BABE: PIG IN THE CITY — George Miller makes one for the grownups

11/21/24 • 35 min

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MUBI Podcast - BABE: PIG IN THE CITY — George Miller makes one for the grownups

Transcript

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This episode includes adult language and spoilers.

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Let me take you back to summer 1995, when a future film critic named Tim Robey was just a movie obsessed teenager on vacation from his native London, and about to sit down to watch a movie at a mall multiplex in Los Angeles. That summer was at the movies was the summer of Apollo 13, Braveheart. While You Were Sleeping, all these... these were big hits. This is when