Jill Clayburgh Puns

Although Jane Fonda won the 1978 Oscar for Best Actress for her performance in Coming Home, Jill Clayburgh also gave an outstanding performance that year in An Unmarried Woman. I like both performances and I have hard time trying to decide which actress gave the better performance. If I were an Academy voter that year, I don't know which of these two performances my vote would go to. Do you personally prefer one of these two performances over the other? and if so, why?

Over the course of 2020, my podcast co-hosts and I watched and reviewed all 168 domestic wide releases from 1980 on their 40th anniversaries. If anything appears to be missing, (Superman 2, Watcher in the Woods) it probably didn’t release wide in the U.S. until 1981. What follows is my personal ranking for the year and a bite-size summary of each film. Links to longer reviews are available in the comments.

#168 - Falling In Love Again

You wouldn't think that a script about a mid-life crisis written by an 18-year-old would be any good, and you'd be right.

#167 - Home Movies

Brian De Palma taught a film class and invited his students to write and produce a feature film. De Palma directed and called in favors from Kirk Douglas, Keith Gordon, and his then-wife Nancy Allen to star.

#166 - Loose Shoes

A collection of very low-budget comedy sketches from SNL alumni and adjacents. Mostly famous for an early appearance from Bill Murray.

#165 - Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown

Charlie Brown and friends head overseas, unsupervised, as foreign exchange students and uncover long lost details of Charlie's family history. Poorly animated, even for a Peanuts movie, and the last nail in the coffin for traditionally animated Peanuts films.

#164 - Running Scared

Two servicemen (Ken Wahl and Judge Reinhold) wrap up a tour of duty in Panama and stumble across plans for the Bay of Pigs invasion and are mistaken for foreign spies.

#163 - Middle Age Crazy

Wrongheaded mid-life crisis "comedy" starring Bruce Dern. A man worried about his age buys a luxury car and cheats on his wife to feel young again and we are expected to sympathize with him.

#162 - Nothing Personal

Romantic comedy that inexplicably features actual footage of baby seals being clubbed. It’s embarrassing box office performance prevented Suzanne Somers from doing a second movie for 14 years.

#161 - First Family

Buck Henry is usually a terrific comedy writer, and the cast of this film are inarguably the funniest working actors and actresses of the time, but this misfires hard.

#160 - Up the Academy

An 80s teen comedy so bad that Mad Magazine took their name off it. Rick Baker provides a stunningly accurate and equally disturbing Alfred E Newman makeup job that bookends the film.

#159 - Loving Couples

Insanely the first of two wife-swapping comedies on the year to star Shirley MacLaine. This one's worse. Stars James Coburn, Susan Sarandon, and Stephen Collins.

#158 - The Hearse

Second haunted house

Do your worst!

Best Picture

1. The Deer Hunter
2. Days of Heaven
3. Halloween
4. Autumn Sonata
5. Superman
6. Heaven Can Wait
7. Blue Collar
8. An Unmarried Woman
9. Coming Home
10. Midnight Express

Best Director

1. Michael Cimino for The Deer Hunter
2. Terrence Malick for Days of Heaven
3. John Carpenter for Halloween
4. Ingmar Bergman for Autumn Sonata
5. Richard Donner for Superman

Best Lead Actor

1. Robert De Niro as Mike Vronsky in The Deer Hunter
2. Christopher Reeve as Clark Kent/Superman in Superman
3. Jon Voight as Luke Martin in Coming Home
4. Richard Pryor as Zeke Brown in Blue Collar
5. Warren Beatty as Joe Pendleton in Heaven Can Wait

Best Lead Actress

1. Liv Ullmann as Eva in Autumn Sonata
2. Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode in Halloween
3. Ingrid Bergman as Charlotte Andergast in Autumn Sonata
4. Jane Fonda as Sally Hyde in Coming Home
5. Jill Clayburgh as Erica Benton in An Unmarried Woman

Best Supporting Actor

1. Christopher Walken as Nick Chevotarevich in The Deer Hunter

2. John Belushi as John "Bluto" Blutarsky in Animal House

3. Bruce Dern as Bob Hyde in Coming Home

4. John Hurt as Max in Midnight Express

5. John Cazale as Stanley in The Deer Hunter

5. Charles Grodin as Tony Abbott in Heaven Can Wait

Best Supporting Actress

1. Meryl Streep as Linda in The Deer Hunter
2. Maggie Smith as Diana Barrie in California Suite
3. Maureen Stapleton as Pearl in Interiors
4. Dyan Cannon as Julia Farnsworth in Heaven Can Wait
5. Penelope Milford as Vi Munson in Coming Home

Best Original Screenplay

1. Autumn Sonata
2. The Deer Hunter
3. Animal House
4. An Unmarried Woman
5. Coming Home

Best Adapted Screenplay

1. Heaven Can Wait

2. Blue Collar

2. Midnight Express

4. Superman

5. Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Best Animated Film

1. Watership Down
2. The Lord of the Rings
3. Afterlife

Best Non-English Language Film

1. Autumn Sonata

2. La Cage aux Folles

3. The Tree of Wooden Clogs

4. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin

5. Empire of Passion

5. In a Year of 13 Moons

It really does, I swear!

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

Know he’s great in “Deliverance,” “The Longest Yard,” and “Boogie Nights” but the guy made a lot of bad films. “Starting Over” is the best thing I’ve ever seen him in. A completely different kind of character for him (a kind of sad, introverted guy). He more than holds his own with co-stars Jill Clayburgh, Candance Bergen, etc.

Good film. Funny script by James L Brooks. Definitely worth a look if you’ve never seen it.

They’re on standbi

from archived syndicated Pathem Puzzles

Love and Other Drugs (2010) by writer/director Edward Zwickwas ( Blood Diamond, the Last Samurai, About Last Night), starring a solid cast including, Jake Gyllenhaal (Spider-Man: Far from Home, Nightcrawler, Brokeback Mountain), Anne Hathaway (Ocean's Eight, Les Misérables, Alice in Wonderland), Oliver Platt (Chicago Med, the West Wing, Flatliners), Hank Azaria (the Simpsons, the Birdcage, Huff) , Jill Clayburgh (Bridesmaids, Semi-Tough, Starting Over), and Josh Gad (Frozen, Angry Birds, Pixels).

It's listed as a romantic comedy/drama. I remember it being a movie but not the movie itself, which makes me think it was not a stand out. Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway can be great in the right roles, but my inclination is that they didn't have great chemistry - which is the most important sink or swim characteristic in a rom-com.

Buenosdillas

Pilot on me!!

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

You take away their little brooms

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

Why

After all his first name is No-vac

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap

There hasn't been a single post this year!

(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)

Nothing, it just waved

Best Picture

1. The Deer Hunter
2. Days of Heaven
3. Halloween
4. Autumn Sonata
5. Superman
6. Heaven Can Wait
7. Blue Collar
8. An Unmarried Woman
9. Coming Home
10. Midnight Express

Best Director

1. Michael Cimino for The Deer Hunter
2. Terrence Malick for Days of Heaven
3. John Carpenter for Halloween
4. Ingmar Bergman for Autumn Sonata
5. Richard Donner for Superman

Best Lead Actor

1. Robert De Niro as Mike Vronsky in The Deer Hunter
2. Christopher Reeve as Clark Kent/Superman in Superman
3. Jon Voight as Luke Martin in Coming Home
4. Richard Pryor as Zeke Brown in Blue Collar
5. Warren Beatty as Joe Pendleton in Heaven Can Wait

Best Lead Actress

1. Liv Ullmann as Eva in Autumn Sonata
2. Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode in Halloween
3. Ingrid Bergman as Charlotte Andergast in Autumn Sonata
4. Jane Fonda as Sally Hyde in Coming Home
5. Jill Clayburgh as Erica Benton in An Unmarried Woman

Best Supporting Actor

1. Christopher Walken as Nick Chevotarevich in The Deer Hunter

2. John Belushi as John "Bluto" Blutarsky in Animal House

3. Bruce Dern as Bob Hyde in Coming Home

4. John Hurt as Max in Midnight Express

5. John Cazale as Stanley in The Deer Hunter

5. Charles Grodin as Tony Abbott in Heaven Can Wait

Best Supporting Actress

1. Meryl Streep as Linda in The Deer Hunter
2. Maggie Smith as Diana Barrie in California Suite
3. Maureen Stapleton as Pearl in Interiors
4. Dyan Cannon as Julia Farnsworth in Heaven Can Wait
5. Penelope Milford as Vi Munson in Coming Home

Best Original Screenplay

1. Autumn Sonata
2. The Deer Hunter
3. Animal House
4. An Unmarried Woman
5. Coming Home

Best Adapted Screenplay

1. Heaven Can Wait

2. Blue Collar

2. Midnight Express

4. Superman

5. Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Best Animated Film

1. Watership Down
2. The Lord of the Rings
3. Afterlife

Best Non-English Language Film

1. Autumn Sonata

2. La Cage aux Folles

3. The Tree of Wooden Clogs

4. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin

5. Empire of Passion

5. In a Year of 13 Moons

When I got home, they were still there.