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Bette Tremont: He keeps coming into my bed at night. When your father gets excited nothing is going to stop him.
John Tremont: [looks shocked]
Bette Tremont: Oh, grow up.
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John Tremont: There's something wrong with Mom's insides.
Jake Tremont: It isn't cancer is it?
John Tremont: No, it's not.
Jake Tremont: That cancer is a killer. Your Uncle Ben had five operations. Didn't do a damn thing for him. If they tell you, you have cancer, you might as well pack your bags.
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Mario: Come on, Mom, get in the hearse.
Bette Tremont: You'd like that, wouldn't you?
Mario: I'm sorry, it was a slip of the tongue.
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John Tremont: [In his parents house] This place hasn't changed a bit.
Annie: Yeah, it's going as is to the Smithsonian.
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Jake Tremont: [About a white shirt with black stripes] It's white.
John Tremont: I'm going to make an executive decision here. I'm gonna say it's colored. Okay, water: cold/warm, warn/warm, warm/hot. What the hell, we'll live dangerously. Hot/hot.
Jake Tremont: It's white.
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Bingo Caller: B-4.
Bingo Players: And after!
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Jake Tremont: A good driver knows when he's not a good driver anymore.
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Jake Tremont: The world has changed, Johnny. You wouldn't believe how much the world has changed.
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Dr. Chad: What maybe happened is that he was so fearful of the cancer that his brain froze and stopped producing a chemical called Enzyme that his body needed. But with a last minute I.V. mixture, it gave him that bit of Enzyme that he needed. Of course, if this were taking place in the home, it was your tender love and caring that called your father back from where he had gone.
John Tremont: I like that one better.
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Jake Tremont: Dying is not a sin. Not living is.
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William Wharton's startling and moving novel about fathers and sons got an above-average film adaptation from TV's Gary David Goldberg, who wrote and directed. While the film couldn't capture the sadness and wonder of Wharton's worlds-within-worlds construct, it did get exactly right the notion of how one closes the distance from a parent or a child. Danson plays an ambitious businessman forced to put work aside to care for his aging parents (Jack Lemmon and Olympia Dukakis) when his mother is hospitalized. Mom, it turns out, is a domineering dictator who has stifled Dad all these years; with her out of the way, Dad suddenly recognizes the possibilities of his own life. Meanwhile, Danson's estranged son, Ethan Hawke, comes home as well, allowing the two of them a rapprochement. Lemmon is particularly good (and almost unrecognizable). --Marshall Fine
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