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Synopsis: Albany, New York, Halloween, 1938. Francis Phelan and Helen Archer are bums, back in their birth city. She was a singer on the radio, he a major league pitcher. Death surrounds them: she's sick, a pal has cancer, he digs graves at the cemetery and visits the grave of his infant son whom he dropped; visions of his past haunt him, including ghosts of two men he killed. That night, out drinking, Helen tries to sing at a bar. Next day, Fran visits his wife and children and meets a grandson. He could stay, but decides it's not for him. Helen gets their things out of storage and finds a hotel. Amidst their mistakes and dereliction, the film explores their code of fairness and loyalty.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Hector Babenco
Production: Vestron Video
  Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
62%
R
Year:
1987
143 min
444 Views


That's because you're using

all our money on whisky.

You are bad when you are drinking wine.

But when you are drinking whisky, --

-Is a devil.

-I have 6 dollars.

-Yes?

-Where are you from them?

-I have worked on the cemetery.

-Wonderful.

-Wonderful. Brilliant.

And you're sober.

-And you eat.

-Yes, and I do not drinking.

It's really nice.

I am proud of my sweet boy.

Try these.

They are good and hot.

Exactly what I'm looking for,

Thanks, Chester.

Glad you are not drinking.

You look healthy.

-It is my mask for Halloween.

-Do not say it. Preserve the faith.

-And the little lady has a good thing?

-I have it good.

-What people priests themselves?

-Be sure you as he does not take your socks.

For 6 dollars, we can rent a room

and a few suitcases and grammofonen.

Do you know who is

in the city? Oscar Reo.

-He who sang in the radio?

-Exactly.

He drank away his career. Now

he is not drinking. He is the bartender.

I wrote fan letters to him.

We were filled with him in New York,

Pee Wee. Was it not in 2-3 days?

A fine musical drunkard.

Well, guys, it's closing.

Francis, how should you sleep tonight?

How you slept in the night? In Finnys wagon?

No. I will under no

circumstances in which more sleep.

I slept with Jack.

I thought not

the bread you know about Jack and Clara longer.

They are not the best I know.

But the ga me, after all, a bed.

Look at her.

-Is she dead?

-Hi, Sandra. That's Rudy.

Are you dead or just full?

She is the only full.

She keeps it's not out longer.

She's just an Eskimo.

Eskimo or not,

she's going to freeze out here.

Dogs come

and bits of her experience.

-Is she boom or just for fylla?

-She has been a boom in its entire life.

No boom is my life.

She must have been something else before.

-She was a slut in Alaska.

-And what was she before?

That I do not know.

She was perhaps just a little girl.

It is thus something.

A little girl

are either boom or slut.

She must be up and stand.

You going to freeze in hjel.

I slept out in the night, and it was cold.

You need a bit of hot soup,

so you do not freeze to the ice.

-Who are you?

-A boom that is bringing you soup.

-Get me something to drink.

-There, I have no money.

She can not enter.

Chester will not do this.

-Should we let her freeze ihjel?

-You know how he is.

So we say it ...

Get a hot soup bowl

to her, and a carpet.

Ambulansefolkene not take her.

Only if she is going to forbl.

So, we will have

cut your neck over to her.

What should she with an ambulance?

She will only sleep from everything together.

-She will not even freeze.

-She's like ice.

It may well freeze,

even if one is full.

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