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Podcast: Have a Good Movie
Episode: OSCARS '82: Frances
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CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of gaslighting, mental illness, emotional instability, alcoholism, institutional abuse, lobotomy, sexual harassment, misogyny.
There was bound to be one rotten movie in this bunch, and it looks like we’ve found it. It’s pretty inconceivable that Hollywood, who loves making movies about itself, could miss a prime opportunity to show the life of one of its most tragic casualties. And yet this film is bound and determined to be as middling and mediocre as possible It takes an already sketchy stor...