favorite line

I like

"You need validation" and Perry's self aware smile.
Reminds me of in High Fidelity when Cusack is asked by a customer if he has soul music at his store.

"You have soul"
"That all depends."

"I'll wait here with you", said to the girl waiting to see the shrink for the first time, after the homeless guy had said the same thing to him in jail. A simple act of human kindness coming from someone with infinitely greater problems than himself, so much appreciated under the circumstances, jolted him out of his self-involvement and inspired him to return the favor. Nice touch.

I liked, "*beep* talking, take drugs."

I think a lot more people need to open their eyes and start doing things like this. The world is what you make it, at the very least, smile, just once if that's all you can do, for no good reason with no intended reward of any kind (other then the hope that this will make someone else feel good) at a random stranger everyday. You'd be surprised at how much you can alter someones day, week, year or life just by the simplest of actions or words.

I don't want to get all sentimental and please don't take this as bragging or me trying to make myself look like a better person but I cried when I saw that part, I have once done the same thing at my old doctors office. I didn't say the same thing but it went along the lines of this:

I was having a great day and I attribute that partly to seeing a good deed travel from a sidewalk to the back of a bus earlier in the day, from a young "gangsta" teen letting an older man on the bus first who then turned around and helped a mother with a stroller lift it into the bus (he was a frail old man too) which led me to get up and move to the back so she could sit with the stroller next to her. Minutes later the bus driver, who had smiled at all of this, offered to keep a young girls big cardboard box in a compartment for the drivers things as she was clearly struggling with it.

I hadn't been in the office yet, and was sitting in the waiting area and there was a girl sitting one seat away from me. She looked deeply upset and perhaps about to cry, she had been looking nervously all around the room when she caught my eyes staring at her own.
I simply said, "I know you don't know me, and I have no idea what your upset about, but I promise that you will be ok. I've been going here for years and the advice is good but I think the most important thing to take from this whole thing is that there is always another way to look at something, no matter how bad or hopeless it seems."

She quietly replied, "I've never been here before but the last time I was in a place like this I was basically told it would only get worse if I didn't do something and if I stopped seeing him and it has been and now I know it's just going to be more of the same."

I turned in my seat to face her more directly and asked if she had been made to come here, she told me she hadn't so I calmly said, "Whoever said that to you sounds like they were unnecessarily harsh, but maybe not wrong, but here's the thing, things are going to get better, I know because you DID do something, you came here, for help. That's something that most people find is so hard they just don't do it, but you did."

She looked like she had been hit by a brick but my therapist came out just then and waved me in, I told her I had to go but that I hoped she would feel better soon. What she said has never left me so these words I know are the ones she said. "I already do" and with a slight smiles through a red and damp face she got up and went into another office as she had been called in.

I've never seen her again but I will never forget her, I hope she's doing fine and living the life she wants to somewhere. It's beautiful, the strange brief love two strangers can share if only for a moment.

Sorry, I know this is a long post but here is my other favorite line from the movie, "You don't have to save me, Sara. But I am going to love you for the rest of my life, so things would be a lot better if you were around."

I love that speech so much because it shows that he learned that it wasn't up to the external world or the people around him to help him through his life and that it was up to only himself. Not only that but that he showed that he loved Sara for reasons beyond how she made him feel more real and better, he loved her because she was Sara.

The bit where the doctor in the test faclilty sat Hudson down & said "You have depersonalization disorder" & the look on his face was brilliant,really made me laugh. He'd gone through all that to be told somethimg he knew all long.

Hats off to Matthew Perry he's really laid the ghost of Chandler Bing to rest with this performance.

Excellent,well made movie.

It's not so much a favorite line, as it is a favorite moment:
when Perry get's out of the doctor's room, (when Mr Dr wants to speak with Sarah 'alone') and he finds the ADS leaflet, briefly picks it up takes a glance and throws it away only seconds after. That was so sublime, so hilarious and so subtle all in one that i liked it almost the best in this movie, although it wasn 't a movie about ADS in the first place!

Randomness at its best!

Otherwise i liked the movie a lot, despite some minor flaws here and there.