Two Lovers Page #2

Synopsis: Leonard Kraditor is a burned-out case, living with his immigrant parents after his fiancée left him, helping out at their Brooklyn dry cleaners, taking photographs, at loose ends, suicidal. In quick succession, he meets two women: Sandra, the daughter of his parents' business associates, frank, direct, sensual, Jewish like Leonard; and, his neighbor Michelle, mercurial, rootless, fun, blond, unattainable. Michelle is in love with a married man and cries on Leonard's shoulder; Sandra wants to save him. Is Leonard willing to risk losing Sandra's fidelity for the moments Michelle's moods swing toward him? Can this end well?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): James Gray
Production: Magnolia Pictures
  3 wins & 17 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
74
Rotten Tomatoes:
83%
R
Year:
2008
110 min
$2,997,417
Website
1,986 Views


- Report back.

- I'll call you for dessert.

Eh?

I wasn't expecting

visitors.

Yeah, you've got

a lot of stuff in here.

Yeah.

I wasn't planning on being

home for so long, so...

I gotta organize this place.

I don't know what the f***.

Oh, when--

when did you get back?

Uh, about

four months ago.

Mmm.

What are we doing?

Oh, yeah-- pictures.

You can sit down

if you want.

Okay.

- Let's see.

- You have a lot of DVDs.

Yeah.

You like movies?

Yeah, I love

movies.

Yeah? Like what?

What do you like?

Well, my favorite

movie is probably...

"The Sound of Music."

Not because of

the film, really,

but because, you know,

whenever it's on,

my family always watches it.

It's that kind of thing.

No, that's a good movie.

It's underrated.

Yeah.

Can I look at these?

Yeah, those are--

that's a good pile.

This is

the garbage pile.

Oh, these are nice.

Oh, thanks.

Yeah, this one I like.

Look at it.

This one's nice too.

But you don't have any

people in them really.

Yeah, well,

you know.

People look at 'em-- they

don't have to be in 'em too.

I like this one.

Thanks.

Gotta be in the moment.

So what--

what do you do?

I work at Pfizer in

the city-- it's a drug company.

Yeah, I know it well.

I have some ones with

some people in it.

I was just

going through these--

who's-- who's that

in this photo here?

Oh, that was-- I don't even

know what that's doing there.

That's so weird.

That was my fiance.

- Your fiance?

- Yeah.

You were engaged.

Yeah,

a couple years ago.

She's gone, though.

She moved away.

What happened?

You know, um--

We got these genetic tests

and we were both positive

- for Tay-Sachs disease.

- Oh.

It means if we ever had kids, they'd

be, like, dead after a year, so...

Yeah.

She didn't want to adopt

and, well,

that was that.

I'm so sorry.

Mmm, probably for

the best.

Leonard? Sandra?

Dessert's on the table.

Okay!

You know, um...

our parents

wanted us to meet.

Well, no, I have to

tell you the truth.

Actually, I wanted

to meet you.

Yeah?

Yeah.

I saw you at

your parents' store

and I just...

You were asking

your mother to dance with you.

It was

very cute.

Sounds like something

I would do.

You two, dessert's on the table.

Yeah, we heard you

the first time!

Sorry.

She's really serious

about her desserts.

We should probably go.

She's...

gonna have an aneurysm.

- We'll hang out after.

- Okay.

Um, yeah. Okay.

I'm just gonna put this away.

Leonard?

Stop horsing around.

Three deliveries--

one right near here

and the other two

are in Sheepshead Bay.

Okay.

And don't lose

the clothes again.

- You're gonna put us out of business.

- God willing.

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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