Just watched the Home Alone episode. That was great.

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KidDoc said:

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Thanks for the tip this looks perfect for the wife & I!

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Careful, after watching the Dirty Dancing episode my wife is planning to book a vacation for the family at the lodge in VA that was used in the movie. It looks exactly the same today.

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Go watch the Marvelous Mrs Maisel episodes from season 2 at the summer lodge.

Winston Groom's book sold 30,000 copies before the movie debuted, a year after the movie he had sold 1.6 million copies of Forrest Gump. One of the few times I thought the movie was better than the book.

bonfarr said:

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Winston Groom's book sold 30,000 copies before the movie debuted, a year after the movie he had sold 1.6 million copies of Forrest Gump. One of the few times I thought the movie was better than the book.

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The book was strange and just over the top with his experiences, Forrest is an astronaut, stuff like that. Haven't read the sequel, but the read the plot on Wikipedia and it was just ridiculous.

Cstrickland05 said:

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bonfarr said:

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Winston Groom's book sold 30,000 copies before the movie debuted, a year after the movie he had sold 1.6 million copies of Forrest Gump. One of the few times I thought the movie was better than the book.

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The book was strange and just over the top with his experiences, Forrest is an astronaut, stuff like that. Haven't read the sequel, but the read the plot on Wikipedia and it was just ridiculous.

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I was one of the people that bought and read the book because I loved the movie but my reaction to the book was WTF? The author tried to cash in with a sequel called Gump & Co. where Forrest meets Ken Stabler, becomes a pro football player for the Saints, and invents New Coke. Pretty ridiculous stuff.

A lot of the movies suggested for the 90s don't seem to fit the premise of the series. Weren't most of the people in those (cast and crew) already famous?

Not sure if that is the premise of the show. Seems to be about movies that are now very popular, but defied most expectations and overcame issues to get made.

I don't believe that's the premise of this series.

I'd like to see Back to the Future and Honey I Shrunk the Kids

I know I only watched the Home Alone one but that's what I gathered was the premise. It was an unknown actor and many struggling crew members that had great success after Home Alone.

Okay, after reading the synopsis of the other episodes, forget what I wrote.

yeah, it's a spinoff of the "Toys that made us" series...basically it's movies that helped define a generation or an era.

Poor Winston goes from slimed to the back half of the script

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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I don't believe that's the premise of this series.

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Definitely not as Bill Murray and Dan Ackroyd were already huge stars when Ghostbusters was filmed.

Daveintx said:

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Poor Winston goes from slimed to the back half of the script

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He is doing all right though, I can attest to that. It's cool in the documentary he said he fought hard for the role because he was told if you get even a small role in a blockbuster movie it will change your life. My wife works for an agency that puts on Comic-Con shows and they booked Ernie Hudson last year and he got paid really good money standing next to a replica of Ecto-1 to take pictures with fans for 2 days. Fans loved him so they are talking about bringing him back. I bet he makes enough to live off the income from doing 10 or 12 shows like that a year.

The Comic Con thing must be a godsend for actors like him and Sam Jones. Hell Butch Patrick has made a living for 60 years off of those shows

And Goonies, too.