Shoot the Moon (1982)

Albert Finney: George Dunlap

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• George Dunlap : I'm not kind anymore.

  Faith Dunlap : Me either.

  George Dunlap : You're kind to strangers.

  Faith Dunlap : Yeah. Strangers are easy.

• George Dunlap : [almost hits a cable car in San Francisco]  Goddamn things. I could shoot Tony Bennett. This city could die from quaint.

• George Dunlap : No orange juice. Not even a goddamn glass of orange juice. I've got the energy of a $2 whore in the morning. You know why? The goddamn kids drink all the goddamn orange juice!

• George Dunlap : What's all this, Willard?

  Willard : A little glamour, George.

  Scott Gruber : A little icing on the cake, a little pizzazz, a little hype. Books are show business, too.

• George Dunlap : I'm losing everything. I can't find anything anymore. Can't even find a goddamn pencil. What do the kids do? Use them for pick-up sticks? And when I do finally rescue one, it's chewed over like a piece of licorice, it's got a point like a gumdrop! What do the kids do with my pencil points? Stick them in their goddamn Jujubes?

• George Dunlap : I was in town. I was working.

  Faith Dunlap : You were with your lady friend.

  George Dunlap : My what?

  Faith Dunlap : Lady friend!

  George Dunlap : Lady friend. What kind of a word's that?

  Faith Dunlap : It's like *fucking*, only you don't tell anyone about it! That's what it is.

• George Dunlap : Where's my Cassell's?

  Faith Dunlap : You left it in that restaurant in Provence, remember?

  George Dunlap : What restaurant?

  Faith Dunlap : George, remember that one with the terrible piano player?

  George Dunlap : Oh, yeah. Yeah, the man who sang Beatles songs in French.

• George Dunlap , Jill Dunlap , Marianne Dunlap , Molly Dunlap : [singing]  I want a hippopotamus for Christmas, Only a hippopotamus will do, No crocodiles, or rhinoceroseses, I only like hippopotamuseses...

• George Dunlap : Do you want to talk about it? Don't you think we ought to talk about it? I said...

  George Dunlap : [smashing a plate on the floor]  ... don't you think we ought to talk about it!

  Faith Dunlap : No, George!

  Faith Dunlap : [smashing a plate on the floor]  I don't think we ought to talk about it!

  George Dunlap : [smashing a plate on the floor]  I think we ought to talk about it!

  Faith Dunlap : [smashing a plate on the floor]  I don't wanna talk about it!

  George Dunlap : [smashing a plate on the floor]  I want to talk about!

• Molly Dunlap : Spooky.

  George Dunlap : They say it was really beautiful once.

  Jill Dunlap : What happened?

  George Dunlap : The night before Jack London was to move into this house, somebody set fire to it.

  Jill Dunlap : Who set fire to it?

  George Dunlap : They don't know. Could have been one of the workmen. Could have been somebody jealous. He was a great author. I don't know.

  Jill Dunlap : Then what happened to him?

  George Dunlap : Jack London lost everything, all up in smoke.

  Sandy : But he still had his wife.

  Marianne Dunlap : Second wife.

• George Dunlap : Jack London was a wonderful man.

  Molly Dunlap : You bet he was, Dad.

  Jill Dunlap : He was a wonderful man.

  Marianne Dunlap : Yeah, he was a wonderful man.

• George Dunlap : I was a bystander, an outsider in all this.

  Faith Dunlap : All of what?

  George Dunlap : All this life! I was sitting with my thumb up my ass, sharpening pencils, praying that some dumb editor would give me a pat on the back for a profile on some - the fucking greenskeeper at Pebble Beach. You were changing diapers and scraping shit off walls. You were creating lives! What was I doing? Studying the fucking Bermuda grass and counting the goddamn dimples on a golf ball.

• George Dunlap : I couldn't hack it! I felt like I was swimming the English Channel with a 50-pound weight around my neck.

  Faith Dunlap : That's my mother's line.

  George Dunlap : Yeah, well, your mother's done a lot of drowning.

  Faith Dunlap : You leave my mother out of this!

  George Dunlap : I'd be glad to! Your mother was a lousy mother and a lousy wife!

• Faith Dunlap : Tell me about Sandy! Does she fuck you morning, noon, and night?

  George Dunlap : Forget about Sandy. What about him? The redneck?

  Faith Dunlap : The who?

  George Dunlap : Sam Stud, the character with all the cotton in his crotch. Do you do it on the backhoe?

  Faith Dunlap : You talking about Frank?

  George Dunlap : What? Frank. What a name. Frank. I had a counselor at Scout camp named Frank. Franks always love the outdoors.

  Faith Dunlap : Well, this Frank isn't bad indoors.

• George Dunlap : How do you feel about the Gewürztraminer?

  Faith Dunlap : What? The who?

  George Dunlap : The Gewürztraminer.

  Faith Dunlap : I thought it was a trifle authoritarian.

  George Dunlap : And just the least bit Lufthansa, ja?

• Sherry Dunlap : What are you playing?

  George Dunlap : Hearts.

  Sherry Dunlap : Did he shoot the moon?

  George Dunlap : No, I did.