328 – Hope Springs
This Had Oscar Buzz
Joe and Chris
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2025
⏱️ 126 minutes
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Summary
It’s been a minute since we talked about Meryl Streep, so we decided what better time than Valentine’s Day and her 2012 romantic drama Hope Springs. Streep stars alongside Tommy Lee Jones as a sexually frustrated older couple who submits to a couples therapy retreat (led by Steve Carell) hoping to rekindle their spark. Summer counterprogramming to the Batmans and the Bournes, the film performed at the box office but did not prove the type of Meryl summer smash that has earned her Oscar love.
This episode, we talk about the movie’s quaint but honest depiction of generational sexual frustration and the solid work from Streep and Jones. We also discuss the underutilization of its recognizable supporting cast, Carell joins our Six Timers, and the timeless Globes presentation pairing of Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig.
Topics also include Sex Trips For Straight Women From A Gay Man, Meryl’s third Oscar, and love languages.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, movie fantasy league, partisans, participants, and various competitors. |
| 0:07.9 | We are finally here with a points update. |
| 0:11.9 | And after a few weeks of no real movement, we got some movement. |
| 0:17.4 | We got in literally the span of 28 hours. We got the Critics Choice Awards, |
| 0:25.5 | the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards, the DGA and the PGA, all at once. And all of a sudden, |
| 0:32.3 | we do have a frontrunner. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a frontrunner. And she's... |
| 0:37.1 | But your lighter's up, Ganges in the house. She's dancing at the club down in Brighton Beach. |
| 0:41.5 | We have Enora. I'm going to look so smart when people listen to the podcasts from like |
| 0:48.0 | months ago when I was like, I think it's going to be a Nora. And then like, no one will know |
| 0:53.4 | that in the intervening months, I like swung wildly to like brutalist, conclave, complete unknown, maybe still Amelia Perez. Like, I was kind of all over the place. And then after yesterday, I'm like, nope, I was right. I was right the first time. Correct me if I'm wrong. And I'm sure if I will, plenty of listeners will chime in. |
| 1:12.2 | But I do think what's interesting about this is like PGA and DGA and Critics Choice all voted ahead of the Carlos Sophia Gascon tweets. |
| 1:25.6 | I believe that situation. Yeah. |
| 1:27.5 | So this whole idea of... |
| 1:31.1 | Oh, this plays into your theory that... |
| 1:32.8 | My theory is that Amelia Paris is going to get the three Oscars. |
| 1:36.3 | It was always going to get and no more and that this controversy is not going to keep it from getting those three Oscars. |
| 1:43.0 | Listen, I stand by the, um, the edict that, uh, tweets matter. |
| 1:50.6 | That's what I, that's where I'm, that's where I'm planning my flag. |
| 1:52.8 | Tweets well, but also, but what I'm saying is that this shows that Anora was always |
| 1:58.4 | stronger. |
| 2:00.1 | Stronger than golden globes Globes would have us believe. |
| 2:04.0 | Yes, I think that's true. |
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