iTunes Exclusive Episode ACOD

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He is the official fact checker of this show.
You may know him as fun, don't go.
But his mama call him Don Ford.
I'm a column of Don Ford.
Hello Rob.
Welcome, sir.
Welcome to you.
And I always love your music.
It's hard to be creative.
I try to be creative.
And that's the main thing.
I love it.
And some people are going, well, I don't understand.
But if you see the title of our episode today or tonight or this morning,
whatever you're listening, you'll understand where this is coming from.
Don and I are going to be reviewing a movie that we saw a screening of.
courtesy of our friends at Allied Integrated Marketing.
Movie called ACOD, which stands for Adult Child of the Arturo Children of the Force.
Directed by Stu Zikerman.
starring Adam Scott Richard Jenkins, Capron O'Hara, Amy Poler,
Mary Elizabeth Winston, Clark Duke, Ken Howard, Jessica Alba, Jane Lynch.
This is a star-studded film.
I'm going to give you a quick rundown.
Adam Scott plays Carter.
Carter is an ACOD from the opening of the film.
You see stock footage from when his character has having his ninth birthday.
And it pretty much sets the tone for the relationships within his family.
He's now grown up.
Owns his own restaurant has a beautiful girlfriend by the,
by the name of Lauren played by Mary Elizabeth Winston,
who you might remember from Scott Pilgrim versus the world.
Or she also played Bruce Willis's daughter in the,
the good day to die hard the last one.
I thought, I thought she was in a different film, but that wasn't her.
I thought she was a daughter from taking that was wrong.
And his brother played by the great Clark Duke whom you will remember
from hot tub time machine.
Great movie.
Is getting married.
And tray wants both of his parents at the wedding.
So it is up to Carter played by Adam Scott whom you know from Parks and Recreation.
To set that up.
And that's all I'm willing to say because I think if you may have seen more in some trailers.
Well, we'll talk about the other subplot where he finds out
through who he thinks his therapist is played by Jane Lynch,
where he was actually the subject of a book when he was a kid.
She wasn't really a therapist.
She was just more of a research person.
And so that throws a whole different dynamic into the mix.
So we're going to start with the film itself.
Don't tell me it's not the film.
Before I begin, I want to thank everybody that I should actually all love those guys.
Love them to death.
I will say first off, I was surprised.
I did not see much promotion on this movie.
For the star-study cast that it is.
I've seen a few trailers.
But I mean, I knew what it was just because I saw some things on it.
And I looked, of course.
I'm the kind of guy that looks up trailers.
It's actually out in the limited release right now,
but it's going to go wide release this coming weekend.
No October the 11th.
So there is that.
So go ahead, sir.
I'm sorry.
No, I'm just watching that movie.
I have a ton of emotions watching that.
What were you going in?
What was your mind frame?
I thought comedy.
And something I might relate to.
When I was before, we walked into the Angelica there.
I was theater.
To see it, I was thinking, this might be some kind of comedy.
I love Parks and Rec.
Been watching every episode.
You know, Ron Swanson, Keith Overman, I'll let.
So I knew it was going to be a comedy.
I mean, who knew what to really expect from there?
But watching the movie starts to the cast.
I think they interacted very well.
But I got a range of emotions watching this thing.
The biggest thing I would say there is a ton of uncomfortable comedy.
And for those of you that understand.
Wow, I'm sorry.
I just thought something about this one.
$90,000 budget.
That's what?
How can I have a knife?
It says I'm looking at something from LinkedIn.
It says pricing of event space catering and day court estate within the overall.
I think that was just a budget for the catering.
Well, I was going to say those people.
But I'm looking, I'm trying to find a budget.
And I can't find it right now.
There's no salaries.
I guarantee it's more than 90 grand for those actors there.
Yeah, maybe polar from Parks and Rec.
This is a lot of people that work together.
Yeah, I still know.
But still they pay more.
My, my thought going in.
I mean, I'm not seeing anything otherwise.
But my thought going in was I thought this was going to be a dark comedy.
I thought this was going to be one of those.
You really had to have to be warped to get into it.
And what I found was the exact opposite.
I felt that this was an indie film that will appeal to a mass audience.
I love the storyline.
What I've read was the director.
This is the first time director.
Let me get back to that page.
Name Stu Zickerman.
This is semi-automatic biographical.
This is kind of based on some of the things that he dealt with.
Yeah, yeah, I can tell.
The only thing you would know him from he wrote.
Electra.
Oh, right.
So don't know that going in.
Yes.
That you want to admit that might change you a little bit.
But I was pleasantly surprised by this film.
It truly, it's.
Indy film is a very strange thing because indie film is.
First of all, it's not indie film of 20 years ago.
Indy film has grown up.
But indie film tends to walk that line between mainstream appeal.
And these art for art sex people that drive me crazy.
But this film was wonderful.
I was a little worried about the 18 to three minute running time going in.
But I think it was based well.
It is.
You didn't you mentioned uncomfortable comedy, which is basically like ton of that.
If you like the office, then you know what I'm talking.
And it's I'll say there's a lot of comedy.
They add comedy to some very uncomfortable situations.
Well, and it's.
And some you see coming and some you don't.
Right.
And it's not that whack.
It is smack.
Yeah.
The comedy.
It's natural organic comedy.
It's real life.
Uncomfortable situations dealing with divorce, but they put some comedy to it.
Which makes it more bearable.
I think.
Well, they do it good.
They do it good.
But there's this is one of those.
It takes to the tango kind of situations because you can have a great story.
You can have an amazing script.
But if you don't have the right actors in place with the right chemistry,
it will ruin a great script.
And ACOD had had it.
Did it right because I thought.
Versatile actors.
Total versatility.
I'll work great with each other.
It's a great chemistry.
And let me just say first of all, you put Catherine O'Hara in anything.
And I'm in.
Oh, yeah.
For those of you that don't remember her.
She was in best and show.
She was the Maya.
Most of you know her as the mom from home alone.
She's amazing in whatever she does.
She is one of my favorite actor actresses in the history of ever.
And when I saw her name attached to it, I'm like, okay, it's not going to suck.
It just can't.
And Richard Jenkins, who's played a bad guy in a lot of things.
He was in the cabin in the woods and stuff playing.
Playing Adam Scott's father.
Hugh.
And the.
The womanizing aging man.
What's the trophy wife?
Yeah.
Played by Amy Polar.
Trophy wives.
Yeah.
Amy Polar.
I thought was great in this.
But she and Adam Scott worked together on parts and parks and wrecks.
So there's.
They're buried on the show.
Oh, are they married on the show?
Yeah, they're married on the show.
Yeah.
So there's already familiarity with their.
Clark Duke is Clark Duke.
But Amy Polar.
Her character was kind of dark.
You know, I didn't expect that from her because she's always the comedy.
But it was nice to see.
It was nice to see.
I thought she.
Everybody did a great job.
The cast worked very well together.
Catherine O'Hara plays Melissa the mother.
Her husband Ken Howard plays Gary.
Ken Howard.
You'll remember from 30 rock.
He was the guy on the last couple of seasons that owned cable town.
I keep thinking he's Wilson from home improvement.
He's not.
Looks like him.
He does.
Sounds like him, too.
Yeah.
Even Jessica Alba.
Very small role.
If I packed it.
Well, but if I were to give.
If I were to take this cast and I would say if I could.
If I had to cut one character out.
It would probably be hers.
No.
No.
And I'll tell you why.
In the overall scheme of the film.
If she wasn't there.
It wouldn't have taken away from my job.
But I'm not saying I want you.
But if you have the gun to my head and said, you have to get rid of one of these characters.
It would be hers.
She played vital because she was another person in that other.
That's not good.
Well, no.
I'm just.
With the sub story talked about about the book.
She has something to do with it.
She does.
She does.
It really makes that story go on that angle.
There would be no story without her on the sub story.
My problem with it was.
She's in two scenes in the whole film.
No, that's it.
You're you're counting the last two together.
No.
When they meet.
And when they meet again.
And at the end at the new book.
But she's still there.
She walked away.
I mean.
She's not in the scene.
She just happens to be there.
Okay.
All right.
Two and a half.
I love Jessica Alba.
So I do.
She still looks great.
But I just felt that maybe her character either could have been more or not there.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
She's.
She's a.
But I think she was essential to them.
The cast overall was amazing.
They all worked well together.
I like it when a movie can make me laugh genuinely and not I can see the joke coming chuckle.
But when I actually really do have a good with the kids called the belly laugh.
I really really really to take a subject matter like it does and make it light without making it cheesy.
And I think that the cast and crew achieved that here.
Let's talk about.
Stu Zickerman in his vision as the director and writer of this film.
What did you think?
This is very kind of hard to put in words.
Just get this movie got personal to me.
And me as well.
And my.
As much as I love my parents and I told you this after the movie that my parents.
We got divorced a week from a seventh birthday.
I fit that role to the tea.
I was a pioneer of the generation X.
And I really you know when you when you talk about that.
Jane Lynch's character has a really really good speech about.
This generation who now is is our generation.
We're now in our forties.
But we were the first generation.
And I really deal with divorce.
And I was a pioneer of the divorce thing because here's the thing.
I was in Billings, Montana in 1977 or 78.
And no one in our school was divorced parents.
It's basically me and my sister.
And it was tough.
And I told my.
I told my parents this privately many times.
I don't blame him for the divorce.
It was the best thing.
Right.
And then I see.
You know, they both got remarried.
You know.
Is that.
But is that hindsight being what it is.
Or because in the moment.
See, my parents.
The divorcees are not good.
Well, when when I was when my parents divorced, I was very, very young.
I was not even too.
So for me, I see it through different lenses.
And so what I'm asking you is.
In the moment.
Were you able to truly process it or was it as years went on.
Were you able to more like I said hindsight being 2020.
Is it because you can look, you could look back on it.
Or were you kind of cognizant and okay with it from jump street?
Here's the thing.
I remember more from the night on my parents' big split.
Then I do of any time in my child.
But right.
And I don't know what's going on at the very moment.
But as time went on over the months,
I realized that.
Mommy and daddy are not getting back together.
And it was tough on me.
But were you able to process it properly?
Or did it take years for you to find it?
No, I promise you.
Because what am I going to do about a cry?
You know, I'm living in Montana.
My dad's in Denver then Pittsburgh.
And he's half-con in a way.
You know, it's tough.
But what do you do?
You have no choice.
It was the best thing.
My dad with his job.
It was the best thing.
And I really relate to this movie.
And a lot of people do.
And in the end, you guys stay for the credits because it does.
It does interviews with adult children's up to what?
It's all the cast and crew.
I'm the same with it.
Which I think is genius.
It wasn't genius.
I didn't want to talk about that.
Well, I mean, I'm not giving you support.
I'm saying stay for the trailers.
Because they, you know, they.
Well, no, that's not a spoiler.
They just basically in the credit sequence and at the end titles.
They talk to the cast and crew.
Now again, production budget is not being published.
So I guess the 19 grand was just for the catering and the scenery.
Which is still amazing to know budget.
But for me, I felt like it had been interviewed on that thing.
And I love the movie.
It's a great movie.
Great comedy.
They hit some hard subjects.
But they hit them right.
And I was very.
But how much of the credits do you get to the director on this?
Because we're talking about the director right now.
And he's very much to him.
Because if he's, if this was his life story, he told it great.
Because I guarantee this any person of divorce really knew was going on or even from, you know,
age five, six, seven up, they can relate with this movie.
And they hit, uncomfortable situations.
But they hit it with a great comedy that you can bear without crying.
You know, for me, knowing that it was semi-autobiographical kind of gave it a different
wrinkle for me because my feeling when watching the film was it was shot very casually.
And I don't mean that negative.
I mean that is a very positive.
I wasn't worried about his use of the trees.
And it just felt like I was sitting there watching a story unfold.
And that could have been his intention was to show it just as you're watching people's lives.
We don't want you to take you out of the fact that you're watching a movie.
But we want you to see that you're watching people's lives.
And that's what I mean by shot casually, which I loved about it.
And I think it fit the film perfectly.
Oh, they agree.
And I just felt real life in there.
And it was, it was very well written.
It was very well acted.
It was it was short, but they played it well, they stepped it well.
And I even worry about that.
I won't give it a complaint about being that short because it hit home and it wasn't drawn.
It was very well-paced.
Yeah.
No point was I like,
Where are we going?
Now I will say the first, the first 20 minutes.
I got a little restless.
But after that first 20 minutes rest of the movie flew for me.
Yeah.
I was kind of like, okay, I want to see where this is going.
You know, I guess because it was my anticipation of knowing what was coming.
I was waiting for that.
I think that,
I don't even know how to say this right.
I don't see no Oscar nominations coming out of this.
Which is not a bad thing because again, just because the movie doesn't get nominated for Oscars.
I mean, it's a bad film.
I love this movie.
But I think your breakout performance for me in this film was Mary Elizabeth Winston.
You think so?
Absolutely.
I mean, she really got to show a little bit more range to me than other films that I've seen her in.
I mean, if you look at her, you know, a good day to die hard, where she played Lucy.
Yeah.
You didn't see much of her in there.
I have not seen this spectacular now, although I really, really want to.
She played Mary Todd Lincoln in Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, but she didn't see much of her.
Other films that I've seen her in Scott Pilgrim versus the World, her character was very deadpan.
So you didn't really get to see her actors.
She was also in live freer die hard.
But again, that was, that's a Bruce Will as a vehicle.
She was in death proof, which I haven't seen in final destination three.
Oh, she did this series Wolf Lake that was a very short lived.
Yeah.
She did four episodes of passions many, many years ago.
She didn't have to have touched by an angel, but I think in this film, you really get to see her act.
And you get to see her really engulf herself in her character.
And she, I mean, she, I didn't, I could separate myself from the Emery Elizabeth Winston versus the character itself.
And I thought, this was a breakout role for her.
I mean, she's got four movies in post-production.
Three in post-production and one in pre-production right now.
That's did a great job.
I think she really stepped up the bar.
Any breakout performance is for you.
I'm Scott.
Really?
From a guy that watches Parks and Rec?
Yeah.
Do you feel that he was able to make the transition to, to, to big screen from small screen?
Yeah, I think so.
And he showed he had a good role.
And it shows he could work with a great cast of characters.
And he could fit that mold of being one of those people that could, if they need someone to get some chemistry in,
there's, there's a person that could call, you know, just like a lot,
a lot of the other people in those movies in this movie.
And I want to know why Clark Duke doesn't get more work.
Because I love that kid.
I think he's, I mean, he's, he's done a lot of stuff.
There's time I saw him that I could, I honestly can remember him being in was in a film called,
Sex Drive, which is a great movie.
It's, it's a little cheesy, but there's so lot of fun.
Basically, it's him and a buddy of his,
James Marsden plays the buddy's older brother and they steal his car.
Because he wants to go meet up with a girl.
Very, very funny.
Very, very funny.
Very much enjoyed that film.
And I'm a big fan of him.
And he was, you remember him as the kid in hot tub time machine?
Oh, yeah.
You know, he actually had a small role in super bad.
I was not aware of.
But I think this kid got an amazingly bright future, especially in comedy.
He's got great comedic timing.
I'm a huge fan of him.
Yeah, he has a kind of, all right.
I've been for years.
Kind of the nerdy guy, some ass best kind of, hey, you know,
to play the good geek to funny geek.
All right.
So, final analysis.
What we do on this show when we do,
and I do exclusive.
We don't just rate a movie.
We don't give you, you know, one to ten or thumbs up thumbs down stars.
We're not like that.
You deserve more than that, listener.
You deserve better than that.
So, the way we do this on the show is we say,
number one, what I watch it again.
And number two, if the answer to that number one is yes.
How would you see it again?
Would you see it again in first run?
If so, Matt and I are evening show.
Would you wait for it on DVD or blue ray?
Or would you just simply wait for it on cable?
Or would you just not go see it again altogether?
So, done?
I defer to you.
First off, I'm coming.
Yeah, I would watch it again.
Okay.
Good.
I have a little problem with seeing movies.
I get in the theater.
But to the, to the empire,
our little empire, I will save.
For me, I would honestly do a matinee on this,
and I would recommend for someone who hasn't seen it,
matinee or even close to a full price.
Maybe a twilight show.
Twilight, yeah.
Yeah.
Not the movie.
That's the time of day.
Look it up, kids.
For me, I would definitely watch this movie again.
I would pay full price for it.
I believe that this, this is going to be a sleeper hit.
I think this is going to be a film.
That's word of mouth is going to catch this thing like wildfire.
And I also believe that this could get enough momentum behind it
to get a wider release than just your art house cinema.
And I, it's kind of like my big fact,
re-quitting.
I think you'll get that.
You know, that was a decent little flick.
And I saw that.
Word of mouth got that thing wrong.
See, I didn't catch it.
It was on cable.
But I love it.
But we signed a theater word of mouth.
It kept on going and going and going and going.
Just kind of like the movie,
which we want to take out,
I first learned to see instructions on included.
Word of mouth.
Excellent film as well.
If you get that drive,
the people talk about it.
People go see it.
It keeps going up and numbers every week.
It doesn't peek out and go down.
It keeps kind of building.
So both of us are saying go see this movie.
It is very enjoyable.
Also could be a good conversation starter.
They deal with some very interesting
concepts in this film.
That I was very.
I was a little cognizant about going in,
but felt very good afterwards the way they addressed it.
I would see I would have a problem with
a small kid seeing this possibly,
but any teenager above,
I would recommend for a family thing.
Also.
I know what tried to be.
Well, it's right arm.
Yes.
So I would say some,
I would still recommend some parents
if they got the teens and they don't divorce.
Maybe it's a good thing to go to, you know.
So there's your analysis.
Go see this movie.
It's called ACOD.
ACOD.
Why can't I say that?
Adult children of divorce.
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