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Drew Barrymore, Whoopi Goldberg, and Mary-Louise Parker in Boys on the Side (1995)

Matthew McConaughey: Abe

Boys on the Side

Matthew McConaughey credited as playing...

Abe

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  • Holly: [while Abe munches on his cob of corn] See this is her old problem. She creates a situation where she gets this rejection that everyone else sees coming.
  • Robin: She just wasn't being honest.
  • Holly: Well, I think it's a black thing too.
  • Elaine: [more shocked] Jane is black?
  • Abe: [mouth full of corn from his cob] Yes, Ma'am. She sure is.
  • Robin: And you can't live a lie. You just can't.
  • Holly: [glancing at Abe] Well, there's lying and then there's... just not telling.
  • [Munching on his cob of corn, Abe glances up at her]
  • Robin: Big diff.
  • Elaine: She's a black Lesbian?
  • Abe: [mouth full of corn from his cob] Yes, Ma'am. That is right.
  • Elaine: [looking at Robin] And she was living here? With you?
  • Holly: No, no, no no, no no. She was just living here. They weren't like fucking or anything.
  • [Elaine gasps; Robin rolls her eyes. Abe laughs, nearly choking on his corn]
  • Holly: [seeing Robin's expression and reconsidering] Were you?
  • Elaine: [shocked] Were you?
  • Abe: [eager] Were you?
  • Robin: [indignantly disregarding them] Ah - I'll get the coffee.
  • Holly: Anyway, uhm... Jane called me at work, wanted to know how you are.
  • Robin: I'm fine.
  • Elaine: Who's Jane?
  • Abe: [mouth full of corn from his cob] Jane used to live here up until a few days ago.
  • Robin: You stay out of this, Holly. It's between me and Jane.
  • Holly: Well, she asked for my advice, so I told her she's anti-Lesbian.
  • Robin: I am not.
  • Elaine: [shocked] Who's a Lesbian?
  • Robin: Jane is.
  • Elaine: [shocked] And she was living here?
  • Abe: Yes, Ma'am.
  • Robin: [indignant] I am not 'anti-Lesbian'!
  • Holly: Not you, her.
  • Elaine: Who?
  • Robin: Jane.
  • [Jane and Abe ran to the neonatal ward]
  • Abe: [reading the tumbler tags] Fristad. Mitchell. Pulchik.
  • [Finds a black baby in the Pulchik tumbler; looks at Jane]
  • Jane: Don't look at me.

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