“Beautiful Thing” quotes
(1996)
Title Beautiful Thing
Year 1996
Director Hettie Macdonald
Genre Drama, Comedy, Romance
Year 1996
Director Hettie Macdonald
Genre Drama, Comedy, Romance
Plot – The scene is set in a proletarian british suburb where Jamie, Ste and Leah live. Jamie has problems to settle in school and he's mocked by his classmates. Ste is good at sports but is beaten at home by his alcoholic father and his dealer brother. Leah is expelled from school and spends her free time hearing 'The Mamas & The Papas' music. When Ste runs away from home, he finishes in Jamie's bed and discovers to be homosexual.
All actors – Meera Syal, Martin Walsh, Steven M. Martin, Andrew Fraser, John Savage, Scott Neal, Glen Berry, Julie Smith, Linda Henry, Jeillo Edwards, Tameka Empson, Anna Karen
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“- Jamie Gangel: You know who Claude Monet is?
- Sandra Gangel: Jamie, don't make me out to be thick.
- Jamie Gangel: Who was he then?
- Sandra Gangel: He painted the Sixteenth Chapel.”“- Sandra Gangel: What's his problem?
- Jamie Gangel: He's in love, that's all.”“- Sandra Gangel: What happened? School burned down, did it?
- Jamie Gangel: Yeah.
- Sandra Gangel: What was it this time? IRA bomb?
- Jamie Gangel: Fundamentalist Muslim pyromaniacs.
- Sandra Gangel: Oh, funny, that. Looked all right when I walked past it.”“Now you just remember I won a year's supply of toilet freshener for making up that poem. That took brains and artistry, that did.”
“- Ste Pearce: Do you think I'm queer?
- Jamie Gangel: It don't matter what I think.”“- Jamie Gangel: How do you know it's a gay bar?
- Sandra Gangel: Cos it's got a bloody great pink neon arse outside of it!”“- Sandra Gangel: What's wrong with Madonna?
- Leah Russell: She's a slag.”“- Ste Pearce: You cannot transmit the HIV virus by frottage. What's frottage?
- Jamie Gangel: It's yogurt. It's French.”“All I want outta life is enough money to buy a decent pair o'shoes that don't let in the rain.”
“- Jamie Gangel: That'll be the phone.
- Sandra Gangel: Well it wouldn't be the bloody Hoover bag, would it?”“- Leah Russell: Don't suppose you've got any jobs in your new pub?
- Sandra Gangel: No. But if I ever do turn it into a brothel I'll get back to you, ok?”
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