Zombie and the Ghost Train
1991 · 90 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 1,161 VOTES · DIR. Mika Kaurismäki
Overview
Antti "Zombie" Autiomaa does two things well: play the bass guitar and drink. After several months' sleeping on the streets of Istanbul, he returns to Helsinki where he's called into the army but discharged on mental health grounds after adding turpentine to the officers' soup. Zombie lives bleary-eyed in an apartment off his parents' house where his lonely, unemployed father suffers from heart disease. His girl-friend Marjo has taken up with a hairdresser but comes back to Zombie. His friend Harri hires him as a roadie for his band "Harry and the Mulefukkers" then gives him a chance as a bass player. He has his girl and he has a gig, but can Zombie put the bottle down?
Dialogue Timeline — 368 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:13 ZOMBIE AND THE GHOST TRAIN
00:05:33 Recruit Autiomaa.
00:11:08 Calm down.
00:12:04 Back home after a long time. Life on the ruins of my childhood continued...
00:18:03 ...that I leave.
00:19:06 Yeah... unfortunately.
00:20:40 - You could've let me know. - Likewise.
00:21:39 - Ahh shit! - Fucking Vidal, I'll skin you.
00:24:10 December the 7th.
00:25:00 Well you can play bass better than many others I know.
00:28:07 Oh for fuck's sake.
00:29:25 Yeah, he had Donald on his buttocks and Mickey and the nephews on his toes.
00:30:36 This is a true story, not saying that one wasn't, but this is, like...
00:31:33 So that Jim was like that, too?
00:38:22 Zombie, wake up!
00:42:05 When I realised what a mistake that hairdresser thing was...
00:44:10 Would you be interested?
00:48:32 Hiya.
00:55:48 Okay.
01:00:02 - All right then, that's it. - Line A goes right there.
01:04:34 - Come on, let's go home. - I'm not coming.
01:07:26 - Is that it? - Then there's a date and something...
01:17:46 A good idea.
01:21:22 There's no woman there.