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Synopsis: The film describes a few days in the life of the writer Robert Harmon and his sister Sarah. The decadent life of Robert is made of alcohol, cigarettes, and short-time relationships with women; women he interviews for a book, he spends a weekend with at a casino or fall in love with for the fun of an evening. Having no constraints, he his unable to be responsible for anything including the care of his son, leaving him alone in an hotel room and teaching the 8-years old boy how to drink. His life is made of his own phantasms as an artist. His sister is divorcing from her husband because of her exuberant and insane behavior. She scares her daughter Debbie who prefers to stay with her father, a decision that hurts Sarah very deeply and reinforces her nervous breakdown. Most of the movie takes place in the house of Robert. We watch Robert and Sarah struggling with their own lives. As the movie progresses, the house gets empty little by little...
Genre: Drama
Director(s): John Cassavetes
Production: MGM Home Entertainment
  4 wins.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
PG-13
Year:
1984
141 min
1,110 Views


if you want a friend.

Take care of yourself, Robert.

Keep in touch, okay?

Oh, geez, turn the light off.

I'm going to kill someone.

What's the matter?

I'm looking for my white shoes.

White shoes. Did you see

Phyllis' big white shoes?

Underneath the kitchen table.

Get that, please.

So what?

Who was it?

There's a car coming

around to the front.

There is some lady and a little boy here.

And he's carrying a whole bunch of flowers.

They're coming up to the front door, Robert.

This is your son.

You owe him for four weeks.

You want this in one check,

or you want it in four checks?

One check.

Here is some flowers.

Thank you. But let me just get this...

Robert, I gotta ask you a favor.

Would you do it?

If it's for money, yes.

You asked me not to call,

so I wrote you 3 letters.

I just don't answer my mail.

My husband and I, we have a big chance to

raise some money in someone's big house.

We'll stay overnight.

And they don't want kids.

- You want me to take the boy.

- Yeah, overnight.

- Until when?

- We'll be home tomorrow at 2pm.

Alright.

You haven't even seen your

son since he was born.

I said yes, didn't I?

I'll be home Sunday night.

Today's Saturday.

I even have Albie's suitcase in the car.

Fine, let's get the suitcase and let's

get on with it. Come on, let's go.

Wave goodbye to your mother.

Flowers.

Really nice, wanna hold 'em?

Close the door.

I'm gonna introduce you to some people.

This is my son Albie.

I'd like to introduce you to Charlene,

who is my secretary,

my friend, my accountant

and her daughter Renee

who is also my friend.

- How old are you?

- 8.

Well, let's go.

Yeah, what do you want?

This is my son Albie.

He's going to spend the night with us.

Hi, Albie.

What's wrong?

Robert, go get him.

He's your son for god's sake!

- Alright, come on. Let's go.

- Mr. Harmon?

Don't call me Mr. Harmon.

That's insulting.

I know it and you know it.

- I hate you.

- Yeah I know, that's cuz i'm your father.

The boy still asleep?

Yeah, he's upstairs in bed.

Here's your check.

Thank you, darling.

Mary, Annette.

Thank you, I love you.

Joanie.

Joanie, i'm sorry Phyllis.

Charlene, have your numbers?

Take good care of these chickens, okay.

You take care, bye baby.

You're the man now, you take

care of these little children.

Goodbye kids, good luck in your new careers.

Bye bye, sweetheart.

We'll be alright, Robert.

You better get back to the kid.

You shouldn't leave him alone.

Are you awake?

Go to your right, then go right again.

Can I use your toothbrush?

Use your finger.

I want to have breakfast, but

I have to clean up first.

If I have breakfast without cleaning up I vomit.

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Ted Allan

Ted Allan (January 26, 1916 – June 29, 1995) was a Jewish Canadian writer, several of whose books were made into motion pictures. Ted Allan was born in Montreal as Alan Herman. In the early 1930s returning he worked as a Montreal-based journalist for the Communist Party of Canada's newspaper, The Clarion. He adopted the name Ted Allan so that he could infiltrate a fascist organization and write an exposé, and subsequently kept the pseudonym. In 1936, he met and became friends with Norman Bethune. The next year, Allan joined the Mackenzie–Papineau Battalion to fight against fascism in Spanish Civil War and met up with Bethune again. In 1952, Allan and Sydney Gordon published Bethune's biography, The Scalpel, The Sword. Allan battled for nearly 40 years to make a movie about the Canadian surgeon who became a larger-than-life hero of the Chinese revolution. After an arduous production, Bethune: The Making of a Hero, based on a screenplay by Allan, was released in 1990 to almost universal critical disdain. In 1939 he published This Time a Better Earth about the Spanish Civil War (New York 1939.) Allan left the Labor-Progressive Party, as it was known at the time, in 1957 when the party split following a party crisis fomented by Khrushchev's Secret Speech, the Soviet invasion of Hungary and revelations of state supported anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union. In 1976, Allan received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) for his story that became the screenplay for the movie Lies My Father Told Me. In 1984 he co-wrote the script for John Cassavetes’s Love Streams, which was based on one of his (Allan’s) plays. The film won the Golden Bear Award at Berlin Film Festival. His daughter, Julie, is a producer (To Walk with Lions). He won the Stephen Leacock Award in 1985 for Love Is a Long Shot.He also published the children's book Willie the Squowse, and published short stories in Harper's and The New Yorker. more…

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