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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
1,172 Views


- Do you?

- Yeah.

Maid!

Can I turn down your bed?

Did you just get in?

Earlier.

You're all by yourself, huh?

You hungry?

A big boy like you is not hungry?

When did you eat last?

Where's your mom?

In Los Angeles.

Not right now.

Oh, I gotta give you checks.

Carla Friedricks.

Spell it.

Gotta see my son, you know.

Love is everything.

Love is everything.

Just remember that.

- Go.

- I love you girls.

Remember the Alamo.

Remember Smokey Joe.

Take me home, please. I want to go home.

I want to see my mother, my mom.

I want to go. I want to see my mother.

I want my mom.

Didn't I tell you? Didn't I tell

you I was gonna go out all night?

Didn't I?

I told you I was going out all night,

I was gonna be with somebody, didn't I?

And you said okay, right?

You said you're gonna be a man

and i'm gonna be a man, right?

No, don't do that!

- Didn't I say to you...

- I want to go.

Didn't I say to you, didn't I

say to you that I was going...

Wait a minute now. Didn't I say

I was going out with somebody?

Didn't I say I was gonna go find somebody?

I want to go.

I want to see my mother.

I want to go home.

I want to go.

- Get out. Where is your house?

- Right over there.

Albie, I just want to say i'm

sorry the vacation didn't work out.

Mom!

Albie, what happened to yourself?

Come on, what happened?

What happened, son. Did he do

this to you? What happened?

What did he do to you?

I'm Robert Harmon.

Eddie, stop!

Stop it, Eddie!

It's not your son, Eddie!

... your ass long enough ...

Stay there!

Dad, I love you dad.

I love you, dad.

Come on.

I love him.

He's my father, I love him.

Dad, I love you.

I love you, dad.

- He's your son, Robert.

- Too late.

Robert, he's your son!

Here we are, pal. 28 dollars.

G'night.

Susan called.

She called me?

That's your girlfriend, isn't it?

Uh, Robert Harmon here.

Yeah. You are Margarita.

You're the mother.

Well listen, i'm the guy that

got sick all over your house.

I thought i'd come over and have

a drink with you and thank you.

Don't argue with me.

I won't take no for an answer.

Be there in 20 minutes.

Fought with Albie, huh?

Yeah, well, life is a series

of suicides, divorces,

promises broken, children smashed,

whatever.

You oughta go to sleep.

I'm not sleepy.

It's only about 9 o'clock.

You look awful. Gotta get some rest, gotta

go out and get some sun, this is California.

Ya know, with kids I don't think

you can do the right thing.

I mean, you always think you know

just what's suppose to be, and...

You know what my shrink told me?

You know what this quack...

Watch your feet here.

You know the guy in Chicago.

He told me, his big advice

was to go to Europe,

to find some handsome guy,

to have a love affair,

if that didn't work, I was

suppose to be creative, paint.

Can we walk and talk?

Hey, I don't want to go to bed.

No more emotion now, let's go.

I'm not being emotional.

I just, i'm tired.

Oh, I wanna go- you're right.

I'm going to bed.

Very tired.

Get out of here.

I have to go. I have to see

this old lady about a house.

And I have to have a drink with her,

and I have to change my clothes,

and I have to take a shower, and I

have to be really neat, okay?

I'll have breakfast with you in the morning.

I'm gonna turn off the light.

What's all this, what are you doing?

I need some crystal glasses,

and some ice, and...

- I've got everything.

- You do?

Come on in.

Sarah.

Sarah, I need you.

I know this doesn't

make any sense, but

this house is very,

very empty without you.

I love you, you dumbo-head.

We're divorced, Sarah.

That part of our life is over.

I'm just saying that it's...

it's hard to...

tough to bring up a kid.

I know it doesn't make any sense,

but that's what you should be doing.

Goodbye, Sarah.

I want you to be patient with me because

I don't know exactly where i'm going yet.

How are you?

To tell you the truth, i'm...

Tell you the truth i'm very

concerned about my daughter.

Well, we're all concerned.

Oh god, you too?

Oh, i'm sorry, well...

You know all about

it too then, huh?

About it?

About the balance, and...

Tell you the truth,

this is my first time, and I...

i'm looking for the sex.

Well, you'll need bowling shoes.

Oh thanks, I don't use 'em.

Well, you're on lane 13, mam.

Hey, honey.

- You're gonna slip all over the place.

- Don't worry about it.

You want me to keep score?

You can if you want to, but it

isn't necessary. I don't keep score.

You don't keep score?

If I bowl a strike, I remember it.

Alright, give me one.

Give me one, come on.

Right down the middle.

Watch this.

You're better than Al!

You're better than Al! He's a bum.

My first husband- i mean, my only husband-

anyway, he loved to bowl.

Okay, lets see two in a row.

Five dollars, Al.

Two in a row, okay?

Okay. Brace yourselves.

She's doing better than you, Dottie,

i'll tell you that right now.

Don't wait, honey.

Don't wait. Just roll the ball,

ya gotta have a follow-through.

Just relax, just relax. What, Ken?

Let me tell you something, look.

Let me tell ya. If you stand up...

Now wait a second.

If you stand up, I got the ball right here.

You got no pressure, right.

No, wait a second now.

Now go ahead.

Just relax, okay. Take a deep breath.

Put the chalk, put the chalk on there.

Now watch this. Watch.

Pull it out.

It's alright.

- There you go.

- It was easy.

Isn't that crazy.

It doesn't hurt or anything.

Thank you.

- That certainly never happened.

- I'm gonna put it back.

No, i'm not afraid.

I've got another one coming.

Do you walk?

You're a good dancer, you walk?

I walk, I run, I do everything.

Okay you walk with me, ready?

You dance by yourself,

let me see your stuff.

I haven't done this for a long time.

Let's sit down like

ladies and gentlemen here.

Let's sit down here like

ladies and gentlemen. Hold on.

Let me seat you.

I'm sorry.

Don't get embarrassed ...

asses.

A beautiful light,

and a beautiful red dress.

Honey, you're late

Hello Frank, how are you?

Oh we were having such a party.

I'm sorry you came in so late.

Come on over and meet Robert.

We were having such a good time.

You asleep?

Are you okay?

Ya wanna glass of milk?

Tomorrow morning.

Give me a kiss.

Go back to sleep.

Honey, don't worry.

Billy is alright.

We were having such a good time.

I was showing Robert

how I used to dance,

but I couldn't make up

a good enough costume.

Mom, go to bed now, okay?

You go home, okay?

Party's over alright.

I gotta get up early tomorrow, that's why.

Goodnight, darling.

She's a wonderful woman.

She doesn't get a chance to go out

and show off a lot, you know.

I know.

Goodnight, teeth. I love you.

Goodnight.

I had a wonderful time.

A wonderful time.

Thank you.

You are the cutest guy I ever met.

You want some coffee?

Nah, no thanks, babe.

I had the most wonderful time tonight.

Yeah, you look happy.

What is creativity, Robert?

What is creativity?

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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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