#72: Inconceivable/Looking Glass

This week, Cage plays two flavors of bad husband in a pair of VOD-ready erotic thrillers! First, we cover the Gina Gershon-starring Inconceivable , an overamped Lifetime movie about a crazy mommy (Nicky Whelan) who cozies up to a well-to-do couple (Gershon, Nicolas Cage) whose IVF-born child just so happens to be from her egg. Hitchcockian antics ensue, by which we mean Whelan's wacko MILF (falling far short of the post-breakdown Lindsay Lohan the original casting promised us) kills female wrestlers with dumbbells in shallow ponds, gaslights Gershon into restarting her pill addiction, and womb-jacks Gershon's latest attempt at a child. Still, it's got Gershon and a bored-looking Cage together for the first time since Face/Off ! Then, there's Looking Glass , a low-budget motel thriller so indebted to David Lynch they even got Angelo Badalamenti to provide some themes! Cage plays a dye-bearded wreck who, with his depressed wife (Robin Tunney), take over a motel in the middle of nowhere as a means to get over their recently-passed son. There, Cage stumbles upon a mysterious web of sex trafficking and voyeurism -- hello, one-way motel mirrors -- that at all times threatens to become interesting. More fool us! Pledge to our Patreon at patreon.com/travoltacage

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#72: Inconceivable/Looking Glass is an episode from Nathan Rabin's Happy Cast by Nathan Rabin.

This episode is 48:22 long.

This episode was published on Feb 23, 2024.

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