Constant Gardener

Production Companies

• Potboiler Productions
• Epsilon Motion Pictures
• Scion Films Limited
• UK Film Council

Based on the best-selling John le Carré novel and from the Academy Award-nominated director of "City of God." In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle (Rachel Weisz) is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle (Ralph Fiennes), will leave the matter to them. They could not be more wrong. Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his late wife's infidelities, Quayle surprises everyone by embarking on a personal odyssey that will take him across three continents. Using his privileged access to diplomatic secrets, he will risk his own life, stopping at nothing to uncover and expose the truth - a conspiracy more far-reaching and deadly than Quayle could ever have imagined.

Memorable Quotes from
The Constant Gardener (2005)

Justin Quayle: Arnold Bluhm is gay, Bernard. Gay men don't rape their women friends.
Sir Bernard Pellegrin: [bemused] Well, I've known one or two very savage queens in my time.
Tim Donohue: [after a car chase through the desert] Who did you think I was?
Justin Quayle: Fuck you, Donohue! This is bandit country.
Tessa Quayle: It's like it's a marriage of convenience and all it produces are dead offspring.
Tessa Quayle: I thought you spies knew everything.
Tim Donohue: Only God knows everything. He works for Mossad.
Lorbeer: Big pharmaceuticals are right up there with the arms dealers.
Lorbeer: I only give the food to the women, Mr. Black. Women make the homes, men just make wars ... and hooch. Adam was God's first draft - He got it right with Eve. Tell that to your readers, Mr. Black.
Tim Donohue: Leave this Justin. Go home.
Justin Quayle: I can't go home. Tessa was my home.
[last lines]
Justin Quayle: [whispering] Tessa...

The Gods Must Be Crazy

Production Companies

• CAT Films
• Mimosa

Amazon.com video review: Three separate story lines set in Africa eventually come together in this 1980 film by Jamie Uys. (The film wasn't released in the U.S., where it became a huge hit, until 1984.) Story one involves a bushman whose discovery of a Coke bottle causes consternation among his tribe, story two concerns an awkward romance between a clumsy scientist and a sweet schoolteacher, and the third plot involves a group of terrorists on the run. Slapstick, satire, romance, violence--it's all here in a somewhat bumpy but entertaining movie. --Tom Keogh 

Memorable Quotes from
The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)

Narrator: Even a poisonous snake isn't bad. You just have to keep away from the sharp end.
Woman in the lunchroom: Does the noise in my head bother you?
Narrator: The rhino is the self appointed fire prevention officer. When he sees a fire, he rushes in and stamps it out.
Steyn: What do you know about women?
Mpudi: I got seven wives, how many you got?
Steyn: Why aren't you home with your seven wives?
Mpudi: I know how to marry them. Nobody knows how to live with them.
Mpudi: So how did the land rover get up the tree?
Steyn: Do you know she has flowers on her panties?
Mpudi: So that's how it got up the tree.
Mpudi: He talks about an evil thing.
Narrator: [explaining Ninau's conversation with a baboon in a tree who grabbed the Coke bottle] He spoke long and earnestly to the baboon and explained, that is an evil thing you've got there, and it brought much unhappiness to my family and it will surely bring much unhappiness to yours unless you give it back to me and let me throw it away. He spoke so earnestly that the baboon began to take note and dropped the evil thing. He said, that is a very wise thing you have done.
Mpudi: I'm teaching him how to drive, just for the hell of it. There's nothing else to do around here.
Boga: We must save ammunition, set your guns to single fire.
[Pointing and explaining a gun to his henchmen]
Boga: Look see. This is single fire, this is automatic. Why do I have to work with amateurs?
[Xixo has been thrown in jail]
Mpudi: He never seen a wall in his life, now he got walls all around him. He gonna die for sure.
Mpudi: They gave him the death sentence
Steyn: For shooting a goat?
Mpudi: No. Three month in jail. Same thing, he's gonna die for sure.

Memorable Quotes from
Thelma & Louise (1991)

J.D.: Well, I've always believed that if done properly, armed robbery doesn't have to be an unpleasant experience.
J.D.: So, tell me something, Miss Thelma. How is it you ain't got any kids? I mean God gets you something special, I think you oughta pass it on.
Thelma: Well, Daryl, that's my husband.
J.D.: Daryl?
Thelma: Yeah, he says he's not ready yet. He says he's still too much of a kid himself. He kinda prides himself on being infantile.
Louise: He's got a lot to be proud of.
Thelma: Louise and him don't get along.
Louise: That's putting it mildly.
Thelma: She thinks he's a pig.
Louise: I KNOW he's a pig.
Thelma: I don't ever remember feeling this awake.
Thelma: I've had it up to my ass with sedate.
Max: If she calls, just be gentle, you know? Like you're really happy to hear from her. Like you miss her. Women love that shit.
Louise: I'm in deep shit; Deep Shit, Arkansas.
Thelma: Are you sure we should be driving like this, I mean in broad daylight and everything?
Louise Sawyer: No we shouldn't, but I want to put some distance between us and the scene of our last goddamn crime.
Louise Sawyer: Besides, what are we gonna say about the robbery? There's no excuse for that, there's no such thing as justifiable robbery.
Max: You know, the one thing I can't figure out are these girls real smart or real real lucky?
Hal Slocumb: Don't matter. Brains'll only get you so far and luck always runs out.
Thelma: You're a real live outlaw, aren't ya?
J.D.: Well I may be an outlaw, darlin', but you're the one stealing my heart.
Louise Sawyer: In the future, when a woman is crying like that, she isn't having any fun.
Louise Sawyer: You shoot off a guy's head with his pants down, believe me, Texas ain't the place you want to get caught.
Louise Sawyer: Is he your husband or your father?
Louise Sawyer: [talking about their cabin vacation in the mountains later in the day] You mean you haven't asked him yet? Thelma, for Christ's sake. Thelma, is he your husband, or your father. It's just two days for God's sake. Don't be a child. Tell him you're with me.
[grins mischieviously]
Louise Sawyer: Tell him I'm having a nervous breakdown.
Thelma Dickerson: That don't carry much weight with Darryl. He already thinks you're out of your mind.
Darryl: [phone rings, Darryl answers] Hello?
Thelma: Darryl, it's me.
Darryl: [sounding overly cheerful] Thelma! Hello!
Thelma: [hangs up the phone] He knows.
Louise: Shit!
Darryl: [answers phone again] Yep?
Louise Sawyer: Darryl, this is Louise. Lemme talk to the police.
Darryl: Hey Louise!
Louise Sawyer: [sour tone of voice] Hi. Lemme talk to the police.
Darryl: [so sarcastically, it exposes their cover] What? What are you talking about, there's no police here.
[Hal and Max both scoff and roll their eyes]
Louise Sawyer: You finally got laid properly, I'm so proud.
Thelma: You said you 'n' me was gonna get out of town and for once just really let our hair down. Well darlin', look out 'cause my hair is comin' down!
Louise Sawyer: Certain words and phrases just keep drifting through my mind, things like, incarceration, cavity search, death by electrocution, life in prison, shit like that, know what I'm sayin', so do I want to come out alive...
Louise Sawyer: Where do you get off behaving that way with women you don't even know, huh? How'd you feel if someone did that to your mother or your sister or your wife?
Louise Sawyer: You've always been crazy, this is just the first chance you've had to express yourself.
Louise Sawyer: You get what you settle for.
Thelma: You could park a car in the shadow of his ass.
Thelma: But, umm, I don't know, you know, something's, like, crossed over in me and I can't go back, I mean I just couldn't live.
Louise Sawyer: I know, I know what you mean. Anyway, don't wanna end up on the damned Geraldo show.
[last lines]
Thelma Dickerson: [with a cliff in front of them and cops behind them]
Thelma Dickerson: OK, then listen; let's not get caught.
Louise Sawyer: What're you talkin' about?
Thelma Dickerson: Let's keep goin'!
Louise Sawyer: What d'you mean?
Thelma Dickerson: ...Go.
Thelma Dickerson: [Thelma nods ahead of them]
Louise Sawyer: You sure?
Thelma Dickerson: Yeah.
Max: [seeing Hal run toward the car] Hey!
Louise Sawyer: You let her go, you fuckin' asshole, or I'm gon' splatter your ugly face all over this nice car!
Louise: Now if you think he knows anything, hang up the phone, because the line will be tapped.
Thelma: [Dials the number]
Darryl: [Exchanges looks with police, then answers phone] Hello?
Thelma: Hey Darryl, it's me.
Darryl: [with forced cheer] Hey there, Thelma!
Thelma: [Hangs up] He knows.
Thelma: I know it's crazy, but I just feel like I got a knack for this shit.
Louise: I believe you do.
Louise: Well, we're not in the middle of nowhere, but we can see it from here. [about the money]
Jimmy: It's a place called the Vagabond Motel. It's at 1921 North East 23rd. It's under "Peaches".
Louise: What?
Jimmy: That's the code word. I miss you, Peaches.
Jimmy: Did I hear somebody say "Peaches"?
Louise: Oh my God. Jimmy.
Jimmy: That's the secret word. Show the lady what she's won, Don.
Jimmy: I want to give you something.
Louise: Give it to me here.
[Jimmy pulls out at engagement ring]
Jimmy: Why don't you try it on? You didn't see that one coming, did you?
Louise: Why Jimmy? Why now?
Jimmy: Try not to get too excited, Louise. I just flew across two states with that ring in my fuckin' hand, and uh... You know I hate to fly.
Louise: Remember when we first met?
Jimmy: Yeah.
Louise: What happened? Tell me what you said.
Jimmy: I said you had a nice pair of eyes.
Louise: And what did I say? You remember?
Jimmy: Yeah, you shut 'em. Asked me if I knew what color they were?
Louise: And what's you say?
Jimmy: I didn't know.
Louise: [She covers his eyes] Jimmy, what color are my eyes?
Jimmy: They're brown.
[first lines]
Louise Sawyer: Decaf or regular?
Girl in diner: Uh, regular, please.
Louise Sawyer: You girls are kinda young to be smokin', dontcha think? Ruins your sex drive.
State Police Pilot: [Thelma holds him at gunpoint and orders him into the trunk of the car, he sobs and begs] Please I have a wife and kids
Thelma: Oh really, well your lucky. You be sweet to them, especially your wife. My husband wasn't sweet to me, look how I turned out.
Thelma: Louise, no matter what happens, I'm glad I came with you.

My Left Foot
Production Companies

• Ferndale Films
• Granada Television
• Radio Telefís Éireann (RTE)

Amazon.com video review: Daniel Day-Lewis won a much-deserved Oscar for his wily, passionate performance as Irish artist and writer Christy Brown, whose cerebral palsy kept him confined to a wheelchair. Filmmaker Jim Sheridan (In the Name of the Father) adapts Brown's own autobiography for this spirited piece, focusing on the sometimes-difficult fellow's formative years in his large family and in love with sundry women. Day-Lewis is inspired, and Brenda Fricker (also a recipient of an Oscar for her part in this movie) is almost luminous as Christy's dedicated mother. So, too, are Ray McAnally as the hero's stormy father, and Hugh O'Conor (The Young Poisoner's Handbook) as the child Christy. All in all, this is a complete pleasure for viewers. --Tom Keogh 

Memorable Quotes from
My Left Foot (1989)

[Christy's father builds him a house next to his parents]
Mrs. Brown: Well, Christy, that's the nearest he'll ever come to saying I love you.
[Christy's nurse won't light his cigarette because it's bad for his health]
Christy Brown: I didn't ask for a fucking psychological lecture. I only asked for a fucking light.
[writing a suicide note]
Christy Brown: All is nothing, therefore nothing must end.
[sarcastically offering congratulations to Eileen, his beloved therapist ]
Christy Brown: Con-gra-tu-la-tions to you and Peter. I'm glad you taught me to speak so I could say that.
Dr. Eileen Cole: If you work with me, I'll help you say "fuck off" more clearly.
Mr. Brown: [entering a bar holding nine-year-old Christy] This is Christy Brown, my son. Genius.
Christy Brown: Fuck all love that is not 100 percent commitment!

John Q
Production Companies

• Burg/Koules Productions
• Evolution Entertainment

John Quincy Archibald's son Michael collapses while playing baseball as a result of a heart failure. Immediately, John Q. rushes Michael to the hospital's emergency room for a transplant. Unfortunately, the insurance would not cover his son's transplant. So in order for Michael's quick and complete recovery, John takes the emergency room hostage until the doctors agree to get the transplant successful.

Memorable Quotes from
John Q (2002)

John Q. Archibald: The hospital is under new management now! Free health care for everyone! 
John Q. Archibald: I AM NOT GOING TO BURY MY SON! MY SON IS GOING TO BURY ME!
Denise: They are releasing him, now you need to do something! DO YOU HEAR ME! DO SOMETHING!
John Q. Archibald: My son is dying, and I'm broke. If I don't qualify for Medicare, WHO THE HELL DOES?
Freddy B: We got sound! Boss! We got sound!
Tuck Lampley: What about picture? We need picture!
Freddy B: Hold on boss, I'm gonna make you famous!
Lester: [laughing in realization] I get it, you a member of the Slapaho Tribe.
Mitch: This country man, can't go anywhere without getting' mugged, or murdered or stabbed. Kids killin' their classmates, drivebys, ya know, I won't even go into a post office any more.
Steve Maguire: Shut up, Mitch.
Dr. Turner: No, you shut up. I hate the little bastard but he's right. You know how easy it is to get a gun in the country? In five minutes, boom, gun show.
Denise: [to Rebecca Payne, the hospital administrator] I would tell you what I think of you, but I am a Christian woman.
Mike Archibald: No goodbye, you know I don't like goodbyes. See you later!

Immortal Beloved

Production Companies

• Icon Entertainment International
• Majestic Films International

Amazon.com video review: This thrilling, speculative story about the mystery woman whom Ludwig van Beethoven once identified in a letter as his "immortal beloved" is directed by Bernard Rose (Paperhouse). Gary Oldman plays the deaf genius with tragic brutality in a series of flashbacks that arise during a connect-the-dots investigation by Beethoven's secretary (Jeroen Krabbé), who is looking into the composer's love affairs to ascertain who held the key to his heart. Rose arrives at a moving if imperfect portrait of a complicated artist, and he pays gorgeous tribute to Beethoven's stolen innocence in childhood. (You may never hear the Ninth Symphony again without thinking of Rose's beautiful image of young Ludwig immersed in cosmic rapture.) Produced by Mel Gibson's company, Icon. --Tom Keogh 

Memorable Quotes from Immortal Beloved (1994) Ludwig van Beethoven: It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer. Anton Felix Schindler: Do you know the name Ludwig van Beethoven? Frau Streicher: The composer? Anton Felix Schindler: Yes. Frau Streicher: I knew him. Anton Felix Schindler: Did he ever stay here? Frau Streicher: Are you a policeman? Anton Felix Schindler: No. Frau Streicher: Then I will not answer your questions. Anton Felix Schindler: Oh, please, I'm trying to conclude his affairs. Frau Streicher: Ah, van Beethoven is dead? Anton Felix Schindler: Alas, yes. Frau Streicher: Best thing for him. He was a terrible man. Anton Felix Schindler: Then he stayed here? Anton Felix Schindler: There can be no peace without the truth. Ludwig van Beethoven: [completely deaf, he is watching musicians perform his "Kreutzer" violin sonata] I can't hear them, but I know that they are making a hash of it. Ludwig van Beethoven: [startled to discover he has been tricked into playing piano for people observing him behind the wall] It is terrible, terrible for you to rob me in this way of my most treasured feelings! Ludwig van Beethoven: [sitting secluded in a darkened corner, Miss Guiccardi does not notice him at first] Hello. Giulietta Guicciardi: [startled, she doesn't realize who she is speaking to] Oh... I didn't see you. I have to go back. [she turns to leave] Ludwig van Beethoven: [he gets up] Oh... you are leaving me to go back to that ass who plays like a kitchen maid, all clipped and staccato. Giulietta Guicciardi: This music is beautiful. Ludwig van Beethoven: You must be Guilia Guiccardi. I hear there's quite a contest for your charms. Giulietta Guicciardi: Sir you're rude and offensive. I'm leaving. [she begins to walk away] Ludwig van Beethoven: [calling after her] Do you play the piano? Giulietta Guicciardi: [she stops] What? Ludwig van Beethoven: I intend to be your teacher. I will call for you tomorrow at 10:00. Giulietta Guicciardi: [laughs as she walks away] You will be barred from the house. Ludwig van Beethoven: [Miss Guiccardi's first piano lesson. She is playing, poorly, a little minuet. She errs, and begins pounding on the keyboard, perhaps to gets some kind of reaction from Beethoven. He says nothing until he realizes she has stopped. He gives his critique] You think that because I do not stop you, that I am not listening. [She sighs in agreeance] Ludwig van Beethoven: The manner in which you thump out the notes without the slightest thought as to their meaning is unforgivable. And your lack of passion is unforgivable. I shall have to beat you. [she offers her hand for punishment, rolling her eyes. He gives her a hard, painful slap] Ludwig van Beethoven: Music is... a dreadful thing.