the cat's in the bag & the bag's in the river

a curation of clips, quotes, anecdotes, and flicks from my favorite films

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i have wasted thousands and thousands of kisses on you - kisses that i thought were special because of your lips and your smile and all your color and life. i used to think that was the real you, when you smiled. but now i know you don’t mean any of it. you just save it for all your songs. shame on me for kissing you with my eyes closed so tight.

—faye dolan, that thing you do! (1996)

i’m guy patterson, i’m from erie, pennsylvania, i’m in a band called the wonders and we just cut a record, we’re out here on the coast and i play the drums and i have all your records — well not all of them but a lot of them — but ah at least i did until some of them got swiped when i was stationed in germany and you were playing in germany at the time that i was stationed there, but you know what i couldn’t see you because you were playing in hamburg and i was stationed in munich but i listen to your records and i think you’re great.

—guy patterson, that thing you do! (1996)

“that thing you do!”
that thing you do!
1996
tom hanks
tom hanks, johnathon schaech, tom everett scott, steve zahn, ethan embry, liv tyler

the wonders

  • mr. white: next, this "oneders", with the o-n-e, it doesn't work. it's confusing. from now on, you boys'll just be... simply "the wonders."
  • lenny: as in, i *wonder* what happened to the o'needers?
  • that thing you do! (1996)

coffy & grover

  • coffy: go on and take this shot!
  • grover: i can't; that'll kill me!
  • coffy: maybe it will and maybe it won't, but if it do, you gonna fly through them pearly gates with the biggest fucking smile st. peter ever seen!
  • coffy (1973)

pam grier in coffy (1973)

it’s all bullshit except the pain. the pain of hell. the burn from a lighted match increased a million times. infinite. now, ya don’t fuck around with the infinite. there’s no way you do that. the pain in hell has two sides. the kind you can touch with your hand; the kind you can feel in your heart… your soul, the spiritual side. and ya know… the worst of the two is the spiritual.

—charlie, mean streets (1973)