John Malkovich in ROUNDERS (1998) feels like he got handed a serious poker movie and decided to create a character nobody would ever forget. Twenty years later, people are still quoting Teddy KGB more than the winning hand.
The Town (2010) had no right to be this good. What looked like a standard heist movie turned into something sharp and endlessly rewatchable. One of those films that quietly overdelivers.
“How do you like them apples?” was something Matt Damon and Ben Affleck used to say growing up in Boston, so when they came to write GOOD WILL HUNTING (1997), they added it into the script.
In GOODFELLAS, the late‑night dinner at Tommy’s mother's is authentic for a reason: Tommy’s mother is played by Martin Scorsese’s real‑life mum, Catherine, and most of her dialogue in the scene was improvised.