Movie Substrate · Film

The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989)

★ 6.6 · 371 ratings on TMDB

For 31 years it's been just the Fabulous Baker Boys... but times change.

The Fabulous Baker Boys poster★ 6.6

The lives of two struggling musicians, who happen to be brothers, inevitably change when they team up with a beautiful, up-and-coming singer.

DirectorSteve Kloves
CastAlbert Hall, Beau Bridges, Dakin Matthews, Ellie Raab, Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Tilly
GenresComedy, Drama, Music, Romance
The emergence reading

The Fabulous Baker Boys keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

zero-distanceUS
Explore Movie Substrate → Where to watch ↗ TMDB ↗ Rotten Tomatoes ↗ Ask about this film → Reading look wrong? → Copy link

Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

Inside Out (2015)E8Up (2009)E8Forrest Gump (1994)E8Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)E8Deadpool (2016)E8Spider-Man (2002)E8

Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

24 Hour Party People (2002)E9/E10 · Comedy, DramaThe Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995)E9/E10 · Comedy, DramaA Prairie Home Companion (2006)E9/E10 · Comedy, DramaMeet John Doe (1941)E9/E10 · Comedy, DramaDon't Look Up (2021)E14 · Comedy, DramaBlacKkKlansman (2018)E9/E10 · Comedy, Drama

Same people

Shared director or cast.

True Grit (2010)Dakin MatthewsIron Man (2008)Jeff BridgesMonsters, Inc. (2001)Jennifer TillyApocalypse Now (1979)Albert HallAnt-Man and the Wasp (2018)Michelle PfeifferScarface (1983)Michelle Pfeiffer