Directed by Sofia Coppola
Writing credits - Sofia Coppola
Cast
Bill Murray .... Bob Harris
Scarlett Johansson .... Charlotte
Akiko Takeshita .... Ms. Kawasaki
Kazuyoshi Minamimagoe .... Press Agent
Kazuko Shibata .... Press Agent
Take .... Press Agent
Ryuichiro Baba .... Concierge
Akira Yamaguchi .... Bellboy
Catherine Lambert .... Jazz Singer
François du Bois .... Sausalito Piano
Tim Leffman .... Sausalito Guitar
Gregory Pekar .... American Businessman #1
Richard Allen .... American Businessman #2
Giovanni Ribisi .... John
Yutaka Tadokoro .... Commercial Director
Jun Maki .... Suntory Client
Nao Asuka .... Premium Fantasy Woman
Tetsuro Naka .... Stills Photographer
Kanako Nakazato .... Make-Up Person
Fumihiro Hayashi .... Charlie
Hiroko Kawasaki .... Hiroko
Daikon .... Bambie
Anna Faris .... Kelly
Asuka Shimuzu .... Kelly's Translator
Ikuko Takahashi .... Ikebana Instructor
Koichi Tanaka .... Bartender, NY Bar
Hugo Codaro .... Aerobics Instructor
Akiko Monou .... P Chan
Akimitsu Naruyama .... French Japanese Nightclub Patron
Hiroshi Kawashima .... Bartender, Nightclub
Kobayashi Hiromi .... Hiromix (as Hiromix)
Nobuhiko Kitamura .... Nobu
Nao Kitman .... Nao
Akira .... Hans
Kunichi Nomura .... Kun
Yasuhiko Hattori .... Charlie's Friend
Shigekazu Aida .... Mr. Valentine
Kazuo Yamada .... Hospital Receptionist
Akira Motomura .... Old Man
Osamu Shigematu .... Doctor
Takashi Fuji .... Matthew Minami (as Matthew Minami)
Kei Takyo .... TV Translator
Ryo Kondo .... Politician
Yumi Ikeda .... Politician's Aide
Yumika Saki .... Politician's Aide
Yuji Okabe .... Politician's Aide
Diedrich Bollman .... German Hotel Guest
Georg O.P. Eschert .... German Hotel Guest
Mark Willms .... Carl West
Lisle Wilkerson .... Sexy Businesswoman
Nancy Steiner .... Lydia Harris (uncredited) (voice)
Two Faxes
From Lydia
1st
To: Bob Harris
From: Lydia Harris
You forgot Adam's birthday.
I'm sure he'll understand.
Have a good trip.
L
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2nd
Bob -
You didn't tell me which shelves you want in your study.
Please pick one out and let me know.
I'm having lots of quality time with the construction crew.
Hope you're having fun there.
Love,
L
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Premium
Fantasy
Premium Fantasy Woman - Mr. Harris?
Bob - Yes?
Premium Fantasy Woman - Mr. Kazu sent me.
Bob - Oh?
Premium Fantasy Woman - May I enter? Thank you. Do you like
massage?
Bob - I don't think I -- I like massage anymore.
Premium Fantasy Woman - Mr. Kazu sends premium fantasy. My
stockings -- "lip" them. (giggles) "Lip" my stockings. Yes please.
"Lip" them.
Bob - What?
Premium Fantasy Woman - "Lip" them. HEY! "Lip" my
stockings!
Bob - Hey! "Lip" them? "Lip" Them? What?
Premium Fantasy Woman - "Lip" them. Like this, "lip" them.
Bob - Rip them?
Premium Fantasy Woman - "Lip", yes.
Bob - You want me to rip your stockings?
Premium Fantasy Woman - Yes, "lip" my stockings, please.
Bob - Rip your stocking. You want me to rip your stockings?
Premium Fantasy Woman - Yes, please? Please? Please?
Bob - All right, I'm going to rip your stockings and you tell
Mr. Kazu we had a blast.
Premium Fantasy Woman - Oh no, no! Mr. Harris! Oh my god! (falls
on the floor, overly dramatic)
Don't touch me! (Kicks legs in the air) Mr. Bob Harris, don't touch me!
Just "lip" my stockings! Oh no, Mr. Harris! Oh no! Help! Help!
Bob - Yeah, yeah.
Premium Fantasy Woman - Help, please! Help, please!
Bob - Okay.
Premium Fantasy Woman - Mr. Harris, help, please!
Bob - Careful with those.
Premium Fantasy Woman - Oh! Help, please! Help, please!
Bob - Come on. Come on. (tries to pick her off floor)
Premium Fantasy Woman - Let me go Mr. Harris! Oh no! Let me go!
Bob - Come on. Come on.
Premium Fantasy Woman - OHH! Let me go! Let me go!
Bob - (falls over on to the floor) Oh, crap.
Premium Fantasy Woman - Please let me go!
Bob - With pleasure.
(both struggling on the floor now)
Premium Fantasy Woman - Oh no, Mr. Bob Harris, don't let me go!
No! No! Oh no, Mr. Bob Harris!
Bob - (muttering, trying to get up off the floor, falls over
again, accidently hits the lamp over on the table)
Premium Fantasy Woman - Ohh! Oh, please!
Jet Lag
Bob - (talking to the bartender) He got married a couple
times... (sighs) ... to some nice women. Beautiful women too. I mean,
you and I would be crazy for these women...
(Charlotte enters the bar and walks toward where Bob is sitting)
Bob - ...but there were always rumors. I never liked his acting,
so I never gave a damn whether he was straight or not.
Charlotte - Thank you -- Hi. Thank you. (the bartender helps her
to her stool at the bar)
Bartender - What can I get you?
Charlotte - Um, I'm not sure. Um --
Bob - For relaxing times, make it (holds up glass he is drinking
from)...
Bob & bartender - (together) ... Suntory time.
Charlotte - Um, I'll have a vodka tonic. (laughs) Thanks. So,
what are you doing here?
Bob - Uh, a couple things. Taking a break from my wife,
forgetting my son's birthday and uh, getting paid $2 million to endorse
a whiskey when I could be doing a play somewhere.
Charlotte - Oh.
Bob - But the good news is, the whiskey works.
Charlotte - (laughs)
Bob - What are you doing?
Charlotte - Um, my husband's a photographer, so he's here
working and uh, I wasn't doing anything so I came along. And we have
some friends that live here.
Bob - How long have you been married? (Lights her cigarette)
Charlotte - Oh, thank you.
Charlotte - Mmm. Two years.
Bob - Twenty-five long ones.
Charlotte - You're probably just having a midlife crisis. Did
you buy a Porsche yet?
Bob - You know, I was thinking about buying a Porsche.
Charlotte - Twenty-five years. That's a -- well, it's impressive.
Bob - Well, you figure you sleep one third of your life. That
knocks off eight years of marriage right there. So you're down to 16
and change. You know, you're just a teenager at marriage. You can drive
it, but there's still the occasional acccident.
Charlotte - Yeah. (laughs)
Bob - What do you do?
Charlotte - Um... I'm not sure yet actually. I just graduated
last Spring.
Bob - What did you study?
Charlotte - Philosophy.
Bob - Yeah, there's a good buck in that racket.
Charlotte - (laughs) Yeah. Well, so far it's pro bono.
(both laugh)
Bob - Well, I'm sure you'll figure out the angles.
Charlotte - Yeah, I hope your Porsche works out. Cheers to that,
huh?
Bob - Cheers to that.
(they click their glasses together)
Bob - Kanpai.
Charlotte - Wish I could sleep.
Bob - Me too.
Burgundy
Carpet Samples
(Bob empties FedEx box onto the floor which contains about 10 burgundy
carpet samples)
Bob - (reading the note from inside the box, from Lydia) Bob,
Which one do you want for your study? I like the burgundy, but whatever
you want. Love, L.
Bob - (sighs) Which one is burgundy?
Karaoke Time
"God Save the Queen" by The Sex Pistols
Charlie Brown - (singing)
God save the queen, a fascist regime
it made you a moron, a potential H bomb!
God save the queen, she ain't no human being
there is no future, in England's dreaming.
"(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding" by Nick
Lowe/Elvis Costello
Bob - (singing)
As I walk through
This wicked world
Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity.
I ask myself
Is all hope lost?
Is there only pain and hatred, and misery?
And each time I feel like this inside,
There's one thing I wanna know:
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?
Oh-oh-oh-oh
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?
"Brass In Pocket" by The Pretenders
Charlotte - (singing)
I'm winking at you,
Gonna make you, make you notice.
Gonna use my arms,
Gonna use my legs,
Gonna use style,
Gonna use my sidestep
Gonna use my fingers,
gonna use my my my imagination.
Oh .. cause I gonna make you see
there's nobody else here, no one like me.
I'm special, so special.
I got to have some of your attention, give it to me!
"More Than This" by Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry
Charlotte - Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Bob Harris.
Bob - Thanks. This is hard. (clears throat) Oh, Jesus. (takes a
drink from a shot glass, sings)
I could feel at the time,
There was no way of knowing,
Fallen leaves in the night,
Who can say where they're blowing,
As free as the wind,
And hopefully learning,
Why the sea on the tide,
Has no way of turning,
More than this - you know there's nothing,
More than this - tell me one thing,
More than this - Ooh, there is nothing.
Phone Call
To Lydia
Lydia - Hello.
Bob - Heeeeey.
Lydia - Hello, Bob.
Bob - Hey, you know, those carpet samples -- you were right
about the burgundy. It wasn't even close. Blows the others away.
Lydia - I'm glad you like it.
Bob - I saw a great house tonight that you would've loved and
that burgundy would've been good in the house, really. A guy designed
his own house and built it.
Lydia - Oh yeah? I wish I'd seen it.
Bob - He's a fashion guy. All these fashion people were there.
And, uh, there were Japanese surfers there and the guy was playing
really, really, really great music. I should have found out what it was
and brought some -- I'll bring some back. I'll try to find out.
Lydia - That sounds great. Can you hold on?
(daughter in the background crying. Bob sighs)
Lydia to daughter Zoe - You have to have something for breakfast.
Bob - Tell her I said she's gotta eat something.
Lydia - Do you want some cereal? I'm just trying to get her to
eat something.
Bob - Yeah. Tell her I said she has to eat something.
Lydia - Your Dad says to eat something.
Zoe, over the phone - No.
Bob - Eat. Tell her I said so.
Lydia - She won't eat anything. Forget it. Look, I'm glad you're
having fun.
Bob - It's not fun. It's just -- different.
Lydia - Maybe that's good. Um, I have to get the kids off for
school, okay? So I can call you in a while?
Bob - I might not be up. It's - - it's, like 4:00.
Lydia - Well, you better get some sleep. You have to work in the
morning.
Bob - No, actually, they gave me tomorrow off.
Lydia - That must be nice. Hmm. All right. Well thanks for
checking in. I gotta go.
Bob - All right. Have a great, great night.
Lydia - All right.
Bob - I mean, I guess great morning, huh? (laughs)
Lydia - Good night Bob.
Bob - Good night. (Lydia hangs up) I love you. (Bob hangs up the
phone) That was a stupid idea.
Hospital
Visit
Bob - (nudges elderly man sitting next to him, with his elbow)
Old man - (Speaking Japanese) Irun desuka.
Bob - In desuka?
Old man - Irun desuka. Eh, nihon ni. Japan.
Bob - Japan.
Old man - Appuh. Japan, appuh.
Bob - Japan.
Old man - Appuh. Appuh.
Bob - After? Japan?
Old man - Appuh. Nannen.
Bob - Nannen.
Old man - (groans)
Old man - (melodic) Ahh -ah,so. Ahh - ah. (makes a circle with
his hand)
Bob - Ahh, so. Ahh. (imitates the circle)
Old man - (laughs at Bob)
Bob - Ahh, so. Ahh. (smiling) How's that song go?
The Orange
Club
(song playing in the background: "Fuck the Pain Away" by Peaches
)
Sucking on my titties like you wanted me,
Calling me all the time like Blondie,
Check out my Chrissie be-Hynde,
It's fine all of the time,
Like sex on the beach is,
What else is in the Teaches of Peaches?
Huh, what?
Sucking on my titties like you wanted me,
Calling me all the time like Blondie,
huh? right. what? uhh.
huh? what? right. uhh.
Note
Slipped Under Charlotte's Door
From: Mr. Harris
Message: Are you awake?
On the Bed
Charlotte - I'm stuck. Does it get easier?
Bob - No. Yes. It gets easier.
Charlotte - Oh, yeah? Look at you.
Bob - Thanks.
Charlotte - (laughs)
Bob - The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less
you let things upset you.
Charlotte - Yeah. I just don't know what I'm supposed to be. You
know? I tried being a writer, but I hated what I wrote. And I tried
taking pictures, but they're so mediocre, you know. Every girl goes
through a photography phase. You know, like horses. You know, take dumb
pictures of your feet.
Bob - You'll figure that out. I'm not worried about you. Keep
writing.
Charlotte - But I'm so mean.
Bob - (smiles) Mean's okay.
Charlotte - Yeah? What about marriage? Does it get easier?
Bob - That's hard. We used to have a lot of fun. Lydia would
come with me when I made the movies and we would all laugh about it
all. Now she doesn't want to leave the kids, and she doesn't need me to
be there. The kids miss me but they're fine. It gets a whole lot more
complicated when you have kids.
Charlotte - Yeah, it's scary.
Bob - It's the most terrifying day of your life the day the
first one is born.
Charlotte - Yeah. Nobody ever tells you that.
Bob - Your life as you know it is gone, never to return. But
they learn how to walk and they learn how to talk and you want to be
with them. And they turn out to be the most delightful people you will
ever meet in your life.
Charlotte - Hmm. That's nice.
Bob - (rubs eyes) Where did you grow up?
Charlotte - Um, I grew up in New York and I moved to Los Angeles
when John and I got married. But it's so different there.
Bob - Yeah, I know.
Charlotte - John thinks I'm so snotty.
Bob - (laughs)
Charlotte - Hmm. (drifts off to sleep)
Bob - You're not hopeless.
Bathtub
Phone Call w/Lydia
Bob - Hello?
Lydia - Bob?
Bob - Hi, Lydia.
Lydia - Is this a bad time?
Bob - No, it's always a bad time.
Lydia - Look, um, your burgundy carpet isn't in stock. It's
gonna take 12 weeks. Do you like any of the other colors?
Bob - Whatever you like. I -- I'm completely lost.
Lydia - (sighs) It's just carpet.
Bob - That's not what I'm talking about.
Lydia - What are you talking about?
Bob - I don't know. I just want to get healthy. You know? I just
want to take better care of myself. I would like to start eating
healthier. I don't want all that pasta.
Lydia - What?
Bob - I would like to start eating like, Japanese food.
Lydia - Well, why don't you just stay there and you can have it
every day?
Bob - How are the kids doing?
Lydia - They're fine. They miss their father. But they're
getting used to you not being here. Do I need to worry about you Bob?
Bob - Only if you want to.
Lydia - Bob, I got things I gotta do. I gotta go.
Bob - Okay.
The Whisper
Bob - (asks cabbie to stop the cab, gets out and follows
Charlotte down the street) Hey you!
Charlotte - (turns and smiles)
Bob - (hugs Charlotte, whispers something indistinct) Okay?
Charlotte - Okay.
(both kiss and smile)
Bob - Bye.
Charlotte - Bye bye.
Bob - (gets in cab) All right.
(song playing as Bob is driven to the airport: The Jesus and Mary
Chain's "Just Like Honey")
Listen to the girl
As she takes on half the world
Moving up and so alive
In her honey dripping beehive
Beehive
It's good, so good, it's so good
So good
Walking back to you
Is the hardest thing that
I can do
That I can do for you
For you
I'll be your plastic toy
I'll be your plastic toy
For you
Eating up the scum
Is the hardest thing for
Me to do
Just like honey (x 17)
