Emilio Estevez credited as playing...
Jeremy Collier
- Jeremy Collier: I'm not having dinner
- Bob Collier: And why not?
- Jeremy Collier: I had a big breakfast.
- Bob Collier: Jeremy, I'm not joking around out here!
- Jeremy Collier: I'm not laughin' around in here!
- Karen Collier: Okay, I know you don't want to hear this right now. And I know you think I'm a complete idiot, and I know that the last you want to do right now is have a conversation with me.
- Jeremy Collier: Knowledge is power.
- Bob Collier: Look, I know you had a rough time over there.
- Jeremy Collier: 'Over there'! You can't even say it.
- Bob Collier: What?
- Jeremy Collier: Vietnam
- Bob Collier: Seen all your stuff downstairs.
- Jeremy Collier: I want Karen to take me to the bus station.
- Bob Collier: Alright, fine.
- [pulls money out of his pocket]
- Bob Collier: I got twenty-one hundred dollars here for you; it's all the cash I had at the office. It's not a fortune, but it'll get you where you want to go, and help you get started if you're careful with it.
- Bob Collier: [pauses] And look, don't think that I'm kicking you out of the house, see. I think you should leave for for your own good, I think it's the right thing to do, and it's my responsibility as a father. Once you're away from here, and had time to think about, I think you'll agree.
- Jeremy Collier: I don't want it.
- Bob Collier: Well I want you to have it.
- Jeremy Collier: No you don't. You want me to take it, so you won't feel guilty, so you won't feel responsible.
- Bob Collier: [sighs] It's funny how I can be so wrong. I honestly thought you were gonna say 'thank you'.
- Jeremy Collier: Thank you? That's what you thought I'd say? No. You just want everyone to think you did the right thing.
- Bob Collier: I'm not doing this on what anybody might think.
- [puts the money down]
- Bob Collier: I'll have Karen drive you wherever you want to go.
- [starts to close the door]
- Bob Collier: I hope you'll think better of me someday.
- Jeremy Collier: Look if you're going to talk to me about car-wrecks you can stop right now!
- Bob Collier: What? What are you talking about?
- Jeremy Collier: You told me that more people die in car-wrecks each year than died in Vietnam.
- Bob Collier: Well, I may have said that...
- Jeremy Collier: Not 'may have', did!
- Bob Collier: What was that?
- Jeremy Collier: I said the blessing.
- Bob Collier: I didn't hear anything.
- Jeremy Collier: I wasn't talking to you.
- Jeremy Collier: Look, it's not that I'm asking for the car...
- Bob Collier: Hm?
- Jeremy Collier: But you know Jesus didn't have a job.
- Bob Collier: That's right. He didn't have a car either, and he walked everywhere.
- Karen Collier: You know what? I'm sorry I prayed for you. I am! I never thought it'd be possible to be sorry for a thing like that! But I apologize to myself for all the times I got down on my knees and begged to God to bring you home safe!
- Jeremy Collier: Such a self-righteous little BITCH.
- Karen Collier: I am not taking this from you. You are NOTHING. You are a freak, an absolute zero, and you're not my brother anymore!
- Karen Collier: [on their mother] She's gonna have a nervous breakdown.
- Jeremy Collier: I know she wants one. I know she ain't gonna be happy until she has one.
- Karen Collier: You know, I'm not gonna be mad at you, because I know you have personal problems.
- Jeremy Collier: What are they? What are these personal problems that I have?
- Karen Collier: I don't know the medical term, but I suppose you could describe it as being a terminal jerk.
- Jeremy Collier: Stay away from my door.
- Karen Collier: It is only your door on the inside. It's anyone's door out here, and I'll stand by it as long as I want to, and you just try and stop me.
- Maurine Collier: I wish they could would make Thanksgiving on a Sunday. Then everyone could go to a service before they eat with their families. It'd be more religious, like it was with the Pilgrims.
- Jeremy Collier: What about the Indians?
- Maurine Collier: Oh, Jeremy, there were no Indians at the first Thanksgiving.
- Jeremy Collier: That's why they have it. The Indians saved the Pilgrims from starvin' to death, so the Pilgrims invited the Indians to share their first harvest feast.
- Maurine Collier: Well, I'm sure the Indians were all Christians by then.
- Jeremy Collier: Oh no, they weren't.
- Jeremy Collier: [from inside his room] Fuck off.
- Bob Collier: [speechless at first] What did you say?
- Jeremy Collier: I said fuck off, go fuck yourself!
- Bob Collier: [furious] I'm gonna beat the shit outta you!
- [pounds on door]
- Jeremy Collier: [it is late at night, and Jeremy has caught his father sneaking peanut brittle] What is that, peanut brittle?
- Bob Collier: Yeah, your mother made some tonight for Thanksgiving. I thought I'd be clever and sneak a piece, when you just come in here and catch me.
- Jeremy Collier: Well if it makes you feel any better, she probably counted all the pieces before she went to bed. She'll wake up, check on it.
- Bob Collier: [looks scared] Y'think?
- Jeremy Collier: Yup.
- Maurine Collier: What the hell are you trying to do?
- Jeremy Collier: Nothing.
- [walks away]
- Maurine Collier: [calls after him] What is the matter with you?
- Jeremy Collier: You are what's the matter with me!