The Good Son

Hey, Do You Remember...?

Christopher Schrader

Tv & Film, Comedy

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2017

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

The major selling point of The Good Son was how dramatically Macaulay Culkin was playing against type. As it turns out, the three of us remembered more about our initial reactions to that than we did anything from the film itself.

Unfortunately, once you get past the novelty of seeing Kevin McCallister transformed into Michael Myers, there's just not much going on here. Ideas are presented but not explored, characters don't change that much, and in its race to check every box on the list of thriller cliches, the movie forgot to put a new spin on any of them.

Topics include: the project's evolution from a lower-budget/riskier concept into a safer and more mainstream major release, a score that draws attention to itself for all the wrong reasons, at least three other much simpler ways to tell this story, a lot of love for Elijah Wood, listener comments, and much much more!

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0:00.0	Hey, do you remember the good sun?
0:06.7	Hello and welcome to Hey, do you remember Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose tinted glasses to see how it holds up.
0:31.8	I'm Chris.
0:32.6	I'm Donna.
0:33.4	And I'm Charles.
0:34.4	And today we're revisiting The Good Sun.
0:53.2	Thank you. And I'm Charles. And today we're revisiting the Good Son. After the death of his mother, 11-year-old Mark Evans is sent to stay with his extended family
0:58.2	in their picturesque northeastern town. As Mark gets reacquainted with his cousin Henry, he begins to
1:03.4	recognize a pattern of disturbing behavior that everyone else around them seems oblivious to.
1:08.6	And unfortunately for Mark, Henry isn't just dangerous, he's also quite
1:12.5	cunning, which means if he's going to try and convince his aunt and uncle what their son might be
1:16.7	capable of before it's too late, he'll have to outsmart an opponent who always seems to be one
1:21.8	step ahead of him. After spending years in development and bouncing back and forth between
1:26.6	several studios,
1:27.9	the Good Sun was released in the fall of 1993 to a fair amount of controversy.
1:32.7	While some moviegoers found the notion of turning the world's biggest child star into a tiny
1:37.6	psychopath, rather intriguing, many critics thought the whole thing was in bad taste.
1:42.7	For many of us, our initial reaction to its
1:44.7	marketing might be more memorable than the film itself, which is why I thought it would be
1:49.0	interesting to give this one another look now that we're far removed from the clamor surrounding
1:53.5	its release. But first, Donna, what do you remember about the good son? I remember this movie existing.
2:01.9	Oh.
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