Starring: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Paul Bettany, Kelly Reilly, Michelle Dockery
Story: Drama directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Eric Roth and Zemeckis based on the graphic novel of the same name by Richard McGuire. Here (2024) covers the events of a single spot of land and its inhabitants, traveling through generations, capturing the human experience in its purest form.
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Top 30+ Here Quotes
Young Richard: In the war, did you shoot anybody?
Al: It’s hard to know. Everything happens so fast, it’s just a blur. You never really see the enemy, just the flash of a helmet.
Helen Harris: [referring to the house] I wonder how old it is.
Devon Harris: It’s over two hundred years old. Some famous colonial guy lived there.
Pauline Harter: What time will you be home?
John Harter: Oh, let me see. Four hundred and fifty mile round trip to Schenectady at one hundred ten miles per hour, plus two fuel stops. I’ll be home before you can say “Schenectady”.
Al: I never succeeded in anything unless you count staying alive in the war, and then I just got lucky.
Rose: Oh, we both got lucky that we found one another.
Rose: If you decide to do something, don’t wait.
Richard: I’m going to be an artist.
Al: Oh, great. Just what the world needs.
Rose: You could sell a teapot a spout. No one can say no to you. You’re a charmer.
Al: Oh? I don’t know, Rose. I’m not a twenty-three year-old veteran full of pi** and vinegar anymore.
Richard: You know, if you like, you could spend the rest of the night here.
Margaret: I could spend the rest of my life here.
Al: [after he finds out Margaret is pregnant] God, you stupid p**ck, you! You couldn’t keep it in your pants!
Richard: We both have stupid p**cks, Dad.
Al: Don’t be a wisea**. Do not be a wisea**! You think I wanted to end up selling vacuums? You think I wanted to be done with my life when I was twenty-two? You think I didn’t have things I wanted to do? Dreams? For you.
Richard: Can you turn towards the light?
Margaret: Oh, I just don’t feel pretty right now, Richard.
Richard: Honey, you don’t understand. I can’t take my eyes off of you.
Party Guest: We all were sure you were going to be somebody.
Richard: Yeah, it just didn’t work out.
Businessman: Now, and have you heard of this new thing called television?
Stella Beekman: Is that the radio with pictures?
Margaret: I think it’s time we had our own house.
Richard: Oh, here we go again.
Margaret: No, our own house. One that we can raise Vanessa in. Our own home.
Richard: “No matter how far you travel, no matter what we see, right here is where we want to be.”
Margaret: [to Richard] Okay, so what are we going to do? We’re just going to live in this commune until we die?
Rose: Ted passed away.
Al: He did? When?
Rose: Twenty minutes ago. He never woke up.
Al: Well, at least he died laughing.
Margaret: Vanessa got her head stuck in the fireplace? And she wants to sue Santa.
Richard: For what?
Margaret: For emotional chimney trauma.
Richard: “Chimney trauma”. That’s genius.
Margaret: [to Richard] You always find a reason not to do something.
Margaret: [to Richard] Listen. Silence. We’re alone.
Al: Rose, she loved having you all around her. She loved this day. She loved cooking for you. She lived for you.
Richard: And for you, Dad.
Al: Yeah, and for me.
Margaret: You know, Richard said the other day how time flies, but Richard always says things like that that are kind of obvious.
Margaret: When I was thirty, if I thought about fifty, I thought, “That is an awful long way away, and I don’t really need to think about it,” and then I blinked and I’m fifty. That’s crazy.
Richard: Time flies.
Margaret: It’s just that I put things off, and I kept putting them off. And I would say, “Oh, we’ll do it next year.” And then that next year would come, and I’d say, “Oh, next year, next year.” And I don’t want to do that anymore.
Gilbert Moore, C.H.H.P: So, around the time of the American Revolution, marriage was something equal to a dictatorship. But nowadays, thank goodness, it resembles something closer to, shall we say, a democracy. Although not yet “a more perfect union”.
Gilbert Moore, C.H.H.P: You see, most couples like to think of marriage as being together in the same boat, doing everything together in the same boat. Fight and make love, and stop making love, and fighting some more, and then coming together, and doing it all over again. Mostly fighting for their individual space, fighting to be heard, fighting for their identity. I like to call it fighting over the rudder, all while their boat is floating down the river of life. Possibly headed for the falls, but most couples find solace in this idea of being in the same boat, because if the boat sinks, they go down together.
Gilbert Moore, C.H.H.P: [referring to Margaret and Richard] I think you two belong in separate boats.
Richard: Get the f*** out of my house!
Al: Do you think you can save it?
Richard: Save what?
Al: Your marriage.
Richard: I have no idea.
Al: Your mom and I, we never had problems like that.
Richard: Yes, you did. People just didn’t talk about them. That’s all. It was a different time.
Richard: Margaret, I have to tell you how sorry I am. All I did was worry about every damn thing. In some insane way, I must have believed that worrying would keep painful things from happening. Isn’t it ridiculous?
Richard: I’m sorry, Margaret. I’m sorry I wasn’t able to be what you needed me to be.
Margaret: Richard, it’s okay. But thank you. Thank you for saying that. We both, we did the best we could.
Margaret: [reading her fortune cookie] “You will have an adventure.” And what an adventure it has been.
Margaret: [as Richard brings her to their old house] I remember being here. I love it here. I love it here.