High Fidelity

2000 · 113 MIN · IMDB 7.4 · 194,043 VOTES · DIR. Stephen Frears

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Overview

After his long-time girlfriend dumps him, a thirty-year-old record store owner seeks to understand why he is unlucky in love while recounting his "top five breakups of all time".

Dialogue Timeline — 1,512 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:56 What came first
00:05:34 What's the point? It never goes anywhere.
00:10:18 As soon as I saw her I realized she was the kind of girl I’d wanted to meet...
00:14:45 Bye-bye.
00:19:17 She’s kind of Sheryl Crow-ish, crossed with a, um, post-Partridge Family, pre-L.A. Law Susan Dey kind of thing.
00:23:19 It’s a reference to a Chinese meal in Toronto...
00:27:50 - Excuse me, I was in here last-- - In a minute.
00:32:40 No woman in the history of the world is having better sex than the sex you are having with Ian...
00:36:59 that after the abortion, I borrowed a large sum of money from her...
00:40:54 - I don’t know what you mean by "technically." - You know.
00:44:43 I can’t believe I left you for him.
00:49:06 - You look at us and think you know what we listen to. - I think you have more.
00:53:37 We haven’t done it yet.
00:57:28 - What was yours called again? - It was called James.
01:01:59 You know, I don’t want this to be the last conversation we have. I know what you’re like.
01:06:26 Because if we are, that’s great. That’s great.
01:10:31 - Bye, sweetheart. - Bye-bye.
01:15:04 - Yeah. - "Number three: any kind of musician."
01:19:01 I mean, it’s rough, but, unbelievably, it shows promise.
01:23:00 - How are you doing? - I'm all right, I suppose.
01:27:51 - Hi. - Hi.
01:32:37 - It may be why I came back. - A record release party?
01:36:46 Well, forgive me if I don’t think of you as the world’s safest bet.
01:42:28 For the first time, I can sort of see how that’s done.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,512
Dialogue density13.4 lines / min
First line00:00:56
Final line01:42:28

Production Record

DirectorStephen Frears
LanguageEnglish
Budget$30,000,000
Revenue$47,100,000
IMDb votes194,043