Episode 48 - Happy Accidents

Cigarette Burns

Today’s episode is an experimental journey through “Happy Accidents”, the 2000 Marisa Tomei/Vincent D’Onofrio romance. We mixed it up a bit and tried to have some fun with this off-beat, often bad, always bizarre time-travel romantic comedy. Cole watched the first half; Jedd watched the second and we then recorded our guesses as to what happened. Spoiler alert – Cole had no idea. We had a blast trying to dissect where this script was going and what could have been changed to make it work.

Recommendations:

Jedd: Frequency, Timecrimes, Primer, The Accidental Tourist

Cole: Slums of Beverly Hills, Mystic Pizza, Edge of Tomorrow, Happy Gilmore

We also have some thoughts at the top of the episode about where we are right now and you can find our full statement on Twitter (@cigburnspod), Instagram (@cigburnspod), and Facebook. The films, books, and other resources we mention in the introduction are listed below:

Films:

- Boyz In The Hood

- Fruitvale Station

- 12 Years a Slave

- 13th – Ava Duvourney

- Within Our Gates

- Fieldwork Footage

- Tongues Untied

- House Party

- Just Mercy – Streaming free for the month of June

- Friday

- Do the Right Thing

Books:

- Ta-Nehisi Coates: “We Had 8 Years in Power”

- Michelle Alexander: “The New Jim Crow”

Resources:

- themarshallproject.org

- 8cantwait.org

- Pod Save the People (Deray Mckesson @deray, Brittany Packnett Cunningham @MsPackyetti, Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey, Clint Smith III @clintsmithIII)

- 1619 Project

Charities:

- ActBlue

- blacklivesmatters.org

- 8cantwait.org

- blacklivesmatters.carrd.co

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