Addicted to Love Page #2

Synopsis: Good-natured astronomer Sam is devastated when the love of his life, Linda, leaves him for a suave Frenchman named Anton. He therefore does what every other normal dumpee would do; go to New York and set up home in the abandoned building opposite his ex-girlfriend's apartment, intent on winning her back and waiting until she decides to leave her current lover. What Sam does not count on is being joined several weeks later by ultra hip tomboy Maggie, a photographer and motor-cyclist who is determined to get revenge on Anton, her ex-fiance. Hostile at first, the two of them eventually join forces in an attempt to separate the couple, and ruin Anton's life. However, complications ensue when Sam and Maggie start falling for each other.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Griffin Dunne
Production: Warner Home Video
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.1
Metacritic:
49
Rotten Tomatoes:
55%
R
Year:
1997
100 min
817 Views


What is all this stuff?

Bugging equipment, cactus.

Like listening bugging?

Bugging who?

Take a wild guess.

Why would anyone want to do that?

'Cause I want to hear|What goes on in there.

Don't you want to hear|What goes on in there?

No, I do not.

Why not?

'Cause that would be|an invasion of her privacy.

Excuse me, Mr. Video.

That's not a video.

It's a camera obscura.

It's pure light.

I'm not spying.

I just want to be with her.

That's completely different.

I know how you feel.

You want him back so badly|that you can't stand it.

It's like your guts|are twisting around inside.

But bugging their apartment...

What?

I don't want him back.|I want him vaporized.

Extinguished!

When I'm done with him...

...he'll be a twitchy little stain on the floor.

Is that what you're doing?

You're waiting|for her to leave him for you?

Absolutely.

Have you seen him?

He is irrelevant.|Linda and I are soul mates.

This is just a passing phase.

They're going to break up tonight.|I know it.

I'm listening.

I'm an astronomer.

It's my job to find patterns in things...

...that seem completely random.

I found a pattern.

It's all in the data.

The data.

This data.

"Mutual feeding activity. "

It's the number of times|that Linda and what's-his-name...

...feed each other.

You're counting.

Not just that. Everything.

Kisses, hugs, smiles, fights.

They fight?

Not yet.

Long looks, whispering, shouting.

They shout?

You're missing the point.

Tonight there's going to be a fight.

They are going to break up...

...and I'm going to be right here for her.

Tonight this will all be over...

...so you might as well start packing|your bags.

That is the most pathetic thing|I've ever heard.

I don't mean that trivially.

I'm a photographer.|I've seen a lot of things.

I once took pictures|of a man who ate his own legs...

...and you would be the black sheep|of that family.

What's your evil plan?|Squirt him with squirt guns?

Throw rotten strawberries at him?

You looked in my satchel?

Yeah. Call a cop.

You are a strange, tragic little man.

Say what you want.|Linda and I are in love.

Except for her boning my boyfriend...

...you guys are the perfect couple.

Listen, Catwoman, at the end of the day...

...she is coming back to me,|and we're going to be happy.

And where are you going to be?

All alone somewhere,|hatching some little revenge scheme.

Let me tell you something, Sam.

Listen very carefully. Are you listening?

The only way that girl|is coming back to you...

...is if a blast of semen catapults her...

...across the street|and through the window.

I want you out.

Not going to happen.

I was here first.

Put me down for half the rent|and get out of my face.

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Robert Gordon

Robert Gordon is an American screenwriter and producer. His writing credits consist of Addicted to Love (1997), Galaxy Quest (1999), Men in Black II (2002), and Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004). He also was an associate producer on Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004). more…

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