The Cowboy Way
1994 film directed by Gregg Champion
The Cowboy Way is a 1994 action/comedy-drama film about two childhood friends who are rodeo cowboys who travel from New Mexico to New York City searching for a friend who disappeared while looking for his daughter, who's just been smuggled into the US from Cuba.
- Directed by Gregg Champion. Written by Rob Thompson.
Pepper Lewis
edit- If it's got hair, I can ride it. If it's got a beat, I can dance to it.
Dialogue
edit- Nacho: Good to see you, man!
- Pepper: ¿Como estas?
- Nacho: Where the hell have you been?
- Pepper: I've been with the worms in Mexico
- Nacho: ¡Chihuahua!
- Pepper: I miss your cookin'
- Nacho: You talk to Sonny? C'mon Pepper, Sonny will forgive you.
- Pepper: Oh, yeah? When? That rodeo was a year ago. He ain't said six words to me, since. I told him I'm sorry. What the hell does he want?
- Nacho: Sonny, he don't care about words. You have to show him.
- Pepper: I ain't gonna kiss his ass if that's what you mean. It's so sour it probably taste like a damned old lemon, anyhow.
- Nacho: Don't give up on him, Pepper. You've been friends too long for that.
- Pepper: Yeah. I had a reason for not showing up to that rodeo
- Nacho: Tell him what he wants and he will understand.
- Pepper: Maybe someday when he ain't being such a damned shitass.
- Nacho: Pepper is still trying to make up.
- Sonny: Hell I ain't listening'
- Nacho: He's your friend. You guys should be out there chasing that steer together, right now.
- Sonny: A friend don't pull a no show at a national rodeo, Nacho. Not in my book. I had plans for that money, you know that.
- Nacho: Is there anything in that book about forgiveness?
- Sonny: Nacho, Pepper & I are through, OK?
- Nacho: You have the heart the size of a tiny raisin, you know that?
- Sonny: Why don't you just handle my book?
- Nacho: If you only knew what it was like to be alone, you would treasure your friend.
- Sonny: Where are you going?
- Nacho: Home. I'm going home.
- Sonny: You're not going to stay and watch me ride?
- Waiter: How would you like you steaks cooked?
- Pepper: Oh, just knock its horns off, wipe its nasty ass, and chunk it right here on this plate.
- Chango: What's a baby cow gonna do to me?
- [Sonny shrugs and pulls down Chango's pants]
- Chango: Hey come on man! What you doing?
- Sonny: Well what do you know, our friend here isn't wearing any underpants!
- Pepper: [pulls a baby calf out of the barn and the calf starts snorting] He sees it!
- Sonny: Damn, that hungry devil thinks your little wee-wee is his mama's teat.
- Chango: Hey hey man, you guys can't do this.
- Sonny: I'll ask you one more time asshole, where's Teresa?
- Chango: I ain't telling you shit!
- Sonny: It's your call stubby, let him go Pepper!
- [Pepper releases the calf and it makes its way towards Chango]
- Chango: Whoa! [begins to moan as the calf begins to suck his penis]
- Sonny: Damn, that looks like it hurts.
- Waiter at Waldorf Astoria: How would you gentlemen like your steak prepared?
- Pepper: Prepared? Oh you mean cooked?
- Waiter at Waldorf Astoria: Yes, of course, that's what I should have said, cooked.
- Waiter at Waldorf Astoria: And would you care to order wine with your meal?
- Pepper: Uh, yeah why don't you bring us a bottle of something or other, uh not too sweet, American.
- Waiter at Waldorf Astoria: American something or other, yes sir an excellent choice and would you like glasses or do you prefer to drink directly from the bottle?
- Pepper: Well, um, glasses I reckon and oh hay toss a little ice in mine if you would my good man.
- Waiter at Waldorf Astoria: Ice, certainly sir. Nothing could surprise me now.
- Sonny: So, what did you do to make the money to buy this? You didn't give that old lady a fake check did you?
- Pepper: No, of course not. [under his breath] Bitch wouldn't take a check.
- Sonny: [Pepper drags Sonny behind a horse carriage, hiding from the owners of the Waldorf Astoria] Pepper, those people are guessing that you skipped the bill.
- Pepper: Oh yeah, well they guessed right!
- Sonny: Well, then pay them!
- Pepper: Yeah right, with what?
- Sonny: You lying son of a bitch, you told me You still got some of that prize money left!
- Pepper: Of course I do, have I ever lied to you before?
- Sonny: Well, how much do you got?
- Pepper: About 8 bucks, I reckon.
- Sonny: About 8 bucks, I reckon?
- Pepper: Better than a poke in the eye.
- Sonny: [Starts walking off] Pepper, I've about had it with you!
- Officer Shaw: Where you guys from, Texas?
- Pepper: Texas? Ain't no real cowboys from Texas, we're from New Mexico.
Cast
edit- Woody Harrelson - Pepper Lewis
- Kiefer Sutherland - Sonny Gilstrap
- Dylan McDermott - John Stark
- Ernie Hudson - Officer Sam 'Mad Dog' Shaw
- Cara Buono - Teresa Salazar
- Marg Helgenberger - Margarette
- Tomas Milian - Manny Huerta
- Luis Guzmán - Chango
- Allison Janney - NYPD Computer Operator
- Angel Caban - Boca
- Matthew Cowles - Pop Fly
- Joaquín Martínez - Nacho Salazar
External links
edit- The Cowboy Way quotes at the Internet Movie Database
- The Cowboy Way at Rotten Tomatoes
- The Cowboy Way at Mojo