Love Is a Four Letter Word Page #9

Synopsis: Divorce lawyers Kenton 'Ken' Rhodes (recently moved in from Chicago) and Emily Bennett have a healthy but cynical mistrust of marriage from ample professional experience. They first meet and are attracted at the wedding of Ken's buddy since college, Lawrence 'Larry' and her sister Elisabeth 'Betsy' Showalter. Then they meet again in the divorce court where Ken's wealthy, retired client Martin Harper is expected to be cleaned out over a futile quarrel by her client, Margot 'Marge', Martin's former secretary, after thirty years of marriage and pointless 'mediation'. Which of these three couples will make it? And what about the unethical conflict of interest?
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Harvey Frost
Production: RHI Entertainment
 
IMDB:
5.5
Year:
2007
95 min
87 Views


And the second thing,

and this is really important

so listen carefully;

Do I love him?

That's the question you

need to ask yourself.

It's the one that matters.

Do you love him?

What's his name.

I do.

Good. Then go home

and tell him so.

The rest will work itself out.

Thank you Luke.

Don't mention it.

Oh, hey Marilyn.

Thanks for the drink.

And thank you boys.

Now I know what I need to do.

Please forgive me Derek.

I'm just going to let you be you

from now on, I promise.

You're amazing.

I love you.

I love you more.

Hey.

I was just on my way out

to get something to eat.

Not that I've had an

appetite all day.

Hey listen...

I don't know why I'm so paranoid.

Stephen, I'm sorry.

If you're willing to let me,

I'd like to work on trusting you.

Let's work on it together, ok?

We have something really special.

Just don't freak out on me.

Agreed.

Luke?

What the f*** are you doing?

I'm going to work on the trust

after some minor verification.

Get out of there.

Canada?

Look I lived there briefly

after my parents kicked me out.

Stop giving me excuses.

They're not excuses,

they're explanations.

Wait you said you were 18

when your parents kicked you out -

This license you got

when you were 16.

Look, they didn't cut me off

until I was 1 5 I moved to my...

grandparents for a

while and then...

You're not even a Leo.

My rising is in Leo.

Who are you?

Stephen.

Not Nico? Just plain Stephen?

Look. I've had a lot of sh*t happen

to me in life. Ok?

I have to be a lot of different

things to a lot of different people.

And sometimes I get confused.

So you lie?

No.

Stephen, I don't know if anything

you've ever told me is true.

I don't care where you're from.

I don't care if you're a painter.

And I certainly don't care

whether or not you're a Leo.

But I do care about honesty.

You're going to have

to trust me, Luke.

Trust has to be built. You

have a problem Stephen.

I don't have a problem.

You know, I knew

the day I met you...

that you were a typical gay clich.

Things get a little

rocky, and you run, huh?

So f***ing typical.

Oh, I forgot to tell you,

I had Madonna on the phone,

She said her brother's

never even heard of you.

F***ing typical. Do you hear me?

Try accepting who

you are Stephen.

Whoever that is.

You're just like every

other gay man out there.

Yeah? Well if putting honestly

first makes me a gay clich -

Then that's what I am.

I love you Luke.

I've never been able to

say that to anybody.

Will you stop lying?

I don't lie.

Then love is just

another four letter word.

For what?

Huh?

A four letter word for what?

I don't know.

I don't know.

And after all that

we've been through?

It's sad I'm still in love with you?

And in my heart I know it's true?

That I'm still in love with you?

That I'm still in love with you?

At my friend Melinda's wedding,

you should have seen how

that little girl squealed.

I guess what I'm getting at Bart,

is that flower girls can

really ruin a ceremony.

And that niece of yours,

has just got to stop eating.

I've never seen a three

year old quite so big,

and she's only getting bigger.

Keep in mind that her dress

has already been fitted.

I mean what is she just going

to bust out at the seams...

right there in the

middle of the isle?

I refuse to be upstaged...

by the world's biggest

toddler at my own wedding.

Oh.

Yes. Oh Bart. Baby. Yes.

Right there.

Oh. Oh. Oh.

Oh Bart.

The wedding is off.

I mean the ceremony is off.

The formalities, the

production, the protocol.

F*** it.

Let's elope.

You killed Bridezilla?

I did.

I finally did step 3 Bart.

Thank you Higher Power.

So how many teenagers have

you saved from themselves?

I have a great rapport

with my students.

I bet you do.

And what's going on

with you young Luke?

Have you ever wanted to

press Control/Alt/Delete...

and start over?

Definitely.

Steven slash Nico?

Hopeless case.

I'm sorry.

How are you?

Normal.

No, it's all good. I had

a nice time with Stephen.

And it's nice to know

I'm capable of having...

a relationship with someone.

It just has to be the right someone.

Or I could get a puppy.

So cute. What's his name?

Jasper.

Jasper. Such a pretty name

for such a pretty dog.

He's the best. Aren't you babe?

I'm glad you called.

I actually missed you.

Really? What did the community

have to say about that?.

The community is at

peace with that.

I missed you too.

So what did you miss about

me you little guttersnipe?

I don't know Tinkerbelle.

Your 'joie de vivre.'

I guess I am pretty

fun to be around.

And argue with.

What? Are we going to

home and f*** now?

Let's just go for coffee.

Unless you wanna f*** behind

that tree over there.

Oh, I was just going to say,

let's go f*** behind

that tree over there.

Or we could get a gang

bang with those guys.

What do you think?

Ehhh...

You go ask them, I'm intimidated.

Youre intimidated?

Love in the twenty-first century?

People can be what

they wannna be?

Anyway you want it?

Anyway you want it?

Love in the twenty-first century?

Though we're living

in a modern world?

I still believe in?

Baby, maybe I'm a special

girl 'cause I'm looking for?

A different kind of love?

Not the ordinary one?

I'm trying to find?

A different kind of love?

One that gives me what I want?

I'm dying to find?

A different kind of love?

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