“Kicking and Screaming” quotes
(1995)
Title Kicking and Screaming
Year 1995
Director Noah Baumbach
Genre Drama, Comedy, Romance
Year 1995
Director Noah Baumbach
Genre Drama, Comedy, Romance
Plot – Some students have just graduated. Grover wants to be a novelist, but he has a writer's block after Jane, his great love, has left the city. Max is supported by his wealthy parents, while Skippy enrolls again to attend all the lessons he has lost before. Otis has retired long ago and everyone spends time at the bar meeting new girls. When fall arrives, new students start the university. Otis now works in a video store, Skippy and Max lead a melancholy routine and all reflect on advantages and disadvantages of the last changes.
All actors – Josh Hamilton, Samuel Gould, Catherine Kellner, Jonathan Baumbach, John Lehr, Olivia d'Abo, Peter Czernin, Carlos Jacott, Chris Eigeman, Eric Stoltz, Eliza Roberts, Jason Wiles
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“How do you make God laugh? Make a plan.”
- Grover: I've been to Prague. Well, I haven't "been to Prague" been to Prague, but I know that thing, that "Stop shaving your armpits, read the Unbearable Lightness of Being, date a sculptor, now I know how bad American coffee is" thing.
- Jane: They have good beer there.
- Grover: "Now I know how bad American beer is" thing.“- Grover: If we were an old couple, dated for years, graduated, away from all these scholastic complications, and I reached over and kissed you, you wouldn't say a word, you'd be delighted, probably, but if I was to do that now it'd be quite forward, and if I did it the first time we ever met you probably would hit me.
- Jane: What do you...” (continue)(continue reading)“- Kate: I'm going to be 17 tomorrow.
- Max: Wow, now you can read Seventeen magazine and get all the references.”“- Grover: Gotta go sleep with a freshman.
- Max: Yeah, me too.”“You know, even though all 618 of us were wearing caps and gowns out there today, I couldn't help but think it was a coincidence that we were both wearing black.”
“I'm nostalgic for conversations I had yesterday. I've begun reminiscing events before they even occur. I'm reminiscing this right now. I can't go to the bar because I've already looked back on it in my memory... and I didn't have a good time.”
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