“Nothing in Common” quotes
(1986)Garry Marshall
directed this movie
in 1986
Title Nothing in Common
Original title Nothing In Common
Year 1986
Director Garry Marshall
Genre Drama, Comedy, Romance
Original title Nothing In Common
Year 1986
Director Garry Marshall
Genre Drama, Comedy, Romance
Plot – David Banner is promoted creative director of a famous Chicago advertising agency. He's efficient and talented and is about to win a campaign for the Colonial Airlines. Meanwhile his mother Lorraine and his father Max are separating after 35 years of marriage and the event disturbs David. When Max must be hospitalized, Lorraine doesn't visit him, so David takes care of his father without losing his job. After years of mutual misunderstanding, finally they establish a good relationship.
All actors – Tom Hanks, Jackie Gleason, Eva Marie Saint, Hector Elizondo, Barry Corbin, Bess Armstrong, Sela Ward, Cindy Harrell, John Kapelos, Carol Messing, Bill Applebaum, Mona Lyden
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“Your best friend is your dick.”
“Mom, why don't you put on your shoes and come out of the cage? How many guys have said that to their mothers?”
“At the end, I had my father in a nursing home. I gave him the best doctors in Illinois. He was a little senile... not much. I never spent much time with him. I was too busy. Finally, when I got around to seeing him, he didn't recognize me. Till the day he died, he didn't know who the hell I was.”
“Oh, don't kiss me - I don't know where your lips have been.”
“- Max Basner: That was something we all had in common... your grandfather, me, you. We always knew how to talk a girl into bed.
- David Basner: I'm glad you still can.
- Max Basner: I can't. I can't do it anymore.”“- David Basner: I could've been a great doctor.
- Max Basner: You could've been a great anything, son.”
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