Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)

Tom Berenger: Frank Ridgeway

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• Frank Ridgeway : Can I help you guys?

  Sal Amato : Yeah, tell Tony Eddie and the Cruisers are here.

• Sal Amato : [the band is at Benton College where Frank graduated from]  Hey, Wordman, this shindig tonight. How are we suppose to dress?

  Frank Ridgeway : Hey, wait a minute. What is the big deal? We've played at colleges before.

  Eddie Wilson : Yeah, sure, we played at "Saint Something" down in Delaware and "Fairleigh Ridiculous" up in Madison, but we ain't never played at no finishing school like this. This is a mistake, we don't belong here. These people are different.

  Frank Ridgeway : I'm telling you they're gonna eat us up. They're just a bunch of college kids, no better than you...

  Eddie Wilson : [interrupts]  Hey! I didn't say better, I said different. You oughta remember that.

• Maggie Foley : Frank, how much influence did Rimbaud have on Eddie?

  Frank Ridgeway : Looking for a ghost?

  Maggie Foley : [smiles knowingly]  Maybe.

  Frank Ridgeway : You don't really think Eddie's still alive, do you?

  Maggie Foley : I guess not. But what about the coincidence of "Season in Hell"? Frank, what happened to those tapes?

  Frank Ridgeway : Hey look, it didn't work. The record company hated it, they never released the album.

  Maggie Foley : Frank, I want to get a hold of those tapes and play them on my show. Let's let them be heard, and let the people decide whether they're any good.

  Frank Ridgeway : I don't know where they are. Honest, we'd like them as much as you would.

• Keith Livingston : So, you up for the weekend?

  Frank Ridgeway : Yeah.

  Keith Livingston : Rites of spring! That's perfect. You know who they got playin' tonight at the dance? They got The Cruisers. You know, the mean ass black group out of Newark. The Cruisers.

  Frank Ridgeway : Oh, yeah. I heard of them.

• Joann Carlino : Frank, I know you're gonna think I'm crazy. But I have to tell you something. Last night, there was a car sitting in my driveway: a '57 Chevy, just like Eddie's.

  Frank Ridgeway : Joann, that car was destroyed in the accident, remember?

  Joann Carlino : I know, but whoever it was, must have seen me looking out the window. He blinked his headlights high, then low, then high again, just like Eddie.

  Frank Ridgeway : It can't be. It can't be him.

  Joann Carlino : Well, who then? Who?

  Frank Ridgeway : It's not Eddie. Now, whoever it is that's watching you is looking to cash in on those tapes. But it is not Eddie.

  Joann Carlino : Frank, I know where those tapes are. After the accident, I had to say goodbye in my own way. I went to Satin Records, got the tapes, and drove back to Palace Depression.

  Frank Ridgeway : Take me there.

• Maggie Foley : I am going to do a tribute to a group of guys who were ahead of their time.

  Frank Ridgeway : You don't understand. The night Eddie died, the Cruisers died with him.

• Doc Robbins : [on the phone]  We got to talk. How soon before you get your ass over here?

  Frank Ridgeway : Well, where are you?

  Doc Robbins : Right back where we started kid, Asbury Park.

• Sal Amato : [about Maggie]  You know what she really wanted to talk about? Those old tapes: "Season in Hell". She said something about them being missing, and wanted to know if I knew where they were.

  Frank Ridgeway : What did you tell her?

  Sal Amato : I told her I don't have a clue. For all I care, they could a gone down with Eddie. You understand?

  Frank Ridgeway : Sally, you were on those tapes too.

  Sal Amato : If they find those tapes, what's in it for me, huh? I just about broke my fingers trying to play that stuff.

  Frank Ridgeway : Well, if it must be worth money, somebody's wanting to pay for them.

  Sal Amato : But we ain't gonna see a dime from that. They'll find a way to screw us, they always do. Guys like you and me, they strike oil under your garden and all you get is dead tomatoes.

• Frank Ridgeway : [after unmasking Doc]  Why did you do this?

  Doc Robbins : Shortcuts, kid. I never could do things the easy way.

  Frank Ridgeway : Doc, why this little game and the car business?

  Doc Robbins : I figured Joann had the tapes, I knew she wasn't gonna give them to me. Maybe you, Wordman, maybe if she'd give them to you.

  Joann Carlino : What would you do if you had the tapes, Doc.

  Doc Robbins : Try me, just try me. I have it made. For once in my life, I'd bring home a winner... I'd like that.

  Joann Carlino : I once asked Eddie why he kept you around. You know what he said? He said, "Doc's a dreamer, and the world needs dreamers."

  Doc Robbins : He was the only real friend I ever had.