Flashback: Manic Pixie Dream Girls & Garden State (2004)
Dear Movies, I Love You
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🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Flashback to the 2nd episode of the podcast! In this episode of Dear Movies, I Love You, Millie and Casey share the latest entries in their Film Diary before diving into Garden State (2004), one of the defining films of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl era. Plus, a Sensitive Boy movie quiz and fresh Employee Picks.
Originally Aired: February 4th, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is exactly right. |
| 0:06.1 | The courtroom isn't just about justice. It's about power and money and some truly bizarre loopholes. |
| 0:10.7 | I'm Michael Foote. And I'm Melissa Malbranche, and we've got a brand new show called Brief Recess, Illegal Podcast. |
| 0:15.5 | Every week, we talk about wild tales from court, trials gone wrong, and cases and rulings that shape our world. |
| 0:41.2 | Today we're going to be talking about stolen antiquities, all the weird things Melissa found at in a state sale, the crazy conversations I had with the bouncer and J.K. Rowling. We make the complicated clear and the serious, surprisingly fun. From the exactly right network, new episodes of Brief Recess drop every Thursday. Watch Brief Recess on YouTube. Listen to Brief Recess on the IHeartRadio app. Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:48.7 | Yo, Casey. Hi, Millie. How's it going? Fine. It's going. Actually, it's going great because we're about to do an amazing podcast together again. Yeah. It's a thrilling day. It is. |
| 0:54.6 | So we're going to do another round of our film diary, because I know you all want to know. |
| 1:01.8 | And, yes, we're going to get really sensitive today because we're talking about a film that is very meaningful to me. |
| 1:08.4 | It's called Garden State. |
| 1:10.0 | And we're also going to touch upon a little thing called |
| 1:12.5 | the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, which I have a lot to say. I'm sure you do. I have quite a bit to say |
| 1:19.7 | as well. And then because we're going to be talking about some sensitivos, I've prepared a wonderful |
| 1:25.9 | game that I'm going to make you play about some sensitive boys in film. |
| 1:31.5 | Well, I am a sensitive boy, so I'm very excited. |
| 1:36.8 | All of this and more on this episode of Dear Movies, I love you. |
| 1:42.3 | Dear Movies, I love you. Dear Movies, I love you. |
| 1:46.7 | And I've got to know if you love me to yes or no, check the box below. |
| 2:05.6 | Welcome to Dear Movies. |
| 2:06.4 | I love you. |
| 2:10.9 | This is the podcast for those who are in a doomed relationship with movies. |
| 2:13.3 | I'm your host, Millie DeCherico. |
| 2:15.7 | And I'm your other host, Casey O'Brien. |
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