Pauly Shore shines as Crawl, the catalyst hero in this often overlooked feel good comedy called Son in Law that serves up a slice of Americana while also redeeming its characters during the Thanksgiving season.

Catalysts are rare characters in movies. They're essentially main characters that are fully formed at the start of the movie. And then they don't go through a change at all, but they change everybody else around them. And he affects all the family members. Right. So also if you're talking about classical mythology, like the Joseph Campbell book and everything like that and Chris Vogler and all that, and like the heroes journey, essentially Pauly's character in this movie would be called the trickster. He would fall in line with that archetype. But again, it was a catalyst hero.

We feel like it is more than just a run-of-the-mill over-angst-ed '90s comedy and more in the like of being a classic.

Rent or watch Son In Law

Or it could be one of our guilty pleasures.

Here is the story:

"Country girl Rebecca (Carla Gugino) has spent most of her life on a farm in South Dakota, and, when she goes away to college in Los Angeles, Rebecca immediately feels out of place in the daunting urban setting. She is befriended by a savvy party animal named Crawl (Pauly Shore), who convinces the ambivalent Rebecca to stay in the city. When Thanksgiving break rolls around, Rebecca, no longer an innocent farm girl, invites Crawl back to South Dakota, where he pretends to be her fiancé."

Pauly's podcast

Pauly's interview with Joe Rogan as mentioned in this episode

Our previous Pauly Shore-related Encino Man discussion

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