5 to 7 (2014)

Frank Langella: Sam Bloom

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• Sam : A married French woman, 33 years of age, with two children. You could stop that sentence anywhere along the way, and have reason enough not to be in the relationship.

  Brian : Dad...

  Sam : These are the same French who didn't let us fly over their country on the way to Khadafi.

  Brian : Okay, but it's not her Frenchness that's really bothering you.

  Sam : No, but I can't discuss her marital or parental status, because if I do my pancreas will explode. So instead, I'm dwelling on the relatively benign, but still objectionable issue of her Frenchness.

  Brian : Okay, but...

  Sam : In the war, the French couldn't wait to give up their Jews.

  Brian : Nobody could wait to give up their Jews...

  Sam : Also, they surrendered three times in the same war. Have you any idea how hard that is to do?

  Brian : What does that have to do with anything?

  Sam : Because this is who you're dealing with.

• Sam : All I'm saying is that civilization is organized by couples, for better or worse. Frequently worse, I grant you. But there's a reason for it, which is that it's not confusing.

• Arlene : Tell us about yourself.

  Arielle : Well, I am 33, married and the mother of two.

  [Arlene sits] 

  Sam : Waiter, Canadian Club.

• Sam : Can I finish this conversation?

  Arlene : You have finished it eight times.

  Sam : In 30 years, I don't remember once ever being able to finish a sentence.

  Arlene : Well, with your subjects, you don't deserve predicates.

  Sam : Oh! What is that? A grammar insult? A syntax barb?

• Sam : [arriving at restaurant]  Your mother's standing.

  Brian : I know.

  Arlene : They have no folding chairs here.

  Sam : It's The Carlyle, Arlene.

  [to Arielle] 

  Sam : You know when we first met, she only sent back entrées. Now it's chairs.

• Arlene : [with Brian sitting in the back seat of the car]  Do you remember what you said to me after the very first time we had intercourse?

  Sam : Are you hungry?

  Arlene : Before that.

  Sam : Yes, I remember.

  [they kiss] 

• Brian : Dad, the meaning of the verb "baiser" which used to mean to kiss has changed a bit over the years.

  Sam : It has?

  Brian : Yes.

  Sam : What does it mean now?

  Brian : [whispers]  It means to fuck.

  Sam : Oh god!

  [to Arielle] 

  Sam : Pardon my french.

• Arlene : We're now officially spending that law school money.

  Sam : Half of it.

• Sam : I cannot tell you how little I wanna see a Broadway show right now.

• Arlene : We're seeing The Book of Mormon.

  Sam : It's about Mormons.

  Arlene : Not the original cast, but still.

  Sam : Yeah. It's the replacement Mormons.