Name that movie
November 16, 2007 12:38 PM   Subscribe

Cannot find title of early 90's movie set in New York with interlocking stories.

Spouse and I are putting together a list of top ten movies which has exploded into list of 150 top movies (and counting). Trying to recall a movie we saw at the AMC Kabuki in SF during the early 90's.

Vague recollections of a movie set in New York with several threads where the characters connect one story to another (ala Love Actually). The movie IS NOT Shortcuts and may predate it. I also have a foggy recollection that the title had a number in it (6,12,13?)

Can you help my aging memory and failed Google-fu?
posted by OlderThanTOS to Media & Arts (34 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
I haven't seen it in a million years, so don't remember if the stories were interconnected or not, but could it have been New York Stories?
posted by scody at 12:40 PM on November 16, 2007


4 Rooms?
200 Cigarettes?
posted by box at 12:41 PM on November 16, 2007


I'd say Melinda Melinda but it's 2004, not early 90's.
posted by GuyZero at 12:41 PM on November 16, 2007


Response by poster: Good guess, but no--those stories don't interlock. But the Scorsese segment is brilliant...
posted by OlderThanTOS at 12:42 PM on November 16, 2007


Smoke? Is Harvey Keitel in it, he would play the owner of a smokeshop who takes pictures of Ed Harris' late wife on the street.
posted by parmanparman at 12:44 PM on November 16, 2007


Hmm, didn't think so. Smoke? (on preview: jinx!)
posted by scody at 12:44 PM on November 16, 2007


Response by poster: Not Smoke, but definitely the right era.
posted by OlderThanTOS at 12:45 PM on November 16, 2007


oh, it is the one where the professor leaves his wife but comes back and she is gone? I am blanking.
posted by stormygrey at 12:47 PM on November 16, 2007


Was it a musical - Everyone Says I Love You?
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 12:51 PM on November 16, 2007


Response by poster: Not Woody Allen, I'm sure of that.
posted by OlderThanTOS at 12:53 PM on November 16, 2007


Best answer: Thirteen Conversations About One Thing?
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 12:55 PM on November 16, 2007 [1 favorite]


Chain of Desire?
posted by ericb at 12:55 PM on November 16, 2007


Best answer: Thirteen conversations about one thing?
posted by stormygrey at 12:56 PM on November 16, 2007 [1 favorite]


Metropolitan?
posted by xsquared-1 at 12:57 PM on November 16, 2007


Is it the one where one of the character is a thief, then he goes in a rich person's house, does a kidnapping, then later they are involved in a cabin murder?
posted by PowerCat at 12:57 PM on November 16, 2007


Playing By Heart?
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 1:00 PM on November 16, 2007


200 Cigarettes?
posted by Brak at 1:06 PM on November 16, 2007


Ignore that. It doesn't really fit the bill.
posted by Brak at 1:07 PM on November 16, 2007


ABC Manhattan?
posted by iconomy at 1:11 PM on November 16, 2007


Okay, I'll play: Drunks?

Can you remember anything else about it? An actor or actress, even by appearance (e.g., "there was one really tall guy with a big nose and brown hair")? A character name? An occupation or location ("this one guy owned a doughnut shop!")?

I also have a foggy recollection that the title had a number in it (6,12,13?)

I'll go ahead and state the obvious: Six Degrees of Separation takes place in NYC.
posted by Elsa at 1:17 PM on November 16, 2007


I think I remember it. Did it take place over the course of one evening and involve a lost wallet?
posted by sourwookie at 1:18 PM on November 16, 2007


Six Degrees of Separation, maybe? Though not really interlocking in the same way, maybe?
posted by wemayfreeze at 1:18 PM on November 16, 2007


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posted by wemayfreeze at 1:18 PM on November 16, 2007


i rember a scene where someone threw something out an upper-story window to someone outside (keys or money i think). The camera followed that object in close-up as it fell.
posted by sourwookie at 1:28 PM on November 16, 2007


After Hours? (A little earlier than your timeframe.)
posted by Skot at 1:29 PM on November 16, 2007


Hey! Rosanna Arquette throws her keys down to Griffin Dunne . . .
posted by Skot at 1:30 PM on November 16, 2007


After Hours also features a scene of a $20 bill fluttering on the wind, floating and diving and dodging, though it's not tossed from an upper-story window.
posted by Elsa at 1:44 PM on November 16, 2007


it's 1997, but...One Night Stand?
posted by cashman at 1:47 PM on November 16, 2007


I'll throw "Night of the Comet" in for good measure.
posted by rhizome at 1:52 PM on November 16, 2007


Best answer: I think I remember it. Did it take place over the course of one evening and involve a lost wallet?

Hmmm. That sounds like 13 Conversations About One Thing, if I recall correctly. 13CA1T is from the 2000s though.
posted by iconomy at 1:52 PM on November 16, 2007 [1 favorite]


it's from 1989, but maybe New York Stories? Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorcese directed. Though I don't think the three stories are interwoven with each other.
posted by zuhl at 2:13 PM on November 16, 2007


Whoops. Just saw that the very first comment posited New York Stories.

And I even read the thread. Ack.
posted by zuhl at 2:15 PM on November 16, 2007


Response by poster: That's it! 13 Conversations about One Thing. 1995? 2001! I am getting senile. Thanks Ambrosia Voyeur, stormygrey, iconomy!
posted by OlderThanTOS at 2:28 PM on November 16, 2007


Heh. "After Hours" was the one I was thinking of, despite the fact I was wrong.
posted by sourwookie at 3:37 PM on November 16, 2007


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