Shoot the Moon (1982)

Diane Keaton: Faith 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.

• Molly Dunlap : How do I look?

  Jill Dunlap : Like a hooker.

  Molly Dunlap : So do you! Do I look like a hooker?

  Faith Dunlap : No, you look beautiful. You don't look anything like a hooker.

  Molly Dunlap : See, I don't look anything like a hooker. What's a hooker?

• Faith Dunlap : No, I'm not his friend. I'm his wife.

• 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.

• Faith Dunlap : [naked in the bath tub, smoking a joint, singing]  'Cause I've been in love before, And I found that love was more, Than just, Holding hands, If I give my heart, To you, I must be sure, From the very - start, That you, Would love me more than - her, 'Cause I couldn't stand -- the pain...

• 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!

• Faith Dunlap : [on the phone]  I can't afford a big-city lawyer, Mother, but the lawyer that I have is supposed to be very good. His name is Katz. It's Sheldon Katz. He's known at the "the Butcher." Mother.

  Faith Dunlap : [after a pause]  They make the best divorce lawyers,

• Faith Dunlap : You're not at this house anymore, George, remember? You walked out feet first or maybe there was something else preceding you.

• Molly Dunlap : What are you looking for?

  Faith Dunlap : Beer.

  Molly Dunlap : Beer for Frank?

  Faith Dunlap : Beer for both of us.

  Sherry Dunlap : You drinking beer?

  Faith Dunlap : Sure I am.

• Faith Dunlap : Now, let's see, I wonder if he likes chicken. Doesn't everybody like chicken? Chicken's obviously very good, isn't it? Yeah, that's what I'll give him. I'll give him some chicken. I hope we have some in here someplace. Oh, God, where in God's name did our thighs go to anyway? Maybe they're in the freezer? Didn't I put a chicken in the freezer? Is it that turkey? Oh, God! God, it's that terrible old Easter turkey. I don't want to give him this. This is the worst.

  Molly Dunlap : Hey, relax, will you, Mom? He's only a guy.

• Sherry Dunlap : Why did Daddy leave us?

  Faith Dunlap : Well, I don't think he left you. I think he left me.

• Faith Dunlap : When two people love each other, it's, I don't know, it's like going through doors and, at first, you go through the doors together. And, then one person gets ahead.

  Sherry Dunlap : But if they love earth other, why don't they wait for each other?

  Faith Dunlap : I don't know.

  Sherry Dunlap : It's all Daddy's fault.

  Faith Dunlap : No, Sherry, it's no one's fault. No one's to blame. It's just time.

• Howard Katz : We expose the broad.

  Faith Dunlap : What broad?

  Howard Katz : The one he's shacked up with.

• 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.

• Faith Dunlap : I was never right for you, was I, George? It was like I sang all the music, but I never knew the words.

• 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?

• Isabel : [happily]  Every time George comes to New York, you know all he can talk about is you and the children.

  Faith Dunlap : [nervously laughing]  Oh.

  Isabel : When am I going to get to see these *wonderful* children?

  Faith Dunlap : [grabbing for her purse]  Well, I actually, I have some pictures here...

  Isabel : [dismissively]  No, no, don't bother, darling. I can just imagine how *fabulous* they are.