Ep: 82 (Yuppie Nightmares Pt. 4) Into the Night

Episode 82 (Yuppie Nightmares) Alec and Derek conclude the series with a trip to L.A. and watch John Landis’s 1985 Into The Night. Learning of his wife’s infidelity, depressed insomniac aerospace engineer Ed Orkin (Jeff Goldblum) takes a drive to LAX hoping to find escape, incidentally he runs into a beautiful jewel smuggler Diana “Like the Princess” (Michelle Pfeiffer) who is also trying to escape, but in her case from the four Iranian assassins (including director Landis) hot on her trail. Ed is quickly embroiled in the ensuing chase across Los Angeles meanwhile encounters a murderers row of cameos highlighted by David Bowie, Dan Aykroyd, Richard Farnsworth, and Vera Miles as well as more great directors than a DGA meeting, including Don Siegel, Jim Henson, David Cronenberg, Jonathan Demme, Paul Bartel, Roger Vadim, Amy Heckerling to name only a few. Set to a score by legendary B.B. King, Into The Night is a playful snapshot of 80s Hollywood.

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