The 1981 TV movie that netted Mickey Rooney an Emmy AND a Globe, Bill is a lot better than we expected: not too much Afterschool Special speechifying about mainstreaming (the movie), and not too much cringing (us). But it's not perfect -- character development occurs in an evening, and is denoted by The Shawl-Collar Sweater Of Adulthood -- and we struggled to rate the Quaidiferousness of a film that had Dennis Quaid in every scene, doing decent work...but miscast. Failing to listen to the Dennissance, grumbling about the cop-wife trope, and fantasy-costuming the Chippenquaids are just a few of the toupees we perched on this episode, so listen now.
Overall score: 6.25
QQQ score: 5
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If we're not going to hear The Dennissance (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dennissance/id1503394153), one of y'all should
Bill and the sequel on DVD (https://www.amazon.com/Bill-His-Own-Mickey-Rooney/dp/B00NXUKAOU/ref=tmm_dvd_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=)
The FB page for a documentary about the RL Bill Sackter (https://www.facebook.com/BillSackter/posts/you-can-now-see-the-full-length-television-movie-bill-1981-starring-mickey-roone/10150494402779945/)
