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Annie Reed in
Sleepless in Seattle
Storyline
After his wife died, Sam Baldwin did not think about other women. His 8-year old son Jonah thinks that his father needs a woman in order to get his life back in order and calls in on a nation-wide radio-show. The voice and story of Sam is heard by hundreds of women, including Annie Reed, who is about to marry her fiancé Walter soon. She can't find a rest until she really knows for sure that Sam Baldwin is not the one person for her. Thus, Annie travels to Seattle, where Sam and Jonah live, and there decides that Sam is not the one. The letter she never sent was posted by a friend of Annie, and therefore Jonah, who feels that she's the one for his dad, already booked a flight to New York in order to meet her on the roof of the Empire State building, just like in "An Affair to Remember". Of course, his father follows him instantly
Tagline
What if someone you never met, someone you never saw, someone you never knew was the only someone for you?
Quotes From Movie
Annie Reed: Destiny is something we've invented because we can't stand the fact that everything that happens is accidental.
Annie Reed: Now that was when people KNEW how to be in love. They knew it! Time, distance... nothing could separate them because they knew. It was right. It was real. It was...
Becky: A movie! That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.
[on an airplane to Seattle]
Nervous Woman on Plane: Don't you just hate flying?
Annie Reed: Yes, I do, and I just told the most terrible one to the man I'm about to marry. Do you feel that any lie is a betrayal?
[pause]
Nervous Woman on Plane: I said FLYING. |
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| | Alice Bowman in Proof of Life
StoryLine Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South America. Quotes Alice Bowman: Things don't happen for a reason. They just happen.
Alice Bowman: This won't work if you bullshit me.
Terry Thorne: I can see that.
Alice Bowman: You are the first, you are the only person I've met who knows what they're talking about! So I am begging you, I am totally begging you to help me out on this.
Terry Thorne: You asked me not to bullshit you?
Alice Bowman: Right.
Terry Thorne: I've gotta plane to catch.
Alice Bowman: My daughter is buried in Africa. Who can explain that!
Terry Thorne: What was her name?
Alice Bowman: Mali. Mali Jasmine Bowman
Terry Thorne: It's a beautiful name.
Alice Bowman: You know, nobody ever asked me that.
Alice Bowman: I've never seen you nervous
Terry Thorne: Yes you have.
Alice Bowman: I thought we'd get a chance...
Terry Thorne: What? To sit round and chat? The three of us?
Alice Bowman: Just tell me you know how much you mean to me.
Terry Thorne: So we're even.
Alice Bowman: No, we'll never be even. I've given you nothing.
Terry Thorne: Believe me, we're even.
Alice Bowman: You deserve more than this.
Alice Bowman: You stood in my kitchen and you told me my husband was coming home! |
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| | Sarah Hardwicke in In the Land of Women StoryLine His world in complete disorder after his break-up with a famous actress, Carter, a young TV writer, goes to suburban Detroit to care for his sickly Grandmother and heal his broken heart. Along the way he forms a special bond with the family that lives across from his Grandma, and changes the live of each woman. In the course of this, as is required in every film--and thus the world, he changes his own life as well. Quotes
Carter Webb: I pride myself on being this great listener, but whenever I meet somebody new I find I'm doing all the talking.
Sarah Hardwicke: Maybe you're not really such a great listener.
Carter Webb: Hmm?
Sarah Hardwicke: Maybe you're not such a great listener.
Carter Webb: No that's not it, I'm a great listener.
Sarah Hardwicke: Listen, Carter I need to tell you something.
Carter Webb: Good because I need to tell you something too.
Sarah Hardwicke: You first.
Carter Webb: I think your husband must be out of his mind... now what was it you had to say?
Sarah Hardwicke: Oh, it was nothing important.
Sarah Hardwicke: Listen, I don't know what happens next. I'm just going to keep loving you and I'm going to keep hoping you let me into your life. I will make mistakes, of course, but I'll always be there for you. |
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Mary Haines in The Women
Character Bio: Mary Haines is a good person, she loves her husband, child and home very much and they are the most important things to her. She is friends with a different array of people. She is kind to them all. She has a close relationship with her mother. She is so busy building the perfect life for her family that she doesnt realize that her husband is bored and slowly slipping away. StoryLine: A wealthy New Yorker leaves her cheating husband and bonds with other society women at a resort. A remake of George Cukor's 1939 film "The Women." Quotes: Peggy Day: [On the train] Listen to the wheels, don't they seem to be saying something?
Mary Haines: [Softly] No.
Peggy Day: Don't they seem to be saying... Go back, go back, go back, go back?
Mary Haines: [about Slyvia and the model arguing] Oh it's just professional jealousy, they're really very good friends!
Sylvia Fowler: Of course! She adores the Fowler family. Particularly my husband.
Countess Tamara: Are you accusing me of flirting with Howard?
Sylvia Fowler: No, my little pet, but of trying to! I'd like to see Howard bat an eye at another woman!
Countess Tamara: Well I've seen him, and she's not bad either!
Sylvia Fowler: Did you get her innuendo?
Little Mary Haines: I saw Mrs. Potter at the zoo that day.
Mrs. Moorehead: Who was she visiting with? The snakes?
Mary Haines: Oh, mother.
Little Mary Haines: As a matter a fact she was!
Sylvia Fowler: [Showing her nails to Mary] Mary, how do you like that?
Nancy Blake: Too, too adorable.
Sylvia Fowler: Ah, you have no idea how it stays on... I get it at Sydney's, you should go Mary. A wonderful new manicurist, Olga's her name, she's marvellous. Isn't that divine? Jungle red!
Nancy Blake: Looks like you've been tearing at somebody's throat!
Sylvia Fowler: [Smacks her hand on the table] I'll be darned Nancy if I let you ride me anymore!
Mary Haines: Oh Sylvia, Nancy's only trying to be clever too.
Sylvia Fowler: Well, she takes a crack at everything about me... Even my nails!
Mary Haines: Well I like them, I really do. Sydney's, Olga's, jungle red... I'll remember.
Mary Haines: [Introduces them] This is the Countess DeLave... Mrs. Howard Fowler.
Countess DeLave: [Same time] How do you do?
Sylvia Fowler: [Same time] How do you do?
Mary Haines: And Miriam Aarons.
Miriam Aarons: How do you do?
Sylvia Fowler: [Looks Miriam up and down] How do YOU do...
Mary Haines: I think I got what Mrs. Fowler's friends come in for.
Sylvia Fowler: Mary Haines, don't you have any pride?
Mary Haines: No pride at all. That's a luxury a woman in love can't afford.
Mary Haines: I've had two years to grow claws mother. Jungle red.
Mary Haines: I'll be doing the cooking so you know what he'll get.
Little Mary Haines: I know - indigestion.
Crystal Allen: You noble wives and mothers bore the brains out of me. And I bet you bore your husbands, too.
Mary Haines: You are a hard one.
Crystal Allen: I can be soft on the right occasion.
Edith Potter: [Wiping her hands on towel] Oh, cheap Chinese embroidery, you know I'll bet Peggy gave her these...
Sylvia Fowler: It wouldn't be so bad if only Mary's friends knew we could keep our mouths shut.
Edith Potter: I know plenty, I'd never breathe about my friend's husbands.
Sylvia Fowler: Oh so do I!
[They both turn around and look at each other]
Edith Potter: Well you know I adore Mary!
Sylvia Fowler: I worship her, were not only cousins, She's my dearest friend in the world, after all we WERE raised together!
[Turns around quickly]
Sylvia Fowler: Oh Edith I forgot to tell you...
[Whispers to Edith]
Mary Haines: Break it up girls! Break it up!
Edith Potter: Darling!
Mary Haines: Hello!
Edith Potter: You're so slim I could kill you.
Mary Haines: You don't have to, the diet I'm on is pure poison.
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