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CineQuote Newsletter #54

CineQuote Newsletter #54

CineQuote.net Team
September 29, 2025

Sometimes, ya just gotta Redford.

And thus ends Robert Redford Week here at CQ. We even gave the guy an extra day, hitting ya with 8 movies in a row that he was a part of. While we held back big hits like The Natural, All the President’s Men, and The Sting in favor of spotlighting deeper cuts like All is Lost and Downhill Racer, we couldn’t help ourselves and had to showcase Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, along with Out of Africa. We have plenty more Redfords (even golden-haired Hubbell) to go here on CQ, so don’t think we’re gonna shy away from the him down the road just because he had his own week.

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Last Week’s Highlights

Highest Win Percentage

85.3%

Charlotte’s Web (2006)

Lowest Win Percentage

48.0%

Ordinary People (1980)

We’re gonna chalk up CHARLOTTE’S WEB nabbing top spot to y’all having a steel trap of what you read in school, or, in some cases, what your teacher read TO you. But yes, names like Fern and Wilbur jogged loose those deep-core memories just enough to get this to a 85.3% win rate, the only one of the week to hit above 80. Redford was the voice of the horse, Ike, but heavens, there was quite the cast assembled for this one. How often are you gonna get Redford, Oprah Winfrey, Sam Shepherd, Julia Roberts, Cedric the Entertainer, Steve Buscemi, and Reba McEntire all in the same movie, outside of course some made-up one you’re dreaming about while battling a fever…

So apparently nobody saw this, or if ya did, ya didn’t remember much. They never say the line “we’re just ORDINARY PEOPLE” in this movie, otherwise we would have bailed everybody out by quote 5. John Legend couldn’t even help people out by writing his hit song 31 years earlier so it could have squeezed into the soundtrack. Ya really needed to know that this was Redford’s directorial debut and thus qualified for #RedfordWeek. Ooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, ya needed to identify Donald Sutherland’s voice, or Mary Tyler Moore’s voice, or Judd Hirsch’s voice, or little Timmy Hutton’s voice, and then remember what Oscar-winning movie they were all in together. In addition to bringing home the biggie, Hutton also nabbed Best Supporting Actor honors and saved his biggest thank you for you-know-who. If you’ll watch that clip you’ll see that Michael O’Keefe’s luscious locks were so lavish the Academy Award program director had to quickly replace his image on camera with a short, Italian man. Speaking of locks, before you unsubscribe because we deprived you of Redford winning his Best Director Oscar, here. Twist our arm, why don’t ya…

Cosmo (Ben Kingsley) uses his skills as a Microsoft Excel Specialist to organize all the crime.

Ace of the Week

15.2%

“There I was in prison. And one day I help a couple of nice older gentlemen make some free telephone calls. They turn out to be, let us say, good family men.”

“Organized crime?”

“Don't kid yourself. It's not that organized.”

By Thursday, some of y’all were feeling the Redford. Maybe that’s why the 1992 crafty, feisty (even heisty?), funnier than it needed to be SNEAKERS earned the top Ace rate with a stout 17.6%, basically doubling the next highest score. Ben Kinsley dipped his toe in the villain pool on this one. He’d jump head first into that same pool eight years later with Sexy Beast, and again in 2002 with Tuck Everlasting (if you fancy…)

Here are the numbers for all the games last week.

CineQuote Movie	Win %	Ace %
Charlotte's Web (2006)	85.3%	2.6%
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)	76.2%	8.7%
The Horse Whisperer (1998)	74.1%	2.9%
Sneakers (1992)	57.0%	17.6%
Out of Africa (1985)	55.0%	2.8%
All Is Lost (2013)	49.6%	4.7%
Ordinary People (1980)	48.0%	6.9%

CQ Recommends

We recommend basting your Streep every two hours to enhance supple texture.

The Night Of (2016)

After a night of drug-use with a strange woman, a man wakes up to find her dead, with no memory of what happened.

Definitely cheating a bit here, as this is a miniseries and not a straight, by the book movie. Not to worry as these miniseries won’t every show up in CQ, but like today, they may creep into the recommendation section. The less you know about this 8 part crime procedural, the better. One of the dramatic bright spots from the tv/film milieu of 2016.

-Sean

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