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| Elite Fan   Joined: Dec 2006
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| Swimming Upstream Thread #2 ~ Seriously? Matt's first movie role??? Swimming Upstream "Morris Bird III" Movie Discussion Thread  The scrapbook of most teenagers shows family members and friends at a picnic, at the high school basketball game, at Disneyland. Morris Bird III's, however, paints a different picture. This happy-go-lucky, all-American kid whose only wish in life is to get laid by his cute, but hesitant girlfriend suddenly faces terminal cancer, bringing painful and difficult issues to the surface. Picture an alcoholic father, played by Michael Moriarty, whose devotion to the bottle and mastery of self-pity keeps him from communicating with his son and daughter. Picture a teenage boy whose English teacher encourages him to write; he's eloquent, full of passion for life, and is the type of free-spirit who goes against the grain, walking up on the wrong side of the escalator. Picture a best friend, played by Ben Savage, who may not be the most mature person in the world, but his support makes up for that. Then there's a sister who nurses the wounds felt from living in a fractured family. Now try to imagine a mother who died when Morris was five; her picture is missing and the only way to get a complete sense of her is through the alcoholic father. In a moving, honest scene at the end, Morris Bird II gives Morris Bird III the truth and then some. He offers his love and desire to have a relationship with his son, giving this young man completion before he succumbs to his tragic fate. Matt's role: Morris Bird III Release: 2002 Genre: Drama Also starring: Ben Savage, Michael Moriarty, Jeffrey DeMunn, Kelly Rutherford MPAA: Rated PG-13 for mature thematic material and a scene of sensuality. Director: Robert J. Emery Writer: Robert J. Emery, Don Robertson Trailer Swimming Upstream - thnx to Conny! Quotes: Morris Bird III: Have you ever loved anyone, Teddy? Teddy Benevides: Yeah, my parents until I was 12. Morris Bird III: I was being serious. Teddy Benevides: So was I. Morris: “I think I love Julie and I know she loves me because she keeps telling me that she does. Girls don’t just say that when they don’t mean it. I feel so damn comfortable around her. She is like a second skin or something like we were born the same day from the same woman. “ Teddy:“That would be incest, Morris!” Morris “No that would be love I begin to feel” Morris: I end up and think a lot about dead people. Dead people I used to know. Like my mother and some neighbours...Thinking about dead people doesn't really help my situation out that much.... I'm scared and I want that scared thing go away... I will live every last minute I can, you know? I feel like a damn fish swimming upstream, against the current beeing push back and back. Trying to get where I'm going, not knowing if I'll ever get there, like my life is beeing compressed somehow, I dream that every night now, every night. I wake up with the sweats and the sick feeling in the pit of my stomach and I want it to go away." Morris: Spring is not always life, summer not always warmth. Sometimes this season brings sadness and tears. Spring is often a struggle...summer a disappointment.   Previous Threads: #1 ~ Swimming Upstream Morris Bird III Tittle Suggestions:"We're in desperate need to see the alternative ending" "Soccer makes Matt even hotter." "OMG! Can we watch the shower scene again?" "Cause summer can be a disappointment. " "Cause sometimes this seasons bring sadness and tears" "He felt like a damn fish swimming upstream" __________________ Last edited by AlwaysHoldingOn : 08-11-2007 at 03:15 PM. | |||
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| just supercool that we're already on the 2nd thread! First time ever for a movie discussion thread on this board  Thnx for the new thread Mariana  I love this title!maybe we should put Jess her title suggestions somewhere in the first post too, if we ever going to do a 3rd thread..  __________________ Did you say it? 'I love you. I don't ever want to live without you. You changed my life.' Did you say it? Make a plan. Set a goal. Work toward it, but every now and then, look around; Drink it in 'cause this is it. It might all be gone tomorrow." ღ | |||
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| thank you! It's such a shame that the girl's head is so clear on that DVD cover.. I wish Matt's face were more visible.. Because I like the dark cover better then the blue cover, but on the blue cover you see more of Matt's face.. at least on the front..  __________________ Did you say it? 'I love you. I don't ever want to live without you. You changed my life.' Did you say it? Make a plan. Set a goal. Work toward it, but every now and then, look around; Drink it in 'cause this is it. It might all be gone tomorrow." ღ | |||
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| Elite Fan Joined: Dec 2006
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| I liked that one better too, it seems more interesting somehow... done with the titles suggestion | |||
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| thank you though the blue cover has the alternate version..  __________________ Did you say it? 'I love you. I don't ever want to live without you. You changed my life.' Did you say it? Make a plan. Set a goal. Work toward it, but every now and then, look around; Drink it in 'cause this is it. It might all be gone tomorrow." ღ | |||
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| the happy ending  he broke up with her, and then he met a girl named Mariana  But seriously I would love to see that ending Someday somehow | |||
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the good ending would be, Matt returning to his wife mrs. Czuchry  I want to see that ending too.. someday! __________________ Did you say it? 'I love you. I don't ever want to live without you. You changed my life.' Did you say it? Make a plan. Set a goal. Work toward it, but every now and then, look around; Drink it in 'cause this is it. It might all be gone tomorrow." ღ | |||
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 sometimes marriage fails well and people fall out of love, he did...Quote:
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| Moderator Support Team Joined: Aug 2005
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One day I'll get it too!! I have to!! i want a dvd cover with Matt on the front in between my other DVD's..  __________________ Did you say it? 'I love you. I don't ever want to live without you. You changed my life.' Did you say it? Make a plan. Set a goal. Work toward it, but every now and then, look around; Drink it in 'cause this is it. It might all be gone tomorrow." ღ | |||
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| Elite Fan Joined: Dec 2006
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I would get a poser and put in my bedroom | |||
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| I'd put it next to my alarm clock so I would wake up to it each day Quote:
That's me! __________________ Did you say it? 'I love you. I don't ever want to live without you. You changed my life.' Did you say it? Make a plan. Set a goal. Work toward it, but every now and then, look around; Drink it in 'cause this is it. It might all be gone tomorrow." ღ | |||
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| Elite Fan Joined: Dec 2006
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| Matt's voice saying, wake up Mariana  Quote:
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| Moderator Support Team Joined: Aug 2005
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| awww.. that's sweet! maybe we should go back to discussing the movie?! The big and important question.. Why did she stall so long? Just give the boy what he wants before he dies.. __________________ Did you say it? 'I love you. I don't ever want to live without you. You changed my life.' Did you say it? Make a plan. Set a goal. Work toward it, but every now and then, look around; Drink it in 'cause this is it. It might all be gone tomorrow." ღ | |||
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| Elite Fan Joined: Dec 2006
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Seriously I was like that girl is sooo thinking what she shouldn't I would have given it to him before he knew he wsa going to die it's Matt we are talking about | |||
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