Mary Beth Hurt

Coolest goal was two Jillian.

You just want them playing, like, a Mary Beth Place role, right? Or Mary Beth Hurt.

Mary Beth Place being a Voltron of Mary Beth Hurt and Mary Kay Place would be incredible.

By their powers combined.

So, second movie, the aforementioned Frankie and Johnny, we did.

It really is.

He wants to set the record straight, to strip away the hero worship, and to confess to the world, but most specifically to his wife, that he considers himself to be a complete and utter fraud.

A fraud.

I mean, I would think adapting a story like that, especially given who is behind the camera, would automatically make this a masterpiece.

Oh, wow.

I didn't realize that.

that.Yeah, and on top of that, his wife, the incredibly talented actress Mary Beth Hurt, had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's.

Oh, that is just heartbreaking.

"I don't know what you're talking about."

He continues, "My adoptive parents in the film, uh, Mary Beth Hurt and, and Michael McKean, don't know what I am until the movie's end because the guy who created me, uh, Joseph Sommer," the actor, "put me into a foster home." Well, that's not true either.

He drops him off at the top of a cliff and then-

Mm-hmm

Like alkali Iowa was a very scripted, very cast thing.

Mary Beth Hurt was in it and it was just, It was my final film at Columbia.

It was, you know, but I wanted to be much more loosey-goosey.

And so we were shooting scenes.

But it's really thrillingly put together.

And Mary Beth Hurt, RIP, has a great performance as Jean Seberg had she lived or how she would be, you know, sort of beyond the grave.

Yeah.

I do like sad, rich white people movies.

is barely functioning like he's kind of not really paying attention to anything that's going on and just like or

returning champion Ada Totoro as one of the nurses Mary Beth Hurt as one of the nurses oh yeah returning champion that's right

but during those scenes or like when he's on location like with Patricia Arquette as her father that's dying right yeah when he's like on the scene with him and trying to keep him alive there's just so much of like a sense of like a terrible awful like burden to being one of these people in health care you know what i mean it's like literally your actions are life or death and you're strung out you're probably like you know functioning on zero sleep all these guys and just like it develops this weird callousness for some things that's you know should be like spiritual and like sacred almost right in the eyes of a lot of people and yet it's your everyday like

it's just that's that's what it's coming down to is someone being burnt out about like this this something that should be invigorating right is now like is killing you you literally cannot you're not able to appreciate if

There are a couple of little glim- glimmers that we, the audience, see, "Oh, he can do this, 'cause he's got robot powers." Most of the movie is simply an adoption story.

Uh, Mary Beth Hurt and Michael McKean are a childless couple living in anywhere USA.

It's somewhere in South Carolina-

South Carolina

they start probing the boy, looks really good.

So I gotta say [coughs] the other thing that's notable about the movie is that it was rated PG, came out in 1985, and the things that come out of Turtle's mouth, and actually everybody's mouth.

The first time you see Mary Beth Hurt and Michael McKean, they have a moment, and they're like, "Hey, wanna fool around?"

Want a shag? Yeah, fool around.