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Synopsis: The film describes a few days in the life of the writer Robert Harmon and his sister Sarah. The decadent life of Robert is made of alcohol, cigarettes, and short-time relationships with women; women he interviews for a book, he spends a weekend with at a casino or fall in love with for the fun of an evening. Having no constraints, he his unable to be responsible for anything including the care of his son, leaving him alone in an hotel room and teaching the 8-years old boy how to drink. His life is made of his own phantasms as an artist. His sister is divorcing from her husband because of her exuberant and insane behavior. She scares her daughter Debbie who prefers to stay with her father, a decision that hurts Sarah very deeply and reinforces her nervous breakdown. Most of the movie takes place in the house of Robert. We watch Robert and Sarah struggling with their own lives. As the movie progresses, the house gets empty little by little...
Genre: Drama
Director(s): John Cassavetes
Production: MGM Home Entertainment
  4 wins.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
PG-13
Year:
1984
141 min
1,291 Views


I think with all beautiful women,

they have a secret.

And the interesting thing,

is to get that secret out.

If they volunteer that secret to me.

Yeah, I guess.

I'm a writer,

that's why i'm saying that.

I know, I saw you on TV.

Haven't read any of your books, though,

don't have too much time.

- I did the cigarette trick...

- Watch the tablecloth.

Give me your glass.

What should we drink to?

I can't think of anything.

You're ambitious enough, I think.

When I came in here about a month ago,

there were these two

very cute little girls

that were singing along with you.

They were backup singers.

They're not here anymore.

And that bothers me.

- Does it bother you?

- No.

What time is it?

I want to write a book about you.

Why, you think I want to be a big star?

I've gotta go.

It was fun.

I like the way you move.

I really like the way you move.

I'm right here.

That's nice.

Give me your keys, give me your keys.

My dress!

You know what they say about

beautiful women. Their secrets.

They'll give 'em to you gladly, this is...

Where do you live?

Do you know where you live?

Get out, okay.

Get out of here!

Well then, move over.

Gotta get out of my car.

Get out!

Out of my car!

Enough, okay!

Come on! Let go!

Get out of here.

You're amazingly strong.

I'll drive, alright.

Where do you live?

I'll drive.

Make a right, at the corner.

Okay, this is fine,

this is fine, stop.

Give me the keys.

Give me the keys!

Turn off the lights.

Turn the radio off. Are you crazy?

Give me the keys.

Can you walk?

Come on, we gotta get off the street.

Put your arm around me.

You taking me to bed?

Where are we?

My house.

Perfect ending to a

lovely evening.

I'm alright.

I'm alright...

I'm usually a lot more fun,

i'll tell you that right now.

Come on darling, I want you

to eat some soup now.

Do the best you can.

Cuz i've got to get you out of

this room so the child can play.

Hi, Robert.

I'll be right with you.

Is that your mom?

I really should give you

a lot of money, but I...

A few thousand dollars will do.

I want to thank you very,

very much for what you've done.

You're very welcome. I was really

the one who did the most for you.

She wouldn't do anything.

I had to undress you.

You're the one that undressed me?

You took all my clothes off?

And you nursed me,

and you washed my shirt?

- Oh, thank you so much.

- You're welcome.

But I don't want you

to be a mother now.

Because it confuses me when a beautiful

women like you becomes a mother.

I'm not a mother really.

Good bye, thank you.

Excuse me, please.

I'm really sorry to be late.

Well, you understand.

Excuse me, excuse me,

excuse me, excuse me...

Okay. We can start.

Mother.

I want to go with my father.

I hate my life with you.

I hate going to see all

those dying people.

I hate being with those old people.

They smell.

Excuse me, could I sit there, please?

They smell?

When did you first decide

that they smell?

I want to go with my father.

I don't want to go with you anymore.

I don't want to be a slave.

Nice...

Nobody leave this room

until we find out what it means.

I can discuss it.

I have a lot of time.

What is it that you want to discuss?

Love.

We're dealing with legal matters.

And as painful as it seems,

this is usual in divorce cases.

Please, Mrs. Lawson.

I must ask you to sit down, please.

Roll her over on her side.

You're going to be okay, darling.

Just relax.

You're doing real good.

Just relax.

We love you. We love you.

Just relax.

So what do you think that is?

Loss.

You don't own anything. So how can

you lose something that you don't own?

Love is a stream.

It's continuous.

It doesn't stop.

No, it does stop.

Oh no, it does not stop.

Your love is too strong for your family.

I want you to describe your sexual life.

- I don't have a sexual life.

- You do.

I don't need a sexual life.

What other interests do you have

besides your husband?

He doesn't love you.

That's not true.

And your daughter who

chose him over you.

If you don't let go, and if you

don't get some balance in your life,

something creative, some sex,

I don't care with whom,

then you're going to have to go back to

the bughouse where you don't belong.

Go to Europe.

They don't know you there.

You have money, see something.

Be alone.

Meet someone, you're attractive.

Oh, thank god.

Will you help me, please?

I am American,

and I must have your help.

I have all of this luggage.

I'll give you $25 if you help me, please.

Listen to me. Listen.

You can understand me if you want to.

I have to get this baggage,

I have no one to help me.

Maybe you should get a carriage.

But I must get to track 9.

And i'm already late.

You'll take it for me, right?

You're not going to go away, are you?

You're coming back, right?

I'm going to wait for you right here.

I'll be right here, okay.

That's good. You're just fine,

just go on ahead.

That's it. Over a little bit to

the right. That's it.

Wait. Wait.

I've got it.

Are you taking a bus or

do you want a taxi?

No, I want a plane.

I'm going to go home.

I've got to get out of here.

Well you can't take a plane from here, love.

This is a train station, they roll 'em out of here.

I've got to get home.

Listen, would you do me a favor?

Would you make a call for me, please.

Would you telephone my husband.

I want to call him in

Chicago, Illinois.

I hate Europe.

Can I have the overseas operator, please.

- France was worse.

- I don't like that place much myself.

Yes, i'd like to place a personal call.

Couldn't talk to anybody there.

Who am I calling?

Mr. Jack Lawson.

In the United States.

What's his number, love?

Reverse the charges.

What's your name, love?

Sarah.

Here you go, love. They're ringing

right through. Come on.

I'm almost not crazy now.

I just don't care.

You alright, love?

I'm fine, I'm fine.

Hi, Robert.

How are you?

How have you been?

What are you doing here?

Well, I happened to be

in the neighborhood...

Actually I hadn't heard from you

and I wondered how you were.

Actually, my mother was worried about you.

I think she misses you.

Everybody's always worried about me.

Actually i'm fine, you can see that.

And I can't let you in.

It's okay, I don't want to come in.

Guess you have company.

You're right there.

I've got to go to work.

I wanted to ask you something.

Do you think we should see

each other again or what?

I'd like for us to be friends,

if you want a friend.

Take care of yourself, Robert.

Keep in touch, okay?

Oh, geez, turn the light off.

I'm going to kill someone.

What's the matter?

I'm looking for my white shoes.

White shoes. Did you see

Phyllis' big white shoes?

Underneath the kitchen table.

Get that, please.

So what?

Who was it?

There's a car coming

around to the front.

There is some lady and a little boy here.

And he's carrying a whole bunch of flowers.

They're coming up to the front door, Robert.

This is your son.

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Ted Allan

Ted Allan (January 26, 1916 – June 29, 1995) was a Jewish Canadian writer, several of whose books were made into motion pictures. Ted Allan was born in Montreal as Alan Herman. In the early 1930s returning he worked as a Montreal-based journalist for the Communist Party of Canada's newspaper, The Clarion. He adopted the name Ted Allan so that he could infiltrate a fascist organization and write an exposé, and subsequently kept the pseudonym. In 1936, he met and became friends with Norman Bethune. The next year, Allan joined the Mackenzie–Papineau Battalion to fight against fascism in Spanish Civil War and met up with Bethune again. In 1952, Allan and Sydney Gordon published Bethune's biography, The Scalpel, The Sword. Allan battled for nearly 40 years to make a movie about the Canadian surgeon who became a larger-than-life hero of the Chinese revolution. After an arduous production, Bethune: The Making of a Hero, based on a screenplay by Allan, was released in 1990 to almost universal critical disdain. In 1939 he published This Time a Better Earth about the Spanish Civil War (New York 1939.) Allan left the Labor-Progressive Party, as it was known at the time, in 1957 when the party split following a party crisis fomented by Khrushchev's Secret Speech, the Soviet invasion of Hungary and revelations of state supported anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union. In 1976, Allan received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) for his story that became the screenplay for the movie Lies My Father Told Me. In 1984 he co-wrote the script for John Cassavetes’s Love Streams, which was based on one of his (Allan’s) plays. The film won the Golden Bear Award at Berlin Film Festival. His daughter, Julie, is a producer (To Walk with Lions). He won the Stephen Leacock Award in 1985 for Love Is a Long Shot.He also published the children's book Willie the Squowse, and published short stories in Harper's and The New Yorker. more…

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