This is Rob Long with Martini Shot for The Ankler.
I was talking to a young friend of mine the other day about buddy pictures — you know, movies and television shows about a friendship or some other kind of duo. We call them “two-handers,” which I’ve never really understood as a phrase. It should be four hands, I think, unless it refers to how many hands are out when it comes time to figure out the deal.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was, basically, a two hander. So was Midnight Run and the Odd Couple.
“So that movie where the two women drive off a cliff,” asked my young friend. “Was that Laverne and Shirley?”
I mean, look, he wasn’t trying to be cruel.
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