TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & Mike
Mike and Dave are two Gen X Dads who grew up watching movies because there was nothing else to do. Tooky is a Millennial dad-in-training who grew up with the internet, and thus never needed to watch ROAD HOUSE on cable. Mike (a standup comedian) and Dave (an improviser and occasional academic) will present Tooky (comedian, social critic and dad-in-training) with a new (old) movie every week and answer the important questions: Are white people ok? When did Nic Cage become a whole thing?Are these movies good, or are Mike and Dave wallowing in toxic nostalgia? Every Tuesday, TDM promises to bridge the generation gap, one dad movie at a time.
Intro/outro music: "It's Almost Late Night" from the album WE HAD A GOOD RUN by Dave Rabinow, available at www.daverabinow.com
TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & Mike
WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING
You know the best part of the holiday season? Hanging out with your family!
OK, maybe sometimes that's not the BEST part; families are tricky little communities of biologically-linked individuals, each carrying a boatload of what NPR's Linda Holmes evocatively named "little weirdsies". Family can be a tough hang, at this or any time of year.
But what if... there was a family so perfectly warm and caring and charming that you'd break state (and possibly federal) laws to join them under false pretenses?
Somehow, this movie about a lonely orphan who develops an unhealthy fixation on an immoral comatose Chicago lawyer and ingratiates herself into his family AND THEN falls in love with the lawyer's woodworking brother manages to not only be not creepy but... charming?
I don't know, either. But I know kuh-RAH-tee.
Bullock! Pullman! And the best cast of character actors this side of an episode of TAXI... Jon Turtletaub directs the 1995 holiday rom-com WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING!