The Secret Lives of Dentists Page #4

Synopsis: The movie centers on a dentist who has a strange dream that blurs the boundaries between fantasy and reality.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Alan Rudolph
Production: Manhattan Pictures International
  3 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Metacritic:
76
Rotten Tomatoes:
85%
R
Year:
2002
104 min
$3,637,833
Website
38 Views


I wish we were closer...

...sometimes.

Do you think Leah's reacting

to something between us?

Are you asleep, Dave?

Dave?

David?

Smile for me.

Good. You can rinse.

Okay.

- I'll get this for you.

- Excuse me one minute.

- Hey.

- Lizzie's home with an upset stomach.

Carol came and took her home.

- Hope it's not the flu.

- It's the usual.

- Elaine's kids had it.

- I called home, she's fine.

But I didn't have time

to get anything for dinner.

Okay, so we'll see you,

what, around 6:
00?

Yeah, 6:
30. Sometime.

Okay.

Come on!

- Now it's tofu!

- Tofu. It's a soybean type of thing.

You don't have to eat any more.

You try that, honey.

Is your stomach still upset?

Hi, everybody. I'm sorry I'm late.

Hi, honey.

- Hi.

- Hi, sweetheart.

- Hi, honey. How's your tummy?

- Better.

It is? Good.

- What's for dinner?

- Oh, something I whipped up.

- It's good.

- Yeah.

Oh, good. Well, let me just

wash up and I'll be right back.

Okay?

Mommy's home!

Okay, there's...

...no inflammation...

...no fever, it's not the flu.

She doesn't want to go to school.

It's been every morning this week,

so...

You know what, Lizzie?

Sometimes...

...when mommies

and daddies argue...

...it makes a child feel bad.

- What? We're not arguing.

Dana and I?

Honey, we should go.

- Can I weigh myself?

- Can you weigh yourself?

- I don't know, can she weigh herself?

- Absolutely.

The stomach problem

she's always had...

...is going to be the focus

of all her uneasiness.

Every feeling is in the body

as well as in the mind.

We're not arguing, Danny.

Not much to tell.

We met, fell in love.

Just like that.

That was a hard week, huh?

Little Leah doesn't make it any easier.

What if she's like this forever?

Remember when Lizzie was waking

up four or five times a night?

- Stephanie swallowed that penny?

- Oh, my God.

- You know, you scare me a little.

- What?

You do, you always have.

Isn't that funny?

You don't smile much.

Not like most people do, anyway.

You're awfully tall.

Yes, you are, you're very tall.

We've been married 10 years,

I was always tall.

Remember when you'd

ride me on the handlebars?

- How can you say you don't scare me?

- I was trying to.

- Why?

- Because you scared me.

You were so f***ing smart

you scared everybody.

And you know it.

- What are we watching?

- Movie night.

By way of thanks, I betrayed him.

I broke his heart

in one way or another.

Do you like me?

I love you.

I mean, if you weren't

sleeping with me.

Would you want to talk to me

and have lunch with me, and...?

- You would?

- Yes, I would.

Do you think that we're friends?

I'll prove it to you.

I thought it would be different,

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Craig Lucas

Craig Lucas (born April 30, 1951) is an American playwright, screenwriter, theatre director, musical actor, and film director. more…

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