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Begin Again

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Cast
Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo, Hailee Steinfeld, Adam Levine, James Corden, Yasiin Bey, Cee Lo Green, Catherine Keener
Released
2013
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Music producer Dan tells his daughter Violet, “Hookers, crack.” (0:08)

His partner Saul tells Dan, “It’s not Jerry Maguire.” (0:11)

Violet tells Dan, “My psychiatrist.”
Dan: “Psychiatrist. You have a psychiatrist now?”
”You don’t need a... psychiatrist.” (0:12)

Dan asks Violet’s music journalist mother Miriam, referring to Violet, “You let her walk out of the house looking like Jodie Foster from Taxi Driver?” (0:14)

Dan tells songwriter Gretta, “I was drinking my ass off standing on a subway platform ready to kill myself, and then I heard your son.”
”225 for the both of them which got me nice and wasted...”
Gretta: “Were you drunk when you heard my song?”
Dan: “You need to be drunk for that sort of thing.”
Gretta: “Well, you must’ve been drunk tonight, because nobody else heard anything.” (0:22)

Hospitality agent Jill tells Gretta and her musician boyfriend Dave, “It’s pretty crazy.” (0:29)

Her music friend Steve tells Gretta, referring to a music CD, “People are going crazy for that here.”
”Unless I’m drunk...” (0:35)

Steve tells Gretta, “I’ll come back, find your... head in the oven.” (0:43)

Dan tells Gretta, “And it becomes this tribute to this beautiful, goddamn crazy, fractured mess of a city, New York.” (0:48)

Rapper Troublegum tells Dan, “That’s... crazy.” (0:52)

Dan tells Gretta, “You think that I left that relationship because I’m some sort of selfish, depressed prick.”
Gretta: “I don’t think you’re a selfish, depressed prick.”
Dan: “I left that relationship because I was having a... nervous breakdown...” (1:02)

Store marquis: “SHOE MANIA.” (1:08)