Elevator Girl Page #5

Synopsis: Succesful Boston lawyer Jonathan McIntyre is a fatherless workaholic, who only dates girls recommended as career boosts by his colleague and buddy Nick Sweeney. At Jonathan's festive inauguration as the law firm's youngest full partner, he meets in the elevator Liberty Taylor, the caterer, who still refuses to pick one of her jobs for every day of the week. Encouraged enterprisingly by his secretary Rosemary, they date and start falling in love. As Nick predicted, her lack of ambition and social skills prove rather a big obstacle for his future.
 
IMDB:
6.4
TV-PG
Year:
2010
88 min
141 Views


THE RIGHT JOB, YOU KNOW,

THE RIGHT HOUSE AND CARS

AND ALL THAT.

I THINK A RELATIONSHIP SHOULD

BE APPROACHED THE SAME WAY.

YOU MEET THE RIGHT PERSON,

AND YOU WORK AT IT.

YEAH. A RELATIONSHIP

IS A PARTNERSHIP AS WELL.

AND, REALLY, WHEN WAS

THE LAST TIME YOU MET SOMEONE

AND FELT SOME IMMEDIATE

LIGHTNING-BOLT CONNECTION?

SO...

WHAT'S UP?

- I MET A GUY.

- WHAT?

WE GOT STUCK:

IN THE ELEVATOR:

ON THE WAY:

TO THE CATERING EVENT.

THE POWER WENT OUT.

- OKAY. TELL, TELL!

THAT'S THE THING.

I DON'T KNOW.

HE WAS SO, LIKE, SWEE AND CHARMING IN THE ELEVATOR,

AND THEN HE JUST TOTALLY

IGNORED ME AT THE DINNER.

HE WAS REALLY RUDE.

OKAY, WAIT, WAIT.

SO HE WAS AT THE DINNER

WHERE YOU WERE SERVING?

YEAH. HE WAS

THE GUEST OF HONOR.

HE JUST MADE PARTNER

AT HIS LAW FIRM.

LIBBY, THAT'S IT.

HE'S GOT A SNOOTY JOB.

THEY DON'T TALK

TO "THE HELP," YOU KNOW?

AT LEAST NOT IN FRON OF THEIR SNOOTY FRIENDS.

I DON'T KNOW. I MEAN, YES,

HE WAS DEFINITELY

A BUTTONED-UP KIND OF GUY,

BUT THERE WAS:

SOMETHING ABOUT HIM.

HE WAS SWEET.

I DON'T KNOW, LIB.

IT'S NO COINCIDENCE THAT YOU

WERE PUT ON THAT ELEVATOR,

AND IT'S NO COINCIDENCE

THAT IT GOT STUCK.

THERE IS A REASON.

AND WHAT REASON IS THAT?

I DON'T KNOW.

[laughing]

WELL, THAT'S SO HELPFUL.

THANK YOU.

OKAY, ALL RIGHT, UM,

MAYBE YOU WERE PU ON THAT ELEVATOR

WITH THAT GUY THAT NIGH TO LEARN A LITTLE SOMETHING

ABOUT YOURSELF.

OR MAYBE THE LESSON

WASN'T YOURS TO LEARN.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN?

WHO KNOWS?

MAYBE GRUMPY MCGRUMPERTON

WENT HOME THAT NIGH AND LEARNED A LITTLE SOMETHING

ABOUT HIS RUDE BEHAVIOR

FROM YOUR SHINING EXAMPLE.

[car horns honking]

HOW WAS YOUR DATE?

CYNTHIA-- SHE'S NICE.

I LIKE HER.

UM, SHE'S ATTRACTIVE,

AND YOU WERE RIGHT.

WE HAD A LOT IN COMMON.

OKAY, SO YOU WEREN' BLOWN AWAY.

ALL RIGHT, BUT TAKE HER OU ON A SECOND DATE,

LIKE A REAL DATE.

YOU KNOW, YOU GOT TO DINNER,

TAKE HER TO THE MOVIES.

IT'S NOT LIKE THERE'S ANYONE

ELSE YOU'RE INTERESTED IN.

IS THERE SOMEONE ELSE

YOU'RE INTERESTED IN?

DUDE, DO NOT HOLD OU ON ME.

I MIGHT HAVE MET SOMEONE

AT THE PARTNERSHIP DINNER.

HER NAME'S LIBBY.

THERE WERE NO SINGLE CHICKS

AT YOUR PARTNERSHIP DINNER.

NO, ACTUALLY, WE, UH...

WE GOT STUCK IN THE ELEVATOR

TOGETHER ON THE WAY UP.

SO DID YOU ASK HER OUT?

UH, NO, NOT EXACTLY.

UM, SHE'S

A CULINARY STUDENT, SO...

I DON'T KNOW, I MIGHT HAVE ASKED

FOR A COOKING LESSON.

SMOOTH. NICE.

BUT WHEN WE GOT OFF,

IT TURNS OU SHE WAS A...A WAITRESS

FOR THE DINNER.

JONATHAN, BUDDY...

COME ON. FORGE ABOUT ELEVATOR GIRL, OKAY?

BECAUSE YOU JUS BECAME PARTNER

AT ONE OF THE LARGEST LAW FIRMS

ON THE WEST COAST.

YOU'RE NOT DATING A WAITRESS.

YOUR BOSSES ARE:

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