The Waiting List
2000 · 105 MIN · IMDB 7.1 · 1,280 VOTES · DIR. Juan Carlos Tabío
Overview
At a rundown bus station in rural Cuba, the line of passengers waiting just keeps getting longer. The problem is that every bus that passes by is already full. Their only hope is to wait for the station's bus to be fixed. As the disparate group settles in, relationships start forming between the passengers: Emilio, a young engineer, becomes smitten with a beautiful young woman who is en route to meet her Spanish fiancé, a blind man gets support from the others to go to the head of the line. Frustration and disorder reign when the one bus brakes down and no one can leave. Resigned to working together, the group magically transforms the station into a beautiful place where no one wants to leave.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,289 lines
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00:00:18 WAITING LIST
00:03:25 who knows if there will any.
00:06:28 I don't have to call him.
00:09:10 I never told you that I was going ...
00:12:06 Ok, then... will it leave?
00:16:05 And we are glad to have done our duty to be useful to you.
00:19:43 What would we do?
00:22:07 But wait, they will fix the car.
00:24:43 If it's free, we put the green handkerchief.
00:27:29 - So? - Is it repaired?
00:30:19 I haven't seen you.
00:34:39 If I had known, I would have repaired the tap.
00:38:39 Perhaps one is putting himself in the kneading-machine.
00:44:49 This is mint.
00:48:03 He's very nice!
00:50:59 I don't see anything and I work.
00:54:31 What's happening?
00:57:44 Excuse me. Potatoes for everyone.
01:04:17 That's stupid, I get married in one week.
01:07:59 Theatre...
01:13:26 the same half-light...
01:17:41 Be calm, I am ready for everything.
01:25:00 Not like this.
01:32:57 Your milk powder must be spoiled, after all this time.