Atlantic City Page #4

Synopsis: Atlantic City is a place where people go to realize their dreams, the promise of the future manifested by the demolition of the old crumbling buildings to be replaced by new hotels and casinos. Someone who recently came to Atlantic City for that promise is native Moose Javian (Saskatchewan) Sally Matthews, who currently works as a waitress at a hotel oyster bar, but who is training to be a black jack croupier and wants to be more cultured, such as learning French, in order to work at the casinos in Monte Carlo. Another dreamer who came to Atlantic City decades ago is Lou Pascal, who has long worked as a numbers runner and who claims to have been a cellmate and thus implied confidante of Bugsy Siegel. Although Lou still dresses to the standard to which he is accustomed, his dream long died as he only works penny ante stuff for Fred, most of his current income from being the kept man of widowed recluse, Grace Pinza. Grace too came to Atlantic City to fulfill her dreams - most specificall
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Louis Malle
Production: Paramount Home Video
  Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 25 wins & 16 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
R
Year:
1980
104 min
685 Views


These people are going to help you.

Come on, Peppy, you're in the way.

You're fired, Lou.

Dave, this lady's got a

million things wrong with her.

Get her out of here.

This lady is almost a qualified

therapist in Nevada and Oklahoma.

She trained in Saskatchewan, Canada,

in the art of Korean foot massage.

If you leave me alone with her,

I'm gonna kill you, Lou.

Will you listen for just once?

This is not medicine.

I'm still a very important woman

in this town.

I'm Cookie Pinza's widow.

He used to deliver coffee

for Cookie.

He's my servant.

Do you know that your whole body

ends at the bottom of your feet?

You think I am just poking

your feet.

Well, when I touch this spot,

this is where your spine is.

When I touch this spot,

this is where your tummy is.

You work for that Grace?

I help her out.

She pays you?

You're her fancy man?

Are you servicing her?

Every now and then.

Wow. To be your age

and still working at it.

Mr. Stud! Mr. John!

Well, I keep myself in trim.

Monte Carlo!

The old casino is very, very slow

and old-fashioned.

Rococo elegance. But the new casino

is just like Vegas.

Really?

The croupiers are French, but the

dealers are American from Vegas.

You get your license to learn how to

deal and the world opens up to you.

It's not just cards, you know.

It's your future.

I want you to concentrate.

I hate you going back

to that oyster bar.

The world should be your oyster.

Well, I've got so much to learn.

I don't know how to count in French.

I know...

Do you think you could teach me?

Better than that.

If you'd only stop being afraid.

Deal with courage.

You're a little pearl

produced by that oyster bar.

Say that in French.

The name Capone

mean anything to you?

Al Capone? The Godfather?

Lucky Luciano, Dutch Schultz,

Meyer Lansky.

Do you know them?

You work for the people

who work for the people.

I was taken a shine to.

Pardon me, but you don't exactly

look like the "King of the Mobs."

Well, a few wrong turns,

wrong affections, some mistakes.

It's all sh*t now.

It's a shame you never saw

Atlantic City when it had floy floy.

Remember the song, "Flatfoot Floogie

with the Floy Floy"?

Hep cat and zoot suit.

That was the floogie part.

The floy floy.

That was something special.

Atlantic City had floy floy coming

out of its ears in those days.

Now it's all so goddamn legal.

Howard Johnson running a casino.

Tutti-frutti ice cream

and craps don't mix.

The only difference between

Christianity and Hare Krishna is...

Hare Krishna is real.

If Jesus was alive today,

he'd be very much into Hare Krishna.

- Chrissie!

- Yeah?

Do my sinuses again.

- What language is that?

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John Guare

John Guare (rhymes with "air"; born February 5, 1938) is an Irish American playwright. He is best known as the author of The House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation, and Landscape of the Body. His style, which mixes comic invention with an acute sense of the failure of human relations and aspirations, is at once cruel and deeply compassionate. In his foreword to a collection of Guare's plays, film director Louis Malle writes: Guare practices a humor that is synonymous with lucidity, exploding genre and clichés, taking us to the core of human suffering: the awareness of corruption in our own bodies, death circling in. We try to fight it all by creating various mythologies, and it is Guare's peculiar aptitude for exposing these grandiose lies of ours that makes his work so magical. more…

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