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Synopsis: Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein re-creates his role as the unsinkable Arnold Beckoff in this film adaptation of the smash Broadway play TORCH SONG TRILOGY. A very personal story that is both funny and poignant, TORCH SONG TRILOGY chronicles a New Yorker's search for love, respect and tradition in a world that seems not especially made for him. From Arnold's hilarious steps toward domestic bliss with a reluctant school teacher, to his first truly promising love affair with a young fashion model, Arnold's greatest challenge remains his complicated relationship with his mother. But armed with a keenly developed sense of humor and oftentimes piercing wit, Arnold continues to test the commonly accepted terms of endearment--and endurance--in a universally affecting story that confirms that happiness is well worth carrying a torch for.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Paul Bogart
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  1 win & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.7
Rotten Tomatoes:
72%
R
Year:
1988
120 min
2,179 Views


Oh.

Is he your...

Oh, no! No! | Just a friend.

Oh.

Well...

How lucky for me.

I've got a car.

Ha!

If you're going | to laugh

At everything | i say...

We're never going to | get to bed.

You really do | have beautiful eyes.

And you've got | some routine.

Anyone ever tell you | you've got a very sexy voice?

No, really! You do.

Is that natural, | or do you have a cold?

Fate has | the will of a wisp?

Crazy as a loon...?

I'd ask you back | to my place,

But my roommate | is straight.

He's not comfortable | with gays.

Where does | that leave you?

I date women, too. | I teach in brooklyn.

I keep an apartment | in the city, but i | really live upstate.

I've got a farm | where i spend | weekends, summers.

I grow all | my own vegetables.

You'd love the house.

It's a classic | american saltbox...

Lots of wood detail... | franklin stove.

I'm restoring it myself.

Sounds beautiful.

So what do you do?

I'm a female impersonator.

Ha! No, i meant | for a living.

I'm a female | impersonator.

Does that bother you?

Not yet.

Wait. I'll | get a light.

No! Just...

You're shaking.

Am i?

Sorry.

Better?

Mm-Hmm.

We're having | an intimate dinner | at my place.

Why didn't you tell me | you were going out for love?

I better steal steaks | from the kitchen. | Who had time to shop?

Bertha venatian!

I wonder which | apartment we'll keep.

We hardly need two.

We always be | at the farm.

The farm?

You can't | bring up children | in the city.

Queen of the delicatessen, | virginia hamm!

Mmm!

[Buzz]

[Alarm stops]

Ohh...

Mmm.

Happy two-Week | anniversary.

Oh, ed, | you remembered!

You must remember this?

A kiss is still a kiss?

A sigh is just a sigh?

The fundamental | things...?

Thanks, roz.

As time goes by?

That girl is | stealing your material.

You're | the torch singer.

These days, | i ain't singing | anything bluer

Than zip-A-Dee doo-Dah.

When can | i meet him?

Soon.

You met | his friends?

We don't get out much, | if you know what i mean.

Shut up!

No matter | what the future...?

It's wonderful?

It's marvelous...?

Come on!

Watch your head | there.

And this first step | is a little, uh...

Broken.

It's awful nice, | it's paradise...?

[Crash]

We got to work on that.

It's what | i love to see?

You've made my life?

Good morning.

So glamorous?

You can't blame me | for feeling amorous?

Oh, it's wonderful?

It's marvelous?

That you should | care for me?

Ooh! Ooh! Ooh!

Aggghh!

Whooosh!

Ooh! Ooh! Ooh!

Uuhhh!

It's wonderful?

[Snore]

It's marvelous?

That you should care?

That you should | care for me?

It's awful nice?

Paradise...?

I'll drop you off.

I'm seeing tom and | janet for dinner.

You didn't tell me | they called.

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Harvey Fierstein

Harvey Forbes Fierstein (born June 6, 1954) is an American actor, playwright, and voice actor. Fierstein has won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his own play Torch Song Trilogy (about a gay drag-performer and his quest for true love and family) and the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for playing Edna Turnblad in Hairspray. He also wrote the book for the musical La Cage aux Folles, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, and wrote the book for the Tony Award-winning Kinky Boots. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2007. more…

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