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Published: Jan. 10, 2021, 7:29 p.m.

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This week on Total Movie Recall, it\\u2019s Steve\\u2019s turn to not get it when Ryan forces him to snooze this way through the 1997 hambone, The Devil\\u2019s Advocate. This movie has it all -- a grand guignol of sex, violence, operatic depictions of Hell and Satan, Keanu swinging and missing, Pacino putting his blood pressure medication to the test -- and yet, somehow, it\\u2019s still boring! Please don\\u2019t waste Steve\\u2019s time with these faux-provocations. Show him something really controversial, like a basketball game.

The Devil\'s Advocate (1997)

d. Taylor Hackford

Based on the novel by Andrew Neiderman

Starring:
Keanu Reeves
Al Pacino
Charlize Theron
Jeffrey Jones
Judith Ivey
Connie Nielsen
Craig T. Nelson
Don King

Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a high-powered position at a New York law firm headed by legal shark John Milton. As Kevin moves up in the firm\'s ranks, his wife, Mary Ann, has several frightening, mystical experiences that begin to warp her sense of reality. With the stakes getting higher with each case, Kevin quickly learns that his mentor is planning a far greater evil than simply winning without scruples.

Things discussed in the show:

Psychedelic horror

Mandy (Panos Cosmatos, Nicolas Cage,\\xa0Andrea Riseborough,\\xa0Linus Roache)

Midsommar (Ari Aster, Florence Pugh,\\xa0Jack Reynor,\\xa0Vilhelm Blomgren)

Beaches (Garry Marshall, Bette Midler,\\xa0Barbara Hershey,\\xa0John Heard)

Romeo and Juliet (Franco Zeffirelli, Leonard Whiting,\\xa0Olivia Hussey,\\xa0John McEnery)

West Side Story 1960 (Jerome Robbins,\\xa0Robert Wise, Natalie Wood,\\xa0George Chakiris,\\xa0Richard Beymer)

West Side Story 2021 (Steven Spielberg, Ansel Elgort,\\xa0Rachel Zegler,\\xa0Ariana DeBose)

The political divide: Boogaloo boys & Antifa making out

Irreversible (Gaspar No\\xe9, Monica Bellucci,\\xa0Vincent Cassel,\\xa0Albert Dupontel)

Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, James Dean,\\xa0Natalie Wood,\\xa0Sal Mineo)

Natalie Wood\'s mysterious death

Step Brothers and the Catalina Island wine mixer (Adam McKay, Will Ferrell,\\xa0John C. Reilly,\\xa0Mary Steenburgen)

Romeo + Juliet (Baz Luhrmann, William Shakespeare, Leonardo DiCaprio,\\xa0Claire Danes,\\xa0John Leguizamo)

The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann, Leonardo DiCaprio,\\xa0Carey Mulligan,\\xa0Joel Edgerton)

Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce, Nicole Kidman,\\xa0Ewan McGregor,\\xa0John Leguizamo)

Strictly Ballroom (Baz Luhrmann, Paul Mercurio,\\xa0Tara Morice,\\xa0Bill Hunter)

Tromio and Juliet (Lloyd Kaufman, James Gunn, Jane Jensen,\\xa0Will Keenan,\\xa0Valentine Miele, Sean Gunn, Lemmy of Motorhead)

My So Called Life (Winnie Holzman, Bess Armstrong,\\xa0Wilson Cruz,\\xa0Claire Danes, Jared Leto)

This iconic photo of Monica Bellucci and Leonardo DiCaprio

O (Othello, Tim Blake Nelson, William Shakespeare, Mekhi Phifer,\\xa0Julia Stiles,\\xa0Martin Sheen)

Titus (Julie Taymor, William Shakespeare, Anthony Hopkins,\\xa0Jessica Lange,\\xa0Osheen Jones)

Raised By Wolves (Aaron Guzikowski, Travis Fimmel,\\xa0Amanda Collin,\\xa0Abubakar Salim, Ridley Scott)

The Great Deluge & Nephilim

The Book of Enoch

Noah (Darren Aronofsky,\\xa0Ari Handel, Russell Crowe,\\xa0Jennifer Connelly,\\xa0Anthony Hopkins)

Barabbas 1961 (Richard Fleischer, Christopher Fry\\xa0(screenplay),\\xa0P\\xe4r Lagerkvist\\xa0(novel), Anthony Quinn,\\xa0Silvana Mangano,\\xa0Arthur Kennedy)

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power\\xa0(Noelle Stevenson,\\xa0Aimee Carrero,\\xa0Marcus Scribner,\\xa0Karen Fukuhara,\\xa0Keston John)

The Vow\\xa0(NXIVM,\\xa0Anthony Ames,\\xa0Sarah Edmondson,\\xa0Bonnie Piesse,\\xa0Mark Vicente)

Seduced Inside the NXIVM Cult (Jaclyn Cangro,\\xa0Tabitha Chapman,\\xa0Steve Hassan, India Oxenberg)

Apocalypse Now\\xa0\\u2013 Redux (Francis Ford Coppola,\\xa0John Milius,\\xa0Martin Sheen,\\xa0Marlon Brando,\\xa0Robert Duvall)

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker\\u2019s Apocalypse\\xa0(Fax Bahr,\\xa0George Hickenlooper,\\xa0Dennis Hopper,\\xa0Martin Sheen,\\xa0Marlon Brando)

Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock \'n\' Roll\\xa0(Taylor Hackford, Chuck Berry,\\xa0Keith Richards,\\xa0Eric Clapton, Bo Diddley, Etta James, John Lennon)

Ray (Taylor Hackford, Jamie Foxx,\\xa0Regina King,\\xa0Kerry Washington)

Blood In, Blood Out (Taylor Hackford, Damian Chapa,\\xa0Jesse Borrego,\\xa0Benjamin Bratt)

Angel Heart (Alan Parker, Mickey Rourke,\\xa0Robert De Niro,\\xa0Lisa Bonet)

The Wire (David Simon, Dominic West,\\xa0Lance Reddick,\\xa0Sonja Sohn)

Pedophilia in Hollywood yet again

Rosemary\'s Baby (Roman Polanski, Mia Farrow,\\xa0John Cassavetes,\\xa0Ruth Gordon)

V.C. Andrews

Villains based on Trump

Home Alone 2 Lost in New York (Chris Columbus, Macaulay Culkin,\\xa0Joe Pesci,\\xa0Daniel Stern)

Free will and time travel and the butterfly effect

Sliders (Tracy Torm\\xe9,\\xa0Robert K. Weiss, Jerry O\'Connell,\\xa0Sabrina Lloyd,\\xa0John Rhys-Davies)

Lethal Weapon 4 (Richard Donner, Mel Gibson,\\xa0Danny Glover,\\xa0Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Chris Rock, Jet Li)

Once Upon a Time in China (Hark Tsui, Jet Li,\\xa0Rosamund Kwan,\\xa0Biao Yuen)

John Woo

Double Impact (Sheldon Lettich, Jean-Claude Van Damme,\\xa0Geoffrey Lewis,\\xa0Alonna Shaw)

Black Mask (Daniel Lee, Jet Li,\\xa0Ching Wan Lau,\\xa0Karen Mok)

Knock Off (Hark Tsui, Steven E. de Souza, Jean-Claude Van Damme,\\xa0Rob Schneider,\\xa0Lela Rochon)

Next week: Kung Fu Cult Master

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