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Cue Up the Poker Face Movie Curriculum
Grab your remote and invite a good buddy over to watch these cult classics, genre favorites, and underseen gems inspired by season two.
The episode follows Sam Richardson’s aspiring screenwriter, Kendall Hines, who writes a screenplay called One Last Job that is described as having nods to an array of crime-thriller classics, including Michael Mann’s Heat, Spike Lee’s Inside Man, and Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Eleven. Gone in 60 Seconds, Die Hard, and Weekend at Bernie’s all get nods, as do an array of films that comprise the episode’s secondary genre fixation: A needle drop of Sixpence None the Richer’s “Kiss Me” is very She’s All That, and the TV in the Indian restaurant where Charlie works cycles through some favorites of of her rom-com-obsessed co-worker, Jenny (Geraldine Viswanathan), including Notting Hill, Bridget Jones’s Diary, and Pride & Prejudice(the Matthew Macfadyen hand-flex version, of course). Clifford Smith Jr.’s gym owner Brick reverting to acting like a baby as he increasingly drinks breast milk for muscle gains: How can one not think of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as he clings to Natasha Leggero’s legs and weeps like a toddler throwing a tantrum?
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