Every week on This Had Oscar Buzz, film and entertainment writers Joe Reid and Chris Feil are going to be talking about a different movie that once upon a time had big-time Academy Award aspirations, and for one reason or another, it all went wrong.
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Every week on This Had Oscar Buzz, film and entertainment writers Joe Reid and Chris Feil are going to be talking about a different movie that once upon a time had big-time Academy Award aspirations, and for one reason or another, it all went wrong.
After a pair of successful adventure movies together with Robert Zemeckis, the trio of Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito got the band back together for one last time in 1989. With DeVito in the director’s chair and adapted from the Warren Adler novel, The War of the Roses follows the disintegration of one materialistic couple and the divorce battle that ensues. It’s an acidicly comedic satire that nevertheless became a holiday season hit, but failed to capture Oscar’s affection.
This episode, we talk about DeVito’s directorial career and the film’s muddled framing device. We also talk about the Oscar legacy of Driving Miss Daisy, Turner’s too brief period as a commanding leading lady, and Douglas’ emergence into serious leading man.
Topics also include Romancing the Stone‘s horniness, entering the paté business, the chandelier finale.
This Had Oscar Buzz
Every week on This Had Oscar Buzz, film and entertainment writers Joe Reid and Chris Feil are going to be talking about a different movie that once upon a time had big-time Academy Award aspirations, and for one reason or another, it all went wrong.
