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Expressing Feelings in Difficult Situations
Jonah Baldwin
He's not sane enough to judge anything. Now he's kissing her on the lips. She's a ho! My dad's been captured by a ho! What am I going to do?
Dr. Marcia Fieldstone
Jonah, calm down. Tomorrow, when you're sitting down to breakfast, tell him how you feel. It's not good to keep your feelings inside you.
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The Nature of Destiny and Accident
Annie Reed
Destiny is something we've invented because we can't stand the fact that everything that happens is accidental.
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The Search for an Unknown Connection
Taglines
What if someone you never met, someone you never saw, someone you never knew was the only someone for you?
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The Challenge of Finding Love Over 40
Co-Worker
It's easier to be killed by a terrorist than it is to find a husband over the age of 40!
Annie
That statistic is not true!
Becky
That's right it's not true, but it feels true.
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Meeting at the Empire State Building
Sam Baldwin
She wants to meet me at the top of the Empire State Building. On Valentine's Day.
[about Annie]
Suzy
It's like that movie.
Sam Baldwin
What movie?
Suzy
]. Did you ever see it? ] and ]. She's gonna meet him at the top of the Empire State Building... only she got hit by a taxi. And he waited and waited. And it was raining, I think. And then... she's too proud to tell him... that she's, uh... crippled. And he's too proud to find out why she doesn't come. But he comes to see her anyway. I forget why, but, oh... Oh, it's so amazing when he comes to see her because... he doesn't even notice that she doesn't get up to say hello. And he's very bitter. And you think that he's just gonna walk out the door... and never know why she's just lying there, you know, on the couch... with this blanket over her shriveled little legs.
[[w:An Affair To Remember|An Affair To Remember; [Cary Grant; [w:Deborah Kerr|Deborah Kerr; starts to cry; crying more; sobbing]
Jonah Baldwin
Are you all right?
Greg
She's fine.
Suzy
Suddenly he goes, "I already sold the painting." And he like goes to the bedroom... and he looks and he comes out and he looks at her and he kind of just... They know and then they hug. And it's so...
[trails off crying]
Sam Baldwin
Well I'm not looking for a mail-order bride! I just want somebody I can have a decent conversation with over dinner. Without it falling down into weepy tears over some movie!
Greg
She's, as you just saw, very emotional.
Sam Baldwin
Although I cried at the end of ].
[[w:The Dirty Dozen|The Dirty Dozen]
Greg
Who didn't?
Sam Baldwin
] was throwing these hand grenades down these airshafts. And ] and ] were sitting on top of this armored personnel carrier, dressed up like Nazis...
[[Jim Brown; [w:Richard Jaeckel|Richard Jaeckel; [w:Lee Marvin|Lee Marvin; Begins to cry]
Greg
Stop, stop!
[Crying too]
Sam Baldwin
And ]...
[[w:Trini Lopez|Trini Lopez]
Greg
Yes, Trini Lopez!
Sam Baldwin
He busted his neck while they were parachuting down behind the Nazi lines...
Greg
Stop.
Sam Baldwin
And Richard Jaeckel - at the beginning he had on this shiny helmet...
Greg
Please no more. Oh God! I loved that movie.
[Crying harder]
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A Moment of Connection on the Pier
Barbara
I was in Atlantic City with my family. Cliff was a waiter. He wasn't even supposed to work that night, and suppose he hadn't? He asked me to take a midnight walk on the Steel Pier. I've probably told you this a million times, but I don't care. And then he held my hand. At one point I looked down and I couldn't tell which fingers were his and which were mine. And I knew.
Annie Reed
What?
Barbara
You know.
Annie Reed
What?
Barbara
Magic. It was magic.
Annie Reed
Magic.
Barbara
I knew we would be together forever, and that everything would be wonderful, just the way you feel about Walter. Walter. It's quite a formal name, isn't it?
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Discussing Relationships and Expectations
Jonah Baldwin
If you get a new wife, I guess you'll get to have sex with her, huh?
Sam Baldwin
I certainly hope so.
Jonah Baldwin
Will she scratch up your back?
Sam Baldwin
What?
[shocked]
Jonah Baldwin
In the movies, women are always scratching up the men's back and screaming and stuff when they're having sex.
Sam Baldwin
How do you know all this?
Jonah Baldwin
Jessica's got cable.
Sam Baldwin
Oh.
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Navigating Challenges in Father-Son Relationships
Sam Baldwin
Look, we had a tough time at first, but we're dealing with it. Jonah and I will get along fine again...as soon as I break his radio.
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A Child's Plea for Understanding
Jonah Baldwin
Shut up, shut up?! Mom never said shut up to me! Mom never yelled at me!
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The Overrated Nature of Verbal Ability
Becky
Verbal ability is a highly overrated thing in a guy, and it's our pathetic need for it that gets us into so much trouble.
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Navigating Relationships and Personal Connections
Sam Baldwin
Jonah, listen to me. You don't know Victoria. I hardly know her myself. She is a fat mystery to me. She tosses her hair a lot. Why does she do this? I have no idea. Is it a twitch? Does she need a haircut? Should she use a barrette to keep her hair out of her face? These are things I'm willing to get to the bottom of. And that is why... I am DATING her. That's all I'm doing. I'm not living with her. I'm not marrying her. Can you appreciate the difference? This is what single people do. They try other people on and see how they fit. But everybody's an adjustment. Nobody's perfect. There's no such thing as a perfect...
[Annie walks in. Sam sees her for the first time, loses his train of thought, and stops talking]
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Moving On and Healing After Loss
Sam Baldwin
Move on. Right. That's what I'm going to do. In a few months, I'll be fine, I'll just grow a new heart.
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Casual Dating Preferences and Modern Expectations
Sam Baldwin
I'd much rather just see somebody I like, and get a feeling about them, and ask them if they want to have a drink.
Jonah Baldwin
Or a slice of pizza --
Sam Baldwin
Not dinner. Not necessarily on the first date because halfway through dinner you could be really sorry you asked them to dinner. Whereas if it's just a drink, if you like them you can always ask them for dinner but if not, you can just say, "Well, that was great," and then you go home. If you see what I mean. I wonder if it still works this way.
[beat]
Jonah Baldwin
It doesn't. They ask you.
Sam Baldwin
I'm starting to notice that.
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Father and son discuss upcoming plans
Sam Baldwin
I'm leaving first thing in the morning, but I'm only gonna be gone one night. Clarisse is gonna be here. So, you'll be able to see plenty of Geraldo and Nightmare on Elm Street, 12 I will never know.
Jonah Baldwin
Are you going with her?
Sam Baldwin
I'm going with Victoria. Yes.
Sam Baldwin
Don't try anything tricky, understand?
Jonah Baldwin
Don't go rolling in poison ivy as soon as I leave the house. You lock yourself in a closet or do anything, make sure you'll need stitches. If your finger falls off, it's staying off. No one's gonna pack it on ice and take you to the hospital, so you can be a breakthrough in laser surgery. Is this about that woman in Baltimore?
[walks to Jonah's room]
Jonah Baldwin
Annie.
Jonah Baldwin
I don't care what you do!
Sam Baldwin
Good! Fine! I'll tell you what I'm doing this weekend, I'm getting laid. It's the 1990's and nobody's getting laid. I'm the only man in America who's getting laid this weekend and I haven't been laid that much. Six girls in college, maybe seven. How long have you been standing there?
[sees Jonah standing in the doorway]
Jonah Baldwin
Forever.
Sam Baldwin
What did you just hear me say?
Jonah Baldwin
Six girls in college, maybe seven.
Sam Baldwin
Seven... EIGHT! Mary Kelly.
Jonah Baldwin
This is the one I like!
[holds Annie's letter]
Sam Baldwin
Jonah, the fact is, you're not gonna like any woman, because that isn't your mother.
Jonah Baldwin
How do you know?! What's wrong with Annie?!
Sam Baldwin
Oh, Jonah, shut up!
Jonah Baldwin
Shut up? Shut up?! Mom never said "shut up" to me! Mom never yelled at me!
Sam Baldwin
This conversation is finished.
Jonah Baldwin
Why can't we go to New York?
Sam Baldwin
There is no way that we're going on a plane to meet some woman who could be a crazy, sick lunatic! Didn't you see ]?
[[w:Fatal Attraction|Fatal Attraction]
Jonah Baldwin
You wouldn't let me!
Sam Baldwin
Well I saw it and it scared the shit out of me! It scared the shit out of every man in America!
Jonah Baldwin
I'm not leaving until you say "yes".
Jonah Baldwin
I hate you, I hate you, I hate you!
Sam Baldwin
That's good, you'll have a lot to tell Oprah how your Dad destroyed your life because he had to go off for a weekend special at the Holiday Inn!
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Misunderstanding Titles in Conversation
Jonah Baldwin
Talk to her, dad. She's a doctor.
[about Dr. Marcia Fieldstone]
Sam Baldwin
Of what? Her first name could be Doctor.
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Expectations in Love and Marriage
Walter
Look, Annie... I love you. But let's leave that out of this. I don't want to be someone that you're settling for. I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn't it?
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The Journey of Moving Forward After Loss
Dr. Marcia Fieldstone
People who truly loved once are far more likely to love again. Sam, do you think there's someone out there you could love as much as your wife?
Sam Baldwin
Well, Dr. Marcia Fieldstone, that's hard to imagine.
Dr. Marcia Fieldstone
What are you going to do?
Sam Baldwin
Well, I'm gonna get out of bed every morning... breathe in and out all day long. Then, after a while I won't have to remind myself to get out of bed every morning and breathe in and out... and, then after a while, I won't have to think about how I had it great and perfect for a while.
Dr. Marcia Fieldstone
Tell me what was so special about your wife?
Sam Baldwin
Well, how long is your program? Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together... and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home... only to no home I'd ever known... I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic.
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Expectations of Attraction in Relationships
Jay
That's what I'm trying to tell you, what women are looking for: pecs and a cute butt.
Sam Baldwin
You mean like, "He has the cutest butt"?
Jay
Yeah.
Sam Baldwin
Where did I hear that recently?
Jay
Everywhere. You can't even turn on the news nowadays without hearing about how some babe thought some guy's butt was cute. Who the first woman to say this was, I don't know, but somehow it caught on.
Sam Baldwin
So how's my butt?
Jay
Not bad.
Sam Baldwin
Really?
Jay
Yeah.
Sam Baldwin
Is it cute, though?
Jay
I don't know. Are we grading on a curve?
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The Illusion of Movie Love
Annie Reed
Now that was when people KNEW how to be in love. They knew it! Time, distance... nothing could separate them because they knew. It was right. It was real. It was...
[about An Affair to Remember]
Becky
A movie! That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.
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The Unfairness of Loss and Grief
Sam Baldwin
Mommy got sick. And it happened just like that. There was nothing anybody could do. It isn't fair. There's no reason. But if we start asking why, we'll go crazy.
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