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?
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?
I'd say Melinda Melinda but it's 2004, not early 90's.
posted by GuyZero at 12:41 PM on November 16, 2007
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
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
posted by parmanparman 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
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
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
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
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]
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 12:55 PM on November 16, 2007 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Thirteen conversations about one thing?
posted by stormygrey at 12:56 PM on November 16, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by stormygrey at 12:56 PM on November 16, 2007 [1 favorite]
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
posted by PowerCat at 12:57 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
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
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
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
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
posted by sourwookie at 1:28 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
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
posted by Elsa at 1:44 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
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]
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
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
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
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
posted by sourwookie at 3:37 PM on November 16, 2007
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posted by scody at 12:40 PM on November 16, 2007