A Chorus Line (film)

A Chorus Line is a 1985 film about hopefuls who try out before a demanding director for a part in a new musical.
 * Directed by Richard Attenborough. Written by Arnold Schulman, based on the musical by James Kirkwood Jr. and Nicholas Dante.

One singular sensation. (taglines)

Zach

 * Dammit, now can't ANYBODY up there hear me! Just let your hair down! Can't you talk? All of you, just talk, to me, to each other!... Jeez!

Sheila

 * Why is it only I ever get invited places?

Bobby Mills

 * I couldn't catch a ball if it had Elmer's Glue on it. And wouldn't my father have to be this big ex-football hero. Well, he was so humiliated, he didn't know what to tell his friends, so he told them all I had Polio. On Father's Day, I used to limp for him.


 * I would always try to find ways to kill myself, but then I realized to commit suicide in Buffalo is redundant.

Dialogue

 * Mike Cass: How many jobs are there?
 * Larry: 4 and 4.
 * Judy Monroe: 44?
 * Sheila: No, 4 and 4.
 * Larry: 4 boys, 4 girls.
 * Sheila: Need any women?


 * Zach: Tell You about the Bronx.
 * Diana: What's to tell about the Bronx? It's uptown and to the right.
 * Zach: What made you start dancing?
 * Diana: Who knows? I'm Puerto Rican. We jump around a lot.


 * Sheila: You were a rotten dancer.
 * Zach: Why do you think I became your choreographer?


 * Larry: Don't you know the combination, Sheila?
 * Sheila: I knew it when I was in front!


 * Sheila: Can I sit on your lap?
 * Zach: Do you always come on like this?
 * Sheila: No. Sometimes I'm aggressive.


 * Sheila: My mother was kind of middle-aged and frumpy.
 * Diana: Whose isn't?
 * Sheila: At fourteen she was middle-aged and frumpy.


 * Connie: Connie Wong. Always Wong, never Wight.
 * [Zach looks up]
 * Connie: Bad joke. I was born in Chinatown, lower east side.
 * Zach: How old are you?
 * Connie: I was born December 5th, four thousand six hundred and forty two, the Year of the Chicken.


 * Connie: Tapping's not my strongest point!
 * Larry: I see that.

Taglines

 * One singular sensation.

Cast

 * Michael Douglas - Zach, choreographer
 * Alyson Reed - Cassie
 * Terrence Mann - Larry, assistant choreographer
 * Sharon Brown - Kim, Zach's secretary


 * Dancers
 * Michael Blevins - Mark Tobori
 * Yamil Borges - Diana Morales
 * Jan Gan Boyd - Connie Wong
 * Gregg Burge - Richie Walters
 * Cameron English - Paul San Marco
 * Tony Fields - Al DeLuca
 * Audrey Landers - Val Clarke
 * Nicole Fosse - Kristine Evelyn-DeLuca
 * Vicki Frederick - Sheila Bryant
 * Michelle Johnston - Beatrice Ann "Bebe" Benson
 * Janet Jones - Judy Monroe
 * Pam Klinger - Maggie Winslow
 * Charles McGowan - Mike Cass
 * Justin Ross - Greg Gardner
 * Blane Savage - Don Kerr
 * Matt West - Bobby Mills