Elizabeth Perkins credited as playing...
Joyce Sordino
- Joyce Sordino: You don't have to talk about it, you know, if you don't want to.
- Melinda Sordino: No, I wanna tell you about it.
- [pauses]
- Melinda Sordino: Last year, I went to this party at the end of the year...
- Jack Sordino: [to Melinda] And these are for you!
- [pushes the presents towards Melinda]
- Jack Sordino: Open the big one first.
- Joyce Sordino: [after Melinda opens up a television] For your room! It will help you fall asleep.
- Jack Sordino: Oh, yeah and one more.
- Joyce Sordino: [after Melinda opens up a sketchbook and pencils] Well, we noticed you were drawing.
- Joyce Sordino: Hope we got the right kind.
- [Dad walks in the kitchen and sees the Thanksgiving turkey in a pot on the stove]
- Jack Sordino: You're boiling it?
- Joyce Sordino: Too big to fit in the microwave!
- Principal: Well?
- Joyce Sordino: Oh, for the love of God. Open your mouth, Melinda.
- Jack Sordino: This is childish, honey.
- Joyce Sordino: I don't know why she's doing this to us.
- Guidance Counselor: We're not ganging up on you. We're here to help.
- Principal: Let's start with grades. This isn't what we expected of you, Melissa.
- Jack Sordino: Melinda!
- Principal: Last year, you were a straight-B student. No behavioral problems, few absences. What do you have to say?
- Joyce Sordino: She's mute. She's mute! She not saying anything.
- Guidance Counselor: I think that we need to explore the family dynamics at play.
- Jack Sordino: All I know is that last year, I had a sweet loving little girl and now she's flushing her grades down the toilet? What have you folks done to her? Huh? I play golf with the school board president. Did you know that?
- Joyce Sordino: Nobody cares who you know, Jack.
- Jack Sordino: Did you know that?
- Joyce Sordino: Nobody cares.
- Guidance Counselor: Can I just remind everyone that we need to one: reassure, two: stay open and three: don't judge.
- Joyce Sordino: How old are you?