Perhaps the pleasant surprise of the year for us, Greta Gerwig’s Little Women should be more of an Oscar contender. Did they release it too late in awards season? Can it still be a late breaking success? We discuss it all down in this Oscar Sprint Profile movie review. AlsoMike’s Surrounded By Little Women - Top of Show What Is This Episode? - 1:37 NONSPOILER SECTION: Cast, Crew, Scores, Box Office - 2:27 Plot Premise/Expectations - 8:53 Production Values (Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Embrace Dresses and Hairstyles): Costumes - 13:36 Makeup + Hair - 17:40 Set Design - 19:48 Cinematography/Editing - 22:08 Score - 23:11 Performances: Florence Pugh - 24:28 Saoirse Ronan - 27:53 Rest of Cast - 31:09 Script Thoughts - 34:26 Finishing The Oscars Lens - 39:01 (And Do Christmas Releases, Hurt Oscars Chances?) SPOILER WARNING DANCE PARTY - 44:32 SPOILER-FILLED REVIEW: Starting at the Ending - 45:50 (Teddy Maybe Scummy/Amy + Laurie - 53:53) Interpreting The Aunt March Lesson - 58:15 Lowlights/Worsts - 1:02:33 (Food Porn…Or Disappointment? - 1:09:18) Laurie + Jo - 1:11:13 Little Things for Big Rewatchability - 1:14:11 FINAL GRADES - 1:18:20 Your Homework/PLEASE LEAVE US 5*’S - 1:19:42 What’s Next From MMO/Words of Wisdom - 1:20:54 You get quite the comprehensive episode here. We compare this 2019 version of Little Women to three previous Oscar nominated adaptations, we do a character by character analysis, there are our personal connections to the story, and then of course, you still get all our usual OSP movie review segments. We have non-spoiler chats on the production values, performances, and script that all build up to our takes on how many Oscar nominations the film can get. Then we head into spoilers, where we break down the ending, a few worst scenes & a great many bests. If you enjoyed this deep dive type of movie review, please click around our catalog for further discussions. We have 3 playlists of OSPs, reviewing all of the nominees and awards season contenders of the last 3 years. This particular year features 25 episodes covering 22 films, including 3 two parters on Us, Avengers: Endgame, and Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. We’ve also reviewed more potential Oscar nominees on our weekly awards season news show, O.R.C - AKA - Oscar Race Checkpoint. Then we completed series on the films of Tarantino, Pixar, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, + comprehensive series on the Halloween franchise, Conjuring films, Mission Impossibles, & most recently, The Joker Character Study. Looking ahead, we have an exciting programming schedule for the month of January. We’re booking guest hosts & guest spots for O.R.C.’s and after the nominations are announced, for our Oscar Category Overview Series, where we preview all of the major awards in preparation for the Academy’s big night. We also have at least one final OSP movie review on 1917, and of course, we’ll be previewing, predicting, and recapping all of the precursor award shows like the Globes, Critics Choice, SAG’s, BAFTA’s, Indie Spirits, etc...etc… Please take a few seconds to leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts. If you’re a supporter of the indie podcast community, then you know what a huge help those ratings are for us. Finally, and as always, we want to know your thoughts about Little Women and anything or everything we discussed in this episode. We’re at MMandOscar on Twitter, and we are on Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Gmail. You can subscribe / rate / review / like / share / & listen to us on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Google Play, Tune In, Spotify, and just about wherever you listen to podcasts. We’re Mike, Mike, & Oscar, and we’re making awards season year round, without the stuffiness. Thanks for listening.