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Sean Fennessey

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16616 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

But... I guarantee you Ghost War cost a shit ton more than any of the Downton Abbey movies.

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

It's too bad.

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

Thanks for watching this for this episode.

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

You shocked me last night when you told me you watched this.

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

Shocked me.

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

Okay, you're not up to date on Powerball.

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

I'll tell you about it quickly.

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

Interesting movie, not a successful movie.

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

Directed by John Carney, probably best known for Once, a musical that I like quite a bit.

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

This is a movie that he and Peter McDonald, I think wrote some years ago and it was in a drawer and got pulled out of a drawer and they were able to,

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

sell it and make it and it's about a guy named Rick Power who's a wedding singer living in Ireland and he is at a wedding one night and he meets a kind of aging sort of washed up boy band singer who's played by Nick Jonas he's not playing himself but maybe slightly inspired by some of his experience and

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

They're buds.

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

They become quick buds, and they have a little jam session together.

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

And while there, Danny, who's played by Paul Rudd in a very likable performance, starts playing one of his songs that he's written.

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

And it's an undeniably catchy song.

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

And Nick Jonas, who's trying to kind of relaunch his career, goes back to the States.

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

And he effectively adopts the song.

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

He takes a piece of what the Danny character or what the Rick character has done and he expands upon it and it relaunches his career and it becomes a huge hit.

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

And then Rick, who has no documentation of this moment and no documentation of this song recorded anywhere in the past, tries to reclaim ownership and reclaim his own sense of personal grace.

The Big Picture
We’re So Back for Good: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Mania and 10 Movies We Missed!

Sure.