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Movie Bars: Money Never Sleeps

Movie Bars: Money Never Sleeps

In the 1987 film Wall Street, we actually start out liking Charlie Sheen’s Bud Fox very much. He’s young, handsome, and idealistic, and he seems in over his head in a world that is accurately portrayed in the movie as cutthroat and alarmingly fast-paced. In the first of the movie’s two pivotal bar scenes, Bud meets with his father Carl, played by Martin Sheen, at the Owl Tavern, a roadside bar near the airport where Carl is a union leader for the maintenance workers at Bluestar Airlines. It’s your standard blue

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Movie Bars: Fashionably Passionate

Movie Bars: Fashionably Passionate

If you’ve seen the movie The Devil Wears Prada you may be trying to remember when the bar scene happens in the film. It’s okay, you’re not going crazy, it’s super quick and Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) doesn’t even have a drink in it. Yet it’s that critical moment when she meets Christian Thompson (Simon Baker) at the St. Regis in NYC and chooses to accept the Harry Potter manuscript from him, placing herself firmly in his debt. The question of choice comes up a lot for Andy and her answer throughout the

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Movie Bars: Bloody Bateman

Movie Bars: Bloody Bateman

It is certainly a true statement to say that American Psycho, released in 2000 and directed by Mary Harron, is a bizarre and disturbing movie. It tells the story of Patrick Bateman, a Wall Street investment banker impeccably played by Christian Bale, who has a penchant for expensive wine, fine dining, Valentino suits, and murdering people in the most bloody and violent ways possible. The film is set in 1987 when the hedonistic world of Wall Street was at its pinnacle. Although there are bar scenes

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Movie Bars: You’re My Exception

Movie Bars: You’re My Exception

I’m going to guess that the movie He’s Just Not That Into You doesn’t need much in the way of an introduction. It’s a fairly huge hit from 2009 that grossed $181 million at box offices worldwide. I know that when I happen to see it playing while channel surfing I cannot resist watching it, even if just for a few minutes. My favorite storyline is the one between Beth (Jennifer Aniston) and Neil (Ben Affleck) because who cannot love his marriage proposal at the end, but I confess to finding the absolute

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Movie Bars: This is Where Your Life Is

Movie Bars: This is Where Your Life Is

Released in 2015, Brooklyn is a Sundance film that was directed by John Crowley, with a screenplay by Nick Hornby that’s based on Colm Tóibín’s novel of the same name. It tells the story of a young Irish immigrant named Eilis (Ay-lish) Lacey, played so beautifully by Saorise (Ser-sha) Ronin, who also starred in last year’s critically acclaimed Ladybird. If you’ve seen the movie, you may be scratching your head right now trying to remember a bar scene. If you’re coming up empty, it’s okay because there isn’t one.

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