Beginners

Other mistake: The hospice male nurse Juan Is credited as Julio in the credits at the end.

Trivia: Christopher Plummer won the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his role as Hal Fields. At the age of 82, Plummer became the oldest winner in Oscar history.

Hal: Well, let's say.
Oliver: Arthur, down.
Hal: ...let's say since you were little, and... and you... you always dreamed of... of someday getting a lion, and you wait and you wait and you wait and you wait, and the lion doesn't come. Then along comes a giraffe. You can be alone, or you can be with the giraffe.
Oliver: I'd wait for the lion.
Hal: That's why I worry about you.

Oliver: You re-wrote Jesus' death?
Hal: Ah, it was far too violent. We need new stories.

Oliver: Well, I'm gonna have to kill you now.
Anna: Hm... why?
Oliver: Because I'm falling in love with you.

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