Only the Lonely (film)
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| Only the Lonely | |
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 Promotional poster for the film |
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| Directed by | Chris Columbus |
| Produced by | John Hughes Hunt Lowry |
| Written by | Chris Columbus |
| Starring | John Candy Maureen O'Hara |
| Music by | Maurice Jarre |
| Cinematography | Julio Macat |
| Editing by | Raja Gosnell Peter Teschner |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | May 24, 1991 |
| Running time | 104 min. |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
Only the Lonely is a 1991 comedy/drama/romance film written and directed by Chris Columbus. It starred John Candy, Ally Sheedy, Maureen O’Hara and Anthony Quinn.
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[edit] Plot Summary
Danny Muldoon (Candy), is a Chicago policeman who falls in love with Theresa Luna (Sheedy), who works in a funeral home. Their courtship is difficult, as Rose (O'Hara) - Danny's overbearing Irish mother - continuously makes Danny feel guilty whenever he spends time away from her. The fact that Theresa is not Irish (she is Sicilian and Polish) only exacerbates the situation.
Meanwhile, Rose's neighbor, Nick Acropolis (Quinn) attempts to woo Rose. She is salty towards him in the beginning, but as she gradually softens her stance regarding Danny's relationship with Theresa, she warms up to Nick.
[edit] Trivia
Chris Columbus wrote the part of Rose specifically for Maureen O’Hara, but did not know that she had retired from acting and was living in the Virgin Islands. Columbus contacted O'Hara's brother Charles B. Fitzsimons, a producer and actor who was still in the film industry, to ask him to send O'Hara a copy of the script, which he did, telling her, "This you do!".
O'Hara read the script and loved it. She was reported to have replied back to Fitzsimons, "This I do!". However, she would not commit until she met co-star John Candy. The two formed an instant rapport and she quickly signed to do the film.
The first-date picnic on the playing field at Comiskey Park was filmed shortly after the last baseball game was played there in 1990. Demolition of the stadium began in April, 1991. At one point in the film, you can see the new Comiskey Park (now known as U.S. Cellular Field) across the street from the old park.
[edit] Quotes
Rose: Oh, that's a lovely dress you wearing.
Danny: Isn't it?
Theresa: Oh, thank you!
Rose: Even though it is a little big on top.
Danny: Ma!
Rose: Well, it is, you said so yourself.
Danny: Ma!
Theresa: No, no that's a problem I have, I'm not really that endowed on top.
Danny: No, no, no, no, no.
Rose: You're built like a thirteen year old boy.
Rose: I had a Pollock friend once. She was incredibly stupid...
Danny: Don't do this, Ma.
Rose: ...Julie Kapowski. She was the stupidest woman that I ever knew. She believed that black cows... [laughs]
Rose: ...black cows squirted chocolate milk!
Danny: [Danny has just scored a date with Theresa and runs into some funeral attendees] Yeah! Oh... sorry... but I just got lucky in there with a girl.
[funeral attendees look shocked]
Danny: Not in that way... she does everybody in there... not in that way. But she probably did that guy there... I gotta go.
Nick Acropolis: Rose! Rose, I am trying again. Will you please accept these flowers?
Rose: I don't want them. And I don't date Greeks.
Nick Acropolis: You know, you and I could make each other so happy. Greek men are great lovers.
Rose: And Greek men never bathe.
Nick Acropolis: I bathe twice a day! Three times! When I do my sit-ups. Feel that stomach. Hard like an eighteen-year-old's. Come on, feel it!
Rose: I'm not feeling anything of yours.
Doyle: If I'd gotten married, I wouldn't be where I am now.
Spats: In a tavern?
Doyle: Free! Living like a king!
Spats: You live at the Y.
Danny: I'll pick you up at seven. Where do you live?
Theresa: Here.
Danny: With the stiffs?
Theresa: Um, my father and I have an apartment upstairs.
Danny: Oh! Yeah, sure! That's uh... convenient.
