Closer Page #3

Synopsis: Smart-but-ineffectual journalist Dan "We use euphemisms!" cannot decide between his girlfriend, loving-but-clingy waitress Alice, or his lover cold-but-intellectual photographer Anna; herself indecisive between Dan and honest-but-thuggish "You're bloody gorgeous!" doctor Larry. The film puts the four leading characters in a box and strips them apart.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Mike Nichols
Production: Sony Pictures
  Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 21 wins & 47 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
65
Rotten Tomatoes:
68%
R
Year:
2004
104 min
$33,987,757
Website
11,775 Views


I've got to be in surgery by 3:.00.

-Are you having an operation?

-No, I'm doing one.

-Are you really a doctor?

-I said I was.

You are Anna?

I'm sorry. Did I photograph you?

Did we meet somewhere?

Come on. Don't play games,

you nymph of the Net.

-Excuse me?

-You were up for it yesterday.

-Was l?

-Yeah. "Wear my wet knickers.

"Sit on my face.

-"Cum -hungry b*tch."

-Okay.

Why do I feel like a pervert?

I think you're the victim of a practical joke.

-I am so sorry.

-It's okay.

No.

We spoke on the Net last night.

Now you've seen me - -

I wasn't on the Net last night.

Where were you

between 6:
.45 and 7::00 p.m.?

That's really none of your business.

-Where were you?

-On the Net, talking to you.

-Well, I was talking to someone.

-Someone pretending to be me.

I think you were talking to Daniel Woolf.

-Who?

-This guy I know. It's him.

-No, I was talking to a woman.

-How do you know?

Believe me, she was a woman.

I got a huge....

She was a.... She wasn't, was she?

No.

What a bastard.

How do you know him?

I don't really know him.

I took his photograph for a book he wrote.

-I hope it sank without a trace.

-It's on its way.

There is justice in the world.

What's it called?

The Aquarium.

What a prick! He's advertising.

But why would he pretend to be you?

I think he likes me.

Funny way of showing it.

Can't he send you flowers?

Extraordinary thing, the lnternet.

Possibility of genuine

global communication.

The first great democratic medium.

Absolutely. It's the future.

Two guys wanking in cyberspace.

He was the wanker.

I'll say this for him, he can write.

Is he in love with you?

I don't know. No.

-Are you in love with him?

-I hardly know him.

But you're sort of interested.

I think he's interesting.

No, don't. I look like a criminal in photos.

Please. It's my birthday.

Really?

Really.

Happy birthday.

Thank you.

This man comes into the caf today

and he says:
.

"Hey, waitress, what are you waiting for?"

Funny guy.

So I go,

"I'm waiting for a man to come in here...

"and f*** me sideways

with a beautiful line like that."

What did he do?

Asked for a cup of tea with two sugars.

-I'm waiting for you.

-To do what?

Leave me.

I'm not going to leave you.

I totally love you. Why is this?

Please let me come.

I want to be there for you.

-Are you ashamed of me?

-Of course not. I told you...

-I want to be alone.

-Why?

To grieve.

To think.

-I love you. Why won't you let me?

-It's only a weekend.

Why won't you let me love you?

Buster.

Let's go to this thing...

then I'll get my train. I'll be away one night.

I'll be back before you know it, okay?

Do these people pay you?

Or do you pay them?

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Patrick Marber

Patrick Albert Crispin Marber (born 19 September 1964) is an English comedian, playwright, director, actor, and screenwriter. more…

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