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.
00:15:27 About 35 minutes.
00:18:58 Home's New Mexico, though. Just over the border.
00:22:31 That's very kind of you, Bennie, but I'm a vegetarian.
00:24:18 - This is the place, eh? - Yup, this is where the 4 loveable...
00:26:18 Well, that's good.
00:28:10 Exactly. And the revival of Eastern mysticism...
00:30:05 We have more broad-band fiber optic cable than anywhere in the UK...
00:32:43 All the answering machines play one of two tunes.
00:35:34 Then how do you know it's the wrong one?
00:37:54 Never heard of it.
00:39:55 - If I'm lost, for example. - Like we are, for example.
00:42:02 - I can't breathe. - What's wrong?
00:45:38 Big ones, small ones, some as big as your head.
00:48:11 and some of the specialist gardens, including the Japanese Garden"...
00:51:36 Thank you.
00:54:23 So it just works harder.
00:56:22 And he never, ever, ripped my face off!
01:01:14 All that stuff we drank...
01:05:26 - No. - Not many people do.
01:07:58 Hey, that's funny!
01:10:49 It must be some kind of harvest festival event.
01:13:38 - Lakeshore Drive up ahead. Oh, man!
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 line01:13:38
Production Record
DirectorAlex Cox
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes555