# The Crying Game

The Crying Game is a 1992 film about a man's experiences as a member of the IRA, his brief but meaningful encounter with a British prisoner of the group, and his unexpected romantic relationship with the prisoner's girlfriend, whom he promised he would protect.
    Directed and written by Neil Jordan.

## Dil

* I'm loud, darling, but never cheap.
* I can take it Jimmy. Just not in the face.

## Dialogue

    Fergus: What the fuck, do you know about my people?
    Jody: Only that you're all tough, undiluted motherfuckers... And it's not in your nature to let me go.
    Fergus: Shut the fuck up, will ya?
    Dil: He's still looking, Col.
    Col: Persistent.
    Dil: Good thing in a man.
    Col: An excellent quality.
    Dil: Maybe he wants something.
    Col: I expect he does.
    Dil: Ask him!
    Col: Ask him yourself!
    Fergus: So who's he?
    Col: He's what she should run a mile away from.
    Fergus: Then why doesn't she?
    Col: Who knows the secrets of the human heart?
    Dil: You gonna tell me what it is?
    Jude: What is it?
    Dil: Do you know her, Jimmy?
    Jude: Jimmy, is it? Do you know me, Jimmy?
    Fergus: Dil, this is Jude.
    Dil: Are you following me?
    Jude: Yeah! Just checking. Is he being nice to you, Dil?
    Dil: Ever so nice, aren't you, Jimmy?
    Jude: That's good. I'm glad. Young love, as they say?
    Dil: Absolutely. The younger the better. Doesn't come YOUR way much, I suppose.
    Jude: Don't go looking for it, Dil.
    Dil: Well, maybe you'll get lucky... someday.
    Jude: Bit heavy on the powder, isn't she?
    Dil: A girl has to have a bit of glamour.
    Jude: Oh, absolutely. As long as she can keep it. Isn't that right, James?
    Dil: What you thinking of, hon?
    Fergus: I'm thinking of your man.
    Dil: Why?
    Fergus: I'm wondering why you keep his things.
    Dil: I told you. I'm superstitious.
    Fergus: Did he ever tell you you were beautiful?
    Dil: All the time. Even now.
    Fergus: What do you mean?
    Dil: He looks after me. He's a gentleman, too.
    Col: You could always make it up to her. When a girl runs out like that, she generally wants to be followed.
    Fergus: She's not a girl, Col.
    Col: Whatever you say.
    Fergus: Do they know?
    Dil: Know what, honey?
    Fergus: Know what I didn't know? And don't call me that.
    Dil: Can't help it! A girl has her feelings.
    Fergus: Thing is, Dil, you're not a girl.
    Dil: Details, baby, details.
    Fergus: So they do know?
    Dil: Alright, they do.
    Fergus: Don't. I should've known, shouldn't I?
    Dil: Probably.
    Fergus: Kind of wish I didn't.
    Dil: You can always pretend.
    Fergus: That's true. Your soldier knew, didn't he?
    Dil: Absolutely.
    Dil: Ask to meet me again, Jimmy.
    Fergus: Do you think that's wise?
    Dil: Nothing's wise.
    Fergus: I didn't mean to hit you.
    Dil: I know that.
    Fergus: I kind of liked you as a girl.
    Dil: Well that's a start.
    Fergus: So I'm sorry.
    Dil: So make it up to me.
    Fergus: How?
    Dil: Ask to meet me again.
    Dil: Got you the multivitamins and the iron tablets, hon.
    Fergus: Don't call me that.
    Dil: Sorry, love. Now, the white ones are magnesium supplement.
    Fergus: Stop it, Dil.
    Dil: I've got to keep you healthy, Jimmy. I'm counting the days. Two thousand three hundred and thirty-four left.
    Fergus: Thirty-five.
    Dil: I'm sorry, darling. I keep forgetting the leap year. What am I supposed to call you then, Jimmy?
    Fergus: Fergus.
    Dil: Fergus. Fergus my love, light of my life.
    Fergus : Please, Dil.
    Dil: Can't help it. You're doing time for me. No greater love, as the man says. Wish you'd tell me why.
    Fergus: As the man said, it's in my nature.

## Taglines

* Play At Your Own Risk.
* The movie everyone is talking about... But no one is giving away its secrets.

## Cast

* Stephen Rea - Fergus/Jimmy
* Jaye Davidson - Dil
* Forest Whitaker - Jody
* Miranda Richardson - Jude
* Adrian Dunbar -Maguire
* Breffni McKenna - Tinker
* Joe Savino - Eddie
* Birdy Sweeney - Tommy
* Andrée Bernard - Jane
* Jim Broadbent - Col
* Tony Slattery - Deveroux

## External links

* The Crying Game quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* The Crying Game at Rotten Tomatoes