The Complete Works Podcast

For our last episode of 2020, we dive into Jeff Goldblum's role in POWDER, a movie that was plagued by controversy upon release thanks to director Victor Salva's criminal history. We dive into the context in which the movie was released, and Mike D laughs maniacally when he guesses the ending of this movie a half hour before it arrives. 

Jeff Goldblum pops up for a few scenes in Hugh Grant's first American movie, NINE MONTHS, which is... maybe a little better than its reputation suggests? Look, we're only human: If Robin Williams is going to mess around with a chair in a Russian accent, we're gonna laugh at it. Listen to us dive deep on this Chris Columbus romantic comedy! 

Mike and Mike talk about one of the most insane (and definitely the most '90s) movies that Jeff Goldblum has starred in so far - an adaptation of a Dean Koontz novel where Goldblum is seeing through a serial killer's eyes, HIDEAWAY! Come for the bonkers story logic, stay for the immediately-dated visual effects from the director of THE LAWNMOWER MAN! 

The same year he starred in JURASSIC PARK, Goldblum ALSO starred in a TV movie where he and Forest Whitaker hang around and play jazz, and for a while, that's pretty much all it's about! Then the plot kicks in, which is still good, but we would have watched Goldblum play sax and talk groovy lingo for 90 minutes, easy. It's time for LUSH LIFE! 

We finally made it. After a string of Hollywood flops and another string of little-seen EuroGoldblum movies, Jeff Goldblum makes his comeback in the biggest movie of his career. A movie which became the highest-grossing film of all time, where almost every scene has some line or image that has stuck around in pop culture. Goldblum gets the role he was born to play in Ian Malcolm, and we've been watching and rewatching for 27 years - Welcome... to JURASSIC PARK! 

We've finally reached the end of the EuroGoldblum movies, so before we can move on to talk about dinosaurs, we've gotta talk Goldblum in this dark comedy that turns oddly sincere in the third act. Mimi Rogers co-stars in 1992's SHOOTING ELIZABETH! 

Wait wait wait... it's about fathers... AND sons?! That's right, we've got both! Jeff Goldblum plays a father struggling to connect with his son while living on the Jersey Shore. This movie has got a million famous faces, a serial killer, a surprising supernatural twist, was a selection at the Sundance Film Festival... and made about $7000 at the box office. Today, we're talking 1992's FATHERS & SONS!

We return with another EuroGoldblum movie, this time a comedic farce where he teams up with Bob Hoskins and Natasha Richardson and decides to stuff a lobster down a guy's throat. Did we mention that Goldblum's sort of playing Jesus in this movie? This is THE FAVOUR, THE WATCH AND THE VERY BIG FISH.

Jeff Goldblum starts his return to Hollywood, teaming up with Laurence Fishburne to star in Bill Duke's intensely political (and intensely satisfying) neo-noir, DEEP COVER! Come for the film's firm stance on racial inequality in an unjust system, stay for Goldblum channeling a little bit of Nicolas Cage energy. Barbecue Jumbo Shrimp! 

Alright, so Jeff Goldblum's only in about 10 seconds of this one, and he's one of a zillion different Hollywood cameos that pop up in the movie... that didn't stop us from talking about it, though! Goldblum's final collaboration with Robert Altman is a good one, a deeply cynical moviemaking satire that ironically served as Altman's big Hollywood comeback - this is THE PLAYER!