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This week Scotty and Amelia discuss two deeply beloved films...well, beloved by them, at least. These are movies that received a shocking amount of (at best) apathy or (at worst) hatred from fans and critics at the time of their release. But your cohosts have taken them into their homes and hearts like abandoned puppies in a snowstorm.

Scotty's pick is the 1997 film "The Rainmaker," based on the novel by John Grisham, starring a fresh-off-the-apple-truck Matt Damon, and co-written and directed by a then down-on-his-luck Francis Ford Coppola. Critics didn't hate the movie, but audiences largely didn't care. Scotty, however, has seen it at least fifteen times.

Amelia's pick is the 2004 film "The Village," written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan and starring Bryce Dallas Howard and Joaquin Phoenix--and widely seen as the movie where fans began to turn on the auteur director who had been so praised just a few years before for his smash hit "The Sixth Sense" (1999). Many people will tell you this film is a pretentious mess. Amelia is prepared to fight those people.

SPOILER WARNING: We go deep into the plots of these movies--so if you haven't seen them in awhile, fair warning.