Bright Lights, Big City is a 1988 American drama film about a disillusioned young writer living in New York City who turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.
- Directed by James Bridges. Written by Jay McInerney, based on his novel of the same name.
Jamie Conway
- There's a certain shabby nobility in failing all by myself.
- [voice over] You are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning and, though the details are fuzzy. You cannot say that the terrain is entirely unfamiliar.
Tad Allagash
- [reads paper in typewriter] Yeah! "Dead Amanda"! I told you, you get more nookie than you can shake a fucking stick at if you just told people your wife was dead.
Drunken Writer
- [rambling on aimlessly to himself] ...Siamese fighting fish in the water cooler... the old crew in the golden days of this magazine would have thought of it.
Dialogue
- Ferret Man: Want to buy a ferret?
- Jamie: No, thanks.
- Ferret Man: His name is Fred...
Cast
- Michael J. Fox - Jamie Conway
- Kiefer Sutherland - Tad Allagash
- Phoebe Cates - Amanda
- Swoosie Kurtz - Megan
- Frances Sternhagen - Clara
- Tracy Pollan - Vicky
- John Houseman - Mr. Vogel
- Charlie Schlatter - Michael
- David Warrilow - Rittenhouse
- Dianne Wiest - Mother
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