(PART 6)*

American Movie

Raising Arizona

Tootsie

Rocky

Hoop Dreams

Dumb and Dumber

The Horse Boy

You Can Count on Me

Joe Versus the Volcano

Ordinary People

The final list. With two new movies we hadn’t previously considered. Movies that not only were fantastic but truly rounded out our collective list, as their greatness was tied to viewing experiences we shared together. That time in Austin circa 1993 when we rented Joe Versus the Volcano because we realized one of our great modern playwrights, John Patrick Shanley, wrote and directed the film. And how pleasantly surprised we were to see that it wasn’t a flop after all, but a highly intelligent, misunderstood adult fairy tale. Also—Ordinary People. The film we watched in the early 1980s (way too young) that taught us no matter how difficult things got between us, the thought of losing each other kept us eternally bound.

* The end.