The Good Heart (2009)

Actors: Boði (actor), Nicolas Bro (actor), Bill Buell (actor), Brian Cox (actor), Ponicker Cuny (actor), Paul Dano (actor), André De Shields (actor), Aristedes Philip DuVal (actor), Darren Foreman (actor), Craig muMs Grant (actor), Pedro Louis Gómez (actor), Roy E. Harrison (actor), Stephen Henderson (actor), Haraldur Jónsson (actor), Steve Axelrod (actor),

Plot: After a suicide attempt, Lucas, a young homeless man in New York City, is taken in by Jacques, the gruff owner of a small bar. Jacques is on his fifth or sixth heart attack, and he wants Lucas to run the bar after he dies. Jacques has many rules: don't be friendly, don't serve walk-ins, no food or flowers or candles, put the cash in the freezer every night. Lucas, on the other hand, has a good heart: he gives his money away, he talks to customers, and, when April, a young French woman who has washed out of flight-attendant school, enters the bar chilled to the bone, Lucas takes her in. If Jacques won't tolerate April, what will Lucas do?

Keywords: animal-sex, bad-temper, bar, barbershop, bartender, beach, birthday-cake, blood, bloody-mary, bloody-nose
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: Everyone needs a refuge from the world.

Quotes:

Jacques: [watching April while instructing Lucas in the art of bar-tendering] You should be taking notes here, Lucas. You need to be more of a bitch yourself, you're too nice. You see, we're not here to save people, we're here to destroy them.

Psychiatrist: Why did you try suicide?::Lucas: Well, you know, when it comes to survival of the fittest, I just have to throw in the towel, I guess.::Psychiatrist: But you're not an animal, Lucas, you're a human being. You live in highly developed society that has all kinds of buffers and security nets that are designed to break your fall.::Lucas: No, I don't follow the rules of civilization anymore. I'm outside. I'm an animal.

Jacques: The closest I've come to sexual activity is brushing my teeth.

Lucas: Never remove an empty glass. It is the customer's history, a track record of his state of mind, an important documentation which should not be fixed nor falsified.

Jacques: You're doin' all right, Lucas, but you still got a lot to learn. We gotta work on your attitude. I mean, you're not a natural when it comes to hostility and arrogance but, given time, it'll come.

Doctor Lipinski: So, how are you feeling these days?::Jacques: Doubt. Fear. Pain. Anxiety. Distraction. Nervousness. Horror, fright, panic, dread, terror. Trepidation. I feel like a goddamn thesaurus.

Doctor Lipinski: There's a reason we call you a patient, you know, and that's because you have to be patient.

Jacques: This is a bar, and by definition the capacity of a bar cannot exceed 13 people. Think Jesus and his apostles.

Lucas: A bar is no place for a woman. You were right on that one.::Jacques: April was more of a man than most of the sissies that hang around here.

Jacques: What blood type are you?::Ben: O.::Jacques: O's good. No threat in O.::Ben: Well, what blood type are you?::Jacques: Fuckin' A.