Daily Dialogue — January 2, 2011

Sam, alone on New Year’s Eve, watching the ball drop on TV. He’s got a bag of Doritos and a beer. 
A VOICE: Can I have half your beer?
SAM: Sure.
It’s Maggie, his deceased wife. She takes his bottle of beer and pours half of it into a glass.
MAGGIE: What did I used to say? Here’s looking at you? Here’s mud in your eye?
SAM: Here’s to us. You used to say here’s to us.
He looks at her and his eyes well with tears.
SAM: Oh babe. I miss you so much it hurts.
He reaches out for her. She’s gone. And we hear the television set now counting down to midnight in New York.

 — Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks), Maggie (Carey Lowell), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), screenplay by Nora Ephron and David S. Ward and Jeff Arch, story by Jeff Arch

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is New Year’s Eve.

Trivia: The scene between Tom Hanks and Victor Garber crying over the movie The Dirty Dozen (1967) was completely improvised during the take.