Name: Swingers
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: 1996-10-18
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn, Ron Livingston, Patrick Van Horn, Alex Désert

Swingers

Preference for Scotch in a Bar

Mike Peters I'll have a scotch on the rocks, please. Any scotch will do, as long as it's not a blend, of course. Single malt, Glen Livet, Glen Galley, perhaps, any Glen.

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Swingers

Embrace the Nightlife Experience

Taglines Get a nightlife.

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Embracing the Future Beyond the Past

Rob You don't look at the things that you have, you only look at the stuff that you don't have. Those guys are right. You're money.

Mike Then why won't she call?

Rob She won't call because you left. She's got her own life to deal with and that's in New York. She's a sweet girl and I love her to pieces, but fuck her, man. You got to get on with your life. You've got to let go of the past Mikey, and when you do, the future is beautiful. Alright? Look out the window. It's sunny every day here. It's like manifest destiny. Don't tell me we didn't make it. We made it. We're here. And everything that is past is prologue to this, all the shit that didn't kill us is only - ya know, all that shit... You're gonna get over it.

Mike How did you get over it? I mean, how long did it take you?

Rob I don't know, man. Sometimes it still hurts. I don't know, man. It's like you wake up every day and it hurts a little less, and then you wake up one day and it doesn't hurt at all. And it's like, and this might sound a little weird, but it's like you almost miss that pain.

Mike You miss the pain?

Rob Yeah. For the same reason you miss her... Because you lived with it for so long.

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Swingers

Confidence in Attraction and Socializing

Taglines There ain't nothing wrong with letting a girl know that you're money, and that you want to party.

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Quiche Joke in a Casual Encounter

Lorraine Hi, Mike, I'm Lorraine.

Mike Like the quiche.

Lorraine Yeah, yeah, the quiche. That's a really original joke.

Mike I like quiche. How's that?

Lorraine Yeah? Well, I thought real men didn't like quiche.

Mike Yeah, well, my reputation seems to have preceded me here.

Lorraine You're not a real man?

Mike Not lately, no.

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Swingers

A Conversation About Winning and Losing

Mike You shouldn't be sorry, you're a winner. I'm the fucking loser. I'm the one who should be sorry.

Trent Baby don't talk that way.

Mike Can we just go, please, can we go?

Trent Baby look at me, look at me. You're money, and you know what else? You're a big winner tonight.

Mike I want to leave.

Trent You're a big winner. I'm gonna ask you a simple question and I want you to listen to me: who's the big winner here tonight at the casino? Huh? Mikey, that's who. Mikey's the big winner. Mikey wins.

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Swingers

Recognizing Your Own Worth

Taglines You're money and you don't even know it!

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Reality Check in Swingers

Taglines This movie plays reality.

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Confronting Local Culture and Identity

Sue Just because I had the balls to stand up to those guys...

Trent Like fuckin ] was gonna do anything?

[[w:House of Pain|House of Pain]

Mike What the fuck are you carrying a gun for? What, in case somebody steps to you, Snoop Dogg?

Sue Hey man, you're not from here, alright. You don't know how it is. I grew up in L.A.

Trent Anaheim.

Sue Whatever, man. It's different out here. It's not like New York, Mikey. People get carjacked.

Trent Who's gonna carjack your fuckin K-Car? He's right Sue you don't need to carry a gat!

Mike Haven't you seen ]? Now one of us is going to get shot.

[[Boyz n the Hood]

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Swingers

Prioritizing Cocktails Over Questions

Taglines Cocktails first. Questions later.

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Frustration with Party Culture and Relationships

Mike Look, we're gonna spend half the night driving around the Hills looking for this one party and you're going to say it sucks and we're all gonna leave and then we're gonna go look for this other party. But all the parties and all the bars, they all suck. I spend half the night talking to some girl who's looking around the room to see if there's somebody else who's more important she should be talking to. And it's like I'm supposed to be all happy cause she's wearing a backpack, you know? And half of them are just nasty skanks who wouldn't be nothing except they're surrounded by a bunch of drunken horny assholes. And I'm gonna tell you something T. Are you listening?

Trent Yeah, I'm listening.

Mike I'm not gonna be one of those assholes. Alright? It just makes me sick. It's like, some nasty skank who isn't half the woman my girlfriend is, is gonna front me? It makes me want to fuckin puke!

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Contrasting Personalities in a Tense Moment

Trent You know what? You’re like a big bear with claws, with fangs-

Sue Big fucking teeth, man.

Trent With big fucking teeth on you. And she’s just like this little bunny, just kind of cowering in the corner-

Sue Shivering!

Trent Yeah, man. You got these claws, and you’re staring at these claws, man, and you’re thinkin’ how am I supposed to kill this bunny'.

Sue You’re pokin’ at it. You’re pokin’ at it.

Trent Yeah, you’re not hurting it. You’re just gently battin’ the bunny around. You know what I mean? The bunny’s scared, Mike. The bunny’s scared of you.

Sue And you got these fucking claws, man.

Trent You got these fucking claws and these fangs, man. And you’re looking at your claws and you’re lookin’ at your fangs and you’re thinkin’ to yourself, ‘I don’t know what to do’, man. ‘I don’t know how to kill the bunny. With this, I don’t know how to kill the bunnies’, man.

Sue You’re like a big bear, man.

Mike You're fucking with me.

Trent No I'm not fuckin with you...Mike, I'm tellin ya, you're money...Come here a second, listen. Now look it. When you go up to talk to her, man, I don't want you to be the guy in the PG-13 movie everyone's really hopin makes it happen. I want you to be like the guy in the rated R movie, you know, the guy you're not sure whether or not you like yet. You're not sure where he's coming from. Okay? You're a bad man. You're a bad man. You're a bad man. Bad man.

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Conflicting Advice on Relationships

Mike Okay, so what if I don't want to give up on her?

Rob You don't call.

Mike But you said I don't call if I wanted to give up on her.

Rob Right.

Mike So I don't call either way?

Rob Right.

Mike So what's the difference?

Rob There is no difference right now. See, Mike, the only difference between giving up and not giving up is if you take her back when she wants to come back. But you can't do anything to make her want to come back. In fact, you can only do stuff to make her not want to come back.

Mike So the only difference is if I forget about her or just pretend to forget about her?

Rob Right.

Mike Well that sucks.

Rob Yeah, it sucks.

Mike So it's just like a retroactive decision, then? I mean I could, like, forget about her and then when she comes back make like I just pretended to forget about her?

Rob Right. Although probably more likely the opposite.

Mike What do you mean?

Rob I mean at first you're going to pretend to forget about her, you'll not call her, I don't know, whatever... but then eventually, you really will forget about her.

Mike Well what if she comes back first?

Rob Mmmm... see, that's the thing, is somehow they know not to come back until you really forget.

Mike There's the rub.

Rob There's the rub.

Swingers

Timing for Making Phone Calls

Mike So how long do I wait to call?

Trent A day.

Mike Tomorrow.

Sue Tomorrow, then a day.

Trent Yeah.

Mike So two days?

Trent Yeah, I guess you could call it that, two days.

Sue Definitely, two days is like industry standard.

Trent You know I used to wait two days to call anybody, but now it's like everyone in town waits two days. So I think three days is kind of money. What do you think?

Sue Yeah, but two's enough not to look anxious.

Trent But I think three days is kind of money. You know because you...

Mike Yeah, but you know what, maybe I'll wait 3 weeks. How's that? And tell her I was cleaning out my wallet and I just happened to run into her number.

Charles Then ask her where you met her.

Mike Yeah, I'll ask her where I met her. I don't remember. What does she look like? And then I'll asked if we fucked. Is that... would that be... T, would that be the money?

Trent You know what. Ha ha ha Mike, laugh all you want but if you call too soon you might scare off a nice baby who's ready to party.

Mike Well how long are you guys gonna wait to call your babies?

Trent, Sue Six days.

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Anticipation of a Night Out

Trent They're gonna give daddy the ] suite, you dig that?

[[Rain Man]

Mike Do you think we'll get there by midnight?

Trent Baby, we're going to be up five hundy by midnight!

Mike Yeeeeaaaaahhhhhh!

Trent Vegas baby! Vegas!

Mike Vegas!

Swingers

Perceptions of Attractiveness in Nightlife

Trent I'm gonna find me two waitresses here and I'm gonna pull me a ].

[[w:Fredo Corleone|Fredo]

Mike Yeah, well they're all skanks.

Trent What are talking about? Look at all the beautiful babies here.

Mike The beautiful babies don't work the midnights-to-six on a Wednesday. This is the skank shift.

Trent Look at all the beautiful honeys here.

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Recognizing Self-Worth in Relationships

Trent Look, you take yourself out of the game, you start talking about puppy dogs and ice cream, of course its going to end up on the friendship tip.

Mike I just don't think she liked me.

Trent Baby you are so money and don't even know it.

Swingers Quotes

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