# Identify a movie from a comment in the review **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 17, 2015, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-movie-from-a-comment-in-the-review/725409 "2015-07-17T12:17:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-movie-from-a-comment-in-the-review/725409/1 "2015-07-17T12:17:38Z")
This is a long shot but I have seen folks come up with the correct answer to these kinds of questions from very little helpful information before, so what the heck. Longtime NPR listeners may remember when Tom Shales used to do the movie reviews on Friday mornings. The thing about Tom Shales was that you could pretty much guarantee that he was going to hate whatever movie he was reviewing, but his reviews were so entertaining that whether or not he liked it was really beside the point. Anyway, there is a line from one of his reviews that has always stuck with me. Unfortunately I can’t remember what the movie was that he was reviewing. He described the movie as being like “a Roadrunner cartoon written by the Bronte sisters.” If it helps to narrow it down at all, his Wikipedia entry says that he did reviews on NPR between 1998 and 1999. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-movie-from-a-comment-in-the-review/725409/2 "2015-07-17T12:20:25Z")
Thelma & Louise, perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-movie-from-a-comment-in-the-review/725409/3 "2015-07-17T12:42:10Z")
The Phantom Menace. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-movie-from-a-comment-in-the-review/725409/4 "2015-07-17T13:04:29Z")
The Matrix ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-movie-from-a-comment-in-the-review/725409/5 "2015-07-17T17:15:06Z")
> [@Mosier](#): > > The Matrix I thought this would be funny, if true, but alas it was not. You can listen to his review of _The Matrix_ on the NPR site. ---
**Author:** ![puddleglum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puddleglum/32/137_2.png) [@puddleglum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puddleglum)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-movie-from-a-comment-in-the-review/725409/6 "2015-07-17T17:20:41Z")
Stepmom? It is about two women who continually clash. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-movie-from-a-comment-in-the-review/725409/7 "2015-07-17T21:34:29Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > I thought this would be funny, if true, but alas it was not. You can listen to his review of _The Matrix_ on the NPR site. Wait, what? They have all of his old reviews archived and available? There goes my weekend!