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John Cusack, Chevy Chase, Clark Duke, Craig Robinson, Rob Corddry, Brook Bennett, Aliu Oyofo, and Jake Rose in Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)

John Cusack: Adam

Hot Tub Time Machine

John Cusack credited as playing...

Adam

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  • Adam: [to Lou] You are the patron saint of the totally fucked. You're completely toxic. There's nothing you can't kill. You're the fucking Violator!
  • Lou: Fuckin' Russian energy drink, Chernobly. Its got this shit in it, not even legal here.
  • Adam: Whats in it?
  • Lou: How the fuck am I supposed to know dude, but it's illegal.
  • Nick: Lou, why would he do this?
  • Adam: Why? I mean make a list. He's an alcoholic, he's divorced, his wife ran off with that Jamaican guy.
  • Nick: He's failed at every jived ass money hustle he's ever tried.
  • Adam: He has a mountain of debt.
  • Nick: He hates his mother.
  • Adam: Hates himself, hates everybody.
  • Nick: He has erectile dysfunction.
  • Adam: He's got halitosis.
  • Nick: He's got that right ball! One less ball, shriveled up
  • Adam: Oh yeah!
  • Nick: ...like a... spoiled grape.
  • Adam: I don't know. It's just like an accumulation of punishment.
  • Lou: [Throws a pillow] FUCK YOU GUYS!
  • Adam: One little change has a ripple effect, and it effects everything else. Like a butterfly floats its wings and Tokyo explodes, or there's a tsunami, in like, you know, somewhere.
  • Jacob: Yes, exactly. You step on the bug, and the fucking internet is never invented.
  • Lou: Oh, then you'll have to talk to girls with your mouth.
  • Jacob: Yeah. No. I was more concerned about bigger consequences like not being born.
  • Lou: Yeah; No, I don't care about that.
  • Nick, Lou, Adam: [Repeated line, whispered] Great White Buffalo.
  • Lou: It's the fucking 80's guys. Let's do what we want to do. Free Love!
  • Jacob: That's the 60's, dipshit.
  • Adam: We had like Reagan and AIDS. Let's get the fuck outta here, okay? Do the right thing, Violator!
  • Nick: Just like Cincinatti.
  • Lou: What?
  • Adam: You're gonna bring that up?
  • Lou: We said we weren't gonna talk about Cincinatti ever, okay?
  • Jacob: Is that why you have that shoebox in your closet that says "Cincinatti"?
  • Adam: Yeah!
  • Lou: What? That's fucking admissible!
  • Nick: You keep it in the closet?
  • Adam: What was I supposed to do with it? You can't bury those things.
  • Nick: You wrote "Cincinatti" on it?
  • Adam: How do I know which one it's supposed to be?
  • Jacob: Is it a fetus?
  • Nick: My friends are ridiculous.
  • Adam: I knew this trip was a bad idea. Every time I hang out with you, man, it's some kind of shit storm. I got guilted into coming on this trip and now I'm back in the fuckin' '80s. And I hate this decade!
  • Adam: The carving you made 20 years ago, about me sucking cocks and dicks, it's not there.
  • Lou: Wait. Is "cocks" still there?
  • Adam: Nothing. I mean, it's not there.
  • Lou: What about "dicks"?
  • Adam: Neither "cocks," nor "dicks," nor "sucks."
  • Lou: Oh, God!
  • Nick: That's it. We're stuck in the fuckin' '80s!
  • Jenny: God, I can't stop thinking about last night. It was like - friggin' hot.
  • Adam: It was? What did we do? I don't remember.
  • Jenny: You lasted, like, 10 minutes.
  • Adam: I'm not really making any plans. I'm just sort of letting the universe surprise me, right?
  • April: I like that. I like that a lot. That's the sign of a happy man.
  • Jacob: [Refferring to Lou] Do you remember when I was 12 and he tried to bite me.
  • Adam: Yeah, but you had that coming.
  • April: What happened to your...
  • Adam: I got stabbed in the face with a fork, I saw it coming, I avoided it, I didn't avoid it, it happened to me in a different way.
  • Adam: Why don't you do something out of the house this weekend?
  • Jacob: What should I do out of the house this weekend Uncle Adam?
  • Adam: Something in the course of reality, get a job, go to college.
  • Jacob: That all sounds overrated.
  • Adam: Why do you waste your time with that second-life bullshit? Look at you. You're still in jail. You were in jail last week.
  • Jacob: Yeah, I'm a prisoner. It's called "doing hard time".
  • Adam: Can't you be like a warrior or shaman or orc or some shit like that?
  • Adam: By all counts we should be pretty fucked up right now, but I - I kind of feel great.
  • Nick: I feel crazy right now.
  • Lou: I feel fantastic! I wanna *fuck* somethin'!
  • Adam: Listen to me, man. That guy, that guy has pummeled you again and again.
  • Nick: He made you his little bitch!
  • Adam: He's humiliated you, emasculated you. The wheel of fate has stopped and dumped you here again, utterly defeated.
  • Lou: None of this is helping me at all.
  • Adam: I know, it's coming. It's coming right now.
  • Nick: Patience.
  • Adam: Maybe you're supposed to do something different...
  • Blaine: What is this, girl talk? Let's go here, come on.
  • Adam: You're better than him!
  • Blaine: America!
  • Adam: Maybe not by a lot, but a little. You're the patron saint of the totally fucked. You're completely toxic. There's nothing you can't kill. You're the fucking Violator!
  • Blaine: The moment's over. Let's go!
  • Adam: You can do this! You can get us the fuck out of here! You can be the hero!
  • Nick: Enrique'-fucking'-lglesias.
  • Adam: You love that song, don't you?
  • Lou: I love that fucking song!
  • [Lou gets up, launches himself one-footed off of the couch at Blaine. Blaine moves out of the way and punches Lou twice, knocking him back to the ground]
  • Adam: Shit.
  • Lou: God damn it! None of what you said worked at all!
  • Dr. Jeff: I'm Dr. Jeff. Lou's resting. He's denying that it's a suicide attempt. Medically, he's stable; so, medically we can't keep him here. But, we do think he should be monitored for a few days. Does he have any family?
  • Adam: Lou's family all kind of hate him.
  • Dr. Jeff: Okay, well, then, I guess it's up to you guys - his friends You are his friends? Right?
  • Nick: It's like that friend who's the asshole. He's our asshole.
  • Jacob: Shit! This is the black diamond?
  • Adam: Terrifying.
  • Lou: That's all you got?
  • Nick: I don't remember this.
  • Lou: Tips down. Tips fuckin' down! Right away. Let's ride.
  • Jacob: Wait. How is this happening? Can we talk about this for a minute?
  • Adam: [picks up a flyer] Holy fuck! Winterfest '86. We were here, man. We are here! What if we run into ourselves?

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