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[From Trailer]
[about Laurel's appeal being turned down]
Steven Goldstein: This is an outrageous miscarriage of justice. Their next meeting we show up with 100 protesters.
Dane Wells: Radicals and strangers from New York aren't going to convince these guys.
Steven Goldstein: I am not a radical. I am a middle-class, Jewish homosexual from New Jersey. How about you, sweetheart?
Dane Wells: I'm a straight, white, ex-Protestant, atheist cop. You okay with that, *sweetheart*?
Steven Goldstein: I am. That is very hot.
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[From Trailer]
Steven Goldstein: Hell! If you and I got married tomorrow, *I'd* be entitled to your benefits.
Laurel Hester: Wait, is that a proposal?
Dane Wells: Oh my god!
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[From Trailer]
[about Laurel's upcoming appeal]
Toohey: If they say yes my tax dollars go to her girlfriend.
Dane Wells: Yeah. The same way your wife gets your pension if *you* die!
Toohey: Yeah, but she's my *wife*.
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Laurel Hester: You can drywall?
Stacie Andree: Hell yeah.
Laurel Hester: That's sexy.
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Dane Wells: [to his police team] Who's coming to the meeting?
[no one responds]
Dane Wells: [angrily] Oh, don't put yourselves out. Laurel would back any of you up in a heartbeat. And she's dying! But hey, you know, she's a dyke, so who gives a shit? Cowards!
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Laurel Hester: When my heterosexual partners die. Their pension goes to their spouses. But because my partner is a woman, I don't get to do that. In my twenty three years of being a police officer, I've never asked for special treatment. I'm only asking for equality.
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Stacie Andree: Here come the dykes.
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Steven Goldstein: Hell! If you and I got married tomorrow, I'd be entitled to your benefits!
Laurel Hester: Wait, is that a proposal?
Steven Goldstein: Oh honey. I would marry you, but I wouldn't know what to do with your vagina.
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Steven Goldstein: Steven, with a V, that means "Very Gay". And when people disrespect my gay brothers and sisters, I rain terror on them! Shock and awe, shock and awe.
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Vincenza 2022-04-01 09:01:19
Barely four stars. The script is so bad that it doesn't even get to the point of sensationalism, what really saves the film is the real events it's based on. The film also succeeds in "Goodbye My Groom" by giving the American marriage affirmation movement a real, concrete face, letting everyone know how many tears and garlands there are before reaching the finish line.
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Kristina 2022-04-04 09:01:08
The story is flat, so-so
