This week on Total Movie Recall, it’s Steve’s turn to not get it when Ryan forces him to snooze this way through the 1997 hambone, The Devil’s Advocate. This movie has it all -- a grand guignol of sex, violence, operatic depictions of Hell and Satan, Keanu swinging and missing, Pacino putting his blood pressure medication to the test -- and yet, somehow, it’s still boring! Please don’t waste Steve’s time with these faux-provocations. Show him something really controversial, like a basketball game.

The Devil's Advocate (1997)

d. Taylor Hackford

Based on the novel by Andrew Neiderman

Starring:
Keanu Reeves
Al Pacino
Charlize Theron
Jeffrey Jones
Judith Ivey
Connie Nielsen
Craig T. Nelson
Don King

Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a high-powered position at a New York law firm headed by legal shark John Milton. As Kevin moves up in the firm's ranks, his wife, Mary Ann, has several frightening, mystical experiences that begin to warp her sense of reality. With the stakes getting higher with each case, Kevin quickly learns that his mentor is planning a far greater evil than simply winning without scruples.

Things discussed in the show:

Psychedelic horror

Mandy (Panos Cosmatos, Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache)

Midsommar (Ari Aster, Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, Vilhelm Blomgren)

Beaches (Garry Marshall, Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey, John Heard)

Romeo and Juliet (Franco Zeffirelli, Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey, John McEnery)

West Side Story 1960 (Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise, Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer)

West Side Story 2021 (Steven Spielberg, Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Ariana DeBose)

The political divide: Boogaloo boys & Antifa making out

Irreversible (Gaspar Noé, Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel)

Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo)

Natalie Wood's mysterious death

Step Brothers and the Catalina Island wine mixer (Adam McKay, Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen)

Romeo + Juliet (Baz Luhrmann, William Shakespeare, Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, John Leguizamo)

The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann, Leonardo DiCaprio, <a href="https://ww