The Boys Club (1996)

Nicholas Campbell: Kyle's Dad

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• Kyle : Dad?

  Kyle's Dad : Yeah?

  Kyle : Are you mad?

  Kyle's Dad : Why? Why would I be mad? Just because I came home and the grass and the grass isn't cut, and you haven't picked up, or done anything you said you'd do? I should be mad?

  Kyle : I'm sorry, I'm gonna do it.

  Kyle's Dad : Okay.

  Kyle : Has Jake been home?

  Kyle's Dad : Of course not.

  [Kyle is shuffling through the mail] 

  Kyle's Dad : What are you looking at?

  Kyle : The mail. Did anything come?

  Kyle's Dad : Like what?

  Kyle : Dad, the test results, whether I got in. It's coming any day.

  Kyle's Dad : Starting line pilot exam.

  Kyle : [scoffs]  Yeah, maybe.

  Kyle's Dad : Ya know, I pull a double down at the hanger and I come home and I see that none of ya's has even picked up, uh, even a finger to help me out here but that's okay, I'm used to that. But unless your school takes Monopoly money, you're working for me this summer, boy. You want to lean about uh, airplanes? I'll teach ya about airplanes. You can start with the engines.

  Kyle : Dad, what if I get a bursary?

  Kyle's Dad : What if you get a bursary? So what? What? There's no competition? It's just you?

  Kyle : I'd just thought I'd try, whatever.

  Kyle's Dad : Yeah, whatever, yeah, well, I just want you to try to be realistic. Sometimes I don't think you're too realistic.

  Kyle : [scoffs]  Well, then I guess it's time for bed, huh, Dad?

• Kyle's Dad : [He stops the car]  Well, what's your problem?

  Kyle : Guess what? Congratulate me.

  Kyle's Dad : [scoffs]  We've talked about that about twenty times, didn't we?

  Kyle : Wrong. They didn't accept me. But you didn't know that, did you? Cause you didn't even read it, did you?

  Kyle's Dad : But, Kyle, I just didn't want you to be disappointed, there son ya know?

  Kyle : Oh, Jesus, thank you fucking so much, thank you!

  Kyle's Dad : [points to Kyle]  Be careful, mister.

  Kyle : You were so sure eh, Dad? I almost got in.

  [Jake comes out of the house and slides down the hill] 

  Kyle : They want me to take the test again. Guess that never happened to you, huh?

  Kyle's Dad : [Kyle leaves to go back inside the house]  Kyle? Arrogant little...

  [he grumbls and gets out of the car] 

  Jake : [Kyle is on his bike and starts to peddle]  Ya know, you're like a professional fucking asshole.

  [Kyle gets on his bike and takes off] 

  Kyle's Dad : Kyle, come back. Kyle!

  Jake : Just keep on going, Kyle!

  Kyle's Dad : While he does that, you get roughed up a little bit, is that okay?

  Jake : You big man? You gonna shove me around? Huh, c'mon, you think I fucking care?

  Kyle's Dad : Oh, what?

  Jake : [Jake imitates Bruce Lee]  C'mon! Lets go!

  [Jake mitates Bruce Lee again, and Kyle's Dad shoves him to the ground] 

• Kyle : Dad.

  Kyle's Dad : Give me a break, I'm on my vacation. Don't look at me like that. Oh, here, look you got some mail.

  [Kyle opens it] 

  Kyle's Dad : I guess you got in.

  Kyle : Nothing. I need help. I don't know what to do.

  Kyle's Dad : I've been thinking, ya know, I'm going to kick the prick out. That's it. I can't even stand looking at his face anymore. That's it. I mean you, you're not that bad, you uh, show some promise or something anyway, but that kid is nothing but a zero. Maybe if your mother was still around. I don't know. Oh forget it. I- I got to go to bed. I got some kind of virus, I think. I hope you don't need money.

  Kyle : No. No, I don't need money.