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Synopsis: Sam has a problem with his roommates: they are disgusting, and don't seem to share his views on responsibility, privacy, and basic hygiene. Such is his discomfort with his living arrangements that he agrees to share the occupancy of another flat: he gets two nights a week, the owner (a sleazy frat-boy yuppie named Brian, soon to be married) and Ellen (a would-be painter seeking relief from her boring marriage) each get their separate nights in the flat. Things go extremely well until Sam and Brian swap nights without telling Ellen, who attributes the "nice" things that happen around the place to the slob Brian, while berating the responsible Sam for his hedonistic lifestyle.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Warren Leight
Production: HBO Video
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
56%
R
Year:
1993
99 min
168 Views


case out of it.

I've got a surprise.

We're moving.

What?

To where?

To our new ranch-style

modern colonial

with wrap deck

and hallway atrium.

What?

You're joking.

No. I just went out and did it.

Marty talked me into it.

Exit 52 on the L.I.E.

Sparrow's nest

development.

Oh.

I got it.

Secret garret...

rediscovers a horizon

of color...

and form.

And I'll take half a

pound of French Chevret.

Want to try domestic?

What's the difference?

About $4 a pound.

Otherwise, the French

is a little more status.

The domestic is... it's fresher.

It's milkier.

We have some very good...

I'll take the French.

French.

Thank you.

Heathens.

Sam, pick up line 2.

Line 2, Sam. Excuse me.

Excuse me.

Got to buy French cheese.

Got to buy French cheese.

Hello?

Good morning.

This is Mrs. Winkler

calling for Brian McVeigh...

Uh, who's had an unavoidable

change of scheduling

and was wondering

if you wouldn't mind

switching your monday night

for his wednesday.

Just wednesday?

Mm-hmm.

Uh, sure.

Wednesday is fine.

Oh, good.

Then it's settled.

Now, it'll be Brian on monday

and Sam wednesday.

Oh, should I send you

another chart?

No. don't be silly, Mrs. Winkler.

Bye.

Oh, yes!

Yes!

Excuse me.

Uh, excuse me.

half a pound of

St. Andr triple crme, please.

Triple crme.

Triple crme.

That is heart-attack cheese.

just take a knife to your

heart and stab it.

It's, uh... a little over.

Stupid French.

Sam.

Smoke cigarettes.

Come on, Sam.

Eat fat cheese.

It doesn't hurt them.

Nothing hurts them.

But no charge.

Sam, this isn't about cheese.

It's not about cheese,

It's too bad?

Faux pas.

Pity, sadness.

What are you...

Camus?

Is Pastel seeing someone, Sam?

No.

Yes.

Maybe.

I don't know.

I'm sorry.

Big deal.

What's the difference?

Why? What makes

you think that she is?

Well, an artist needs...

Needs to experience things.

What does that mean?

I suppose that I'm

sexually paranoid?

No, it's too late.

You're way past that.

You're on the verge

of the psychotic.

What's her problem, then?

No matter what I want from her,

she can't give it to me.

What is her problem that no matter what

I want from her, she can't give it to me.

What is her problem that no matter what

I want from her... Sam, instead of asking

maybe it would be better to ask,

"What is my problem...

that I am trying to get something from

someone who can't give it to me?"

What's your point?

My point is...

I've got a girl I want you

to meet, to date.

Oh, no.

No, I can't.

I couldn't.

You can, Sam.

You should.

It's Catha.

Come in.

I know.

I know I have been in

this building before.

It is the weirdest thing,

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Warren Leight

Warren Leight (born January 17, 1957) is an American playwright, screenwriter, film director and television producer. He is best known for his work on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Lights Out and the showrunner for In Treatment and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. His play Side Man was a finalist for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. more…

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