The Night We Never Met Page #4

Synopsis: Sam has a problem with his roommates: they are disgusting, and don't seem to share his views on responsibility, privacy, and basic hygiene. Such is his discomfort with his living arrangements that he agrees to share the occupancy of another flat: he gets two nights a week, the owner (a sleazy frat-boy yuppie named Brian, soon to be married) and Ellen (a would-be painter seeking relief from her boring marriage) each get their separate nights in the flat. Things go extremely well until Sam and Brian swap nights without telling Ellen, who attributes the "nice" things that happen around the place to the slob Brian, while berating the responsible Sam for his hedonistic lifestyle.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Warren Leight
Production: HBO Video
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
56%
R
Year:
1993
99 min
170 Views


but I know.

I know. yes.

Yes. Yes.

Well, maybe you were.

I'm Sam.

But I wasn't, don't you see?

I wasn't...

Not in this life.

But there's an aura I...

I know.

I know, kooky, right?

No, no.

N - not at all.

My chiropractor, Tom...

he's wonderful.

He's just amazing.

And he says that maybe

it's my alignment.

Is that veal?

Not just any veal.

I don't eat veal.

I... I don't eat meat, but

I especially do not eat veal.

Do you know how they treat

veal when it's young?

Well, actually,

veal isn't an animal.

They pen it up. Lillian says that it's...

Who's Lillian?

Lillian, my nutritionalist, she says

that it's antibiotics and steroids...

All right, well,

we don't have to eat it.

All right.

I could make an omelette.

Eggs, uh, don't combine at all.

No, they don't, do they?

I combine now.

Besides, I'm...

I'm lacto-ovo.

Well, so was my sister,

except for Chinese food.

Right.

Okay.

Uh...

Kenneth tells me that you two

went to art school together.

Oh, yes.

Um, a lifetime ago.

Wine?

No.

Alcohol...

Doesn't combine, does it?

It... it breeds yeast.

"Dear Thursday...

"You can savor

my veal stew...

or you can turn this page. "

Okay.

"I'll spare you the

humiliating details,

"but last night's date

was a wash,

"which means if you don't eat

my leftovers,

"they will spoil...

"Which brings me back

to last night's date.

Enough said. "

Yeah.

"Hope you enjoy it.

Leave me the dishes.

Yours in rent control,

wednesday. "

Hmm.

Yeah!

Football...

the Giants dropped a...

# Her name came up today

# To my surprise

# My eyes watered up

# But I didn't cry

# I pictured our

good times

# And I almost

had a laugh

# I'm finally bouncin' back

# I'm finally bouncin' back,

yeah #

# Fall and winter's gone

# I've made it

through the cold #

# Shivered through some storms,

man, all night all alone #

# I didn't like that

# I can see that silver lining #

# I see it now at last

# I'm finally bouncin' back

# I'm finally bouncin' back

# I'm finally bouncin' back

You sure... you sure you

don't want some wine?

No.

No, really.

Okay.

#... To sing again

# I've got the urge

# To dance hello.

# I can see myself again

# Giving love just

one more chance #

# I've been away too long,

way off track #

# I'm finally bouncin' back

# i'm finally bouncin' back

# I'm finally bouncin' back

# I've been away too long,

way off track #

# And I'm finally

bouncin' back #

# I'm finally bouncin' back

# I've got the

urge to dance

"Dear roommate, love what

you did to the apartment.

Ellen.

P.S., food's great. "

Let me see that note.

Nah. Official.

What?

Who's it from?

The painter chick,

the one who comes on thursday.

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Warren Leight

Warren Leight (born January 17, 1957) is an American playwright, screenwriter, film director and television producer. He is best known for his work on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Lights Out and the showrunner for In Treatment and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. His play Side Man was a finalist for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. more…

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