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| Year: | 2005 |
| Rating: | 6.0(1397) |
| Listed in: | Comedy, Drama, Sport |
| Directed by: | Michael Hoffman |
| Actors: | Michael Keaton Robert Downey Jr. Griffin Dunne Ari Graynor Bebe Neuwirth Shalom Harlow |
| "Where were *you* on that night?" | |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| Michael Hoffman | |
| Actors | |
| Michael Keaton | as Nicky Rogan |
| Robert Downey Jr. | as Steven Schwimmer |
| Griffin Dunne | as Elliott Litvak |
| Harris Yulin | as Peter Redmond |
| Roger Rees | as Jack Haskins |
| Tom Aldredge | as Michael Rogan |
| Amir Ali Said | as Matthew |
| Rock Kohli | as Ramaswamy Choudhry |
| John Tormey | as George, Georgie, Giorgio |
| Frank Ciornei | as Anatoli Kaganovich |
| Uzi Parnes | as Yehoshafat Bodenheim |
| Neal Jones | as Yessiree Bob |
| Andrew Benator | as Restaurant Worker |
| Paul Woodburn | as Restaurant Worker |
| Arnie Burton | as Actor/Waiter |
| Patrick Ssenjovu | as Ibrahim Moshoeshoe |
| Harry Bugin | as Dodgie |
| Bobby Steggert | as Son in Play |
| Ken Barnett | as Young Waiter |
| Wade Mylius | as Bathroom Fighter #1 |
| Eric Zuckerman | as Bathroom Fighter #2 |
| David Guion | as Lone Eagle |
| Blackie | as Cat |
| Roger Clemens | as Himself - Red Sox Pitcher |
| Bern Cohen | as Hasidic Rabbi |
| Danny Doherty | as Stagehand |
| Elli | as Hassidic Rabbi Walking |
| Chuck Gerena | as Cab Driver |
| Christopher Jon Gombos | as Mets Fan |
| Jeffrey Grossman | as Usher #1 |
| Matt Lish | as Bar Patron |
| Gary Mahmoud | as Intense Mets Fan |
| Chiko Mendez | as Homeless Man/Driver |
| Loukas Papas | as Gray Mercedes Benz Driver |
| Keith P. Scott | as Waiter |
| Vin Scully | as Himself - Game Announcer |
| Tony Torn | as The Real Waiter |
| Joe Wissler | as Bartender |
| Actresses | |
| Ari Graynor | as Laurel Rogan |
| Bebe Neuwirth | as Joanna Bourne |
| Shalom Harlow | as Paisley Porter |
| Nadia Dajani | as Renee Simons |
| Lillias White | as Toyota Moseby |
| Catherine O'Hara | as Lillian Rogan |
| Susan Lay | as Waitress |
Movie info
| Languages: | English, Mandarin, Hindi |
| Budget: | USD 1,000,000 |
| Plot: | Nicky Rogan's new play is opening on Broadway and many agree, he has written the best play his career. Or has he? Critic Steven Schwimmer is slated to review and he's ruined many a playwright with his scathing words. Nicky is becoming concerned, but instead chooses to obsess over his Red Sox and their chances again the Mets in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series. Will the Sox and his play come crashing down on the same night? |
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"My Family" Written by Phil Palombi Performed by Tri-Fi Courtesy of Cap Records "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" (1908) Lyrics by Jack Norworth Music by Albert von Tilzer (as Albert Von Tilzer) Performed by Curtis Stigers Courtesy of Concord Records |
Goofs
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DATE: Articulated buses in NYC did not exist in 1986. They appeared in revenue service in 1997. Continuity: When Nicky is at his father's home he is cooking eggs. When he brings the eggs over to the table he has the egg beater and then when the camera angle changes he has a spatula. This goes back and forth a couple of times in this scene. DATE: Across the street from the theater showing Nicky's new play, there is a poster for the musical, Brooklyn. The musical opened on October 21, 2004, the night after the Red Sox won the ALCS on the way to winning their first World Series since 1918. CHAR: In one of the taxi/traffic scenes, a passenger in the car behind Michael Keaton's character is out of the car looking to see the cause of traffic. The passenger is an Orthodox Jew. However, this movie takes place on a Saturday (10/25/86), the Jewish Sabbath. An orthodox Jew would not be allowed in a car on Sabbath. CHAR: After Wally Backman flies out to the Red Sox left fielder leading off the bottom of the 10th inning, Michael Keaton's character says something about how he flew out to the right fielder. Even the most novice baseball fan wouldn't make this mistake. DATE: A fan is seen wearing a Mets jersey, with an underscore under the word METS. The underscore was put on Mets uniforms in the early 90s. |
Quotes
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Anatoli Kaganovich: I opened thousands of brains. Nicky Rogan: What'd you find? Anatoli Kaganovich: Big mess every time. Nicky Rogan: The Red Soxs are always winning, until they lose. [Nicky Rogan, in a taxi cab, sees his daughter in an adjacent taxi, exits his, and joins her in hers] Nicky Rogan: How come I don't see you any more? Where are you, all day? Laurel Rogan: [laughs sardonically] I'm at college. Thought you knew. Nicky Rogan: You wanna get a coffee? Laurel Rogan: I don't drink coffee, Daddy. This is not what we should be talking about. Nicky Rogan: What do you want to talk about? I'll talk about anything you want to talk about. What's this? [He picks up her radio] Laurel Rogan: Senior Play tonight, remember? Nicky Rogan: Why do you need a radio? Laurel Rogan: So I can listen to the ball game at intermissions! Do you know that Mother is seeing a prominent divorce lawyer? Nicky Rogan: Don't talk like that! Man! How prominent? What are you implying? Laurel Rogan: She's doing like those Iranians. I divorce thee. I divorce thee. I divorce thee. Laurel Rogan: [to her father] You know what Mother said to me? That Daddy's demons are so intense, he doesn't even know when he's lying. Nicky Rogan: I don't get it. What's the fuss? Elliott Litvak: He reviewed that one-act I did at the Fulton Fish Market. We did this play at four in the morning. Outdoors. In the rain. One performance. For fish handlers. Nicky Rogan: And he was there? Elliott Litvak: Steven Schwimmer. I memorized every line of this review. Nicky Rogan: That's awful. Elliott Litvak: I recite it to myself with masochistic relish. Elliott Litvak: I can't write one word without imagining what his response is going to be. I am paralyzed as an artist. Nicky Rogan: See, I don't have the problems you artists have. Elliott Litvak: You've been saying that for years. Nicky Rogan: What? Elliott Litvak: "No, I'm just a professional. I'm a dues-paying member of the Guild." You are afraid, Nicky. That's the darkest part of you. Nicky Rogan: When the Mets lose, they just lose. It's a flat feeling; there's nothing there. Now the Red Sox, now, here, we have a rich history of really fascinating ways to lose a crucial game. You know what I mean? Defeats that just keep you awake at night. They pound in your head like the hammer of fate. Yeah, you can analyze a Red Sox game day and night for a month and still uncover really complex layers of feelings. Feelings you didn't even know you were capable of having. Yeah. That kind of pain has a memory all of its own. Joanna Bourne: [to Nicky] I just can't take it any more. He forgets simple lines, he forgets where to stand, and we tell him and we tell him and we tell him. I know he's a sweet man; I love Peter; I know it's not his fault. But I have never worked on a show where the leading man has a parasite in his brain. Paisley Porter: [describing theater critic Steven Schwimmer to Nicky:] Steven not only wears disguises. He goes to the theater armed. Paisley Porter: I didn't understand until today how much pain and anxiety you've been causing everybody with your reviews. Steven, it's completely unfair. Steven Schwimmer: It's unfair? Paisley Porter: Yes. Steven Schwimmer: The truth is always unfair. Paisley Porter: Well, it doesn't have to be. Steven Schwimmer: Why do you think I live this way? Why do you think I'm, I'm taking electricity from the lamp-post [he gestures outdoors] and hiding out? Why? Paisley Porter: Because you choose to. Steven Schwimmer: No. Because people who write the truth are the outcasts of society. I can't live openly. I can't live in a nice door-man building, with my name on the mailbox, because they'd, they'd come after me in packs! Paisley Porter: Not if you wrote the truth gently. Steven Schwimmer: [in an upset tone] But the truth is never gentle. Nicky Rogan: I coulda been happy. I coulda been a Yankees fan. Lillian Rogan: I want to be fair-minded, Nicky. Nicky Rogan: [taking his attention away from the ball game on the pub's television] All right. All right. Okay. What's going on? Lillian Rogan: I've been talking to a prominent divorce lawyer. Nicky Rogan: [very seriously] How prominent? Lillian Rogan: He has his own submarine. [Toyota has mistaken Nicky for a murderous gangster, but because he speaks quietly, she speaks fearlessly] Toyota Moseby: Your problem is, you want to take the easy way out. Losing is easy. Nicky Rogan: No. Winning is easy. Losing is complicated. Losing's a lifetime's work. [They are watching the baseball game in a pub] Toyota Moseby: Life is good! Nicky Rogan: Baseball is life! |
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