You know when you are flipping channels and you see a movie from the 80’s or 90’s and no matter how many times you’ve seen it you have to watch it again — or when you’re home sick and you want something silly and familiar to distract you — or just have that one movie that you can’t. stop. quoting? Well here’s a rundown of mine:
Parenthood: Steve Martin has a lot of siblings and a lot of kids. Wackiness ensues
Favorite quote: “I’m too young to be a grandmother. Grandmothers are old. They bake, and they sew, and they tell you stories about the Depression. I was at Woodstock, for Christ’s sake! I peed in a field! I hung on to The Who’s helicopter as it flew away!”
I Love You to Death: Kevin Kline cheats on his wife and she plots (badly) to kill him for it
Favorite quote: “If we keep shooting Joey, don’t you think he might get suspicious?”
Postcards from the Edge: Meryl Streep is an actress in recovery with a challenging mother
Favorite quote: “Well, maybe I was an alcoholic when you were a teenager. But I had a nervous breakdown when my marriage failed and I lost all my money…Well, I got over it! And now I just drink like an Irish person.”
Soapdish: Sally Field is a soap diva whose life on and off her show is one big melodrama
Favorite quote: “That’s depressing and it’s expensive, two words I hate. You know the words I like? I like the word ‘peppy’ and the word ‘cheap’. Peppy and cheap.”
Overboard: Goldie Hawn is a rich diva who gets amnesia and is led to believe she’s a housewife
Favorite quote: HOW CAN I CHOOSE!?!? As my mom puts it, “there’s an ‘Overboard’ quote for everything!”
“A falsetto child?”
“I’m a short, fat, slut”
“You shot a chicken?”
“It’s not us dad it’s Roy”
“But darling, if you have a baby, you won’t be the baby anymore.”
“Eat your checkers!”
“Oysters in a cold ocean at night? That doesn’t sound like me!”
Ahhh so many laughs — so many terrible trailers 🙂
she liked Imaginary Men best of all 