The Beautiful Country (2004)
Nick Nolte: Steve
Quotes
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Binh : How long you blind?
Steve : A long time. I worked in a storage facility in Saigon. I thought it was a crate of beer. Turned out to be explosives.
Binh : You're still alive...
Steve : Yeah, that's what they said. One minute I'm in Saigon, the next I'm in a hospital in Maryland, and six months had passed. Woke up, couldn't see, didn't know where I was. Some assholes tell me I'm lucky.
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Steve : [about his long lost wife] I never saw someone so beautiful before - in all that ugliness.
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Binh : My mother is very beautiful. Like cranes flying at sunset.
Steve : Binh, why are you here?
Binh : This place?
Steve : No, America.
Binh : America beautiful.
Steve : How's that?
Binh : [no response]
Steve : Did you come by boat?
Binh : Yes.
Steve : Hard?
Binh : Not so hard.
Steve : Like cranes flying at sunset.
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Steve : [last lines - as Binh is cutting his hair] Now just a trim, Binh.
Binh : Yes.
Steve : What do they call those sticky sweet cakes?
Binh : There a lot of sticky sweet cakes...
Steve : Well I think they're made out of rice.
Binh : [chuckling] They all made of rice.
Steve : Oh. Can you make 'em?
Binh : Yes.
Steve : I'll cut your hair next time.
Binh : [belly chuckle now] Yes...