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Podcast: Have a Good Movie
Episode: THE ANDERSONS: Bottle Rocket (1996)
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CONTENT WARNING: mental illness, robbery, gunplay, violence.
This week, we’re actually going back a year earlier to the feature debut of a director who was clearly figuring some things out still. Wes Anderson was a University of Texas graduate with a short film that did well enough at a Dallas film festival to get noticed by, of all people, James L. Brooks, and get him and his unknown buddy, Owen Wilson, a chance to make a movie for Columbia Pictures. And the result? It...