Night and the City Page #2

Synopsis: Robert DeNiro and Jessica Lange are the most impossible couple. He's a failed lawyer. She's a common waitress. Together they get in a downward spiral, as they can't seem to deal with their problems. The lawyer just failed winning a case in court against a famous boxing organizer and he wants revenge by catching the organizer on his own territory: boxing. Although he knows nothing about boxing, with his fine talk he finds the help of a couple of people like the brother of his new enemy. But the relationship with his waitress doesn't make things double as hard.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Irwin Winkler
Production: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
 
IMDB:
5.8
Metacritic:
61
Rotten Tomatoes:
67%
R
Year:
1992
105 min
214 Views


I told him, Boom Boom,

I'll kick your ass.

No...

I thought it was you.

What are you doing?

What am I doing?

Let's go to my place.

I can't.

Then let's go to yours.

What, are you crazy?

Well, where are we gonna go?

Right here.

You really got

a hold on me

You really got

a hold on me

You really got

a hold on me

Baby

I love you

and all I want you to do

Is just hold me

Hold me, hold me

Hold me

Harry, I gotta talk to you

about something.

About what?

I'm thinking about

going out to California.

Yeah? With what?

Well, my brother-in-law's

restaurant's going belly up

and I could buy it real cheap.

- With Phil?

- With Phil?

No, I gotta get away from him.

I want my own place.

- Bad idea.

- What?

You're a New Yorker, like me.

You freak out halfway

through the Holland Tunnel.

Bad idea.

I don't know about that.

- Bad idea.

- Yeah?

Bad idea.

You're a New Yorker.

You're a New Yorker.

You're a New Yorker.

You're a New Yorker.

You're a New Yorker.

You're a New Yorker.

Hey, I'm not making the money.

How many dozen you got?

I got... I got 500.

OK, now tell me again.

So, what happened?

He said to me,

"What'd you say?"

So I busted him in his head.

I says, "How's

your hearing now?"

- Yo!

- I'm sorry, Mr. Fabian. I'm sorry.

Let's just talk about this tomorrow, OK?

'Cause we got to think of something

other than the

hard-of-hearing defense.

OK? 9:
00 all right?

Because I got a 2:30

appointment right now.

I'll miss another

day of work 'cause of you!

- Is this suite 201?

- I'm sick of you.

- Emmet Grogan?

- Gorgon.

Gorgon. Right.

Yeah, Gorgon.

Come on in.

Come on in. Yeah.

Gorgon.

You see

Dr. Pedro yet?

Yeah, you saw

Dr. Pedro.

Have a seat.

- How do you feel?

- I feel great.

You feel terrible.

You feel like sh*t.

How much is two and two?

Four.

Five. You can't even add.

You can't even add two and two.

- Do you want to make some money?

- OK.

You feel terrible.

You're a no-good

heartbreaker

You're a liar

and you're a cheat

I don't know why...

Marty fat-ass

been looking for you.

He's been in and out of here

like ten times in the last hour.

- Yeah? Where is he?

- I don't know.

Harry, guess what me and Helen are doing.

We're taking off for two weeks.

Yeah?

Where you going?

Jamaica.

You get to Jamaica?

Yeah, Jamaica, Queens.

Nah, the Caribbean.

Got us a bungalow right on the beach.

They come by once a day,

grill your fish, and that's it.

It's gonna be nothing but me,

her, and the moon for two weeks.

Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz.

Sounds like paradise, mon.

I can't wait.

Hell, I ain't even gonna

wear any clothes.

Harry the dancer.

Marty fat-ass!

Dancer, do you got something for me?

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Richard Price

Richard Price (23 February 1723 – 19 April 1791) was a British moral philosopher, nonconformist preacher and mathematician. He was also a political pamphleteer, active in radical, republican, and liberal causes such as the American Revolution. He was well-connected and fostered communication between a large number of people, including several of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Price spent most of his adult life as minister of Newington Green Unitarian Church, on the outskirts of London. He also wrote on issues of demography and finance, and was a Fellow of the Royal Society. more…

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