INDEPENDENCE DAY [1996]

The Day We'll Fight Back!

[Julius Levinson]: Hey don't you tell him to shut up! 

You'd all be dead now if it weren't for my David! 

None of you did anything to prevent this! 

[General Gray]: There was nothing we could do!

[Julius Levinson]: Oh don't give me that! You knew about this for a long time! 

What with that spaceship you found in New Mexico! 

What was it called... Roswell, New Mexico! 

And that other place... uh... Area 51, Area 51! 

You knew then! And you did nothing!

[President Thomas Whitmore]: Mr. Levinson, you're mistaken. 

There is no Area 51. There is no spaceship

[Albert Nimzicki]: Uh... Mr. President. That's not entirely accurate. 

[David Levinson]: What, which part?

[President Thomas Whitmore, at the secret government lab]: I don't understand, where does all this come from? 

How do you get funding for something like this?

[Julius Levinson]: You don't actually think they spend $20,000.00 on a hammer, $30,000.00 on a toilet seat do you? 

All you need is love, John Lennon, smart man, shot in the back very sad.

[Julius Levinson]

And I always thought THESE were gonna kill me.

[David Levinson, pointing at cigar]

[David Levinson, after seeing Julius discard a styrofoam cup]: Hey, you have any idea how long it takes for those cups to decompose?

[Julius Levinson]: If you don't move soon, I'm gonna start to decompose.

THAT'S RIGHT! Thats what you get! Look at you, ship all banged up! 

WHO'S THE MAN? HUH? WHO'S THE MAN? 

Wait until I get another plane! 

I am going to line all your friends RIGHT BESIDE YOU! 

[Captain Steven Hiller] 

Let's kick the tires and light the fires, big daddy! 

[Captain Jimmy Wilder]

I picked a hell of a day to quit drinkin'. 

[Russel Casse] 

If we don't act now, 

we may not have much of an America left to defend.

[Albert Nimzicki]

Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. 

And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. 

"Mankind." That word should have new meaning for all of us today. 

We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. 

We will be united in our common interests. 

Perhaps it's fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom... 

Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution... but from annihilation. 

We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. 

And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: "We will not go quietly into the night!" 

We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!

[President Thomas Whitmore]

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CASPER [1995]

Get An Afterlife

All I want's a friend.

[Casper] 

[Kat]: I can see right through you. 

[Casper]: Yeah, kind of happens when you haven't got any skin.

[Casper]: I begged and begged my dad to give me this sled, but he acted like I couldn't even have it, because I didn't know how to ride it. 

But then one morning, I came down for breakfast and there it was, just for me, for no reason at all. 

I took it out, went sledding all day. 

And my dad said "that's enough" but I couldn't stop, I was having so much fun. 

It got late, got dark, got cold... and I got sick, and my dad got sad. 

[Kat]: What's it like to die?

[Casper]: Like... being born, only backwards. 

I remember, I didn't go where I was supposed to go. I just stayed behind, so my dad wouldn't be lonely. 

[Kat]: Sometimes I worry that I'm starting to forget. 

[Casper]: Forget what? 

[Kat]: My mom. 

Just certain things. The sound of her making breakfast downstairs. 

The way she'd put on her lipstick, so carefully. 

I do remember, she always used Ivory soap, and when she'd hug me, I'd breathe her in, so deep. 

And I remember before I'd go to sleep she'd whisper in my ear, "stardust in the eyes, rosy cheeks, and a happy girl in the morning." 

Casper? 

[Casper]: Hmm?

[Kat]: If my mom's a ghost, did she forget about me?

[Casper]: No. She'd never forget you. Kat?

[Kat, about to sleep]: Mm-hmm? 

[Casper]: If I were alive, would you go to the Halloween dance with me? 

[Kat]: Mm-hmm. 

[Casper]: Kat? 

[Kat]: Mm-hmm.

[Casper, whisper]: Can I keep you?

[Kat]: Mm-hmm.

[Casper kisses Kat on the cheek]

[Kat]: Casper, close the window. It's cold. 

[Amelia Harvey]: That was a very noble thing you did tonight, Casper. 

I know Kat will never forget it. 

She needs her father. 

And I know yours won't forget it either. 

You fulfilled his greatest dream, Casper, and I know he is very, very proud of you. 

And for what you've done, I'm giving you your dream in return. 

But it's just for tonight. Sort of a Cinderella deal. 

[Casper]: So I have until midnight? 

[Amelia Harvey]: Ten. 

[Casper]: Hey, Cinderella got until midnight.

[Amelia Harvey]: Cinderella wasn't twelve years old. 

James, I know you have been searching for me, but there's something you must understand. 

You and Kat loved me so well when I was alive that I have no unfinished business, please don't let me be yours. 

[Amelia Harvey]

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WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING [1995]

A Story About Love at Second Sight

My favorite memories were the stories that he would tell me about my mom.
He would take me to the church where they got married,
and I'd beg him to tell me more about the ceremony.
And I asked my dad when he knew that he truly loved my mom.
And he said to me,
"Lucy, your mother gave me a special gift. She gave me the world."
Actually it was a globe with a light in it.
But for the romantic that he was, it might as well have been the world.
~Lucy

Do you believe in love at first sight?
Nah, I bet you don't.
You're probably too sensible fo that.
Or have you ever seen somebody and you knew that if only that person really knew you,
they would realize that you were the one that they wanted to just grow old with.
Have you ever fallen in love with somebody you haven't even talked to?
Have you ever been so alone you spend the night confusing a man in a coma?
~Lucy, to a comatose Peter

Saul: Lucy, there's something you should know.
The night you visited Peter, I was outside the door.
I know the truth.
Lucy: Sorry.
You know, you don't have to worry because I'm gonna tell them everything.
Saul: Don't tell them a thing.
You remember the day you said you'd never do anything to hurt the family?
Lucy: Yeah...
Saul: Well, since they met you, they figure they have Peter back.
Now if you tell them the truth, you'll take him away again.
They need you, Lucy. 
Just like you need them.

Lucy: I'm having an affair. I like Jack.
Jerry: Who's Jack?
Lucy: Peter's brother.
Jerry: So?
Lucy: So, he thinks I'm engaged.
Jerry: To who?
Lucy: To Peter.
Jerry: Lucy, I really don't have time for this.
Lucy: Oh no no no, you have to tell me what to do.
Jerry: Tell the truth.
Lucy: If I tell Jack that I lied to this family, he will never speak to me again.
And Ox, and Midge, and Mary, and Saul...
Jerry: Saul? Who's Saul?
Lucy: He's the next-door neighbor.
But you know what? Actually, he knows.
Jerry: Lucy, you're born into the family.
You do not join them like you do the Marines.
Lucy: You have to tell me what to do.
Jerry: Pull the plug.
Lucy: You're sick!
Jerry: I'm sick?
You're cheating on a vegetable.

I was never envious of anything that you had.
Until now.
~Jack, to a comatose Peter

It was a lot different than hugging.
Huging's very different.
Hugging, that involves arms, and hands...
And leaning is whole bodies moving in like this [start leaning to Lucy].
Leaning involves wanting and accepting, leaning.
~Jack

Jack: Hey, what do you know about my family?
Spending a week with them does not make you an expert.
Lucy: Spending a lifetime with them hasn't made you one either.

I'd say that she gets under your skin as soon as you meet her.
She drives you so nuts, 
you don't know whether to hug her or just really arm-wrestler her.
She would go all the way Europe just to get a stamp in her passport.
I don't know if that amounts to insanity or just being really really likeable.
~Jack

Jack: I just wanted to give you this before all the presents started to pile up. 
I was droppin' off some furniture in Little Italy. 
I look in a window, and... 
Lucy, open up the gift and it's a snow globe of: ... Florence.
Jack: Florence. 
Lucy: Thank you. It's really beautiful.
Jack: And I wanted to say that I think that Peter... is a very lucky guy. 

Lucy: Hey, Jack. Jack!

Jack, turns around: Yeah?

Lucy: Can you give me any reason why I shouldn't marry your brother? 

Jack: Oh... I can't. [Lucy nods as Jack angrily leaves] 

Jerry: Wait a minute, it's your wedding invitation.
Lucy: So?
Jerry: Whom are we marrying?
Lucy: Peter Callaghan.
Jerry: The coma guy? Are you insane?
Lucy: Yes, Jerry, I'm insane.
Everyday I go and I sit in a booth like a veal.
I work every holiday, I go home to a cat.
And now a rich and handsome man has asked me to marry him and I have said yes.
Okay okay, that makes me a raving, total lunatic.

Priest: Dearly beloved, we are gathered here to...
Lucy: I object. 

Saul: Oh, geez.

Priest: I didn't get to that part yet.

Jack: I would have to object too.

Priest: What about you? 

Peter: I'm thinking!

Lucy: I'm in love with your son.

Ox: I know.

Lucy: Not that one. [points to Peter] 

That one. [points to Jack] 

Jack: Why didn't you say something?

Lucy: Because I don't know how to tell you.

I might have saved your life on the tracks, but you know what, you really saved mine.

You allowed me to be a part of your family.

And I haven't had that in a really long time.

And I just didn't wanna let go of that.

So eventhough it was just a little while, I will love them always.

~Lucy

Lucy: I love you.

Jack: I love you back.

So, I had planned to marry Peter, but I married Jack instead.

Thank goodness my father was right.

Life doesn't always turn out the way you plan.

But Jack gave me the perfect gift, a stamp in my passport.

He took me to Florence for our honeymoon.

I guess you might say he gave me the world.

Peter once asked me when it was that I fell in love with Jack.

And I told him, it was while you were sleeping.

~Lucy

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