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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every Saturday at 6pm GMT, with the occasional bonus episode thrown in.

This time, Peter Bogdonavich’s Paper Moon.

Mose is a two-bit hustle who is passing through town in time to visit a funeral for an old flame. While there, the woman’s young daughter is thrown into his care. Mose immediately denies paternity of the precocious and intelligent young Adie, but the pair quick gel as they embark upon a string of hustles across Depression-era America.

At time of recording, it was ranked the 229th best movie of all-time on the Internet Movie Database.

Notes:

• Recorded 17th June 2018.
• Paper Moon at The Internet Movie Database.
• The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
• Jesse Hassenger discusses Paper Moon at The A.V. Club, September 2013.
• Tom Ryan at The Age discusses what happened to Peter Bogdanovich after his string of seventies hits, July 2002.
• Jason Kerrigan at The Guardian on the slow star death of Peter Bogdanovich, October 2000.
• Peter Bogdanovich talks to Stop Smiling about auteur theory, November 2005.
• Mark Hennessy at The Irish Times on Paul Newman’s legacy at Barretstown, June 2014.
• Rebecca Angel Baer at CNN on the passing of the Hole in the Wall Gang from Paul Newman to Alec Baldwin, July 2013.
• Robert Weintraub at Slate on how a horrific accident on the set of The Twilight Zone changed the way movies were made, July 2012.
• Kathryn Lewis at Slate on how baby and child roles are cast in Hollywood, June 2006.
• People profiles Tatum O’Neal following her Oscar win, April 1974.
• Tatum O’Neal discusses being cast in Paper Moon and becoming the youngest Oscar winner to that point with The Hollywood Reporter, February 2014.
• Tatum O’Neal discusses her complicated life with The Independent, November 2017.
• The Daily Mail on the fraught relationship between Tatum and Ryan O’Neal, March 2018.
• Erick Trickey at Smithsonian Magazine on the origins of “the Coney Island” hotdog, June 2016.
• Eliza Berman at Time on how (Bad) Neighbours 2 became an unlikely feminist grossout comedy, May 2016.
• Deirdre Hynds at The Irish Times on the slow destigmatisation of menstruation, August 2017.
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