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MARCH MADNESS 2023 - Day 10

Added 2023-03-10 17:00:06 +0000 UTC

In an encouragingly close race, the most excellent dudes Bill & Ted beat out Bogey & Bacall for a spot in the next round.

Up today - a battle of our favorite 90’s adaptations.

It’s JOHN GRISHAM vs. ELMORE LEONARD.

For GRISHAM, we’d cover 8 legal thrillers:

The Pelican Brief (1993)
The Firm (1993)
The Client (1994)
The Chamber (1996)
A Time to Kill (1996)
The Rainmaker (1997)
The Gingerbread Man (1998)
Runaway Jury (2003)

We would not cover the Harry Connick Jr family-oriented baseball movie “Mickey” nor “Christmas With The Kranks,” a story we cannot believe he wrote in the first place.

For LEONARD, we’d cover his 4 famous 90s crime movies (yeah, we know “Be Cool” is from the 2000s, but it’s a direct sequel):

Get Shorty (1995)
Jackie Brown (1997)
Out of Sight (1998)
Be Cool (2005)

We will not be covering any of his myriad other adaptations…Leonard Westerns could be their own genre.

Both series would feature A-list Hollywood actors and important filmmakers we’ve yet to cover on the main feed - Pakula, Pollack, Schumacher, Altman, and Coppola for Grisham, Sonnenfeld, Tarantino, and Soderbergh for Leonard.

Who gets your vote?