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Only the Lonely
Promotional poster for the film
Directed by	Chris Columbus
Produced by	John Hughes Hunt Lowry
Written by	Chris Columbus
Starring	John Candy Maureen O'Hara
Music by	Maurice Jarre
Cinematography	Julio Macat
Editing by	Raja Gosnell Peter Teschner
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	May 24, 1991
Running time	104 min.
Country	USA
Language	English
IMDb profile

Only the Lonely is a 1991 comedy/drama/romance film written and directed by Chris Columbus. It starred John Candy, Ally Sheedy, Maureen O’Hara and Anthony Quinn.

Danny Muldoon (Candy), is a Chicago policeman who falls in love with Theresa Luna (Sheedy), who works in a funeral home. Their courtship is difficult, as Rose (O'Hara) - Danny's overbearing Irish mother - continuously makes Danny feel guilty whenever he spends time away from her. The fact that Theresa is not Irish (she is Sicilian and Polish) only exacerbates the situation.

Meanwhile, Rose's neighbor, Nick Acropolis (Quinn) attempts to woo Rose. She is salty towards him in the beginning, but as she gradually softens her stance regarding Danny's relationship with Theresa, she warms up to Nick.

Chris Columbus wrote the part of Rose specifically for Maureen O’Hara, but did not know that she had retired from acting and was living in the Virgin Islands. Columbus contacted O'Hara's brother Charles B. Fitzsimons, a producer and actor who was still in the film industry, to ask him to send O'Hara a copy of the script, which he did, telling her, "This you do!". O'Hara read the script and loved it. She was reported to have replied back to Fitzsimons, "This I do!". However, she would not commit until she met co-star John Candy. The two formed an instant rapport and she quickly signed to do the film.^{[citation needed]}

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Rose: Oh, that's a lovely dress you wearing.
Danny: Isn't it?
Theresa: Oh, thank you!
Rose: Even though it is a little big on top.
Danny: Ma!
Rose: Well, it is, you said so yourself.
Danny: Ma!
Theresa: No, no that's a problem I have, I'm not really that endowed on top.
Danny: No, no, no, no, no.
Rose: You're built like a thirteen year old boy.

Rose: I had a Polack friend once. She was incredibly stupid...
Danny: Don't do this, Ma.
Rose: ...Julie Kapowski. She was the stupidest woman that I ever knew. She believed that black cows... [laughs] ...black cows squirted chocolate milk!

Danny: [Danny has just scored a date with Theresa and runs into some funeral attendees] Yeah! Oh... sorry... but I just got lucky in there with a girl.
[funeral attendees look shocked]
Danny: Not in that way... she does everybody in there... not in that way. But she probably did that guy there... I gotta go.

Nick Acropolis: Rose! Rose, I am trying again. Will you please accept these flowers?
Rose: I don't want them. And I don't date Greeks.
Nick Acropolis: You know, you and I could make each other so happy. Greek men are great lovers.
Rose: And Greek men never bathe.
Nick Acropolis: I bathe twice a day! Three times! When I do my sit-ups. Feel that stomach. Hard like an eighteen-year-old's. Come on, feel it!
Rose: I'm not feeling anything of yours.

Doyle: If I'd gotten married, I wouldn't be where I am now.
Spats: In a tavern?
Doyle: Free! Living like a king!
Spats: You live at the Y.

Danny: I'll pick you up at seven. Where do you live?
Theresa: Here.
Danny: With the stiffs?
Theresa: Um, my father and I have an apartment upstairs.
Danny: Oh! Yeah, sure! That's uh... convenient.

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