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Synopsis: New York based jazz pianist Willie Conway heads back to his small hometown of Knights Ridge, Massachusetts for a high school reunion. The trip is as much to go to the reunion and see his old friends - none of whom left Knights Ridge after graduation - as it is to get away from his current life, at which he is at a crossroads both personally and professionally. He is just eking out a living with his piano playing gigs, and as such he is thinking about taking a sales job. He's also not sure if he's ready to marry his long time girlfriend, lawyer Tracy Stover. Most of Willie's Knights Ridge blue collar friends' best days were in high school, they still having that "trophy" mentality of girlfriends and wives. Only Michael "Mo" Morris is happily married with a family. Paul Kirkwood, whose room is plastered with magazine pictures of models, wants his waitress ex-girlfriend Jan back only because he knows now that he can't have her. And Tommy "Birdman" Rowland, who was the big man in high scho
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Ted Demme
Production: Miramax Films
  1 win & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Metacritic:
64
Rotten Tomatoes:
79%
R
Year:
1996
112 min
Website
899 Views


- I like those chicks.

Don't shovel much, do you?

- What makes you say that?

- Your technique, it's sloppy.

- You live in a city or warm climate.

- City.

You grew up here?

Yeah. Yeah.

- Don't visit much?

- Nope.

- Mom dead?

- You a cop?

No.

Yeah, my mother's dead.

I knew it. Your dad's

kind of a sad guy.

Your brother is kind of missing that

thing that having a mom gives you.

It's a lonely house you got.

What's your name?

- Marty.

- As in Martha?

As in Marty, named for a grandfather

I never even knew - Martin.

So now I'm Marty.

Just Marty. A girl named Marty.

It is the bane of my existence.

- How old are you?

- 13, but I'm an old soul.

So why did you come back?

Well...

My high school reunion.

- Heavy.

- Yeah.

- So what's your name?

- Willie.

Willie, I like your 'burns.

Thanks.

- You're kinda cool.

- How do you mean?

I don't know. It's just a call.

You don't think you are?

I...

I, um...

No, I... I think I am.

You are... I think.

- Yeah?

- Maybe not.

I'm gonna go.

Yeah, I'll see you around...

Marty.

Are you Victor?

Excuse me, is your name Victor?

See who's here?

- Sh*t.

- Are you Victor?

I'm looking for Victor

the meat cutter.

I hit a cow

and he could slice me some steaks.

- It's a waste to let it rot.

- You're not funny.

I'm serious, Jan.

I don't appreciate you burying my

driveway like some obsessed lunatic.

- OK. That's fair.

- What do you want?

- I wanna give you this.

- What is that?

- It's a rump roast. Come on.

- Paul...

Come on. At least open it.

- I really don't think I should.

- Do you believe this?

See what a man

has to go through for love?

It's beautiful, Paul. It's lovely.

- It's brown.

- Champagne. It's the newest thing.

It's not brown.

- Champagne? It's beautiful.

- Thank you.

- So what are you doing?

- I can't take it.

- Why not?

- I can't.

- Marry me, Jan.

- No.

- "No"? Just like that, "no"?

- No.

- Jesus Christ, Jan!

- You're so selfish.

Selfish? Let me explain something.

What's in this box constitutes

We're taking some time.

This screws everything up.

- Paul. What are you doing?

- Chip, cut me some slack.

- You're making a spectacle.

- It's her fault.

Jan? Outside.

- Look, take this ring.

- I got customers, Paul.

- Jan.

- Paul.

Take the f***ing ring!

- That's romantic!

- You sucked the romance out.

This is the desperate act

of a desperate man.

Only when faced with losing me

do you decide to do this.

So? I didn't like the alternative.

That's how one comes to a decision.

Wrong. One comes to a decision

based on what one wants,

not what one doesn't want, got it?

I got customers.

So how's everything at home?

It's all right. It's a little weird.

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Scott Rosenberg

Scott Mitchell Rosenberg is an American film, television, and comic book producer. He is the chairman of Platinum Studios, an entertainment company that controls a library of comic-book characters and adapts them for film, television and other media. He is also the former founder and president of Malibu Comics, and is a former senior executive vice president for Marvel Comics. more…

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