Uncut Gems
Slate's Spoiler Specials
Slate Podcasts
3.6 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
On the Spoiler Special podcast, Slate critics discuss movies, the occasional TV show, and, once in a blue moon, another podcast, in full spoiler-filled detail. This week, Dana Stevens, Jeffrey Bloomer and Heather Schwedel discuss Uncut Gems.
Howard Ratner (Adam Sandler), owner of a small jewelry store in Manhattan, racked up a gambling debt while the rest of his life is collapsing. He’s trying to avoid creditors when his shop receives an illegal gem from Ethiopia. This rock, Ratner thinks, is his ticket out of debt. He temporarily trades Kevin Garnett, of the Boston Celtics, the rock for Garnett’s NBA Championship. Ratner pawns the ring to bet on the championship game. Will The Celtics win? Will Garnett get his ring back? Will Ratner finally get out of debt?
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Hosts
Dana Stevens is Slate’s movie critic.
Jeffrey Bloomer is a Slate senior editor. He edits and writes for the human interest and culture sections.
Heather Schwedel is a Slate staff writer.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.6 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:07.3 | I want to tell you my secret now. |
| 0:10.0 | I see dead people. |
| 0:13.0 | Silent green is people! |
| 0:16.9 | No, I am the father. |
| 0:20.3 | Oh, Rush am the father. |
| 0:26.6 | What's in the box? |
| 0:29.8 | You maniac! |
| 0:31.8 | You blew it up! |
| 0:34.9 | Damn you all the hell! |
| 0:54.4 | Hi, this is Dan Steven Slate's movie critic, here with a Slate spoiler special on Uncut Gems, the new film from The Safty Brothers, starring Adam Sandler. And joining me in the Slate studio to talk Uncut Gems are Heather Schwedell, who's the staff writer at Slate. Hey, Heather. Hi, Dana. And also Jeffrey Blumer, a slate senior editor. |
| 0:54.9 | Hey, Jeff. Hi. So I think you guys are a little fresher from this movie than me. So you may have to prop me up on a couple of plot details because there's a lot of twists and turns through rocks and people's intestines and other places in this weird movie. And I probably saw it a week ago at this point. First, I'll do my usual and just go around the table and get a quick response, yes or no. |
| 1:14.0 | Would you send? weird movie and I probably saw it a week ago at this point. First, I'll do my usual and just go |
| 1:11.3 | around the table and get a quick response yes or no. Would you send a friend or family member |
| 1:16.3 | over the holidays to see Uncut Gems? Yes, but I would check with them on their recent heart health. |
| 1:23.3 | It is a tense movie and I will recommend it to people, but it is a grueling watch. Yes. I want to get into whether that gruelingness is worth the gruel or not, because in my particular case, I didn't really find it. So what about you, Heather? Yes, I absolutely would. Were you both really fond of it? Like, if you had a top 10 for the year, would you think about putting uncut gems in it? I think I would. For about half the |
| 1:44.8 | movie, I thought, okay, this is like too punishing, even for the safeties. Like, I don't know how much more of this I can take. And then by the end, I was like, this is complete catharsis and loved it. So it's just a tough movie, but I think so. I think I loved it a little more than that. Just from the minute I saw Adam Sandler in that costume, I just think he was amazing in it. |
| 2:04.6 | I was. loved it a little more than that. Just from the minute I saw Adam Sandler in that costume, |
| 2:01.6 | I just think he was amazing in it. I was so compelled by everything in it. |
| 2:07.6 | Yeah, I guess to me the question is going to end up being, and we'll get into this, |
| 2:11.6 | whether that catharsis ever really does come because this movie has such an unrelenting |
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