***This 1991 Best Actress Retrospective is Spoiler Free***

We discuss some of the premise & elude to fun scenes, but not at the expense of spoiling you for these terrific films.

1991 Year in Review - 4:15

Jodie Foster Bio/Filmography - 9:54

Silence of the Lambs Movie Specs - 15:23

Best Scenes - 29:10

Worst Scenes (an impossible task) - 32:51

Thelma & Louise Movie Specs - 38:25

Geena Davis Bio/Filmography - 40:53

Best Geena Scenes - 51:25

Worst Geena Scene - 55:10

Susan Sarandon Bio/Filmography - 58:23

Best Susan Scenes - 1:10:48

Worst Susan Scene - 1:12:47

Another week, another Oscars Retrospective - just look at us. This time, we’re covering the 1991 Best Actress race. Jodie Foster won the award for her electric performance in Silence of the Lambs. Geena Davis and Susan Surandon both got nods for their titular roles in Thelma & Louise, and we’ll discuss Bette Midler’s versatile singing & acting & dancing & acting in For The Boys and Laura Dern’s batshit turn as Rambling Rose in part two. We’ll also re-rank the category and weigh in on the films of the entire year in our perfecting perfection segment. So don’t miss it.

In this episode, we focus on the first three nominees taken from the two films that seem like polar opposites, but in fact, are more similar than one might think. We begin with our trademark Year in Review segment chronicling all the big news and contextualizing you about everything going on back in 1991.

We then dive deep, or as deep as we can without spoilers into the performance of Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling opposite Anthony Hopkins’ Oscar winning turn as Hannibal Lecter. It’s some rare air, and Foster provides plenty of great acting to elevate her into the stratosphere above red carpets.

Both Geena Davis and Susan Surandon bring uniquely strong performances to Thelma & Louise. It’s pretty much another gush-fest, as we both enjoyed the hell out of this unconventional movie that seemed years before it’s time.

Stay tuned for part two as we’ll definitely have some harsher things to say about the remaining two movies, which we think are bad enough to just all-out spoil. You shouldn’t care, and in fact, we think you’ll be much better off in the long run. So take the leap of faith in our critical abilities, or if you don’t buy that, then in our immaturity to mock sappy stupid films and join us for part two as we finish yet another retrospective in as many weeks. Look…. At …. Us.

If you enjoyed these episodes, check out previous retrospectives in our back catalog. Full disclosure, the early episodes have their moments, but also some shabby audio as we’ve since spent some cash to upgrade our set-up by quite a lot of Guitar Center goodies. We also covered the hell out of last year’s Oscar movies, reviewing each of the major nominees in their own episodes, then each of the “Big 7” categories themselves as well. We also have some early predictions for next year’s Award Season and updated this with our latest Hollywood Hot Takes no 6. But if old movies aren’t your flavor of the month, don’t fret. We cover all kinds of new movies both in theaters and coming out soon. That, plus we reviewed the entire MCU including the newest Avengers film. So we got you covered.

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