Forrest Gump, The Shawshank Redemption and Pulp Fiction: The Films of 1994

Joe and Greg welcome Katie Needs back to the podcast to help them navigate and digest the gauntlet of films that came out in 1994. As always they start things off by discussing the top 5 biggest blockbusters of the year based on box office gross which include a couple of surprises (9:04). Then they move on the discuss the biggest Oscar winners of the year where they retroactively giveth and taketh away which gets a little contentious and includes a slam piece on the film Ed Wood (16:27), a glaring omission in the Best Actress category (27:17) and a nice Lion King vs Quiz Show debate (40:40). Before diving into everyone Top 5 favorite movies of the year Katie briefly touches on what my be the greatest "Kids" movie year of all time (42:56) which ultimately leads to the crew revealing each others 5 favorite films from this year which includes and incredible casting trivia for The Shawshank Redemption (54:05), different cry moment for Forrest Gump (1:00:09), Claire Danes and the crying on screen hall of fame (1:09:40) and Katies hilarious true story of a classic Disney song wedding performance (1:17:10). All that and MUCH MORE!

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