Stranger Than Paradise

Yeah.

Oh. Hello, Aunt Lotte.

Don't speak to me in Hungarian, please.

No, I haven't heard from them...

not for 10 years.

Yeah, I got your letter.

Speak English, please.

Yeah, my little cousin Eva.

Yeah, I know. She's gonna come here,

and she's gonna stay overnight.

When is she coming?

Today?

Straight from Budapest today?

Oh, no!

No, I never agreed to that.

I can't possibly babysit her

for 10 days.

No, look.

It's disrupting my whole life.

I don't even consider myself

a part of the family.

Do you understand?

No, I'm sorry you have to

go into the hospital.

Yeah.

Yeah.

- Bye-bye.

- Okay. Bye-bye.

Bye.

Damn.

Sh...

Yeah?

Jesus.

Hello. I'm Eva Molnar.

Yeah, no kidding.

Are you Bela Molnar?

No.

I used to be. Call me Willie

if you gotta call me something, all right?

Oh! Don't speak Hungarian at all.

Only English, all right, while you're here?

Only English.

Yeah, well, come in!

Tomorrow I must go

to Cleveland in Ohio by train.

Yeah, well, you can't go

to Cleveland in Ohio tomorrow.

Aunt Lotte has to go

into the hospital for 10 days.

So you can stay here tonight, and I don't

know what you're gonna do after that.

- For 10 days?

- Yeah.

Ten days?

Willie?

Willie.

Hello?

Yes, he's sleeping.

What? Excuse me?

I don't understand.

Yeah, I am his cousin.

I am really his cousin.

Excuse me?

Could you speak

a little slower, please?

Yes. Courguy?

Okay. I will tell him.

Who rang?

Yes, the telephone rang.

No, I mean, who was on the phone?

Courguy.

He said his name was Courguy.

- What?

- He said his name was Courguy.

I don't know anybody

named Courguy.

That's what he said his name was.

Don't answer my f***in' phone,

all right?

Courguy.

- Hey, Eva? You goin' out?

- Yeah.

Look, um, Clinton Street

is two blocks south of here.

I wouldn't go any further south

than Clinton Street.

- Why?

- It's really dangerous there.

I can take care of myself.

Man, listen. You come here,

you don't know what's going on in this city.

You never been here before.

You come and stay in my apartment.

I don't even want you here, and you're just,

like, "Yeah, I know what's going on."

You think you're

so motherfucking together.

I'm going alone.

Oh. Okay. Go alone.

You sure you don't want a TV dinner?

Yes. I'm not hungry.

Why is it called "TV dinner"?

Um, you're supposed to eat it

while you watch TV.

- Television.

- I know what a TV is.

Where does that meat come from?

What do you mean?

What does that meat come from?

I guess it comes from a cow.

From a cow?

It doesn't even look like meat.

Eva, stop bugging me, will you?

You know,

this is the way we eat in America.

I got my meat,

I got my potatoes...

I got my vegetables,

I got my dessert.

And I don't even have to

wash the dishes.

Yeah.

- Hi.

- Hey, Willie. How you doin'?

- Hey, man. How you doin'?

- Pretty good.

I didn't know you had company.

- That's my cousin.

- Yeah?

She's from Hungary.

- She's cute.

- Shut up, man.

- Hi.

- Hi.

- I'm Eddie.

- Eva.

- How do you do?

- Okay.

Hungary?

- Yeah.

- You been here in, uh, New York, uh, long?

For two days only.

- You like it?

- Yes.

I'm going to Cleveland

in about a week.

Cleveland.

It's a beautiful city.

- Yes?

- Yeah.

It's got a big, beautiful lake.

You'll love it there.

- Have you been there?

- No, no.

Who's running in the second race?

Ah, we have Indian Giver,

Face the Music...

Inside Dope, Off the Wall,

Cat Fight, Late Spring...

Passing Fancy

and, uh, Tokyo Story.

- Tokyo Story. It's a good one.

- That's what I like to hear.

It's a good one.

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