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(1993)

Tom Hanks: Andrew Beckett

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  • [Andrew transcendentally describes his favorite opera,slowly walking around his apartment, closing his eyes, looking up] 

    Andrew Beckett : Do you like opera?

    Joe Miller : I'm not that familiar with opera.

    Andrew Beckett : This is my favorite aria. This is Maria Callas. This is "Andrea Chenier", Umberto Giordano. This is Madeleine. She's saying how during the French Revolution, a mob set fire to her house, and her mother died... saving her. "Look, the place that cradled me is burning." Can you hear the heartache in her voice? Can you feel it, Joe? In come the strings, and it changes everything. The music fills with a hope, and that'll change again. Listen... listen..."I bring sorrow to those who love me." Oh, that single cello! "It was during this sorrow that love came to me." A voice filled with harmony. It says, "Live still, I am life. Heaven is in your eyes. Is everything around you just the blood and mud? I am divine. I am oblivion. I am the god... that comes down from the heavens, and makes of the Earth a heaven. I am love!... I am love."

  • Librarian : [standing next to his table]  Sir, wouldn't you be more comfortable in a study room?

    [Andrew looks up and sees people in the library staring at him] 

    Andrew Beckett : No. Would it make you more comfortable?

  • Joe Miller : What do you love about the law, Andrew?

    Andrew Beckett : [from the witness stand]  I... many things... uh... uh... What I love the most about the law?

    Joe Miller : Yeah.

    Andrew Beckett : It's that every now and again - not often, but occasionally - you get to be a part of justice being done. That really is quite a thrill when that happens.

  • [his last lines, while lying on a hospital bed] 

    Andrew Beckett : Miguel, I'm ready.

  • Andrew Beckett : [in Joe's office]  That's their story. Wanna hear mine?

    Joe Miller : How many lawyers you go to before you called me?

    Andrew Beckett : Nine.

    Joe Miller : Continue.

  • Joe Miller : What's wrong with your face?

    Andrew Beckett : [upon entering Joe's office]  I have AIDS.

    Joe Miller : I'm sorry. I, uh...

  • Joe Miller : [sitting on opposite sides of the table in the library, reading to each other from their text books]  The Federal Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973 prohibits discrimination against otherwise qualified handicapped persons who are able to perform the duties required by their employment. Although the ruling did not address the specific issue of HIV and AIDS discrimination...

    Andrew Beckett : Subsequent decisions have held that AIDS is protected as a handicap under law, not only because of the physical limitations it imposes, but because the prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precede... which precedes the actual physical one.

    Joe Miller : This is the essence of discrimination: formulating opinions about others not based on their individual merits, but rather on their membership in a group with assumed characteristics.

  • Bud Beckett : [to Andrew, during a family gathering, celebrating the 50th wedding anniversary for his parents]  Uh, Andy, the way, the way that you handled this whole thing - uh, you and Miguel with, with so much courage - I don't believe there's anything that, that anyone could say that could make us feel anything but... incredibly proud of you.

    Sarah Beckett : Well, I didn't raise my kids to sit in the back of the bus. You get in there and you fight for your rights, okay?

    Andrew Beckett : Gee, I love you guys.

  • Joe Miller : [standing next to his table]  Who did you get?

    Andrew Beckett : [sitting down at his table]  What?

    Joe Miller : Did you find a lawyer?

    Andrew Beckett : I'm a lawyer.

  • Andrew Beckett : I appreciate your faith in my abilities.

    Charles Wheeler : Faith, Andy, is the belief in something for which we have no evidence. It doesn't apply to this situation.

  • Andrew Beckett : [while lying on a hospital bed]  What do you call a thousand lawyers chained together at the bottom of the ocean?

    Joe Miller : [amused,sitting next to him on the hospital bed]  I don't know.

    Andrew Beckett : A good start.

  • Joe Miller : [in Joe's office]  I don't buy it counselor.

    Andrew Beckett : That's very disappointing.

    Joe Miller : I don't see a case.

    Andrew Beckett : I have a case!

  • Joe Miller : Explain this to me like I'm a six year old, didn't you have an obligation to tell your employers you had this deadly infectious disease?

    Andrew Beckett : That's not the point from the day they hired me to the day they fired me, I served my clients consistency thoroughly with absolute excellency if they hadn't fired me that's what I've be doing today.

    Joe Miller : And they don't want to fire you for having AIDS so in spite of your brilliance they make you look incompetent thus the mysterious is that what you're trying to tell me?

    Andrew Beckett : Correct, I was sabotaged.

  • Andrew Beckett : [to Joe in his office]  "I misplaced an important compliant" that's their story my side of the story is: the night before it was due I worked on the compliant in my office and I left a copy of it on my desk, the next day the compliant vanished no hard copy, all traces of it mysteriously gone from my computer, miraculously a copy was located at the last minute and we got it to court on time but the next day I was summoned to a meeting with the managing partners who were waiting for me in the conference room

  • [first lines] 

    Andrew Beckett : [making their cases before the judge in her office]  This 'pestilent dust' that council refers to has appeared on only three occasions. Each time it was tested and the results: limestone. It's messy, but innocuous.

    Joe Miller : [leans in toward Andrew]  Innocuous?

    Andrew Beckett : Defined by Webster's as 'harmless.'

    Joe Miller : I know what it means. May I?

    [takes the packet of dust] 

    Joe Miller : Thank you. Your honor

    [takes a whiff of the dust] 

    Joe Miller : , imagine how the children in this neighborhood are being made to feel: the constant pounding o-of construction ringing in their ears as this skyscraper - a *tribute* to mankind's greed - grows daily; casting an ominous shadow over their lives, filling them with dread even as they are surrounded by this toxic dust.

    Andrew Beckett : Y-Your honor, Kendell Construction builds neighborhoods; it doesn't *destroy* them. Granting a restraining order against this construction site will throw 753 Philadelphians out of work and lend validation to this contemptable groundless nuisance suit. It's an example of the rapacious litigation that, today, is tearing at the very fabric of our society.

    Judge Tate : Let's not go off the deep end gentlemen. You've made an articulate and compelling presentation Mr. Miller, but I don't believe you've proven irreparable harm.

    Joe Miller : Not yet your honor.

  • Andrew Beckett : Every problem has a solution. Every problem has a solution. Every problem has a solution.

  • Walter Kenton : What's that on your forehead, pal?

    Andrew Beckett : What? Where?

    Walter Kenton : That - right there on your forehead.

  • Andrew Beckett : Congratulations, Counselor.

    Joe Miller : Congratulations?

    Andrew Beckett : You've survived what I assume to be your first gay party intact.

    Joe Miller : [chuckles]  Let me tell you something, Andrew. When you're brought up the way I am, the way most people are in this country, there's not a whole lot of discussion about "homosexuality" - or what do you call it, alternate lifestyles. As a kid you're taught that queers are funny. Queers are weird. Queers dress up like their mother, that they're afraid to fight. that they're a danger to little kids and that all they want to do is get into your pants. That pretty much sums up the general thinkin' out there, if you want to know the truth about it.

    Andrew Beckett : Thank you for sharing that with me.

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