“The Osterman Weekend” quotes
(1983)
Sam Peckinpah
directed this movie
in 1983
Title The Osterman Weekend
Year 1983
Director Sam Peckinpah
Genre Drama, Thriller, Action
Year 1983
Director Sam Peckinpah
Genre Drama, Thriller, Action
Plot – CIA agent Lawrence Fassett asks John Tanner, a famous television interviewer, to collaborate with him. They have to unmask a Russian organization as some of Tanner's friends are its members and John is waiting for them to spend together a weekend. He has to act like an intermediary to convince one of them to change his side.
All actors – Rutger Hauer, John Hurt, Craig T. Nelson, Dennis Hopper, Chris Sarandon, Meg Foster, Helen Shaver, Cassie Yates, Sandy McPeak, Christopher Starr, Burt Lancaster, Cheryl Carter
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“Think of them as fleas on a dog hit by a car driven by a drunken teenager whose girlfriend just gave him the clap. It will help you sense of perspective.”
“I know Maxwell Danforth very well; he killed my wife. Not with his bare hands, of course. The Danforths of the world don't murder that way. They use words like terminate, exterminate.”
“The truth is just a lie that hasn't been found out.”
“- Fassett's Wife: You will be showing me how to live.
- Lawrence Fassett: How do you know so much?
- Fassett's Wife: I don't know so much. But I know you will be leaving me.”“What you've just witnessed is, in many ways, a life-sized video game. You saw a liar talk to a killer and you couldn't tell them apart. But hey, it's only television. As you may know, television programs are just the filler between attempts to steal your money. So if you want to save some, turn me off. It's a simple movement, done with the hand...” (continue)(continue reading)
“- Maxwell Danforth: Suppose I was to tell you that our enemies are capable of impairing rational thought, of dismantling our willingness to defend ourself, of dissociating whole societies from their value systems.
- John Tanner: You mean they've got televisions.”“- Motorcycle Cop: I like your stuff, Mister Osterman. Only sometimes I think you tend to be a little strident, ya know.
- Bernard Osterman: Strident? Are you giving me a ticket for strident writing, are you? That means the death penalty for Beverly Hills parking violations is coming back too?
- Motorcycle Cop: Have a nice day.
- Bernard Osterman...” (continue)(continue reading)
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