The Man Who Sued God Page #4

Synopsis: Billy Connolly plays Steve Myers, a lawyer who became a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance money because it was 'an act of God'. He re-registers as a lawyer and sues the insurance company and the church under the guise of God, defending himself. The accident leads him to a friendship and eventual relationship with a journalist, Anna Redmond (Davis).
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Mark Joffe
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Rotten Tomatoes:
71%
Year:
2001
97 min
213 Views


- It's not a prank?

- No.

- Some religious fanatic, I suppose.

- Something of that order, probably.

Leave it with me, Your Eminence.

Sometimes I don't know what

the world's coming to.

- Should you admit to that in your position?

- I'll try and keep it under my hat.

- What's your advise?

- Don't sell. It's still a bull market.

- What do you think?

- Let me look at it first.

There's a lot of very strange

people out there.

It's a stunt for money.

That's my view, but I could be wrong.

I wouldn't go that far, Dirk.

The insurance companies have been using

the 'Act of God' clause for at least 400 years.

- So it's stood the test of time.

- Regardless of profound shifts in theological debates,

social and political changes,

and man's effect on the environment.

Intellectually speaking

it's sort of a 'woolly mammoth'.

- A 'woolly mammoth'? I don't follow.

- Don't you?

- The mammoth died out.

- I know that, Anna.

Never mind. The insurance companies

have been under a lot of pressure lately...

As far as I'm concerned

it's a one-day-wonder.

- For once I agree with you, David.

- A wilful, egomaniacal idiot.

But David, it is Steve.

He leaves a stain on the couch and bolts.

- Absolutely.

- You know he won't go through with it.

Christ Almighty!

I'll tell you what, Arthur.

It was a great idea coming down here.

Not many dogs have ideas as good as that.

- Hi. Caught any fish?

- Nah, just seagulls, tiger snakes, that sort of thing.

- Do you know someone called Steve Myers?

- Yes. Big Irish guy. Crutches.

- He's over there.

- Great. Thanks.

- Mr. Myers?

- No, not me. Got the wrong guy.

- I know you.

- No, no. Somebody else.

You're the guy from the restaurant.

I'm just a tourist from New Zealand,

I'm here on holiday.

I'm sorry you didn't like what I wrote.

I didn't like being knocked over.

What do you want me to do?

Jump in the ocean and drown?

I don't want you to do it.

Don't you want to talk to them?

Why don't you want to talk to them?

I don't want those people

crawling all over my family.

- You're gonna have to sooner or later.

- Go away and take your friends with you.

- Leave me alone and bugger off.

- You're better off talking to me.

- You? I don't think so.

- Wait.

Hurry up, there.

Come on, Arthur.

Come on.

Quick.

Will you behave yourself!

You're not a dog.

Help me.

Look at the way you're rocking

the boat. Crazy person.

Stop the boat.

Towel?

Thanks for the help.

Give him a good rub and be careful

with the ears. They're very delicate.

- Tell me again, what did you agree with her?

- I didn't agree to anything with her.

She wants an exclusive.

She holds the rest of them an arm's length,

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