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Synopsis: The film describes a few days in the life of the writer Robert Harmon and his sister Sarah. The decadent life of Robert is made of alcohol, cigarettes, and short-time relationships with women; women he interviews for a book, he spends a weekend with at a casino or fall in love with for the fun of an evening. Having no constraints, he his unable to be responsible for anything including the care of his son, leaving him alone in an hotel room and teaching the 8-years old boy how to drink. His life is made of his own phantasms as an artist. His sister is divorcing from her husband because of her exuberant and insane behavior. She scares her daughter Debbie who prefers to stay with her father, a decision that hurts Sarah very deeply and reinforces her nervous breakdown. Most of the movie takes place in the house of Robert. We watch Robert and Sarah struggling with their own lives. As the movie progresses, the house gets empty little by little...
Genre: Drama
Director(s): John Cassavetes
Production: MGM Home Entertainment
  4 wins.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
PG-13
Year:
1984
141 min
1,100 Views


You feel that your husband

should not see Debbie at all?

Ever?

Well, I object. I think Mrs. Lawson

is breaking the understanding.

I don't understand.

I don't understand.

He's the one that wants a divorce.

One of the reasons we're having difficulty

with something we've already agreed to,

is that my wife hasn't been cured.

I'm a very happy person.

My wife has been in and out of institutions

since our marriage.

That's one of the reasons why we're having difficulty

with something that we've already agreed to.

She hasn't been cured.

I have a problem. I...

I love my family. I love him,

and I love her. I love them, just them.

And,

when I can't be cheerful...

When you get a headache, or

you feel really bad.

I go to the hospital.

And I stay there until I feel that I can

take care of things again.

Just stepping out of the way for awhile.

Until his little sex things are over...

Whatever it is that causes me

to get the headaches...

Something like that.

Could I have a glass of champagne

in a crystal glass, please?

I love crystal!

I'm Phyllis. That's my stage name.

Lovely nails you have.

You're a straight

and a marvelous writer.

I just love the way you

write about loneliness.

You make it sound so

exciting and romantic.

I saw you in here last month.

Are you working on a new book?

Are you doing

something on us?

Yes, i'm writing a book on nightlife,

as a matter of fact.

Could I have your telephone number

please, your card, something?

Lucky boy!

Now is this for research or what?

It's uh...

She's beautiful.

You know her name?

Susan.

I think with all beautiful women,

they have a secret.

And the interesting thing,

is to get that secret out.

If they volunteer that secret to me.

Yeah, I guess.

I'm a writer,

that's why i'm saying that.

I know, I saw you on TV.

Haven't read any of your books, though,

don't have too much time.

- I did the cigarette trick...

- Watch the tablecloth.

Give me your glass.

What should we drink to?

I can't think of anything.

You're ambitious enough, I think.

When I came in here about a month ago,

there were these two

very cute little girls

that were singing along with you.

They were backup singers.

They're not here anymore.

And that bothers me.

- Does it bother you?

- No.

What time is it?

I want to write a book about you.

Why, you think I want to be a big star?

I've gotta go.

It was fun.

I like the way you move.

I really like the way you move.

I'm right here.

That's nice.

Give me your keys, give me your keys.

My dress!

You know what they say about

beautiful women. Their secrets.

They'll give 'em to you gladly, this is...

Where do you live?

Do you know where you live?

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Ted Allan

Ted Allan (January 26, 1916 – June 29, 1995) was a Jewish Canadian writer, several of whose books were made into motion pictures. Ted Allan was born in Montreal as Alan Herman. In the early 1930s returning he worked as a Montreal-based journalist for the Communist Party of Canada's newspaper, The Clarion. He adopted the name Ted Allan so that he could infiltrate a fascist organization and write an exposé, and subsequently kept the pseudonym. In 1936, he met and became friends with Norman Bethune. The next year, Allan joined the Mackenzie–Papineau Battalion to fight against fascism in Spanish Civil War and met up with Bethune again. In 1952, Allan and Sydney Gordon published Bethune's biography, The Scalpel, The Sword. Allan battled for nearly 40 years to make a movie about the Canadian surgeon who became a larger-than-life hero of the Chinese revolution. After an arduous production, Bethune: The Making of a Hero, based on a screenplay by Allan, was released in 1990 to almost universal critical disdain. In 1939 he published This Time a Better Earth about the Spanish Civil War (New York 1939.) Allan left the Labor-Progressive Party, as it was known at the time, in 1957 when the party split following a party crisis fomented by Khrushchev's Secret Speech, the Soviet invasion of Hungary and revelations of state supported anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union. In 1976, Allan received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) for his story that became the screenplay for the movie Lies My Father Told Me. In 1984 he co-wrote the script for John Cassavetes’s Love Streams, which was based on one of his (Allan’s) plays. The film won the Golden Bear Award at Berlin Film Festival. His daughter, Julie, is a producer (To Walk with Lions). He won the Stephen Leacock Award in 1985 for Love Is a Long Shot.He also published the children's book Willie the Squowse, and published short stories in Harper's and The New Yorker. more…

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