The Sixth Sense – US Box Office: USD 293.51 million

Famous quotes:

Cole Sear: I see dead people.

Malcolm Crowe: In your dreams?

[Cole shakes his head no]

Malcolm Crowe: While you’re awake?

[Cole nods]

Malcolm Crowe: Dead people like, in graves? In coffins?

Cole Sear: Walking around like regular people. They don’t see each other. They only see what they want to see. They don’t know they’re dead.

Malcolm Crowe: How often do you see them?

Cole Sear: All the time. They’re everywhere.

[last lines]

Malcolm Crowe: [after realizing the time has come for him to move on] I think I can go now. Just needed to do a couple of things. I needed to help someone; I think I did. And I needed to tell you something: You were never second, ever. I love you. You sleep now. Everything will be different in the morning.

Anna Crowe: [in her sleep] Good night, Malcolm…

Malcolm Crowe: Good night, sweetheart.

Cole Sear: You know the accident up there?

Lynn Sear: Yeah.

Cole Sear: Someone got hurt.

Lynn Sear: They did?

Cole Sear: A lady. She died.

Lynn Sear: Oh, my god. What, you can see her?

Cole Sear: Yes.

Lynn Sear: Where is she?

Cole Sear: Standing next to my window.

Lynn Sear: Cole, you’re scaring me.

Cole Sear: They scare me too sometimes.

Lynn Sear: They?

Cole Sear: Ghosts.

Cole Sear: [of his grandmother] She wanted me to tell you…

Lynn Sear: Cole, please stop…

Cole Sear: She wanted me to tell you she saw you dance. She said, when you were little, you and her had a fight, right before your dance recital. You thought she didn’t come see you dance. She did. She hid in the back so you wouldn’t see. She said you were like an angel. She said you came to the place where they buried her. Asked her a question? She said the answer is… “Every day.” What did you ask?

Lynn Sear: Do… Do I make her proud?

Malcolm Crowe: Once upon a time there was this person named Malcolm. He worked with children. He loved it. He loved it more than anything else. And then one night, he found out that he made a mistake with one of them. He couldn’t help that one. And he can’t stop thinking about it, he can’t forget. Ever since then, things have been different. He’s not the same person that he used to be. And his wife doesn’t like the person that he’s become. They barely speak anymore, they’re like strangers. And then one day Malcolm meets this wonderful little boy, a really cool little boy. Reminds him a lot of the other one. And Malcolm decides to try and help this new boy. ‘Cause he feels that if he can help this new boy, it would be like helping that other one too.

Cole Sear: How does the story end?

Malcolm Crowe: I don’t know.

Fun Fact about The Sixth Sense: 

• Reportedly, Haley Joel Osment got the role of Cole Sear for one of three reasons. First, he was best for it. Second, he was the only boy at auditions who wore a tie. Third, director M. Night Shyamalan was surprised when he asked Osment if he had read his part. Osment replied, “I read it three times last night.” Shyamalan was impressed, saying, “Wow, you read your part three times?” Osment replied, “No, I read the script three times.”

National Treasure – US Box Office: USD 173.01 million

Famous quotes:

Abigail Chase: What do you see?

Ben Gates: 2:22.

Abigail Chase: What time is it now?

Clothing Store Clerk: Almost 3.

Abigail Chase: [sighs] We missed it.

Riley Poole: No, we didn’t. We didn’t miss it because… you don’t know this? I know something about history that you don’t know.

Ben Gates: I’d be very excited to learn about it, Riley.

Riley Poole: Hold on one second, let me just take in this moment. This is cool. Is this how you feel all the time? Well, except now.

Abigail Chase: Riley!

Riley Poole: All right! What I know is that daylight savings wasn’t established until World War I. If it’s 3 p.m. now that means that in 1776 it would be 2 p.m.

Ben Gates: Riley, you’re a genius.

Ben Gates: [after he and Riley rescued Abigail from Ian’s truck] You all right?

Abigail Chase: No, those – those lunatics…

Ben Gates: You’re not hurt, are you?

Abigail Chase: YOU’RE ALL LUNATICS!

Ben Gates: You hungry?

Abigail Chase: What?

Ben Gates: Are you all right?

Riley Poole: Still a little on-edge from being shot at but I’ll be okay, thanks for asking.

Abigail Chase: Yeah, well I’m not all right! Those men have the Declaration of Independence!

Riley Poole: SHE LOST IT?

Ben Gates: They don’t have it.

[He pulls the Declaration out to show her]

Ben Gates: See? Okay? Now could you please stop shouting?

Abigail Chase: [She reaches for it, but he pulls it away] Give me that!

Ben Gates: You’re still shouting, and it’s really starting to annoy. You would do well, Dr. Chase, to be a little more civilized in this instance.

Abigail Chase: If this is the real one, what did they get?

Ben Gates: A souvenir. I thought it’d be a good idea to have a duplicate, turns out I was right. I actually had to pay for the souvenir and the real one, so you owe me $35, plus tax.

Riley Poole: Genius.

Abigail Chase: Who were those men?

Ben Gates: Just the guys we warned you were going to try to steal the Declaration.

Riley Poole: And you didn’t believe us!

Ben Gates: We did the only thing we could do to keep it safe.

Abigail Chase: Verdammt! Give me that!

Ben Gates: You know something? You’re shouting again.

Riley Poole: Pretty sure she was swearing too.

Ben Gates: Well, we probably deserved that.

Riley Poole: [leaving Abigail’s office after unsuccessfully trying to convince her about potential theft the Declaration of Independence] If it’s any consolation, you had me convinced.

Ben Gates: It’s not.

Riley Poole: I was thinking, what if we go public, plaster the story all over the internet? It’s not like we have our reputations to worry about. Although, I don’t think that’s exactly gonna scare Ian away.

Ben Gates: [standing in front of the Declaration of Independence] 180 years of searching, and I’m three feet away. Of all the words written here about freedom, there’s a line here that’s at the heart of all the others. “But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and provide new Guards for their future security.”

[pause]

Ben Gates: People don’t talk that way anymore.

Riley Poole: Beautiful, huh? I have no idea what you said.

Ben Gates: It means if there’s something something wrong, those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.

[pause]

Ben Gates: I’m gonna steal it.

Riley Poole: [laughs] What?

Ben Gates: I’m gonna steal the Declaration of Independence.

[walks away]

Riley Poole: [laughs, then follows Ben] Uh, Ben?

Powell: [referring to the underground staircase] How do a bunch of guys with hand tools build all this?

Ben Gates: Same way they built the pyramids – and the Great Wall of China.

Riley Poole: Yeah… the aliens helped them.

Ben Gates: It’s invisible.

Abigail Chase: Oh! Right.

Riley Poole: And that’s where we lost the Department of Homeland Security.

Sequel: National Treasure: Book of Secret; National Treasure 3

Fun Fact about National Treasure: 

• The movie includes footage from the first filming allowed in the tower of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall.

Shazam! – US Box Office: USD 140.37 million

Famous quotes:

[Shazam and Freddy confront armed robbers in convenience store]

Shazam: Gentlemen, why use guns when we can handle this like real men?

[Shazam takes gun of out robber’s hand]

Freddy Freeman: Billy, look out!

[the other robber shoots him, the bullet ricochets off him]

Freddy Freeman: Bullet immunity. You have bullet immunity!

Shazam: [shocked] I’m bulletproof.

[they both laugh before Shazam’s expression suddenly turns serious]

Freddy Freeman: [filming on his phone] Today is December 8th, and this video proof of authenticity. Shoot him again.

Shazam: [hands back the robber’s gun] Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Here, here. Go. Both of you! Come on. Go to town.

Freddy Freeman: Wait, wait, wait. We still don’t know if the suit is bulletproof, or if you are. Shoot him in the face.

Shazam: Shoot me in the face. In the face?

[both robbers shoot Shazam in his face and the bullets ricochet off him]

Shazam: It kinda tickles.

[turning back to the robbers]

Shazam: You’re dead.

[both robbers fly out the window in front of a couple]

Shazam: [walking out of store with junk food] Sorry about your window.

Freddy Freeman: Have a good night!

Shazam: But you’re welcome for not getting robbed!

Shazam: Say my name!

Freddy Freeman, Mary Bromfield, Darla Dudley, Pedro Peña, Eugene Choi: BILLY!

Shazam: No, no! Not my name, the name I said to transform into this guy!

Freddy Freeman, Mary Bromfield, Darla Dudley, Pedro Peña, Eugene Choi: SHAZAM!

Freddy Freeman: Flight or invisibility. If you could have one superpower, flight or invisibility, what would you pick? I mean, everybody chooses flight. You know why?

Billy Batson: So they can fly away from this conversation?

Freddy Freeman: No, no, ’cause heroes fly. And who doesn’t want people to think they’re a hero, right? But invisibility, no way. That’s pervy. Spying around on people who don’t even know you’re there. Sneaking around everywhere. It’s a total villian power, right?

Freddy Freeman: [meets Billy; about his and Billy’s foster parents] They seem nice, but don’t buy it. It gets real Game of Thrones around here.

Billy Batson: [becomes nervous]

Freddy Freeman: Dude, just messing around! You look at me and you’re like, “Why so dark? You’re a disabled foster kid, you got it all!”

Mister Mind: [laughs] Primitive symbols. You walking, talking monkeys with your cave drawings, you assume there’s only one means to gain magic. No, no, no, there are more ways than a mind can imagine.

Dr. Thaddeus Sivana: What in God’s name…?

Mister Mind: I name the gods, Doctor, not the other way around. Oh, what fun we’re going to have together. The Seven Realms will soon be ours.

Sequel: Shazam! Fury of the Gods

Fun Fact about Shazam!: 

• When Shazam attempts to fly into the mall during his battle with Dr. Sivana, a group of seemingly unimpressed shoppers can be seen in the background paying him little mind. Those were visible crew members that were filmed by accident. Shopping bags were inserted digitally to give them the appearance of shoppers and cover the mistake up.

Split – US Box Office: USD 138.29 million

Famous quotes:

The Beast: You are different from the rest. Your heart is pure! Rejoice! The broken are the more evolved. Rejoice.

The Beast: We are what we believe we are.

Hedwig: Holy shit, this is so cool! They are gonna believe we exist now, right?

Dennis: They are gonna have to.

Hedwig: So, what do we do now?

Patricia: [referring to The Beast] We trust in him. He’ll protect us. Look at what he can do. Let him show the world how powerful we can be.

Hedwig: [after awkwardly kissing Casey] You might be pregnant now.

The Beast: [beckoning from the darkness] We are glorious! We will no longer be afraid. Only through pain can you achieve your greatness! The impure are the untouched, the unburned, the unslain. Those who have not been torn have no value in themselves and no place in this world!

Dennis: You like to make fun of us, but we are more powerful than you think.

Fun Fact about Split: 

• Inspiration for the film, real-life multiple-personality Billy Milligan (13 February 1955 – 12 December 2014), charged with three rapes, was the first person diagnosed with multiple personality disorder to use an insanity defense because of that disorder and also the first to be acquitted thus. Milligan had 24 personalities, consisting of 10 Desirables: Billy Milligan, Arthur, Ragen Vadascovinich, Allen, Tommy, Danny, David, Christene, Christopher, and Adalana; and 13 Undesirables: Phil, Kevin, Walter, April, Samuel, Mark, Steve, Lee, Jason, Bobby, Shawn, Martin, and Timothy; and The Teacher, a fusion of all of the other personalities.

Silver Linings Playbook – US Box Office: USD 132.09 million

Famous quotes:

Pat: The only way you can beat my crazy was by doing something crazy yourself. Thank you. I love you. I knew it the minute I met you. I’m sorry it took so long for me to catch up. I just got stuck.

Pat Sr.: Let me tell you, I know you don’t want to listen to your father, I didn’t listen to mine, and I am telling you you gotta pay attention this time. When life reaches out at a moment like this it’s a sin if you don’t reach back, I’m telling you its a sin if you don’t reach back! It’ll haunt you the rest of your days like a curse. You’re facing a big challenge in your life right now at this very moment, right here. That girl loves you she really really loves you. I don’t know if Nicki ever did, but she sure as shit doesn’t right now. So don’t fuck this up.

Pat: The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That’s guaranteed. I can’t begin to explain that. Or the craziness inside myself and everyone else. But guess what? Sunday’s my favorite day again. I think of what everyone did for me, and I feel like a very lucky guy.

Tiffany: I do this! Time after time after time! I do all this shit for other people! And then I wake up and I’m empty! I have nothing!

Tiffany: Can we get through one fucking conversation without you reminding me that my goddamn husband’s dead?

Fun Fact about Silver Linings Playbook: 

• Robert De Niro (Pat, Sr.) teared up during the scene when he told Bradley Cooper (Pat, Jr.) he wished he was closer to him, which was not scripted.

Rocky IV – US Box Office: USD 127.87 million

Famous quotes:

Duke: What’s happening out there?

Rocky: He’s winning… I see three of him out there!

Paulie: Hit the one in the middle.

Duke: Right! Hit the one in the middle.

Drago: I must break you.

Rocky: Going in one more round when you don’t think you can – that’s what makes all the difference in your life.

Drago: If he dies, he dies.

[Apollo’s funeral]

Rocky: There’s a lot I could say about this man, but I don’t know if it matters now. I guess what matters is what he stood for, what he lived for, and what he died for. You always did everything the way you wanted it. And I didn’t understand that, but now I understand. I’ll never forget you, Apollo. You’re the best.”

Sequel: Rocky V

Fun Fact about Rocky IV: 

• Sylvester Stallone decided that for the shooting of the fight, he and Dolph Lundgren should hit one another for real to increase the intensity of the scene. After doing three takes of Rocky taking shots to the ribs, Stallone felt a burning in his chest but ignored it. Later that night, he had difficulty breathing and was taken to a nearby emergency room. It was discovered that his blood pressure was over 200, and he had to be flown on a low-altitude flight from Canada to St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, where he remained in intensive care for four days. What had happened was that Lundgren had punched him so hard in the chest that Stallone’s heart had slammed up against his breastbone and began to swell, cutting off the blood supply and restricting the oxygen flow throughout the body. . However, when asked about whether or not it happened while answering a series of fan questions in a 2021 interview with the Guardian, Lundgren claimed to have no recollection of the incident. “I don’t know,” he said.

Rocky III – US Box Office: USD 125.05 million

Famous quotes:

Interviewer: Do you hate Rocky?

Clubber Lang: No, I don’t hate Balboa. I pity the fool, and I will destroy any man who tries to take what I got!

[During Rocky’s training with Apollo, he’s in an another world, haunted by the first Balboa-Lang fight; Apollo lands some practice hooks]

Apollo Creed: He’s hooking. He’s hooking. He’s hooking! Damn, Rock, Come on! What’s the matter with you?

Rocky Balboa: Tomorrow. Let’s do it tomorrow.

Apollo Creed: [Screaming] There is no tomorrow! THERE IS NO TOMORROW! THERE IS NO TOMORROW!

Apollo Creed: Now, when we fought, you had that eye of the tiger, man; the edge! And now you gotta get it back, and the way to get it back is to go back to the beginning. You know what I mean?

Interviewer: What’s your prediction for the fight?

Clubber Lang: My prediction?

Interviewer: Yes, your prediction.

[Clubber looks into camera]

Clubber Lang: Pain!

Adrian: …you gotta want to do it for the right reasons. Not for the guilt over Mickey, not for the people, not for the title, not for money or me, but for you. Just you. Just you alone.

Rocky Balboa: And if I lose?

Adrian: Then you lose. But at least you lose with no excuses, no fear. And I know you can live with that.

Sequel: Rocky IV; Rocky V

Fun Fact about Rocky III: 

• According to an interview given by Mr. T, he attended the movie’s premiere with his mother. During the scene where he yells lurid remarks at Adrian, his mother turns to him and says, “I did not raise you to talk to a lady like that.” She then stormed out of the theater.

Rocky – US Box Office: USD 117.24 million

Famous quotes:

Adrian: Why do you wanna fight?

Rocky: Because I can’t sing or dance.

Adrian: It’s Thanksgiving.

Rocky: Yeah, to you it’s Thanksgiving; to me it’s Thursday.

Rocky: I can’t do it.

Adrian: What?

Rocky: I can’t beat him.

Adrian: Apollo?

Rocky: Yeah. I been out there walkin’ around, thinkin’. I mean, who am I kiddin’? I ain’t even in the guy’s league.

Adrian: What are we gonna do?

Rocky: I don’t know.

Adrian: You worked so hard.

Rocky: Yeah, that don’t matter. ‘Cause I was nobody before.

Adrian: Don’t say that.

Rocky: Ah come on, Adrian, it’s true. I was nobody. But that don’t matter either, you know? ‘Cause I was thinkin’, it really don’t matter if I lose this fight. It really don’t matter if this guy opens my head, either. ‘Cause all I wanna do is go the distance. Nobody’s ever gone the distance with Creed, and if I can go that distance, you see, and that bell rings and I’m still standin’, I’m gonna know for the first time in my life, see, that I weren’t just another bum from the neighborhood.

Mickey: You’re gonna eat lightnin’ and you’re gonna crap thunder!

Adrian: Einstein flunked out of school, twice.

Paulie: Is that so?

Adrian: Yeah. Beethoven was deaf. Helen Keller was blind. I think Rocky’s got a good chance.

Sequel: Rocky II; Rocky III; Rocky IV; Rocky V

Fun Fact about Rocky:

• After producers Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff became interested in the script, they offered Sylvester Stallone an unprecedented $350,000 for the rights. He had $106 in the bank and no car and was trying to sell his dog because he couldn’t afford to feed him, but he refused to sell unless they agreed to allow him to star in the film. They agreed on the condition that Stallone continues to work as a writer without a fee and that he works as an actor for scale. After Winkler and Chartoff purchased the film, they took it to United Artists, who envisioned a budget of $2 million with an established star, particularly Robert Redford, Ryan O’Neal, Burt Reynolds, Nick Nolte, or James Caan. When Winkler and Chartoff told United Artists that they could only get the screenplay if Stallone starred, United Artists cut the budget to $1 million. They had Chartoff and Winkler sign agreements that they would be personally liable if the film went over budget. The final cost was $1.1 million. Chartoff and Winkler mortgaged their houses for the last $100,000.

The Village – US Box Office: USD 114.20 million

Famous quotes:

Ivy Walker: Sometimes we don’t do things we want to do so that others won’t know we want to do them.

Ivy Walker: When we are married, will you dance with me? I find dancing very agreeable. Why can you not say what is in your head?

Lucius Hunt: Why can you not stop saying what is in yours? Why must you lead, when I want to lead? If I want to dance I will ask you to dance. If I want to speak I will open my mouth and speak. Everyone is forever plaguing me to speak further. Why? What good is it to tell you you are in my every thought from the time I wake? What good can come from my saying that I sometimes cannot think clearly or do my work properly? What gain can rise of my telling you the only time I feel fear as others do is when I think of you in harm? That is why I am on this porch, Ivy Walker. I fear for your safety before all others. And yes, I will dance with you on our wedding night.

Ivy Walker: I am in love.

Edward Walker: I know.

Ivy Walker: He is in love with me.

Edward Walker: I know.

Ivy Walker: If he dies… all that is life to me will die with him.

Ivy Walker: My sister cried alot. You wonder how I recognize you? Some people – just a handful, mind you – give off the tiniest color. It’s faint. Like a haze. It’s the only thing I ever see in the darkness. Papa has it, too. Do you wonder what your color is? Well, that I won’t tell you. It’s not ladylike to speak of such things. You shouldn’t even have asked.

[pause]

Lucius Hunt: You run like a boy.

Ivy Walker: Thank you. I know why you denied my sister. When I was younger… you used to hold my arm when I walked. Then suddenly you stopped. One day, I even tripped in your presence and nearly fell. I was faking, of course, but still you did not hold me. Sometimes we don’t do things we want to do so that others won’t know we want to do them.

Mrs. Clack: [Edward Walker tells the group he has sent Ivy to the towns to fetch medicines] What have you done?

Edward Walker: He is the victim of a crime.

Mrs. Clack: We have agreed never to go back. Never

Edward Walker: What was the purpose of our leaving? Don’t forget, it was out of hope of something good and right.

Robert Percy: You should not have made decisions without us!

Edward Walker: I’m guilty, Robert! I made a decision of a heart, I cannot look into another’s eyes and see the same look I see in August’s without justification! It is too painful, I cannot bear it!

Mrs. Clack: You have jeopardized everything we have made.

Edward Walker: Who do you think will continue this place, this life? Do you plan to live forever? It is in them that our future lies, it is in Ivy and Lucius that this way of life will continue. Yes I have risked, I hope I am always able to risk everything for the just and right cause. If we did not make this decision, we could never again call ourselves innocent, and that in the end is what we have protected here, innocence! That I’m not ready to give up.

August Nicholson: Let her go. If it ends, it ends. We can move towards hope, that’s what’s beautiful about this place. We cannot run from heartache. My brother was slain in the towns, the rest of my family died here. Heartache is a part of life, we know that now. Ivy is running toward hope, let her run. If this place is worthy, she’ll be successful in her quest.

Mrs. Clack: How could you have sent her. She is blind.

Edward Walker: She is more capable than most in this village. And she is led by love. The world moves for love. It kneels before it in awe.

Fun Fact about The Village: 

• Joaquin Phoenix made a wooden walking stick for Bryce Dallas Howard during the 19th-century preparation the actors participated in before the film. He engraved the name of her character, Ivy, on the walking stick.

Glass – US Box Office: USD 111.05 million

Famous quotes:

Elijah Price: This was an origin story the whole time.

Mrs. Price: They always underestimate the mastermind.

Elijah Price: [narrating] There are unknown forces that don’t want us to realize what we are truly capable of. They don’t want us to know the things we suspect are extraordinary about ourselves are real. I believe that if everyone sees what just a few people become when they wholly embrace their gifts, others will awaken. Belief in oneself is contagious. We give each other permission to be superheroes. We will never awaken otherwise. Whoever these people are who don’t want us to know the truth, today, they lose.

Elijah Price: I wasn’t a mistake, mama.

Mrs. Price: No. You were spectacular.

[last lines]

Mrs. Price: [to Joseph and Casey] I know what this is. This is the moment we are let in on the universe.

Fun Fact about Glass: 

• Samuel L. Jackson said of working with James McAvoy on the movie, “As good as I like to think I am or what I do and how I do it, watching somebody transform characters in front of your eyes and have an argument with four different people is pretty amazing.”

Creed (II) – US Box Office: USD 109.77 million

Famous quotes:

Rocky Balboa: Time takes everybody out; time’s undefeated.

Rocky Balboa: One step at a time. One punch at a time. One round at a time.

Rocky Balboa: [pointing toward Adonis’ reflection in the mirror] That’s the toughest opponent you’re ever going to have to face.

Rocky Balboa: [Creed takes cell phone photo of boxing drills and walks off] Hey don’t you want this?

Adonis Johnson: [Holds out cell phone] It’s on this.

Rocky Balboa: What if you lose it?

Adonis Johnson: It’s already in the cloud.

Rocky Balboa: [Looks in sky confused] What cloud?

Rocky Balboa: You can’t learn anything when you’re talking.

Rocky Balboa: That’s a fact of life.

Rocky Balboa: As long as you’re talking, you’re not listening.

Fun Fact about Creed (II): 

• While training, Adonis wears a shirt with the message, “Why do I wanna fight? Because I can’t sing and dance…” This was a line from Rocky to Adrian on their ice skating date in the first Rocky (1976).

Flashdance – US Box Office: USD 94.90 million

Famous quotes:

Nick: When I was a kid all I wanted was to be able to afford to eat in restaurants like this.

Alex Owens: Were you poor?

Nick: I was so poor I had hand-me-down lunches.

Nick: I’ll bring him a doggy bag if you’ll have dinner with me.

Alex Owens: I told you, I don’t think it’s a good idea to go out with the boss.

Nick: OK. Have it your way. You’re fired. I’ll pick you up tomorrow at eight.

Nick: Don’t you understand? When you give up your dream, you die.

[last lines]

Alex Owens: Can I start again?

Nick: So, what’s a dancer doing working as a welder?

Alex Owens: A girl’s got to make a living.

Fun Fact about Flashdance: 

• Jennifer Beals’ trend-setting collarless sweatshirt came about by accident. The sweatshirt, which Beals brought from home, had shrunk in the wash, and she had to cut the collar off to get it over her head. When director Adrian Lyne and costume designer Michael Kaplan saw it at the wardrobe fitting, they both loved it, and Kaplan improved the overall look of the sweatshirt for the actual shoot.

Unstoppable – US Box Office: USD 81.56 million

Famous quotes:

Oscar Galvin: I am not jeopardizing more personnel and more property just because some engineer wants to play *hero*! End of discussion! That train is our property. It’s our decision! Now you stop your pursuit or I will fire you!

Frank: [chuckles] Fire… You already did.

Oscar Galvin: Already did what?

Frank: You’ve already fired me. I received my 90-day notice in the mail… 72 days ago. Forced early retirement, half benefits.

Oscar Galvin: So you’re gonna risk your life for us with three weeks left.

Frank: Not for you. I’m not doing it for you.

Will: Mr. Galvin, this is Will Colson, your conductor. I’m letting you know we’re gonna run this bitch down.

Oscar Galvin: Well, maybe you didn’t hear what I just said, Colson. I will fire you!

Will: Well, that’s too bad. I was just starting to like this job.

Oscar Galvin: Did I or did I not tell you to get 1206 off the main?

Connie: I asked them nicely.

Oscar Galvin: [after 777 rips through the derails] What – what the hell was that?

Connie: THAT was ten million pounds of train, Mr. Galvin! And THIS is the sound of me saving your ass!

[punches the transmitter]

Connie: 1206, do you copy?

Connie: How the hell did this happen?

Dewey: It just got away from me.

Connie: It got away from you? It’s a train, Dewey, not a chipmunk!

Sequel: Unstoppable II

Fun Fact about Unstoppable: 

• The film is inspired by the “Crazy Eights” unmanned train incident in 2001. The train, led by CSX Transportation SD40-2 #8888, left its Walbridge, Ohio rail yard and began a 66-mile journey through northwest Ohio with no one at the controls after the engineer got out of the originally slow-moving train to correctly line a switch, mistakenly believing he had properly set the train’s dynamic braking system, just as his counterpart in the movie did. Two of the real train’s tank cars also contained thousands of gallons of molten phenol, similar to the fictional train in the film.

Philadelphia – US Box Office: USD 77.32 million

Famous quotes:

Joe Miller: Have you ever felt discriminated against at Wyatt Wheeler?

Anthea Burton: Well, yes.

Joe Miller: In what way?

Anthea Burton: Well, Mr. Wheeler’s secretary, Lydia, said that Mr. Wheeler had a problem with my earrings.

Joe Miller: Really?

Anthea Burton: Apparently Mr. Wheeler felt that they were too…”Ethnic” is the word she used. And she told me that he said that he would like it if I wore something a little less garish, a little smaller, and more “American.”

Joe Miller: What’d you say?

Anthea Burton: I said my earrings are American. They’re African-American.

[Andrew transcendentally describes his favorite opera,slowly walking around his apartment, closing his eyes, looking up]

Andrew Beckett: Do you like opera?

Joe Miller: I’m not that familiar with opera.

Andrew Beckett: This is my favorite aria. This is Maria Callas. This is “Andrea Chenier”, Umberto Giordano. This is Madeleine. She’s saying how during the French Revolution, a mob set fire to her house, and her mother died… saving her. “Look, the place that cradled me is burning.” Can you hear the heartache in her voice? Can you feel it, Joe? In come the strings, and it changes everything. The music fills with a hope, and that’ll change again. Listen… listen…”I bring sorrow to those who love me.” Oh, that single cello! “It was during this sorrow that love came to me.” A voice filled with harmony. It says, “Live still, I am life. Heaven is in your eyes. Is everything around you just the blood and mud? I am divine. I am oblivion. I am the god… that comes down from the heavens, and makes of the Earth a heaven. I am love!… I am love.”

Librarian: [standing next to his table] Sir, wouldn’t you be more comfortable in a study room?

[Andrew looks up and sees people in the library staring at him]

Andrew Beckett: No. Would it make you more comfortable?

Joe Miller: [in a bar, to Filko, after seeing Andy being interviewed by reporters] Some of these people make me sick. But a law’s been broken here. You do remember the law, don’t you?

Joe Miller: What do you love about the law, Andrew?

Andrew Beckett: [from the witness stand] I… many things… uh… uh… What I love the most about the law?

Joe Miller: Yeah.

Andrew Beckett: It’s that every now and again – not often, but occasionally – you get to be a part of justice being done. That really is quite a thrill when that happens.

Sequel: Philadelphia Experiment

Fun Fact about Philadelphia:

• Tom Hanks had to lose almost thirty pounds to appear appropriately gaunt for his courtroom scenes. On the other hand, Denzel Washington was asked to gain a few pounds for his role. To the chagrin of Hanks, who practically starved himself for the role, Washington would often eat chocolate bars in front of him.

Groundhog Day – US Box Office: USD 70.91 million

Famous quotes:

Phil: Yeah, Sport, I know there’s a blizzard. When are the long-distance lines gonna be repaired? Well, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn’t one today! Hello?

[dial tone]

Phil: Hello?

[hangs up the phone. He breaks a pencil and puts one half in front of the clock and the other on top]

Phil: Do you ever have déjà vu, Mrs. Lancaster?

Mrs. Lancaster: I don’t think so, but I could check with the kitchen.

Phil: What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?

Ralph: That about sums it up for me.

Phil: [talking to a sleeping Rita] I think you’re the kindest, sweetest, prettiest person I’ve ever met in my life. I’ve never seen anyone that’s nicer to people than you are. The first time I saw you… something happened to me. I never told you but… I knew that I wanted to hold you as hard as I could. I don’t deserve someone like you. But if I ever could, I swear I would love you for the rest of my life.

Rita: Did you say something?

Phil: Good night.

Ned: Hey! Phil? Phil? Hey! Phil Connors!

Phil: Ned?

[Punches Ned in the face]

Fun Fact about Groundhog Day: 

• Bill Murray was bitten by the groundhog twice during the shooting. Murray had to have anti-rabies injections because the bites were so severe.