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The Rewatchables

‘Dave,’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins

The Rewatchables

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.613.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins take a seat in the Oval Office on Presidents Day to celebrate the 1993 comedy ‘Dave,’ starring Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, and Frank Langella. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The rewatch was brought to you by theringer.com, the world's greatest website,

0:04.0

as well as the Ringer podcast network. Sean, you're lit. You're flee. You're blip.

0:11.3

Dave is coming up next. Dave Kovic was an ordinary guy. Mr. Kovic, your government needs your help.

0:19.3

We just happen to look like the president. You're a very handsome man. Thank you, Mr. President.

0:25.6

Just get rid of the grin. It looked like a schmuck. Dave, something has happened.

0:30.6

In a country where anybody can become president. Anybody just did. Kevin Klum, Sigourney Weeper.

0:41.4

Make a nice president, Dave Kovic. Dave. Okay, let's get back to work.

0:46.4

Whoa.

0:56.4

All right, 25th anniversary of this movie in May. It might be the best movie of all time.

1:00.9

I'm not sure. One of the world's. I don't know. It's the godfather, two or a day. It's incredible.

1:06.8

Ten year old me agrees with you entirely. It's so good. It's so it's so satisfying and just so

1:13.1

easy to watch and so simple and so happy and so innocent and it just makes me happy. It's the

1:18.9

happy movie. Innocent is a good way to frame it. It feels like it's from a truly a different time.

1:24.0

It feels like a hundred years ago. Maybe a different country. Yeah. It taps into the same

1:29.2

innocence that Clinton tapped into. I was like graduating college when he won president and

1:35.2

Clinton tapping into innocence is a complicated phrase. Yeah.

1:38.1

That would be careful with that one. No, but it is pre-Centonian. Yeah.

1:42.8

We believed in the office. You see American president with Douglas too and then leading a

1:47.0

West Wing with Martin Sheen, but just when we kind of believed in that as an institution,

1:51.3

now you watch this movie in the Trump era and you're like, oh, yeah.

1:54.4

But what was your reaction when you were watching? I thought it was

1:58.9

impressive how old fashioned it was. It really was like a Frank Capra movie.

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