Everything about Only The Lonely Film totally explained
Only the Lonely is a
1991 comedy/
drama/
romance film written and directed by
Chris Columbus. It starred
John Candy,
Ally Sheedy,
Maureen O’Hara and
Anthony Quinn.
Plot summary
Danny Muldoon (Candy), is a
Chicago policeman who falls in love with Theresa Luna (Sheedy), who works in a
funeral home. Their courtship is difficult, as Rose (O'Hara) - Danny's overbearing
Irish mother - continuously makes Danny feel guilty whenever he spends time away from her. The fact that Theresa isn't
Irish (she is
Sicilian and
Polish) only exacerbates the situation.
Meanwhile, Rose's neighbor, Nick Acropolis (Quinn) attempts to woo Rose. She is salty towards him in the beginning, but as she gradually softens her stance regarding Danny's relationship with Theresa, she warms up to Nick.
Casting
Chris Columbus wrote the part of Rose specifically for
Maureen O’Hara, but didn't know that she'd retired from acting and was living in the
Virgin Islands. Columbus contacted O'Hara's brother
Charles B. Fitzsimons, a producer and actor who was still in the
film industry, to ask him to send O'Hara a copy of the script, which he did, telling her, "This you do!". O'Hara read the script and loved it. She was reported to have replied back to Fitzsimons, "This I do!". However, she wouldn't commit until she met co-star
John Candy. The two formed an instant rapport and she quickly signed to do the film.
Quotes
Rose: Oh, that's a lovely dress you wearing.
Danny: Isn't it?
Theresa: Oh, thank you!
Rose: Even though it's a little big on top.
Danny: Ma!
Rose: Well, it is, you said so yourself.
Danny: Ma!
Theresa: No, no that's a problem I have, I'm not really that endowed on top.
Danny: No, no, no, no, no.
Rose: You're built like a thirteen year old boy.
Rose: I'd a
Polack friend once. She was incredibly stupid...
Danny: Don't do this, Ma.
Rose: ...Julie Kapowski. She was the stupidest woman that I ever knew. She believed that black cows... [laughs] ...black cows squirted chocolate milk!
Danny: [Dannyhas just scored a date with Theresa and runs into some funeral attendees] Yeah! Oh... sorry... but I just got lucky in there with a girl.
[funeralattendees look shocked]
Danny: Not in that way... she does everybody in there... not in that way. But she probably did that guy there... I gotta go.
Nick Acropolis: Rose! Rose, I'm trying again. Will you please accept these flowers?
Rose: I don't want them. And I don't date Greeks.
Nick Acropolis: You know, you and I could make each other so happy. Greek men are great lovers.
Rose: And Greek men never bathe.
Nick Acropolis: I bathe twice a day! Three times! When I do my sit-ups. Feel that stomach. Hard like an eighteen-year-old's. Come on, feel it!
Rose: I'm not feeling anything of yours.
Doyle: If I'd gotten married, I wouldn't be where I'm now.
Spats: In a tavern?
Doyle: Free! Living like a king!
Spats: You live at the Y.
Danny: I'll pick you up at seven. Where do you live?
Theresa: Here.
Danny: With the stiffs?
Theresa: Um, my father and I've an apartment upstairs.
Danny: Oh! Yeah, sure! That's uh... convenient.
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