Mike Dodge 0:00
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Christi Dodge 0:18
Welcome back, everybody to the Dodge Movie Podcast. This is episode 102. Finishing up our month of January. And I don’t know if you figured out the theme yet. So you have just a few days left. The contest will end on January 31. So you’ve got a few days couple days to get your guests in on what the theme for the month of January is. We are talking about Take Me Home. I think we watched this on Kanopy which if you guys don’t use Kanopy, it’s fabulous because you just use your library card.

And then it’s free. So library cards are free and this film is free on Kanopy and it’s also and it’s spelled with a k, k a n o p y. It’s also free on Freebie, but that might be with some ads. Take Me Home came out in 2011 and it’s written and directed by Sam Jaeger who also portrays the main character Thom. We know Sam from The Handmaid’s Tale, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, The Politician and of course Parenthood. Co-star is his real life wife, right?

Mike Dodge 1:29
Yes, real life wife.

Christi Dodge 1:30
Amber Jaeger, who plays Claire. Victor Garber portrays his father. His name is Arnold. Lin Shaye is Jill. Cristine Rose plays Lynette and Brennan Elliot plays Eric. The DP is Jesse M. Feldman. We know him from the Interview with a Vampire series, the MacGruber TV series and is it The Chi or The Chai?

Mike Dodge 1:55
I think it’s prisons. The the chai, the chai? It’s like Chicago, right?

Christi Dodge 2:01
Yeah, I think.

Mike Dodge 2:03
But I liked the Chi it’s totally Kung Fu.

Christi Dodge 2:08
The filming locations were Santa Clarita, California and New York City.

Mike Dodge 2:13
Want to back up a bit. We also know Brennan Elliot from quite a few Hallmark movies. So shout out to Mr. Elliot.

Christi Dodge 2:18
All right. That’s right. I remember that when you saw him you were like I know that guy. The synopsis for this film is soon after Tom starts operating as an illegal cab driver in New York City, Claire hires him to drive her to California, after her estranged father suffers a heart attack. The tagline for this film. I only got one for you. A comedy about the road less traveled.

Mike Dodge 2:43
Yeah, not a big fan.

Christi Dodge 2:45
Not liking it?

Mike Dodge 2:45
I think Sam could have done better.

Christi Dodge 2:47
Okay. Now, to be fair, a marketing team maybe came up with that.

Mike Dodge 2:52
Yeah, that’s what I was saying. I think the writer director star probably had had a better tagline, himself.

Christi Dodge 2:57
Yeah. So I, I do feel like when we talk numbers later, this probably qualifies as an indie film. So it could have been Sam, you’re right.

Mike Dodge 3:06
Yeah, I do think this is an indie film, it very much feels like it. But it’s an expensive indie film, because they’re filming in different locations. And it’s kind of hard to double some of these with, you know, Atlanta, or whatever. So I do think they probably had to go on location in New York City, as well as Southern California and then places in between. So for an indie film that could be rough, and all of the shots in the car. It looks like some of them are green screen, which is terribly cheap, but also just rigging the car. So I was still calling an indie film.

Christi Dodge 3:42
Jaeger began writing the script for Take Me Home in 2004, with the first draft taking him three months to complete, and the second draft two years, and filming took place in 13 states. So they weren’t listed in the filming locations on IMDb, so that’s why they didn’t include them. But apparently, and Ohio was initially set as the backdrop for the story. So kick us off. Let’s see how your theory holds. What was our pickup line?

Mike Dodge 4:09
Actually, sir, if you could just take a look now, I’d really appreciate it. I’m pretty good. Right? Take a look. Right? She is talking about his photographs. And that’s a key part of his, his character in the month. So okay with that?

Christi Dodge 4:25
Yeah. So first of all, I love I kind of just love the part where she gets so she finds out her father’s had a heart attack, and she doesn’t like to fly. So that sets up why they’re going to be in this car together. And she’s so upset. She gets in the car in New York City. And he had he taken the paper off of his cab had he made it I think he did. He was just going to drive around and get kind of like some dinner money or gas money.

And so he drives a cab but doesn’t have an active license. So he removes the paper that he normally puts on the on duty thing and he pulls the sticker off the side door so we can look more like he’s an official cab driver. She jumps in the car, she’s upset, and she says “just drive.” And he goes “where to?” And she says “just drive.” And so she’s so upset. He starts driving, she falls asleep. And the next morning, they wake up in Ohio.

Mike Dodge 5:25
Right? She pretty much asked him to take her to the second location.

Christi Dodge 5:31
It’s a good thing he’s a good guy.

Mike Dodge 5:33
Yes.

Christi Dodge 5:34
So they stop at this diner. And I really liked this shot because you always talk to me about leading lines.

Mike Dodge 5:41
Yeah, I made note of it too.

Christi Dodge 5:44
And I just love this diner shot with the repeated booths behind them.

Mike Dodge 5:49
Yeah, that that was a really good. Agreed really good shot. I like it.

Christi Dodge 5:55
And I think that’s the same, or was The Raisin Rack the grocery store?

Mike Dodge 6:01
I believe that was a grocery store. Yes. Okay. And I thought that was an interesting name for a grocery store.

Christi Dodge 6:05
I’m sorry, I thought so too. And so she’s staring at him. And I just love the acting on her face. When she goes from elation, because I think she’s made a point. She feels like she’s made a point to the realization that I wrote down that he can’t leave her but it has to be that he’s left her.

Mike Dodge 6:29
Right, he is. She goes into. I think he uses the restroom. And he takes the opportunity to leave her. And she comes out and she kind of realizes that he’s probably “are you an RFT?”

Christi Dodge 6:44
Right?

Mike Dodge 6:45
Yeah, yeah.

Christi Dodge 6:47
And so I just it was really subtle. It was interface. It’s one of those times when I think how you say that, the I don’t know what it is, but the human face has, like, you know, hundreds of muscles or something. Yeah. And it just to me showed how this gentle kind of acting. It wasn’t overacting, it wasn’t over the top, it was just subtle, but it sent the message that she went from one emotion to the other without words.

Mike Dodge 7:12
And I would say related to that, although I don’t want to belittle the contributions of a costume and hair and makeup. But throughout the film, she becomes much more attractive, I guess, is the best way to say it. I wouldn’t say pretty. There’s like, you know, some quality that she really catches the eye.

I think in the latter half of the film, you’re like, holy cow, this is really bright and attractive woman. Whereas in the beginning, it’s not that she’s not attractive, but I think it’s a combination of some of the hair and the suit. But also her acting is she’s not only upset, but she’s also very closed off with Thom.

She doesn’t want any part of this weirdo. And watching that transition that I feel like when you get her back half of the film, you’re like, oh my gosh, right. This is like totally leading lady. Well, you know, whereas he kind of, I think throughout the whole film has a very consistent kind of demeanor. But I felt her as she really changed it along the way. And that was pretty well done.

Christi Dodge 8:20
I totally agree with you. I wrote down that she wore a lot of well, she’s in a blue suit when we when she gets in the cab. And we know that blue and orange are blue and yellow is kind of a complementary color orange, they they set off one another really, really well, in yellow.

Mike Dodge 8:36
Yep.

Christi Dodge 8:36
And so I noticed that she has that blue suit on, which is kind of constrictive and she had a hair up and a bun. And I feel like given her body language, she held her arms like close to her chest. She seemed very small riding into she kind of hunched, rounded her shoulders, probably. And then as the movie goes on, what I noticed is like her hair comes down, right? I think she was wearing a white blouse. So now we see her in the white blouse and the blue skirt.

So the blue isn’t as you know, and she just seems more free. She’s smiling more she seems more open. I feel like she’s standing up taller. She looks just more comfortable in her own skin as the movie went on.

Mike Dodge 9:21
And then at the end, in the last scene, she’s wearing this flowing blue dress and I think a cardigan but just look so comfortable and relaxed. And again, just gorgeous. It really that that arc, right? You can see visually even if you didn’t have the dialogue so very good filmmaking.

Christi Dodge 9:43
Yes. And I feel like in that last scene, which well maybe not the last scene but the scene when she’s getting into the suburban with Eric. Her body language starts to close in again. Right She seems very shrouded in it. Just this oppressive energy, which, which she was, I guess my one beef is, I don’t believe that they’re both this heavy of sleepers. So, in one scene, he falls asleep and she’s trying to wake him up. And it takes like three or four times of her shouting his name for him to wake up.

And then supposedly she falls asleep. They go off the highway onto a dirt road and ends up in the middle of the desert that requires them to walk quite a bit like hours, because we see time, like we see the sun go down. And I’m like, how do you drive off the freeway, and your car would naturally be bumpy? One of them not wake up?

Mike Dodge 10:51
So after having seen this film more than once,

Christi Dodge 10:55
Yes?

Mike Dodge 10:56
I believe that when they go walking, I think there’s a line of dialogue that establishes that if they’d walked 180 degrees in another direction, they would have hit the highway relatively quickly. So they they went on a walk about in the wrong direction. So but how did they get there? It’s a good question. It’s pretty flat there, like in Colorado, at least where they were. So it’s possible that it could have gone off the road, but I agree with you. They did seem to be remarkably heavy sleepers, especially when operating a motor vehicle. Like I can see a person nodding off, but not like yeah, for 10 minutes. That seems that seems like yeah, maybe there.

Christi Dodge 11:40
She drove so far. The car ran out of gas, like that’s a long time.

Mike Dodge 11:45
Yeah, we can return to that in the automotive section.

Christi Dodge 11:48
Okay. Okay. My apologies.

Mike Dodge 11:50
No, it’s fine. I just I do want to come back to that.

Christi Dodge 11:52
Okay. Okay. Oh, when he was stealing food in the hotel? I, I was frustrated that he didn’t close up the suitcase first.

Mike Dodge 12:02
Yeah, that that seems basic, like five year old would figure that one out.

Christi Dodge 12:07
It made for good comedy because as he’s pulling the suitcase, there’s like apples and bananas falling out. But

Mike Dodge 12:13
I also like the county where he’s unloading it in the family looks at him. And so he like puts a banana back.

Christi Dodge 12:18
It just one banana.

Mike Dodge 12:19
But that actually that that that played for me, like, as a human would do that, like okay here have a banana?

Christi Dodge 12:25
I won’t take everything. Yeah.

Mike Dodge 12:27
Yeah. Because it’s like, in the office, nobody wants to take the last donut. So they like cut it in half. And then they cut that in half, you know that you don’t want to be the person who takes everything.

Christi Dodge 12:37
Right, right. The scene where they meet his parents, you could easily tell that his father played by Victor Garber is not amused. And I feel like you can tell like mom comes off like a dingbat. She’s just, but maybe this is a common, what is it roles that parents play this one parent can be can overlook their child’s, you know, misadventures, and the other parent is very critical. I don’t know. But it just seemed like she was clueless and dad was just pissed.

We really didn’t know why until, I guess halfway through the dinner when Claire blurts out that he’s a cab driver. It’s clear, he hasn’t been honest with his parents as to what he’s been up to in New York. So then we find out and mom continues, she’s just like, oh, well, as long as you’re a good cab driver, which is fine. I have nothing against cab drivers. But it’s clear that he went out there to pursue his photography. And I think, because he was embarrassed and upset that it wasn’t going as successful as he wanted it to. He told that he he lied to them and told them that he was doing great.

Mike Dodge 13:47
I believe there’s a line of dialogue where Victor Garber says something about Wall Street, there’s the implication that he worked in finance on Wall Street. And obviously, the cab driving is to make ends meet when the photography doesn’t, which I think is realistic, even in 2010, but certainly would be in 2023. Very difficult to make a living at photography.

But what I didn’t understand is if he had the time to be an illegal cab driver and photographer, couldn’t he also be like a legal broker or find some different position? So alright, but by the premise by the bet, but that was kind of you can see from the house and the clothing and the fact that mom had, you know, a big wad of hundreds tucked in her jewelry box,

Christi Dodge 14:36
Right.

Mike Dodge 14:36
that the family was doing well and I think there’s even some talk about a brother that’s you know, a doctor or something so you could definitely see that there was this environment where art was not considered a reasonable vocation.

Christi Dodge 14:52
Sure. Yep. She feels betrayed that he was he didn’t come clean to her anything. Come clean to his parents, and they’ve run out of gas. And I just love how she kind of dresses him down and completely diagnosis him and his parents,

Mike Dodge 15:10
Right?

Christi Dodge 15:10
Like as to what’s going on, like she sees it. And he’s almost, it’s almost like he’s a little bit stunned that she nailed it so perfectly. And like a little impressed, too.

Mike Dodge 15:23
Right?

Christi Dodge 15:24
He kind of looks at her like, wow, how’d you do that?

Mike Dodge 15:26
Because I think from a writing perspective, right, that’s where the power dynamic starts to shift a bit. Right that at first, she’s a total wreck, and he’s got the car and she’s dependent on him for everything. There’s a line in there that she says something like, you know, about him to have money says, No, you’re poor, I have $83. Right. That does remind me that this in some sense, this film, could not be set today, even if it I mean, it could be made, but because so much of the film depends on them not being able to talk to anyone, or get money. And I think if you had an iPhone, you would text your friend and he’d Zelle you a couple 100 bucks, and probably we’d be done.

Christi Dodge 15:29
Right.

Mike Dodge 15:29
So I loved that part of it. Because it harkens back to a day when you had to kind of survive on your own wits. And I like how they get clever. Right? And but then also, then over over that time period, it starts to to have some exposition where she has like a great line in there about like, only weirdos have large DVD collections or something. It’s good.

Christi Dodge 16:34
Yeah, I did have an another little I wonder if you caught this. At the end there. At her parents’ place, he comes clean with everything. And he basically tells her everything about his parents, everything about being a photographer, everything about the cab. He even says I believe he says like, I love you. He’s just like, I think he bares his soul, kind of. And she says that she believes him.

That he will never lie to her again. He agrees and then she says, okay, then we can continue. I just didn’t. I didn’t feel that this. You’ve just met this guy a few days ago. And I know she has feelings for him. And I get it that maybe you would continue dating him and just see but I feel like you wouldn’t be like, Okay, then I’m gonna believe everything you say from now on.

Mike Dodge 17:28
Yeah, that reminds me of listening to podcasts from a friend of the show and one of Sam’s co-workers on Parenthood, Dax Shepard. People can be very good at lying. And one of the techniques they use is like, Okay, this time I’m telling you everything, and they’re not. And then you catch him. They’re like, Oh, God, no, no, this time, I’m telling you everything.

So I too caught that the second time around. I was like, Wait a second. Why? What evidence does she have that he is going to now be completely truthful? I’m not sure however my my only guess for the character was? She was like, I’m going back to back to New York City with that guy from the Hallmark movies. Okay, fine, whatever. Good. We’re good. Where she just trying to get out of the conversation? I don’t know. Maybe that makes sense.

Christi Dodge 18:17
I felt like it was at a place that I thought It happened once she was.

Mike Dodge 18:22
It was at her sister’s house after they had sprinkled the ashes, I believe it was like, she was getting stuff out of the cab. And they were both sitting in the cab or standing near the cab was just the two of them.

Christi Dodge 18:33
Yeah.

Mike Dodge 18:33
And they had a pretty he pretty much like he said kind of said like, I mean to you I want to you know, be with you. This is this is the thing now. And she was like, Oh, well, thanks for sharing that. But okay, but and by.

Christi Dodge 18:45
And it’s very romantic. It’s a wonderfully romantic gesture that, you know, this person who finally did get real with you, because we know that he’s telling the truth, the best that we’ve seen so far.

Mike Dodge 18:58
Right?

Christi Dodge 18:58
And so for her to say it, it’s a beautiful gift to say, Okay, I’ll believe everything you say. Because it wasn’t the first time that he had lied to her. Like she had found out about a couple other lies. And then, you know, little ones, like he didn’t have any money or that he wasn’t a cab driver, kind of like, you know, those kinds of things. And so it just seemed like too quick of a heel turn.

Mike Dodge 19:20
I agree. I don’t. But yeah, I don’t have any good explanation from a story perspective of of that. Other than right, if she really was in love with him, was that the rose colored glasses?

Christi Dodge 19:34
Yeah. Yeah, no, that’s very fair. That’s fair. I wonder what did you make of him using the mirror to look up her skirt? I feel like today he wouldn’t include that part.

Mike Dodge 19:46
If we made it after the ME TOO movement, maybe not. I think it’s realistic, right?

Christi Dodge 19:52
Sure.

Mike Dodge 19:53
Um I think um

Christi Dodge 19:55
I think in the 80s it would have been like nobody would have batted an eye.

Mike Dodge 20:01
Yeah.

Christi Dodge 20:01
Of course he’s going to look up her skirt.

Mike Dodge 20:03
I think today if there’s an attractive woman who’s got a skirt on and her knees aren’t close together. Oh, a fair number of people are gonna look.

Christi Dodge 20:12
Right. Isn’t isn’t it in Pretty in Pink doesn’t?

Mike Dodge 20:15
Yes, it’s very much. John Nelson is under the desk and he’s trying to look up the skirt of Molly Ringwald.

Christi Dodge 20:20
Right? Or no, that’s Breakfast Club.

Mike Dodge 20:23
Oh, yeah. Is that what we’re talking about?

Christi Dodge 20:26
No.

Mike Dodge 20:26
What did you say Pretty in Pink?

Christi Dodge 20:27
Uh huh. I thought the guy in the red Corvette adjusts the mirror to look up this her sister skirt of the popular

Mike Dodge 20:36
That sounds that sounds right. When I was in high school, ever so many decades ago, there was an individual who shall remain nameless, even though I don’t support this behavior. Who did try to take photographs up girl skirts. This is like,

Christi Dodge 20:52
Right. It was done. I knew I was done. But

Mike Dodge 20:55
I think right now. And there’s a line in there even where he says when he’s coming clean where he says I looked up your skirt A LOT.

Christi Dodge 21:02
Yeah, yeah. He does come clean.

Mike Dodge 21:04
But you know, I don’t know. I agree. I don’t know if we would put that in the film today.

Christi Dodge 21:08
Yeah, okay. I for sets I have it was pretty much almost a bottle up with them being in the taxicab for quite a bit as well, unless you do you have anything else from like writing or any other parts of the movie you want to address?

Mike Dodge 21:24
Regarding the props, Thom is shooting what appears to be Nikon F series, probably shooting film. The first time I saw this, I was a little disappointed because it looked like there’s a lot of extraneous action. But with the camera, lots of focus ring stuff, the second time around, actually it played a little better. Right? This time, it wasn’t quite so bad. But I thought that was neat.

And there is a spot where it was kind of like diegetic versus non diegetic with the film so that the actual image we’re watching is out of focus, and it’s moving, and then that becomes what’s through the viewfinder. So I thought that was really kind of a clever, a clever trick they did there. But also I mentioned that before that an iPhone would have solved many of these problems. You can see speaking of props, he has a flip phone and in 2011, there were iPhones at that time. So flip phone says this guy’s dead broke.

Christi Dodge 22:23
Right. I thought she had a flip phone too

Mike Dodge 22:26
I she may have I don’t know.

Christi Dodge 22:27
Yeah, she had like a Nokia.

Mike Dodge 22:30
Yeah. So curious.

Christi Dodge 22:33
I have a note here to ask you about the soundtrack.

Mike Dodge 22:37
I love the music that was written for this film. There’s a group that was formed specifically to record the music for this film called Bootstraps. And its founders this fella named Jordan Beckett. He and Sam Jaeger lived adjacent, I think same apartment building for quite some time. That’s why Sam asked him to write some songs. There’s actually an album called Bootstraps, which is the name of the band. And it’s one of my favorite albums. I love the music from this, but I thought it was kind of neat that the two of them were struggling together.

And so when Sam was putting together this film, he decided to have this this guy he knew write some songs, and they’re really good songs. But I think part of what makes it work is the lead singer Jordan has his voice. He has this kind of breathy voice almost like a like with the wind.

And I think when you’re talking about, you know, these these VISTAs, John Ford-esk open spaces that makes sense that there is that the wind and it to me harkens a little bit, you know, to the Western kind of music, and I just really dig the music from this, but I especially love you know, anybody who helps her friends out who gives her friends work, so I thought that was a neat little story for the music.

Christi Dodge 23:49
That’s awesome. I love it. I’m gonna check out that soundtrack Bootstraps you said right.

Mike Dodge 23:54
Yep.

Christi Dodge 23:54
Okay, was there any head trauma in this one?

Mike Dodge 23:57
I do have one bit of head trauma at 31:57. Claire from the backseat grabs Thom by the hair and slams his head into the headrest a few times. So that’s a they’re not fighting. But it’s Yeah, yikes.

Christi Dodge 24:15
Yeah, I have that same note. They’re not fighting. So is there a smoochy?

Mike Dodge 24:19
Smoochy smoochy smoochy. Not quite yet, but

Christi Dodge 24:23
They never kiss throughout the whole film?

Mike Dodge 24:25
Oh, you’re you’re segwaying not after that. Not after the pummeling. There’s an almost smoochy between Claire and Tom at one hour, 11 minutes and 30 seconds in the taxi. After Claire finds out that her dad has died. I don’t believe we ever actually see them kiss.

Christi Dodge 24:44
Oh, wow. Because it is clear that these two love one another.

Mike Dodge 24:49
Right and like you said there was an almost smooch there. And then at the end of the film, when they get back together, they just kind of see each other they go I don’t have a big, well, unless I missed it, but I don’t remember that.

Christi Dodge 25:00
Which is hilarious because they’re married. So it’s not even like, oh, they don’t want to

Mike Dodge 25:03
And presumably they they know how to kiss each other.

Christi Dodge 25:06
Right. Okay, so we we kind of teased it a little bit, but how about a driving review?

Mike Dodge 25:11
Alright, so they’re the automobiles do feature in this film a little bit. The kind of third costar is this 1998 Yellow Ford Crown Victoria taxi cab, and it’s a decent platform, right? The Crown Vic was a good platform. However, I don’t know that it’s qualified for off road use. So that’s one thing, the driving itself not so good. So first of all, kids use your brakes, not trash cans, just stop your vehicle, three separate times, they just crash into trash cans. It’s ridiculous.

Never ever sleep while the controls both of them fall asleep while well behind the wheel. This is not good behavior. And eyes on the road, sir, even when you’re fare is sobbing in the backseat or has a skirt on and you can see up it, eyes on the road. So really poor driving skills there. But you did mention when they when they go off roading.

And the vehicle. So little bit of a bump here for me. They they take it to the mechanic and he says to fix it. And I did pause the film and I saw that the invoice says radiator hose. So that would not cause the vehicle to not start it would cause the vehicle to overheat, but not start. So that was kind of a little bit of a bummer there. I mean, they could have put the radiator hose back on themselves, that that did not really require that individual to get involved.

That’s a pretty simple thing I think he would have if he had been driving that car for a while he would have been aware of that and probably been able to fix it. So it’s a little bit of a bump there. I assume that it was supposed to be the ran out of ran out of fuel. But if they knock the radiator hose off earlier, the engine would overheat. I mean, it’s a little bit there. could have done better there perhaps but I thought it was a decent vehicle to have basically on this long journey. Right. Good camp.

Christi Dodge 27:17
Yeah. Well, shall we go to the numbers?

Mike Dodge 27:20
Let’s go to the numbers.

Christi Dodge 27:20
Okay. Because this film was so indie that I could not find its budget. But I do know

Mike Dodge 27:26
That’s indie!

Christi Dodge 27:26
But I do know that it did bring in $156,248 worldwide. So hopefully, it brought him some satisfaction in making it the good thing is it did win a lot of awards won the Audience Choice Award at the Boston Film Festival. It one feat best feature at the Las Vegas International Film Festival, Best Music in a feature film at the Nashville Film Festival and the Audience Choice Award at the Rhode Island International Film Festival. So kudos to all involved especially Mr. Jaeger. It scored okay on IMDb, it got a 6.8 out of 10

Mike Dodge 27:27
Travesty.

Christi Dodge 27:28
And unfortunately enough critics did not vote it that it doesn’t have a rotten tomato score, but for the audience, audiences gave it 67%. So almost a C, I liked it much more than that. I would easily give it a B. I don’t think it’s my favorite film ever. But it’s a good indie film. We watched this. I don’t know. Maybe like what five? I don’t think we watched it when it came out. Maybe it’s been that long.

Mike Dodge 28:39
I don’t think so. I don’t think we saw it in the theater.

Christi Dodge 28:45
No, we didn’t. We saw it here at the house.

Mike Dodge 28:47
My guess is I saw it sometime during the run of Parenthood. So

Christi Dodge 28:53
Uh huh yeah, I think you’re right.

Mike Dodge 28:54
Because I think I stumbled upon it through Sam Jaeger’s IMDB page, and was excited to see that and then when I saw the what it was about or the trailer I was in. But yeah, I would. I don’t know anybody else who has seen this. It’s kind of indie, but I definitely think it’s better than a 6.8 or whatever they gave it.

Christi Dodge 29:13
Exactly. It came in at one hour and 37 minutes. It’s rated PG-13. It’s listed as a rom com. I think it’s a no brainer, especially if you get that Kanopy app and you can hook that up to your Apple TV. Or you probably can get that on some of these smart TVs and then use your library card and just watch this. It’s a great film. A nice little rom com a rainy day get a cup of a warm beverage and settle in. A it’s a good film.

Mike Dodge 29:42
I really liked this film. Yeah.

Christi Dodge 29:44
Yeah. Alright guys, that does it for the month of January. Let’s see if you guys can figure out what the theme for the month was. You can call or text us at 971-245-4148 with your guesses or you can email at christi@dodgemediaproductions.com and that it will be in the show notes so you can just click that link and give us your guess. What do you think? What have we been talking about for the last five weeks, and get ready for next month when we will kick off a new theme? A mystery theme, but never forget,

Mike Dodge 30:20
Dodges never stop and neither do the movies.

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