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Kevin Kline, River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, William Hurt, Tracey Ullman, and Joan Plowright in I Love You to Death (1990)

Joan Plowright: Nadja

I Love You to Death

Joan Plowright credited as playing...

Nadja

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Quotes9

  • Rosalie Boca: They look like drug addicts.
  • Devo Nod: Well, they are drug addicts.
  • Rosalie Boca: Oh my God! You hired drug addicts?
  • Devo Nod: Who'd you expect me to hire? The Red Cross?
  • Nadja: They seem like very polite boys.
  • Rosalie Boca: I don't like having drug addicts in my house!
  • Nadja: Oh no, Rosalie. Don't think of them as drug addicts. Think of them as killers.
  • Harlan James: This is only two hun'erd. We was promised five.
  • Devo Nod: For killing him five, for wounding him two.
  • Harlan James: You wanted me to shoot him so I shot him.
  • Nadja: You woke him up! What good is that?
  • [Discussing hiring a hit man to kill Joey]
  • Devo Nod: How much can we pay?
  • Rosalie Boca: As much as we have to.
  • [Rosalie exits]
  • Nadja: Yeah, you know, not too much. Try for discount.
  • Lt. Larry Schooner: Jesus!
  • Devo Nod: What?
  • Lt. Larry Schooner: What the hell's going on here?
  • Rosalie Boca: What's wrong?
  • Sgt. Carlos Wiley: What is it?
  • Lt. Larry Schooner: He's been shot in the head!
  • Nadja: Ah!
  • Rosalie Boca: Oh!
  • Devo Nod: Really.
  • Joey Boca: What.
  • Nadja: No wonder he has headache!
  • Lt. Larry Schooner: Headache? he's got a bullet in him! Carlos, get an ambulance over here right away.
  • [see's Devo sneaking away]
  • Lt. Larry Schooner: Devo!
  • Devo Nod: ...I was gonna get a band-aid... for Joey...
  • [to Joey]
  • Nadja: You know, I like you once. Maybe someday I like you again.
  • Nadja: Last week on TV, I heard about a woman who stabbed her husband twenty-seven times. And you know why? Because he refused to put the top back on the mustard jar. Twenty-seven times! Can you imagine?
  • Rosalie Boca: We didn't do it. I swear to God we didn't. We found him outside, on the lawn...
  • Devo Nod: ...Right outside...
  • Rosalie Boca: ...He was lying there, someone had shot him, and thrown him on the lawn...
  • Nadja: Yeah, it was a mess...
  • Rosalie Boca: ...It was terrible. So we brought him inside and we... we put him in bed... and... yep... It must have been the Mafia.
  • Lt. Larry Schooner: Mafia?
  • Devo Nod: The Mafia.
  • Nadja: Yeah. Joey was Italian.
  • Rosalie Boca: He *is* Italian.
  • Devo Nod: He *is* Italian.
  • Nadja: I am her mother. I do what I want.
  • Rosalie Boca: I don't know. Maybe I didn't give him enough.
  • Nadja: But he ate three whole bowls! What an ox!
  • Rosalie Boca: Joey is not a normal man. You know how he is. He works ten... maybe 12, or 14 hours a day, seven days a week... and out with a different girl... every night.
  • Nadja: Rosalie...
  • Rosalie Boca: That's just it. He eats anything he wants. He never seems to gain any weight. He's not human! He's like an animal. Like we're dealing with a machine!

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