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Pop Culture Happy Hour

C'mon C'mon

Pop Culture Happy Hour

NPR

Books, Music, After Shows, Tv & Film, Film Reviews, News, Tv Reviews, Arts, Entertainment News, Music Commentary

4.510.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

In the movie C'mon C'mon, Joaquin Phoenix plays an audio journalist who, after visiting his sister (played by Gaby Hoffmann), takes his young nephew (played by Woody Norman) on the road as he interviews kids about the world. Along the way, the two learn a lot about each other. Directed by Mike Mills, it's a film about family, loss, and joy — and it's about radio.

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The film, Come On, Come On, is about family.

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It's about loss and about joy, and that's right, it's about radio.

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Joaquin Phoenix plays an audio journalist who takes his young nephew on the road as

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he interviews kids about the world.

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And along the way, the two learn a lot about each other.

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I'm Aisha Harris.

0:22.2

And I'm Linda Holmes, and today we're talking about Come On, Come On, on Pop Culture Happy

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Hour from NPR.

0:32.1

Joining us today is Danny Hensel.

0:33.8

Danny is a producer at NPR's Weekend Edition.

0:36.6

Welcome back, Danny.

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Thank you.

0:38.6

In Come On, Come On, Joaquin Phoenix plays Johnny, a middle-aged radio guy who's interviewing

0:43.6

kids about how they feel about the world.

0:45.6

His sister Viv, played by Gabby Hoffman, asks him to look after her son, Jessie, played

0:50.5

by Woody Norman while she deals with some problems Jessie's father is having.

0:54.9

Eventually, Johnny has to get back to work and Viv isn't done.

0:58.3

So he takes Jessie with him back to New York and to some other places too.

1:02.3

The two spend time talking and we learn why Johnny and Viv's relationship has been so

1:06.6

strained.

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It's a pretty laid-back movie, I would say, filmed in black and white, kind of a scruffy family

1:13.2

story that for once even seems to know how radio is made.

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