“Simple Men” quotes
(1992)
Title Simple Men
Year 1992
Director Hal Hartley
Genre Drama, Crime, Romance
Year 1992
Director Hal Hartley
Genre Drama, Crime, Romance
Plot – After many years of separation, McCabe brothers - Bill, a low-end criminal and vaguely misogynistic, and Dennis, a staid and introverted philosophy's student - go along the streets of New York to find their father, a former baseball star and an openly declared anarchist, who's accused of multiple murder. Along the way, the two will meet the energetic bartender Kate, with whom Bill falls in love, and the enigmatic and epileptic Elina.
All actors – Robert John Burke, Bill Sage, Karen Sillas, Elina Löwensohn, Martin Donovan, Mark Chandler Bailey, Chris Cooke, Jeffrey Howard, Holly Marie Combs, Joe Stevens, Damian Young, Marietta Marich
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“- Elina: You shouldn't do that.
- Dennis McCabe: Why not?
- Elina: Because I'm your father's girlfriend?
- Dennis McCabe: My father's a womanizer. He's a married man and he stood you up.
- Elina: You have no respect for your father.
- Dennis McCabe: I don't know him. But I respect his taste in women.”“Nothing like a machine to make a man feel insignificant.”
“The law is just a contract. A contract between the rich people who own everything, and the poor people who want to take it away. And the contract says, if you break the law and get away with it fine. But if you break the rules and get caught you got to play by the rules and pay the price. It's no big moral thing, you don't need ideology to knock...” (continue)(continue reading)
“- Bill McCabe: Ned, there is no such thing as adventure. There's no such thing as romance. There's only trouble and desire.
- Ned Rifle: Trouble and desire.
- Bill McCabe: That's right. And the funny thing is, when you desire something you immediately get into trouble. And when you're in trouble you don't desire anything at all.”
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