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Julia Roberts, Sally Field, Daryl Hannah, Shirley MacLaine, Dolly Parton, and Olympia Dukakis in Steel Magnolias (1989)

Tom Skerritt: Drum Eatenton

Steel Magnolias

Tom Skerritt credited as playing...

Drum Eatenton

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  • Drum: Ouiser, can we call a truce long enough for me to get a piece of cake?
  • [Ouiser slices him the tail piece of an armadillo cake]
  • Drum: Aww, thanks Ouiser. Nothin' like a good piece of ass.
  • Ouiser Boudreaux: I am just about at the end of my rope with you.
  • Drum: Well, then why don't you tie a noose and slip it 'round your head?
  • Drum: Ouiser you look like hammered shit.
  • Ouiser Boudreaux: Don't you talk to me like that!
  • Drum: Oh, I'm sorry. You look like regular shit.
  • Drum: [to Ouiser] I heard you got so screwed up you cut your dog out of your will and had an ungrateful nephew to sleep!
  • Drum: Oh, Ouiser... I don't wanna have to kill you!
  • Jackson Latcherie: So much for a card game.
  • Tommy Eatenton: Movie! Movie!
  • Shelby: Its old and black and white.
  • Drum: Nothing dirty there.
  • Jonathan Eatenton: [holds up vhs tape] I got a classic. A Tale Of Two Kidneys.
  • Shelby: [Bursts Out Laughing]
  • Drum: [angrily snatches the vhs from Jonathan] You think that's funny?
  • Jonathan Eatenton: Yeah Dad.
  • Shelby: [Continues to Burst Out Laughing and puts her right hand in front of Jonathan to protect him in case their father tries to hit him]
  • Drum: [angrily throws the vhs on the couch] That's not funny!
  • Drum: That's not funny!
  • Shelby: Ok Jonathan no more transplant jokes. Daddy doesn't like them?
  • Jackson Latcherie: Whose turn is it?
  • Tommy Eatenton: Oh Mama. Give me all your internal organs. I mean aces.
  • Drum: [Angrily gets up from his seat and walks out of the room] .
  • Shelby: [Bursts Out Laughing]
  • M'Lynn: [Bursts Out Laughing]
  • Tommy Eatenton: Gosh Dad I'm sorry. It just slipped out.
  • M'Lynn: Go Fish.
  • Drum: [Rubbing her back] Honey it'll do you good to get out for a while. Eat a real dinner.
  • M'Lynn: [Angrily pushes his hands away because she's having trouble coping with the fact that their daughter is going to die] What if she wakes up for 2 minutes and I'm not here?
  • Drum: [after Shelby's funeral is over and the mourners leave he turns to see his wife M'Lynn standing in front of the casket Shelby is in with her arms crossed and he sighs knowing the pain she is feeling and decides to let her be and climbs into the car with his 2 sons Tommy and Jonathan and leaves.]

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