Co-Parenting in the Movies: A Special Holiday Crossover Event with The Next Reel Film Podcast
Co-Parenting in the Movies
We’re ending the season with yet another podcast crossover episode. Once again, our producer Andy Nelson, who co-hosts The Next Reel Film Podcast with Pete, joins us for a movie list extravaganza. In this episode, everyone’s bringing three movies that feature co-parenting.
Here’s a breakdown of what each person talks about:
Andy:
Mr. Popper’s Penguins
Definitely, Maybe
Jurassic Park III
Seth:
The Santa Clause
Mrs. Doubtfire
Chef
Pete:
Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical
Chef
Boyhood
Happy holidays!
Links & Notes
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Pete Wright:
Welcome to How To Split a Toaster, a divorce podcast about saving your relationships from TruStory FM. Today, your toaster hits the movies.
Seth Nelson:
Welcome to the show everyone. I'm Seth Nelson. As always, I'm here with my good friend Pete Wright and a special guest, Andy Nelson, our producer. Pete, we let him talk like once or twice a year. This is it.
Pete Wright:
Once or twice a year, that's it. He's come out of the cage.
Andy Nelson:
I'm free.
Pete Wright:
This is the bizarre crossover episode. Andy and I do another show called The Next Real Film Podcast, and we talk about movies. And here you and I Seth talk about divorce and the law. And now this is our third annual TNR Toaster crossover where we talk about legal issues, divorce issues in film. And today, we should let Andy introduce, don't you think? The topic.
Seth Nelson:
We should, and my favorite thing about this show is, this is the time where I know that both of you have so much more knowledge about this topic than I do, that I actually feel like I'm the guest on the show, that's just kind of limping us along. So, I know you guys are going to carry the show today, I appreciate it, I appreciate that holiday gift you're giving me. I look forward to the show every year.
Andy Nelson:
This show, that is a break.
Pete Wright:
Okay, okay.
Seth Nelson:
That's right.
Pete Wright:
Hi, Andy.
Andy Nelson:
It's always fun. Yes, we are trying to come up with interesting divorce topics and it's the holidays and we figured co-parenting is a tricky thing during the holidays. So what if we do movies that involve parents working on their co-parenting skills? And so here we are talking about movies that have co-parenting in them.
Pete Wright:
Did you have a particular strategy for your picks?
Andy Nelson:
I feel like I've been derided for some of my very serious and heavy picks in the past year crossovers that we've done.
Pete Wright:
You're speaking broadly. But specifically, by Seth [inaudible 00:02:20].
Andy Nelson:
So, largely I tried picking things that I think are a lot more joyous and entertaining, so that's where I landed.
Pete Wright:
Okay. I did too and I don't think I did... I don't think I did great, but I am increasingly happy. An hour ago, I was not happy and then I started hearing some of the things that Seth is picking and I'm happier with my choices now. How's that?
Seth Nelson:
Well, that's fair enough because it's embarrassing how little I know about pop culture and I don't watch a lot of movies. And if I do find time to watch a movie, it's usually at night and I turn on the TV with the remote and I have never seen the end of a movie, because I will just fall asleep. And I will share this with you, this is so embarrassing, I literally fell asleep when I was picking the movie. I hadn't even started it yet. The remote was in my hand. And my fiance looked over at me the next morning and said, I cannot believe I'm marrying you.
Pete Wright:
That's amazing. Your fiance, she's better at movies than you are, would you say?
Seth Nelson:
A thousand times better. She knows, she's like you guys, what year it was, who was in it. She probably even knows the set locations and all this other stuff that you guys talk about that I don't understand. No, she knows movies up and down. And then, she will tell me to pick a movie and I will pick a bad movie, time and time again. And then she'll delegate to me and I'm like, are you sure? The track record is not good here.
Pete Wright:
It's not good, yeah. Yeah, there are those people in your life that you feel like they keep giving me recommendations and there's going to be a straw that will break this back, that they will go on the never accept a recommendation from this person anymore list. And you have to be very careful. You don't want to ever be that person in somebody else's life. So I think, let this show serve as a warning to others, only good recommendations.
Seth Nelson:
So if I name a show or a movie and these guys don't approve, do not watch it.
Pete Wright:
Noted, noted. Well, I will tell you my strategy. I tried to pick movies that I thought would be fun, largely for the family and movies that I have had a good experience watching with my family. Because the last time we did this, I think we picked some real downers. And so we wanted to pick some, I wanted to choose some movies that I thought would be fun for everybody in whatever sort of co-parent mechanic you have going on in your life. So, how would we... Do we draw straws? I don't remember how we do this. Or does Andy just go first?
Seth Nelson:
Andy goes first. He never gets to talk.
Pete Wright:
Oh, he doesn't get to talk. All right Andy, give it to us.
Andy Nelson:
Oh, all right then. Well, for my first one, I'm going with a film... The joy of having kids is getting to start going to see a lot more kids movies. I mean, I guess it can be a joy and a curse depending on the movie, when you have to see them 3000 times, right? There are those for sure, absolutely. This is one I actually only saw once in the theater with my daughter who was six at the time, I suppose. But it was a very fun movie, it was a delight of a film. And I think a lot of that goes to Jim Carrey, who's always fun to watch, but also the fact that he is surrounded by so many penguins. That's right, it's Mr. Popper's Penguins. Jim Carrey plays a... I think he's a real estate salesman or a businessman or something and he's trying to buy a particular property at Central Park called Tavern on the Green.
But he runs into an issue when his father, who I don't think he sees a whole lot or saw, died and basically gifted him with a whole bunch of penguins that he had come into ownership of in Antarctica. And so, suddenly all these penguins show up in his house and he is trying to deal with this. And I haven't even mentioned the fact that he is divorced, he has two kids and I think he was going to get rid of the penguins, but then his son mistakenly thinks that they're a gift to him. And so, now he has to keep the penguins and it's this whole thing. And then his ex-wife, and this is a good example of co-parenting because she kind of ends up helping them kind of sort out this whole issue and it becomes... It's a fun family film, a good time. Jim Carrey, Carla Gugino plays his ex-wife and...
Pete Wright:
She's always amazing.
Andy Nelson:
She's always great. Angela Lansbury was in it, as I think the owner of the Tavern on the Green property that he's trying to buy. And so it's a fun film, it's an easy film, especially for the holidays, Jim Carrey and dancing penguins, it's hard to go wrong.
Pete Wright:
Dancing penguins.
Seth Nelson:
You can never go wrong with dancing penguins.
Pete Wright:
And you can go wrong with some Jim Carrey movies.
Seth Nelson:
Yes, that's true.
Pete Wright:
He has some real highlights, but also some tough ones to get through and this is not one of them. I think this is a great pick. That's a great pick. [inaudible 00:07:22] time.
Andy Nelson:
It's an easy watch, yes.
Pete Wright:
Seth, do you want to do number two?
Seth Nelson:
Sure. So I actually did have a theme in picking movies. I wanted a legal term in the title.
Pete Wright:
Oh, okay.
Seth Nelson:
So I went with Santa Claus. Okay, so...
Pete Wright:
Santa Claus.
Seth Nelson:
Exactly. Tim Allen, little upset, have the kids put the earmuffs on right now, he's upset because his ex-wife and her husband tried, but did not do so successfully to break it to their six year old son that Santa is not real. We know that's a lie, santa is real, but that's what they're trying to say. And what happens is, he ends up on the roof of his house and Santa is there and he startles Santa, who falls off the roof, leaving nothing but instructions and eight reindeers, on what to do. So he has to deliver all the gifts all around town, while trying to still co-parent and make Christmas special for his kid.
Pete Wright:
Aw.
Seth Nelson:
And I got to tell you, a nice Jewish guy picking Santa Claus as a movie. I'm doing something right.
Pete Wright:
I know. That's pretty good. I think you are, I think you're doing... You're very open minded of you. It's a very sweet movie.
Seth Nelson:
It's the only one I've seen of the franchise, but I did enjoy that one quite a bit.
Pete Wright:
Well, what's the story with it? There's a current show... It's a show, right? Santa Clauses?
Seth Nelson:
Yeah, I think it's still going.
Pete Wright:
[inaudible 00:08:51] there's something new about it. It's just out, right? Just this season.
Seth Nelson:
Yeah, I think so.
Pete Wright:
I have not seen it.
Seth Nelson:
No.
Pete Wright:
And my kids are old enough now, that they don't actually care so much for it. They're in that sort of liminal space where it's like, oh I'm too old to watch kids movies, but old enough to enjoy kids movies again. They'll come back around, but right now they're not into it. Fond memories of that movie, even as Tim Allen got a little bit questionable. The movie was good.
Seth Nelson:
He wasn't at the time though.
Pete Wright:
He wasn't at the time. That's right.
Seth Nelson:
That's always a struggle. When there's a good movie early on and then they do something questionable later in life. Do you not like the movie anymore? I don't know how to deal with that.
Pete Wright:
Well, it's funny you should mention that. My first pick, I don't know a lot of the story about this, the original source materials author. I know that I grew up with Roald Dahl stuff, Roald Dahl books and I really enjoyed them. And I read the BFG cover to cover multiple times as a kid, under the covers with a flashlight. I like those stories. And one of those stories has been made a couple of times. The one I'm picking is 1996's Matilda, about a girl gifted with a keen intellect and psychic powers and she deals with her very, very terrible family, played by Rhea Perlman and real life husband Danny DeVito, they're always fantastic and crazy. And they're terrible parents, but they're like a distant... I don't know that if they're necessarily co-parents. They've inherited her, I don't remember the entire backstory about how she ends up in their awful family. But her parents have passed away and she's now in their care, the Wormwood Care.
She's also attends a school full of people who don't understand her, except her freewheeling hippie of a teacher. And they together dodge the misdeeds of Miss Trunchbull, the head mistress, who is just a terrible human being. And so, I think that story is fun. I have this kind of rule, the IMDb, the internet movie database has a rating system of zero to 10 stars. And my rule is generally, if it's over six stars, it's worth watching. If it's well over six stars, it's worth watching multiple times.
In this case, Matilda, the 1996 Matilda is a 6.9 on the IMDb six star scale, from my thinking of it. And it is definitely worth watching, it's a good family film. But again, it's 1996, so why is it an appropriate time for me to pick this movie? Because of Netflix, y'all. Netflix is doing the adaptation, not of just the material, but of the musical that was an adaptation of the original source material. The musical Matilda, it's actually called Roald Dahl's Matilda the musical. The musical adaptation of this story is fantastic. I am a little bit worried, I'm not going to lie, because right now on IMDb, even though the thing has not come out yet, it's a 5.9 on the IMDb star scale.
Seth Nelson:
Call that on the bubble.
Pete Wright:
Yeah, it is on the bubble.
Seth Nelson:
But let me tell you, You know what I learned today is how to pick better movies. Go to IMDB, on the six point scale, according to Pete, anything higher than six stars, I can pick. And [inaudible 00:12:16] maybe I'll be able to pick a decent movie.
Andy Nelson:
It might be a good starting place.
Pete Wright:
There is a corollary to the six star rule. If it's under two stars, it's a guilty pleasure.
Seth Nelson:
Yeah, you got to watch it.
Pete Wright:
You're allowed to like it again, because it's so bad, it's good again. It comes back around.
Seth Nelson:
I gotcha.
Pete Wright:
So anyway, Roald Dahl's Matilda the musical, which is really my pick, because I'm very excited and I'm a musical theater nut. And this one comes out in December 25th. I think it's a limited theatrical run and then it'll drop on Netflix. So there you go, Matilda the musical.
Seth Nelson:
Matilda the musical. All right Andy, you're up.
Andy Nelson:
All right. So this one, it's kind of hard to say this one is co-parenting, but it is about a single dad dealing with his daughter who is curious about her mother. And it's really kind of just adorable romantic comedy film called Definitely, Maybe. Ryan Reynolds plays the dad of Abigail Breslin, who just had her first sex ed class. And now she's curious about all of this stuff with her dad, who is actually going through a divorce with her stepmom. And so, she is now trying to figure out who is my real mom. And he kind of makes it this guessing game, which is why the movie is kind of cute, trying to figure out...
And he's telling her the story about the three women that he had really loved in his life. There was April, there was Emily and there was summer. And he's kind of giving him this story of these three women and his daughter is trying to figure out which one is his mom. And he kind of paints one in a nice picture and then she's like, oh, I hope she's my mom. And then something happens and then she's like, I hope this next one's my mom. And you get to the end and it's just a fantastically romantic end as he is reconnecting with the mom, as it turns out. He's getting divorced from who he's currently with, but he has actually... He is getting reconnected. And so it's a really sweet movie. Definitely something worth checking out that gives you the feels. It is Definitely, Maybe.
Pete Wright:
I will definitely maybe check that out. I wonder how many times that joke has been made.
Andy Nelson:
I'm sure critics love the title. I'm sure it came up a lot.
Seth Nelson:
I was just wondering how many times anyone's actually laughed at that joke. How many times it's been made?
Pete Wright:
Only the first time, Seth. [inaudible 00:14:37] Only the first time. I have to say, I've never seen this movie, Definitely, Maybe. Is that crazy?
Andy Nelson:
Oh, you would love it.
Pete Wright:
I think I would.
Andy Nelson:
You would really enjoy it. Ryan Reynolds, Isla Fisher, Elizabeth Banks, Rachel Weisz, Derek Luke, Kevin Kline. I mean, it's got a fantastic cast.
Seth Nelson:
Pete, you got to Google, IMDb, let's see what the star rating is.
Pete Wright:
Definitely, Maybe. Do you have it up, Andy? IMDb.
Andy Nelson:
I don't. I don't.
Pete Wright:
I'm going to find it right now.
Seth Nelson:
Okay, you [inaudible 00:15:06].
Pete Wright:
Let's just see how good the movie is, Andy. 2008. IMDb is a valuable resource and very slow. 7.1.
Seth Nelson:
There we have it.
Pete Wright:
Andy, your movie's worth watching.
Seth Nelson:
There you go.
Andy Nelson:
Phew.
Seth Nelson:
Okay. Staying with the legal theme?
Pete Wright:
Sure.
Seth Nelson:
Mrs. Doubtfire, as in doubt, beyond a reasonable doubt. Okay, I had to stretch it a little there, okay? Okay. Now Robin...
Pete Wright:
I'm going to say my definitely maybe joke was better.
Seth Nelson:
Fair enough. I told you, I am not carrying the show today. Okay. So Robin Williams does not do well in court. He gets to see his kids once a day. Remember, the mom gets them the... Or once a week. The mom gets them the rest of the week. Be careful what you wish for. When you have your kids, six out of seven days and nights, what do you need? You need help. So she puts out an ad for a nanny. And what Robin William's character does is, dresses up as a British lady named Mrs. Doubtfire and applies for the nanny job, so he can see his kids and he gets the job.
So he's constantly in his ex's house with his kids, but they don't know that he is really him, their father and ex. They think it is this British nanny, elderly woman. And a little trivia on this one guys, in his biography, he wanted to test out how believable Mrs. Doubtfire would be. He got all dressed up as her and went to an adult bookstore to make a purchase and he was not recognized. And if you picture what she looks like, it would be awesome to run into her in an adult bookstore.
Pete Wright:
That is fantastic. I can't find it right now. What was her name? Euphegenea, I think. Euphegenia Doubtfire or something like that. It was just fantastic.
Seth Nelson:
And it was, Sally Field was the ex, the mom. And then Pierce Brosnan was her new boyfriend.
Andy Nelson:
Brosnan, yeah.
Seth Nelson:
And he had all these funny interactions with Robin as Mrs. Doubtfire. So it's a really funny movie.
Andy Nelson:
A drive by fruiting.
Pete Wright:
Andy, that's right. I will say Seth that to your picks credit, 7.1 on the IMDb scale. It is just the same.
Seth Nelson:
Tied with Andy and I don't know what I'm doing. Even a blind squirrel.
Pete Wright:
That is extraordinary. My next pick, I am a... Jon Favreau. We know Jon Favreau. He's a titan in superhero moviedom. Does a lot of work with Marvel, he was behind Ironman, the director of Ironman. He was also happy in Ironman. Fantastic. Robert Downey Jr., he was Ironman, Scarlet Johansson was Black Widow. What possible movie could I be talking about with Jon Favreau? Robert Downey Jr., Scarlet Johansson, John Leguizamo. I'm talking about one of my very favorite movies, favorite movie settings. You put a movie that lives in this place in front of me, I will watch it every single time. That is a kitchen. The movie is Chef. It is a fantastic family movie in which Jon Favreau plays a chef at a fancy hoity-toity restaurant owned by the always fantastic Dustin Hoffman. And he is fired because he's an ego maniac, this chef.
And he, as his life resets, he decides he's going to buy a food truck and he's going to go make Cubano sandwiches, because that's what he's really, really good at. And John Leguizamo is a sous-chef and joins him in the truck. And who else joins him in the truck, you might be asking? Well, that's his son Percy, played by Emjay Anthony. And he's in a co-parenting relationship with Sophia Vergara, his ex-wife. And it is a road trip movie. It's a rediscovering who you are as a man and as a human being movie and as a father. And it's a lot of chopping, that is so viscerally satisfying. There's so much chopping. I absolutely love this movie, Chef. It's a 7.3, suckers.
Seth Nelson:
Yeah and you stole mine. That was my only other one, I have no backup. It's a great movie. I love all those kitchen movies.
Pete Wright:
Oh, so good.
Seth Nelson:
Oh it makes me so hungry.
Andy Nelson:
It's so good.
Pete Wright:
Yeah, so hungry. And stick through the closing credits if you watch it, because you see Favreau learning to cook this incredible grilled cheese sandwich in the closing credits from this professional chef whose name escapes me all of a sudden.
Seth Nelson:
Who is this sous-chef again? Who played that role?
Pete Wright:
John Leguizamo.
Seth Nelson:
Okay. I got a funny story about him.
Pete Wright:
You've got a Legui story?
Seth Nelson:
I do. So I know nothing about pop culture. And my quasi stepson was graduating from Northwestern and he was doing film and acting. And John's daughter happened to be his classmate. So we were going to a graduation party where John was going to be there. And I get scolded before I ever show up. Look, there's going to be a famous actor there. Don't say anything stupid, don't try to act cool. We're going to say this, be yourself but not really. And the kids are just giving me a hard time. And I said, I wouldn't even know that he was a famous actor. I'm so bad. So I don't know why you're giving me this lecture. And they say, because we don't want you to get into a conversation with him and then say, so what do you do for a living? He was the nicest guy.
Pete Wright:
Yeah.
Andy Nelson:
That's awesome.
Seth Nelson:
He's very approachable.
Pete Wright:
[inaudible 00:21:15] just imagine.
Seth Nelson:
Was just like any other parent at a barbecue for their kids graduation. He could not have been nicer and more gracious and ask about everybody else and go from there. He is a lot of fun.
Pete Wright:
I want to tell you, just a very brief counter story to your example. I went to school with a young woman who was the daughter of a celebrity. And at graduation, that celebrity shows up to the graduation ceremony wearing a white, kind of a leisure suit, with giant sunglasses and a huge brimmed hat that feels like it would be more appropriate with a zoot suit. It was just a massive hat that down over his eyes. Because, as it got out, he didn't want to be recognized.
Seth Nelson:
Right.
Pete Wright:
Now that celebrity, who was that celebrity? That celebrity was Bob Denver. Notoriously, Gilligan.
Seth Nelson:
Oh my gosh.
Pete Wright:
From 1964 to 1967, on Gilligan's Island. Yes. I don't think that he had anything to worry about.
Seth Nelson:
That's hilarious.
Pete Wright:
But yeah, Bob Denver. Big hat guy. Big hat. It's a holiday season. We need to talk about the holidays. People are watching some movies, might be putting a few back, don't you think?
Andy Nelson:
Let me tell you, I did the other night.
Pete Wright:
Oh.
Andy Nelson:
I'll be honest about it.
Pete Wright:
Yeah.
Andy Nelson:
Watched the movie, had a drink. Actually, I had to. Okay? But I will tell you this, I did not have my child at the time. And the good news about that is, one, I'm not in a divorce. I am not being accused of not being a responsible parent, I'm not being accused of drinking to excess, because all those things happen in divorce and all those things happen over the holiday time and all those things happen when you go to movies. And there are even some movie theaters that you can take your kid to and order a drink these days.
Pete Wright:
Right. So what are you going to do to help yourself, help your kids, help your co-parenting relationship, stay in a safe and non-con contentious relationship?
Seth Nelson:
And save money.
Pete Wright:
And save money.
Seth Nelson:
Use Soberlink.
Pete Wright:
Right.
Seth Nelson:
I'm serious, use Soberlink. As we all know, it is a breathalyzer that you can carry around. It's a very small device. You blow into it. It Has facial recognition, so anybody that's going to get the alert or the email, they know that it was you that was being tested and you're self testing, you're self monitoring. It's not going to some agency or going to some lab where you have to pee in a cup. It's real time notification to say, I'm with my child, I am sober, I have not had anything to drink and I am being an excellent parent, spending quality time with my kid. And no one is going to be able to question that because it's independent, third party verification. So if you get accused of doing something that the court would not like you doing, whether you did it or not, doesn't matter. If you're just accused of it, Soberlink is going to be that get out of jail free card, because you're going to say, look, I wasn't drinking, here are the results.
Pete Wright:
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Seth Nelson:
I don't have another show. I'm out.
Andy Nelson:
I guess that's me. Well, for my final pick. We'll count this one for both of us then.
Seth Nelson:
You're so kind.
Andy Nelson:
I'm sure you'll be thrilled.
Pete Wright:
That's very good.
Andy Nelson:
The IMDb rating on this one is 5.9.
Seth Nelson:
Way to give that one to me. Thanks for sharing that one.
Andy Nelson:
You could take Chef if you want, but I'm giving you this instead. This is a movie that I hold near and dear to my heart. And just like Pete with Chef, you put a movie in this setting and I am there for it every time. It is about two parents, they are divorced. One has a boyfriend and of course the boyfriend takes their son out for an adventure and things go amiss. And so the two divorced parents have to come together with some experts to try to help their kid from this issue, this problem that that has befallen them. And it is of course the problem of dinosaurs. I am of course talking about Jurassic Park three, a personal favorite of mine. I love this movie. I know a lot of people give it flack, but I really, truly...
Pete Wright:
It's the fact that you just didn't stop talking about after you said Jurassic Park. It's that you had to add the three. Who does that? There are two people. I know two people [inaudible 00:26:14] who think that's the best. You're one of them, Andy.
Andy Nelson:
It's the best. And it is about a divorce. You've got William H. Macy and Tea Leoni as the divorced parents, having to bring Sam Neill back to the island, so that he can help them find their son, who is stuck and is now trying to survive.
Seth Nelson:
This is what went through my mind, Pete, when he said Jurassic Park three. Okay, the first thing that went through my mind was, this is why we don't let him talk on the show. The second thing is, because I'm a lawyer, I literally went through all of my legal objections like relevant, speculative, compound and I got to my favorite one, dumbass legal argument judge.
Pete Wright:
Outstanding.
Andy Nelson:
It's so good.
Seth Nelson:
So, Andy I appreciate your generosity during the holiday season, but I will pass on this gift, because I will share with you now, I would not even regift it. It's that bad.
Andy Nelson:
Oh, ouch. You know what, just give it right back to me, because I will just watch it again. [inaudible 00:27:22].
Seth Nelson:
I'm going to get it for you on a VH recording, like a tape.
Pete Wright:
VHS recording.
Seth Nelson:
VHS recording. Old school.
Pete Wright:
I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to level us up. I'm going to class up the joint here. The last movie on my list is a movie that... I've watched it a couple of times and I think it's... And the director is kind of hit and miss for me. I struggle with some of this director's work. But the movie is fascinating for a number of reasons. Number one, it's full of some really great performances. Number two, it's filled with really great performances that were captured over many, many years from 2002 to 2013. The movie I'm talking about is Boyhood from director Richard Linklater. And it was actually captured in over the course of this Boy's Life. The boy, the actor played by Ellar Coltrane. It tells this story of him growing up from six to 18, but it's the same actor.
So they filmed these scenes as he was growing up-
Seth Nelson:
Years and years apart.
Pete Wright:
It was not a recast thing. Years and years apart. Which makes the movie fascinating to watch, when you're aware of that. When you're not aware of it, it's a story of Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette as parents dealing with their relationship issues and co-parenting and dealing with this kid who's growing up with them and going through all of the things that he's growing up with. All of the issues he is facing, going to school, dealing with substance abuse, dealing with all the things that go into making a life. And I think it's a fascinating, sort of pushing the boundaries of what it takes to make a movie and incredibly risky to do this kind of thing and count on this boy still being an actor at 18...
Seth Nelson:
That's what I was thinking. Like man, what happens if the guy's like, I'm done with this.
Pete Wright:
Yeah, I don't want to do this anymore. Who signs that contract? Right.
Andy Nelson:
He certainly hasn't really done much since.
Pete Wright:
No, no, he really hasn't. But I think, come on Andy, you got to agree. I mean the movie is...
Andy Nelson:
Oh, fantastic.
Pete Wright:
It's a good movie.
Seth Nelson:
What is it on IMDb?
Pete Wright:
I'm so glad you asked Seth. I'm really, really glad you asked. Because I think I'm closing this out and I'd like to close this out with a mic drop magnitude 7.9.
Seth Nelson:
Pretty solid.
Andy Nelson:
Yep.
Pete Wright:
Yeah, [inaudible 00:29:51] pretty solid.
Seth Nelson:
What was Jurassic Park three?
Pete Wright:
Oh Seth, I can't believe... Jurassic Park three.
Andy Nelson:
Five point.
Seth Nelson:
It was a 5.9.
Pete Wright:
5.9. Oh no, it's right down there with Matilda the musical. Of course, nobody's seen Matilda yet. They know what they're voting on with Jurassic Park three.
Seth Nelson:
Well, Andy, we look forward to talking to you next year.
Pete Wright:
Please go back in the hole under the stairs.
Andy Nelson:
I'll go back to my box. No, thank you both. It was still a lot of fun and happy holidays to the both of you. And Seth, you've got some movie watching for the holidays. Jurassic Park three, baby.
Seth Nelson:
Come my way. I'll be asleep before the opening credits.
Pete Wright:
See if you can make it to... You should watch Boyhood and see if you can make it to, I don't know, 13. If you can get to when he's 13, you'll be fine.
Seth Nelson:
[inaudible 00:30:47] 13, maybe I'll stick around for that.
Pete Wright:
Stick around for the bar mitzvah.
Seth Nelson:
I've never been to one of those.
Pete Wright:
All right, everybody, thank you so much for hanging out with us, for your time and attention this fine holiday season. We hope you are watching lots of great, great movies, whether they're related to the law or holidays or co-parenting or not. We just want you to enjoy some movies, enjoy some new podcasts. We'll see you right back here for the start of season seven of this show, next week, right here, on How to Split a Toaster, a divorce podcast about saving your relationships.
Outro:
Seth Nelson is an attorney with NLG Divorce and Family Law, with offices in Tampa, Florida. While we may be discussing family law topics, How to Split a Toaster is not intended to, nor is it providing legal advice. Every situation is different. If you have specific questions regarding your situation, please seek your own legal counsel with an attorney licensed to practice law in your jurisdiction. Pete Wright is not an attorney or employee of NLG Divorce and Family Law. Seth Nelson is licensed to practice law in Florida.
