Thirteen Conversations About One Thing Page #5

Synopsis: A physics professor approaching middle age decides to change his life with unexpected results. A rising young prosecuting attorney's plans are thrown into disarray as the result of a single careless act while distracted. A woman reluctantly faces her husband's infidelity. An envious insurance claims manager with family problems seeks revenge on a cheerful coworker, but has second thoughts. And an optimistic young cleaning woman awaits a miracle, only to have her faith shaken by a traumatic event. These ordinary people all find themselves asking the fundamental question philosophers have pondered throughout history: What is happiness, and how does one achieve it?
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Jill Sprecher
Production: Sony Pictures Classics
  8 wins & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
74
Rotten Tomatoes:
83%
R
Year:
2001
104 min
$3,004,491
Website
375 Views


an ambulance.

Just when things seemed

have improved for him.

Came here, worked,

talked about his family.

The problem is that he had another wife

and children of another side of the Hudson.

He wanted everything and had everything.

Multiplied by two.

It's like the old Egyptian curse.

Whatever you want, you will.

Go ahead and take.

But pick and pay!

- Oh my God, Oh my God!

- What?

- Holy cow!

- Are you okay?

- I won, I won!

- In the lottery?

I won! I won!

Oh God, I have checked the numbers in this

newspaper for eight years, every day.

- How much? How much?

- Two million dollars!

- I can not believe!

- Congratulations!

- What will you do with so much money, man?

- Dunno.

Wait a minute! As I do not know what I'll do

with so much money?

Yes I know what I'll do!

I have to go back to work

one more day of my life.

I'll never set foot in this place

while I live!

Let me tell you one thing, Gene.

Listen here.

Take a good look.

This is how a winner looks like.

This is how it really looks like.

Take one last good look ...

because I'm fading away!

- Very good!

- Take care, man.

My God!

God exists, I assure you that.

"Wisdom comes suddenly."

I have good news.

My roommate ended with the

boyfriend. There is no need to change me.

That bastard took our TV.

How's work?

Mrs. Turner made

another complaint from me.

He said he broke one of

their statues.

B*tch.

When will you return?

I miss you. It is totally

strange when you're not there.

I do not know.

The agency said it can not go back

to remove the plaster.

She was lucky to be alive. The doctor

said it was by a miracle.

Someone was protecting.

How is the architect?

He stopped the service.

You know he does not want me

go without you.

Put the boxes with some

your stuff in your room.

And the rest I put in the garage.

For you.

I tried to find one that matched

with the original color of your hair.

Never thought I'd wear a wig.

- Thanks.

- Never mind.

It's good to have it back, baby.

- You have returned everything from the hospital?

- Just what was in her purse.

Some of the clothes you wore

were discarded.

- It's not missing anything, are you?

- No.

It can cause a fire here.

This is an old house.

I'm going down there, ok?

What a surprise.

Brought right back his shirt.

Sorry for the delay.

I heard about your accident.

I hope to return to

work soon.

Hey, the last time I was here,

I noticed when I arrived at work ...

I had left my watch in the sink.

He was a gift.

I put in the drawer for

not get wet. I'll show you.

Sorry, I forgot to put it

right back after they wiped.

Oh God.

Oh, sorry. I thought you ...

I mean. You know ...

What happened to you anyway?

A car hit me.

Why?

Because I was on the road.

She was going shopping.

Come in. Beatrice, her friend

here.

You live far away. Took

forever to get here.

There had to.

I have spent.

Had to talk to you because ...

dunno ...

Someone complained, someone made a

complaining of anything.

Certainly that was the b*tch from Mrs. Turner.

And now what will I do?

It is not fair.

- What?

- I said that life is not fair.

- You were right.

- Why do you say that?

Because it is so. The architect found

who had stolen his watch.

That guy is an idiot.

And you would never do something like that.

I should have caught.

Since I was accused.

I thought and thought why

I was hit by that car, and

because I was in that

corner at that moment.

Why that white shirt

flew from my hands?

then I discovered ...

what is wrong.

I just think ...

you never know what will

find around the corner.

Is what you say.

You are always telling me this.

They opened my eyes.

Can never return.

Things have changed.

You're different.

I'm not different.

I'm like anybody else.

"I can never get back."

Me and some friends I met in the elevator

let's have a drink. Want to come?

No thanks.

I have a lot to do.

People are starting to thee

San call Troy in the back.

Your last chance to accept the

provision offered by the supervisor.

Otherwise the case

will go to trial.

Your Honor, my client keeps

his declaration of innocence.

- When is the sentence?

- Next Monday.

This is hard to judge. It seems that

will condemn it.

Probably.

Took the life of a person.

It has to be punished.

As you think?

All day. In what is?

The guy who killed him.

I had achieved a

job interview.

But it was raining.

The trains were crowded.

They spent three trains and

I could not catch one.

After a while, I saw that

I had lost my chance.

It was then that I was behind

steal the camera.

I did not want to hurt that guy.

You know what I say to myself

same every single day?

I say:
If it had not rained.

If it had not rained.

"The mind is its home."

I can not find anything wrong

physically on you.

That the symptoms described, I suspect

that was a panic attack.

It makes no sense. I do not usually

have panic.

Had changes in

your life recently?

- Yes, some.

- E?

Were mostly positive.

I still feel dissatisfied.

As there was something missing.

I wonder;

Is that all?

Exists, nothing more.

What are you looking for?

Not sure anymore.

Sometimes I look at the faces

of my students e. ..

marvel at how

enthusiasm to live,

when they learn something new.

Enato should feel satisfied

when teaching, no?

Not the same thing.

I got it.

- Can I talk to you?

- My day consultation is the second until 5:00.

I was wondering if I could

redo my test.

Not as good as I could.

Still not finished fixing them. Maybe

has gone better than you think.

It is very important. I have to pass this

takes to go to medical school.

You spend most of the time

in class trying to get attention.

Often arrives late.

You make certain choices.

Have to live with the consequences.

There are things happening in my life.

Personal problems.

I'm not sleeping right.

My girlfriend and I broke up.

Cause effect.

The third law of motion.

- Professor Tate is?

- Do not come today.

He had a kind of

family emergency.

I understand. Thanks.

Not working. Indeed it is

causing the opposite effect.

I can prescribe something else,

but do not know if the answer is

what you are looking for.

Perserso is not? People are

year rolling their minds

educating themselves and in the end

just want to stagger them.

Another night I found myself in front

my old apartment.

She had not been there since

My wife and I separated.

You were happier there?

- I intended, I guess.

- Why leave?

Always seen as the satisfaction

a form of resignation.

I accept things as they are.

It means giving up.

I'm not ready to surrender.

Maybe I'll come back.

I can not say now, but know I'll see

my wife back there.

All my stuff

are still there.

We can determine the extension

"R" in this equation.

An object projected horizontally

reach the ground at the same instant

that a free fall of the same height.

- Even if one of them is significant ...

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