Boys on the Side Page #5

Synopsis: After breaking up with her girlfriend, a nightclub singer, Jane (Whoopi Goldberg), answers a personal ad from Robin (Mary-Louise Parker), a real estate agent with AIDS, seeking a cross-country travel partner. On their journey from New York City to Los Angeles, the two stop by Pittsburgh to pick up Robin's friend Holly (Drew Barrymore), who is trying to escape an abusive relationship. With three distinct personalities, the women must overcome their differences to help one another.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Production: Warner Home Video
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
61
Rotten Tomatoes:
73%
R
Year:
1995
115 min
1,109 Views


JANE:

What the f*** is wrong with you? Are you crazy?!

HOLLY:

Did I hurt him?

JANE:

What do you mean "Did I hurt him?" You hit him with a

bat! I'm gonna call the cops, okay?

NICK:

Oh f***...

HOLLY:

He's alive.

JANE:

Give me the bat! Give it to me right now!

NICK:

I'm gonna kill you, Holly. I'm gonna f***in' kill

you...

JANE:

No!

ROBIN:

Time out! Nobody move. Jane, give me the bat,

please. Holly, don't tease him. And Nick, you have

some real like ability issues. Now who has tape?

SCENE 21

JANE:

I do not feel good about this.

ROBIN:

Oh, what would you like to do? Call the police?

They'll arrest them both. There's drugs everywhere.

JANE:

What are you doing?

HOLLY:

Oh, nothing.

JANE:

What are you doing?

HOLLY:

Just the cash. I'm clean.

JANE:

No. We're not taking drug money on the road. Put it

back.

HOLLY:

Well, it's not like you can tell by looking at it.

JANE:

Okay, you have a point. We'll just take half. All

right? And, we are not taking drugs with us on the

road with us either, so give them here. Thank you.

HOLLY:

You're welcome.

ROBIN:

Okay. We'll take the gag off when we leave and there

will be four hours of loud music, after which point

you'll will scream for help. Meanwhile, work on the

tape. Okay? Phone's in the kitchen. Water.

JANE:

Yeah.

ROBIN:

Thanks, hon. Right here. Everyone go potty, we don't

want to have to stop!

HOLLY:

I went.

JANE:

Look what she's doing!

ROBIN:

Don't tease the animal! Come on. Go! Go! Go!

NICK:

I'm gonna kill you Holly! I'm gonna kill you! Holly!

ROBIN:

Let's go! Don't worry. I feel really firmly about

it. All right, buckle up!

JANE:

Would you close the door!

SCENE 22

JANE:

I am not going over a cliff for you two, so just

forget it.

SCENE 23Nick frees himself from the tape.

SCENE 24

HOLLY:

I've got some friends in St. Louis. You remember

Linda. I can stay with her. So, where are you guys

going?

ROBIN:

Los Angeles, then San Diego.

JANE:

Yeah, and you're not coming.

HOLLY:

Bummer.

JANE:

Listen. Why did you stay with this guy so long?

HOLLY:

A lot of that back there was drugs. You know, they

really f*** him up.

ROBIN:

But he's a really nice guy underneath?

HOLLY:

Well, I wouldn't go that far.

JANE:

It's the sex. Come on, let's be frank, okay. He was

great in bed. Am I right?

HOLLY:

Sometimes. I don't know, I mean, I think that there's

something beyond sex.

JANE:

Yeah, me.

HOLLY:

Well, I don't know, but I certainly didn't like his

attitude and I'm going to think long and hard before I

take him back.

JANE:

You go, girl.

SCENE 25

ANSWER:

MACHINE:

"Hi, you've reached Nick and Holly. Leave a message

after the beep and we'll get back to you."

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Don Roos

Don Roos was born on April 14, 1955 in New York, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Marley & Me (2008), The Opposite of Sex (1998) and Bounce (2000). He is married to Dan Bucatinsky. They have two children. more…

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