A STRANGER IN THE MIRROR with Jim Rash

\*\*\*Editors Note: This episode contains topics of sexual assault. Please be advised\*\** This week on **Sam Pancake Presents the Monday Afternoon Movie**, Sam welcomes actor, comedian, writer, director, Oscar winner, and Greendale Community College's most fashion-forward administrator, **Jim Rash**, for a watch-along of the deliciously unhinged 1993 TV movie *A Stranger in the Mirror*. You probably know Jim best as the gloriously inappropriate Dean Craig Pelton on *Community*, but he's also an Academy Award-winning screenwriter, having won Best Adapted Screenplay for *The Descendants* alongside Nat Faxon and Alexander Payne. Jim and Nat also wrote and directed *The Way, Way Back*, starring Sam Rockwell, Toni Collette, Allison Janney and Steve Carell. So yes, an actual Oscar-winning screenwriter has agreed to spend his afternoon watching THIS with Sam. We couldn't be happier. **A STRANGER IN THE MIRROR (1993)** Originally aired: October 24, 1993 (ABC) Directed by **Charles Jarrott** Based on the novel by **Sidney Sheldon** Starring **Perry King**, **Lori Loughlin**, **Christopher Plummer**, **Juliet Mills** and **Geordie Johnson** **Perry King** stars as Toby Temple, an ambitious comedian who claws his way to superstardom and develops an ego roughly the size of Southern California. **Lori Loughlin** is Jill Castle, an aspiring actress whose own pursuit of Hollywood fame puts her directly into Toby's orbit. Add **Christopher Plummer**, showbiz scheming, sex, betrayal, revenge and enough melodrama to power several weeks of daytime television, and we've got ourselves a classic recipe for an ABC Movie of the Week. **Love what you hear?** Want to show your support for Sam Pancake & *The Monday Afternoon Movie*? Make sure to follow the official Patreon page and pledge a few bucks if you are able! You'll get access to a new bonus episode every month, four behind-the-scenes exclusive videos, as well as all past episodes and content for hours upon hours of Pancake action. Sam's Patreon Page **SHOW LINKS:** Sam Pancake's Instagram Sam Pancake's Linktree Jim Rash's IMDb This episode was engineered & produced by Meika Grimm.