Copies & Copycat
This week the dads take a look at Copycat (1995), a mid-90s thriller that wants to be Silence of the Lambs but often ends up more made-for-TV movie. Sigourney Weaver stars as an agoraphobic psychologist dragged into a game of cat-and-mouse with a serial killer imitating history’s most infamous murderers. Holly Hunter and Dermot Mulroney round out the cast, while Harry Connick Jr. chews the scenery as a crooning creep.
In true Bad Dads style, we pull the film apart and ask:
- Does Copycat earn its place alongside the great psychological thrillers of the era, or is it just derivative drivel?
- Why are the cops so bad at protecting Weaver’s supposedly “safe” apartment?
- How many times can a killer break in before you stop suspending disbelief?
- And was Sigourney right to say this was the performance she was most proud of?
Alongside the movie, our Top 5 “copies” takes us everywhere from cloned astronauts and plagiarised authors to forged paintings, photocopied genitals, and questionable cover versions. We even put the lads through a brand-new quiz: Copy or Floppy (hint: it’s exactly as puerile as it sounds).
🎧 Expect laughs, rants, and at least one digression into printing presses.
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