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My name is Rob, I am the executive producer of the clubhouse podcast.
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Because joining me for this episode is the official fact checker of this show.
And the only voice you will hear that's going to be able to truly talk about what we're about to talk about.
You may know I'm as fun, don't go, but his mom and name am Don Ford. I'm going to call him Don Ford.
Thank you for having me.
Oh, this is your deal.
And every once in a week, I did for the Empire.
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Now, every time that almost all the time that we do one of these, it's to review something, this is no exception.
For this particular episode, we are going to be talking about the latest film from director Peter Solett, who is going to be directing one episode of the upcoming HBO series vinyl.
But he did Nick and Nora's infinite playlist, which is one of my favorite movies.
Very good.
It is called FreeHeld.
It starts dueling in more Ellen Page, Steve Correll, Michael Shannon, Josh Charles,
Gabriel Luna, just a few of the names involved in this.
It is based on the true story of New Jersey Police Lieutenant Laurel Hester, who has a registered domestic partner named Stacey Andrews,
Andrews, Andrew.
I mean, this would be Julian Moore at Ellen Page respectively.
We have to go about a court.
When Hester's pension benefits could be denied to her partner because of their orientation after she is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Before we begin, sir.
I love saying this.
We have an official new friend of the show.
Oh, really?
Yeah, we got to think, Candace, and everybody at Maroc, and everybody at Summoner Timon at Lionskeats, film for Biden's to this thing.
They're looking forward to a long relationship.
Such great people over there, we're so happy that they've asked us to help them out.
So thanks for inviting all of us to this thing.
And Dan, Dan, you're not Dan, you're done.
Dan actually got to attend this one on his own.
I had some other prior engagements that I had to handle.
But Dan actually went and represented us very well.
So let's just, Dan, I'm just going to kind of drive this thing and you're just going to kind of kind of question and answer this thing.
Let's talk about first solet view for the film.
Because this does take place not in the too far past, but there's a little bit in there.
Yeah, it's probably about, you can say, roughly about 10 years ago.
On the vision and everything, the look was fine.
Nothing fancy was needed for this.
No CGI, really, or anything like that.
So the look in shooting of the film was done very good, I thought.
The plot, but basically in a nutshell, is, you know,
the characters played by more in Ellen.
They were, you know, foam love.
They officially had the domestic partnership.
And when she got the cancer, they tried to pass the benefits.
If there's a husband wife, they had passed in a minute.
Exactly. And there's a state law that says, yes, they can pass the benefits.
If they have that legal union at the time, because at the time gay marriage was not legal.
But the county's were kind of exempt to that.
Because county law and state law tend to be two different things.
Yeah, so while still us is at board county, and we don't have the money for this and all the other issues.
And what the fight they went through on this now, I will say that it was very, I think, unpolitical for the movie.
It wasn't trying to make a political point.
So it was more about what the characters were going through than trying to,
to try to make a statement.
So I mean, I'll give him that in a heartbeat on that.
And the credit for the screenplay of this goes to Ryan Nice Winner.
I hope I'm close on that. That's kind of an interesting.
This is a guy.
He is a producer, but he is also a writer.
He's written, if you remember, swing shift back in 1984.
Mrs. Soful.
He actually did some writing for the movie of Philadelphia.
With Tom Hanks, the painted veil he did the screenplay for that filthy gorgeous. He did four episodes of Raid Donovan.
So this guy's got sticks on the wall as well.
Now to the acting.
I thought how more playing oral hester and how page played Stacy.
I love the acting between the two. The chemistry was there when a first met even shows a kind of dating and how.
Well, I mean, because that telling of that story is kind of, and how you don't understand how we're all goes.
Yeah, and even the beginning dating thing.
You know, they're trying to figure out their places, but then they really do fall in love.
And the issue with her, she kept it secret, even to her partner.
She's been on the force 24 years.
Her professional officer partner, he didn't even know.
Because she was worried that if she let this out, that, you know, she could, it would get a backlash.
You know, because it's, you know, it's 10 years ago, and there's a little bit of a different mindset at the time on that issue.
But he and the partner really, his partner played by Shannon, the great Michael Shannon, those three together.
Their chemistry and how they played the roles were top notch without a doubt.
You know what you're going to go with Shannon. You know what you're going to get with more, and you know what you're going to get with, with page.
But they really proved that point on this thing. It's like she had two full relationships, and you could tell that, you know, these two people are the most important people in my life, and they have different relationships, but it's like they're both close to the heart.
So I mean, the acting between those three were incredible.
The other one had to be the acting out to Steve Krill.
He plays one of the gay activists who, when this, the news got out on this, who made this a big,
make this a big national story. The way he did that film was incredible.
I mean, I saw the trailer for this, and he, like, I watched him in the trailer and was like, yeah, he could be serious, but his comedy, this is a very serious film overall.
I want to say very serious, but the serious film, but he adds that great comic break in there and does it perfectly.
So it's, you know, you get that little mix in there of, you know, a serious film, a touching film, an emotional film,
but he adds that little bit of comedy every once in a while that you need in there, which I think was done just incredible.
I mean, there's, like, one scene where he's talking to the character played by Shannon, his her professional partner.
Dane Wells.
And there's talking, blah, blah, blah, blah, and he goes, oh, by the way, right wonder about the hang out because, hey, don't call me honey.
He goes, all right, love you. Goodbye.
I mean, that kind of thing. It just is, is comedy you seen in a lot of these films. He did a perfect way.
So you got a great mesh of emotions in this thing.
This will touch you.
This will hit you emotionally. If not, like you would say, you're communist. If this does not touch you.
It's still your line, but I mean, that is realistic.
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When this credit starts, stick around.
Okay, because he shows some real life pictures.
Fair enough of the real Stacy and real Laurel.
And for what I'm bringing in IMDB, they're actually a couple of the actual real life people are in the film.
Yeah, I think it's like a little chemicals. Yeah, exactly.
But there's one, one scene when this is like one of the final things in front of the county commission's court,
which is actually the free held free holders. I mean, a fancy word for county commissioners.
And she's sitting there almost on literally on her deathbed, but she makes it to this meeting.
And it shows at the end of the film that shot of them at that meeting.
And I'm looking at thinking, they look so close. Like, did we just see them a minute ago?
The way they stayed was pretty sad.
Yeah, the way that more looked, she looked just like Laurel did in a lot of the shots there. The same with page. They, she looked.
These people could been like almost twins in a lot of these pictures.
I see.
Yeah, the scenes, the final scenes that the commissioners court will, you know, hit you emotionally on that.
And I don't want to give any spoilers on that.
But it looks so realistic, which really impressed me on how they made it look real life when you saw them.
Okay. Yeah. So I mean, the, the movie flowed well. I did not have any issues with this thing dragging. There were no real down points.
I thought the mix flowed well throughout the film. I thought the way they told the story was done very well also.
Because there's a lot of issues that go back and forth, but I thought they handled it very well.
Okay. Anything else you want to add?
This was a very good film. That's in a nutshell. Okay. Yeah. And I really loved how, yes, it's a political issue.
But they did not make the political film.
So I think if you have, you know, opposing views of this, you know, that's fine. And we respect and we like to be a non-political show.
And of course, you're, we love that you have your own opinion.
Sure. But some people like other films we discussed on this issue in the past.
We say the certain group don't see this. This might touch a lot of people no matter of their political view. I think it was done right on that issue.
You ready to go to the final analysis? Yes, I am.
The way we do the final analysis on this show. We don't give you thumbs up thumbs down. We don't give you stars. You don't give you letter grades. You don't give you number rankings.
Our audience whom we affectionately refer to as the empire is better than that. Here's how it works. I'm going to ask Don up to two questions.
The first question is, would you see this film again? If he says no, then we're done here.
But if he says yes, then I'm going to ask him how would he see it again?
Would he pay full price in a weekend evening show?
Would he wait for a twilight show? Maybe a matinee?
Maybe early morning on a weekend. Maybe he'd wait for it in second run, see it at the dollar theater.
Maybe he'd actually leave the house to go bring it from red box.
Maybe he'd stream it from Netflix. Maybe he'd just watch it on cable.
Don, would you see this film again?
Oh, that's a definite. How far are you willing to go to see it? I would say on this, this would be a good very good twilight film.
Maybe before dinner or before dinner, because then it would be a good date film.
The one group I wouldn't recommend this is a bunch of guys want to, you know, guys not out film.
Probably not.
Yeah, probably not. That's why, you know, I can't give it to, you know, coveted, but still it's a good date film.
It's a good film for the family. If they're, you know, like 12 or 13 in above.
Probably not, probably not your red state families.
Yeah, but I mean, if you wanted to take a family out and see a good emotional film and then go to dinner after,
I think that would be a good pick on something like this also.
And for the family, there is a couple scenes where they kiss and get intimate.
If you're a red, if you're a red, think conservative family probably not.
But nothing like obscene nudity or anything like that. So it's not, you know, horrible in that, you know, instance like that.
But I would still recommend a twilight go to dinner after discuss to talk about it.
Because there are a lot of motions that a lot will hit a lot of people on this.
It is PG 13 rated. It is 103 minutes long. So just under an hour 45.
Again, we got to think our new friend of the show Candace.
Thank you so much for the comfort of long relationship.
Everybody at Maroc, some of the entertainment in my film.
Thank you so much, guys.
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