The Last Days of Disco
- R
- Year:
- 1998
- 113 min
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1
- [ Disco]
- [ Phone Line Ringing]
- [ Man] Hello?
- [ Woman] Hi, honey. It's me.
- [ Continues]
- I went to see the doctor today.
'Cause ever since you've been gone,
I had a pain deep down inside.
- [ Women Vocalizing]
- He says there's nothing really wrong with me.
I'm just missing my man.
So, honey, please...
come on home as soon as you can.
Doctor's orders
Say there's only one thing for me
Nothing he can do
'Cause only you can cure me
Says in my condition
I heard you have a much better chance
of getting in if you come by cab.
- You're really worried about getting in?
- Yes.
I thought you'd been here
several times before.
Not the front way.
They were private parties. We came in the back.
We look really good tonight.
I'm sure we're gonna get in.
- [ Continues]
- [ Chattering]
[ Man]
Van.
- [ Woman] Van.
- [ Man] Van, here.
Let's get a cab.
Maybe you're right.
When we get out, don't stop where the crowd is.
- When we get out, we just follow you in.
- Yeah.
- Why don't you put this on.
- What?
- Just until we get inside.
- I don't get it.
- [ Man] Van. Right here.
- [ Man #2] Here, Van.
[ Continues]
Uh, we're all together.
- Van.
- Only him.
We're together.
Come on, Van. This is important.
These are my friends.
You can go in, but they'll have to wait.
Hey, nice coat.
[ Continues]
Don't worry, Jimmy. We don't care.
- I can't believe it.
- Yeah. What an a**hole.
You know, that had nothing to do with you guys.
Van just wanted to put me in my place.
- Apparently it happens all the time.
- Jerk.
- It's happened to you before?
- No, but it was overdue.
- None of us really wanted to go anyway.
- Yeah. We're exhausted.
No, I really wanted to go.
[ Continues]
There's Jimmy Steinway.
I can't believe it.
He's already leaving?
You like him?
I could never be interested
in anyone who worked in advertising.
God, you were right.
This place has gotten really hard to get into.
Who's the other guy
you were interested in?
[ Continues]
Doctor's orders
Say there's only one thing for me
[ Chuckling ]
Oh, God. We made it.
This is the last time I'm coming here.
I always wanted to be able to say I got into the club.
Of course we got in.
Who's the second guy you were interested in?
- Tom Platt.
- Oh, well, that's a lot better.
- How do you mean?
- Well, Tom Platt's smart and somewhat cool.
A lawyer involved in environmental causes.
Not to mention tall, dark and handsome.
Every daY
A lovin' spoonful to be taken
It's the only way
To stop this empty heart of mine
from breakin'
Won't get better
- Till you're back again
- [ Man] Nina. Please, stop.
- He told me
- Nma.
Doctor's orders
- l need your loving arms
- [ Sobbing ]
Nina.
- Please, stop. Wh -
- [ Continues, Faint]
[Van ]
McGrath.
- Nina.
- [Van ] Come back here!
It's not what you think. I -
I think I'm gay.
What?
It's not possible.
[ Sobs, ]
How?
It's always been there, I guess.
I've only begun to acknowledge it now.
You really think you're gay?
- [ Man] Thanks.
- [ Man #2] Thank you.
I was just starting law school when the first
up-tempo Philadelphia International hits broke.
Some people don't consider that disco,
because it's good...
but I remember feeling
absolutely electrified.
- You feel electrified often.
- No, but this was different.
I loved the idea that there'd be all these
great places for people to go dancing...
after the terrible social wasteland
of our college years.
- [ Groans ]
- You've been to a lot of discos?
No. In fact, practically none.
For me, law school wasn't easy...
and I haven't had much of a social life
since coming to the city either, but...
I still consider myself a loyal adherent
to the disco movement.
- It's a movement?
- Sort of.
What I found terribly encouraging
was the idea...
that when the time in life came
to have a social life...
there'd be all these great places
for people to go to...
because, as you'll remember,
for many years, there were none.
- Yeah.
- What I didn't realize...
is that they'd get
so impossible to get into.
- [Man] Let's call it a night.
- No. Wait. I have an idea.
[ Man]
Hey, Jimmy. Here. Take this.
- [ Man #2] Jimmy.
- Thanks.
Jimmy.
[ Chattering ]
- Hi.
- Hi.
- Oh, you're Des's friend.
- Yeah. Hi.
[ Car Door Closes ]
Where are Marshall and Steve?
They've gone back to the hotel.
Jimmy, come on.
- I can't believe it.
- Jimmy. Let's go.
[ Disco]
- Your body, my body,
- They wanted me to apologize for them.
- They were really bushed.
- What a disaster.
- No.
- Everybody move your body)
- I can't believe it.
- Wow.
Everybody work your body
Your body, my body
Everybody work your body
- Do you like nightmares?
- No.
Well, I do.
It's not obviously connected, but...
I think that's what made me a little more
tolerant of the guys at Hampshire.
- What do you mean?
- You were a bit critical.
The guys there preferred women
more laid-back.
I'm laid-back.
Well, for whatever reason,
you didn't have much of a social life there.
I had a social life.
Just not one of those
terrible pretend marriages.
The Hampshire guys were jerks -
hippie-dippie suburbanites with all this hair...
and extremely dim intellectual interests.
I'm sorry. I don't consider the guy who did
the Spider-Man comics a serious writer.
Alice, one thing I've noticed
is that people hate being criticized.
Everyone hates that.
It's one of the great truths of human nature.
- [ Toilet Flushes ]
- I think it's why my parents got divorced.
I'm sorry. It's just that you're so terrific,
it makes me sick to think...
you might get in that terrible situation again,
where everyone hated you.
- Hated me?
- You're wonderful.
- [ Continues ]
- Maybe, in physical terms...
I'm a little cuter than you...
but you should be
much more popular than I am.
It'd be such a shame if what happened
in college repeated itself.
- [New Disco Song Starts ]
You're right.
I just think it's so important
to be in control of your own destiny.
Not to fall into that '50s clich
of waiting by the phone for guys to call.
Those who do, you have to make
the most ridiculous excuses to.
The nice ones get hurt feelings
and hate you.
The jerks inevitably corner you
into going out anyway.
Late at night you find yourself with
some awful guy with disgusting breath...
thrusting his belly up against you, trying to
stick his slobbering tongue in your mouth.
[ Groans ]
Thank God this is a whole new era
in music and social models.
[ Continues]
- Oh, what, wow,
- We're in complete control.
- He's the greatest dancer,
- Look down.
- Oh, what, wow,
- There are a lot of choices out there.
One night in a disco
[ Man] Fantastic. This place is better
than I could have imagined.
It's too bad Steve and Marshall didn't come.
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