12th episode, btw). We namecheck Nancy Meyers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Meyers) and the “Polish guy who used to wake his actors up”, whose name Charles Adrian can’t remember at around the 31 minute mark, is Jerzy Grotowski (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Grotowski).

In June, we will be watching the films Plus One (2019) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7645122/) and The Wedding Year (2019) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8367184/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0).

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 (martinzaltzaustwick.com). Artwork is by Lisa Findley.

Thank you for listening!