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Synopsis: A common friend's sudden death brings three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives and ultimately leave together. But mindless enthusiasm for regained freedom will be short-lived.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): John Cassavetes
Production: Columbia Pictures
 
IMDB:
7.5
Rotten Tomatoes:
71%
PG-13
Year:
1970
131 min
1,669 Views


Hold it here. Here, here, here.

- Violence is out.

- Sit down.

- Wait a minute...

- Violence is out.

This contest is not over.

And this contest is going to continue.

Look, just to show you

how wild this party is...

- Who threw that glass?

- Wait a minute.

Number one, who threw that glass?

I'm gonna leave here.

I'm gonna leave here.

Leola!

Terrible. Terrible. Terrible.

Terrible. Terrible.

Unreal, unreal! No passion.

One more time. One more time.

Start it again.

Come on.

Gus, do you hear, Gus?

- Start it again, honestly.

- Honestly.

- Honestly, but I had too much beer.

- With soul. Soul.

- Soul?

- With soul.

- With passion.

- That's what Harry does all the time.

I don't believe he does that.

The man is insane!

- I'm telling you...

- From the beginning.

- Did you hear what he said?

- Worse.

- Did you hear what he said?

- Worse.

- What?

- Worse!

No feeling, he said.

- Vomit.

- No feeling.

A little feeling. A little feeling.

- I don't care. Loud, soft, do it.

- Go get her, Archie.

No, too cute! Too cute!

No cute! Real, from the heart!

From the heart! From the heart!

I can't stand it! I can't stand it!

- I'll kill myself.

- He's right. This man is right.

The man is right.

When the man is right, he's right.

One more time.

It's not that we're criticizing you.

- It's that...

- We're criticizing you.

Whatever your life is, it's been...

- Obviously.

- You're not speaking to us.

Do you understand?

You're not speaking to us.

- No?

- You're not talking to all these people.

- Look at...

- You're not speaking to anybody.

Not only us.

I agree.

I agree. I agree.

I agree. Wait a minute.

- Get him.

- You are terrible!

You are impossible! You're wrong!

You have no heart!

- You're wrong.

- No.

A lot of people won't agree with this,

but I think you're terrible.

- Really?

- I think you're terrible.

- You know why?

- Terrible!

'Cause you wanna be terrible.

You know why?

- 'Cause you don't like us. You know why?

- Right. Right.

Because you got some

bitterness in your heart...

- Totally.

... 'cause you've been told by your mother...

- Where's the warmth? Where's the warmth?

... to be that way.

- Where is the warmth?

- Give us a kiss.

- Right.

- Kiss him, he's my friend!

Here, here's a face, kiss him. Suck him.

Hold it. Hold it. Hold it. Hold it, Archie.

- Don't do that again.

- No, I...

Don't do it again. Ever. Ever!

- One more time.

- Do it better.

- Do it better.

- One more time.

Would you do it better?

- Can you do it better?

- We love you!

I'll take off my clothes

if you do it better.

- Take off your clothes.

- Take off your clothes.

- I'll take off my clothes if you do it better.

- Take off...

- If you do it better. Give her a chance.

- Take off your clothes.

- Give her a chance.

- Wait a minute.

I'll take off my clothes

if you do it better.

- That's how much I want it.

- Take off your clothes.

No, I don't want you to take off

your clothes.

I'll take off my clothes.

Here they come, baby. Here they come!

Here they come! Here they come!

Now, do it better! Now, do it better!

He's drunk.

I broke my zipper.

I think he's fantastic.

Let's give him a big hand. Let's give him...

Sing it. Sing it once.

Sing it once.

Come on!

Come here.

- All right.

- Ready.

- I'm sorry.

- That's life.

- Now let us sing it, and you listen.

- That's life.

- Life.

- One, two, three, four,

five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

Eleven.

Why don't you sing it again, all right?

- To me, to me.

- Kiss him, my friend.

Kiss him, he's my friend.

She has to get it out.

- Better!

- Hey, that's nice. Now let's see them...

Show him and close your eyes.

When you sleep, do you close your eyes?

Relax. Close your eyes. You're asleep.

- All right.

- You're asleep. Ready?

- Yeah.

- Ready.

Kiss her. I'm telling you.

I'm gonna f*** her.

I got you now.

- Telephone.

- Please.

- She can't be honest.

- Give me that mouth.

Look here. Put that in your mouth.

There you go.

- I don't... That's all right.

- You're all right.

- Now sing it.

- Have fun!

- All right.

- Have fun when you're singing that song.

Have fun when you're singing that song.

- Where's the song?

- Listen to her.

- I...

- No!

- F*** it. F*** it.

- Here, here, here.

Whisper, whisper.

Quiet. I don't wanna hear you.

I don't wanna hear you.

- Nobody hears you.

- Just talk it. Talk.

- Nobody hears you.

- You just told me not to talk.

Just talk it. Talk it. Talk it.

Let her talk.

Too loud.

- No, no, no, no, no.

- Tell her...

- I'm gonna leave.

- Listen. Can't you do this?

- Can't you do this? Can't you do this?

- Why?

- Go. Do it.

- Do it! Let's do it together.

- Can't you do what I just did?

- Let's do it for her.

- No, 'cause you scare me.

- Wait a minute, sweetheart.

- Sweetheart, let's do it for you.

- Here we go. Together.

- No, we don't scare you. That's the trouble.

- Shut...

I don't want to hurt you, I swear to God,

but I feel like Jack the Ripper.

- We don't scare her, that's the trouble.

- Okay, don't be scared.

- You don't even hear this.

- Watch this now.

- No, don't you sing. Don't you sing.

- Okay. All right.

Don't you sing.

God almighty, don't you sing.

- I'll show you how to sing it.

- Ready.

- Go ahead, would you sing her?

- Sing it for me, Archie.

I just did it. Now do that.

- That's...

- You're getting it. You're getting it.

You're getting it. You're getting it.

Wait a minute.

- No, I don't think I can do it now.

- That's better.

- That's terrific. That's honesty.

- You're terrific.

- You're terrific. We love you.

- That's honesty.

- I like that very much.

- You think we're kidding you? We love you.

- No, why...

- We love you.

Sing it to us like you love us.

- I forgot the words now.

- Good.

That's good.

You're beautiful.

Bravo! Bravo!

- Listen.

- What are you doing here singing?

Why don't you sing us all a song?

- In your suit.

- In your...

- In your suit. In your suit.

- Come on.

- Wait till I have a shooter.

- He's gonna have a shooter.

- I'm gonna have a shooter.

- I'll have a shooter.

Come on. Sit down here.

- Harry looks lovely.

- Looks lovely.

I'm miraculous, and I'm very gracious.

I think you're the most gracious guy

in the world.

Now will you sing something,

because we got a prize going here?

Right.

No rush there.

What a humor you have.

Too much.

Can't see his eyes.

Depression song.

No, I can't spare a dime.

No, don't hold back.

Have another drink.

- I've made my decision.

- Where are you going?

- I got the winner.

- Listen.

- Yeah? Who's the winner?

- What's your name?

- I'm not telling.

- Red.

- Red.

- Red what?

- Where you from, Red?

- Where am I from?

- Where you from?

- Wherever that nutty in the room is.

- You're from... You're from...

- I'm telling you...

Hey, man, hold it now. Wait a minute.

Don't get...

- Where are you from, that's all?

- You're from...

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John Cassavetes

John Nicholas Cassavetes (; December 9, 1929 – February 3, 1989) was a Greek-American actor, film director, and screenwriter. Cassavetes was a pioneer of American independent film, writing and directing over a dozen movies, which he partially self-financed, and pioneered the use of improvisation and a cinéma vérité style. He also acted in many Hollywood films, notably Rosemary's Baby (1968) and The Dirty Dozen (1967). He studied acting with Don Richardson, utilizing an alternative technique to method acting which privileged character over traditional narrative. His income from acting made it possible for him to direct his own films independently.Cassavetes was nominated for three separate Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor for The Dirty Dozen (1967), Best Original Screenplay for Faces (1968) and Best Director for A Woman Under the Influence (1974). His children Nick Cassavetes, Zoe Cassavetes, and Xan Cassavetes are also filmmakers. more…

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