Bird on a Wire

Bird on a Wire is a 1990 feature film starring Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn, directed by John Badham, and shot mainly in British Columbia, Canada. The title refers to the Leonard Cohen song "Bird on a Wire". The alley motorcycle chase scene was filmed in Victoria BC, Chinatown in Fan Tan Alley. He's every woman's dream and one woman's nightmare

Rick Jarmin

 * [repeated line] This can't be good for you.

Dialogue

 * Rick: You come to Detroit and you rent a Beamer? That's like going to Germany and eating Jimmy Dean sausages!


 * Rick: What the hell are you doing here?
 * Marianne: Me? What the hell are you doing here?
 * Rick: Being shot in the butt.


 * [in an airplane]
 * Rick: Put your head between your knees.
 * Marianne: [doing so] Now what?
 * Rick: Kiss your ass goodbye. We got no wheels, and we're coming down!


 * Marianne: What are you doing here?
 * Rick: I missed you. Now hop on...


 * Rick: That ought to cover the damages.
 * Raun: What damages?
 * [Rick rides a motorbike through the closed salon door.]

Cast

 * Mel Gibson as Rick Jarmin
 * Goldie Hawn as Marianne Graves
 * David Carradine as Eugene Sorenson
 * Bill Duke as Albert Diggs
 * Stephen Tobolowsky as Joe Weyburn
 * Joan Severance as Rachel Varney
 * Jeff Corey as Lou Baird