Garbo Talks

Synopsis: Estelle is a one-person protest army: she goes to jail over grocery prices, shames construction workers for catcalls to passing women, and won't cross a picket line for her son's wedding. She also loves Garbo films: when she learns she has a brain tumor and six months to live, she decides she must meet Garbo. Her dutiful son Gilbert, a Manhattan accountant named for Garbo's co-star, hires a paparazzo to show him Garbo's flat, stakes it out, gets a job delivering food there, seeks her on Fire Island, and tracks her to a Sixth Avenue flea market. As his obsession distances him from his wife, he's drawn to a struggling actress he meets at work. Can he find Garbo; if so, will she talk?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Sidney Lumet
Production: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
 
IMDB:
6.4
Rotten Tomatoes:
17%
PG-13
Year:
1984
103 min
154 Views


1

I will take you away from Paris,

far from our bad memories.

Where the sun will help

me take care of you

and will restore you to health.

We will come back to where

we were happy, one summer.

Oh, if only we could...

We can, we'll go, as

soon as you get better.

I can not.

Nanine. Nanine!

Nanine, go quickly

get the doctor.

The doctor...

If he can not make me live,

how could it?

No, do not say that, Marguerite.

You will live.

You must live.

Maybe it's better if I

live in your heart,

where the world can not see me.

If I die,

nothing will be left of our love.

Do not say that, Marguerite.

Even if we have

to leave today...

My God.

Think how happy we

will be, happy again.

Think of the day we found

the four leaf clover

and all the luck

he will bring us.

Think of the wishes of

Nichette and Gustave

and to those we are going

to do to each other.

It's for life, Marguerite.

Daisy.

Daisy.

Do not leave me.

Marguerite, come back.

Come back.

I had to go to credit service on the 7th.

There was a tail not possible.

I had a lot of other things to do.

Finally, I'm talking to

someone about the problem.

She said, "We could have

done it on the spot."

And nobody seemed to care.

Nobody apologized.

Nobody said, "I'm sorry for

the occasional accident."

In California, I would

have been apologized.

In California, a

salesman has feelings.

Gillie, I want to go

back to Los Angeles.

I want both of us to leave.

I talked to dad.

He will give us the money.

There is so much to

do in California.

You can find everything you

want at an hour's drive.

Gillie?

Where is my coat rack?

Elaine, did you

see my coat rack?

Elaine, do you have...

Elaine, did you see my...

You're not Elaine.

I am Harriet.

Where is Elaine?

I do not know.

It's not my calculator.

This is not my machine to write.

Who are they?

You were transferred there

in the hall, Gilbert.

Room 2601.

Elaine, what's going on?

Kellerman had a promotion.

They transferred

it to your office.

I am supposed to work here?

There is no window.

There is a Rauschenberg.

No, I can not work in there.

I take care of the Xerox, Gilbert.

But...

Mr. Plotkin?

We moved your office.

We needed it for Kellerman.

I knew you would understand.

Yes, but...

- It's a big deal for Kellerman, the office.

He is a little too worried about his image.

Not you, Gilbert.

You could do a good

job everywhere.

You can balance accounts

at Sardi restaurant.

I am working on your increase.

If we get it, you

take me to Sardi.

Gilbert Rolfe.

No... right now.

- What's the matter?

- My mother is in jail.

Again?

I am thirsty.

I said I was thirsty.

What must we pay to

have some water?

If we were in the desert,

I would not insist.

I will take note of it.

But we are in the middle of New York.

At 10th Street and 7th Avenue.

There must be a paper glass

and water flowing somewhere!

They give nothing in

detention, cherish.

False. I was arrested

last month in Brooklyn.

I was given a sandwich

and some cigarettes.

A mozzarella.

I'm here for Estelle Rolfe.

I am his son.

$ 500 deposit.

Sign the two copies.

Is she.

I told you that I did

not want you to come.

I can take care of myself.

What am I supposed to do?

Your lawyer calls me to the office.

He leaves a message

to the receptionist.

Do you imagine how big I am?

There is no reason.

Your hearing will take place

on the 5th of next month.

Nothing in life should

ever annoy you.

I've always taught you.

Mom, you live in your own world.

No, I have company,

you, maybe not.

Water, everywhere, and

not a drop to drink!

What did you do?

I stole frozen zucchini.

They took me when I left.

Why did you do that?

They were changing the prices of

lettuce that was already on the east.

I said to the director, "Have you

made a mistake on the price?"

He said, "No, it froze in

Arizona and prices went up."

I said, "But not for the one

who is already on the sea."

I wanted to buy two lettuces.

The difference was 64 cents.

The zucchini costs

exactly 64 cents.

- How much was the deposit?

- $ 500.

I'll make you a little bit.

What does it do for the ghetto?

For God's sake...

Do they affect you in the ghetto?

Sometimes.

Of course, when there is

an arrest to be made.

They use you for your race.

It is unfair.

You should not tolerate it.

They make you think of being a

traitor to your own people.

Let's go.

- Will not stop ever?

- What will never stop?

Walking on Washington,

be stopped, lie down in

front of the cars...

Gilbert, I'm like that.

You are you, I am me.

Since I was 6, still in

crusade, looking for trouble.

You did not allow

me to visit steel!

There was a fight against her.

All the others went there.

They all brought a box

of nails, except me.

- What did you miss?

- It's not a...

Gilbert, I like what I do.

I do not care to go to jail for my

convictions. It is a privilege.

Privilege?

You have suffered?

I have always been there for you.

The meal waiting for you?

Have you ever been ill alone?

I was just saying, why

not relax a little?

I am released.

- Let things go.

- It does not happen like that.

Calm down..

If your generation was

a little more active,

I could calm down.

You are hungry?

A beef and broccoli, please.

How's Lisa?

She is fine.

And his dad, the Beverly

Hills entrepreneur?

Mom...

- He's cheating on his tax.

- You do not know.

He wears tinted glasses.

She still wants to go

back to Los Angeles?

The sun brings out

the best in it.

Why did you never love Lisa?

Tennis is a way to

go through life.

- How's your father?

- He is fine.

Claire?

We're going to dinner on Sunday.

Claire still making cakes?

Look at this little brown fox...

Nice tits, come and

sit on my face!

I have an electric tongue

that never gets tired!

Mom, come on...

My God!

Who wanted a girl

to sit on her face?

Come on, who wants

to sit on his face

so loud that he cries out to the street?

Who was it?

I have the whole day and I

can come back tomorrow.

You mean the guy who

whistled the girl?

Yes, that's it.

- It was me.

- This girl can not come.

She had an appointment.

I came to his place.

I hope it's ok?

Which one has an electric tongue?

I think it's me.

You plug it or it's on battery?

- Listen, it was just...

- What?

Just a joke.

You have the right

to act like animals

just because you work in height?

Because you make buildings, you

can not have a little class?

You want someone to

sit on your face?

Shout it on the closed window shutters,

and stop humbling yourself in public.

If your head is in the

toilet, do not make bubbles.

Come on, we go down again.

Elaine told me I could

have the Irving listing...

He is there, near the window.

I am Jane Mortimer.

Gilbert Rolfe.

Are you new?

I was at 27, but

they transferred us.

You are fine?

You do not have an attack? I...

My breathing exercises.

I am an actress.

I... O... U.

Can you give me my cap?

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