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Movie Review – The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (popcult.blog)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Okay so I have a long-winded story I have to share about this...

I love this movie, have seen it dozens of times, including when it ran on cable the summer when my grandparents died and seventeen year old me was stuck in their family room watching late night cable with my uncle for a few months while helping my mom sort through her own personal nightmare.

Anyway... a decade or so later I read this stuff about Sarah Polley advocating for a younger actress in one of Terry Gilliam's films, and same as you I was horrified.

I'd never considered the realities of that film's production on that poor girl. So I took it on myself to watch some of the other movies she'd been in as an adult, and, well, one had a nude scene...

Months later I go over to my buddies' place and there's a group of about a dozen people watching The Adventurs of Baron Munchausen...

And I couldn't resist. I waited until Sarah Polley appeared on screen and said "Hey, I've seen her naked!"

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