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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


You take that, i'll take- here,

I got the chickens.

Can you still get the duck or shall I take...

I'll have to come back for the duck.

What do you think?

You like it.

Are you good boys.

Come on, let's go see Robert.

I know this sounds crazy,

but I just got carried away.

I couldn't resist these...

These are miniature horses.

Aren't they small? Aren't they?

I was gonna only take one,

but then I figured they'd get lonely

and if you have one,

you might as well have two.

Anyway, the goat gives milk,

so that's not a waste.

And the chickens and the duck

will have eggs eventually.

And we can eat those and we'll

all live here at the park.

Well, we'll talk about it in a minute.

I'm gonna take these in and give

them a little food and some water.

It was really hot coming over.

It's going to be alright, Robert.

I'll talk in just a minute, okay.

- Have you got him?

- Yeah, I need a little hand with this one.

We're gonna stick you in the nice park.

Oh, you're gonna like this, you're gonna

like this, right in the shade.

We're gonna give you nice, fresh water.

Have you got the chickens?

Where's the duck?

Come on, boys. Come on.

Over here.

There you go.

Come on, chick-chick.

Come on, chickies.

Come on, out you go.

Can you get 'em?

Come on, you little rascal.

I don't know.

I don't know if this

is such a hot idea?

He didn't seem too

enthusiastic about my park.

I'm sure he thinks i'm crazy as a bed-bug.

What do you think?

I'm gonna get these little guys some water,

cool 'em off a little bit.

It's a plenty hot day.

Come on, oh i'm gonna show you

something nice, come on.

I'm gonna show you something

you haven't seen.

Gonna take you up to the high country.

You are such strong guys.

So delicate.

Gee, I hope i'm doing the right

thing for you fellas too.

Okay, just run, run. Run free.

Come on, Jim. This is it.

This is Lenny and this is Jim.

I need a drink.

Excuse me.

I'll take him.

Don't give me any trouble now,

don't give me any trouble now.

Dr. Williams?

Hi, i'm Robert Harmon.

So tell me, who is the patient?

Sarah had these two little

miniature horses,

and a goat,

and she didn't know that I was

going to respond so poorly

when she brought Lenny and Jim over,

so they couldn't find the duck and

the little chicks disappeared, so...

Excuse me, but where is she?

She's in here.

Don't be alarmed.

I'm Dr. Williams.

What seems to be the trouble?

I don't know who I am.

- Do you know where you are?

- Wait a minute, wait a minute.

Who am I, who am I?

Just a minute, just a minute.

Who am I? Who am I?

Am I your brother?

Am I your mother?

Am I Jim? Who am I?

Could you please step outside for a moment?

Here, take your bag.

We don't need you, alright.

I'll pay you your bill.

I'm sorry, goodbye, thank you.

Now just go.

Here is your bag, here it is.

Can I talk to you for a minute, please?

Come here.

Mr. Harmon, I think Sarah is in trouble.

Her eyes are not responding the way i'd

like them to, and her neck is stiff.

Now, you can do what you want, but i'd like

you to get her to see somebody if it's not me.

She's fine... thank you.

You're very welcome.

I'll let myself out.

Sarah, you're one of the greatest

people that i've ever met in my life.

I fed the horses.

I fed the goat.

You gotta get well. You're not sick.

I got chicken soup on and I put okra in it,

and I know you hate okra.

You're the best. You gotta fight it.

You're the best.

Nice hot cup of tea.

Come on, try this now.

Nice hot cup of tea, smell it.

You're crazy as a bed-bug.

You're not gonna make me laugh,

I don't have a sense of humor.

We'll see.

This is the most ridiculous,

crazy idea i've ever heard.

- You're pitiful.

- That's enough.

That is enough.

I want you to stand right there.

I want you to look right into my eyes.

You hear nothing but the sound of my voice.

Does my fox face mean anything to you?

Not funny.

Nevermind.

In 30 seconds, you are going

to be laughing helplessly.

You don't believe, huh, you wanna bet?

What do you bet?

A dollar.

Oh, cheapskate. What do you bet?

I'm the highroller,

i'm gonna bet, i'm gonna bet...

Love. I'm gonna bet the ultimate, okay.

First of all,

i'm going to give you a

drink of scotch and soda,

Want you to have a coca-cola.

Want you all to be in a very good mood.

But I don't care, I don't care.

I'm willing to take the chance.

Jack, what do you want?

Do you want mustard or ketchup?

Some people think that's my best joke, because

most people laugh just at the word ketchup.

Debbie, you open the peanut brittle, please.

While I show daddy this flower.

And here, i'm gonna put this up here.

Well you don't have a lapel,

but it smells nice anyway.

Anyway, i'm sorry, that was a dirty trick,

i'm gonna do something nice for ya.

You want some popcorn, sweetheart?

You want some popcorn?

I've got the popcorn.

I mean, it's real popcorn on a string.

How about the anniversary present?

Would I forget our anniversary, sweetheart?

It's a fancy pen.

Debbie, you think I forgot you?

I didn't.

Don't think I forgot you, Debbie,

cuz I never forget you.

And I know that the-

or at least last week,

it was your graduation,

and I know you like pearl earrings, don't you?

Come on, you like it?

I want to take a good look at both of you,

and I want to see what I see here.

I see twins, that's what I see. Twins.

You guys are a couple of- you really are.

A two of a pair.

This is for us.

Jack, this is for our old age.

Come over here and stand by daddy.

Over here, stand by dad.

I want to take your picture.

Mom, you're not funny.

Smile. Smile.

Hey Jack, look this way. Here you go.

That's it. Here we go.

Time is running up...

Are you ready? Here it goes.

Are you ready to laugh?

Just go inside.

We gotta get to Sarah's bedroom.

Come on, duckies.

I got the horses in,

and I couldn't get the goat.

I mean, the goat is just impossible.

You know, there are secrets women have.

A young girl...

And she comes up to you,

she's infatuated with you,

she always wants to tell you her secrets,

she volunteers them.

And she says:
"I've done some nude modeling",

you know, so the delicate balance

of that relationship won't break.

If you're in love with someone

and the woman keeps the secret,

doesn't give it to you,

doesn't offer it to you,

then that part of her is always dead to you.

I'm gonna get that goat.

You alright?

Oh good, you look wonderful.

You really do.

Wanna come out with me?

See the goat?

You promised me

that I would be the only one.

How I missed you.

Mama.

In love,

i'm not sure of...

of me.

And that, i'm not sure of...

of you.

I'm not sure of love.

I'm not sure of me,

of you.

Mama.

Let me know.

No, Debbie, don't go.

Come back, baby.

I love you.

She's a killer.

You know she'll kill you.

I love that face.

And I will be the only one...

to love that face.

The only one.

You promised me.

So I love that face.

I love you...

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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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