Watt's Up Musings of an original geek

What is it with movies. There are some scenes that just stick with you. For example, can you pick out which movie these scenes or dialogue came from (names shortened to make it a bit more of a challenge, but not too much):

EXT. D’S HOUSE — NIGHT

J exits cab, holding hang-up bag. Looks at the house. On the other side of that window is a world he hopes he’s still a part of.

INT. LIVING ROOM — NIGHT

J enters. D is seated toward the back.

J: Hello. I’m looking for my wife.

D looks up, robbed of words. Stunned, she does not move.

J: (continuing) Alright. If this is where it has to happen, then this is where it has to happen.

D says nothing.

J: (continuing) I’m not letting you get rid of me. How about that?

He shares a look with some of the other women. She’s not going to say a word. Neither do they.

J: (continuing) This used to be my specialty. I was good in a living room. Send me in there, I’ll do it alone. And now I just… I don’t know… but on what was supposed to be the happiest night of my business life, it wasn’t complete, wasn’t nearly close to being in the same vicinity as complete, because I couldn’t share it with you. I couldn’t hear your voice, or laugh about it with you. I missed my wife. We live in a cynical world, and we work in a business of tough competitors, so try not to laugh —

(directly)

I love you. You complete me.

D: Aw, shut up. You had me at hello.

Or how about

Everybody knows American isn’t easy. America is advanced citizenship. You gotta want it bad, ’cause it’s gonna put up a fight. It’s gonna say, “You want free speech? Let’s see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who’s standing center stage and advocating, at the top of his lungs, that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land as the land of the free, then the symbol of your country can’t just be a flag; the symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest.” Show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then you can stand up and sing about the land of the free.

I wish I could have written them. Name that movie!