Bright Lights, Big City (film)

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