Changing Lanes Page #5

Synopsis: An attorney in a rush to make a court appointment to file legal papers involving a multi-million dollar trust accidentally collides with an alcoholic insurance salesman, who also is a rush for a court appointment involving the custody of his children. The attorney leaves the scene of the accident and strands the salesman, causing him to miss his custody hearing. During the process of the post-crash discussion, the attorney accidentally drops the papers he needs to present in court. The judge gives him until the end of the day to present the papers and thus begins a cat and mouse game between the proponents. A few questionable actions later on both parties' part, they finally start questioning their actions and their lives. In the end, both come to new understanding of what is important and appear to be set in new ethical and moral directions. Contains mild violence and profanity.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Roger Michell
Production: Paramount Pictures
  7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Metacritic:
69
Rotten Tomatoes:
77%
R
Year:
2002
98 min
$66,650,688
Website
1,036 Views


You said...

""Better luck next time,''

and just--

""Better luck next time''?

I said that?

Listen, sir, please.

I have no excuse for my behavior,

and I am sorry.

I don't know what I can do

to make it up to you, except--

I will buy you a new car.

Money. You think I want money?

What I want is my morning back.

I need you to give

my time back to me.

Can you give me back my time?

Can you give my time back to me?

Huh? Can you?

Whoa! Wait a minute!

Whoa! All right!

So she won't move to Oregon!

So she won't take the boys!

So they'll move into the house

so I can be a father!

Just 20 minutes!

Can you give me that?

I wish I could, man.

I wish I could.

I wish I could.

Wait a minute!

Wait. Do you have the file?

Doyle, you got the file?

Wait a minute! Doyle!

Wait a minute!

Doyle, do you have the file?

- I'm sorry!

- I don't have your file!

- I threw it away!

- What do you mean?

I threw it away!

- Hey, guys.

- How did it go?

Well, Kaufman did some tap dancing.

But once I filed the papers,

what was he gonna do?

The guy squeaked like a mouse.

I love it when they squeak.

We have the power of appointment,

so God's on our side.

Hey, I'm going over

to Southeast Harbor tomorrow...

to look at a boat.

Hinckley 51 .

Wow. Fifty-one footer, huh?

It's a tough life.

You are not quite ready

for a 51-footer yet.

Oh, right.

But as soon as

I take delivery on her...

I want you and Cynthia

to have China Bird.

- Steven, I don't know what to say.

- You don't have to say anything.

I'm saying thank you to my partner

and my son-in-law...

and my friend.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Thank you.

So I have a couple more interviews

I gotta bang out...

down the hall, so I'm gonna...

go back down there

and do some work.

Great.

All right, well, so long.

- See you.

- All right.

- How are you doing, Kate?

- Hey, Gavin.

- So, how'd it go?

- In and out. Easy-peasy.

- What kind of people have we here?

- This is Sarah Windsor.

Hello. It's a pleasure.

- Tyler Cohen.

- How are you? Who's up first?

- Miss Windsor.

- Sarah Windsor, come on down!

Have a seat, please.

- And who are you?

- Sarah Windsor.

Not the name tag. Who are you,

as in what have you been doing?

Why do you wanna be a lawyer?

Why do you wanna work here?

Well, I went to St. Paul's.

I did my undergraduate work at Yale.

And now, I'm finishing at Yale Law.

I clerked last summer for

the California State Supreme Court.

I chose law because my father was

district attorney of San Francisco.

Really?

I've always been interested

in the law and politics...

and I was an economics major.

This firm is particularly strong...

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