Beyond the Sea (2004)

Share this quote on facebook [voice over] So I had a hot head, a weak heart and even a worse stage name. Walden Robert Cassotto isn't exactly a name you can see in a marquee. Well, maybe for one night only and one of the things that most performers were doing back then was to find a great stage name and then one day, I saw it, the perfect name. Just blinking, Darin. Darin. Bobby Darin. And no sooner did I change my name and I got my first gig on television. Unfortunately, I didn't know the lyrics to the song I decided to sing, so I had to devise my own method to get through it on live television. Didn't win me many fans, but it didn't finish me either. My record company was giving me one last chance to make a hit.

Share this quote on facebook [voice over] Sandy and I just got off on the wrong foot. If I could just get her away from her mother. I mean just imagine: Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee. That's it. I'm gonna start all over, like we've never met. Only this time, I'll romance her the best way I know.

Share this quote on facebook [to Sandra Dee] You know, I was right about you. You're gonna be easy to love.

Share this quote on facebook May I have this dance?

Share this quote on facebook [voice over] Momma was right about music. It opened a whole new world to me, outside of time and illness. The world I could live in.

Share this quote on facebook [voice over] Soon I would be old enough to head to New York, but momma had one more lesson to teach.

Share this quote on facebook I gotta prove I can sing, I want it all. I want the major leagues. I want nightclubs, Vegas, movies, TV. This album will make it happen all fast, faster than you can imagine.

Share this quote on facebook Let's go make movies!

Share this quote on facebook [voice over] So I did stay at home for a while, the nineteen sixties rushed by like a locomotive, while Dodd grew up like a moose. Sandy and I made a couple of movies together, but they were all dogs. The music scene was changing as dramatically as the country. Nightclubs were out and big venues like stadiums were in. I was suddenly irrelevant, my stage literally disappearing. I tried to write new music and got involved in politics because we were now a country at war. But the fact was I was a balding chart singer who hadn't had a hit in years and who should be dead.

Share this quote on facebook [at the Coconut Grove while perfoming "Mack the Knife", Bobby notices his younger self backstage]
Bobby Darin: Stop! Stop! Richie, stop! Hold it! Hold it! [the band stops playing. Silence] Okay, I wanna start over. I wanna do it again.
Steve "Boom Boom" Blauner: You gotta be kidding me. That was perfect.
Bobby Darin: No, I wanna do it again. I can do it better.
Steve "Boom Boom" Blauner: Do you know how long it takes to set this up?
Band member: Yeah, I don't know how much more my chops can take today, boss.
Bobby Darin: [angrily] Well, maybe when you start playing it right, we can all call it a day. But when you play it sloppy like you've been doing all afternoon! Then were gonna do it again! And again! And again! Until we get it right!
Dick Behrke: Bobby, the guys are getting tired, that's all.
Bobby Darin: How do you think I feel?

Share this quote on facebook Polly Cassotto: [playing the piano. To young Bobby] You know, before your sister was born. This is what your momma did for a living. Music opened a whole new world to me. No matter how bad I feel. No matter how sad or sick I am, I just touch these keys. Like magic, I always seem to feel better. I've always known you had talent, Bobby. This piano is for you. Charlie worked hard for it. See God wouldn't've made you suffer so much if you weren't gonna make up for it later. [sings] How happy you can be. Up a Lazy River with me.

Share this quote on facebook Bobby Darin: So part of Momma's plan was....
Little Bobby: Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
Bobby Darin: What?
Little Bobby: You didn't go dancing down the street like that.
Bobby Darin: I know, it's a fantasy sequence.
Little Bobby: But it's not real.
Bobby Darin: Forget real. Listen kid, memories are like moonbeams; we do with them what we want. (winks)
Little Bobby: Oh, okay then. Go on. I'll be around if you need me.

Share this quote on facebook Bobby Darin: Hey kid! come here.
Delivery guy: What's up?
Bobby Darin: I just got a question. Could you do me a favor?
[Bobby starts to walk around him]
Bobby Darin: Would you look at me?
Delivery guy: What?
Bobby Darin: Just look at me. Do you know me?
Delivery guy: What?
Bobby Darin: Do you recognize me?
Delivery guy: What are you talking about?
Bobby Darin: Do I look familiar to you?
Delivery guy: No! You don't. I don't know you. Would you leave me alone, you crazy bastard. I got things to do.
Bobby Darin: Thanks pal!
[walks over to Ahmet]
Bobby Darin: Ahmet, when the delivery guy knows me, then I'm a star.

Share this quote on facebook Bobby Darin: It's OK, I'm not gonna hurt you. Watch. My momma used to tell me a story when I was a kid that in the Middle Ages, one of the knights in King Arthur's court, he laid down his sword between himself and Guinevere, and he promised that he would never cross over to the other side.
Sandra Dee: Really?
Bobby Darin: I am laying down this sword between us. That's my side of the bed, and that's yours, and I will never cross over. Ever. I don't care if we don't touch for a thousand nights. Only you can cross over to my side. Only you.

Share this quote on facebook Steve "Boom Boom" Blauner: [interrupting a tender moment] Bobby! Whoa, sorry. But I was right about the war picture. Get your speech ready 'cause as soon as this tour is over, you're going to the Oscars, pal. You just got nominated.
Bobby Darin: [shouting] Hallelujah! Yes! Yes!
Sandra Dee: Oh, Christ.

Share this quote on facebook Nina Cassotto Maffia: I heard you were going into politics. You still thinkin' about doing that?
Bobby Darin: Well, I'm considering it. I mean, they've asked me.
Nina Cassotto Maffia: Well, you know how the papers try and smear people with things from their past when, you know, they're gonna run for an office?
Bobby Darin: Mm-hm. Yeah. So what?
Nina Cassotto Maffia: There's something about your past that I think it's finally time for you to know.
Bobby Darin: What are you talking about?
Nina Cassotto Maffia: It's about Polly. She wasn't who you thought she was, Bobby.
Bobby Darin: She was the best mother in the whole goddamn world. What are you talking about?
Nina Cassotto Maffia: She was a great mother because she was my mother, so I know it's true.
Bobby Darin: Than you take that back!
Nina Cassotto Maffia: No, she was a wonderful person and a wonderful mother. But what I think you really need now is the truth. The truth about your mother. And the truth is... Polly was not your mother. Sam was not your father. You ain't my brother, Bobby. [pause] We swore that we would never let you find out. Polly was my mother. Not yours. [pause] She was your grandmother. Sweetheart... [tearfully] I'm not your sister. [pause] Bobby, I'm your mother.
Polly Cassotto: We made a pact that we would never tell you.
Little Bobby: Is she kidding?
Polly Cassotto: She got pregnant when she was 17.
Nina Cassotto Maffia: [tearfully] It's true, Bobby. I didn't want you to be a bastard, so I gave you to momma, so that way no one could call you one.
Polly Cassotto: She couldn't give you up for adoption.
Nina Cassotto Maffia: When I went off to the hospital, when it was time for you to be born. Momma moved us to the Bronx where we didn't know nobody. And then when I came back, we said you were her baby, not mine. But that way I could keep you.
Little Bobby: Do you realise what you're saying to me?
Polly Cassotto: We did it to protect you, Bobby.
Nina Cassotto Maffia: You need me now. I can really be here for you. You're lost. You can finally have the mother that you never really had.
[pause]
Little Bobby: Who was my father?
Nina Cassotto Maffia: Oh, Bobby. I was dating a lot of guys back then.
Little Bobby: [angrily] Who was my father!

Share this quote on facebook Bobby Darin: When did you meet Nina? What year?
Charlie Cassotto Maffia: I don't know, nineteen thirty something.
Bobby Darin: Do you know who my father is, Charlie?
Charlie Cassotto Maffia: No, Bobby. I don't know.
Bobby Darin: I wish I knew who he was.
Charlie Cassotto Maffia: Look, Bobby, I know I ain't no college boy, but I always felt like I was your father.
Bobby Darin: Charlie, you've been more than a father to me, you know that. I just wish I knew.
Charlie Cassotto Maffia: Well, you stay out here much longer, Dodd's gonna be saying the same thing about you. Now, you may not know who your father is, but you got two mothers out of the deal and both of them were great. Have you seen how hard its been for her? Not to be able to tell anybody that you're her son? You ought'a find yourself, get back on the stage. You are Bobby Darin.
Bobby Darin: Yeah, that's who I thought I was.
Charlie Cassotto Maffia: Okay, Walden Robert Cassotto.
Bobby Darin: No I'm not, Charlie. I'm not even him.
Charlie Cassotto Maffia: Well, maybe you're both.

Share this quote on facebook Charlie Cassotto Maffia: You don't look so good.
Bobby Darin: Well to tell you the truth, Charlie. I don't feel so hot. I gotta go under the knife again, that's why we're taking off early. I've got blood poisoning, its catching up.
Charlie Cassotto Maffia: Look, we don't have to do this. We can call it off.
Bobby Darin: Charlie, I gotta get ready now.
Charlie Cassotto Maffia: I gotta go make sure Nina's at a good table.
Bobby Darin: Charlie, I wouldn't have gone this far without you.
Charlie Cassotto Maffia: Kid, your a runaway train. Just get through tonight.
Bobby Darin: Yeah, always leaving one more, Charlie.

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