WEBVTT - Northern Lights 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:18.520 So I'm not going to start this the way I 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:21.320 wanted to start this, which was I was going to 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:24.160 ask you if you've ever dropped acid, which I think 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:27.640 is probably in keeping a little bit with the movie 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:31.160 we have to talk about today. So I won't ask 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:33.040 you that question because I kind of know the answer 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:33.239 to that. 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:35.200 Al Right, Yeah, I think pretty much. 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:36.560 I think I can. 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:39.199 What would you do if I was like. 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:43.760 Yeah, I would be I would be like, great. Then 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:49.080 we have a frame of reference to start with this film. 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:51.519 I think that's all we need to say. I think 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:53.920 we jump right into it. First of all, Welcome to 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:55.800 Magical Rewind, the show that makes you want to grab 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:58.560 your friends, your PJS, and your popcorn and go back 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:00.720 to your time and all the houses were smart, the Waves, 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:03.600 Tsunamis and the high School's musical. I'm Wilfordelle and I'm 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:08.679 Sabrina Brian. It is a controversial week here on Magical 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:11.679 Rewind as we deal with what may or may not 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:16.680 be the first dcom ever produced. And I will explain 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:19.080 what I'm talking about this. So this is nineteen ninety 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:24.080 seven's drama inspired by death and cigarettes, Northern Lights, with 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:27.920 the legendary actress Diane Keaton. Now you might be wondering 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:30.880 how has a harmless Disney Channel movie from the nineties 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:34.679 caused so much controversy. Well you have twenty sixteen celebration 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:39.280 of hitting one hundred dcoms to thank for this controversy. Yes, 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:41.800 you see, back when Disney decided to create an event 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:45.319 out of the production milestone and air every entry into 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:47.480 the series back to back, followed by the debut of 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:50.600 The Swap, which we saw, it didn't take long for 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:55.200 historians to see a very glaring problem. The marathon began 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:57.760 with what was being heralded as the first decom ever, 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:01.000 but the truth is it wasn't the first. They aired 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:05.360 under wraps, but it's this movie, Northern Lights that first 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:08.440 checked all the boxes and was originally considered the debut 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:11.239 of the d coom. Now why would they do that, 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:14.040 No one really knows, but to make sure the total 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:16.919 was still one hundred to adjust for Northern Lights erasure, 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:20.680 they inexplicably added the high school musical spin off Sharpay's 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:24.240 Fabulous Adventure as a DCOM, even though it went straight 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:26.800 to DVD and did not premiere on the channel. We 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:29.720 see you, Disney, we see what You're doing there, Disney. 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:32.800 Don't think you could just thank you. You're not just 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:35.840 gonna slide it by. You can't just oh wow, sharpay 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:37.560 that Northern Lights never happened. 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:38.240 Nuh uh. 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:41.840 You aren't counting on producers. We mind to hop in 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:45.680 not with the producers we have. So there are two 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:49.400 very popular theories online why this happened. Number one is 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:52.960 that formulaically it does not follow any of the rules 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:56.400 or tropes seen in dcoms, so much so that even 0:02:56.440 --> 0:03:00.560 it starred. Diane Keaton admitted her confusion with the strategy 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:03.000 in the press during the launch, reminding everyone it is 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:06.280 quote unquote an adult film, which is a strange thing 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:09.960 to call it because to me, that means porn. Sh 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:12.120 that's what an adult film is. People. I think she 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:15.400 meant a film for adults, which is a different thing 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:20.640 than an adult film. Diane, I know exactly. She just 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:22.960 thought it didn't fit and figured the theme was a 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:25.679 little too elevated for kids. And number two, the other 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:29.520 theory is she's a chainsmoker in this film, and that 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:31.959 doesn't fit the channel even back in the late nineties, 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:35.280 but now it's even more forbidden, making it even easier 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:37.600 to ignore. When they're rewriting the history. 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:37.839 Now. 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:40.920 Some people consider Northern Lights to be a very rare category, 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:45.920 which is the quote Disney Channel premiere film unquote. But 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:49.000 the true requirements for that are quite muddy because the 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:52.080 rollout and strategy were not really much different than movies 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:54.520 like High School Musical, Alley Cats, Strike Up, Up and Away, 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:56.880 all the movies for the first one hundred it really 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:59.760 wasn't that different. So this kind of just fell by 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:02.760 the way. It was weird. Now, Sabrina, I know this 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:06.880 is the first you're hearing of. Obviously this extremely heated debate, right, 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:09.520 and we don't like getting political on this podcast, but 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:13.400 what are your thoughts on this amazing controversy. 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:16.400 I need them to one hundred percent get this as 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:18.480 far away from the DCOM world as possible. 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:22.760 That's what I need to happen. This cannot and and 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:25.719 I will obviously talk about it more. 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:31.280 But no, nope, nope, nope, nope, not a DCM, not anyway. 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:34.359 So whatever they need to do, get it by whoever 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:36.279 will take your word for it. 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:37.479 Not a DCM. 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.960 Okay, all right, so you heard it here from the 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:44.040 one of the DCOM queens. This is not a DCOM 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:47.000 Northern Lights is also unique because it's based on a 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:50.200 nineteen eighty eight one man stage play of the same 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:52.240 name by John Hoffman, who is a writer producer with 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:56.600 credits on shows like HBO's Looking Grayson, Frankly, and most recently, 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:59.920 he co created the Who Smashed It Only Murders of 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:03.479 the Building Legit. He also appears in this movie, and 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:06.120 Frankly does a great job. He's a total renaissance man. 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:08.840 And there were even more very recognizable names in the 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:12.800 production crew. Actress and one time America's sweetheart, Meg Ryan 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:16.799 was an executive producer, as well as Bill Bojangles Robinson, 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:20.040 a tap dancer and actor once known as one of 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:22.560 the biggest stars in the first half of the twentieth century. 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:26.040 He's a serious pioneer in Hollywood, working with Shirley Temple 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:29.760 as the first interracial dance partners ever in the history 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:33.119 of Hollywood. Crazy. He started his career in the highly 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:35.920 problematic minstrel shows and created a career that spanned from 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:40.200 vaudeville to radio, to movies to TV, eventually becoming the 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:44.200 highest paid black actor in America. Now what any of 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:45.919 this has to do with Northern Lights, We don't know, 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:48.520 but it's all really cool Hollywood history. 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:51.800 There is not a lick of dancing out there, no 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:55.880 nothing but the shoes because Meg Ryan. 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:59.840 And bo Jangles together as producers. I mean, geez. The 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:03.240 Disney Channel produced Northern Lights debuted on August twenty third, 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:05.640 nineteen ninety seven, and was not a big hit in 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:09.680 the ratings or critical response, making pretending it never existed 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:13.000 kind of second nature, which Disney did very well. It 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:15.160 should also come as no surprise that Northern Lights is 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:17.960 not on Disney Plus it's not even really part of 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:21.520 Disney cannon. But you can find it free to stream 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:23.120 on YouTube, so you can go there and watch it 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:25.040 now before we attempt to recap it, or you can 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:27.360 just listen and then after you decide if we did 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:29.840 a good job or not. But if you think we sucked, well, 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:34.320 that sounds like a you problem there, negative Nancy Sabrina, 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:37.320 considering employees of the channel don't even know this exists 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:39.640 these days. I'm gonna guess you didn't know anything about 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:41.440 Northern Lights before the podcast. 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:42.480 I didn't. 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:45.640 I had a very different thing of what I was 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:47.480 thinking in my head of what it would be, and 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:51.480 it became nothing of the sort so disappointment washed over 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:55.200 me time and time again throughout watching this movie. 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:57.479 My guess is you thought it was having to do 0:06:57.560 --> 0:06:59.720 with the famous strain of marijuana from the eighties and 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:03.400 nine Northern Lights? Is that what I'm guessing. I know 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:04.720 what you thought it was, wasn't it. 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:07.200 No, I don't even know what you're referencing. No, I 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:08.640 thought it was going to be a love story. 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:11.000 Did you really think Northern Lights was gonna be a 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:11.520 love story? 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:12.000 Yes? 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:14.800 And you'll hear in my Superta season the reason gotcha? 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:16.400 Were you a Diane Keaton fan? 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:18.400 I'm a huge Diane Keaton fan. 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:21.440 What's your favorite Diane Keaton movie? Is it Northern Lights? 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:27.200 Oh? 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:29.200 God, I can't even think of what a favorite one 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:31.360 would be. I can't. 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:33.880 Okay, I think Annie Hall has got to be my favorite. 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:38.800 But First Wives Club, our second First Wives Club is great? Yeah, 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:41.600 First Wives, but Annie Hall is just so good it's 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:46.200 it's crazy good. Anyway, Well, let's get to Alaska asap. 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:51.040 Here comes the synopsis. And I don't think producer Jensen 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:54.000 got this synopsis right if I'm at if and I 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:55.800 never say that, And I wasn't gonna call him a 0:07:55.840 --> 0:08:00.840 write him because he has. A disillusioned journal returns to 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:03.440 her small Alaskan hometown to uncover the truth about a 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:07.280 mysterious plane crash. Along the way, she reconnects with the roots, 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:10.200 rekindles old relationships, and confronts secrets from her past. Now 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:14.000 here's the thing. She's not a journalist, and there was 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:18.640 no plane crash. So I'm thinking the synopsis either. I 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:21.000 don't think it was producer Jensen's fault. I think they 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:25.800 have the wrong synopsis up online because I don't think 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:30.520 that's the synopsis. So it is worth noting, by the way, 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:32.840 that though the movie is set in Alaska, they did 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:36.320 not shoot there. They shot in British Columbia, Canada, so 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:39.280 a perfect stand in because it looks like snowy landscapes. 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:42.520 But also, if this ain't a dcom, they've started shooting 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:44.880 them where the dcom shoots. So already we got one 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:46.720 click in the dcom box. I know you said not 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:48.319 a dcom, but we got. 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:51.760 One in the one box one hey will, Yes, I 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:54.360 do want to alert you. You will find out later 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:57.200 why that synopsis. It was not on purpose. I'm not 0:08:57.200 --> 0:08:59.560 going to pretend it was on purpose. Okay, we'll find 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:03.720 out later, or why that synopsis was put in okay perfect. 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:04.640 Oh, I can't wait. 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:07.480 A mystery in line with this film. 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:10.640 Okay perfect, because I was I was reading, and I 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:12.200 was like, there's no plane crash. 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:14.880 Okay, it's impened. 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:20.439 I can't wait. Early thoughts, Sabrina taken away, What did 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:21.800 you think of Northern Lives? 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:24.400 I mean, if we're going to do early thoughts, I'm 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:28.240 going to tell you that I was confused from as 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:33.920 early as seconds number four and five. I was confused 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:38.600 on the entire intro. I didn't understand. I to the 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:40.840 point where I rewatched it a few times to see 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:44.120 if I'm just missing where they're explaining what these weird 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:47.240 little mini monologues. 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:48.560 Are and what's going on. 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:54.319 And then I had no idea what Diane Keaton's like. 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:56.640 Character was doing at her job. 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:59.080 I have no idea what kind of job she had, 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:01.840 just that she was clearly bad at it and her 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:06.720 boss hated her. And then I checked out when they 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:09.520 went into a room filled with nicotine smoke. I said, 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:12.200 oh my god, Oh my god, we're in a room 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:15.440 filled with just smoke, like a smoking room in a 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:16.520 Disney Channel movie. 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:20.920 No, nope, So you did not like this film. No, okay, 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:21.520 fair enough. 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:24.960 I was just really confused in the beginning. 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:30.319 Yeah, I wasn't. I was kind of confusing. I strangely 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:36.280 loved this movie. That's not even a joke. I strangely 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:42.959 loved this movie. Was so weird and so Lynchian and 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:47.720 bizarre that it leaned into the weirdness of every character 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:51.400 to where I halfway through was like, I absolutely loved 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:54.480 this movie. I really did. Now whether it's a dcom 0:10:54.559 --> 0:11:00.520 or not a dcom, whole different conversation. Yeah, really fun, weird, 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:05.280 totally bizarre. I liked this movie. Yeah, it was. 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:10.199 I think I have you and I have switched minds 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:14.000 because I'm thinking of our quote unquote rules that we 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:15.360 like on Magical Rewind. 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:17.200 And there were no rules. 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:20.719 No, there were no guidelines. No, there was no one 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:22.600 knew what the hell was going on. 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:24.920 Oh my gosh. It was crazy. 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:27.640 It was. It was so strange, and I kind of 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:28.360 I was there for it. 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:32.680 This movie felt like it was improv That's how it was. 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.160 It seemed like no one knew what was going It. 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:38.160 Was weird on top of weird, on top of weird, 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:40.160 and I was there for it. I don't know why. 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:42.760 It just I had a smile on my face the 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:44.640 character or. 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:47.520 You watched it was one of those situations. 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:51.760 I did not have any brownies because I can't eat weed. 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:57.240 Northern Lights is directed by Linda Yellen, a director whose 0:11:57.280 --> 0:11:59.319 career began in the nineteen seventies in New York, were 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:02.680 her first film, a ten minute short from college, got 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:04.560 her the third prize in the New York Film Festival, 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:08.439 behind two other directors, Martin Scorsese and George lucas You 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:12.240 Might Be. She's since won two Peabodies and Emmy as 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:14.720 a producer of the TV movie Playing for Time, and 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:18.240 she's still working today as a heralded creative behind independent film, 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:21.480 most recently directing and co writing movie called One Stupid 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:25.440 Thing starring my friend Corey Fogelmanis of Girl Meets World 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:28.960 and sky Katz from Ravenshome. As I mentioned, this movie 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:31.920 stars one of Hollywood's most celebrated actresses of all time, 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.960 Diane Keaton. Her most iconic role was as Annie Hall 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:37.000 in the Woody Allen movie the same name, but she 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:41.320 also has starred Something's Got to Give, Red's Godfather Too 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:45.200 Looking for Mister Goodbar father of the Bride, Baby Boom, 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:48.520 The Family Stone, and First Wives Club. I mean yikes. 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:51.480 Her career started on stage in the original production of 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:54.359 Hair in nineteen sixty eight and led to a legendary 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:57.680 career with an oscar, two Golden Globes, and nominations for 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:02.120 Tony's and Emmy's. This was a big, big get for Disney. 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:06.360 This was also pretty close to prime Diane Keaton in 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:10.160 nineteen ninety seven. Yes, Yes, Maury Chaikin plays Ben, the 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:13.439 Canadian character actor who unfortunate passed away in twenty ten. 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:17.040 Was in just a ton of big movies like My Cousin, Vinnie, 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:20.959 Dances with Wolves, Twins, War Games, and mouse Hunt. I 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:23.720 mean oh, some of my favorites of all time. He 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:26.400 was a real quote hey look at that guy unquote 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:29.560 type of actor he can Also some of his more 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:33.280 recent roles were in two very big TV shows, Big 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:36.240 Little Lies and Mind Hunter. Joseph Cross is the young Man. 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:38.880 Jack Cross was a child actor who starred in two 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:41.760 Michael Keaton movies, Desperate Measures and in nineteen ninety eight's 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:44.960 Christmas fantasy movie Jack Frost. He later played a young 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:49.040 Augustine Burrows in the Running with Scissors, adaptation and appeared 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:51.920 in movies like Flags of Our Fathers, Untraceable and twenty 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:55.600 twenty one's Licorice Pizza. This movie also featured a lot 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:58.400 of prominent Canadian talent, and as I like to mention earlier, 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:01.200 the writer who's play the movie is based on John 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:04.720 Robert Hoffman does some very heavy lifting as Joe scar 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:07.440 Lotti or Carlotti is what he says, because he has 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:09.480 the hair lip and can't pronounce the ess. I mean, 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:12.080 just one of those weird Lynchian kind of characters. The 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:15.880 movie is one hundred and eleven minutes. It might as 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:18.160 well be a flight to Tokyo, No wonder. It is 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:20.120 shunned as a dcom. As you know, this means this 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:25.640 movie is TI long, too long. Get a grip Northern Lights. 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:28.360 The screenplay credit went to both Hoffman and a man 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:31.200 named Kevin Kine, and this is his only writing credit, 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:33.320 but he has been an actor in things like Crazy, 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:44.920 Beautiful Er and Yes, Dear, Okay, Let's get into this crazy, 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:48.800 crazy film. We open with some CPA cam quarter footage, 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:51.480 some testimonials from people in costume. It appears to be 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:54.360 a party and everyone is sharing memories of someone who 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:57.000 has passed away, at least that's what we think. A 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:59.680 young can Can girl, a man dressed in a bunny 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:02.320 suit and a statue of liberty all praise his generous 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:05.360 spirit and his supportive heart. A young boy dressed as 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:08.080 a bat says Jack's dad once taught them how to fish. 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:10.800 And another couple, just as Dorothy and the Scarecrow, talk 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:12.960 about when Jack's dad saw the Northern lights for the 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:15.960 first time, he absolutely loved them. The only time he 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:18.680 was happier was the night Jack was bold. And with 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:21.000 that we pull out to reveal a spinning globe. A 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:22.880 man's hand stops this movement right in front of a 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:25.240 young boy. It's a flashback to Jack and his dad. 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:27.760 He explains that Jack won't see the northern lights here. 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.800 They're a phenomenon. They show up when they want. Jack 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:32.440 tells his dad he hopes he gets to see it 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:35.120 one day, and his dad replies, just keep looking up, 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:38.160 and we fade into the spinning globe. We should also 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:42.160 point out that Tom Kavanaugh played his father in all 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:45.240 the flashbacks, and he of course went on to be 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:47.920 in that big show Not my Name is there All? 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:48.200 Whatever? 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:50.360 The one, the Bowling one, where he's the Bowling Lawyer ed, 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:53.120 which was a fun show. We are now from there 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:57.240 thrown into a large, busy telemarketing office, which Sabrina was 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.200 talking about how she checked out by this point because 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:01.960 she had no idea what dian Keate was doing. They're 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:05.440 selling Broadway tickets and Roberta, a blond woman, is pitching 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:08.040 a musical about aids. 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:09.720 Yep. 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:12.560 She puts her call on hold to try to convince 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:15.200 a coworker to take a ciggie break, but before she 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:17.920 can get an answer, her boss hovers over her, unhappy 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:20.400 with her output. We jumped to a costco with its 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:23.800 manager Ben answering a question about the insane quantities they sell. 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:27.520 How could this have ever been a one man show 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:30.880 on Broadway? Like, I don't on stage, I don't understand 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:33.880 how with all the character changes and the everything going on, 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.560 how is this ever a one man show? 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:37.800 Yeah? 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:43.640 Yeah, yeah, I mean he probably just told the story 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:45.800 of everyone. He couldn't have played all the roles. 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:47.480 I mean, it's like the narrator of it. 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:49.960 I guess. I don't know, but we've already seen so 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:52.800 many characters it's crazy, right. We then cut to a 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:55.400 man in a raincoat climbing a very tall ladder to 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:58.520 save a cat on a power line. The latter wobbles 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:00.440 and we hear storm clouds moving in. He grabs a 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:02.840 cat and promises he'll be home to Jack soon. As 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:06.360 the cat climbs down, we hear volts of electricity and 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:11.040 then the thud of a body. So maybe it's okay. 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:13.320 So we're starting to see why through the heavy smoking 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:15.199 and the thud of the body. Why Maybe it's not 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:18.439 a dcom, but it was anyway. Roberta is now on 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:24.080 a personal call. She mishears Kitty as Titty another d com. Yep, 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:26.840 we know why Disney This isn't Hey, it's on Disney Plus. 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:30.160 She told uh, she's told about the man who fell 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:31.760 from the pole. She doesn't know how to react. It 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:35.000 was her brother and he is dead. She tells the coworker, 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:37.240 and the coworker essentially says, I had no idea you 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:39.440 had a brother, But we find out she hasn't talked 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:41.480 to him in ten years. They didn't have very much 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:44.320 in common. Her brother was the quote crunchy hippie type 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:47.600 and she is cityfolk. She then lights up her first 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:49.679 cigarette of the movie in a break room that is 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:53.720 completely filled and crowded with smoke. There's like a filter 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:56.560 on the lens. Her sadness, though nestled down deep, is 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:58.680 just kicking in. I would like to point out, as 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:02.960 a reform smoker myself who smoked for twenty five some 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:06.720 odd years, rooms like this were common. This was not 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:09.240 over the top. This was not crazy. I remember going 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:11.120 to airports where they had the smoking room and you're 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:15.959 just in a plexiglass box full of smoke. So it 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:19.800 this was absolutely real. Yeah, Ben, in those rooms many 0:18:19.800 --> 0:18:21.960 many times you put the cigarette out and you're still 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:25.400 smoking a cigarette because there's so much smoke around. 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:27.160 The den of my grandparents' house. 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:31.120 See there you go. That's these were very real places. 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:34.080 Yeah, but there there was a point and I'll just 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:36.360 get this, this is a pretty season in that smoking 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:39.000 room where there was a shot that was like the 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:44.400 back of a chair and a race asstray that did 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:47.119 you not think someone there was a character that we 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:49.800 were going to meet sitting in that chair because they 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:51.360 went to it so many times and. 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:55.879 Then poof, nothing done, Nothing didn't happen, didn't happen. Yeah, 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:57.920 at the costco Ben is leaving a messenger Shoer's wife. 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:00.359 He also got the bad news about his friend Frank. 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:03.320 He'll need to go to Alaska for the funeral this weekend. 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:06.560 We jump into a Roberta flashback. It's the seventies and 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:09.480 she's in a disco. She's pacing waiting to rehearse with 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:13.000 a band. Eventually Frank arrives. He's fixed up a song 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:15.480 and has sheets for everyone. She was stressed, thought maybe 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:16.679 it was hit by a bus or something, but no, 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:19.400 he's fine. They sit there at the piano. Frank just 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:23.520 pulls out a kleenex and opens it up and he 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:27.920 sees an egg inside that he found from a Robin. Roberta, 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:29.960 of course, just doesn't care at all. She needs a 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:32.560 concentrat on tonight's New Year's Eve show, but Frank just 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:35.199 isn't as dedicated to the performance. He asked Roberta to 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:38.919 make a wish on her eyelash, which she does and 0:19:38.920 --> 0:19:41.640 then instantly forgives him for being late to the show. 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:44.880 You can tell she is also very frazzled all the time, 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:48.400 and he is very mellow and laid back. They made 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:51.840 sure that they distinguished between these two characters, and boy 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:53.919 did they. 0:19:52.920 --> 0:19:57.119 Now bothered me that she didn't. And you know, obviously 0:19:57.280 --> 0:19:59.160 I do. I love Diane Keaton, but. 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:02.200 He looked so much. This looked this did not look. 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:04.720 Like even ten years prior. This like, this looked like 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:06.840 two months prior to what. 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:08.879 Yeah, they didn't say. It didn't look like there was 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:09.480 the seventies. 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:12.320 Yes, yeah it did not. It did not come across 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:13.200 at anything. 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:16.440 But now, in all fairness on the YouTube's it was 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:20.720 obviously a VHS rip, so the quality is pretty terrible. Yes, 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:22.320 and it's hard to see. I would love to have 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:24.760 seen this Christine, to see what she actually looked like. 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:25.760 But I agree, it didn't. 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:27.240 Make He looks so young too. 0:20:28.000 --> 0:20:29.800