"Subtitles:" "Nathbot ~ bufgelfly ~" "Mum, I need money for my field trip." "What?" "Don't go through a person's purse without asking." " It's not a person, it's Mom." " Thanks." "How much?" "Ten." "Grace!" "You didn't take out the recycling..." "I'm still gonna do it, I'm still gonna do it!" "What's this?" "What is that?" "Grace, give that to me..." "No way." "Oh my God, is this Eli's?" " Let me see..." " Give me that!" "I've seen those before." "It's not like we've never seen stuff like that." " Where have you seen stuff like this?" " All over the place!" "And at least that's honest." "It's models in the women's magazines that are really pornographic." "Rick, can we talk about this?" "You be quiet." "And get ready for school!" " I presume this is Eli's." " Let me look at it..." "Yes, I presume it's Eli's." " Will you talk to him?" " About what?" "About this!" "He shouldn't leave it in the recycling." "It was pretty well hidden..." "I hate these magazines." "Has anyone ever told you you're beautiful when you're prudish?" "I am?" "Sex?" "Sex is, uh... incredibly... when you're having it, which is usually not enough because you don't make it happen, but who wants to make sex happen?" " I miss you." " You do?" "Without question." "We have to do something about that." "Soon I hope." "It's supposed to just... be there, because two people are so incredibly attracted to each other... right?" "Sex?" "I'm in favor of it." "How was your..." "lunch with Sandra?" "Lunch with Sandra was... very good." "Where did you..." "have lunch with Sandra?" "I had lunch with Sandra at a restaurant." "And then, we went to her car in the parking structure." "Of course you did." "She's very verbal." "We had a very interesting..." "verbal exchange." "Really?" "How fascinating." "I was not the initiator of this conversation." "I hate you." "What if Judy asks me what's up with you?" "She won't, my friend." "She's not very charitable toward me at the moment." " Why not?" " Because... she knows what's up with me." "Does it bother you to be a cliché?" "Just separated, running around with girls half your age?" "I prefer to think of myself as an archetype." "Alright." "Living out my deely imbedded instinctual imperative." "To be an ass." "You know what, Ricky, you're right." "What I've really been really doing is acting out my fear of my own mortality." "No." "I couldn't get girls when I was twenty so I'm making up for lost time." "No." "After being married for twenty years to a woman my own age," "I'm all of a sudden mysteriously terrified of women my own age." "So I can only handle a younger woman." "Any pathologies I missed?" "The terrible truth, my friend, is that what I'm doing now feels good." "It's the first thing that's felt good in ten years." "And I don't know why I should stop doing it, except that... it disturbs the universe of every married person I know." "God!" "You scared me." " What is this?" " Erotica." " I see." " I'm supporting the First Amendment." "And it's fun to see how everyone glancing around furtively as if no one else was fascinated by sex." "In the beginning, Rick thought I was less interested in sex than he was, which was totally untrue." "I was... just less comfortable." "Later, of course, he got less interested in sex than I was." "Well, we're a Puritan country, aren't we?" "Protestant guilt, Catholic guilt, Jewish guilt... we're ecumenical." "Leo would like this." "He didn't know the meaning of sexual guilt." "Good for him." "Good for me, too." "Have you seen him lately?" "No, must be more than a year..." "The more you have the more you want, the less you have, the less... you think about it." "I think I'm kind of like a guy about sex, like, if a certain amount of time goes by without it, I start to go crazy." "What?" "We should go out." "Meet people." "I know a great place." "What?" "Like a bar?" "Not... unlike a bar." "Just the thought of meeting someone in a place like that..." " It's not a crack house." " I know..." "We'll dance." "I'm used to dance." "It'll be very respectable." "We'll get dressed up, have a drink." " Female bonding ritual." " Exactly." "We'll stop by the crack house on the way home." "Kids talk about sex all the time, but..." "Truthfully, I still think it's kind of gross." " Hey, Tad." " How you doing?" "Good." "You know, you look really good in your costume." "It doesn't even fit." "And dress rehearsal is in three days." " At least you know your lines." " Stegosaurus boy!" "Jessie, this is Katie." "He dragged me to rehearsal yesterday." "You're incredible." "Thanks." "You should sing in a band." " So, can she come over Saturday?" " I didn't ask her yet." " Why not?" " 'Cause you're bothering me!" "Saturday night, a bunch of us are hanging out at my house, and Tad wanted to invite you, but he wasn't sure if you has a good time at the last party..." "Do you wanna come?" "I mean..." "Her house is really disgusting." "My house is very tasteful." "I could pick you up." "Sure, I guess." "Cool." "Bye, Jess." "Nice meeting you." "She just told you to come down with her to the car?" "No excuses or anything?" "Isn't this young generation brazen." "I sure would like to be seduced like that." "I thought you guys were still all over each other." "Car magazines!" "We are." "We were." "We sort of still are." "I don't know." "It's weird." "You move in, you have all these kids..." "And get married." "Marriage has nothing to do with it." "Shut... shut... shut up." "It doesn't." "So you get to her car and what exactly happened?" "You degenerated or something?" "Why don't you check on the pornography." "I can't, I'll get in trouble." "What?" "I wasn't supposed to call you so I didn't." "I wanted to." "I understand." "So, here we are again." "So, how are you?" "Tired of answering that question." "I'm tired of asking it." "Let me ask you this." "I'm supposedly..." "I can't believe I'm just jumping into this..." "It's OK." "I'm in this... moment of my life, yeah, blah, blah, blah." "We don't belong together, fine." "However..." "I'm think about you a lot." "And maybe I'm deluding myself, thinking that you might think about me just a little bit." "Occasionally." "So I'm wondering if there's any way we can... be in each other's presence, lay eyes on each other, you know, without being together, you know, so it's not a complete blackout?" "Just a... middle ground." " I don't know what you mean." " Neither do I." "Friends." "Who are unfortunately very attracted to each other." "Right." "I could... you know, think about that." "I'll call you." "I'll make sure you're not home, so you can decide if you want to call me back." "Fantasies?" "Geez." "I fantasize about Lily." "I do!" "It started when we were first dating and she decided to stop seeing me." "Apparently I can only fantasize about women I can't have." "God, I'm so tired." "I don't think I can crawl into bed." "You think something's wrong with me?" "Definitely." "Maybe I'm anemic." "Oh my God." " What?" " I forgot to call Claire." " Who's Claire?" " Zoe's friend's mother." "Zoe's going over there tomorrow after school." "What did I do with her number?" "It's just a picture, really." "She's wearing the shirt she had then, with nothing else on, and she's looking at me..." "Of course, it's downstairs." "What am I doing?" "I'm too tired." "I'll get it tomorrow." " What?" " Nothing." "And it's just this look on her face, this totally... open look, like she's gonna change my world, turn it upside down, and all I have to do is sit back and enjoy it." "I think I should join the gym." "Why?" "Because i've just been so tired lately." "Oh, honey..." " It's OK." " Is it?" " Of course." " Thank you." "I mean if you just wanna..." "No, no." "Thank you." "I'm so tired." "I don't event think I can say good night." " You just managed." " I did, didn't I?" "Good morning, Eli." " Do you need any reading material?" " Excuse me?" "We wouldn't want you to be deprived of stimulation." "What are you talking about?" "Wow." "This is a cool magazine." "Oh, I love this magazine." "Eli, you wanna look?" "This girl is so cute." "Did I miss something?" "They are gonna be missing something if they don't get their rear ends out of here." "Oh, I think she's adorable." " You like her bod, Eli?" " She's really built." "What was that about?" "They're just..." "acting like teenage girls." "Yeah, well... bye Lily." "Are you gonna talk to him?" "What is there to talk about?" "It's strange, having these magazines in my house." "Where's he gonna look at 'em, out on the street?" "It's just about the girls." "He didn't leave them out for them to see." "But they did see." "Please, you have no idea what pressure these girls are under today." "I'm gonna make this boy feel guilty about his sexuality." "Does he understand real girls don't look like the ones in the magazines?" " Of course he does." " They're all airbrushed." "Of course, he understands that." "Do you?" "Sometimes?" "Boys..." "You probably buy these magazines yourself." "Wouldn't you like to know." "I wouldn't be upset." "Although I wouldn't wanna think you have someone elses on your mind..." "You are more than enough for me, thank you very much." "Coming!" "Are you coming in?" "I was thinking I could eat out here in the hall, and then..." "Shut up." "Thank you for bringing lunch." " I loved that game!" " You never played it..." "With the little plastic men and the horse heads?" " Only guys played Camelot." " I had an older brother." "You probably think you could beat me." "I know I could." "I'm gonna find that game, I'm gonna buy it and show you..." "What're you gonna show me?" "... show you which of the two of us mastered Camelot." "We'll see about that." "You got..." "Oh, come on now, you gotta be kidding." "Sorry." "We have to be able to kiss." "Oh, yeah?" "Why?" "Because the energy necessary... to not kiss you could be very very debilitating." "That's so sweet." "Kissing is inconsequential." "Then you won't miss it." "And if I kiss you, I won't be able to stop there." " Really?" " Yeah." "Who came up with this idea, anyway?" "Tad really likes you." "But he likes different people every week." "Not to diminish his liking of you." "Can I ask you something?" "Do you feel like you fit anywhere in this school?" "Is that a totally rude question to ask?" "I think that was a totally rude question to ask." "No, it's just..." "I don't know..." "But the answer is... definitely not." "I don't know why I thought I could ask that." "Maybe because I kind of knew the answer." "You fit in this school." " I'm serious." " You don't even know me!" "But I see you." "You're always talking to a hundred different people." "A hundred different people talk to me." "In French I think." "Miss Singer?" "Are you preventing Miss Sammler from doing her work?" "Yes, Mrs. Lovatelli." "But I'll stop now." "When did you do this?" "Just before I was indicted for transporting minors across state lines for immoral purposes." "I didn't mean that." "They're lovely books." "They're beautiful." "I could use some of these books, apparently." "Lily, what's wrong?" "Nothing's wrong." "Absolutely nothing's wrong." "I need to embrace my inner pornographer." "Wow." "Nice work if you can get it." "Do you think men secretly want us to be like the women in the pictures they look at?" "I think half of them would die of fright if we were." "Lily, it's fantasy." "Don't you have fantasies?" "I don't know..." "I guess..." "Fantasies?" "Oh!" "I remember one I used to have..." "I'm sitting on an airplane, and this man gets on..." "But you at least forgive him when he doesn't live up to your fantasies?" "He has this voice, this deep voice, and I can feel it through the seat..." "Never mind." "Sweetie, is everything OK with the two of you?" "Yes." "Of course." "We're just having a little, our first little..." "When you're dating and you're in love, and you only see each other three days a week, you pretty much know when you're gonna have sex." "And..." "And when you move in together, all of a sudden there's all this stuff to figure out:" "When do we have sex?" "Who initiates it?" "What if one person wants to and the other doesn't?" " Sounds like too much work." " Exactly." "Last night we were supposed to have sex." "You were supposed to have sex?" "But I forgot." "So?" "But I really think I was avoiding it." "And I'm not sure why." "Were you mad at him?" "No." "I guess I..." "I want something from him, some energy, that takes me out of all the life-stuff," "and I feel like I'm the one who always has to make that happen." "And it feels like Jake and me." "And that's scary." "I don't wanna go down that same path, and I don't know how to make it stop." "Well, tomorrow is always another night." "Hey, there." "Hello." "I love your profile." "You do?" "I think about your profile." "Do you?" "What do you think about my profile?" "What a great profile you have." "What?" "What a great profile you have." "Just give me one second." "I just have to finish this, just to be done." "Just be..." " It's OK." " No, I'll be done in two seconds." "All done." "I told you it'd be just two seconds." "It's OK." "I don't know why I'm so tired these days." "Are you really tired?" "Completely." "You should go to sleep then." "Good night, Lily." "Good night, Rick." "A hotel mean sex." "You're having an affair, you're meeting a stranger, you're stealing away with your wife." "Perhaps all three at the same time." " You're very sick." " Thank you." "Are you seeing Judy?" " Why do you always ask me that?" " Because I always think you are." "I am not seeing Judy..." "in the biblical sense." "No, given the current state of my immaturity, we think it's best thing not to sleep together." "I'm shocked." "How are you and Lily doing biblically?" " Who asked you?" " Me!" "Well, I am not answering that." "Happens to everyone, man." "You marry a person, and they're not the person you chase anymore." "And since you can't chase them, somehow you can't want them the same way." "That's not true." "I do want her, I want her..." "I totally want her." "So what's the problem?" "I just don't know if she wants me." "Or that she wants what I want, or wants to know what I want." "What?" "Now... which wife of Rick's does that remind me of?" "Jess, would you help me tie this thing?" "What are you wearing?" "What's wrong with it?" "I don't know." "It's just... weird." "What, I'm not allowed to look nice?" "Well, I..." "I don't know if "nice" is the word." "You just shut your mouth and let your mom make a fool of herself once in a while." "Where are you going, anyway?" "Out with some friends." "With who?" "On a date?" "No, it's not a date." "I'm just going out with Judy." "You're the only one who has a date." " It's not a date." " OK, OK, OK." "A party." "Excuse me." "That he's taking you to." "Mom!" "I want you back by eleven." "Eli said he'd be home by then." "Yes, ma'am." "And when are you gonna be home?" "You know what?" "I have no idea." " Where are you going?" " Lynn Strapoli's." "Are Lynn Strapoli's parents home?" "No, they're in prison." " What time are you..." " Eleven." "Fine." "Bye..." "Listen." "What?" "Silence." "Zoe's at her sleepover." "Your kids are at Karen's." "We're free." "What should we do about this strange occurence?" "Something really illicit." "Is it me or have these places gotten louder?" "What?" "Doesn't it feel good to be out?" "Everyone looks like they're fifteen." "Sorry." "Is it me or is everyone in this room fifteen?" " She just said that!" " I know." "I heard her." "This used to be a nice, boring old mutual fund crowd." "What is it now?" "The end of civilization?" "I don't know." "They're just having fun." "Does your friend speak, or does she have a medical condition?" "I can speak, thank you very much..." "And really well, too." "Hi, I'm Steven." " Judy." " Karen." "How are you?" " Can I get you guys a drink?" " No thanks." " We'll have martinis." " OK." "But not one of these Kool Aid/ apple/Cosmopolitan things." "Real martinis." "He's cute." "He's OK." " Do you like him?" " I just walked in!" "Will you like him in a half hour?" "I think I'll have run screaming in a half hour..." "Not if I can help it." "He is so cute." "I have a crush on him." "You almost finished?" "Why?" "Because I'd really rather watch upstairs." "Why?" "You wouldn't be cutting off the circulation in half my body." "Oh, really?" "Stop, stop... stop it!" "You're gonna mess up the couch." "You OK?" "What?" "Sure, what do you mean?" "So, she helps the downtrodden too!" " You should see her." " Give me a break!" "Are you like the most beautiful public interest lawyer in Chicago?" "OK, I'm going home now..." "Steven, she gets very upset if you compliment her." " I'm really tired!" " Come on!" " Come on!" " One more drink." "One more drink, then I'm going home!" " Oh, yes, ma'am." " Yes, ma'am." "Where is everybody?" "I don't know." "What... do you like this?" "It's good." "Do you... wanna sit?" "Sure." "Jess?" "You know..." "You know I really like you, right?" "I like you too." "Tad, wait." "Tad, wait!" "We're taking a food run." "Jess, you want to come?" "Sure." "Come on." "Tad, why don't you get a life while we're gone?" "Did you get your card?" "Oh, you guys go ahead, I'm in the lot..." "No, no, I'll wait with you." "You don't need to." "Steve will walk you to your car." "Yeah, Steve will walk you to your car." "It was nice to meet you, Judy." "You too, Steve, I hope to see you again." "And you, darling." " Call me tomorrow." " Yes, I shall." "Hey, sailor." "What brings you to a place like this?" "I was gonna ask you the same thing." "Were you." "I ended up in Chicago by accident, so I have no right to talk." "What about you, you like winter?" "Nobody from Chicago likes winter." "You're sure about that, you've taken a poll?" "No, I just..." "Don't worry." "I only kid people I like." "I'm sorry." "I'm not really..." "I'm not very good company tonight." " I don't usually..." " You're great company." "I haven't been to a place like that in a while, and..." "This is my car." "Thanks for walking with me." "The air felt good." "Listen." "Would you like to go somewhere?" "Grab a cup of coffee?" "I don't know." "I really should be getting home." "Of course." "But you know..." "You could be getting home a half hour later and it wouldn't be so bad." "You are absolutely the most beautiful public interest lawyer in Chicago." "I have to go home." "Wait." "Just one second." "Are you OK?" "Yeah, it just feels like you're..." "What?" "I appreciate what you're trying to do, just sometimes, it doesn't work that way." "I'm not trying to do anything." "You know what, it doesn't have to be a goal, Rick." "Would you rather I not pay attention?" "You're not paying attention to me now, you're worried about the outcome." "I can't do anything right, can I?" "Rick, I'm not saying that." "I just want to be with you." "That's all I even care about." "So be with me, I'm right here." "You're not here, you're a million miles away." "I don't understand what's going on." "I don't know what you want, I don't know what you're complaining about." "I'm not complaining about anything." "Then what is going on?" "You're the one who stopped!" "But I didn't stop to complain." "Do you have to make everything so complicated?" "We're alone one night in almost a month" "I don't know why it has to turn out like this." ""A Wrinkle in Time."" "I used to think it was a book about" "Albert Einstein falling asleep in his clothes." " That's because you're stupid." " I'm deeply stupid." "I'm gonna kiss you in a minute." "And this older brother of yours who used to beat you up?" "Until I was fifteen and I got taller than him, at which point I took my revenge." "Is this permissible to... talk like this all night?" "I think it's kind of remarkable." "Thank you!" "Oh, my throat is sore." "'Cause you talk so damn much..." "I couldn't get a word in edge-wise!" ""Then, in third year of my..." "my senior year..."" "Tell me about the rabbits, George." "Right, well." "We can't be together because I'm an immature, bad person who's not ready to be in a relationship..." "And we can't be completely apart because, well... we're both idiots." "So we just have to keep doing this?" "Friends." "Friends who want to tear each other's clothes off." " How long can we do this?" " A day?" " A day and a half." " Maybe two?" " Maybe three." " Maybe a week..." "Miracles are possible." "But you have to..." "You have to let me kiss you, though." "See, now, you're just a mean person." "Through and through." " Mom?" "Are you up?" " What?" "'Cause it's eleven." "You're kidding." "Did you have a good time last night?" "I guess." "What does that mean?" "I had a good time." " Jess?" " Mom, it's OK." " Did something happen?" " Nothing happened." "Did someone do something?" "No!" "Why do you have to make such a big deal of this?" "Honey." "Jess?" "If somebody did something..." "He kissed me, OK?" "So, how did that make you feel?" "I felt fine about it." "You know you can't let anybody pressure you into doing..." "They've drilled that into us since third grade." "Then what is it?" "I'm supposed to want to, aren't I?" "That's a really tough question, isn't it?" "I think you'll want to when you're ready." "What if I'm never ready?" "Am I just a freak?" "Come here." "If you're a freak, I'm really worried about the rest of the world." "You have to believe in yourself, Jess." "You are amazing." "Trust me." "You have so much going for you." "And when the time is right, this will go for you, too." "Mom?" "It's OK, honey." "Moms have to cry sometimes." "Did you have a good time last night?" "That was fine." "It was boring." "Did you meet anybody?" "Nobody that was worth bringing home to you." "Did Tad find you?" "No." "He wanted to apologize... for, you know, the other night." "Really?" "Guys are so weird." "They strut around like they're so tough but half the time they're just chickens." " I had to beat him up to ask you out." " You did?" "I should've saved us both the trouble." "You didn't know me then." "I knew he liked you." "That was enough." "Hey, Dad..." "I won't be late." " Can I ask you something?" " Sure." "Do you, uh, do you buy those... dirty men's magazines?" " Yeah, you want to borrow one?" " No." "Lily found one in the recycling." "And I thought I hid it so well..." "Just hide it better next time." "Can you even see in here?" "Come here." "I love having sex with you." " You do?" " From the first time we were together." "So what is going on?" "I don't know, I guess I..." "I get so scared when I feel you pull away from me." "When you feel me pull away from you?" "Yes, I come to bed and..." "I feel like you don't even see me..." "Wait a minute." "When you feel me pull away from you?" " Lily, you pulled away from me." " I did not." "I could see it on your face." "You think I've pulled away from you?" "I come to bed and it's like you don't even see me." "Can I ask you something?" "Is there something you're not getting?" "I don't know." "Is there something you're not getting?" "I think there might be." "Me, too." " Why didn't you say so?" " Why didn't you?" "Because..." "'Cause how can say something when it seems so small in the grand scheme of things..." "So what is it?" "I can't even say it." "You tell me what you're not getting." "It's nothing." "I shouldn't even..." "I shouldn't even need it." "Listen to us." "All right, I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours." "Go ahead." "I sometimes feel... like I need you... to make it happen." "You know?" "Like, to have... thought of it before and just... walk into the room with a certain look on your face." "It doesn't even matter what you're wearing, well, sometimes it matters, but... but mainly it's just you know that you're the sexiest woman on Earth and there's no possibility of my..." "resisting." "And you're gonna just treat me..." "Like a..." "Like a king." "Like a... naughty king." "Why are you laughing at me?" "That's mean." "You idiot." "That's I want!" " You do?" " Yeah, except the king part." "You want me to wear sexy lingerie?" "No, I want you to sweep me off my feet with those incredibly sexy arms of yours." "You do?" "Intensely." "I can do that." "I bet you can." "What?" "Isn't it a problem if we both want the other to... to make it happen?" "I guess we'll just have to make a schedule." "Oh, really?" "And I think you should make it happen first." "Look, I didn't mean literally!" " Yes you did." " I didn't!"