The Firm (1993) and Meet The Parents (2000)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Tv & Film, Film History

4.9 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In the new episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, a pair of movies that hit big, both with difficulties behind them. The Firm was the first of John Grisham's novel to make the jump to the big screen. But notable changes were going to be made, and there was a bit of kerfuffle over the star billing on the poster. Meet The Parents was actually a remake of a 1992 movie. At one stage Steven Spielberg and Jim Carrey came close to making the film. And much of the film still needed to be written when filming began. Stories of both are told in this episode. Find Simon on Twitter at @simonbrew, and the podcast can be found at @filmstoriespod. Support our work at www.patreon.com/simonbrew. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Simon Brew.
0:02.0	I've asked my friend Robert and Ben to start this episode with the sing song for us.
0:07.0	You like Peter Paul and Mary?
0:10.0	Yes I do. I'm a big fan.
0:16.0	Up the magic dry, you live by the sea. It's a great song
0:23.5	Yeah, one of my favorites
0:25.7	Come with me
0:27.9	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes
0:31.7	And movies, movies that had stories
0:34.9	That the story just sucks a man
0:37.3	This is just the beginning Stories Movies that had stories. That the story just sucks a man.
0:38.4	This is just the beginning.
0:44.6	We would be honoured if you would join us.
0:50.6	Hello and a very warm welcome to Film Stories with Simon Brew.
0:51.7	I am Simon Brew.
0:54.2	As always, it's absolutely everything you need to know about me.
0:58.8	The aim of the podcast, though, is given away in the title, but I'll tell you anyway, I'm here to talk of the stories of film. And I tend to talk about development stories, production stories,
1:03.1	marketing stories, release stories, all the bits and bobs, really, that go to make the films
1:07.4	that we know and sometimes love, just that, the films that we know and sometimes
1:11.1	love. The films I tend to choose this podcast, they tend to lean towards the mainstream, their films I'm
1:17.0	interested in or invested in to some degree. I do try hard not to do snark. I do try hard not to punch
1:22.7	down as well. I think there's plenty of that out there. All I want to do really through this podcast,
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