Three Businessmen
1998 · 80 MIN · IMDB 6.8 · 555 VOTES · DIR. Alex Cox
Overview
An American art dealer (Miguel Sandoval), who specializes in southwestern topaz, arrives by train in Liverpool. Similarly, a very proper British art dealer (Alex Cox), who specializes in African art, arrives in the same hotel. The two meet in the hotel's abandoned restaurant and decide to set off in finding an evening meal, which becomes problematic immediately when the Brit reveals he is vegetarian. While following their pursuit of a mutually acceptable meal, the main point of the film is their discourse en route to their various attempts at an eatery.
Dialogue Timeline — 826 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:02:50 Taxi! Taxi!
00:10:38 Uh... 147.
00:15:22 How long have you been sitting here? If you don't mind my asking.
00:18:51 - You have an office in California. - San Pedro.
00:22:24 Frank, wait up!
00:24:06 - I do a lot of business with Americans. - It's a national trait.
00:26:01 Of course they say they never let them land.
00:27:51 And one of the proofs of this in my opinion is...
00:29:46 Computer-based technology has vast potential in financial services...
00:32:22 - You don't read newspapers? - Or magazines, or watch television.
00:34:43 That's just ducky.
00:37:23 Really, Frank. What countries would those be?
00:39:21 And once I call this number...
00:41:35 - I was in real estate development. - Really?
00:43:55 - How thick is yours? - 1.2"
00:46:57 on the space station that's circling the planet.
00:50:44 Two menus, plea...!
00:53:44 He did! He said what you gotta do is, now, get this...
00:55:35 He could have gone for me at any moment and I would have been hamburger.
00:58:24 I think so.
01:02:34 - It's Christmas music! - I know, it sounds kind of friendly.
01:07:00 Of course we do. This is an English-speaking country, isn't it?
01:09:13 Oh, yes. We want to eat.
01:11:45 Something I just hit my head on.
Cast & Characters
Miguel Sandoval
Bennie Reyes
Robert Wisdom
Leroy Jasper
Alex Cox
Frank King
Andrew Schofield
Desk Clerk
Isabel Ampudia
Josefina
Masayoshi Anzai
Karaoke Singer
Masayoshi Anzai
Voice of Cab Driver
Linda Callahan
Plutonium Card
Christine Colvin
Liverpool Barmaid
Tod Davies
Woman in Tramhuis
Adrian Henri
Poet
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed826
Dialogue density10.3 lines / min
First line00:02:50
Final line01:11:45
Production Record
DirectorAlex Cox
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes555