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Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables

Mrs. Doubtfire 1993

With Bill Simmons, Shea Serrano and Amanda Dobbins · 20 April 2021 · 26,373 feet

The claim

72:34 – 75:20

against I'm pro last it came 20 years too early but it's great to watch that's it oh Apex Mountain Sally Field no Pierce Brosnan no an addendum Pierce Brosnan's chest hair yes Apex Mountain yes Pierce Brosnan in a bathing suit yes Chris Columbus well what do you have for tell him Amanda well I was just trying to think through he definitely wears a bathing suit at some point in the Bond movies but I was trying to think of him in a bathing suit in Thomas Crown Affair they definitely go on an island vacation as well as parasailing but I …

The whole segment, as transcribed

against I'm pro last it came 20 years too early but it's great to watch that's it oh Apex Mountain Sally Field no Pierce Brosnan no an addendum Pierce Brosnan's chest hair yes Apex Mountain yes Pierce Brosnan in a bathing suit yes Chris Columbus well what do you have for tell him Amanda well I was just trying to think through he definitely wears a bathing suit at some point in the Bond movies but I was trying to think of him in a bathing suit in Thomas Crown Affair they definitely go on an island vacation as well as parasailing but I can't remember if we see him in a bathing suit so I'm just gonna keep replaying those scenes in my head while you guys keep podcasting just go ahead I think in that scene he's wearing like some white knit pants like linen linen pants but no shirt shirtless right yeah no shirt yeah same for Renee Russo good for her Amanda who are you gonna do the Thomas Crown Affair rewatchables with like whoever will do it with Shay oh Shay there you go all right I'll let you guys have that one okay thank you I mean I'm so exhilarated 20 minutes on whether why they fold the painting and whether you actually fold the painting suitcase in real life let's let's solve that mystery I watched a man crash a hundred thousand dollar boat just to see a splash Amanda Chris Columbus I'm gonna say yes Home Alone 1 Home Alone 2 and then Mrs. Doubtfire makes 441 million he couldn't have been hotter at any point in his career than at this specific point right the three in a row at that point he gets to make whatever he wants he actually tails off a little bit but probably because he made so much money from those three movies old school San Francisco houses I'm gonna say yes because we're on a run of Pacific heights I think Full House is out at this point it is yeah and then we also have this movie so I'm gonna say yes and then uh divorce comedies it kind of has to be yes right I think so it certainly was the main reference point for me in the 90s okay um picking nits mentioned no parents would want to have an I want a divorce fight in the kitchen when the kids could overhear you always go in the car somewhere um so I I just think it's a picking it that she just should have let the dad be the babysitter from three to seven at least giving him one more chance before she hired the maid it's a nitpick yeah at least let him one more time try to be the babysitter how did Daniel not know what the name of his maid was gonna be when he called for the job when she asked him for the maid and then he looks at the newspaper and he sees the Mrs. Dye like you don't have any sort of plan at that point my name is Evelyn like you can't come up with anything well we've learned that he's not particularly organized

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What the board says

This film IS their apex
Robin Williams26,160 ftThe highest point of the career. Carries 96 of 100 of this film.
Their apex is elsewhere
Sally Field24,320 ftNorma Rae, 1979, by 5,082 feet.
Pierce Brosnan23,450 ftThe Thomas Crown Affair, 1999, by 5,341 feet.

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