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The Grifters (1990)

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Directed by
Stephen Frears

Written by
Jim Thompson, Donald E. Westlake

Cast
Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening, Jan Munroe, Robert Weems [more]


Release Date
• USA: Dec 5, 1990
DVD Release Date
• R1: Jun 30, 1998

MPAA Rating
R

Running Time
1 hour, 59 minutes

Country USA

Studio Cineplex Odeon Films, Miramax

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Other Titles
• The Grifters
• Grifters (1990)



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 Quotes from The Grifters (1990)
1
Myra Langtry: I have only one thing now. Are you interested?
Jeweler: Well, I'd have to see it, of course.
Myra Langtry: You are seeing it. You're looking right at it.
Jeweler: I see.

  
2
Simms: Put it this way, now. Say I rent to a woman, well, she has to have a room with a bath. I insist on it, because otherwise she's got the hall bath tied up all the time, washing her goddamn hair and her clothes and everything she can think of...
Simms: If you keep out the women in the first place, see, you keep out the hookers, and then you keep out the cops, and that's how you have a clean place.

  
3
Irv: Bobo wants you to go on to Delmar.
Lilly Dillon: Delmar? I never go out to California. That's a thousand miles from here.
Irv: Nine hundred. Bobo needs somebody to handle playback this time. Come on, Lilly, you don't argue with Bobo.
Lilly Dillon: I know.
Irv: Take two, three days. Call when you get there.
Lilly Dillon: Maybe I'll swing around Los Ang gleez on the way.

  
4
Doctor: The ambulance is on the way, for what good it will do.
Lilly Dillon: What? He's going to be all right!
Doctor: Mrs. Dillon, your son was in some sort of accident. He's had an internal hemorrhage, he's bleeding to death inside.
Lilly Dillon: Well, make it stop!
Doctor: His blood pressure is under a hundred. I don't think he'll live to get to the hospital.
Lilly Dillon: You know who I work for.
Doctor: Yes, yes, but that's -
Lilly Dillon: My son will be all right. If he isn't, I'll have you killed.

  
5
Myra Langtry: [off screen] I'm Roy's friend.
Lilly Dillon: Yes. I imagine you're lots of people's friend.
Myra Langtry: [taking a good look at LILLY] Oh, of course, now that I see you in the light, you're plenty old enough to be Roy's mother.
Lilly Dillon: Aren't we all?
Roy Dillon: Play nice. Don't fight.

  
6
Bobo Justus: One question. Do you want to stick to that story, or do you want to keep your teeth?
Lilly Dillon: I want to keep my teeth.

  
7
Cole: Mister Hebbing, we are talking about breaking the law here, I want to be sure you understand that. No one gets hurt, but the law does get broken.
Hebbing: Well, that's what the law's for, isn't it?

  
8
Roy Dillon: Maybe I like it where I am.
Myra Langtry: Well, maybe I don't! I had ten good years with Cole, and I want them back! I gotta have a partner! I looked and I looked and believe me, brother, I kissed a lot of fucking frogs, and you're my prince!

  
9
Lilly Dillon: Well, sure, Roy. You want me to drive up - ? Okay, fine, come on down. It won't be a home-cooked meal, you know.
Roy Dillon: Well, that's good news.

  
10
Bobo Justus: [trying to get an explanation for Lilly's horse bet] You want to talk to me straight up?
Lilly Dillon: My son.
Bobo Justus: Your what?
Lilly Dillon: My son was in the hospital.
Bobo Justus: What the fuck are you doing with a son?

  
11
Roy Dillon: It's great to get away, isn't it? Take some time off. Next week, I'll be back to work.
Myra Langtry: You already went back to work.
Roy Dillon: What?
Myra Langtry: I watched you, working the tat on those sailor boys.
Roy Dillon: Working the what?
Myra Langtry: Oh, come on, Roy, the tat. What you do for a living.
Roy Dillon: I'm a salesman.
Myra Langtry: You're on the grift, same as me.
Roy Dillon: Myra, I'm not following you.
Myra Langtry: Roy, you're a short-con operator... and a good one, I think. Don't talk to me like I'm another square!

  
12
Roy Dillon: You talk the lingo. What's your pitch?
Myra Langtry: The long end, big con.
Roy Dillon: Nobody does that single-o.
Myra Langtry: I was teamed ten years with the best in the business, Cole Langley.
Roy Dillon: I've heard the name.
Myra Langtry: It was beautiful! And getting better all the time.
Roy Dillon: Is that right?
Myra Langtry: It is, Roy. It's where you should be. What do you bring in, $300, $400 a week? We used money like that for tips!

  
13
Myra Langtry: Don't tell me. You're Addison Simms of Seattle! And we had lunch together in the fall of 1902!

  


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