Wedding Crashers – US Box Office: USD 209.22 million

Famous quotes:

Jeremy Grey: I didn’t get a lot of sleep last night.

John Beckwith: Soft mattress?

Jeremy Grey: Yeah, it could have been the soft mattress. Or the midnight rape. Or the nude gay art show that took place in my room. One of those probably added to the lack of sleep.

John Beckwith: You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.

John Beckwith: Don’t waste your time on girls with hats. They tend to be very proper.

Jeremy Grey: Yeah? Well, the proper girl in the hat just eye-fucked the shit out of me.

[people in the next row turn round and stare at Jeremy]

John Beckwith: Why don’t you say it a little louder? I don’t think the priest heard you.

Chazz Reinhold: Mom! The meat loaf! Fuck!

Jeremy Grey: Wow. Mr. Environmental is also a hunter. That’s got to be an interesting combination.

Sack Lodge: I hunt quail, Jeremy. They’re overpopulated in this region and they’re decimating the grubworm population. You got a fucking problem with that?

Jeremy Grey: Not nearly as much as I do with the attire that you have on, or just your general point of view towards everybody. But let’s go kill some birds. I’m psyched.

Fun Fact about Wedding Crashers: 

• When Christopher Walken and Rachel McAdams are dancing at the engagement party, Walken keeps saying “fart” to keep McAdams smiling after the dancing has become quite repetitive.

Runaway Bride – US Box Office: USD 152.26 million

Famous quotes:

Ike Graham: [on the perfect proposal] Look, I guarantee there’ll be tough times. I guarantee that at some point, one or both of us is gonna want to get out of this thing. But I also guarantee that if I don’t ask you to be mine, I’ll regret it for the rest of my life, because I know, in my heart, you’re the only one for me.

[Maggie has just left her groom standing at the altar, and has jumped aboard a FedEx truck]

Ellie: Where is she going?

Fisher: I don’t know, but she’ll be there by 10:30 tomorrow.

Maggie Carpenter: Is there one ‘right’ person for everyone?

Ike Graham: No, but I think attraction is mistaken for rightness.

Maggie Carpenter: I wanted to tell you why I run – sometimes ride – away from things.

Ike Graham: Does it matter?

Maggie Carpenter: I think so.

[takes a deep breath]

Maggie Carpenter: When I was walking down the aisle, I was walking toward somebody who didn’t have any idea who I really was. And it was only half the other person’s fault, because I had done everything to convince him that I was exactly what he wanted. So it was good that I didn’t go through with it because it would have been a lie. But you – you knew the real me.

Ike Graham: Yes, I did.

Maggie Carpenter: I didn’t. And you being the one at the end of the aisle didn’t just fix that.

Coach Bob Kelly: [to Maggie, after she and Ike have just kissed] Okay, okay, okay, okay. So if you were imagining me, y-you did great.

[turns to Ike]

Coach Bob Kelly: What the hell were you doing?

Ike Graham: Uh, Bob, I’m really sorry. She… kissed me back.

Maggie Carpenter: I kissed you back.

Ike Graham: Yes, you did. You kissed me back.

Coach Bob Kelly: Yeah, caught that. You wanna tell me how long this has been goin’ on?

Maggie Carpenter: About a minute.

Ike Graham: Little longer for me.

Maggie Carpenter: [smiles] Really?

Ike Graham: Yeah.

Coach Bob Kelly: What do you expect me to say to this?

[Ike and Maggie just gaze at each other]

Coach Bob Kelly: Hello?

Ike Graham: Well, Bob, you could say, um, Well, I hope you two will be really happy together.

[Bob punches Ike in the face]

Coach Bob Kelly: I hope you two will be really happy together.

Sequel: The Pretty Woman

Fun Fact about Runaway Bride: 

• The “platypus” face that Julia Roberts makes was added after director Garry Marshall saw her making that face to entertain his grandchildren.

True Lies – US Box Office: USD 146.28 million

Famous quotes:

Helen Tasker: Have you ever killed anyone?

Harry: Yeah, but they were all bad.

Gib: [to Harry] Same thing happened to me with wife number two, ‘member? I have no idea nothing’s going on, right? I come home one day and the house is empty, and I mean completely empty. She even took the ice cube trays out of the freezer. What kind of a sick bitch takes the ICE CUBE trays out of the FREEZER?

[after watching her husband kill dozens of men,on a deserted island]

Helen Tasker: [walking next to wooden crates] I married Rambo!

[while preparing to fire a Harrier missile, from which Salim Abu Aziz is hanging from]

Harry: [presses the button] You’re fired!

[Harry is under the influence of a truth serum,in private room located on a deserted island]

Samir: Is there anything you’d like to tell me before we start?

Harry: Yeah. I’m going to kill you pretty soon.

Samir: I see. How, exactly?

Harry: First I’m going to use you as a human shield. Then I’m going to kill this guard over here with the Patterson trocar on the table. And then I was thinking about breaking your neck.

Samir: And what makes you think you can do all that?

Harry: You know my handcuffs?

Samir: Mmm-hmm.

Harry: [holds up his hands] I picked them.

[Samir gasps. Harry springs up from his chair and grabs Samir, using him as a shield while he kills the guard, then breaks Samir’s neck]

Fun Fact about True Lies: 

• When Harry tells Gib that Helen is having an affair, Gib tells a story about his second wife taking everything when she left him, even the ice cube trays from the freezer. This is a direct reference to Tom Arnold’s divorce from Roseanne Barr that was happening simultaneously – she was reported to have taken his ice cube trays when she left him. Arnold told the story to James Cameron on the set while saying: “What kind of sick bitch takes the ice cube trays out of the freezer?” Cameron thought the line was hilarious and incorporated it into the film.

The Blair Witch Project – US Box Office: USD 140.54 million

Famous quotes:

Heather Donahue: I just want to apologize to Mike’s mom, Josh’s mom, and my mom. And I’m sorry to everyone. I was very naive. I am so so sorry for everything that has happened. Because in spite of what Mike says now, it is my fault. Because it was my project and I insisted. I insisted on everything. I insisted that we weren’t lost. I insisted that we keep going. I insisted that we walk south. Everything had to be my way. And this is where we’ve ended up and it’s all because of me that we’re here now – hungry, cold, and hunted. I love you mom, dad. I am so sorry. What is that? I’m scared to close my eyes, I’m scared to open them! We’re gonna die out here!

Joshua Leonard: What’s that? Is that the Blair Witch? No, it’s Heather, taking a piss.

Michael Williams: You know what? I kicked the fu… I’m sorry it’s fucked up. It’s fucked up but I kicked that fucking map into the creek yesterday! It was useless! I kicked that fucker into the creek!

[laughs hysterically]

Heather Donahue: I fucking hope he’s kidding.

Michael Williams: WAHOO! WOW!

Joshua Leonard: Mike…

Michael Williams: [laughing] Holy shit.

Heather Donahue: I really fucking hope he’s kidding.

Joshua Leonard: Mike are you kidding?

Heather Donahue: I really fucking hope he’s kidding.

Joshua Leonard: Mike, are you fucking kidding?

Michael Williams: [laughing] I’m sorry, man.

Heather Donahue: You have gotta be kidding me. You have gotta fucking be kidding me!

Joshua Leonard: Is this some fucking game?

[shoves Mike]

Michael Williams: Get the fuck off me man!

[the two scuffle]

Heather Donahue: WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU OUTTA YOUR FUCKING MIND?

Michael Williams: No I’m not outta my mind! The map wasn’t doing shit all day!

Heather Donahue: DO YOU REALIZE – NOT TO YOU – BUT I KNEW WHAT THE FUCK THAT MAP SAID!

Michael Williams: I’m sorry!

Heather Donahue: YOU ARE A FUCKING ASSHOLE!

Michael Williams: I’m sorry!

Heather Donahue: You are a fucking asshole! And if we…

Michael Williams: The map wasn’t doing shit all day!

Heather Donahue: If we get hurt or if we die up here it is your fucking fault! It is YOUR… FUCKING… FAULT! DO YOU UNDERSTAND? I can’t believe you could be such an ASSHOLE! WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKING?

Heather Donahue: I’m afraid to close my eyes, I’m afraid to open them.

Josh Leonard: OK, here’s your motivation. You’re lost, you’re angry in the woods, and no one is here to help you. There’s a fucking witch and she keeps leaving shit outside your door. There’s no one here to help you! She left little trinkets, you fucking took one of them, she ran after us. There’s no one here to help you! We walked for 15 hours today, we ended up in the same place! There’s no one here to help you, THAT’S your motivation! THAT’S YOUR MOTIVATION!

Sequel: Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2

Fun Fact about The Blair Witch Project: 

• In a scene where the main actors are sleeping in a tent at night, the tent suddenly shakes violently, and they all get scared. This was unscripted, and the director shook the tent; the actors were scared.

Live Free or Die Hard – US Box Office: USD 134.53  million

Famous quotes:

Matt Farrell: You just killed a helicopter with a car!

John McClane: I was out of bullets.

Thomas Gabriel: On your tombstone it should read, “Always in the wrong place at the wrong time”.

John McClane: How about, “Yippi-kay-ay, motherfu – “

[gunshot]

Matt Farrell: [to Lucy] Wow, I know that tone. It’s just weird hearing it come from someone… with hair.

Thomas Gabriel: McClane? I thought I killed you already.

John McClane: I get that sometimes.

John McClane: You know what you get for being a hero? Nothin’. You get shot at. You get a little pat on the back, blah, blah, blah, attaboy. You get divorced. Your wife can’t remember your last name. Your kids don’t want to talk to you. You get to eat a lot of meals by yourself. Trust me, kid, nobody wants to be that guy.

Sequel: A Good Day to Die Hard; Die Hard with a Vengeance

Fun Fact about Live Free or Die Hard: 

• It took four months to assemble and combine archive footage of past American presidents, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush, to create the televised warning from Gabriel. The goal was to create a video representation of a ransom note.

The Silence of the Lambs – US Box Office: USD 130.74 million

Famous quotes:

Hannibal Lecter: A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

Hannibal Lecter: Well, Clarice – have the lambs stopped screaming?

[last lines]

Hannibal Lecter: [on telephone] I do wish we could chat longer, but… I’m having an old friend for dinner. Bye.

Clarice Starling: Dr. Lecter?… Dr. Lecter?… Dr. Lecter?… Dr. Lecter?…

Hannibal Lecter: Why do you think he removes their skins, Agent Starling?

[sarcastically]

Hannibal Lecter: Enthrall me with your acumen.

Clarice Starling: It excites him. Most serial killers keep some sort of trophies from their victims.

Hannibal Lecter: I didn’t.

Clarice Starling: No. No, you ate yours.

Hannibal Lecter: You can pass that through, now…

Hannibal Lecter: First principles, Clarice. Simplicity. Read Marcus Aurelius. Of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? What is its nature? What does he do, this man you seek?

Clarice Starling: He kills women…

Hannibal Lecter: No. That is incidental. What is the first and principal thing he does? What needs does he serve by killing?

Clarice Starling: Anger, um, social acceptance, and, huh, sexual frustrations, sir…

Hannibal Lecter: No! He covets. That is his nature. And how do we begin to covet, Clarice? Do we seek out things to covet? Make an effort to answer now.

Clarice Starling: No. We just…

Hannibal Lecter: No. We begin by coveting what we see every day. Don’t you feel eyes moving over your body, Clarice? And don’t your eyes seek out the things you want?

Fun Fact about The Silence of the Lambs:

• Jodie Foster claims that during the first meeting between Dr. Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling, Sir Anthony Hopkins’s mocking of her southern accent was improvised on the spot. Foster’s horrified reaction was genuine since she felt personally attacked. She later thanked Hopkins for generating such an honest reaction.

Sleepless in Seattle – US Box Office: USD 126.53 million

Famous quotes:

Doctor Marcia Fieldstone: People who truly loved once are far more likely to love again. Sam, do you think there’s someone out there you could love as much as your wife?

Sam Baldwin: Well, Dr. Marcia Fieldstone, that’s hard to imagine.

Doctor Marcia Fieldstone: What are you going to do?

Sam Baldwin: Well, I’m gonna get out of bed every morning… breathe in and out all day long. Then, after a while I won’t have to remind myself to get out of bed every morning and breathe in and out… and, then after a while, I won’t have to think about how I had it great and perfect for a while.

Doctor Marcia Fieldstone: Tell me what was so special about your wife?

Sam Baldwin: Well, how long is your program? Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together… and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home… only to no home I’d ever known… I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like… magic.

Annie Reed: Destiny is something we’ve invented because we can’t stand the fact that everything that happens is accidental.

Sam Baldwin: There is no way that we are going on a plane to meet some woman who be a crazy, sick lunatic! Didn’t you see “Fatal Attraction”?

Jonah Baldwin: You wouldn’t let me!

Sam Baldwin: Well, I saw it, and it scared the shit out of me! It scared the shit out of every man in America!

Walter: Look, Annie… I love you. But let’s leave that out of this. I don’t want to be someone that you’re settling for. I don’t want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn’t it?

Sam Baldwin: She wants to meet me at the top of the Empire State Building. On Valentine’s Day.

Suzy: It’s like that movie.

Sam Baldwin: What movie?

Suzy: An Affair To Remember. Did you ever see it?Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. She’s gonna meet him at the top of the Empire State Building… only she got hit by a taxi. And he waited and waited. And it was raining, I think. And then… she’s too proud to tell him… that she’s, uh…

[starts to cry]

Suzy: crippled. And he’s too proud to find out why she doesn’t come. But he comes to see her anyway. I forget why, but, oh… Oh, it’s so amazing when he comes to see her because…

[crying more]

Suzy: he doesn’t even notice that she doesn’t get up to say hello. And he’s very bitter. And you think that he’s just gonna walk out the door… and never know why she’s just lying there, you know, on the couch… with this blanket over her shriveled little legs.

[sobbing]

Suzy: Are you all right? – She’s fine. Suddenly he goes, “I already sold the painting.” And he like goes to the bedroom… and he looks and he comes out and he looks at her and he kind of just… They know and then they hug. And it’s so…

[trails off crying]

Fun Fact about Sleepless in Seattle: 

• The scene between Tom Hanks and Victor Garber crying over the movie The Dirty Dozen (1967) was completely improvised during the take.

Traffic – US Box Office: USD 124.12  million

Famous quotes:

General Ralph Landry: [20:13] You know, when Khruschev was forced out, he sat down and wrote two letters and gave them to his successor. He said – “When you get yourself into a situation you can’t get out of, open the first letter, and you’ll be safe. When you get yourself into another situation you can’t get out of, open the second letter”. Well, soon enough, this guy found himself into a tight place, so he opened the first letter. Which said – “Blame everything on me”. So he blames the old man, it worked like a charm. He got himself into a second situation he couldn’t get out of, he opened the second letter. It said – “Sit down, and write two letters”.

Robert Wakefield: [laughs] Yep.

Caroline Wakefield: [29:46] What’s Washington like?

Robert Wakefield: What’s Washington like? Well its like Calcutta, surrounded by beggars. The only difference is the beggars in Washington wear fifteen hundred dollar suits and they don’t say please or thank you.

Javier Rodriguez: [1:20:37] You like baseball? We need lights for the parks, so kids can play at night. So they can play baseball. So they don’t become burros para los malones. Everybody likes baseball. Everybody likes parks.

Robert Wakefield: [1:58:53] I can’t believe you brought my daughter to this place.

Seth Abrahams: Woah. Why don’t you just back the fuck up, man. “To this place”? What is that shit? Ok, right now, all over this great nation of ours, ‘hundred thousand white people from the suburbs are cruisin’ around downtown asking every black person they see “You got any drugs? You know where I can score some drugs?” *Think* about the effect that that has on the psyche of a black person, on their possibilities. I… God I guarantee you bring a hundred thousand black people into your neighborhood, into fuckin’ Indian Hills, and they’re asking every white person they see “You got any drugs? You know where I can score some drugs?”, within a *day* everyone would be selling. Your friends. Their kids. Here’s why: it’s an unbeatable market force man. It’s a three-hundred percent markup value. You can go out on the street and make five-hundred dollars in two hours, come back and do whatever you want to do with the rest of your day and, I’m sorry, you’re telling me that… you’re telling me that white people would still be going to law school?

Robert Wakefield: [2:13:32] If there is a war on drugs, then many of our family members are the enemy. And I don’t know how you wage war on your own family.

Sequel: Traffic 2

Fun Fact about Traffic: 

• The scene in which Michael Douglas takes his trip to the California border crossing to discuss drug interdiction was shot at the Tijuana crossing. The video and sound quality are so low, partly because it wasn’t intended to be part of the movie. Douglas, out of character, started asking Rudy M. Camacho about drug trafficking on the border. At the time, Camacho was the real-life Customs chief in charge of the California border crossings. Steven Soderbergh began filming it with a hand-held camera, praying that Camacho wouldn’t address the actor as “Mr. Douglas.”

The Sum of All Fears – US Box Office: USD 118.91 million

Famous quotes:

Bill Cabot: [to Jack] When I asked for your advice, I didn’t mean that you should actually speak.

Bill Cabot: What’s the t-shirt say?

Depot Worker: “I am a bomb technician, if you see me running…

[laughs]

Depot Worker: … try to catch up.”

[en route to Russia]

Cabot: Jack… Jack, what are you doing?

Jack: Oh… I had a date tonight, so I had to call and cancel…

Cabot: Well, don’t be stupid! Tell her where you’re going. In fact, tell her who you work for. She’ll be impressed.

Jack: [to Cathy, over the phone] OK. I work for the CIA, and the Director asked me at the last minute to come with him to Russia with him to do a nuclear arms inspection. Hello?

Cathy: That is so lame.

Jack: No, I swear, it’s because of the START treaty, we get to inspect to make sure they’re really decommissioning their nuclear arsenal…

[Cathy hangs up]

Jack: Hello… hello?

[Cabot starts laughing]

Jack: Thanks. Thanks a lot.

President Robert Fowler: [during the White House correspondents dinner] My beautiful wife, Julie, is from New Jersey. 15 electoral votes… and is, as you know, half Jewish. So we’ll take Florida’s 25 electoral votes and divide by 2. My daughter, Jeanie, is expecting her first child. If it’s a girl, she will be named Virginia. 13 electoral votes. In fact, even if it’s a boy, he’ll be named Virginia. She reminds me that I have publicly acknowledged that as a young Marine officer in Vietnam, I did, on a handful of occasions, smoke marijuana.

[pause]

President Robert Fowler: California. 54 electoral votes.

Cabot: [to Jack] You’re about to breathe air that’s way over your pay grade so listen up. You’re going to be asked for analysis and advice, so be God damn sure you know what you’re talking about before you give it. Don’t be afraid to say you don’t know. Choose your words carefully, words have a habit of being turned into policy.

Sequel: Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

Fun Fact about The Sum of All Fears: 

• Director Phil Alden Robinson changed the villains from Islamic extremists (in the novel) to Neo-Nazis. This was done because, before the September 11, 2001 attacks, he did not believe Arab terrorists could plausibly accomplish all that was necessary for the plot to work on a film. After 9/11, the production staff had to review how to present the movie to the public.

Hairspray – US Box Office: USD 118.87 million

Famous quotes:

Motormouth Maybelle: [to Seaweed and Penny] Oh, so this is love?

[pauses, then smiles]

Motormouth Maybelle: Well, love is a gift, a lot of people don’t remember that. So, you two better brace yourselves for a whole lotta ugly comin’ at you from a neverending parade of stupid.

Penny Pingleton: [deadpans] So, you’ve met my mom?

Teacher: Oh, and Mr. Larkin, perhaps you’d like to share with the rest of the class, Patrick Henry’s immortal last words?

Link Larkin: Kiss my ass?

Penny Pingleton: [looks into the camera] I am now a checkerboard chick!

[grabs Seaweed and kisses him passionately]

Link Larkin: I was just at home, practicing my new twist on The Twist, when I overheard it on the news. I can’t believe Tracy savagely bludgeoned an Eagle Scout. That’s just not like her.

Edna Turnblad: But it’s not true! I was there! He didn’t even bleed.

Link Larkin: I shoulda been there, beside her. I can’t sleep. I can’t eat…

Edna Turnblad: You can’t eat? Well, come on in and worry with us. I’ll make you some pork.

Tracy Turnblad: Negro Day’s the best! I wish every day were Negro Day!

Seaweed: At our house… it is.

Sequel: Hairspray 2: White Lipstick

Fun Fact about Hairspray: 

• Amanda Bynes’ character, Penny, is seen constantly eating lollipops. Bynes’ father, a dentist, became very worried about her dental health, as it was estimated that she ate about 40 lollipops a day. She told him that she wasn’t eating all of them when she ate them all in reality.

Enemy of the State – US Box Office: USD 111.55 million

Famous quotes:

Robert Clayton Dean: What the hell is happening?

Brill: I blew up the building.

Robert Clayton Dean: Why?

Brill: Because you made a phone call.

Brill: Do they know me?

Robert Clayton Dean: Who’s them?

Brill: Do they know me?

Robert Clayton Dean: I don’t know what you’re talking about.

Brill: You’re either very smart… or incredibly stupid.

Zavitz: Fuck a duck.

Brill: In guerrilla warfare, you try to use your weaknesses as strengths.

Robert Clayton Dean: Such as?

Brill: Well, if they’re big and you’re small, then you’re mobile and they’re slow. You’re hidden and they’re exposed. You only fight battles you know you can win. That’s the way the Vietcong did it. You capture their weapons and you use them against them the next time.

Brill: The government’s been in bed with the entire telecommunications industry since the forties. They’ve infected everything. They get into your bank statements, computer files, email, listen to your phone calls… Every wire, every airwave. The more technology used, the easier it is for them to keep tabs on you. It’s a brave new world out there. At least it’d better be.

Sequel: Enemy of the State 2

Fun Fact about Enemy of the State: 

• The N.S.A. refused to cooperate with the production. Aerial footage of their headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland, had to be shot from public air space.

Eraser – US Box Office: USD 101.30 million

Famous quotes:

Father Rodriguez: The police have returned to the safety of their doughnut shops

[John parachutes into a junkyard]

John: Where is this?

Camille: Earth. Welcome.

Tony Two Toes: There they are. Commie bastards!

Mikey: They’re not communists any more, Tony. They’re a federation of independent liberated states.

Tony Two Toes: Don’t make me hurt you, Mikey.

Calderon: Don’t you ever get tired of babysitting scumbags?

John: Yeah, but in your case I’ll make an exception.

[Johnny C is working as a bartender in a drag club. John comes to see him]

Johnny C: I got one question: was it your idea to hook me up with the Village People here?

John: Well, you’re safe, aren’t you?

Johnny C: Well, from the mob, yeah. I mean no self-respecting wiseguy would ever be caught dead in a joint like this. Only… do me one favor. Don’t let it out that I’m straight, all right? I don’t wanna break any hearts or nothing.

John: Trust me.

Sequel: Eraser: Reborn

Fun Fact about Eraser: 

• The John Kruger role was originally offered to Sylvester Stallone. He absolutely hated the script, turned the offer down, and instead starred in Cop Land (1997).

He’s Just Not That Into You – US Box Office: USD 93.95 million

Famous quotes:

Gigi: Girls are taught a lot of stuff growing up. If a guy punches you he likes you. Never try to trim your own bangs and someday you will meet a wonderful guy and get your very own happy ending. Every movie we see, Every story we’re told implores us to wait for it, the third act twist, the unexpected declaration of love, the exception to the rule. But sometimes we’re so focused on finding our happy ending we don’t learn how to read the signs. How to tell from the ones who want us and the ones who don’t, the ones who will stay and the ones who will leave. And maybe a happy ending doesn’t include a guy, maybe… it’s you, on your own, picking up the pieces and starting over, freeing yourself up for something better in the future. Maybe the happy ending is… just… moving on. Or maybe the happy ending is this, knowing after all the unreturned phone calls, broken-hearts, through the blunders and misread signals, through all the pain and embarrassment you never gave up hope.

Mary: I had this guy leave me a voice mail at work so I called him at home and then he e-mailed me to my Blackberry and so I texted to his cell and then he e-mailed me to my home account and the whole thing just got out of control. And I miss the days when you had one phone number and one answering machine and that one answering machine has one cassette tape and that one cassette tape either had a message from a guy or it didn’t. And now you just have to go around checking all these different portals just to get rejected by seven different technologies. It’s exhausting.

Gigi: [opens the door, thinking it’s Bill] Did you forget something?

Alex: Yeah…

Gigi: Really? What did you forget?

Alex: [pulls out a promotional pen from his pocket] This.

Gigi: So you came all the way here at 11 o’ clock in the night to give me a promotional pen?

Alex: Yeah… Yeah, I did. I thought I would come up with some really great excuse to get over here. That’s how it’s done, right?

Gigi: [smiles] Sometimes.

Alex: Look, I can’t stop thinking about you. I… It’s a problem. I drive by your place; I call and hang up; I’ve turned into…

Gigi: Me.

Alex: Yeah.

Gigi: A wise person once told me that if a guy wants to be with a girl, he will make it happen, no matter what.

Alex: That’s true.

Gigi: But when I was hurling my body onto yours, you did not seem to want to make it happen.

Alex: Okay, yeah, here’s the thing about that… You were right. I’d gotten so used to keeping myself at a safe distance from all these women and having the power that, that I didn’t know what it felt like when I actually fell for one of them… I didn’t know.

Gigi: Look, I just went out with your friend Bill. He might be just exactly what I need. No drama, he calls; he does what he says…

Alex: [stepping closer] I can do that stuff too…

Gigi: But you didn’t! And that same wise person told me that I’m the rule. That I have to stop thinking that every guy will change, that I have to stop thinking that…

Gigi: [Alex kisses her]

[smiles]

Gigi: … I’m the exception…

Alex: [whispers] You are *my* exception.

[they kiss again]

Alex: So trust me when I say if a guy is treating you like he doesn’t give a shit, he genuinely doesn’t give a shit. No exceptions.

Fun Fact about He’s Just Not That Into You: 

• Gigi Phillips (Ginnifer Goodwin) was named after writer Marc Silverstein’s wife, Busy Phillips, and her baby blanket (“Gigi”).

Ladder 49 – US Box Office: USD 74.54  million

Famous quotes:

Chief Kennedy: People are always asking me how is it that firefighters run into a burning building when everyone else is running out. Courage is the answer.

Chief Kennedy: It’s never an easy thing, saying goodbye to a brother firefighter, it’s not. And this time, particularly is difficult for me because I watched Jack grow into a, well, into one of the finest firefighters I’ve ever known. He joined this department because he wanted to help people, who knows how many homes are still standing because Jack was there or how many lives were spared. He gave his life for that cause. We’ll never forget you Jack. And we’re better for having known you. But I make you this one promise, tomorrow when that bell rings, we will be back on the truck, because you were the bravest of the brave. People are always asking me, how is it that firefighters run into a burning building when everyone else is running out? Well, Jack, you answered that question by saving another man’s life. Your courage is the answer. And today we will be as brave as you, by not mourning you, but by celebrating your life. So I’d like everyone to stand up and celebrate the life of Jack Morrison.

Linda Morrison: Have you ever considered baby-sitting full time?

Chief Kennedy: What do you think I do at the firehouse?

Jack Morrison: Tell Linda I love her… That I’ve loved her from the second I saw her.

Ray Gauquin: No more beer for Linda. Doubles for Jack – he’s gonna be a father!

Fun Fact about Ladder 49: 

• As part of the preparation for the movie, Joaquin Phoenix trained for a month at a fire academy and spent another month with the men of Baltimore’s Truck 10. He became an “honorary member” and had the same tattoo as the company men, a bumble bee wearing a fire helmet with an axe.

Step Up – US Box Office: USD 65.33 million

Famous quotes:

Miles Darby: Look I can play it all right? I just prefer playing with myself.

Tyler Gage: Whoa, what?

Lucy Avila: He makes it too easy.

Miles Darby: No, not playing with myself. Just listen.

Tyler Gage: What? I’m not late.

Nora: You’re not dressed either. You can change at the back

Tyler Gage: I can change here.

[taking off his jacket]

Nora: I told you to bring tights.

Tyler Gage: Do I look like I own tights?

Nora: Shoes?

Tyler Gage: I move better with them.

Tyler Gage: I’m fighting for something that’s real for the first time in my life!

Mac Carter: [after Tyler gets in a fight at a party] You feel like because you’re a white boy you got to overcompensate or something?

Tyler Gage: Wow, like wow, you got me figured out, Montel.

Mac Carter: Yeah, well you’re the one going Jerry Springer all the time.

Skinny Carter: Hey, if you’re Montel and you’re Jerry, then I’m like…

Mac Carter: Jenny Jones.

Tyler Gage: No, like Ellen.

Mac Carter: Except Ellen gets more chicks than he does!

Director Gordon: And you say that he can dance?

Nora: He’s adequate.

Tyler Gage: Adequate?

Director Gordon: See. That’s my concern. He’s not taking this seriously.

Tyler Gage: Look, I’m sorry. It’s just y’all are talking about dancing like it’s rocket science or something.

Nora: It’s just for a couple of weeks. Until Andrew gets better.

Tyler Gage: Yeah.

Director Gordon: This would be your risk Nora. It’s your Senior piece.

Nora: I know.

Director Gordon: Well, don’t make me regret my decision.

Nora: [talking to Tyler] 2:30 tomorrow. Bring your tights.

Tyler Gage: Tights? Wait. What?

Sequel: Step Up 2: The Streets

Fun Fact about Step Up: 

• Lead actors Jenna Dewan and Channing Tatum married in 2009 after meeting each other on the set of this film. They filed for divorce nine years later in 2018, which was then finalized in November 2019.