“In America” quotes
(2002)
Title In America
Year 2002
Director Jim Sheridan
Genre Drama
Year 2002
Director Jim Sheridan
Genre Drama
Plot – Johnny and Sarah Sullivan are two Irish immigrants who travel to New York with their two daughters and find an apartment in a chaotic building. Many drug addicts, drag queens and odd characters live there as well. The parents work to fix the apartment and think America is full of challenges and dangers, while their daughters think the country is a magical place where anything can happen.
All actors – Paddy Considine, Samantha Morton, Sarah Bolger, Emma Bolger, Neal Jones, Randall Carlton, Ciaran Cronin, Djimon Hounsou, Juan Carlos Hernández, Nye Heron, Jason Salkey, Rene Millan, Sara James, Bob Gallico, Jason Killalee, Chary O'Dea, Adrian Martinez, Merrina Millsapp, David Wike, Guy Carleton, Elaine Grollman, Nick Dunning, Michael Sean Tighe, Jennifer Seifert, Kathleen King, Eilish Scanlon, Tom Murphy, Des Bishop, Bernadette Quigley, Frank Wood, Molly Glynn, Jer O'Leary, Regina Roe, Tamla Clarke, Carmen Regan, Nisha Nayar, Rodrigo Pineda Sanchez, Gabriela Quintero Lopez
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“- Johnny: Why would you wanna be the same as everybody else?
- Ariel: 'Cause everybody else goes trick-or-treating. It's what they do here for Halloween.”“- Christy: Cool? Where'd you hear that?
- Ariel: I don't know, I just heard it.
- Christy: You're already American, it's disgusting!”“- Christy: What if I have it? Mateo's disease.
- Johnny: That's not possible. God won't let that happen to you.
- Christy: You don't believe in God.”“If the baby dies, just don't wake me up.”
“- Mateo: What was Frankie like?
- Johnny: A warrior who is not afraid to go to the other side.”“When luck comes knocking on your door, you can't turn it away.”
“- Sarah: You're the only actor in the world who can't lie. If you can't touch somebody you created, how can you create somebody that'll touch anybody?
- Johnny: What are you going on about?
- Sarah: Acting. And bringing something to life, it's the same thing. That's why you can't get a job acting, because you can't feel anything.”“In what? In God? I asked Him a favor once. I asked Him to take me instead of him. But He took both of us.”
“There's some things you should wish for and some things you shouldn't. That's what my little brother Frankie told me. He told me I only had three wishes, and I looked into his eyes, and I don't know why I believed him.”
“Mom was always crying because he was her son. But he was my brother too. I cried too, when no one was looking. I talked to him every night until I realized I was talking to myself.”
“- Mateo: Where you from?
- Christy: Ireland.
- Mateo: You came all the way to America to trick or treat?”
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