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Synopsis: The Last 5 Years by Tony award winning composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown is a musical deconstruction of a love affair and a marriage taking place over a five year period. Jamie Wellerstein is a young, talented up and coming Jewish novelist who falls in love with Cathy Hiatt, a Shiksa Goddess struggling actress. Their story is told almost entirely through songs using an intercutting time line device; all of Cathy's songs begin at the end of their marriage and move backwards in time to the beginning of their love affair while Jamie's songs start at the beginning of their affair and move forward to the end of their marriage. They meet in the center when Jamie proposes.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Director(s): Richard LaGravenese
Production: Radius-TWC
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.9
Metacritic:
60
Rotten Tomatoes:
59%
PG-13
Year:
2014
94 min
Website
3,289 Views


Take me inside you

I promise

I won't lie to you

Hold on

Don't cry yet

I won't let you go

All right

The panic recedes

All right

Everyone bleeds

All right

I get what I need

And nobody needs

To know

Nobody needs

To know

And since I have to be

in love with someone

Since I need to be in love with someone

Maybe I could be in love with someone

Like you

Don't kiss me goodbye again

Leave this night clean and quiet

You want the last word

You want me to laugh

But leave it for now

All you can say

All you can feel

Was wrapped up inside

that one perfect kiss

Leave it at that

I'll watch you turn the corner and go

And goodbye until tomorrow

Goodbye until the next time you call

And I will be waiting

I will be waiting

Goodbye until tomorrow

Goodbye till I recall how to breathe

And I have been waiting

I have been waiting for you

I stand on a precipice

I struggle to keep my balance

I open myself

I open myself one stitch at a time

Finally yes

Finally now

Finally something takes me away

Finally free

Finally he can cut through these strings

And open my wings

So goodbye until tomorrow

Goodbye until my feet touch the floor

And I will be waiting I will be waiting

Goodbye until tomorrow

Goodbye until the rest of my life

And I have been waiting

I have been waiting for you

Waiting for you

I called Alise to help me pack my bags

I went downtown

and closed the bank account

It's not about another shrink

It's not about another compromise

I'm not the only one who's hurting here

I don't know what the hell is left to do

You never saw how far

the crack had opened

You never knew I had run out of rope

And I could never rescue you

All you ever wanted

But I could never rescue you

No matter how I tried

All I could do

Was love you hard

And let you go

No matter how I tried

All I could do

Was love you

God, I loved you so

So we could fight

Or we could wait

- Or I could go

- Goodbye until tomorrow

Goodbye until I crawl to your door

And I will be waiting

I will be waiting

You never noticed

how the wind had changed

Goodbye until tomorrow

I didn't see a way we both could win

Goodbye until I'm done thanking God

And I have been waiting

I have been waiting for you

Goodbye, Cathy

I have been waiting

I have been waiting for you

Goodbye

I will keep waiting

I will keep waiting for you

Just close the gate

I'll stand and wait

Jamie

- Goodbye

- Goodbye

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Richard LaGravenese

Richard LaGravenese (born October 30, 1959) is an American screenwriter and film director, best known as the writer of The Fisher King. more…

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