All language subtitles for lazi eye

(glass breaking)

- Tell me what you see.
Is this better, or this?

Number one, or number two?

- Number two.

- Good, read the
bottom line for me.

- N V T S L Q

- Excellent.

Now the right eye,
can you read that?

- No.

- Anything?

- Nope.

- How about this?

- Is that a... K?

- And here?

- T?

- And this one?

- F?

- You have Ambliopia.

- Yeah.

- You didn't indicate it on
your medical history form.

- Well, I didn't want to brag.

- When did you first
notice a problem?

- When I was five, my
grandmother noticed

that my right eye was drifting.

- I'm sorry, I mean the
more recent problem.

- Oh, about a
couple of weeks ago.

I was working on my laptop
and everything went soft.

- [Doctor] Was it up
close, or distance to?

(police sirens)

Dean.

- Oh, I'm sorry.

- When everything went
soft, was it distance

or up close, or both?

- Uh, both.

- Okay, the good news
is, your right eye,

the emblioptic one
hasn't changed,

you have some vision there,

but there has been a
change in your good eye.

Do you sit in front
of a computer all day?

- Right, you make it
sound so exciting.

- What do you do?

- I'm a graphic designer.

Is it serious,
should I be worried?

- No, but I do think
it's time for you

to move to progressive lenses.

- You mean... bifocals?

- More like trifocals,
but don't worry,

it's perfectly normal
for people to experience

a dramatic change in
vision around middle age.

(instrumental music)

- Are they horrible?

- [Mel] They're awesome.

- You think?

- [Mel] Yeah.

- They don't make me look
like I'm trying too hard?

- [Mel] Please, you
live in Silver Lake.

- I don't get it, the
top part is distance,

the bottom's close up,
but the middle is this

weird limbo place where
nothing is in focus.

- You've gotta point your nose.

- What?

- Turn around, turn.

- Point your nose?

- My doctor says you have to
point your nose at the thing

you're trying to see.

- Point my nose?

- Yeah, try it.

Towards the thing,
when you're looking up.

Towards the things.

- I am.

- No, now you're looking down.

- I'm looking...

- Okay, it's alright,
you're gonna get used to it.

- You know I think
I'm going blind.

- Well, we both know what
caused that, I think.

- Yeah, well, you ain't kidding.

- Anyway, I don't want to
throw the baby on the fire,

or whatever the expression is.

I don't know, anyway,
Pearson called.

- And?

- Remember when he wanted
graphic, minimalist, simple.

- Yeah, what we gave them.

- Uh, he doesn't
want that anymore.

- What does he want?

- You're not gonna love it.

- Not three heads in the sky.

- It is not three heads
in the sky, it is not.

- Uh, thank God.

- It's two heads in the sky.

- Mel, we did two heads in the
sky, like six versions ago.

- No, we did three
heads in the sky.

- Oh Jesus, and
now they want two.

- Heads.

- In the sky.

- Floating over a
generic landscape,

that's probably not even
in the movie, I know.

- Oh, fuck me.

- Well, tried that in
college, that was not very

satisfying for either of us.

(groans)

- Mel, why do they make us
go through so many rounds

if they just want
something safe?

- I don't know sweetheart,
but they do and they're a

good client and they
keep our lights on.

What should I tell them?

- Tell him that the
other design was better.

Tell him that nobody
goes to see a movie

because of the one sheet, ever.

In fact, you can tell him,
that in the list of reasons

that people go see movies,
the one sheet is at the

very bottom, so why not do
something good, for once.

Something that will
outlive his shitty movie.

- What is up?

- What?

- You've just been
walking around here

for the last two weeks in
this weird funky state.

Talk to me.

- Yeah, no, I know,
I know, I just...

I got a um...

I just think I need to
take a couple of days off.

- Oh yeah.

- I think I'm gonna drive
out to the desert tonight.

- That's a great idea, let's
go for the whole weekend,

we'll swim, we'll make
cocktails, it'll be great.

- Oh, no, yeah, I
meant by myself.

No, you know, just
to clear my head.

- Oh.

- Sorry.

- It's fine, It's
fine, it's fine.

I know when I'm not wanted,
that's great, no problem.

Anyway, I do need you to
finish these revisions

before you bolt, please.

- Okay, I'll do it
at home tonight.

- Excellent.

- And what happened to
the third head anyway?

- I don't know, the other
heads have better agents.

Point your nose.

(instrumental music)

(guys yelling)

(shower running)

(country music on radio)

- [Voiceover] Dear Dean.

I hope you're the
Dean I'm looking for.

If you are, and you
remember me, you're probably

wondering why I'm writing
after all these years.

Truth is, I'm wondering
the same thing.

All I know is this morning
I woke up listening to

National Public Radio,
like I do every morning,

and as I was lying there in
bed, I thought to myself,

why do I even listen to NPR?

And that's when I
remembered, you.

You turned me on to
National Public Radio

15 years ago, summer,
New York City.

You turned me on to a lot
of things that summer.

So I woke up thinking about
you and wondering how you are,

and where you are, and
a quick internet search

led me to your website.

You seem to be doing
very well for yourself.

Though I was surprised to
find you in Los Angeles.

I remember how much you
loved New York City.

Anyway, I hope you're well,
I'd love to hear from you.

Yours, Alex Coffina.

- [Voiceover] What
a nice surprise.

Of course I remember you.

I'm flattered to be associated
with National Public Radio,

though, since moving to LA,
I hardly ever listen anymore.

I miss New York sometimes,
but the truth is, I love LA.

Try not to judge me too much.

What can I say, it's nice
to wake up and pick lemons

from a tree in my own backyard.

Tell me about your life, Dean.

(computer chimes)

- [Voiceover] No
judgements here.

I used to believe that if I
could find the perfect city,

all my problems would disappear,

but I've since learned, you
take your problems with you.

Currently they're
all in New Orleans.

I've been here for
about six months.

Feel like I've been chasing my
bliss for the last 15 years.

Never found it in a
job, or a relationship.

Maybe it's in Los Angeles.

- [Voiceover] I don't know
if your bliss can be found

in Los Angeles, but I have
a little house in the desert

near Joshua Tree, that's
as close as I've ever come

to finding mine.

It's small and quiet,
and has great views.

Every time I'm there, I
feel like I press this big

internal reset button.

Have you ever seen the
Mojave, it's spectacular.

(cell phone vibrates)

- [Voiceover] I've been
to the Gobi in East Asia

and the Patagonian
in South America.

But I've never laid
eyes on the Mojave.

I'd love to see it, know
any good tour guides?

(radio playing country music)

* But you never took me in

* Like I needed

* I'd catch you cryin'

* For no reason

* But the truth

* And now the one that got away

* came back today

(screen closes)

(police sirens)

(instrumental music)

(heavy breathing)

- Can't believe this.

(water splashes)

(car drives up)

- Hey.

- Oh my God, you made it.

- Yeah.

- I was worried.

- I left you a message.

- Yeah there's no
reception out here.

- Hey.

- Hi.

- You look great.

- You too.

(heavy breathing)

(instrumental music)

(moaning)

- How long have we been in here?

- Three hours, Jesus.

- It's easy to lose
track out here.

- Yeah, no kidding.

- I didn't plan
for this to happen.

- For what?

- This.

- Oh, it never
crossed your mind?

- Well it crossed my mind, you?

- Definitely, I almost had
to rub one out on the plane.

- Have you ever
done that before?

- On a plane, sure.

- I can't imagine.

I always think that
the plane's gonna crash

and they're gonna find
my body in the wreckage

with my dick in my hand and
my pants around my ankles.

I mean, what would
my family say?

- He died as he lived.

- So that's what
you think of me?

- Totally.

- I'm just a horn dog?

- You are the most sexual person
I have ever dated.

- Whoa!
- By far.

- What does that
even mean, most sexual?

- As I recall, a
disproportionate
amount of our time

was spent naked in your bed.

- No, that's because I didn't
have any AC in that apartment.

- Oh, gosh, man I'm sorry,
no it had nothing to do with

your raging libido.

- Okay fine, I am
a total horn dog.

- Yeah.

- I've been thinking
about having sex with you

since I got your email.

- See.

- I got hard reading your email.

I got hard anticipating
your next email.

- Well, I rest my case.

- I had to beat off last night,

hoping to prevent
this from happening.

- Any regrets?

- No, you?

- Not yet.

(laughs)

Wait, why would you try to
prevent this from happening?

This is fun.

- Have you really
done that on a plane?

- Don't judge me.

- I mean come on,
what ever happened to

delayed gratification guy?

- Well you apparently have
never flown to Australia before.

- Actually I have.

- Really, wait, why'd
you go to Australia?

- Vacation.

- Thank you.

- Thirsty, you want some water?

- Yes please.

Did you fly to Melbourne,
I love Melbourne.

Did you see the 12 Apostles?

- Uh, yeah, you
know, I was thinking,

maybe tomorrow we
can go into town

and take a hike or something.

I want to show you
some of the sights.

- That sounds fun.

Oh, fancy.

- What, lemons?

- Lemons, the sheets,
this house.

- Palm Springs is fancy,
Joshua Tree is for

the regular people.

- Yeah, I don't think regular
people have second homes,

especially ones with pools.

- It's an investment property.

- Who are you?

- What?

- And what'd you do with
my little Marxist punk

I picked up 15 years
ago in a dive bar?

- Okay, there are two things
wrong with that statement.

First of all, I was
never a Marxist.

- Oh whatever.

- I was a democratic
socialist, okay.

And more importantly,
I picked you up.

- Oh, no.

- Absolutely.

- Okay, you are crazy
and I can prove it.

- You're gonna need to.

- Where's my bag?

Oh my God.

Oh, God it's freezing.

Okay, little bar, on seventh
street and second avenue.

- The Tile bar.

- That's not what it
was called, but sure.

- We all called it Tile bar.

- Well it was my
graduation night,

I was sitting on one end of
the bar, you were on the other.

- What's this?

- Proof.

- You kept it.

- The bartender
brought it over to me

and then I went and
sat down next to you.

So I did the picking up.

- Well I think the person
who did the drawing

is the one who did
the picking, up.

And that was me.

- No, that was the one
who did the drawing.

The one who actually
had the balls to

get up off his ass, cross
the bar, sit down next to you

and speak, did the picking up.

- Well I'm stunned.

I can't believe you kept it.

- Well, it was a nice summer.

- Can I keep it?

- No way.

- Come on, you've had it all
these years, it's my turn.

- Fine, consider it on loan.

- You hungry?

- Starved.

- I'm gonna make a salad.

- Well I'm gonna take a shower.

- How do you feel about onions?

- I'm not scared.

(laughs)

Oh, don't remember you smoking.

- I don't smoke, well
not tobacco anyway.

- Well whose are these?

- Oh, someone must
have left those here.

- Oh, I love smoking.

- Well help yourself,
just do it outside.

- I quit.

- I don't remember
you smoking either.

- It was after us.

(instrumental music)

- You know, most of my
clients want something safe,

they want something traditional.

Two heads in the sky,
something like that.

- Wait, what's two
heads in the sky?

- You know, you've
seen it before.

Big faces of the movie
stars over a landscape,

it's just so boring.

- Okay but aren't those
movies usually boring?

- Yes but the poster
doesn't have to be.

- Oh.

- I tell my clients, if
we can distill the movie

down to it's essence
and tell the story,

in a single image, the
people actually have to

engage with the poster.

They have to interact with it,

and hey, maybe it'll
make them want to

go see the movie more, you know.

- And what does the client say?

- They say great, now lets
put two heads in the sky.

Which I do because I'm a tool.

I know I shouldn't
care about this,

it's just a stupid poster,
but you know, still.

- No, that's great, that
is the guy that I remember.

- What, crazy?

- No, passionate.

Do you remember our
first actual date?

You took me to see this
awful movie downtown.

- Awful?

- Yeah, it was at some
artsy theater on Howston,

about this young boy who falls
in love with an old lady.

- Wait, you don't
mean Harold and Maude?

- Yes, oh my God, that film.

I just remember
thinking to myself,

why is this guy
taking me to see this.

- Okay, stop talking please.

- No, I mean it was
just, it was so sad,

and weird and pretentious.

- I am holding a knife here.

- And then the Cat
Stephens music.

- Seriously, stop.

Harold and Maude is my
favorite movie of all time.

Are you kidding?

You'd better be kidding,
are you kidding?

- Yeah, I'm kidding.

(laughs)

- I mean, you don't
really feel that way

about that movie do you?

- No but I did not understand
that movie for the life of me.

- Well that night you
told me you loved it.

- I lied.

- Why?

- Because I wanted
to impress you.

Which is why I went
back the next week,

and I saw it again.

- You did not.

- Yeah, I did.

I wanted to figure out
why you liked it so much.

I thought it was gonna help
me understand you better.

- Okay you can stay.

(laughing)

- You know the interesting
thing about Harold and Maude?

It's always different.

You know when I was in my 20's,

I identified with Harold,
all this angst and depression

and self involvement, and
now as I've gotten older,

I kind of feel a little
bit more like Maude.

Isn't that crazy
how a movie changes.

- Actually the movie
stays the same.

- True, I guess we're
the ones who change.

- We don't actually
change that much, do we?

- Well, I mean, you have,
you definitely have.

- So how have I changed?

- I guess I always imagined you,

in your paint spattered
boots, with your pallet

and your brushes,
standing behind an isle.

I just never imagined you,

- What?

- I always thought that you
were gonna be an artist.

- Well I am an artist.

- You're a graphic designer.

- A graphic designer
is an artist.

It's just one who
can pay the bills.

- Okay, no, no, that's
not what I mean.

- I like my work.

- That's good.

- Or I did until
about a minute ago.

- Okay, you were the one who
was just complaining about the

two heads in the sky,
that's all I'm saying.

- Yeah, well it beats
living in a studio apartment

with a bathtub in the kitchen.

- But I liked that apartment.

- Yeah, well you didn't
have to live in it.

- Okay, I didn't mean to,
the most important thing

is that you're happy.

- So, why New Orleans,
did you go there for work?

- Oh no, I'm not really
working right now.

- Wow, must be nice.

- It's actually amazing.

- How'd you manage that?

- I have money.

- Must be a lot.

- It's enough.

- I always imagined
you in a suit and tie,

working in some
high rise somewhere.

- Oh yeah, I did that, until

all I could think
about was jumping.

- Okay, well, what
I want to know is

why you were so hard to find.

- What does that mean?

- On the internet.

- See I don't know
what's more strange,

the fact that I'm
not on the internet,

or the fact that everybody is
so freaked out that I'm not.

- Oh no, I'm not freaked out,

I'm just curious
how it's possible.

- Well, I blame you.

- Me?

- Yeah, you were always
going off on these

little Marxist rants.

- Democratic socialist.

- Whatever the fuck you were.

It was this freakish paranoia
marching in the streets

about the government
spying on people.

- That is not why
we were marching.

- This vast right
wing conspiracy.

- That is true, it exists.

- Well, you were the reason
for my faint cyber footprint.

- It's not faint,
it's invisible, I
mean you are nowhere.

No photos, no job
history, I mean

you're not even on
Linkedin, which no one

wants to be on anyway, but
somehow everyone ends up there.

- Aren't you impressed?

So you looked for me too?

- I probably Googled your
name and Campbell, Ohio,

about 1,000 times.

- Wait, Campbell?

- That's where
you're from right?

- Yeah, I just can't believe
that you remember that.

- I looked in New York
and every other major city

and thought maybe if I
contacted your family,

they'd tell me where you were.

- Well that's
sweet, also useless.

Seeing as how my family
would never have given

any personal information,
unless you asked in Greek.

- Well it's not sweet,
you disappeared.

- I did not disappear.

- From my perspective you did.

No call, no note, nothing.

- Yeah.

- Do you have any idea how
long I searched for you Alex?

I called the police,
I called hospitals.

- Whoa, whoa, whoa, what?

- I called the morgue Alex.

- Well I had no idea.

- 15 years.

- That's a long time.

- Why does it feel like it
just happened yesterday?

I gotta piss.

- Fuck.

(instrumental music)

(water splashes)

It's good.

- I got a card
when I moved to LA,

told the doctor I
had panic attacks.

The minute I said nine 11, he
was writing a prescription.

- Nice.

- It wasn't an excuse.

A couple of weeks
after the attacks,

I was at work having
lunch in the break room,

and reading this magazine
about all the people

that were in the planes,
that went into the towers.

And there were these two guys,

who were coming back
from Russia or something,

with a baby that
they had just adopted

and I walked into my
office, I shut the door,

and I stood against the wall and

I just started sobbing,
I couldn't move.

Now, I knew that I had to
call somebody to ask for help,

but I literally couldn't
walk across the room,

to pick up the phone on
my desk, I was paralyzed.

- What did you do?

- I eventually figured
out how to walk.

I picked up the phone on my desk

and I called my best friend.

But i remember thinking, Alex
could've been in those towers.

I read all the lists, and
I didn't see your name,

so I just assumed
that you were okay.

- Really sorry.

- Hey, I got prescription
weed out of it.

- No, I mean about disappearing.

- Yeah, why did you?

- Well, I hated New York.

- I didn't know that.

- That's funny, because I
talked about it all the time.

- I don't remember that.

- That's because you loved it.

- I did.

(coyotes howling)

- What is that?

- Coyotes.

They're signaling that the
pack is all together again,

and everyone's safe.

- So mournful.

- Do you know that coyotes
only mate once a year.

- No wonder they sound so sad.

You ever see one up close?

- Coyotes, yeah.

They're all over LA.

The drought forced
them out of the hills,

now they just walk around
like they own the town,

looking for water.

- Well, water's important.

- You like water?

(water splashes)

(laughing)

- What the fuck?

- That's for disappearing.

- Oh shit.

- Oh shit, I had no idea,
I swear, I am so sorry.

- Just take that.

Get me out of here,
it's fucking cold.

(screams)

(water splashes)

- Wow that's cold.

- Now we are even.

- Oh, my God, it
is so cold in here.

Oh, I hate you so much.

- Mmm, salty.

- It's a salt water pool.

- Wait, why salt water?

- You don't need chlorine
if you use salt water.

- You're such a fucking hippie.

Next time please spring
for a heated pool.

- We can't afford a heated pool.

- Wait what?

- Do you know how much
it costs to heat a pool?

- No, no, wait, wait, who's we?

- What?

- You just said,
"We can't afford it".
Who's we?

- No I didn't.

- Yeah, you did, who's we?

(clears throat)

Dean...
Who the fuck is we?

- We is me and Brian.

- Uh, alright, who's Brian?

- My husband.

- So you're married?

- Yes.

- Does he know that you're here?

- Yes.

- Does he know that I'm here?

- No.

- Okay.

So you guys have some
sort of understanding?

- Not exactly.

- So you're cheating.

- No, I mean Brian and
I, we're not together.

- You guys are separated?

- Yeah, I mean, he's in
Australia, and I'm here.

- Yeah, no, I don't
mean geographically.

- It's complicated.

- Okay, I'm about to make
things a lot less complicated.

- Alex.

Alex, I can explain.

- Give it your best shot.

- I was going to tell you.

- When?

- As soon as we
started emailing, but.

- But what?

- I wanted to, but
you didn't ask.

- That's your excuse, I didn't
ask if you were married?

- Well, you didn't.

You know, and I
didn't ask you either,

for all I know, you
could be married too.

- Well I'm not.

- Okay, well now I know.

Look, can we just stop
and talk about this?

- Talk about what?

- This, us.

- Yeah, there is no us,
there's me and there's you,

and then there's you
and uh, what's his name?

- Brian.
- Brian.

- Alex, Alex!

Hey, Alex come on, seriously.

Alex, don't do this.

(car door slams)

(engine starts)

(rock music)

(indistinct chatter)

- Would you like a muffin?

- Is that supposed to be me?

- Everyone's a critic huh.

- No, I think you made some
improvements, actually.

- I don't think that's possible.

Hey, I really like your gown.

- Oh, this old
thing, I only wear it

when I don't care how I look.

- It's a wonderful life?

- You know it?

- Yeah, everyone knows it.

You guys in a
choir or something?

- No, I graduated
this afternoon.

- What's your major?

- I got my MBA.

- Business.

- Mmm hmm.

- What kind, risky?

- Monkey.

(laughs)

Alex.

- Dean.

- Um, do you want
to get out of here?

- Yeah.

- Where do you live?

- Around the corner.

- I'm gonna grab you, get out
of my way, I'm coming for you.

(light instrumental music)

- You came back.

- Well that's my favorite shirt.

- Why didn't you come in?

- I was enjoying the stars.

- I'm glad you came back.

- I lied.

- What?

- About why I left New York.

- I met someone.

- I don't understand.

- At the end of the summer,
I lied, I met someone else.

- While we were together?

- We weren't exclusive.

- I was.

- You even met him once.

- What?

- In Central Park, I was
playing a softball game.

You showed up, you
wanted to surprise me.

You were there, he was there,
you even shook hands with him.

You thought he was
one of my friends,

he thought the same thing.

So I left New York
and I moved to Miami.

- To be with him.

- Yeah.

- Why are you telling me this?

- Just trying to be honest.

You asked me why I
disappeared, that's why.

Do you still want me to stay?

- Yes.

- Good, you owe me a phone.

(instrumental music)

- Hey.

- [Mel] They love the revision.

- Of course they
did, they're idiots.

- And also they're changing
the title of the film.

- [Dean] Why?

- I don't know, I
guess now they think

nobody will see a
movie called Portmanteau.

- Well yeah that's what
we said six months ago.

- See how smart we are,
wait, how am I even talking

to you, you never
have service there.

- I'm in town,
what's the new title?

- A bag by the lake.

-Thank you!
- Great.

- [Mel] That's a joke,
I'm joking, what's wrong?

- Uh, nothing, I gotta go.

- No, you sound weird.

- I'm fine.

- [Mel] Do you want
me to come out there?

- No.

- I can be there in two hours.

- No, definitely not.

- [Mel] Okay, I got a date,
with a guy that does stand up.

- Yeah, does he
do anything else?

- [Mel] He'd better, right,
or someone's gonna get hurt.

- Okay, well bye.

Find something?

- Yeah, four bars.

- Yeah, well, we're in town.

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- Who should I call?

(phone vibrates)

Pick up.

- I'm driving.

- Well then be careful.

(groans)

- Hello.

- Hey
- Hey

Look I'm driving, can
I call you back later?

- [Alex] Yeah, no, this is
only gonna take a minute.

I know you're super busy
being married and everything,

just wanted to give you a
little piece of friendly

advice, just in case the
opportunity ever arises again.

Um, next time you decide
to cheat on your husband,

just make sure you take your
ring off pretty early on,

because if the guy's
any good in bed,

he's gonna notice the
imprint on your finger.

- You knew?

- I suspected.

- Well what was that
scene about last night?

- I hoped it wasn't true.

- Why didn't you say something?

- I guess I really
didn't want to know.

You do that a lot,
take your ring off?

- No never, that's the
first time actually.

- Well forgive me if I
find that hard to believe.

- I'm sorry I didn't tell
you about Brian, I should've.

- Yup.

- I was just afraid
that if you knew

I was married,
you wouldn't come.

- You would've been right.

- Look, when I got
your email, I thought,

how dare he contact me
after all these years.

But I had to see you,
I don't know why, but--

- I needed to see you too.

Come on.

It's like something
out of Doctor Seuss.

- Yeah.

- Why do they call
them Joshua trees?

- The Mormons, when they
headed west, they saw these

and it reminded them
of the prophet Joshua

raising his hands up to God.

Yeah, exactly.

- That's a cool story.

- You know the Mormons,
they're full of them.

- So those cigarettes
were Brian's?

- Yup.

- You should tell
him to stop smoking.

- Well he's not
addicted, so I let it go.

- You don't mind?

- No, I hate it,
but it's his body.

- Yeah, but he's your husband.

- Was it hard quitting?

- No, I mean I watched my
dad dying of lung cancer so.

- I'm sorry.

- It's okay.

I guess it's also easier
to run six miles and

smoke a pack a day in
your 20's then it is now.

- Yeah, everything's
easier in your 20's.

- Well, not for me.

You know I woke up every
morning in my 20's,

doubled over in abdominal pain.

Doctor said it was stress.

- What the hell were
you so stressed about?

- Everything.

- I didn't know that.

- Nobody did.

You know the most important
thing that I learned

in business school,
never show weakness.

- Jesus Christ.

- Yeah, the one thing
that I needed to do,

the only thing that
would've probably helped,

is talking to someone.

You know, if you want your
husband to quit smoking,

you need to tell him.

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So why Australia?

- He's there for work.

- What does Brian do?

- He's a director.

- For movies?

- Commercials mostly,
but yeah, films too.

- Oh, so you moved
to LA for him?

- No, most of my
clients are in LA.

We moved here for my work.

- I don't know if
I could do that,

if I ever married someone,
I have to be with them.

- Well, it's not that simple.

When you work in film, you
gotta go where the work is

and sometimes that means
weeks, or even months apart.

- Are you okay with that?

- Well, I knew what I was
getting into when I signed up.

- Well it's not the military.

- You know I think it's
good to be alone sometimes,

I think more people
should try it.

I like missing someone, you
know it feels good to be

on your own, and you know,
spend some time with yourself

and be productive and then

come back together
again, you know?

- I mean who are you
trying to convince?

- No I'm just saying,
it's not all bad.

- You should put that
on a greeting card.

Can we see the house from here?

- I can't see
anything these days.

- Ah, this is amazing.

(instrumental music)

This looks like a movie set.

- It was a movie set.

- Which movies?

- Cisco Kid's the
only one I know of.

The bowling alley
used to be open.

- You and Brian ever
think about having kids?

- No, you?

- Definitely.

- Yeah?

- I think the real
sign of adulthood

is having to care about
something other than yourself.

You know, putting somebody
else's needs above your own.

- Well by that definition,
people who never have kids

don't grow up at all.

- Well that's maybe why we have

such a primal
desire to procreate.

You know, we're just
afraid of taking on

that kind of responsibility.

So, if you have a kid,
there's no choice,

you have to step up.

- It's hard to have a kid
if you're not settled.

- Well, you seem pretty settled.

- I was talking about you.

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- [Alex] Talk about the wedding.

- [Dean] It was small, just
a few friends at city hall,

and a justice of the peace.

10 minutes and 75 dollars
later it was done.

- Oh, how romantic.

- I never understood the
appeal of a big wedding.

- I do, I want a huge wedding.

Big flower arrangements,
all my family and friends,

big band playing, if I ever
love somebody that much,

I want to shout it to the world.

- You ever come close?

- No, well, maybe once.

- You don't mean me?

- You want the truth?

I've been with a lot
of guys in my life,

I've even lived
with a few of them,

but none of them
compared to you.

It's gotten so bad that, no
matter where I go in the world,

I find myself looking for you.

- The problem is, you're looking
for the guy I used to be.

The guy you remember.

- You're not that different.

- Yesterday you
told me I'd changed.

- Yeah, you have changed,
I mean we both have,

but not that much.

- Oh, come on, when we first
met, you had just got your MBA

and I was an artist.

- So you admit it.

- Okay, um yes, I admit it, I'm
not an artist anymore, okay.

- Whatever happened to that guy?

- He um, he got scared.

- Of what?

- Not being good enough.

- So he left New York?

- Uh huh, I got comfortable,
and stopped listening to NPR.

- Maybe that's why I'm here.

- What, to get me to start
listening to NPR again?

- No, to make you
uncomfortable, hi.

- Another round?

- Um, you know what,
just the check I think.

- Okay cool, I'll be right back.

Can I just say, I think
you two are adorable.

Me and Keith, the bartender
have been taking bets

on how long we think you
two have been together.

- Oh, um, 15 years.

- Wow, it shows, I think you
two have talked more today

than me and my
boyfriend have all year.

I'll be right back
with that check.

(laughing)

- Whoa, what is this place?

- Yeah it's great isn't it?

- Yeah, totally, look
at this roof line.

- Yeah, it was
abandoned years ago,

but some famous movie star or
musician used to live here.

I always think about
what I would do with it,

if it were mine.

- Tell me.

- First it'd be the plumbing.

But I think it'd make a great
artist studio, don't you?

- Yeah, do it.

- I wish.

- How much would it cost?

- Are you gonna buy it?

- I don't know, maybe.

What does Brian think?

- Oh, he wouldn't like it,
where I see a blank canvass,

he sees a money pit.

- Well has he seen it?

- I'm not sure.

- You haven't shown him?

- No.

- Oh, you have a lot of secrets.

(country music)

Cute.

- Those are my ears.

- Wait, which
one's the lazy one.

- This one, my right one.

- It looks normal.

- It only drifts if I'm
tired, or if I'm staring

at something for a long time.

- Wait, what do you see now?

- A big blur.

- How about now?

- A bigger blur.

(laughing)

- Wait, if you didn't know
it was me, could you tell?

- Probably?

- Is it really that bad?

- My right eye is a little
better when I wear glasses,

but yeah I'm basically
blind in that eye.

- Oh, God, that sucks.

- No, what really sucks is I
could've probably corrected it

if I had just done the
exercises when I was a kid.

I had to sit in a dark room,
with my good eye covered,

and with my lazy eye, I
had to look through a straw

at a blinking yellow light.

- That sounds super fun.

- I had to wear an eye patch.

- Eye patches are kind of cool.

- Not when you're six.

- Wait, so it didn't work?

- No, I didn't work.

I didn't want to do it.

It was so miserable
sitting in a dark room,

wearing the eye patch.

- Your parents didn't make you?

- No, they wanted a happy boy.

It's funny though,
sometimes I think

if I had just done
what I was supposed to,

I'd see the whole
world differently.

- I have an idea, we should
get you an eye patch.

- I could change
my name to Rocco.

- Rocco.

- Rocco.

- What do you think?

- I'll consider it.

I can feel it.

- What?

- My wedding band.

- Well that's telling.

- I'm not being metaphorical,
I mean, I can feel it

on my finger, like it's there.

- I used to wear this
visor, when I'd play tennis,

and one time I took it off and
I could still feel it there

on my forehead and it started
to just drive me crazy.

So I went to go get my hair cut,

and I told the guy, can you
just cut this God damn visor

off my head please.

So he cuts my hair a
little bit, and he says,

well, is it still there?

Yeah, still there, so he
cuts a little bit more,

and a little bit more
and eventually he
just shaves my head.

- Did that work?

- No, I finally learned
to just live with it,

until one day I
realized it was gone.

- Well I can't
cut off my finger.

- Do you want me
to do it for you?

- You know I'd be lying if I
said I hadn't thought about it.

- Okay, so what's stopping you?

- It would hurt.

- And then it would feel better.

- Maybe, I just want to
feel like this all the time.

- You know we can, I
mean if we want to.

- Wanting isn't the issue, come
on, this isn't sustainable.

- Yeah, of course it is.

- What's the longest
relationship you've ever had?

- Um, well, that's
not the point.

- What is the point if we're
talking about commitment?

- Well no, I'm not
talking about commitment,

I'm talking about feeling young,

and sexy and alive, I'm
talking about passion.

I mean do you feel
that with Brian?

- Well yeah, yes, I do.

I do, I did, I mean,
yeah, sometimes.

- Jesus Christ.

- No, of course I do.

- Well, do you love him?

- Brian is the kindest
person I've ever met.

He's so smart, he's so funny,

he's incredibly
generous and patient.

- Yeah, but do you love him?

- Yes, I do.

You said the mark of
adulthood is someone

who cares about something
more than themselves,

well that's Brian.

You know I could probably
tell him about you,

and this whole weekend,
and he would be the one,

trying to make me feel better,

trying to make me
feel less guilty.

I'm sure he'd be, he'd be mad.

But then when he'd calm
down, he'd just want to try

to understand why
I felt the need

to do this in the first place.

- So why am I here?

- What?

- I mean why am I here Dean?

- I thought you quit?

- Brian won't mind will he?

You know there's a dead
mouse floating in your pool.

- Oh shit, they keep falling in.

- Well maybe there jumping.

- Mice don't commit suicide.

- Uh, why did you just do that?

- What was I supposed to do?

- I don't know, bury it.

- It's a mouse.

What just happened?

- What do you want Dean?

- What do I want?

- Yeah, it's a simple
question, what do you want?

- That is not a simple question.

- Bullshit.

- Okay, if it's so simple,
then why don't you answer it,

what do you want?

- You.

- Me?

- What, after only two days?

- It hasn't been two
days, it's been 15 years.

We've been searching
for each other

for 15 fucking years,
and I know you.

- But you don't know me.

You don't know what I need.

- Okay, then tell me.

- What do you want me to say,

that I'm gonna leave
my marriage, then what?

You and I run away together?

- Yeah, or something.

We give this a shot,
that's what I want.

- So tell me, what do you want?

- So many things.

I want my work to
mean something.

I want to run a
marathon some day.

I want to set aside
more time for painting.

I want you.

I want my marriage to work.

Sometimes I just want
to fucking be by myself.

More than anything, right now
I just want to be back in bed.

Can we do that...

Please?

- Yeah, okay.

(light instrumental music)

Okay.

- I'll get the lights.

(coyotes howling)

(cars horns)

- Stop it.

- No.

- You didn't earn that.

- Oh, it makes me feel so smart.

- We use the same toothpaste.

- Oh, well help yourself.

- Yeah, I did.

- Let me see.

- Okay, I have to
tell you something.

- Okay, I'm not scared.

- Yeah, I can tell.

- What is it?

- Um, I don't
remember your name.

- What?

- I'm so sorry.

- You just had my
dick in your mouth.

- I know, I think I'm just
still drunk or something.

- I can't believe this.

- Oh, come on asshole,
I mean so wait,

what is my name then?

- Alexander Coffina.

- Eww, Alexander.

- Yeah.

- Okay first of all, I
haven't introduced myself as

Alexander to anyone, no
matter how cute they are,

and you're pretty cute.

- Thank you.

- Secondly, I never
told you my last name.

- Okay I uh, I peaked
at your drivers license

when you were in the bathroom.

- My credit cards still
better be there, you jerk.

- That is not a
flattering picture of you.

- You're awful, that's so mean.

- It's not.

- Okay, but what is it?

- What is what?

- Your name.

- I'll give you a hint.

- I'll give you a hint.

- It rhymes with mean.

- Queen.

- Exactly.

- Wait, wait, no, let me think.

- There's only one.

- Peen?

- Ha ha.

- Dean, oh, like James Dean, oh.

- He was gay.

- Oh come on.

- He was.

- Why do gay guys always
do that about other guys.

- He was bi.

- Whatever.

- He admitted it.

- Who cares, he's dead.

- I'm bi.

- No, you're not.

- I am.

- Okay, how many women
have you slept with?

- Why does that matter?

- I would like a number please.

- Five.

- And that makes you bi?

- If I say it does.

- I think I always knew
I was always into guys.

- How would you know if you've
never slept with a woman?

- I just knew.

- Absolutely.

- I was certain that
I didn't need a woman

to help me figure that out.

- Certainty is the
death of creativity.

- What?

- If you're certain, that
means you're closed out to

all the other
possibilities out there.

- Or maybe, it is
the realization that

not all things are possible.

- Okay, what's the
difference between a gay

guy and a straight guy?

- I don't know.

- Six beers.

- Ugh, that's funny,
wait are you a comedian?

- No, I'm an artist.

- Oh, yeah, wait,
what do you really do?

- When I was a kid, I
used to tell my family

that I wanted to be an actor,
an author, or an artist.

And my dad would
say, that's great,

but how are you going
to make a living?

- I have such a good idea,

okay how about we
get married and

I support you with my high
paying wall street job.

- Could you imagine?

- Yeah, I can actually.

- I like you.
Is it okay if I say that?

- I like you too.

- Shit, what time is it?

- Who cares?

- Oh, it's eight o'clock.

It's time for morning edition.

- What is that?

- NPR.

- What's NPR?

- National Public Radio.

- What is that?

- Oh, it's great, you're
gonna love it, just listen.

Alex?

- [Voiceover] Dean sorry to
take off without saying goodbye,

I guess some habits
are hard to break.

I hope you get that house
someday, you deserve it, Alex.

(phone vibrates)

- Brian, hey honey.

No, I'm still in the desert,
I can't believe I'm getting

signal right now.

How are things going out there?

Ah, typical, you
should fire him.

Okay no, don't fire him.

Brian, Brian, honey...

Look, I need to say something.

I think we should
be together more.

I just really want us to
see each other more, okay?

No, we can talk about
it when you get home.

I love you too.

And we have to do
something about these mice.

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