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... was in "Diner" with Kevin Bacon.
Sep. 7th, 2006 01:32 amSo okay. I was watching City Slickers this evening, because it amuses me, okay? (Even the second one amuses me, although it contains Jon Lovitz and is essentially crap.) You all remember this movie -- 1991, Billy Crystal goes on an old-west cattle-driving vacation with his friends Daniel Stern (originally from Bethesda!) and Bruno Kirby (who apparently just died last month -- leukemia, poor guy), and the group has a number of odd characters in it, and they get threatened a couple of times by Kyle Secor, and Jack Palance dies sitting up.
Fine. Perhaps you also remember, then, that at the beginning and end of the movie we're in New York with Billy Crystal's family -- his wife, played by Patricia Wettig, and two kids. I remember that we all somehow knew at the time that the older kid, a girl of about thirteen, was played by Lindsay Crystal, Billy Crystal's own daughter. What I did not realize until just now as the credits rolled was that the younger kid, a nine-year-old boy, was played by Jake Gyllenhaal.
( I'm not even kidding. )
It appears, from IMDb, to be his first film, much as the video-game-in-the-80's-cafe scene from Back to the Future II was Elijah Wood's. Only grownup!Elijah looks just like baby!Elijah with facial hair, while to see the similarity between grownup!Jake and baby!Jake you really kind of have to squint. (And incidentally: what, there are more DVDs of the LotR trilogy now? Peter, Peter, Peter, you must be cautious -- do not follow George Lucas -- he will lead you down a path of darkness!)
Fine. Perhaps you also remember, then, that at the beginning and end of the movie we're in New York with Billy Crystal's family -- his wife, played by Patricia Wettig, and two kids. I remember that we all somehow knew at the time that the older kid, a girl of about thirteen, was played by Lindsay Crystal, Billy Crystal's own daughter. What I did not realize until just now as the credits rolled was that the younger kid, a nine-year-old boy, was played by Jake Gyllenhaal.
( I'm not even kidding. )
It appears, from IMDb, to be his first film, much as the video-game-in-the-80's-cafe scene from Back to the Future II was Elijah Wood's. Only grownup!Elijah looks just like baby!Elijah with facial hair, while to see the similarity between grownup!Jake and baby!Jake you really kind of have to squint. (And incidentally: what, there are more DVDs of the LotR trilogy now? Peter, Peter, Peter, you must be cautious -- do not follow George Lucas -- he will lead you down a path of darkness!)
