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Synopsis: Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews, an American living in Paris, works for the airline Mickey flies on. They meet and fall in love, but their relationship goes through many difficult patches. The story is told in flashback by their friends at a restaurant waiting for them to arrive.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Billy Crystal
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  1 win.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Rotten Tomatoes:
50%
PG-13
Year:
1995
101 min
761 Views


any other stuff?

C'est bon.

He keeps delaying his flight;

he starts buying outfits.

He doesn't wanna leave.

I find it a lot

like new york,

But really,

totally different.

Did you always

wanna be a referee?

No, i started out as a player.

Oh.

What are you looking at?No, i just...

What, that i'm

vertically challenged?

The best place for me

to ref a game...

Is madison square garden

in new york.

Wasn't it a soccer game a few years

back where the referee got killed?

Yeah, see,

i'm against that.Good for you. Take a stand.

Do you ever get back

to the new world?

Every year i visit

my father in wichita.

I bet his name is red and he

caps oil well fires, right?

No, his name is arthur

and he owned a pet store.That was my next guess.

When you dream, do you dream

in french or english?French.

With english

You got kids over here, 2, 3 years old,

and they're already speaking french.

Rodin never said

what he was thinking.

I think he's thinking,

"Goddamn, rodin,

three drinks and i'm nude!"

What can you say?

It was paris.

You got great stuff.

Got it!

Hey, do you know

where we are?

Yeah, we're on the seine

at the pont-Neuf.No, no, no.

This bridge

is in a great movie.

Don't you recognize it?Give me a hint.

it's very clear

Patton.

Patton?Yeah!

it's very clear

our love is here to stay

An american in paris?Gene kelly,

leslie caron.

This is the bridge!

This is very exciting for me!

Well, come on,

sing the rest.

Sing? No, i c...

i can't. No.

With my voice the cops will

come with those sirens...

They'll put me

in singing jail.

it's

very clear

our love is here to stay

not for a year

but forever and a day

in time

the rockies may crumble

gibraltar may tumble now you're going to tell me

you're leaving, right?

they're only made of clay

The season starts monday,

and i have to get back.

but mmm. Mm-Hmm.

our love is here would you like the afternoon

or the evening flight back?

to stay evening. Then we could

spend the day together.

I'll have to work.I'll watch you.

What?Yeah.

This is my place.Oh, yeah?

Oh, it's great.

I had a great time today.

Thanks.I had a wonderful time.

So, good night.Good night.

Would you like

to come upstairs?

in time really?

the rockies may crumble yes.

gibraltar may tumble

No. I'm sorry.

they're only made of clay to tell you the truth, i don't

find you very attractive.

You've got a big, fat,

dumpy ass.

What? He said that?

No, i just threw that in to see if you

were paying attention; what he said was:

I would love to.

our love come on.

is here

to

and they...

Yeah. stay

And it was... oh, yeah.

And you know, it was the first time

mickey never told me anything,

Which meant it was

really something special.

i know

we may never meet again

before you go

make this moment

sweet again

we won't say good night

until the last minute

and finally

mickey has to leave.

He left? He actually left?

He had to.

The season was starting.

Poor mickey. He hadn't had a lot

of beautiful moments in his life.

He grew up in a family where

the dog committed suicide.

"I just can't take it

anymore... chi-Chi."

Mickey just never knew that

anyone could be so wonderful.

But he tells himself,

Forget paris;

it was just a beautiful few days. Let it go.

You know, just let it be

a perfect little memory.

But it's tough.

Did you see this?

They brought abraham lincoln

back to life for a few seconds.When?

Um, last week

they dug him up...hmm.

And they gave him

this drug revivatol.No kidding.

It says he said

a few words.

What'd he say?

"How'd the play end?"

How you gonna ref a game

with that in your stomach?

- Jack, you may look like my mother, but you're not.

- Ooh.

So, what are we gonna

see today, gentlemen?What's playin'?

Do we have to go to the movies?

I mean, that's all we ever do.

- So what do you wanna do?

- I don't know.

I was thinkin' maybe

we'd go to a... museum.

it's like lookin' for

a four-Leaf clover

And see what?

it takes a little help

from up above art.

Art. lucky me

Tommy, would you like to

go to the museum and see art?

Not today, thank you.What is with you?

We're in indianapolis,

and all of a sudden you wanna see art.

When i was in paris,

i saw art, okay?

I saw the mona lisa;

i saw stuff.

With that girl you met,

huh?Ellen. Yes.

What is she living in paris for?

Is she too good to live here?

Good point."Good point"?

There's no point!

Why don't you shoot some

revivatol into your brains?

I am going to the museum,

and i'm gonna go see art.

- You'd better leave now to avoid the crowds.

- Give my regards to picasso.

Bad call, mickey!

- Damn.

- Patrick, stop lookin' at me that way, you big baby.

Just play the game, okay?

How are you?

No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Walking. Walking.

Right there. Right there.

They're climbing

up and down my back!

You're makin'

five million a year.

You could be in a submarine bumpin'

into a periscope. Just play ball.

You gotta call 'em.Stop the whining, okay?

1-5 in a block! Huh!

What, are you new in town?Make some calls,

mickey, huh?

I'll make the calls.

I'm gettin' a glare off your head.

No, no, no, no, no!

On the line, on the line!

What, are you tired?

Yeah, your girlfriend wore me out last night.

Don't have any legs.

Hi.

It was a tango!

You did the tango!

That was a bad call.

I was there...

You weren't there.I was there.

Hey, mick, where'd you

buy your clothes from?Why?

'Cause we're lookin' to have a kid;

we wanna know where to shop.

Very funny. Tell spike that one.

Come on, play ball.

Technical foul!

Get up to the foul line.

Go to the foul line.

Give 'im a technical!What are you doin' here?

That's a hard foul,

reggie!

Thanks, spud.

You know somethin'?

You're the only one i can talk to.

Open it up.

One, two, three! What about ellen?

Did they ever call each other?

Did they write?Ohh!

She writes, he calls,

but it's no good; he misses her.I love it. I miss you.

Then thanksgiving.

Big network game.

Lakers at detroit.Go, pistons!

It was kareem abdul jabbar's

last season, his farewell tour.

They made a celebration for him in every town

the lakers played; this time it was detroit.

Thank you so much.It was a big game; the biggest

rivalry in the league.

They were scalping tickets

for $600.

And of course mickey's crew does

the game because he's the best.

Only it's a holiday.

He's thousands of miles

from her, and he's miserable.

He's a time bomb.

Wake up and drop dead,

you putz!

- God, i hate your guts!

- Where did you go to ref school, dipshit tech?

You pathetic pigs.

That's a foul!

What's the matter,

the prozac didn't kick in?

Get in the game, you prick!

What a waste of blood.

You suck!

hey, mickey, how'd you

miss that last call?

Here, you wanna

borrow these?

Let's go, let's play!

Hey, mickey, laimbeer's got me

in a head lock out there.

What are you waiting for,

blood?

Technical foul!For what?

"For what"?

You want another one?

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Billy Crystal

William Edward Crystal (born March 14, 1948) is an American actor, writer, producer, director, comedian, and television host. He gained prominence in the 1970s for playing Jodie Dallas on the ABC sitcom Soap and became a Hollywood film star during the late 1980s and 1990s, appearing in the critical and box office successes When Harry Met Sally... (1989), City Slickers (1991), and Analyze This (1999) and providing the voice of Mike Wazowski in the Monsters, Inc. franchise. He has hosted the Academy Awards nine times, beginning in 1990 and most recently in 2012. more…

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