Addicted to Love (film)

Addicted to Love is a 1997 romantic black comedy film two jilted lovers who team up in New York City to spy on and sabotage their exes, only to fall for each other instead. Directed by Griffin Dunne. Written by Robert Gordon. Dialogue Maggie: What's your name? Sam: Mike. Maggie: What's your name, Mike? Sam: Sam. Maggie: I sleep naked. It's the only way I'm comfortable. So don't think of it as a come-on, because if you so much as breathe in my direction, I will nail your Willy to that beam. [after Maggie mocks Sam's hopes] Sam: Well, what is your evil plan, huh? You're gonna squirt him with squirt guns? Throw rotten strawberries at him? Maggie: You looked in my satchel? Sam: Yeah, call a cop! Maggie: [shrugs] You are a strange, tragic little man. Sam: Say what you want. Linda and I are in love. Maggie: Yeah. Except for her boning my boyfriend, you guys are the perfect couple. Sam: Listen, Catwoman, at the end of the day, she is coming back to me, and we're going to be happy. And where are you going to be? All alone somewhere, hatching some little revenge scheme. That's where! Maggie: Let me tell you something, Sam. Listen very carefully. Are you listening? Sam: Yes. Maggie: The only way that girl is coming back to you is if a blast of semen catapults her across the street and through the window. Maggie: You know, Sam, French men are very small. Sam: Yeah? Maggie: But not this guy. It's like Godzilla's tail. He could take down Tokyo with that thing. Sam: What is your plan? What do you want to do? Maggie: I just want his dignity, that's all. I want him penniless, hopeless, loveless, finished off. I just wish him very, very ill. Sam: How ill are we talking here? Maggie: I'm not saying I want him dead. But, should that occur, people die all the time. Why should he be any different? Just thinking on my feet, though. I don't have to decide|the death part right now. I can wait and see how I feel once his dignity's a thing of the past. Maggie: When I was a kid, my father had this dog. It started to get weak and sickly so he took it to the vet. The doctor examines it and says a maggot must've laid eggs in the dog's butt. He says there's not much they can do. The baby maggots have crawled up and started to grow and eventually they're going to eat the dog alive from the inside out. He says it should be put to sleep because it's an old dog, anyway. But Father won't do it. He takes it home. He puts it on the bed. He starts to reach up into the dog, picking out the maggots with his fingers, one by one. It takes him all night, but he gets every last one. That dog outlived my father. That's love, Sam. You're not that tough, Maggie. I can tell you're not that tough. And you can forget about a career with Hallmark. Sam: He said something about having sex with my skull. Maggie: He says that to everybody. Don't worry about it. Cast Meg Ryan as Maggie Matthew Broderick as Sam Kelly Preston as Linda Tchéky Karyo as Anton Maureen Stapleton as Nana Remak Ramsay as Professor Wells Lee Wilkof as Carl Dominick Dunne as Matheson Larry Pine as Street Comic Bill Timoney as Restaurant Patron Daniel Dae Kim as Undergrad Assistant External links Category:1997 films Category:1997 American films Category:Romantic comedy films Category:Films about revenge Category:Films set in New York City Category:Films directed by Griffin Dunne