Thunder Road/The Beta Test's star/writer/director Jim Cummings

The Movies That Made Me

SpectreVision Radio

Tv & Film, Film History

4.7 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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0:00.0	Specter Vision Radio
0:03.3	This is the movies that made me with hosts, Josh Olson and Joe Dante.
0:23.6	Thank you. I should, we should sort of, I guess, officially start where we're talking.
0:46.0	I'm really excited.
0:46.8	I, here's one of our guests that I just stalked and got on because I'm a fan of his work.
0:52.8	And as listeners of the show, though, I'm a giant, in fact, I think I'm, yeah, I'm wearing
0:56.9	my, you can't say it's too dark.
0:58.2	I'm wearing my Wrecking Ball tour.
1:01.2	Okay, cool.
1:01.9	Huge Springsteen fan.
1:03.1	And like a lot of Springsteen fans first heard of this guy.
1:05.3	I think we needed a short film in, I have no sense of time anymore. You tell me it was 2005, I believe you.
1:11.9	It was, what, like, 2016.
1:14.3	2016.
1:15.1	Did an amazing short.
1:16.8	It's still on the internet, I believe, correct?
1:19.5	Yeah.
1:19.9	Called Thunder Road.
1:21.1	You've got to look it up.
1:22.1	It is both one of the funniest things I've ever seen and one of the most heart-wrenching things I've ever seen, one of the most beautiful human performances I've ever seen, and one of the
1:31.4	greatest, almost Jerry Lewis-esque comic performances I've ever seen. And it's all one guy in the same
1:36.8	film at the same time. I can't even. And he parlayed that into a feature.
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