The Facts of Life

Name: The Facts of Life
Director: Melvin Frank
Released: 1960
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 6.3
Cast: Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Ruth Hussey, Don DeFore, Louis Nye

1960 · 103 MIN · IMDB 6.3 · 1,788 VOTES · DIR. Melvin Frank

Overview

Middle-class suburbanites Larry and Kitty grow bored with their lives and respective marriages. Although each always found the other's manner grating, they fall in love when thrown together--without their spouses--on vacation. On returning home they try to break things off, only to grow closer. A holiday together will finally settle whether they should end their marriages.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,576 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:58 - Hi. - Hi.

00:05:14 I was out of bounds five times

00:08:20 If you'd look a little more often, you wouldn't ask such a stupid question.

00:12:17 What do you think I do every day? Leave the house all dressed up

00:15:46 and I guess Laughing Boy felt the same about Mary.

00:19:51 Fairmont High. After that, I...

00:23:06 It's easy for you to talk, you sit there

00:28:36 I'll watch it.

00:34:59 Three, four, five, six, seven... Three more.

00:40:37 Oh, Mom!

00:43:26 You see, Doc and Connie got the bug.

00:47:59 - We can't. - Just to talk?

00:51:29 It's your night to be Chief.

00:56:29 Oh, anything you say.

01:02:49 But again, we had reckoned without our old nemesis

01:07:52 Just what we need to talk things over.

01:14:30 Yeah, but don't you see? That's exactly what we need, another Acapulco.

01:18:40 and we made our bed and we'll lie in it.

01:23:15 - It's just that my mother used to do it. - Oh, really?

01:28:01 Oh, well, I guess it won't be so bad. After all, Jack'll help out.

01:31:56 ... sweep across the state, flooding streams

01:35:33 Larry Gilbert.

01:38:22 boarding for Los Angeles in 10 minutes.

01:43:38 The beautiful facts of life with you

Cast & Characters

Bob Hope Larry Gilbert Lucille Ball Kitty Weaver Ruth Hussey Mary Gilbert Don DeFore Jack Weaver Louis Nye Hamilton Busbee Philip Ober Doc Mason Marianne Stewart Connie Mason Peter Leeds Thompson - the Dry Cleaner Hollis Irving Myrtle Busbee William Lanteau Airline Clerk

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,576

Dialogue density15.3 lines / min

First line00:00:58

Final line01:43:38

Production Record

DirectorMelvin Frank

LanguageEnglish

IMDb votes1,788