Rebecca Gayheart — Happy Place — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat

The Christmas Shoes Sequel The Christmas Blessing is Irresistibly Maudlin in that Deeply Imitable Christmas Movie Kind of Way

My patron-funded exploration of the films of disgraced Noxzema girl Rebecca Gayheart continues with a maudlin 2005 Christmas tear-jerker that’s a sequel to a TV movie based on the famously treacly Christmas song “The Christmas Shoes.”

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinNovember 28, 2023Neil Patrick Harris, Rob Lowe, Rebecca Gayheart, Christmas, TV movies

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #250 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

For the landmark 250th entry in the column that let’s YOU choose the movies I watch and write about, I wrote about Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. What a picture!

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #246 Grey Lady (2017)

My patron-funded exploration of the films of Rebecca Gayheart hits another low point with the dreary 2017 crime drama Grey Lady, starring Gayheart and her then-husband Eric Dane, AKA Grey’s Anatomy’s McSteamy.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinNovember 17, 2021Eric Dane, Rebecca Gayheart, Adrian Lester, crime, Nantucket

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #243 G.B.F. (2013)

My patron-funded exploration of the films of Rebecca Gayheart explores 2013’s G.B.F., a sweet but heavy-handed teen sex comedy that reunited her with the writer-director of Jawbreaker.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #234 Bunny Whipped (2007)

I hate to use phrases like “real stinkeroo” but this one is a real stinkeroo.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinSeptember 21, 2021Rebecca Gayheart, Joey Lauren Adams, superheroes

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #231 Pipe Dream (2002)

Our patron-funded exploration of the films of Rebecca Gayheart continues with the 2002 movie world satire Pipe Dream, which has charm and an appealing lead performance from Hal Hartley favorite Martin Donovan but cannot overcome a toxic premise.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #217 Harvard Man (2001)

2001’s Harvard Man is the ultimate James Toback movie. I mean that in the harshest way possible.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinAugust 3, 2021Film, Rebecca Gayheart, Eric Stoltz, Adrien Grenier, James Toback, drugs, LSD, Al Franken, acid

Control Nathan Rabin #211 Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)

My patron-funded exploration of the films of Rebecca Gayheart covers her scene-stealing cameo in the underwhelming sequel to 1998’s Urban Legend.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #195 Jawbreaker (1999)

My patron-funded exploration of the films of Rebecca Gayheart continues with a fond look back at one of her more auspicious credits and films, the pitch-black 1999 dark comedy/Heathers homage Jawbreaker.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinApril 22, 2021Rebecca Gayheart, Rose McGowan, Judy Greer, teen sex comedy, Heathers

Control Nathan Rabin #183 From Dusk Til Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (1999)

The great Michael Parks is a vampire-battling Ambrose Bierce in the nifty, overachieving second direct to video sequel to From Dusk Til Dawn, 1999’s From Dusk Til Dawn 3: The Hangman’s Daughter.