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Overview

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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Roger Hedden (play)
Roger Hedden (screenplay)
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Release Date:
9 April 1993 (USA) more
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Nick is leaving. Beth is staying. Carol is waiting. Sid is painting. more
Plot:
Nick is a feckless television salesman who gets fired and impulsively decides that he and his girlfriend... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
Excellent indie film with real-life couple as leads more (22 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Phoebe Cates ... Carol

Bridget Fonda ... Beth

Tim Roth ... Nick

Eric Stoltz ... Sid

Alicia Witt ... Elizabeth

Sandra Ellis Lafferty ... Yard Sale Lady (as Sandra Lafferty)
Sidney Dawson ... TV Customer

Jon Proudstar ... Station Attendant
Scott Johnson ... Chip
Kezbah Weidner ... Dine Woman

Peter Fonda ... Motorcycle Rider

Amaryllis Borrego ... Waitress
Rich Wheeler ... Elizabeth's Grandfather
Scott Frederick ... TV Store Kid
Warren Burton ... Radio Preacher (voice)
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95 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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In the end credits there is a special thanks to Harvey Keitel. He was not involved in the movie as such, but he made a very important phone call to Tim Roth. Roth had been offered a big and well paid part in a big budget film immediately before this low budget independent film was to begin shooting. Harvey Keitel made a phone call to Roth, giving him the following advice "Don't take the money. Take the film you really want to make". So Roth stayed with this project. more
Goofs:
Continuity: Driving toward home after his last day at work in Enfield, Nick passes the same American flag twice. more
Quotes:
Nick: You agreed to try Butte.
Beth: I know. Butte, Montana, 'city of the future'.
Nick: Yeah, and I read that a while ago, so the future's probably already there.
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References Powaqqatsi (1988) more
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Hot Burrito #1 more

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4 out of 6 people found the following comment useful.
Excellent indie film with real-life couple as leads, 18 December 2004
9/10
Author: williamsbros from New York, NY

"sex, lies and videotape" doesn't really have much on this film, except for a more prurient twist. Like Steven Soderbergh's seminal indie hit, "Bodies, Rest and Motion" is an intelligent drama dealing with life as a twentysomething in middle (and middle-class) America. It's tightly written, excellently acted and doesn't sound a false note along the way, except for perhaps the mystical scene in the young redhead's house when Tim Roth goes searching for his estranged parents. But that's a small quibble. Revisit this lost gem, which showcases Eric Stoltz's best role and performance, and his real-life lover at the time, Bridget Fonda, as the put-upon Olive Garden waitress who always seems to pick the wrong guy -- this time Roth as a morally bankrupt Circuit City salesman. Phoebe Cates is just right as Roth's ex-lover turned neighbor, who forgives him everything, except perhaps his treatment of Fonda.

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