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title: "Episode #81 \u2013 The Roommate"
url: "https:\/\/www.flophousepodcast.com\/2011\/05\/episode-81-the-roommate\/"
date: "2011-05-28T12:56:00+00:00"
episode_number: 81
movie: "The Roommate"
guests: "Dan McCoy, Elliott Kalan, Stuart Wellington"
---

# Episode #81 – The Roommate

Let’s take a great, trashy premise like Single White Female; cast two attractive actresses; move it to college, where too-strong emotional attachments are a matter of course… then strip it of interesting characters, a script, or the exploitation pleasures of sex and violence (thanks, PG-13!). Welcome to [The Roommate](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1265990/). Meanwhile Elliott explains the avant garde use of collage in softcore films, Stuart is utterly baffled by the idea of a pet detective, and Dan reassures his fans that he will always be the sigh guy they know and tolerate.

 0:00 – 0:41 – Introduction and theme.
 0:42 – 8:29 – Stuart helps Dan deliver some big news by setting up a bit at length and then seeming totally uninterested in the payoff.
 8:30 – 29:35 – We seem to have less to say about The Roommate than any prior film.
 29:36 – 35:22 – Final judgments.
 35:23 – 54:01 – Flop House Movie Mailbag
 54:02 – 58:40 – The [sad](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1045772/) [bastards](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095179/) [recommend](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088178/)
 58:41 – 59:51 – Goodbyes, theme, and outtakes.

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 [Wikipedia synopsis of The Roommate](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_roommate#Plot)

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