Breaking Up Page #5

Synopsis: Monica teaches, Steve's a photographer. They've dated more than two years. They're arguing, and she leaves for her apartment, only to return in a few minutes to say they should stop seeing each other. A few days later, they're back together, but within two hours, he takes offense at an off-hand remark, and the separation starts in earnest. They see other people, then, out of the blue, Steve asks Monica to marry him. She says yes, and a time of ecstasy begins: they interview strangers, asking them what makes a marriage work, and she moves in with him. Then comes the wedding, and when Steve freezes, anger rends the relationship again. Can harmony return?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Robert Greenwald
Production: WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES
 
IMDB:
4.9
R
Year:
1997
90 min
971 Views


I was losing that here.

I'd wake up and think, "It's gone.

I'm gone."

I've gotta get back to see

if it's still there.

See if I'm still there.

Because here...

I don't know who I am here.

I get lost here.

- Is that such a bad thing?

- It's not that it's bad. All right?

It's not good or bad.

It just takes over.

- It changes everything.

- It's supposed to change everything.

Yeah.

- Love, right?

- Right.

But suppose it doesn't last.

I gotta hang on to what I have besides

this, to who I am away from this.

Because...

If this isn't gonna last, and this

is all I have, and it doesn't last...

...who am I?

What are you so afraid of now?

I'm afraid that I won't...

...ever love anybody

as much as I love you.

I can't.

I just can't, okay?

I gotta go.

It'll be okay, you know?

I was looking for my shirt.

Can you get it to me?

Or I'll come and get it or something.

Sh*t.

- So how have you been?

- I've been great, yeah. No, terrific.

It was funny seeing you like that.

And in that restaurant.

- We were looking for a place to eat...

- Us too.

Then, I don't know, there we were.

Yeah, turned around,

and there you were.

- She was cute.

- What?

- What's her name? Muffy.

- Right, she's a friend.

- She seemed really nice.

- Yeah.

- So is it serious?

- Well, kind of, you know...

- None of my business, I'm just curious.

- Off and on, on and off, you know?

And other women, like, you know, yeah.

- I've been enjoying myself, you know?

- Anyway, it was nice seeing you.

Who, me? Him?

No. No, not serious.

Well, actually...

...I don't know.

- What?

He goes to the gym a lot.

It shows, doesn't it?

Three times a week,

and aerobics every day in between.

Vitamins.

Are you joking? This guy

has a separate suitcase for them.

Minerals, amino acids,

antioxidants, you name it.

When we started going out,

I thought he was on drugs.

He kept popping these things

into his mouth.

Turns out it was bran.

Yeah, you heard right, bran.

There's no part of him that somebody

doesn't do something to once a day.

He has this schedule.

So even if he wanted to work...

- ... he doesn't have time.

- Really?

He's got money.

He goes to Switzerland...

...to check on buildings

and get his blood changed.

Then he goes to this doctor

who shoots him up with vitamin C.

Oh, my God, Steve, I went

with him once. He plugs in an IV...

... then starts playing

the piano and talking...

... about Kant and Doekovsky...

- ... and Van Bankin. Hello!

- Yeah, really?

It's funny, he has everything

done to him. Facials...

... manicures, pedicures,

high colonics. You know what that is?

You don't want to know.

You're on fire. You're so hot.

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Michael Cristofer

Michael Ivan Cristofer (born January 22, 1945) is an American playwright, filmmaker and actor. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play for The Shadow Box in 1977. more…

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