378 – Being Flynn

This Had Oscar Buzz

Joe and Chris

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2026

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Is the “buzzy literary adaptation to Oscar bonafide” pipeline kaput? This week, we’ve got a forgotten, pre-production-buzzy title on deck: 2012’s Being Flynn! Based on Nick Flynn’s memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, the film follows Paul Dano as the author grappling with addiction, grief, and an absent, addict father played by Robert De Niro. While … Continue reading

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0:00.0	Oh, wrong house.
0:12.8	No, the right house.
0:13.6	I didn't get that.
0:14.8	We want to talk to Marilyn Heck.
0:15.8	Millen Heck.
0:17.0	Millen Hack. That's a friend. I'm from Canada water
0:27.3	Dick
0:29.4	Dick Poop
0:36.2	Don't worry you're a Dick Poop.
0:43.3	Don't worry you're in the hands of a master storyteller.
0:49.9	America has produced only three classic writers, Mark Twain, J.D. Salinger, and me.
0:59.2	I'm Jonathan Flynn. Everything I write is a masterpiece, and soon, very soon, I shall be known.
1:06.3	This is my father's story. Well, it is, but he's not telling it. I am.
1:13.6	Hello, and welcome to the This Had Oscar Buzz podcast, the only podcast eating two dozen eggs and a couple biscuits for breakfast.
1:23.0	Every week on This Had Oscar Buzz, we'll be talking about a different movie that once upon a time had Lofty Academy Award aspirations, but for some reason or another, it all went wrong.
1:26.2	The Oscar hopes died, and we're here to perform the autopsy.
1:28.3	I'm your host, Chris Vile.
1:37.4	I am here, as always, with my late stage, Otts, manic pixie dream girl, Joe Reed.
1:45.5	This is a hard movie to find a joke buried in here under the context in which we have our little... I thought you were going to call me your...
1:47.0	...your companion for another bullshit night in Suck City, but this works well, too.
1:53.0	No, I just went for Olivia Thirlby.
1:55.0	Well, of course, Olivia Thurlby, a creature of pure late aughts early teens. Absolutely. She does not exist in another context. Which is unfair. She is in a Best Picture winner. She's in Oppenheimer? She's in Oppenheimer. Who was she in Oppenheimer? Remind me again? Oh, she's one of the, she's one of the, one of the science people, yes. That's right.
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