Midweek Mention... God's Pocket

About this episode

The crew discusses the film *God's Pocket* and its effectiveness as a character drama.

The crew kicks off Pocket Week with *God's Pocket* and explores whether the film's rough-edged, hyper-local setting works as character drama or just stays grim for grim's sake. What We Covered - Whether this was truly one of Philip Seymour Hoffman's final performances/releases - John Slattery directing, plus the Mad Men crossover cast links - The opening funeral framing and backfill structure - Mickey's terrible decision-making spiral (including spending funeral money on a horse) - The film's...

People in this episode

Host: Bad Dads

Topics covered

• film analysis
• character drama
• directing
• performance review
• decision-making

Keywords

• God's Pocket
• Philip Seymour Hoffman
• John Slattery
• film review
• character drama
• Mad Men

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: God's Pocket, Mad Men

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