Bill (Bronson Dudley) and Tommy (Steve Buscemi) talking Korea and careers. You’d have to see it. And you should. An excellent entry in the Barfly genre - along with the genre’s namesake, Barfly. Buscemi writes and directs Trees Lounge, from 1996, a true-to-life depiction of day-in/day-out existence for many of us.
So says Jessie Royce Landis, as Jessie Stevens, straight-shooting mother of the goddess-esque Grace Kelly, as recent finishing school grad Francie Stevens, who suspects Grant is after her mother’s jewels in Hitchcock’s ultra-stylish caper flick To Catch a Thief
Jessie: “You can take all that champagne and dump it in the English channel.”
Later on she bellies up to the bar American-style and puts in an order: “Avez vous bourbon?”
