We wrap up a cool dozen episodes with the 1988 Kevin Bacon film: “Lemon Sky.” After finally getting through our Kevin Bacon wall after the travesty that was “Queens Logic,” we are treated with what turned out to be a TV adaptation of a play by the same name. This dialogue heavy film definitely keeps the look and feel of a stage play; it’s more artsy-fartsy than our typical tripe, but we manage to get through the free form jazz and sometimes disjointed narrative… Drinking may have been involved.
This film is set in what looks like the 1950’s, with a son (Kevin Bacon) meeting his estranged father and traveling across half the country to move in with his new family. Things seem to start off fine, and Bacon meets his half siblings and adoptive step siblings. His estranged father quickly starts pushing his son to go to school and find a job, both full time, while also berating him for not doing all the other things he used to do as a teen. Through a series of internal and external monologues we find out the one step sister is on a variety of drugs and his other adoptive step sister is being hit on by his dad. He becomes more abusive and claims Bacon is a homosexual because he isn’t out chasing girls, and kicks him out. Bacon drops a whole lot of exposition about past abuses from his father before he left his mother, everything pretty much falls apart, and the credits roll. Overall, the acting is pretty good in this film, but unless you are really into the arts you are probably gonna want some drinks to get you through this thing.
Drinking Games:
– Drink every time a beer is opened
– Drink every time the movie cuts to Kevin Bacon in a black shirt
– Drink every time there is a monologue with a lighting change
– Drink every time a you see a new person shows up in the “dream bar”
– Drink every time you think Kevin Bacon and his stepmom are going to bang (a drunk Brinker suggestion)
Podcast Intro —
Music from https://filmmusic.io
“Sonata 17” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Podcast Interlude —
Music from https://filmmusic.io
“Narcissus” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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