Defending Your Life (Episode 83) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
1991's Defending Your Life is the fourth film Albert Brooks' wrote, directed and starred in. He would eventually serve in those capacities on a total of seven films, all bearing his distinctive gentle but incisive examination of love, death and relationships. Brooks hoped to challenge the popular and Hollywood version of heaven and the afterlife as a fanciful, peaceful Utopia. He imagines in Defending Your Life a heaven not dissimilar to our corporeal world -- one run much like a business, where the most prepared are rewarded with eternal salvation. He had a strong cast (Meryl Street, Rip Torn, Lee Grant and Buck Henry) and skilled cinematographer (Allen Daviau) to help him. Dan and Vicky discuss their first Albert Brooks' film along with some recently seen including the Amazon docuseries Lorena, horror doc Horror Noire, Isn't It Romantic, Happy Death Day 2U, The 400 Blows, 10 to Midnight, 1968's Lion in Winter, and a whole trove of Netflix comedy specials. There's also talk of Dan's recent acting gigs, the legacy of much hated MoviePass, the 2018 Academy Awards and a certain classic campfire song from 1980's Friday the 13th! Cross over into comedy with Hot Date 83: Defending Your Life. Check out our website at www.hotdatepod.com and leave us some feedback at your favorite social media outlet.