We're joined by Helen O'Hara (host of the Empire Film Podcast and author of 'Women vs Hollywood') to discuss the down-and-out misadventures of Streep, Nicholson, Waits & co in this 1987 box-office flop.

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Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Ironweed Trailer, via YouTube (dir. Hector Babenco, 1987)

A selection of Waits scenes from Ironweed, via YouTube

Captain Samuel Vibes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness, via YouTube, from Men At Arms (w. Terry Pratchett, 1993)

War of the Worlds radio play (dir. Orson Welles), 1938

War of the Worlds, Radiolab podcast (2018)

… and check out Helen's new book Women vs Hollywood - The Fall & Rise of Women in Film at Amazon or Amazon UK, or perhaps at your local brick-and-mortar bookseller.
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