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"Siskel & Ebert & the Movies" (1986): :  -- In this IGN produced featurette.
"Siskel & Ebert & the Movies" (1986): :  -- Exclusive: Joshua Gomez & Zachary Levi talk about Season 2.
"Siskel & Ebert & the Movies" (1986): :  -- We chat with the Jorma Taccone of the small-to-big screen adaptation.
"Siskel & Ebert & the Movies" (1986): :  -- Exclusive: Adam Baldwin & Yvonne Strahovski talk about Season 2.
"Siskel & Ebert & the Movies" (1986): :  -- Exclusive: Sarah Lancaster & Ryan McPartlin talk about Season 2.

Overview

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Director:
Don DuPree
Contact:
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Release Date:
13 September 1986 (USA) more
Genre:
Talk-Show more
Plot:
Chicago critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert rate new movies with a thumbs up, or a thumbs down. full summary
Awards:
Nominated for 5 Primetime Emmys. Another 1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
(58 articles)
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User Comments:
Roger Ebert is Film Criticism's National Treasure more (21 total)

Cast

 (Series Cast Summary - 2 of 23)
Richard Roeper ... Himself - Host / ... (94 episodes, 2000-2008)
Michael Phillips ... Himself - Guest Host / ... (48 episodes, 2006-2009)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
At the Movies (USA) (new title)
Ebert & Roeper (International: English title) (new title)
Ebert & Roeper and the Movies (USA) (new title)
Roger Ebert & the Movies (USA) (new title)
Siskel & Ebert (USA) (new title)
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Runtime:
30 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Filming Locations:
Chicago, Illinois, USA

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
In May 1998, Gene Siskel had surgery to remove a tumor from his brain. For several weeks he did the show via telephone from his hospital bed. more
Quotes:
Roger Ebert: [after Shales gives "The Other Sister" a negative review] Gee, I liked it a lot less than you did. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Mad Monster (#2.3)" (1989) more

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Roger Ebert is Film Criticism's National Treasure, 18 January 2003
Author: jberlin11797

Ever since I was 13 years old, and I tuned into "Sneak Previews" with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert back in 1982, I fell in love with these two guys overnight. Besides being the kings of film critics, they also had the makings of a comedy team in the Abbott and Costello vein (well, you figure out who was Abbott and who was Costello, and the answer is painfully obvious). They were so highly successful they were asked to go onto syndicated TV and do "At the Movies", which did wonders for their forever-famous thumbs and their careers, then another TV show bearing their name, which kept fans rolling in the aisles until Siskel's tragic death in 1999. By the way, replacements for "Sneak Previews" and "At the Movies" were copycats who shouldn't have been there because Siskel and Ebert were always number one. Those annoying copycats included New York's squeaky-voiced, touchy-feely Jeffrey Lyons, the nerdy Michael Medved, the mean-streaked Rex, Reed, and the bimbette Dixie Whatley who didn't really review movies, but her glamourous presence was only to lure unsuspecting viewers. Anyway, we all miss Siskel and no other critic in his chair, not even the new guy, Richard Roeper, could ever review movies the way Siskel did. Ebert does his best with Roeper, and it seems that the corpulent Ebert is now the straight man, which he always needed because he was a better spark plug with Siskel. Still, Roeper is nowhere near as bad as the four copycats in the above paragraph, and the show is still going on, as long as there is Ebert.

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