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"[first lines] Saturday, March 24, 1984. Shermer High School, Shermer, Illinois, 60062. Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. What we did was wrong. But we think you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. What do you care? And you see us as you want to see us - in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. You see us as a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal. Correct? That's the way we saw each other at 7:00 this morning. We were brainwashed."
"Chicks cannot hold their smoke, dat's what it is."
"Screws fall out all the time; the world is an imperfect place."
"Hey, how come Andrew gets to get up? If he gets up, we'll all get up…it'll be anarchy!'"
"[to Claire] You know how you said before that your parents use you to get back at each other? Wouldn't I be outstanding in that capacity?"
"Yeah, I got a question. Does Barry Manilow know that you raid his wardrobe?"
"They only met once, but it changed their lives forever."
"They were five total strangers, with nothing in common, meeting for the first time. A brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel and a recluse. Before the day was over, they broke the rules. Bared their souls and touched each other in a way they never dreamed possible."
"Five strangers with nothing in common, except each other."
"Emilio Estevez — Andrew "Andy" Clark"
"Anthony Michael Hall — Brian Ralph Johnson"
"Judd Nelson — John Bender"
"Molly Ringwald — Claire Standish"
"Ally Sheedy — Allison Reynolds"
"Paul Gleason — Vice Principal Richard Vernon"
"John Kapelos — Carl, the Janitor"
"[on the loudspeaker] Attention Rex Manning fans, to your left you will notice a shoplifter being chased by night manager, Lucas. This young man will be caught, deep fried in a vat of hot oil and served to our first hundred customers. [chuckles] Just another tasty treat from the gang at Empire Records."
"We mustn't dwell... no, not today. We CAN'T. Not on Rex Manning day!"
"[answers phone] Empire Records, we're open 'til midnight. [pause] Midnight."
"[into television camera] Damn the man. Save the Empire."
"Open 'til Midnight."
"They're selling music but not selling out."
"Damn the Man! Save the Empire!"
"This music is the glue of the world. It holds it all together."
"What's with today, today?"
"Anthony LaPaglia - Joe Reaves"
"Maxwell Caulfield - Rex Manning"
"Debi Mazar - Jane"
"Rory Cochrane - Lucas"
"Liv Tyler - Corey Mason"
"Johnny Whitworth - A.J."
"Robin Tunney - Debra"
"Renee Zellweger - Gina"
"Ethan Embry - Mark"
"Coyote Shivers - Berko"
"Brendan Sexton - Warren"
"James 'Kimo' Wills - Eddie"
"Brandon Crawford - Couch Kid #2"
"Ben Bodé - Mitchell"
"Look, you can't always like what you do. Sometimes you just do it because it's your job. And even if you don't like it, you just gotta do it anyway."
"People, people.... I think we all know what's going on here. Up until now everything around here has been, well, pleasant. Recently certain things have become unpleasant. It seems to me that the first thing we have to do is to separate out the things that are pleasant from the things that are unpleasant."
"Where am I going to see colors like that? Must be awfully lucky to see colors like that. I bet they don't even know how lucky they are."
"At last My love has come along My lonely days are over And life is like a song."
"Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup, They slither while they pass, they slip away across the universe. Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting through my open mind, Possessing and caressing me. Jai Guru Deva Om. Nothing's gonna change my world."
"Nothing is as simple as Black and White."
"Pleasantville — It's Just Around the Corner."
"Reliable TV Repair · We'll fix you for good."
"Pleasantville is a morality tale concerning the values of contemporary suburban America by holding that social landscape up against both the Utopian and the dystopian visions of suburbia that emerged in the 1950s."
"Every now and then, a movie comes along that does the motion picture industry proud. … What seems at first to be a gently satiric nostalgia piece gradually turns serious when the twins introduce spontaneity and a dose of 90′s reality to Pleasantville’s pre-programmed denizens. This reality virus, manifesting as color, gradually spreads through the town. While this awakening adds color, knowledge and diversity to their previously rote existence, the unprepared citizens must also come to grips with such decidedly unpleasant scourges as intolerance, violence and racism. When that once-charming black and white 1950′s Main Street view transforms into B&W newsreel-like footage of a book burning, hatred-spewing mob chanting “No Coloreds,” the film certainly tempers our nostalgia – and cleverly fires its warning shots right across our bow. Sure times are tough in the 90′s, but it ain’t all bad and the “good old days” weren’t always all that good. This is an exquisite, timely film. It’s nice to know that occasionally, even Hollywood does something right."
"The wonder or this film, its grand feat, is to recast the nostalgic and imperturbably pleasant black-and-white landscape of Pleasantville as in need of a strong dose of our violent, endangered, live-and-in-color, three-dimensional world. The film identifies as repressive (and ultimately dangerous) the "false front" of Pleasantville as it contrasts with the emotional untidiness of "real life." By the end, instead of continuing to hope his actual family becomes like the one on Pleasantville, the brother models the no longer idealized Pleasantville on "real life.""
"Pleasantville is one of the year's delights. It flies off the screen with a freshness and wonder that tickle you with the though that film itself is reborn, not just the characters in Gary Ross's allegorical fairy tale. The device Ross uses as springboard on behalf of passion and intensity — and the antinostalgic belief that you can't go back, only forward, is simply brilliant and brilliantly simple."
"Though writer/director Gary Ross works in some heavy-handed strokes, his portrait of stodgy Eisenhower America dazzles with some of the loveliest imagery of any 1990s film."
"In the twilight of the 20th century, here is a comedy to reassure us that there is hope — that the world we see around us represents progress, not decay. Pleasantville, which is one of the year's best and most original films, sneaks up on us. It begins by kidding those old black-and-white sitcoms like Father Knows Best, it continues by pretending to be a sitcom itself, and it ends as a social commentary of surprising power."
"The film observes that sometimes pleasant people are pleasant simply because they have never, ever been challenged. That it's scary and dangerous to learn new ways. The movie is like the defeat of the body snatchers: The people in color are like former pod people now freed to move on into the future. We observe that nothing creates fascists like the threat of freedom. Pleasantville is the kind of parable that encourages us to re-evaluate the good old days and take a fresh look at the new world we so easily dismiss as decadent. Yes, we have more problems. But also more solutions, more opportunities and more freedom. I grew up in the '50s. It was a lot more like the world of Pleasantville than you might imagine. Yes, my house had a picket fence, and dinner was always on the table at a quarter to six, but things were wrong that I didn't even know the words for."
"Ambitious, ingenious and visually breathtaking, Pleasantville is a rarity in contemporary filmmaking; a fully-realized vision that succeeds on multiple levels. Writer and director Gary Ross has crafted a wondrous experience that satisfies as a comedy, a fantasy, a drama and a parable. Movies don't get much better than this."
"Hollywood satire is not usually this enjoyable: Both savage and silly, Pleasantville is an absolute blast."
"It never rains, the highs and lows rest at 72 degrees, the fire department exists only to rescue treed cats, and the basketball team never misses the hoop. … Pleasantville is a false hope. David's journey tells him only that there is no "right" life, no model for how things are "supposed to be.""
"Parents need to know that Pleasantville raises many ideas about modern troubled times versus old-time simplicity, as well as freedom, responsibility and tolerance. The movie contains many sexual situations, as the naïve TV characters learn about sex for the first time, but the movie handles them gracefully. … High schoolers may appreciate the way that the twins, at first retreating in different ways from the problems of the modern world, find that the rewards of the examined life make it ultimately worthwhile. Parents and teens alike will find many things to think and talk about after watching Pleasantville, including the movie's parallels to (book burning) and American Jim Crow laws ("No colored" signs), and the challenges of independent thinking. Also intriguing is the path of Jennifer's character. At first, she thinks that it is sex that turns the black and white characters into color. But when she stays "pasty," she realizes that the colors reveal something more subtle and meaningful — the willingness to challenge the accepted and opening oneself up to honest reflection about one's own feelings and longings."
"This movie is about the fact that personal repression gives rise to larger political oppression...That when we're afraid of certain things in ourselves or we're afraid of change, we project those fears on to other things, and a lot of very ugly social situations can develop."
"Tobey Maguire - David/Bud"
"Reese Witherspoon - Jennifer/Mary Sue"
"William H. Macy - George Parker"
"Joan Allen - Betty Parker"
"Jeff Daniels - Bill Johnson"
"J. T. Walsh - Big Bob"
"Don Knotts - TV Repairman"
"Marley Shelton - Margaret"
"Paul Walker - Skip Martin"
"Jane Kaczmarek - David's Mom"
"Erik MacArthur - Will"
"Dawn Cody - Betty Jean"
"Maggie Lawson - Lisa Anne"
"Andrea Baker - Peggy Jane"
"Lela Ivey - Miss Peters"
"Jim Patric - Tommy"
"Marc Blucas - Basketball Hero"
"I am looking for a "dare to be great" situation."
"I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that."
"She broke up with me. What do I do? Can she come back? How can I get her back? I can't - I can't get her to talk to me. It's all so fucked up. I feel like crying. She gave me a pen. I gave her my heart and she gave me a pen."
"[leaving a message for Diane] Maybe I didn't really know you. Maybe you were just a mirage. Maybe the world is full of food and sex and spectacle and we're all just hurling towards an apocalypse, in which case it's not your fault. I'm been thinking about all these things and... you're probably standing there monitoring. And one more thing - about the letter. Nuke it. Flame it. Destroy it. - It hurts me to know it's out there. Later."
"What I really want to do with my life - what I want to do for a living - is I want to be with your daughter. I'm good at it."
"She's got every thing going for her. He's going for her with every thing he's got."
"To know Lloyd Dobler is to love him. Diane Court is about to know Lloyd Dobler."
"A Lloyd meets girl story"
"John Cusack - Lloyd Dobler"
"Ione Skye - Diane Court"
"John Mahoney - Jim Court"
"Lili Taylor - Corey Flood"
"Polly Platt - Mrs. Flood"
"Bebe Neuwirth - Mrs. Evans"
"Jeremy Piven - Mark"
"Eric Stoltz - Vahlere"
"Philip Baker Hall - IRS Boss"
"Joan Cusack - Constance Dobler"
"It's about falling in love. For the first time."
"There's nothing wrong with being different."
"A boy that just won't be beaten."
"Corey Haim - Lucas"
"Kerri Green - Maggie"
"Charlie Sheen - Cappie"
"Courtney Thorne-Smith - Alise"
"Winona Ryder - Rina"
"Tom Hodges - Bruno"
"Ciro Poppiti - Ben"
"Guy Boyd - Coach"
"Jeremy Piven - Spike"
"Elliot Page - Juno MacGuff"
"Michael Cera - Paulie Bleeker"
"Jennifer Garner - Vanessa Loring"
"Jason Bateman - Mark Loring"
"Allison Janney - Bren MacGuff"
"J. K. Simmons - Mac MacGuff"
"Olivia Thirlby - Leah"
"Eileen Pedde - Gerta Rauss"
"Rainn Wilson - Rollo"
"That's the best euphemism for getting the total crap kicked out of you that I've ever heard."
"[to his entire school] My name is Charlie Bartlett, and I'm no longer a virgin!"
"[tapping head] Viagra! Virgin! Vino! Vagabond! Vagina!"
"I'm just a stupid kid."
"Well duh dude, this place sucks. But I just worry that one day we're gonna look back at high school and wish we'd done something different."
"Oh, trust me doc, bringing psychiatric drugs and teenagers together is like opening a lemonade stand in the desert."
"[last line] Would you like to talk about it?"
"I'm fit as a fucking fiddle."
"Never attack a drunk guy with a gun!"
"[speaking of Charlie's father] There are worse crimes than tax evasion, you know."
"I'll see you in the sequel, bitch!"
"[with Charlie, trying to convince Principal Gardener to let the drama group perform Kip's play] Sir, would it help if I said I'd be considerably less likely to end my life if you let us do this?"
"Popularity is a state of mind."
"When Charlie Bartlett listens everyone talks."
"First come. First cured."
"Anton Yelchin - Charlie Bartlett"
"Kat Dennings - Susan Gardner"
"Robert Downey, Jr. - Nathan Gardner"
"Tyler Hilton - Murphey Bivens"
"Hope Davis - Marilyn Bartlett"
"Mark Rendall - Kip Crombwell"
"Jake Epstein - Dustin Lauderbach"
"Megan Park - Whitney Drummond"
"Lauren Collins - Kelly"
"Derek McGrath - Superintendent Sedgwick"
"Stephen Young - Dr. Stan Weathers"
"Abby Zotz - Mrs. Crombwell"
"Drake - A/V Jones"
"Sarah Gadon - Priscilla"
"Can I make one suggestion? Can we make this the least amount of destruction possible?"
"Fuck, Fuck, Fuck, Fuck! [Car runs out of gas] Fuck! Fuck!"
"Oh yeah, those sailors want their money back."
"I've got a Subway card with four stickers on it."
"But, I like this place!"
"Trent you and your pretty sweater better step aside [gets punched]."
"I'll help you get your girl back, but if you go to jail a virgin I won't be sticking around, now give me twenty-five cents Carlotta."
"Let me paint you a picture; You go back, they bust you, you go to jail, Sheeni gets on with her life, fuck Sheeni."
"[getting whipped by Wescott] You through, big man? [Wescott continues whipping]"
"I'm not going anywhere. Not until you sink your filthy dick into this tomato."
"You're going to Juvenile Detention. You'll be out in three months. [kisses Nick]"
"Nicky you didn't! You could have killed me."
"I wasn't fooled for one second when I saw that ugly woman walking to your door. I've called the police, you're going to jail."
"That stuff's strong, so only take two."
"Bad break, Nick!"
"Every "Revolution" Needs A Leader"
"He Wasn't a Rebel Until He Found His Cause."
"The revolution begins January 8"
"Michael Cera - Nick Twisp/François Dillinger"
"Portia Doubleday - Sheeni Saunders"
"Jean Smart - Estelle Twisp"
"Mary Kay Place - Mrs. Saunders"
"Zach Galifianakis - Jerry"
"Justin Long - Paul Saunders"
"Ray Liotta - Lance Wescott"
"Steve Buscemi - George Twisp"
"M. Emmet Walsh as Phil Saunders"
"Jonathan Bradford Wright as Trent Preston"
"Erik Knudsen - Leroy "Lefty""
"Adhir Kalyan - Vijay Joshi"
"Fred Willard - Mr. Ferguson"
"Aria Graynor - Lacey"
"Rooney Mara - Taggarty"
"Jade Fusco as Bernice Lynch"
"[voiceover] The rumors of my promiscuity have been greatly exaggerated. I used to be anonymous, invisible to the opposite sex. If Google Earth were a guy, he couldn't find me if I was dressed up as a 10-story building. Pretty cutting edge stuff, huh? A high school girl feeling anonymous. Who am I? What does it all mean? Why am I here? Blah! But don't worry. This isn't one of those tales, though it sure started out that way. And then it changed pretty quickly when I started lying about some very personal things. So, let the record show that I, Olive Penderghast, being of sound mind and below average breast-size, swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth... starting now."
"[to Marianne] We've had nine classes together since Kindergarten...ten if you count Religion of Other Cultures, which you didn't because you called it science fiction and refused to go."
"[to Brandon as she removes her panties] Relax. Jesus. What is with you gays? Are you really that repulsed by lady parts? What do you think I have down there? A gnome?"
"That's the one thing that trumps religion...capitalism."
"Whatever happened to chivalry? Does it only exist in 80's movies? I want John Cusack holding a boombox outside my window. I wanna ride off on a lawnmower with Patrick Dempsey. I want Jake from Sixteen Candles waiting outside the church for me. I want Judd Nelson thrusting his fist into the air because he knows he got me. Just once I want my life to be like an 80's movie, preferably one with a really awesome musical number for no apparent reason. But no, no, John Hughes did not direct my life."
"[On webcam] And here you all are. Waiting for me outside the bedroom door for me to kiss Todd. Listening to me pretend to have sex with Brandon. Paying me to lie for you, and calling me every name in the book. And you know what? It was just like Hester in The Scarlet Letter. Except that's the one thing movies don't tell you: how shitty it feels to be an outcast. Warranted or not."
"[on webcam, about Todd] I might even lose my virginity to him. I don't know when it will happen. You know, maybe in five minutes, or tonight, or six months from now, or maybe on the night of our wedding. But the really amazing thing is, it is nobody's goddamn business."
"[to Olive] You've made your bed...I just hope for your sake, you've cleaned the sheets."
"Jesus tells us to love everyone, even the whores and the homosexuals. But it's so hard, it's so hard because they keep doing it, over and over again."
"Principal Gibbons: This is public school. If I can keep the girls off the pole and the boys off the pipe, I get a bonus."
"Mrs. Griffith: I'm the guidance counselor. I should know all the students, especially the ones that dress like prostitutes."
"Let's not and say we did."
"The rumor-filled totally FALSE account of HOW I RUINED my flawless reputation."
"A Comedy about a Good Girl, a Small Favor and a Big Rumor."
"Emma Stone – Olive Penderghast"
"Penn Badgley - "Woodchuck" Todd"
"Amanda Bynes - Marianne Bryant"
"Dan Byrd - Brandon"
"Thomas Haden Church – Mr. Griffith"
"Patricia Clarkson – Rosemary Penderghast"
"Stanley Tucci - Dill Penderghast"
"Cam Gigandet - Micah"
"Lisa Kudrow – Mrs. Griffith"
"Malcolm McDowell - Principal Gibbons"
"Alyson Michalka - Rhiannon "Rhi" Abernathy"
"Fred Armisen - Pastor Bryant"
"Look, I can't go out with you, because... because... because I'm a lesbian."
"In case you haven't noticed, I'm a woman now. I wear a bra!"
"Libby! Stop putting Angus in the fridge."
"Libby, this is Robbie. Libby! Stop licking Robbie! She thinks she's part cat."
"I already feel fed up with boys... and I haven't had anything to do with them yet!"
"I'm not boy lingual yet."
"4: I don't care anymore about looking perfect, it's so overrated! And 5: I don't need a nose job or blond hair, 'cause my sex-god boyfriend likes me JUST the way I am! Result!"
"I don't want to be surrounded by sheep and hobbits!"
"Dave the Laugh: [to Georgia] You're beautiful."
"Rosie Barnes: [after seeing Lindsay's thong] That is shocking."
"Dave the Laugh: Nunga nungas!"
"Rosie Barnes: Phwoar, they are gods!"
"Georgia Nicholson is not mental, but her life is."
"Georgia Groome - Georgia big nose"
"Aaron Johnson - Robbie Jennings"
"Karen Taylor - Connie Nicolson"
"Alan Davies - Bob Nicolson"
"Eleanor Tomlinson - Jas"
"Manjeeven Grewal - Ellen"
"Georgia Henshaw - Rosie"
"Kimberley Nixon - Lindsay"
"Sean Bourke - Tom"
"Tommy Bastow - Dave"
"Don't die wondering, man."
"[to Duncan, later repeated verbatim by Duncan to Susanna] Water Wizz Waterpark. Built in the summer of '83, it's the last bastion of everything that period stood for. In fact, it was decreed by its creator that this place shall never age. On his deathbed, he said "I don't want this place re-painted or updated I don't even want it brought up to code. And the minute somebody tries, it needs to be destroyed." We actually have a nuclear bomb for just such an occasion. Bought it off the Russians."
"Liam James - Duncan"
"Steve Carell - Trent Ramsey"
"Toni Collette - Pam"
"Allison Janney - Betty"
"AnnaSophia Robb - Susanna"
"Sam Rockwell - Owen"
"Maya Rudolph - Caitlyn"
"Rob Corddry - Kip"
"Amanda Peet - Joan"
"Jim Rash - Lewis"
"Nat Faxon - Roddy"
"Robert Capron - Kyle"
"River Alexander - Peter"
"Ava Deluca-Verley - Katy"
"Zoe Levin - Steph Ramsey"
"Adam Riegler - Neil"
"Jake Picking - Chad"
"Wait... I lost an earring. NOBODY MOVE!"
"Loser loser, double loser, whatever, as if, get the picture. DUH!"
"Relax Claire, this isn't Epcot!"
"Somebody call the fashion police, i'm making this citizens arrest!"
"Uh, conversation between the taco and burrito, nacho!"
"Even worse, you left me for Kuh-Laire!"
"It looks like Jenna's lips got a boob job!"
"Ellen Marlow as Claire Lyons"
"Elizabeth McLaughlin as Massie Block"
"Bridgit Mendler as Kristen Gregory"
"Samantha Boscarino as Alicia Rivera"
"Sophie Anna Everhard as Dylan Marvil"
"Vanessa Marano as Layne Abeley"
"Keli Price as Chris Abeley"
"Dylan Minnette as Todd Lyons"
"Elizabeth Keifer as Judi Lyons"
"Neal Matarazzo as Jay Lyons"
"David Chisum as William Block"
"Julie Lauren as Kendra Block"
"Boris McGiver as Isaac"
"Angel Desai as Nurse Adele"
"Camila Vignaud as Fawn"
"Elizabeth Gillies as Shelby Wexler"
"The best thing about now, is that there's another one tomorrow."
"Compared to other kids, I haven't had that many hardships... not really. Shit's... Stuff's happened, sure, but stuff always happens right? But the real challenge of my life, the real hardship is me. It's always been me."
"P.S. - I don't know if this was due a long time ago. Probably was. That's fine. It may be too late for this essay. But it's not too late for me."
"You think beauty's in some classroom or some textbook, and it's not. That's not what it's about. This right here. This is beautiful. All of this. That's all you need."
"Once you've actually talked to her, you see who she is."
"I liked her... a lot."
"I like to think there's more to a person than just one thing."
"Stay out of my motherfucking business, Krystal!"
"Cassidy: [to Sutter] You'll always be my favorite ex-boyfriend."
"Miles Teller - Sutter Keely"
"Shailene Woodley - Aimee Finecky"
"Brie Larson - Cassidy"
"Mary Elizabeth Winstead - Holly Keely"
"Jennifer Jason Leigh - Sara Keely"
"Kyle Chandler - Tommy Keely"
"Dayo Okeniyi - Marcus"
"Andre Royo - Mr. Aster"
"Bob Odenkirk - Dan"
"Kaitlyn Dever - Krystal"
"Masam Holden - Ricky"
"Gary Weeks - Joe"
"Whitney Goin - Mrs. Finecky"
"Nicci Faires - Tara"
"There are two types of people in the world: The people who naturally excel at life. And the people who hope all those people die in a big explosion."
"I just had a horrible thought... I’m going to have to spend the rest of my life with myself."
"Nick, I like you. I want you to put your mouth on my tits. We can do it in the Petland stockroom."
"Don't be awkward. Socialize."
"[in the bathroom] Please. Please, god, help me. Why do I even bother? Why do I even... You've never given me one thing. Any time I ask you for anything, you're like, "oh, you need help with something? Let me help you. I'm just playing. I'm gonna butt-fuck you some more. [she reaches for toilet paper, but there is none left.]"
"Wow. I actually was writing my own suicide note just now. “I have 32 fleeting minutes of happiness during lunch, which has been eaten up again and again by the same especially badly dressed student, and I finally thought I would rather have the dark nothingness. It sounds so relaxing. Have a nice life without me, fuckers.”"
"Life's about taking risks. Don't be afraid to put yourself out there."
"Darian: Life isn't fair sometimes, Nadine, okay? You gotta get over it!"
"Hailee Steinfeld - Nadine Franklin"
"Haley Lu Richardson - Krista"
"Blake Jenner - Darian"
"Woody Harrelson - Mr. Bruner"
"Kyra Sedgwick - Mona"
"Hayden Szeto - Erwin Kim"
"Eric Keenleyside - Tom"
"Laine MacNeil - TCBY Yogurt Girl"
"Katie Stuart - Jeannie"
"Alexander Calvert - Nick Mossman"
"Meredith Monroe - Greer"