Greg Kinnear: Bradley Smith

Feast of Love

Bradley Smith

[from trailer]
Bradley Smith: Do you think love is a trick or do you think that it's the only meaning there is to this crazy dream?
Margaret Vekashi: Which do you believe?
Bradley Smith: The second one.

[Bradley and Harry are sitting on the bench by the football field reminiscing of the past year and a half]
Harry Stevenson: God is either dead or he despises us.
Bradley Smith: You don't really believe that.
Harry Stevenson: Maybe. I saw the most remarkable thing just now. I wandered into the stadium, I thought I was alone but down on the 50-yard line there was a couple making love. I watched for longer then I should have. I was envious. And then I felt sorry for them. There's so much they don't know. Heartbreak they can't even imagine.
Bradley Smith: [sighs] Well, even if they knew, it wouldn't change anything.
Harry Stevenson: How so?
Bradley Smith: Well, Chloe knew what was gonna happen to Oscar.
Harry Stevenson: What do you mean she knew?
Bradley Smith: She did. She went to some psychic lady who predicted the whole thing.
Harry Stevenson: She believed her?
Bradley Smith: Yes, Harry. She did. And she didn't run away. She didn't crawl into a hole. She found them a house, she threw away her birth control, and she married him. God doesn't hate us, Harry. If he did, he wouldn't have made our hearts so brave.

[entering the coffee shop]
Chloe Barlow: Hey, you need anybody to work here?
Oscar: [to Bradley] Yes! Yeah. I mean, if that's all right with you.
Bradley Smith: You... You have any experience with this kind of work?
Chloe Barlow: No.
Oscar: [interrupting] Neither did I when I started.
Bradley Smith: Do you like coffee?
Chloe Barlow: Not much.
Oscar: [interrupting again] She'll learn to love it.
Bradley Smith: But why here?
Chloe Barlow: I don't know. I just kind of felt a harmonic convergence in this place.
Oscar: She's right, you know? I felt the same kind of thing.
Bradley Smith: [looking confused] Ah.

[talking about getting the dog at the humane society for Kathryn]
Bradley Smith: You know what I feel like doing? I feel like just driving over there and grabbing the little guy before somebody else gets him.
Oscar: So just do it, though, you know? Go for it.
Bradley Smith: Yeah? You think?
Oscar: You only live once.
[short pause]
Oscar: Probably.

Bradley Smith: What's making you smile like that?
Margaret Vekashi: Looking out the window, an unusual man, an innocent man, an open-hearted man. Someone who has given tremendous love, but never had it returned, not in the way he deserves.