Surviving Christmas (2004)

Ben Affleck: Drew Latham

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• Drew Latham : Please! Please, let me stay here!

  Tom Valco : No!

  Drew Latham : I'll pay you.

  Tom Valco : My family's not for sale, pal.

  Drew Latham : I'll pay you $250,000!

  Tom Valco : Welcome home, son.

• Drew Latham : It's fun just to buy shit sometimes!

• Drew Latham : Hey, Dad.

  Christine Valco : He's talking to you, genius.

  Tom Valco : Yeah, Drew?

  Drew Latham : Would you do me a kindness? Put this hat on. My dad always used to wear a Santa hat when we went Christmas tree shopping.

  Tom Valco : [laughs]  In public?

  Drew Latham : Yeah.

  Tom Valco : Yeah, that would be no. And in private, that would be no, too.

  Drew Latham : Please wear the hat.

  Tom Valco : No. I'm not wearing the hat.

  Drew Latham : Tom, you gotta wear the hat.

  Tom Valco : I'm not wearing the hat.

  Drew Latham : Wear the hat, Tom.

  Tom Valco : I'm not wearing the hat. Now get it away from me before I shove it up your ass!

  Drew Latham : Tom, are you familiar with the phrase "breach of contract"?

  Tom Valco : Give me the hat!

• Tom Valco : I think your mom's starting to like your grandfather hitting on her.

  Drew Latham : There's a sentence you don't often hear on Christmas Eve.

• [first lines] 

  Drew Latham : Folks, my firm's done a tremendous amount of marketing research and we've discovered two critical things, one; most Americans feel that Christmas is a time for family. Two; most Americans feel that in order to stand being around their family, for even one or two days, they need to swill as much alcohol as humanly possible.

• Drew Latham : Hey, Alicia! Want to go toboganning with me?

  Alicia Valco : Oh, I'm sorry Drew. Have I been sending you mixed signals?

  Drew Latham : [laughs]  You know, I just thought instead of maybe laying around the house all day, you might actually wanna have some fun.

  Alicia Valco : No thanks.

  Drew Latham : Oh, I see. You're afraid of fun. You don't like having fun!

  Alicia Valco : Of course I like fun. Everybody likes fun... it's fun!

  Drew Latham : So then, why won't you go with me?

  Alicia Valco : Because it'll be with you.

• Drew Latham : Wow, I can't believe it. This is amazing. This is exactly how I remember it.

  Brian Valco : You mean, you're saying it was always a shithole?

• Drew Latham : Did you hear that? That stair squeaked. You know what we used to call that squeaky stair? The squeaky stair!

• Drew Latham : Mom, you wanna stick with Doo-Dah?

  Christine Valco : Why me?

  Drew Latham : He's your father.

  Doo-Dah : How come you never call?

• Drew Latham : You do know that's a bra you're putting in Brian's drawer, right?

  Christine Valco : Yeah, that's your brother. He's 15, he likes to experiment. We still love him though.