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Nightmare Alley (2021)
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CastBradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, Rooney Mara, Ron Perlman, Mary Steenburgen, David Strathairn.
Year released2021
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The carnival geek strikes Stanton Carlisle on the head with a rock. (0:11)
Stan asks Peter Krumbein, "You sauced?"
Stan tells Mary Elizabeth “Molly” Cahill: ”Pete’s sauced.”
Abigail in the audience: ”My brother passed away.” (0:20)
Psychic Zeena Krumbein tells Stan, "... or, you faint." (0:27)
Clement Hoately tells Stan, "Red box, wood alcohol."
Stan, referring to ethyl alcohol: ”I never touch the stuff.” (0:30)
Stan tells Pete, "Six quarts of wood alcohol for the show." (0:31)
Molly tells Stan, "I had a dream."
”You’re dreaming.” (0:38)
Clem tells Stan, "You gotta pick up a broken drunk, a real alkie, a two bottle a day fool, see?"
”Nightmare alleys... A lot of folks came back from the war addicted to the poppy, to booze. Now, opium really sinks its claws, but you reel ‘em in with booze... You spike it with that opium tincture... all the while you’re talking, he’s thinking about sobering up, getting the crawling shakes, the screaming, the terrors....” (0:42)
Pete tells Stan, referring to the new geek, "He’s gotta be half out of his mind by now." (0:45)
Zeena realizes Pete has died. (0:50)
Stan tells Molly, "You’ve got nothing to worry about with me, rabbit." (0:57)
Stan tells Lilith Ritter, "Your mother died when you were young." (1:05)
Stan reads a business card: "Dr. Lilith Ritter, consulting psychologist." (1:10)
Sign on door: "...PSYCHOLOGIST" (1:11)
Stan tells Lilith, "I never drink."
Lilith: ”My office is wired to record all analysis sessions.”
”An Electra complex, is it?”
Stan, referring to Judge Kimball: ”He a patient of yours?”
Lilith: ”His wife is a patient of mine... Have you ever been in analysis?”
”Kimball lost a son...”
”Julian... died in no man’s land.” (1:12)
Lilith starts session with Stan.
Stan, referring to his father: ”He went White Ribbon when I was 10.”
”Smelled like wood alcohol.”
Lilith: ”You drank wood alcohol?”
Stan: ”He tanked up on wood alky, and he kicked off.”
Lilith: ”Did you ever stutter as a child?”
Referring to Humphries: ”Was he ever... abusive to you as a child?” (1:18)
Stan tells Mrs. Kimball, referring to her son, "He died suddenly." (1:28)
By telephone, Lilith tells Stan, "Grindle was a patient of mine..." (1:32)
Ezra Grindle tells Stan, "This is our version of a polygraph... You’d call it a lie detector."
Stan: ”She passed away many years ago.” (1:34)
Stan tells Lilith, "Don’t worry... Don’t worry..." (1:39)
Lilith on recording: "Patient Ezra Grindle, therapy session number four." (1:41)
Lilith tells Stan, "More shocking the image, the less inclined Ezra will be to examine it." (1:47)
Molly tells Stan, referring to Dorrie, "She died a few days later." (1:48)
Ezra tells Stan, "This takes patience." (1:1)
Mrs. Kimball shoots herself in the head. (1:53)
Radio reporter: "In view of Prime Minister Churchill’s recent pledge..." (1:49)
Radio reporter, referring to the Kimbles: "... an apparent murder-suicide that has baffled the town." (2:02)
Stan strikes Grindle on the head until he renders him unconscious. (2:03)
Lilith tells Stan, "Don’t panic."
Lilith: ”Patient Stanton Carlisle: final therapy session.”
”These delusions are becoming part of your condition.”
Stan: ”You crazy... bitch.”
Lilith: ”... it seems you’ve made a transference to me, both as your mistress and your mother... The symbolism is quite obvious...” (2:06)
By telephone, Lilith tells security, "There’s a... patient of mine." (2:20)
A carnival manager tells Stan, "I don’t hire no boozers... Let’s have a snort..." (2:18)