Breaking Up Page #2

Synopsis: Monica teaches, Steve's a photographer. They've dated more than two years. They're arguing, and she leaves for her apartment, only to return in a few minutes to say they should stop seeing each other. A few days later, they're back together, but within two hours, he takes offense at an off-hand remark, and the separation starts in earnest. They see other people, then, out of the blue, Steve asks Monica to marry him. She says yes, and a time of ecstasy begins: they interview strangers, asking them what makes a marriage work, and she moves in with him. Then comes the wedding, and when Steve freezes, anger rends the relationship again. Can harmony return?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Robert Greenwald
Production: WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES
 
IMDB:
4.9
R
Year:
1997
90 min
968 Views


I'm not gonna tell you again.

All right? It's not important. Okay?

Go back to whatever

you're doing. It's fine.

Okay, yeah.

Bye.

Yeah.

Bye.

I called you because

I wanted to see you!

Don't move.

Don't move.

Come on, please,

please. Don't move.

Stay, stay, stay.

- Your leg.

- What?

- Your leg.

- What leg?

- This one.

- I can't feel it. Where is it?

Here.

Is that my leg?

Yes, that's your leg.

Jesus, my whole body.

What do you do to me?

Drugs.

- We didn't do any drugs, did we?

- No.

- Did we have a lot to drink?

- We didn't have anything to drink.

At dinner?

- We didn't go to dinner.

- I thought we were going to dinner.

We didn't make it.

Then all this...?

You mean, all this

is just from the sex?

- We must've been really horny.

- Yeah, I guess so.

It's amazing, isn't it?

Everything else is falling apart.

I mean, with us.

And the sex is getting better.

I don't want to talk

about it, all right?

In the beginning,

it was really terrible.

I mean, the sex.

- Do you remember how bad it was?

- No.

F***ing amateurs.

I thought we'd never get it right.

I was just making an observation.

As the relationship has deteriorated...

- I got it.

...we f*** like monkeys.

Where do you want to eat?

What?

I thought we were going to dinner.

- Now?

- Yeah, now. It's not that late.

It's not... It's not that it's late. I...

- I'm starving, honey. Aren't you hungry?

- Yeah, I could eat.

- I don't know.

- Well?

What's the problem? I thought

you said you wanted to go to dinner.

But that was before.

- Before what?

- Before this.

Yeah.

But we would have

ended up in a bed anyway.

Now that it's out of the way,

it's better.

Takes the pressure off

the rest of the evening.

Why do you say things like that?

- Like what?

- "Takes the pressure off."

What does that mean?

I don't know.

I thought you were...

...ecstatically happy to see me.

- And I was. I am.

So?

- So, what?

- So maybe that means something.

Would you pass me that bowl?

Thank you.

Like maybe we should

be seeing each other again.

- I thought we were breaking up.

- Well...

What do you think?

We shouldn't talk like it

was a trip to the dentist.

- It was good.

- Something to get out of the way.

I didn't mean it like that.

- Why did you say it like that?

- Because.

What?

When we were going out

to dinner or something...

...it was always better if we,

you know, had sex before we went out.

For me, it was better.

Why?

I don't know. I just always

had a better time.

- In bed?

- No.

At dinner or wherever we went after.

I don't get it.

It's not important.

You really gotta let me buy the wine.

Didn't I leave a half a dozen

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Michael Cristofer

Michael Ivan Cristofer (born January 22, 1945) is an American playwright, filmmaker and actor. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play for The Shadow Box in 1977. more…

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